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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 235 379
Rank change year-on-year -67 +144 +28
Contract jobs citing Equities 279 413 314
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.84% 1.05% 0.59%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.42% 3.45% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 375 273
10th Percentile £531 £550 £475
25th Percentile £675 £663 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £763 £800 £685
Median % change year-on-year -4.69% +16.79% +5.38%
75th Percentile £875 £888 £788
90th Percentile - - £873
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £507 £730
% change year-on-year +8.53% -30.58% +41.75%

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 11,545 11,967 17,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.82% 30.50% 32.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,092 7,692 12,002
10th Percentile £303 £300 £305
25th Percentile £406 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £640 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £820 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 556 630 432
10th Percentile £15.05 £12.30 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.74 £17.61 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.42 £42.50 £36.13
Median % change year-on-year -30.79% +17.65% +36.32%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.02 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £75.00 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.67 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -34.08% - +109.30%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -71 243 £775 -3.13% 206
London -64 240 £775 -3.13% 199
Work from Home -23 170 £775 -3.13% 51
UK excluding London +31 39 £550 +8.53% 25
Scotland +21 28 £550 +2.14% 1
Northern Ireland -7 8 £525 +10.53% 8
North of England -7 3 £550 - 1
Yorkshire - 3 £550 -

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 93 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
2 63 (22.58%) Apache
3 12 (4.30%) Confluence
4 2 (0.72%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.36%) DataSynapse
5 1 (0.36%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (3.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.72%) 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
1 131 (46.95%) AWS
2 93 (33.33%) dbt
3 65 (23.30%) GCP
3 65 (23.30%) Snowflake
4 31 (11.11%) Azure
5 6 (2.15%) Power Platform
6 5 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (1.79%) Dagster
7 2 (0.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (0.36%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.36%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.36%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.08%) FIX Connectivity
2 2 (0.72%) Firewall
3 1 (0.36%) HTTP
3 1 (0.36%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
1 93 (33.33%) Apache Arrow
1 93 (33.33%) Apache Iceberg
1 93 (33.33%) Dremio
2 47 (16.85%) Apache Ignite
2 47 (16.85%) Data Lake
3 43 (15.41%) Relational Database
4 42 (15.05%) PostgreSQL
5 41 (14.70%) MongoDB
6 40 (14.34%) DB2
7 13 (4.66%) KDB
8 6 (2.15%) Power BI
9 4 (1.43%) Kdb+
9 4 (1.43%) Tableau
10 3 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.08%) Power Query
11 2 (0.72%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.72%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.72%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 42 (15.05%) JUnit
2 16 (5.73%) JIRA
3 9 (3.23%) Git
4 8 (2.87%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.08%) Maven
5 3 (1.08%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.72%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (0.72%) Eclipse
6 2 (0.72%) Gradle
6 2 (0.72%) IntelliJ
6 2 (0.72%) Subversion
6 2 (0.72%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.36%) Crucible
7 1 (0.36%) GitLab
General
1 235 (84.23%) Finance
2 180 (64.52%) Front Office
3 158 (56.63%) Banking
4 130 (46.59%) Investment Banking
5 83 (29.75%) Social Skills
6 68 (24.37%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.79%) Financial Institution
7 5 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.08%) Back Office
8 3 (1.08%) Law
9 2 (0.72%) Legal
9 2 (0.72%) Wholesale Banking
10 1 (0.36%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.36%) International Banking
