Equities Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Equities
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Equities over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 195 368
Rank change year-on-year +79 +173 +159
Contract jobs citing Equities 222 156 109
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.24% 1.02% 0.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.78% 3.54% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 145 88
10th Percentile £598 £563 £475
25th Percentile £675 £688 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £800 £738
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +8.47% +13.46%
75th Percentile £938 £888 £829
90th Percentile - - £1,025
UK median daily rate £750 £750 £700
% change year-on-year - +7.14% +7.69%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Equities
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Equities as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Equities trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Equities
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Equities.

Equities daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Equities
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Equities over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Equities daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Equities
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 47 (21.17%) Apache Airflow
2 37 (16.67%) Apache
3 2 (0.90%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.45%) DataSynapse
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) BusinessWorks
1 1 (0.45%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.45%) Oracle E-Business Tax
1 1 (0.45%) Oracle FAH
1 1 (0.45%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 65 (29.28%) AWS
2 47 (21.17%) dbt
3 44 (19.82%) GCP
4 39 (17.57%) Snowflake
5 17 (7.66%) Amazon EC2
5 17 (7.66%) Amazon ECS
5 17 (7.66%) Amazon EKS
5 17 (7.66%) Dagster
6 15 (6.76%) Azure
7 1 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.45%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.95%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (54.05%) Data Lake
2 47 (21.17%) Amazon Athena
2 47 (21.17%) Apache Arrow
2 47 (21.17%) Apache Iceberg
2 47 (21.17%) Dremio
3 29 (13.06%) Apache Ignite
4 26 (11.71%) DB2
4 26 (11.71%) MongoDB
5 25 (11.26%) Relational Database
6 14 (6.31%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.35%) KDB
7 3 (1.35%) Kdb+
7 3 (1.35%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.90%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.45%) Oracle BI EE
9 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (11.71%) JUnit
2 8 (3.60%) Git
3 6 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.25%) Ant
4 5 (2.25%) Maven
4 5 (2.25%) Subversion
5 2 (0.90%) JIRA
6 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 204 (91.89%) Finance
2 175 (78.83%) Front Office
3 91 (40.99%) Banking
4 77 (34.68%) Investment Banking
5 36 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (14.86%) Social Skills
7 7 (3.15%) Wholesale Banking
8 3 (1.35%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.45%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 83 (37.39%) Developer
2 64 (28.83%) Software Engineer
3 50 (22.52%) Java Developer
4 48 (21.62%) AWS Engineer
5 47 (21.17%) AWS Software Engineer
6 37 (16.67%) Head of Finance
7 35 (15.77%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 35 (15.77%) Senior
8 34 (15.32%) Java Engineer
9 32 (14.41%) Java Software Engineer
10 27 (12.16%) Python Engineer
10 27 (12.16%) Python Software Engineer
11 24 (10.81%) Lead
12 22 (9.91%) Data Governance Analyst
12 22 (9.91%) Data Governance Manager
12 22 (9.91%) Governance Manager
13 21 (9.46%) Senior Software Engineer
14 20 (9.01%) Analyst
15 18 (8.11%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 18 (8.11%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (17.57%) NumPy
1 39 (17.57%) Pandas
1 39 (17.57%) SciPy
2 29 (13.06%) gRPC
2 29 (13.06%) Protocol Buffers
3 28 (12.61%) Spring
4 27 (12.16%) Kafka
5 25 (11.26%) PySpark
5 25 (11.26%) React
6 24 (10.81%) JMS
7 20 (9.01%) AngularJS
8 18 (8.11%) Vue
9 14 (6.31%) Node.js
10 12 (5.41%) Redux
11 11 (4.95%) FIX Protocol
12 6 (2.70%) .NET
13 4 (1.80%) REST
14 3 (1.35%) Smart Contracts
15 2 (0.90%) Apache Avro
15 2 (0.90%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 163 (73.42%) Fixed Income
2 159 (71.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 158 (71.17%) Derivative
4 136 (61.26%) Hedge funds
5 38 (17.12%) Product Ownership
6 26 (11.71%) Data Structures
7 13 (5.86%) Equity Derivative
7 13 (5.86%) Pricing Data
8 3 (1.35%) Blockchain
8 3 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.35%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.90%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.90%) Wiki
10 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.45%) Grid Computing
10 1 (0.45%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.45%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.45%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.45%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 31 (13.96%) Linux
2 8 (3.60%) Windows
3 7 (3.15%) Unix
4 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (82.43%) Agile
2 129 (58.11%) Investment Management
3 108 (48.65%) Migration
4 93 (41.89%) Regulatory Compliance
5 91 (40.99%) Data Governance
5 91 (40.99%) Roadmaps
6 73 (32.88%) Data Management
7 70 (31.53%) Software Engineering
8 62 (27.93%) Asset Management
9 38 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
10 33 (14.86%) SDLC
11 25 (11.26%) Database Tuning
11 25 (11.26%) Open Source
11 25 (11.26%) Performance Tuning
12 23 (10.36%) Multithreading
13 22 (9.91%) Fintech
14 16 (7.21%) Analytics
15 14 (6.31%) Order Management
16 13 (5.86%) Algorithmic Trading
16 13 (5.86%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 90 (40.54%) Python
2 89 (40.09%) Java
3 54 (24.32%) JavaScript
4 51 (22.97%) TypeScript
5 45 (20.27%) SQL
6 25 (11.26%) Shell Script
7 7 (3.15%) C#
8 4 (1.80%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.35%) DAML
10 2 (0.90%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.90%) Scala
11 1 (0.45%) C++
11 1 (0.45%) Ruby
11 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (2.25%) Degree
2 4 (1.80%) CFA
3 3 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.90%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (12.61%) MiFID
2 3 (1.35%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.35%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (1.35%) EMIR
2 3 (1.35%) QA
3 2 (0.90%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 1 (0.45%) Docker
1 1 (0.45%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 1 (0.45%) Grafana
1 1 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (0.45%) Kibana
1 1 (0.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (11.71%) Sybase
2 5 (2.25%) Microsoft
3 2 (0.90%) TIBCO
4 1 (0.45%) Bloomberg
4 1 (0.45%) Charles River
4 1 (0.45%) CQG
4 1 (0.45%) IBM
4 1 (0.45%) ION Trading
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle
4 1 (0.45%) Reuters
4 1 (0.45%) ServiceNow