Equities Job Trends in England

Equities
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Equities over the 6 months leading up to 19 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 459 326 426
Rank change year-on-year -133 +100 +115
Permanent jobs citing Equities 154 411 294
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.29% 0.86% 0.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.83% 2.30% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 107 362 275
10th Percentile £90,000 £78,250 £66,250
25th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £115,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% - +6.98%
75th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £145,000
90th Percentile £143,500 £152,500 £155,000
UK median annual salary £112,500 £115,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% - +9.52%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 18,566 17,883 19,119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.61% 37.41% 36.15%
Number of salaries quoted 9,386 8,379 14,295
10th Percentile £27,767 £34,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,813 £46,250 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +0.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Equities
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Equities relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Equities job vacancy trend in England

Equities
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Equities.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Equities

Equities
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Equities in England over the 6 months to 19 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Equities in England

Equities
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Equities within the England region over the 6 months to 19 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -107 152 £112,500 -2.17% 28
North of England +12 2 - - 4
North East +2 1 - - 2
North West - 1 - - 1
Equities
UK

Equities
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 45 (29.22%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (15.58%) Apache
3 6 (3.90%) Confluence
4 3 (1.95%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (6.49%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.65%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.65%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 59 (38.31%) AWS
2 44 (28.57%) dbt
3 27 (17.53%) Snowflake
4 20 (12.99%) GCP
5 9 (5.84%) GitHub
6 5 (3.25%) Azure
7 2 (1.30%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.30%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.65%) Datadog
8 1 (0.65%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.65%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 18 (11.69%) Multicast
2 2 (1.30%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (28.57%) Amazon Athena
1 44 (28.57%) Apache Arrow
1 44 (28.57%) Apache Iceberg
1 44 (28.57%) Dremio
2 26 (16.88%) Data Lake
3 24 (15.58%) Apache Ignite
4 20 (12.99%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (4.55%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.25%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.60%) KDB
8 3 (1.95%) Big Data
8 3 (1.95%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.95%) Tick Data
9 2 (1.30%) Power BI
10 1 (0.65%) Kdb+
10 1 (0.65%) Metadata
10 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (12.99%) JIRA
2 8 (5.19%) Git
3 4 (2.60%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.95%) Selenium
5 2 (1.30%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.30%) Maven
6 1 (0.65%) GitLab
6 1 (0.65%) Postman
6 1 (0.65%) REST Assured
General
1 121 (78.57%) Finance
2 98 (63.64%) Front Office
3 58 (37.66%) Banking
4 32 (20.78%) Investment Banking
5 21 (13.64%) Social Skills
6 13 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.55%) Financial Institution
8 6 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (3.25%) Back Office
9 5 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.60%) Spanish Language
11 2 (1.30%) Games
11 2 (1.30%) Legal
11 2 (1.30%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (43.51%) Developer
2 57 (37.01%) Python Engineer
2 57 (37.01%) Software Engineer
3 56 (36.36%) Python Software Engineer
4 55 (35.71%) Senior
5 44 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
5 44 (28.57%) AWS Software Engineer
6 42 (27.27%) Python Developer
7 34 (22.08%) Senior Software Engineer
8 30 (19.48%) Quantitative Developer
9 27 (17.53%) Java Engineer
10 25 (16.23%) Java Software Engineer
11 22 (14.29%) Senior Java Engineer
11 22 (14.29%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 20 (12.99%) Analyst
12 20 (12.99%) AWS Developer
12 20 (12.99%) C++ Developer
12 20 (12.99%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 17 (11.04%) Low Latency C++ Developer
13 17 (11.04%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (29.22%) Pandas
2 44 (28.57%) NumPy
2 44 (28.57%) SciPy
3 32 (20.78%) FIX Protocol
4 29 (18.83%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 24 (15.58%) gRPC
5 24 (15.58%) Protocol Buffers
6 23 (14.94%) React
7 20 (12.99%) AngularJS
7 20 (12.99%) Node.js
7 20 (12.99%) Vue
8 13 (8.44%) pytest
9 9 (5.84%) Kafka
10 6 (3.90%) Java Concurrency
11 4 (2.60%) REST
12 3 (1.95%) .NET
12 3 (1.95%) CSS
12 3 (1.95%) HTML
12 3 (1.95%) Playwright
13 2 (1.30%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 74 (48.05%) Fixed Income
2 67 (43.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 60 (38.96%) Derivative
4 51 (33.12%) Algorithms
5 45 (29.22%) Hedge funds
6 25 (16.23%) Pricing Data
7 19 (12.34%) Data Structures
8 18 (11.69%) Management Information System
9 17 (11.04%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (4.55%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (3.90%) Cloud Native
11 6 (3.90%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (3.25%) Onboarding
13 4 (2.60%) Eurex
14 3 (1.95%) Equity Derivative
15 2 (1.30%) Credit Derivative
15 2 (1.30%) Interest Rate Derivative
15 2 (1.30%) Private Cloud
16 1 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
16 1 (0.65%) TWAP
Operating Systems
1 47 (30.52%) Linux
2 11 (7.14%) Windows
3 3 (1.95%) Unix
4 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (42.21%) Agile
2 64 (41.56%) Low Latency
3 61 (39.61%) Software Engineering
4 48 (31.17%) Asset Management
5 45 (29.22%) Investment Management
6 43 (27.92%) Order Management
7 36 (23.38%) Electronic Trading
8 35 (22.73%) Computer Science
9 34 (22.08%) Algorithmic Trading
10 29 (18.83%) OOP
11 26 (16.88%) Mathematics
12 24 (15.58%) Risk Management
13 23 (14.94%) Data Analysis
14 21 (13.64%) Fintech
14 21 (13.64%) Test Automation
15 20 (12.99%) Performance Attribution
16 19 (12.34%) Analytics
16 19 (12.34%) SDLC
17 18 (11.69%) OO
17 18 (11.69%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 116 (75.32%) Python
2 70 (45.45%) Java
3 47 (30.52%) JavaScript
3 47 (30.52%) TypeScript
4 35 (22.73%) C++
5 15 (9.74%) SQL
6 1 (0.65%) C#
6 1 (0.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (16.23%) Degree
2 12 (7.79%) Master's Degree
2 12 (7.79%) PhD
3 6 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.95%) ISEB
4 3 (1.95%) ISTQB
4 3 (1.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.65%) CISM
5 1 (0.65%) CISSP
5 1 (0.65%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.69%) QA
2 4 (2.60%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.95%) MiFID
4 2 (1.30%) COREP
5 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.65%) FINRA
5 1 (0.65%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.65%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (1.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.60%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.65%) Grafana
2 1 (0.65%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (0.65%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (4.55%) Bloomberg
2 4 (2.60%) CQG
2 4 (2.60%) ION Trading
2 4 (2.60%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.60%) Oracle
2 4 (2.60%) Patsystems
2 4 (2.60%) Reuters
2 4 (2.60%) Trayport
3 2 (1.30%) Atlassian
3 2 (1.30%) Charles River
3 2 (1.30%) Databricks
3 2 (1.30%) Solace
3 2 (1.30%) Splunk
4 1 (0.65%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.65%) FactSet
4 1 (0.65%) Murex
4 1 (0.65%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.65%) Refinitiv