10 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.36%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 170 (60.93%) Developer
2 120 (43.01%) Software Engineer
3 94 (33.69%) AWS Engineer
4 93 (33.33%) AWS Software Engineer
5 82 (29.39%) Java Developer
6 73 (26.16%) Senior
7 71 (25.45%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 71 (25.45%) Python Engineer
7 71 (25.45%) Python Software Engineer
8 68 (24.37%) Java Engineer
9 66 (23.66%) Java Software Engineer
10 46 (16.49%) AWS Developer
11 45 (16.13%) Senior Java Engineer
11 45 (16.13%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 45 (16.13%) Senior Software Engineer
12 36 (12.90%) Python Developer
13 35 (12.54%) Analyst
14 32 (11.47%) Investment Banking Java Developer
14 32 (11.47%) SQL Developer
15 23 (8.24%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (28.67%) NumPy
1 80 (28.67%) Pandas
2 77 (27.60%) SciPy
3 59 (21.15%) React
4 52 (18.64%) AngularJS
5 51 (18.28%) Kafka
6 47 (16.85%) gRPC
6 47 (16.85%) Protocol Buffers
7 44 (15.77%) JMS
7 44 (15.77%) Vue
8 42 (15.05%) Spring
9 41 (14.70%) Node.js
10 26 (9.32%) Redux
11 21 (7.53%) PySpark
12 13 (4.66%) FIX Protocol
13 8 (2.87%) Middleware
14 5 (1.79%) REST
15 4 (1.43%) AWT
15 4 (1.43%) Rendezvous
15 4 (1.43%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 160 (57.35%) Fixed Income
2 149 (53.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 104 (37.28%) Derivative
4 80 (28.67%) Hedge funds
5 44 (15.77%) Pricing Data
6 42 (15.05%) Data Structures
7 18 (6.45%) Equity Derivative
8 11 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (3.94%) Market Risk
9 8 (2.87%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.51%) Reference Data
10 7 (2.51%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.79%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 4 (1.43%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.43%) Blockchain
13 3 (1.08%) Grid Computing
13 3 (1.08%) Replication
14 2 (0.72%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 63 (22.58%) Linux
2 16 (5.73%) Unix
3 5 (1.79%) Windows
3 5 (1.79%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (68.46%) Agile
2 127 (45.52%) Software Engineering
3 124 (44.44%) Asset Management
4 107 (38.35%) Investment Management
5 72 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (19.71%) Fintech
7 49 (17.56%) SDLC
8 47 (16.85%) Risk Management
9 45 (16.13%) Multithreading
10 42 (15.05%) Open Source
11 38 (13.62%) Database Tuning
11 38 (13.62%) Performance Tuning
12 33 (11.83%) Order Management
13 30 (10.75%) Analytics
13 30 (10.75%) Performance Attribution
14 24 (8.60%) Low Latency
14 24 (8.60%) TDD
15 19 (6.81%) Data Management
16 18 (6.45%) CI/CD
17 17 (6.09%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 190 (68.10%) Python
2 156 (55.91%) Java
3 107 (38.35%) JavaScript
4 105 (37.63%) TypeScript
5 99 (35.48%) SQL
6 43 (15.41%) Shell Script
7 25 (8.96%) C++
8 7 (2.51%) C#
9 5 (1.79%) C
10 4 (1.43%) DAML
11 3 (1.08%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.08%) Scala
12 2 (0.72%) Bash
12 2 (0.72%) Go
12 2 (0.72%) 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 22 (7.89%) Degree
2 10 (3.58%) Numerate Degree
3 5 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.43%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.08%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.08%) PMP
6 2 (0.72%) CFA
7 1 (0.36%) CBAP
7 1 (0.36%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.87%) MiFID
2 5 (1.79%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.43%) Basel III
3 4 (1.43%) QA
4 3 (1.08%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.72%) EMIR
5 2 (0.72%) GDPR
5 2 (0.72%) 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 (0.72%) Docker
2 1 (0.36%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 4 (1.43%) Grafana
1 4 (1.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.08%) 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 42 (15.05%) Sybase
2 11 (3.94%) Bloomberg
3 9 (3.23%) Reuters
4 5 (1.79%) Splunk
4 5 (1.79%) TIBCO
5 4 (1.43%) Google
5 4 (1.43%) Oracle
6 3 (1.08%) Citrix
6 3 (1.08%) Databricks
6 3 (1.08%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.08%) Murex
6 3 (1.08%) Refinitiv
7 2 (0.72%) Calypso
7 2 (0.72%) IBM
7 2 (0.72%) Sophis
8 1 (0.36%) CQG
8 1 (0.36%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.36%) ServiceNow