Equities Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Equities
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Equities over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Equities 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.044% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £813 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £875 - -
75th Percentile £938 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £800 £775 £800
% change year-on-year +3.23% -3.13% +14.29%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

Equities falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,324 771 907
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 28.85% 33.58% 30.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 821 491 571
10th Percentile £281 £233 £230
25th Percentile £406 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £613 £575 £624
90th Percentile £700 £650 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 60 60
10th Percentile £13.35 £16.01 £10.42
25th Percentile £17.20 £18.87 £13.68
Median hourly rate £25.75 £28.76 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +51.34% -30.91%
75th Percentile £47.50 £45.50 £34.82
90th Percentile £74.00 £50.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £43.96 £32.89 £37.50
% change year-on-year +33.66% -12.29% +36.36%

Equities
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Equities relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Equities job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Equities
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Equities.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Equities

Equities
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Equities within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands - 2 £875 -
Equities
England

Equities
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Front Office
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) React Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior React Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior UI Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Derivative
2 1 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Extraction
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Electronic Trading
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Kanban
1 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (50.00%) Order Management
1 1 (50.00%) Portfolio Management
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Charles River
1 1 (50.00%) Murex