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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 237 388
Rank change year-on-year -111 +151 +110
Permanent jobs citing Equities 337 810 397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.78% 1.17% 0.74%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.86% 3.65% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 270 778 338
10th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £55,875
25th Percentile £105,000 £95,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £127,500 £115,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.87% - +2.22%
75th Percentile £137,500 £148,750 £142,500
90th Percentile - £165,000 £162,500
UK median annual salary £127,500 £115,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year +10.87% - +2.22%

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 18,083 22,186 22,203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 41.84% 32.15% 41.17%
Number of salaries quoted 9,181 11,818 15,926
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £43,742 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -

Equities
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Equities as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Equities 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 -53 333 £127,500 +10.87% 63
North of England - 4 - - 1
North East - 2 - -
North West - 2 - -
Equities
UK

Equities
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 184 (54.60%) Apache Airflow
2 89 (26.41%) Apache
3 5 (1.48%) Confluence
4 4 (1.19%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.89%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.89%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 224 (66.47%) AWS
2 184 (54.60%) dbt
3 116 (34.42%) GCP
4 90 (26.71%) Snowflake
5 13 (3.86%) Azure
6 3 (0.89%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.59%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.59%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.26%) Multicast
2 3 (0.89%) FIX Connectivity
2 3 (0.89%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.30%) DHCP
3 1 (0.30%) DNS
3 1 (0.30%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (54.60%) Amazon Athena
1 184 (54.60%) Apache Arrow
1 184 (54.60%) Apache Iceberg
1 184 (54.60%) Dremio
2 106 (31.45%) PostgreSQL
3 91 (27.00%) Data Lake
4 89 (26.41%) Apache Ignite
5 13 (3.86%) KDB
6 9 (2.67%) Kdb+
7 8 (2.37%) SQL Server
8 3 (0.89%) Big Data
8 3 (0.89%) Hadoop
8 3 (0.89%) Power BI
9 1 (0.30%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.30%) Redis
9 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (3.86%) JIRA
2 4 (1.19%) Cucumber
2 4 (1.19%) Vite
3 3 (0.89%) Git
3 3 (0.89%) GitLab
3 3 (0.89%) JUnit
General
1 311 (92.28%) Finance
2 272 (80.71%) Front Office
3 145 (43.03%) Banking
4 97 (28.78%) Investment Banking
5 28 (8.31%) Social Skills
6 19 (5.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (5.64%) Law
7 10 (2.97%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.48%) Back Office
11 3 (0.89%) Legal
11 3 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.59%) Spanish Language
13 1 (0.30%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 226 (67.06%) Software Engineer
2 188 (55.79%) AWS Engineer
2 188 (55.79%) AWS Software Engineer
3 177 (52.52%) Developer
4 175 (51.93%) Python Engineer
5 174 (51.63%) Python Software Engineer
6 138 (40.95%) Senior
7 120 (35.61%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 119 (35.31%) Java Engineer
9 112 (33.23%) Java Software Engineer
10 106 (31.45%) Senior Software Engineer
11 97 (28.78%) AWS Developer
12 95 (28.19%) Python Developer
13 94 (27.89%) Senior Java Engineer
14 90 (26.71%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 36 (10.68%) Java Developer
16 35 (10.39%) Quantitative Developer
17 27 (8.01%) Senior Developer
18 23 (6.82%) C++ Developer
19 22 (6.53%) Senior C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (55.79%) Pandas
2 184 (54.60%) NumPy
2 184 (54.60%) SciPy
3 122 (36.20%) React
4 107 (31.75%) AngularJS
5 106 (31.45%) Node.js
6 105 (31.16%) Vue
7 89 (26.41%) gRPC
7 89 (26.41%) Protocol Buffers
8 25 (7.42%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 21 (6.23%) FIX Protocol
9 21 (6.23%) Redux
10 11 (3.26%) Kafka
11 8 (2.37%) pytest
12 4 (1.19%) Java Concurrency
12 4 (1.19%) Jest
12 4 (1.19%) Middleware
13 3 (0.89%) .NET
13 3 (0.89%) Gherkin
13 3 (0.89%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 234 (69.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 233 (69.14%) Fixed Income
3 139 (41.25%) Hedge funds
4 134 (39.76%) Derivative
5 90 (26.71%) Pricing Data
6 46 (13.65%) Algorithms
7 19 (5.64%) Management Information System
8 18 (5.34%) Data Structures
9 14 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (2.08%) Cloud Native
11 4 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.19%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.89%) Equity Derivative
12 3 (0.89%) Eurex
13 2 (0.59%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (0.59%) Distributed Computing
13 2 (0.59%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.59%) Reference Data
13 2 (0.59%) TWAP
13 2 (0.59%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 47 (13.95%) Linux
2 7 (2.08%) Unix
3 5 (1.48%) Windows
4 1 (0.30%) CentOS
4 1 (0.30%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (71.51%) Agile
2 237 (70.33%) Software Engineering
3 209 (62.02%) Investment Management
4 207 (61.42%) Asset Management
5 123 (36.50%) Fintech
6 120 (35.61%) Order Management
7 102 (30.27%) Risk Management
8 95 (28.19%) Performance Attribution
9 68 (20.18%) Low Latency
10 39 (11.57%) Computer Science
11 38 (11.28%) Analytics
12 32 (9.50%) Algorithmic Trading
12 32 (9.50%) Mathematics
13 28 (8.31%) Electronic Trading
14 26 (7.72%) OOP
14 26 (7.72%) SDLC
15 24 (7.12%) Test Automation
16 23 (6.82%) OO
17 21 (6.23%) Data Analysis
18 19 (5.64%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 265 (78.64%) Python
2 213 (63.20%) TypeScript
3 209 (62.02%) JavaScript
4 160 (47.48%) Java
5 38 (11.28%) C++
6 22 (6.53%) SQL
7 12 (3.56%) C#
8 4 (1.19%) C
8 4 (1.19%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.19%) VBA
9 3 (0.89%) Scala
10 2 (0.59%) Bash
11 1 (0.30%) Perl
11 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (8.01%) Degree
2 17 (5.04%) Master's Degree
3 16 (4.75%) PhD
4 3 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.30%) CFA
5 1 (0.30%) CISM
5 1 (0.30%) CISSP
5 1 (0.30%) CRISC
5 1 (0.30%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.37%) QA
2 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
2 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.30%) NIST
Systems Management
1 8 (2.37%) Terraform
2 4 (1.19%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.89%) Control-M
4 2 (0.59%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (2.67%) Bloomberg
2 4 (1.19%) ION Trading
3 3 (0.89%) Atlassian
3 3 (0.89%) Calypso
3 3 (0.89%) CQG
3 3 (0.89%) Oracle
3 3 (0.89%) Patsystems
3 3 (0.89%) Reuters
3 3 (0.89%) Trayport
4 2 (0.59%) Alteryx
4 2 (0.59%) Microsoft
4 2 (0.59%) Solace
5 1 (0.30%) Capita
5 1 (0.30%) Databricks
5 1 (0.30%) FactSet
5 1 (0.30%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.30%) Splunk