Equities Contracts

Equities
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Equities over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 233 312 403
Rank change year-on-year +79 +91 -14
Contract jobs citing Equities 337 309 333
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.15% 0.71% 0.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.40% 2.33% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 279 287
10th Percentile £521 £550 £475
25th Percentile £638 £650 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £888 £850 £813
90th Percentile £938 £888 £934
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £539 £1,000
% change year-on-year -21.08% -46.15% +98.02%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,915 13,252 19,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.91% 30.40% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,331 8,505 13,670
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.90% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 910 640
10th Percentile £16.46 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.66 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.93 £27.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year +11.46% +26.14% +9.64%

Equities
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Equities in the UK

Equities
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Equities in the UK

Equities
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Equities over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Equities in the UK

Equities
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Equities.

Hourly rate trend for Equities in the UK

Equities
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +49 295 £775 +3.33% 166
London +27 293 £775 +3.33% 160
Work from Home +88 220 £775 -3.13% 45
UK excluding London +95 43 £425 -21.08% 16
Scotland +30 23 £550 +2.14% 4
Northern Ireland - 19 £325 - 4
South West - 1 £575 - 3

Equities
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 54 (16.02%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (13.35%) Apache
3 4 (1.19%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.59%) Confluence
4 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.30%) DataSynapse
Applications
1 6 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.89%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.30%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (0.30%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.30%) ION MarketView
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle E-Business Tax
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.30%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 78 (23.15%) AWS
2 54 (16.02%) dbt
3 47 (13.95%) Snowflake
4 41 (12.17%) GCP
5 20 (5.93%) Amazon ECS
6 17 (5.04%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (5.04%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (5.04%) Azure
6 17 (5.04%) Dagster
7 8 (2.37%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.30%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.30%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.56%) FIX Connectivity
2 2 (0.59%) Firewall
3 1 (0.30%) Multicast
3 1 (0.30%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (35.61%) Data Lake
2 54 (16.02%) Amazon Athena
2 54 (16.02%) Apache Arrow
2 54 (16.02%) Apache Iceberg
2 54 (16.02%) Dremio
3 32 (9.50%) MongoDB
4 31 (9.20%) DB2
5 30 (8.90%) Relational Database
6 29 (8.61%) Apache Ignite
7 13 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (3.26%) KDB
9 6 (1.78%) Kdb+
9 6 (1.78%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.19%) SQL Server
11 3 (0.89%) Flink
12 2 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.59%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.59%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 33 (9.79%) JUnit
2 18 (5.34%) Git
3 11 (3.26%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.37%) Maven
5 7 (2.08%) Subversion
6 6 (1.78%) JIRA
7 5 (1.48%) Ant
8 4 (1.19%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.59%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (0.59%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.59%) Gradle
9 2 (0.59%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.59%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.30%) Crucible
General
1 290 (86.05%) Finance
2 239 (70.92%) Front Office
3 136 (40.36%) Banking
4 111 (32.94%) Investment Banking
5 69 (20.47%) Social Skills
6 58 (17.21%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (2.37%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.08%) Wholesale Banking
9 3 (0.89%) Back Office
9 3 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.89%) Law
10 1 (0.30%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.30%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.30%) International Banking
