Equities Contracts with Work from Home Options

Equities
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Equities over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 178 356 515
Rank change year-on-year +178 +159 -155
Contract jobs citing Equities 175 103 107
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.19% 0.42% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.13% 1.32% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 84 89
10th Percentile £650 £475 £438
25th Percentile £688 £490 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £700 £670
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +4.48% +11.67%
75th Percentile £888 £816 £738
90th Percentile - £1,025 £825
UK median daily rate £750 £700 £650
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% +8.33%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Equities is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,241 7,821 13,928
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.79% 31.56% 31.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,892 5,532 9,968
10th Percentile £325 £372 £360
25th Percentile £438 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £675 £687 £650
90th Percentile £825 £794 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 152 225
10th Percentile £15.95 £19.00 £14.08
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.71 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +17.98% +29.93%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £84.42 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.41 £27.50
% change year-on-year +40.00% -18.51% +4.05%

Equities
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Equities as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Equities trend for jobs with a WFH option

Equities
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Equities over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

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 94 (53.71%) Apache Airflow
2 82 (46.86%) Apache
3 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.57%) MQSeries
Applications
1 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 118 (67.43%) AWS
2 85 (48.57%) dbt
3 74 (42.29%) Snowflake
4 62 (35.43%) GCP
5 23 (13.14%) Azure
6 2 (1.14%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (48.57%) Apache Arrow
1 85 (48.57%) Dremio
2 83 (47.43%) Amazon Athena
3 80 (45.71%) Apache Ignite
4 76 (43.43%) Data Lake
5 7 (4.00%) KDB
6 5 (2.86%) Kdb+
7 4 (2.29%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.14%) Big Data
8 2 (1.14%) Data Mart
8 2 (1.14%) Power BI
8 2 (1.14%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (3.43%) Git
2 4 (2.29%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.57%) Postman
3 1 (0.57%) Selenium
3 1 (0.57%) TestComplete
General
1 149 (85.14%) Finance
2 146 (83.43%) Front Office
3 107 (61.14%) Banking
4 93 (53.14%) Investment Banking
5 8 (4.57%) Back Office
6 4 (2.29%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.29%) Social Skills
7 3 (1.71%) Prime Brokerage
7 3 (1.71%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
8 2 (1.14%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 68 (38.86%) Developer
2 60 (34.29%) Software Engineer
3 45 (25.71%) Lead
4 39 (22.29%) Senior
5 38 (21.71%) Python Engineer
5 38 (21.71%) Python Software Engineer
6 36 (20.57%) Senior Software Engineer
7 33 (18.86%) Python Developer
8 32 (18.29%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 32 (18.29%) Java Engineer
8 32 (18.29%) Java Software Engineer
9 31 (17.71%) Finance Manager
10 30 (17.14%) Analyst
11 28 (16.00%) AWS Engineer
11 28 (16.00%) AWS Software Engineer
12 26 (14.86%) Software Developer
13 25 (14.29%) Team Leader
14 24 (13.71%) Business Analyst
14 24 (13.71%) Lead Developer
14 24 (13.71%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (50.86%) gRPC
1 89 (50.86%) Protocol Buffers
2 86 (49.14%) Pandas
3 80 (45.71%) NumPy
3 80 (45.71%) SciPy
4 9 (5.14%) .NET
4 9 (5.14%) React
5 6 (3.43%) AngularJS
5 6 (3.43%) Material-UI
5 6 (3.43%) Vue
6 5 (2.86%) WPF
7 3 (1.71%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.71%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (1.71%) Redux
8 2 (1.14%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (1.14%) Murex MxML
9 1 (0.57%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 131 (74.86%) Derivative
2 128 (73.14%) Fixed Income
3 124 (70.86%) Hedge funds
4 111 (63.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 15 (8.57%) Product Ownership
6 10 (5.71%) Pricing Data
7 4 (2.29%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (2.29%) DTCC
7 4 (2.29%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.14%) Clustering
9 2 (1.14%) Market Risk
9 2 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.14%) Unix
2 6 (3.43%) Linux
2 6 (3.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (72.57%) Agile
2 123 (70.29%) Asset Management
3 104 (59.43%) Software Engineering
4 101 (57.71%) Investment Management
5 36 (20.57%) Analytics
6 33 (18.86%) Line Management
7 31 (17.71%) Greeks
8 19 (10.86%) Product Management
9 17 (9.71%) Artificial Intelligence
9 17 (9.71%) Machine Learning
10 14 (8.00%) Quantitative Research
11 9 (5.14%) Test Automation
11 9 (5.14%) Test Strategy
12 6 (3.43%) Collaborative Culture
12 6 (3.43%) Data Architecture
12 6 (3.43%) Electronic Trading
12 6 (3.43%) Mentoring
12 6 (3.43%) Problem-Solving
13 5 (2.86%) API Design
13 5 (2.86%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 132 (75.43%) Python
2 95 (54.29%) Java
3 89 (50.86%) JavaScript
3 89 (50.86%) TypeScript
4 34 (19.43%) SQL
5 21 (12.00%) C#
6 14 (8.00%) R
7 8 (4.57%) C++
8 7 (4.00%) Scala
9 6 (3.43%) Perl
9 6 (3.43%) Ruby
10 4 (2.29%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.29%) VBA
11 2 (1.14%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (4.57%) Degree
2 4 (2.29%) Numerate Degree
3 3 (1.71%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (20.57%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.57%) QA
3 4 (2.29%) MiFID
4 2 (1.14%) EMIR
Systems Management
1 2 (1.14%) Ansible
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 14 (8.00%) Bloomberg
2 2 (1.14%) Murex
2 2 (1.14%) Oracle
2 2 (1.14%) Splunk
2 2 (1.14%) Sybase
3 1 (0.57%) IBM
3 1 (0.57%) Solace
3 1 (0.57%) TIBCO