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 22 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 242 395
Rank change year-on-year -49 +153 +5
Contract jobs citing Equities 281 405 316
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.86% 0.98% 0.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.48% 3.21% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 370 273
10th Percentile £525 £550 £475
25th Percentile £675 £663 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £875 £888 £800
90th Percentile - - £875
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £507 £865
% change year-on-year +5.57% -41.42% +67.96%

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 11,316 12,633 18,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.62% 30.58% 32.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,963 8,093 12,461
10th Percentile £303 £300 £306
25th Percentile £406 £417 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £644 £667 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 543 760 469
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.87 £19.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +8.57% +29.73%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.25 £72.50 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £45.41
% change year-on-year -25.00% -11.91% +111.21%

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 22 July 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 8 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 22 July 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 -62 242 £775 -3.13% 130
London -42 239 £775 -3.13% 125
Work from Home -13 173 £775 -3.13% 33
UK excluding London +54 42 £535 +5.57% 21
Scotland +29 28 £550 +2.14%
Northern Ireland -1 11 £475 - 9
North of England +5 3 £550 - 2
Yorkshire - 3 £550 - 1

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 85 (30.25%) Apache Airflow
2 57 (20.28%) Apache
3 11 (3.91%) Confluence
4 2 (0.71%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.36%) DataSynapse
5 1 (0.36%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (4.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Actimize
1 1 (0.36%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.36%) Oracle E-Business Tax
1 1 (0.36%) Oracle FAH
1 1 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 123 (43.77%) AWS
2 85 (30.25%) dbt
3 63 (22.42%) GCP
4 59 (21.00%) Snowflake
5 31 (11.03%) Azure
6 6 (2.14%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (1.78%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (1.78%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (1.78%) Dagster
8 2 (0.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (0.36%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.36%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.36%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.42%) FIX Connectivity
2 2 (0.71%) Firewall
3 1 (0.36%) HTTP
3 1 (0.36%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (30.25%) Amazon Athena
1 85 (30.25%) Apache Arrow
1 85 (30.25%) Apache Iceberg
1 85 (30.25%) Dremio
2 47 (16.73%) Data Lake
3 44 (15.66%) Relational Database
4 42 (14.95%) MongoDB
5 41 (14.59%) Apache Ignite
5 41 (14.59%) DB2
6 40 (14.23%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (4.63%) KDB
8 6 (2.14%) Power BI
9 4 (1.42%) Kdb+
9 4 (1.42%) Tableau
10 3 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.07%) Power Query
11 2 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.71%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.71%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 43 (15.30%) JUnit
2 16 (5.69%) JIRA
3 10 (3.56%) Git
4 9 (3.20%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.42%) Maven
6 3 (1.07%) Subversion
6 3 (1.07%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.71%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.71%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.71%) Gradle
7 2 (0.71%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.71%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.36%) Ant
8 1 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.36%) Crucible
8 1 (0.36%) GitLab
General
1 237 (84.34%) Finance
2 181 (64.41%) Front Office
3 155 (55.16%) Banking
4 126 (44.84%) Investment Banking
5 84 (29.89%) Social Skills
6 69 (24.56%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.78%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.07%) Back Office
9 3 (1.07%) Law
9 3 (1.07%) Wholesale Banking
10 2 (0.71%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.71%) Legal
11 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.36%) International Banking
