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 530 653 792
Rank change year-on-year +123 +139 -134
Contract jobs citing KDB 68 66 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.11% 0.064%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.94% 0.61% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 43 47
10th Percentile £650 £600 £620
25th Percentile £775 £644 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £775 £825
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -6.06% +17.86%
75th Percentile £941 £888 £850
90th Percentile £1,025 £990 £925
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%

KDB
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for KDB in the UK

KDB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for KDB in the UK

KDB
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

KDB
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 +133 68 £850 +9.68% 11
London +108 68 £850 +9.68% 11
Work from Home +126 16 £800 - 5

KDB
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 (13.24%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (7.35%) SAS
Business Applications
1 7 (10.29%) ION MarketView
2 1 (1.47%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.94%) GCP
1 2 (2.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (1.47%) AWS
2 1 (1.47%) npm
2 1 (1.47%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.06%) Kdb+
2 6 (8.82%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.41%) Hazelcast
3 3 (4.41%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.41%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.94%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.94%) Looker
5 1 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.47%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Bitbucket
1 3 (4.41%) Jenkins
1 3 (4.41%) TeamCity
2 2 (2.94%) JIRA
2 2 (2.94%) Terragrunt
3 1 (1.47%) Babel
3 1 (1.47%) Git
3 1 (1.47%) Gradle
3 1 (1.47%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.47%) webpack
General
1 35 (51.47%) Finance
2 25 (36.76%) Front Office
3 17 (25.00%) Banking
4 15 (22.06%) Social Skills
5 13 (19.12%) Investment Banking
6 10 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 60 (88.24%) Developer
2 32 (47.06%) KDB Developer
3 26 (38.24%) Java Developer
4 23 (33.82%) Senior
5 22 (32.35%) Senior Developer
6 10 (14.71%) Senior Java Developer
7 7 (10.29%) Analytics Developer
8 6 (8.82%) Electronic Trading Developer
8 6 (8.82%) Low Latency Java Developer
9 5 (7.35%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
10 4 (5.88%) Unix Developer
11 3 (4.41%) Data Engineer
11 3 (4.41%) Software Engineer
12 2 (2.94%) Analyst
12 2 (2.94%) C++ Developer
12 2 (2.94%) Developer Analyst
12 2 (2.94%) Investment Banking Java Developer
12 2 (2.94%) Market Data Analyst
12 2 (2.94%) Market Data Developer
12 2 (2.94%) Pricing Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.29%) FIX Protocol
1 7 (10.29%) Spring
2 6 (8.82%) Middleware
3 5 (7.35%) Rendezvous
4 3 (4.41%) Guice
4 3 (4.41%) HTML
4 3 (4.41%) HTML5
4 3 (4.41%) OpenFin
4 3 (4.41%) React
5 1 (1.47%) JSON
5 1 (1.47%) Node.js
5 1 (1.47%) REST
5 1 (1.47%) Ultra Messaging
5 1 (1.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (33.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 19 (27.94%) Fixed Income
3 13 (19.12%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (19.12%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (14.71%) Algorithms
4 10 (14.71%) Equities
5 7 (10.29%) Data Structures
6 6 (8.82%) Derivative
7 5 (7.35%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (4.41%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (4.41%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (4.41%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.47%) Equity Derivative
9 1 (1.47%) Grid Computing
9 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (27.94%) Unix
2 15 (22.06%) Linux
3 5 (7.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (52.94%) Electronic Trading
2 32 (47.06%) Analytics
3 25 (36.76%) Test Automation
4 23 (33.82%) Low Latency
5 21 (30.88%) Agile
6 20 (29.41%) Multithreading
7 19 (27.94%) Continuous Integration
8 17 (25.00%) OO
9 16 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (23.53%) User Acceptance Testing
10 15 (22.06%) E-Commerce
11 13 (19.12%) SDLC
12 12 (17.65%) Multithreaded Programming
13 11 (16.18%) Computer Science
13 11 (16.18%) Data Modelling
14 10 (14.71%) API Design
15 9 (13.24%) CI/CD
15 9 (13.24%) Data Analytics
15 9 (13.24%) Stakeholder Management
16 8 (11.76%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 43 (63.24%) Java
2 20 (29.41%) Python
3 17 (25.00%) SQL
4 15 (22.06%) C#
5 7 (10.29%) C++
6 4 (5.88%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.41%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.94%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (10.29%) Degree
2 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.47%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.18%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.47%) MiFID
Vendors
1 17 (25.00%) ION Trading
2 8 (11.76%) Solace
3 5 (7.35%) Google
3 5 (7.35%) TIBCO
4 3 (4.41%) Tradeweb
5 2 (2.94%) Bloomberg
5 2 (2.94%) MarketAxess
6 1 (1.47%) Oracle