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

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 430 316 400
Rank change year-on-year -114 +84 +119
Permanent jobs citing Equities 179 421 287
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.34% 0.86% 0.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.96% 2.30% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 128 370 268
10th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £75,000
25th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £95,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £115,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £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 18,590 18,294 17,058
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.68% 37.22% 37.05%
Number of salaries quoted 9,372 8,693 12,755
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
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 3 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 3 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 -74 177 £112,500 -2.17% 40
North of England +22 2 - - 1
North East +4 1 - - 1
North West - 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 63 (35.20%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (18.44%) Apache
3 5 (2.79%) Confluence
4 3 (1.68%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (5.59%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.56%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.56%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 77 (43.02%) AWS
2 62 (34.64%) dbt
3 36 (20.11%) Snowflake
4 29 (16.20%) GCP
5 8 (4.47%) GitHub
6 5 (2.79%) Azure
7 2 (1.12%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.12%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.56%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.56%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.56%) Datadog
8 1 (0.56%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.56%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 19 (10.61%) Multicast
2 2 (1.12%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (34.64%) Amazon Athena
1 62 (34.64%) Apache Arrow
1 62 (34.64%) Apache Iceberg
1 62 (34.64%) Dremio
2 35 (19.55%) Data Lake
3 33 (18.44%) Apache Ignite
4 29 (16.20%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.91%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.79%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.23%) KDB
8 3 (1.68%) Big Data
8 3 (1.68%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.12%) Power BI
9 2 (1.12%) Tick Data
10 1 (0.56%) Kdb+
10 1 (0.56%) Metadata
10 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (11.17%) JIRA
2 6 (3.35%) Git
3 3 (1.68%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.68%) Selenium
4 2 (1.12%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.12%) Maven
5 1 (0.56%) GitLab
5 1 (0.56%) Postman
5 1 (0.56%) REST Assured
General
1 149 (83.24%) Finance
2 121 (67.60%) Front Office
3 69 (38.55%) Banking
4 41 (22.91%) Investment Banking
5 22 (12.29%) Social Skills
6 13 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (5.03%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.91%) Back Office
8 7 (3.91%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.23%) Spanish Language
11 3 (1.68%) Legal
12 2 (1.12%) Games
12 2 (1.12%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (44.69%) Developer
2 76 (42.46%) Python Engineer
2 76 (42.46%) Software Engineer
3 75 (41.90%) Python Software Engineer
4 67 (37.43%) Senior
5 62 (34.64%) AWS Engineer
5 62 (34.64%) AWS Software Engineer
6 53 (29.61%) Python Developer
7 44 (24.58%) Senior Software Engineer
8 36 (20.11%) Java Engineer
9 34 (18.99%) Java Software Engineer
9 34 (18.99%) Quantitative Developer
10 31 (17.32%) Senior Java Engineer
10 31 (17.32%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 29 (16.20%) AWS Developer
11 29 (16.20%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 19 (10.61%) Analyst
12 19 (10.61%) C++ Developer
13 18 (10.06%) Senior Developer
13 18 (10.06%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (35.20%) Pandas
2 62 (34.64%) NumPy
2 62 (34.64%) SciPy
3 33 (18.44%) gRPC
3 33 (18.44%) Protocol Buffers
4 32 (17.88%) FIX Protocol
4 32 (17.88%) React
5 31 (17.32%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 29 (16.20%) AngularJS
6 29 (16.20%) Node.js
6 29 (16.20%) Vue
7 14 (7.82%) pytest
8 11 (6.15%) Kafka
9 7 (3.91%) Java Concurrency
10 4 (2.23%) .NET
10 4 (2.23%) REST
11 3 (1.68%) CSS
11 3 (1.68%) HTML
11 3 (1.68%) Playwright
12 2 (1.12%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 93 (51.96%) Fixed Income
2 87 (48.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 71 (39.66%) Derivative
4 57 (31.84%) Hedge funds
5 56 (31.28%) Algorithms
6 34 (18.99%) Pricing Data
7 19 (10.61%) Data Structures
7 19 (10.61%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (10.61%) Management Information System
8 7 (3.91%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (3.35%) Cloud Native
9 6 (3.35%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (2.79%) Onboarding
11 4 (2.23%) Eurex
12 3 (1.68%) Equity Derivative
13 2 (1.12%) Credit Derivative
13 2 (1.12%) Interest Rate Derivative
13 2 (1.12%) Private Cloud
14 1 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
14 1 (0.56%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 49 (27.37%) Linux
2 12 (6.70%) Windows
3 2 (1.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (46.93%) Agile
2 80 (44.69%) Software Engineering
3 67 (37.43%) Asset Management
4 66 (36.87%) Low Latency
5 64 (35.75%) Investment Management
6 55 (30.73%) Order Management
7 38 (21.23%) Computer Science
8 37 (20.67%) Electronic Trading
9 36 (20.11%) Algorithmic Trading
10 33 (18.44%) Risk Management
11 31 (17.32%) Fintech
11 31 (17.32%) OOP
12 30 (16.76%) Mathematics
13 29 (16.20%) Performance Attribution
14 26 (14.53%) Data Analysis
15 23 (12.85%) Test Automation
16 22 (12.29%) Quantitative Research
17 20 (11.17%) Analytics
18 19 (10.61%) High-Frequency Trading
18 19 (10.61%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 139 (77.65%) Python
2 85 (47.49%) Java
3 65 (36.31%) JavaScript
3 65 (36.31%) TypeScript
4 35 (19.55%) C++
5 20 (11.17%) SQL
6 4 (2.23%) C#
7 3 (1.68%) VBA
8 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (16.20%) Degree
2 18 (10.06%) Master's Degree
3 17 (9.50%) PhD
4 4 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.68%) ISEB
5 3 (1.68%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.56%) CFA
6 1 (0.56%) CISM
6 1 (0.56%) CISSP
6 1 (0.56%) CRISC
6 1 (0.56%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.06%) QA
2 4 (2.23%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.12%) COREP
4 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.56%) FINRA
4 1 (0.56%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.56%) MiFID
4 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (1.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.23%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.12%) Control-M
3 1 (0.56%) Grafana
3 1 (0.56%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (5.03%) Bloomberg
2 4 (2.23%) CQG
2 4 (2.23%) ION Trading
2 4 (2.23%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.23%) Oracle
2 4 (2.23%) Patsystems
2 4 (2.23%) Reuters
2 4 (2.23%) Trayport
3 2 (1.12%) Atlassian
3 2 (1.12%) Calypso
3 2 (1.12%) Charles River
3 2 (1.12%) Databricks
3 2 (1.12%) Solace
3 2 (1.12%) Splunk
4 1 (0.56%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.56%) FactSet
4 1 (0.56%) Murex
4 1 (0.56%) Refinitiv