Kx Systems Kdb+
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Kdb+ skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Kdb+ over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 700 843
Rank change year-on-year +117 +143 -167
Contract jobs citing Kdb+ 15 19 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.032% 0.007%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.21% 0.18% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 5
10th Percentile £635 £600 £588
25th Percentile £650 £675 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £825 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +17.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile - £900 -
90th Percentile £815 £1,030 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £525

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Kdb+ is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,245 10,781 17,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.73% 18.03% 20.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,147 7,685 12,759
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £658 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -3.40% +2.56% +9.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 185 187
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £35.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.52%
75th Percentile £58.55 £71.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% +64.29% +45.83%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Kdb+ in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Kdb+ in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kdb+ over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kdb+ in the UK

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Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kdb+ within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +127 15 £800 -3.03% 4
London +101 15 £800 -3.03% 4
Work from Home +131 7 £700 -15.15% 2

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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 9 (60.00%) Apache Airflow
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (100.00%) KDB
2 1 (6.67%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 11 (73.33%) Front Office
2 6 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (93.33%) Developer
1 14 (93.33%) KDB Developer
2 7 (46.67%) Analytics Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Unix Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) Equities
2 2 (13.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Analytics
1 10 (66.67%) API Design
2 9 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 9 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 7 (46.67%) Electronic Trading
4 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
5 1 (6.67%) Agile
5 1 (6.67%) Backtesting
5 1 (6.67%) Data Analysis
5 1 (6.67%) Data Analytics
5 1 (6.67%) Data Science
5 1 (6.67%) High-Frequency Trading
5 1 (6.67%) Low Latency
5 1 (6.67%) Mathematical Modelling
5 1 (6.67%) Mathematics
5 1 (6.67%) PnL Attribution
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) C#
1 10 (66.67%) Java
1 10 (66.67%) Python
2 9 (60.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (60.00%) Data Quality