11 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.36%) Retail
11 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 172 (61.21%) Developer
2 113 (40.21%) Software Engineer
3 86 (30.60%) AWS Engineer
4 85 (30.25%) AWS Software Engineer
5 84 (29.89%) Java Developer
6 70 (24.91%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 67 (23.84%) Senior
8 63 (22.42%) Python Engineer
8 63 (22.42%) Python Software Engineer
9 62 (22.06%) Java Engineer
10 60 (21.35%) Java Software Engineer
11 44 (15.66%) AWS Developer
12 39 (13.88%) Senior Java Engineer
12 39 (13.88%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 39 (13.88%) Senior Software Engineer
13 36 (12.81%) Analyst
14 34 (12.10%) Python Developer
15 31 (11.03%) Investment Banking Java Developer
15 31 (11.03%) SQL Developer
16 23 (8.19%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (25.62%) NumPy
1 72 (25.62%) Pandas
2 69 (24.56%) SciPy
3 57 (20.28%) React
4 51 (18.15%) Kafka
5 50 (17.79%) AngularJS
6 43 (15.30%) Spring
7 42 (14.95%) JMS
7 42 (14.95%) Vue
8 41 (14.59%) gRPC
8 41 (14.59%) Protocol Buffers
9 39 (13.88%) Node.js
10 26 (9.25%) Redux
11 21 (7.47%) PySpark
12 14 (4.98%) FIX Protocol
13 7 (2.49%) Middleware
14 5 (1.78%) .NET
14 5 (1.78%) REST
15 4 (1.42%) HTML
15 4 (1.42%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 157 (55.87%) Fixed Income
2 148 (52.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 107 (38.08%) Derivative
4 80 (28.47%) Hedge funds
5 43 (15.30%) Data Structures
6 38 (13.52%) Pricing Data
7 22 (7.83%) Equity Derivative
8 11 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (3.91%) Market Risk
9 9 (3.20%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.49%) Reference Data
10 7 (2.49%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.78%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.78%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 4 (1.42%) Blockchain
13 3 (1.07%) Grid Computing
13 3 (1.07%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 2 (0.71%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 63 (22.42%) Linux
2 15 (5.34%) Unix
3 6 (2.14%) Windows
4 5 (1.78%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (67.26%) Agile
2 122 (43.42%) Software Engineering
3 116 (41.28%) Asset Management
4 105 (37.37%) Investment Management
5 74 (26.33%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (18.86%) Fintech
7 50 (17.79%) SDLC
8 46 (16.37%) Multithreading
9 45 (16.01%) Risk Management
10 43 (15.30%) Open Source
11 39 (13.88%) Database Tuning
11 39 (13.88%) Performance Tuning
12 32 (11.39%) Order Management
13 31 (11.03%) Analytics
14 28 (9.96%) Performance Attribution
15 24 (8.54%) Data Management
15 24 (8.54%) Low Latency
15 24 (8.54%) TDD
16 19 (6.76%) CI/CD
17 17 (6.05%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 184 (65.48%) Python
2 151 (53.74%) Java
3 100 (35.59%) SQL
4 99 (35.23%) JavaScript
5 97 (34.52%) TypeScript
6 44 (15.66%) Shell Script
7 25 (8.90%) C++
8 8 (2.85%) C#
9 5 (1.78%) C
10 4 (1.42%) DAML
10 4 (1.42%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.07%) Scala
12 2 (0.71%) Bash
12 2 (0.71%) Go
12 2 (0.71%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.36%) Groovy
13 1 (0.36%) Ruby
13 1 (0.36%) Rust
13 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (7.47%) Degree
2 10 (3.56%) Numerate Degree
3 5 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.42%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.07%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.07%) PMP
6 2 (0.71%) CFA
7 1 (0.36%) CBAP
7 1 (0.36%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.85%) MiFID
2 5 (1.78%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.42%) Basel III
3 4 (1.42%) QA
4 3 (1.07%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.71%) EMIR
5 2 (0.71%) GDPR
5 2 (0.71%) PMO
6 1 (0.36%) FINRA
6 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (0.71%) Docker
2 1 (0.36%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 4 (1.42%) Grafana
1 4 (1.42%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.07%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.36%) Ansible
3 1 (0.36%) Control-M
3 1 (0.36%) Kibana
3 1 (0.36%) Terraform
3 1 (0.36%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 43 (15.30%) Sybase
2 10 (3.56%) Bloomberg
3 8 (2.85%) Reuters
4 5 (1.78%) Splunk
5 4 (1.42%) Murex
5 4 (1.42%) Oracle
5 4 (1.42%) TIBCO
6 3 (1.07%) Citrix
6 3 (1.07%) Databricks
6 3 (1.07%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.07%) Google
6 3 (1.07%) Refinitiv
7 2 (0.71%) Calypso
7 2 (0.71%) IBM
7 2 (0.71%) Microsoft
7 2 (0.71%) Sophis
8 1 (0.36%) CQG
8 1 (0.36%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.36%) ServiceNow