Equities Contracts in the UK excluding London

Equities
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Equities over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 391 430
Rank change year-on-year +95 +39 +58
Contract jobs citing Equities 43 3 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.015% 0.065%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.00% 0.051% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 1 12
10th Percentile £309 - £613
25th Percentile £325 £519 £678
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £539 £1,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.68% -46.15% +98.02%
75th Percentile £551 £558 £1,025
90th Percentile £579 - -
UK median daily rate £750 £750 £700
% change year-on-year - +7.14% +7.69%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,318 5,889 7,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.42% 29.06% 32.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,612 3,539 5,036
10th Percentile £205 £210 £220
25th Percentile £363 £378 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £585 £595 £613
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 722 423
10th Percentile £15.94 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £29.54 £30.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% +36.36% +4.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £83.26 £70.00 £74.80
UK median hourly rate £31.42 £31.50 £22.26
% change year-on-year -0.25% +41.54% -19.07%

Equities
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Equities as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Equities in the UK excluding London

Equities
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Equities in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Equities in the UK excluding London

Equities
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Equities in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Equities in the UK excluding London

Equities
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Equities in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Equities in the UK excluding London

Equities
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Equities within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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
Scotland +25 25 £550 +2.14% 8
Northern Ireland - 16 £325 - 3
North of England +21 1 - - 8
Yorkshire - 1 - - 5
South West - 1 £575 - 2
Equities
UK

Equities
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 4 (9.30%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (51.16%) DB2
1 22 (51.16%) MongoDB
1 22 (51.16%) Relational Database
2 5 (11.63%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 22 (51.16%) JUnit
2 10 (23.26%) Git
3 4 (9.30%) Ant
3 4 (9.30%) Jenkins
3 4 (9.30%) Maven
3 4 (9.30%) Subversion
4 2 (4.65%) JIRA
General
1 38 (88.37%) Finance
2 29 (67.44%) Front Office
3 27 (62.79%) Social Skills
4 23 (53.49%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (46.51%) Banking
6 12 (27.91%) Investment Banking
7 6 (13.95%) Wholesale Banking
8 3 (6.98%) Financial Institution
8 3 (6.98%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (83.72%) Developer
2 29 (67.44%) Java Developer
3 8 (18.60%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 8 (18.60%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 8 (18.60%) Software Engineer
3 8 (18.60%) SQL Developer
3 8 (18.60%) Sybase Developer
4 6 (13.95%) Java Software Developer
5 5 (11.63%) Java Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) .NET Developer
6 4 (9.30%) .NET Software Developer
6 4 (9.30%) .NET Software Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) C# .NET Developer
6 4 (9.30%) C# Developer
6 4 (9.30%) C# Software Developer
6 4 (9.30%) C# Software Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Java Software Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Analyst
7 3 (6.98%) Business Analyst
7 3 (6.98%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (58.14%) Spring
2 22 (51.16%) Kafka
3 20 (46.51%) JMS
4 7 (16.28%) React
5 6 (13.95%) AngularJS
5 6 (13.95%) Apache Avro
5 6 (13.95%) JSON
5 6 (13.95%) RESTful
5 6 (13.95%) Web Services
5 6 (13.95%) XML
6 4 (9.30%) .NET
6 4 (9.30%) Spring Boot
7 2 (4.65%) MSMQ
8 1 (2.33%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 22 (51.16%) Data Structures
2 20 (46.51%) Derivative
3 17 (39.53%) Equity Derivative
4 10 (23.26%) Product Ownership
5 3 (6.98%) Fixed Income
5 3 (6.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.33%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 27 (62.79%) Linux
2 4 (9.30%) Unix
2 4 (9.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (79.07%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (76.74%) Agile
3 25 (58.14%) SDLC
4 21 (48.84%) Open Source
5 19 (44.19%) Database Tuning
5 19 (44.19%) Performance Tuning
6 18 (41.86%) Multithreading
7 13 (30.23%) Software Engineering
8 9 (20.93%) Clean Code
8 9 (20.93%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (18.60%) User Experience
10 7 (16.28%) CI/CD
10 7 (16.28%) Continuous Delivery
10 7 (16.28%) DevOps
11 6 (13.95%) Code Quality
11 6 (13.95%) Test Automation
12 5 (11.63%) Concurrent Programming
12 5 (11.63%) OO
13 4 (9.30%) OOA/OOD
13 4 (9.30%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (76.74%) SQL
2 30 (69.77%) Java
3 21 (48.84%) Python
4 19 (44.19%) Shell Script
5 4 (9.30%) C#
6 2 (4.65%) Kotlin
6 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.65%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) Disclosure Scotland
1 3 (6.98%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 4 (9.30%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (51.16%) Sybase
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.65%) Bloomberg
3 2 (4.65%) Reuters
4 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.33%) TIBCO