Equities Jobs in the City of London

Equities
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in permanent job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Equities over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 157 177
Rank change year-on-year +33 +20 +18
Permanent jobs citing Equities 15 21 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.77% 0.63% 1.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.87% 1.81% 2.88%
Number of salaries quoted 15 19 48
10th Percentile £41,400 £107,000 £61,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £112,500 £92,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £130,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +13.04% +31.43%
75th Percentile £117,500 £140,000 £129,375
90th Percentile £138,000 £143,000 £162,500
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £130,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% +13.04% +31.43%

All Generic Skills
City of London

Equities falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 804 1,159 1,840
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 41.10% 34.64% 41.11%
Number of salaries quoted 602 881 1,535
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £43,397
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -6.45% -
75th Percentile £103,750 £97,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £145,000 £117,500 £120,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% -6.45% +3.33%

Equities
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Equities as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Equities in the City of London

Equities
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Equities in the City of London.

Salary trend for Equities in the City of London

Equities
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Equities in the City of London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Equities in the City of London

Equities
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
1 2 (13.33%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Redis
1 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) Gradle
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 10 (66.67%) Finance
2 6 (40.00%) Banking
3 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 4 (26.67%) Front Office
5 3 (20.00%) Back Office
6 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking
7 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
7 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 2 (13.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (13.33%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Banking Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Electronic Trading Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Financial Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Python Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Python Developer
3 2 (13.33%) React Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Support Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Electronic Trading C++ Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Head of Support
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (13.33%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 2 (13.33%) Django
2 2 (13.33%) FastAPI
2 2 (13.33%) Flask
2 2 (13.33%) React
3 1 (6.67%) Kafka
3 1 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (6.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Fixed Income
1 6 (40.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (33.33%) Derivative
3 2 (13.33%) Algorithms
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (13.33%) Hedge funds
3 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
3 2 (13.33%) Reference Data
4 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
4 1 (6.67%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (6.67%) FPGA
4 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
4 1 (6.67%) TWAP
4 1 (6.67%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Linux
2 5 (33.33%) Unix
3 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (13.33%) Rocky
3 2 (13.33%) Ubuntu
3 2 (13.33%) Windows
4 1 (6.67%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Algorithmic Trading
2 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (20.00%) Low Latency
3 2 (13.33%) API Development
3 2 (13.33%) Client Onboarding
3 2 (13.33%) Customer Service
3 2 (13.33%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (13.33%) Electronic Trading
3 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (13.33%) Investment Management
3 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
3 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (13.33%) User Experience
4 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (6.67%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (6.67%) Memory Management
4 1 (6.67%) Observability
4 1 (6.67%) Open Source
4 1 (6.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (6.67%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
1 8 (53.33%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) Bash
3 2 (13.33%) C#
3 2 (13.33%) C++
3 2 (13.33%) Java
3 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (6.67%) Perl
4 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Grafana
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Atlassian
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (6.67%) Splunk
2 1 (6.67%) Sun