10 1 (0.30%) Legal
10 1 (0.30%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.30%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.30%) Retail
10 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 148 (43.92%) Developer
2 80 (23.74%) Java Developer
3 75 (22.26%) Software Engineer
4 59 (17.51%) Analyst
5 55 (16.32%) AWS Engineer
6 54 (16.02%) AWS Software Engineer
7 45 (13.35%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 43 (12.76%) Business Analyst
8 43 (12.76%) Java Engineer
9 41 (12.17%) Java Software Engineer
10 40 (11.87%) Senior
11 37 (10.98%) Head of Finance
12 33 (9.79%) Python Engineer
13 31 (9.20%) Python Software Engineer
14 26 (7.72%) Lead
14 26 (7.72%) Product Manager
15 25 (7.42%) AWS Developer
16 24 (7.12%) Python Developer
17 22 (6.53%) Data Governance Analyst
17 22 (6.53%) Data Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (11.57%) Kafka
1 39 (11.57%) NumPy
1 39 (11.57%) Pandas
2 38 (11.28%) SciPy
3 34 (10.09%) Spring
4 33 (9.79%) PySpark
5 30 (8.90%) Protocol Buffers
6 29 (8.61%) gRPC
6 29 (8.61%) JMS
7 28 (8.31%) AngularJS
8 27 (8.01%) React
9 18 (5.34%) FIX Protocol
10 15 (4.45%) Vue
11 13 (3.86%) Node.js
12 10 (2.97%) Redux
13 9 (2.67%) .NET
14 8 (2.37%) RESTful
14 8 (2.37%) XML
15 7 (2.08%) JSON
15 7 (2.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 214 (63.50%) Derivative
2 207 (61.42%) Fixed Income
2 207 (61.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 162 (48.07%) Hedge funds
4 63 (18.69%) Product Ownership
5 31 (9.20%) Data Structures
6 29 (8.61%) Equity Derivative
7 16 (4.75%) Pricing Data
8 9 (2.67%) Market Risk
8 9 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (2.08%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.08%) Blockchain
11 5 (1.48%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.19%) Credit Risk
12 4 (1.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 4 (1.19%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.89%) Reference Data
14 2 (0.59%) Grid Computing
14 2 (0.59%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 51 (15.13%) Linux
2 18 (5.34%) Apple iOS
3 15 (4.45%) Unix
4 12 (3.56%) Windows
5 5 (1.48%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.30%) CentOS
6 1 (0.30%) Debian
6 1 (0.30%) Fedora
6 1 (0.30%) Solaris
6 1 (0.30%) SUSE
6 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.30%) Windows 8
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (70.03%) Agile
2 149 (44.21%) Investment Management
3 110 (32.64%) Roadmaps
4 108 (32.05%) Migration
5 93 (27.60%) Regulatory Compliance
6 92 (27.30%) Data Governance
7 87 (25.82%) Asset Management
8 85 (25.22%) Data Management
8 85 (25.22%) Software Engineering
9 66 (19.58%) Problem-Solving
10 48 (14.24%) Analytics
11 43 (12.76%) SDLC
12 35 (10.39%) Multithreading
13 33 (9.79%) Order Management
14 30 (8.90%) Open Source
15 28 (8.31%) Database Tuning
15 28 (8.31%) Performance Tuning
16 26 (7.72%) Low Latency
17 22 (6.53%) CI/CD
18 21 (6.23%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 143 (42.43%) Python
2 133 (39.47%) Java
3 84 (24.93%) SQL
4 55 (16.32%) JavaScript
5 49 (14.54%) TypeScript
6 30 (8.90%) Shell Script
7 18 (5.34%) C++
8 11 (3.26%) C#
9 4 (1.19%) DAML
9 4 (1.19%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.89%) Perl
10 3 (0.89%) Scala
10 3 (0.89%) Solidity
11 2 (0.59%) Bash
11 2 (0.59%) C
11 2 (0.59%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.30%) Groovy
12 1 (0.30%) Ruby
12 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (9.79%) Degree
2 7 (2.08%) Numerate Degree
3 6 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (0.89%) CFA
5 2 (0.59%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.59%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (8.61%) MiFID
2 4 (1.19%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.89%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (0.89%) EMIR
3 3 (0.89%) QA
4 2 (0.59%) Dodd-Frank
4 2 (0.59%) PMO
5 1 (0.30%) Basel III
5 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 5 (1.48%) Docker
2 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.30%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 10 (2.97%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.59%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.30%) Control-M
3 1 (0.30%) Grafana
3 1 (0.30%) Kibana
3 1 (0.30%) Rundeck
3 1 (0.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 33 (9.79%) Sybase
2 8 (2.37%) Bloomberg
3 6 (1.78%) Microsoft
3 6 (1.78%) Reuters
4 3 (0.89%) Citrix
4 3 (0.89%) ION Trading
4 3 (0.89%) Murex
4 3 (0.89%) Oracle
4 3 (0.89%) Refinitiv
5 2 (0.59%) CQG
5 2 (0.59%) Databricks
5 2 (0.59%) IBM
5 2 (0.59%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.30%) Calypso
6 1 (0.30%) Charles River
6 1 (0.30%) Google
6 1 (0.30%) Patsystems
6 1 (0.30%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.30%) Splunk
6 1 (0.30%) Trayport