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 16 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 410 283 399
Rank change year-on-year -127 +116 +115
Permanent jobs citing Equities 196 523 304
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 1.02% 0.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.04% 2.77% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 149 475 280
10th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £66,250
25th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £152,500 £153,750
UK median annual salary £112,500 £115,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% - +5.75%

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 18,839 18,891 16,480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 36.69% 36.71% 37.87%
Number of salaries quoted 9,564 9,278 12,413
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,852 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -2.34%

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 16 December 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 16 December 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 -102 194 £115,000 - 24
North of England +18 2 - -
North East -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 81 (41.33%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (22.96%) Apache
3 4 (2.04%) Confluence
4 3 (1.53%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (4.08%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.51%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.51%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 93 (47.45%) AWS
2 80 (40.82%) dbt
3 48 (24.49%) Snowflake
4 35 (17.86%) GCP
5 6 (3.06%) GitHub
6 3 (1.53%) Azure
7 2 (1.02%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.02%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.51%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.51%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.51%) Datadog
8 1 (0.51%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.51%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.16%) Multicast
2 2 (1.02%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (40.82%) Amazon Athena
1 80 (40.82%) Apache Arrow
1 80 (40.82%) Apache Iceberg
1 80 (40.82%) Dremio
2 47 (23.98%) Data Lake
3 45 (22.96%) Apache Ignite
4 35 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.55%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.55%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.53%) Big Data
6 3 (1.53%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.53%) KDB
7 2 (1.02%) Power BI
7 2 (1.02%) Tick Data
8 1 (0.51%) Kdb+
8 1 (0.51%) Metadata
8 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (8.67%) JIRA
2 4 (2.04%) Git
3 3 (1.53%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.53%) Selenium
4 2 (1.02%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.02%) Maven
5 1 (0.51%) GitLab
5 1 (0.51%) Postman
5 1 (0.51%) REST Assured
General
1 166 (84.69%) Finance
2 142 (72.45%) Front Office
3 80 (40.82%) Banking
4 54 (27.55%) Investment Banking
5 23 (11.73%) Social Skills
6 12 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (4.59%) Financial Institution
8 8 (4.08%) Back Office
9 7 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.53%) Legal
10 3 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.02%) Games
11 2 (1.02%) Spanish Language
11 2 (1.02%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 92 (46.94%) Python Engineer
1 92 (46.94%) Software Engineer
2 91 (46.43%) Python Software Engineer
3 87 (44.39%) Developer
4 80 (40.82%) AWS Engineer
4 80 (40.82%) AWS Software Engineer
5 78 (39.80%) Senior
6 58 (29.59%) Python Developer
7 54 (27.55%) Senior Software Engineer
8 49 (25.00%) Java Engineer
9 46 (23.47%) Java Software Engineer
10 43 (21.94%) Senior Java Engineer
10 43 (21.94%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 35 (17.86%) AWS Developer
11 35 (17.86%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 34 (17.35%) Quantitative Developer
13 21 (10.71%) Analyst
14 19 (9.69%) C++ Developer
14 19 (9.69%) Senior Developer
15 18 (9.18%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (41.33%) Pandas
2 80 (40.82%) NumPy
2 80 (40.82%) SciPy
3 45 (22.96%) gRPC
3 45 (22.96%) Protocol Buffers
4 38 (19.39%) React
5 35 (17.86%) AngularJS
5 35 (17.86%) Node.js
5 35 (17.86%) Vue
6 29 (14.80%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 28 (14.29%) FIX Protocol
8 12 (6.12%) pytest
9 10 (5.10%) Kafka
10 6 (3.06%) Java Concurrency
11 4 (2.04%) .NET
11 4 (2.04%) REST
12 3 (1.53%) CSS
12 3 (1.53%) HTML
12 3 (1.53%) Playwright
13 2 (1.02%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 109 (55.61%) Fixed Income
2 105 (53.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 83 (42.35%) Derivative
4 73 (37.24%) Hedge funds
5 55 (28.06%) Algorithms
6 46 (23.47%) Pricing Data
7 20 (10.20%) Management Information System
8 18 (9.18%) Data Structures
9 17 (8.67%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (2.55%) Cloud Native
11 4 (2.04%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (1.53%) Onboarding
13 2 (1.02%) Credit Derivative
13 2 (1.02%) Equity Derivative
13 2 (1.02%) Eurex
13 2 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (1.02%) Interest Rate Derivative
13 2 (1.02%) Private Cloud
14 1 (0.51%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 47 (23.98%) Linux
2 11 (5.61%) Windows
3 2 (1.02%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (51.02%) Agile
2 96 (48.98%) Software Engineering
3 85 (43.37%) Asset Management
4 82 (41.84%) Investment Management
5 64 (32.65%) Low Latency
6 62 (31.63%) Order Management
7 39 (19.90%) Fintech
7 39 (19.90%) Risk Management
8 37 (18.88%) Computer Science
9 35 (17.86%) Algorithmic Trading
9 35 (17.86%) Performance Attribution
10 34 (17.35%) Electronic Trading
11 29 (14.80%) Mathematics
11 29 (14.80%) OOP
12 24 (12.24%) Data Analysis
13 23 (11.73%) Test Automation
14 21 (10.71%) Quantitative Research
15 20 (10.20%) OO
16 19 (9.69%) Analytics
17 17 (8.67%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 152 (77.55%) Python
2 97 (49.49%) Java
3 83 (42.35%) JavaScript
3 83 (42.35%) TypeScript
4 34 (17.35%) C++
5 24 (12.24%) SQL
6 5 (2.55%) C#
7 4 (2.04%) VBA
8 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (14.80%) Degree
2 18 (9.18%) Master's Degree
3 17 (8.67%) PhD
4 4 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.53%) ISEB
5 3 (1.53%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.51%) CFA
6 1 (0.51%) CISM
6 1 (0.51%) CISSP
6 1 (0.51%) CRISC
6 1 (0.51%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.16%) QA
2 4 (2.04%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.02%) COREP
4 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.51%) FINRA
4 1 (0.51%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.51%) MiFID
4 1 (0.51%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (1.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.04%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.53%) Control-M
3 1 (0.51%) Grafana
3 1 (0.51%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.51%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (4.08%) Bloomberg
2 4 (2.04%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.04%) Solace
3 3 (1.53%) Calypso
3 3 (1.53%) ION Trading
4 2 (1.02%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.02%) Charles River
4 2 (1.02%) CQG
4 2 (1.02%) Databricks
4 2 (1.02%) Oracle
4 2 (1.02%) Patsystems
4 2 (1.02%) Reuters
4 2 (1.02%) Splunk
4 2 (1.02%) Trayport
5 1 (0.51%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.51%) FactSet
5 1 (0.51%) Murex
5 1 (0.51%) Refinitiv