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 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 651 339 236
Rank change year-on-year -312 -103 +140
Permanent jobs citing Equities 118 337 810
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.12% 0.78% 1.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.44% 1.86% 3.63%
Number of salaries quoted 76 270 777
10th Percentile £68,750 £100,000 £85,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £105,000 £95,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £127,500 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.45% +10.87% -
75th Percentile £128,750 £137,500 £148,750
90th Percentile £131,250 - £165,000
UK median annual salary £92,500 £127,500 £115,000
% change year-on-year -27.45% +10.87% -

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 26,611 18,140 22,295
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.99% 41.98% 32.26%
Number of salaries quoted 17,352 9,210 11,806
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,742 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £43,650
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £112,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%

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 September 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 September 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 -216 117 £92,500 -27.45% 405
North East -69 1 - -
North of England -73 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 12 (10.17%) Confluence
2 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (6.78%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (11.02%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.69%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (1.69%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.69%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.69%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.69%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (1.69%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (1.69%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.69%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.85%) Bloomberg TOMS
Cloud Services
1 20 (16.95%) Azure
2 16 (13.56%) AWS
3 10 (8.47%) GitHub
4 6 (5.08%) GCP
5 4 (3.39%) Anthropic Claude
5 4 (3.39%) Snowflake
6 3 (2.54%) GitHub Copilot
6 3 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.54%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.69%) Google Gemini
7 2 (1.69%) SaaS
8 1 (0.85%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.85%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.85%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.85%) ChatGPT
8 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (17.80%) Multicast
2 11 (9.32%) FIX Connectivity
3 3 (2.54%) DHCP
3 3 (2.54%) DNS
3 3 (2.54%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.25%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.39%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.54%) KDB
3 3 (2.54%) Power BI
4 1 (0.85%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (0.85%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.85%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.85%) HBase
4 1 (0.85%) Redis
4 1 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (26.27%) JIRA
2 11 (9.32%) Git
3 6 (5.08%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.69%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.85%) Selenium
5 1 (0.85%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 92 (77.97%) Finance
2 52 (44.07%) Front Office
3 37 (31.36%) Banking
4 35 (29.66%) Social Skills
5 26 (22.03%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (11.02%) Investment Banking
7 10 (8.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (7.63%) Law
9 8 (6.78%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (6.78%) Spanish Language
10 4 (3.39%) Back Office
10 4 (3.39%) Financial Institution
10 4 (3.39%) General Ledger
11 3 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.85%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (33.05%) Developer
2 35 (29.66%) Senior
3 26 (22.03%) Software Engineer
4 25 (21.19%) Analyst
5 18 (15.25%) Business Analyst
5 18 (15.25%) Python Engineer
5 18 (15.25%) Senior Developer
6 16 (13.56%) Python Developer
6 16 (13.56%) Python Software Engineer
7 15 (12.71%) Quantitative Developer
8 12 (10.17%) Lead
9 11 (9.32%) C++ Software Engineer
10 10 (8.47%) C++ Developer
10 10 (8.47%) C++ Quantitative Developer
10 10 (8.47%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
10 10 (8.47%) Senior Quantitative Developer
10 10 (8.47%) Senior Software Engineer
11 9 (7.63%) Linux Developer
11 9 (7.63%) Low Latency C++ Developer
11 9 (7.63%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (35.59%) FIX Protocol
2 20 (16.95%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 11 (9.32%) pytest
4 10 (8.47%) Kafka
5 7 (5.93%) .NET
5 7 (5.93%) Django
6 4 (3.39%) CSS
6 4 (3.39%) HTML
6 4 (3.39%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (3.39%) RESTful
7 3 (2.54%) XSLT
8 2 (1.69%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (1.69%) React
8 2 (1.69%) Spring
8 2 (1.69%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.69%) XML
9 1 (0.85%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.85%) Pandas
9 1 (0.85%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 50 (42.37%) Fixed Income
2 48 (40.68%) Derivative
3 31 (26.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 29 (24.58%) Algorithms
5 18 (15.25%) Hedge funds
6 16 (13.56%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (9.32%) Distributed Architecture
8 10 (8.47%) Distributed Computing
9 9 (7.63%) Data Structures
9 9 (7.63%) Management Information System
9 9 (7.63%) Onboarding
10 8 (6.78%) Eurex
11 6 (5.08%) Equity Derivative
11 6 (5.08%) Market Risk
12 5 (4.24%) Cloud Native
12 5 (4.24%) Distributed Applications
12 5 (4.24%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (3.39%) AI Agents
14 3 (2.54%) Legacy Applications
15 2 (1.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 37 (31.36%) Linux
2 12 (10.17%) Windows
3 2 (1.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (39.83%) Low Latency
2 40 (33.90%) Software Engineering
3 39 (33.05%) Agile
4 33 (27.97%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (25.42%) Computer Science
6 28 (23.73%) SDLC
7 23 (19.49%) Electronic Trading
8 20 (16.95%) OOP
8 20 (16.95%) Stakeholder Management
9 19 (16.10%) Mathematics
10 17 (14.41%) Investment Management
11 16 (13.56%) Continuous Integration
11 16 (13.56%) Technical Leadership
12 15 (12.71%) Test Automation
13 14 (11.86%) AI
13 14 (11.86%) Order Management
13 14 (11.86%) Project Delivery
13 14 (11.86%) Ultra-Low Latency
14 13 (11.02%) OO
14 13 (11.02%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 64 (54.24%) Python
2 34 (28.81%) SQL
3 31 (26.27%) Java
4 30 (25.42%) C++
5 10 (8.47%) C#
6 5 (4.24%) Tcl
7 4 (3.39%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.39%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.54%) R
8 3 (2.54%) VBA
9 1 (0.85%) Bash
9 1 (0.85%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.85%) Perl
9 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (19.49%) Degree
2 16 (13.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.69%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.56%) QA
2 8 (6.78%) MiFID
3 4 (3.39%) EMIR
3 4 (3.39%) GAAP
4 3 (2.54%) SLA
5 2 (1.69%) IFRS
5 2 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (5.08%) Docker
2 3 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.85%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (5.93%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.54%) SCCM
3 2 (1.69%) Control-M
4 1 (0.85%) Ansible
4 1 (0.85%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (12.71%) Bloomberg
2 14 (11.86%) Oracle
3 12 (10.17%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.78%) CQG
4 8 (6.78%) ION Trading
4 8 (6.78%) Patsystems
4 8 (6.78%) Reuters
4 8 (6.78%) Trayport
5 6 (5.08%) Atlassian
5 6 (5.08%) IBM
6 5 (4.24%) Sybase
6 5 (4.24%) TIBCO
7 3 (2.54%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.69%) Foundry
8 2 (1.69%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.85%) FXall
9 1 (0.85%) MarketAxess
9 1 (0.85%) Moogsoft
9 1 (0.85%) Splunk
9 1 (0.85%) Tradeweb