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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 144 370
Rank change year-on-year +15 +226 +135
Contract jobs citing Equities 207 222 94
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.12% 1.51% 0.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.18% 5.16% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 212 78
10th Percentile £550 £663 £475
25th Percentile £675 £700 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £800 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +18.52% -
75th Percentile £875 £888 £800
90th Percentile £938 - £959
UK median daily rate £775 £800 £700
% change year-on-year -3.13% +14.29% +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 3,351 4,300 7,463
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.24% 29.26% 31.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,201 2,914 5,286
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £680
90th Percentile £825 £850 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -2.51% -2.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 188 148
10th Percentile £16.00 £16.03 £19.00
25th Percentile £25.63 £25.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £41.52 £48.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -8.10% +17.98%
75th Percentile £64.50 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.13 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £31.76 £35.65 £22.49
% change year-on-year -10.91% +58.55% -16.66%

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 23 June 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 63 (30.43%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (18.84%) Apache
3 2 (0.97%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.48%) DataSynapse
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) BusinessWorks
1 1 (0.48%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle E-Business Tax
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle FAH
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 94 (45.41%) AWS
2 63 (30.43%) dbt
3 59 (28.50%) GCP
4 41 (19.81%) Snowflake
5 21 (10.14%) Azure
6 5 (2.42%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (2.42%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (2.42%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (2.42%) Dagster
7 1 (0.48%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.48%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.90%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (37.20%) Data Lake
2 63 (30.43%) Amazon Athena
2 63 (30.43%) Apache Arrow
2 63 (30.43%) Apache Iceberg
2 63 (30.43%) Dremio
3 35 (16.91%) DB2
3 35 (16.91%) MongoDB
3 35 (16.91%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (16.43%) Relational Database
5 31 (14.98%) Apache Ignite
6 3 (1.45%) KDB
6 3 (1.45%) Kdb+
6 3 (1.45%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.97%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.48%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.48%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 35 (16.91%) JUnit
2 8 (3.86%) Git
3 6 (2.90%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.42%) Ant
4 5 (2.42%) Maven
4 5 (2.42%) Subversion
5 2 (0.97%) JIRA
6 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio
General
1 194 (93.72%) Finance
2 162 (78.26%) Front Office
3 100 (48.31%) Banking
4 81 (39.13%) Investment Banking
5 42 (20.29%) Analytical Skills
6 41 (19.81%) Social Skills
7 7 (3.38%) Wholesale Banking
8 1 (0.48%) Back Office
8 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 114 (55.07%) Developer
2 93 (44.93%) Software Engineer
3 64 (30.92%) AWS Engineer
4 63 (30.43%) AWS Software Engineer
5 62 (29.95%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 60 (28.99%) Java Developer
7 48 (23.19%) Java Engineer
8 47 (22.71%) Senior
9 46 (22.22%) Java Software Engineer
10 43 (20.77%) Python Engineer
10 43 (20.77%) Python Software Engineer
11 32 (15.46%) AWS Developer
12 29 (14.01%) Senior Java Engineer
12 29 (14.01%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 29 (14.01%) Senior Software Engineer
13 26 (12.56%) Investment Banking Java Developer
13 26 (12.56%) SQL Developer
14 25 (12.08%) Head of Finance
15 17 (8.21%) Java Software Developer
15 17 (8.21%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (26.57%) NumPy
1 55 (26.57%) Pandas
1 55 (26.57%) SciPy
2 52 (25.12%) React
3 40 (19.32%) AngularJS
4 38 (18.36%) Vue
5 37 (17.87%) Spring
6 36 (17.39%) Kafka
7 35 (16.91%) Node.js
8 33 (15.94%) JMS
9 31 (14.98%) gRPC
9 31 (14.98%) Protocol Buffers
10 25 (12.08%) Redux
11 13 (6.28%) PySpark
12 6 (2.90%) .NET
12 6 (2.90%) FIX Protocol
13 4 (1.93%) REST
14 3 (1.45%) Smart Contracts
15 2 (0.97%) Apache Avro
15 2 (0.97%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 143 (69.08%) Fixed Income
2 140 (67.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 109 (52.66%) Derivative
4 99 (47.83%) Hedge funds
5 35 (16.91%) Data Structures
6 27 (13.04%) Pricing Data
7 14 (6.76%) Equity Derivative
8 11 (5.31%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.45%) Blockchain
9 3 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.45%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.97%) Market Risk
10 2 (0.97%) Wiki
11 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.48%) Grid Computing
11 1 (0.48%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.48%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.48%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.48%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 40 (19.32%) Linux
2 8 (3.86%) Windows
3 7 (3.38%) Unix
4 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (84.06%) Agile
2 124 (59.90%) Investment Management
3 99 (47.83%) Software Engineering
4 90 (43.48%) Asset Management
5 52 (25.12%) Data Management
6 51 (24.64%) Migration
7 49 (23.67%) Fintech
8 47 (22.71%) Regulatory Compliance
9 46 (22.22%) Data Governance
9 46 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
9 46 (22.22%) Roadmaps
10 42 (20.29%) SDLC
11 34 (16.43%) Database Tuning
11 34 (16.43%) Open Source
11 34 (16.43%) Performance Tuning
12 32 (15.46%) Multithreading
13 27 (13.04%) Order Management
14 26 (12.56%) Risk Management
15 24 (11.59%) Performance Attribution
16 19 (9.18%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 122 (58.94%) Python
2 101 (48.79%) Java
3 83 (40.10%) JavaScript
4 80 (38.65%) TypeScript
5 53 (25.60%) SQL
6 34 (16.43%) Shell Script
7 7 (3.38%) C#
8 4 (1.93%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.45%) DAML
10 2 (0.97%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.97%) Scala
11 1 (0.48%) C++
11 1 (0.48%) Ruby
11 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (1.45%) Degree
2 2 (0.97%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.18%) MiFID
2 3 (1.45%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (1.45%) QA
3 2 (0.97%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.97%) EMIR
4 1 (0.48%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 1 (0.48%) Docker
1 1 (0.48%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 1 (0.48%) Grafana
1 1 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (0.48%) Kibana
1 1 (0.48%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 35 (16.91%) Sybase
2 5 (2.42%) Microsoft
3 2 (0.97%) TIBCO
4 1 (0.48%) Bloomberg
4 1 (0.48%) CQG
4 1 (0.48%) IBM
4 1 (0.48%) ION Trading
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle
4 1 (0.48%) Reuters
4 1 (0.48%) ServiceNow