Equities Contracts in Scotland

Equities
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Equities over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 127 156
Rank change year-on-year +34 +29 +7
Contract jobs citing Equities 23 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.42% 0.090% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.72% 0.27% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 6
10th Percentile £415 - £508
25th Percentile £513 £519 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £539 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -13.84% +56.25%
75th Percentile £569 £558 £684
90th Percentile £579 - £723
UK median daily rate £750 £750 £700
% change year-on-year - +7.14% +7.69%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 618 732 1,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.03% 33.02% 36.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 426 712
10th Percentile £221 £203 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £560
90th Percentile £600 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 36 23
10th Percentile - £13.75 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £10.63
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.14 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year +21.31% +47.44% -71.40%
75th Percentile £24.66 £38.25 £28.81
90th Percentile £42.00 £60.38 £52.55
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Equities
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Equities as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Equities in Scotland

Equities
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Equities in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Equities in Scotland

Equities
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Equities in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Equities in Scotland

Equities
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Equities within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Glasgow - 21 £550 - 2
Edinburgh +5 2 - - 1
Equities
UK

Equities
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Fidessa
1 1 (4.35%) Summit
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (86.96%) DB2
1 20 (86.96%) MongoDB
2 19 (82.61%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (86.96%) JUnit
General
1 20 (86.96%) Analytical Skills
1 20 (86.96%) Finance
1 20 (86.96%) Social Skills
2 18 (78.26%) Front Office
3 10 (43.48%) Banking
3 10 (43.48%) Investment Banking
4 3 (13.04%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (86.96%) Developer
1 20 (86.96%) Java Developer
2 7 (30.43%) Investment Banking Java Developer
2 7 (30.43%) SQL Developer
2 7 (30.43%) Sybase Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Business Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Equity Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Java Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Java Server Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Senior
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (91.30%) Spring
2 20 (86.96%) Kafka
3 18 (78.26%) JMS
4 2 (8.70%) MSMQ
5 1 (4.35%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 20 (86.96%) Data Structures
2 5 (21.74%) Derivative
3 3 (13.04%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.35%) Fixed Income
4 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 21 (91.30%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (95.65%) Agile
2 20 (86.96%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (82.61%) Open Source
4 18 (78.26%) SDLC
5 17 (73.91%) Database Tuning
5 17 (73.91%) Performance Tuning
6 16 (69.57%) Multithreading
7 5 (21.74%) Software Engineering
8 4 (17.39%) Test Automation
9 3 (13.04%) Investment Management
9 3 (13.04%) Wealth Management
10 2 (8.70%) Deployment Automation
10 2 (8.70%) Performance Optimisation
11 1 (4.35%) Business Analysis
11 1 (4.35%) Concurrent Programming
11 1 (4.35%) Data Architecture
11 1 (4.35%) Data Protection
11 1 (4.35%) Open Source Development
11 1 (4.35%) Project Delivery
11 1 (4.35%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (91.30%) Java
2 20 (86.96%) SQL
3 19 (82.61%) Python
4 17 (73.91%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 20 (86.96%) Sybase
2 1 (4.35%) Bloomberg
2 1 (4.35%) Calypso
2 1 (4.35%) Murex
2 1 (4.35%) Reuters
2 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow