KDB Contracts with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 328 454 602
Rank change year-on-year +126 +148 -132
Contract jobs citing KDB 16 21 20
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.081% 0.045%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.55% 0.43% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 19
10th Percentile £650 £498 £555
25th Percentile £688 £634 £813
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £800 £825
Median % change year-on-year - -3.03% +26.92%
75th Percentile £850 £975 £838
90th Percentile £959 £1,113 £888
UK median daily rate £850 £775 £825
% change year-on-year +9.68% -6.06% +17.86%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,884 4,939 9,679
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 18.88% 19.05% 21.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,114 3,599 7,037
10th Percentile £355 £387 £369
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £545
% change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 80 84
10th Percentile £19.89 £22.16 £19.00
25th Percentile £22.52 £43.60 £21.63
Median hourly rate £37.75 £66.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.80% +46.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £59.44 £75.00 £58.13
90th Percentile £70.63 £85.25 £65.70
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.52%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

KDB trend for jobs with a WFH option

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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 KDB.

KDB daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing KDB over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

KDB daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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 5 (31.25%) Apache Airflow
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) Kdb+
General
1 10 (62.50%) Finance
2 9 (56.25%) Front Office
3 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Banking
4 3 (18.75%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (100.00%) Developer
2 12 (75.00%) KDB Developer
3 6 (37.50%) Senior
3 6 (37.50%) Senior Developer
4 4 (25.00%) Analytics Developer
4 4 (25.00%) Java Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Front Office Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Low Latency Java Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Unix Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Spring
2 1 (6.25%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Equities
1 6 (37.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (12.50%) Fixed Income
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Analytics
2 5 (31.25%) API Design
2 5 (31.25%) Collaborative Culture
2 5 (31.25%) Data Management
2 5 (31.25%) Data Modelling
2 5 (31.25%) Electronic Trading
2 5 (31.25%) SDLC
2 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
3 4 (25.00%) BDD
3 4 (25.00%) Build Automation
3 4 (25.00%) OO
3 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (18.75%) Low Latency
4 3 (18.75%) Multithreading
4 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 2 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (6.25%) Migration
6 1 (6.25%) Multithreaded Programming
6 1 (6.25%) Quantitative Finance
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Java
2 6 (37.50%) Python
3 5 (31.25%) C#
3 5 (31.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) ION Trading