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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 393 282 392
Rank change year-on-year -111 +110 +104
Permanent jobs citing Equities 225 585 320
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 1.01% 0.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.36% 2.87% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 167 539 280
10th Percentile £94,500 £77,500 £57,250
25th Percentile £100,000 £94,375 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 £115,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - +2.22%
75th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £152,500 £153,875
UK median annual salary £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year +6.52% - +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 16,558 20,391 17,297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.19% 35.09% 38.16%
Number of salaries quoted 9,484 9,919 13,036
10th Percentile £27,707 £33,750 £33,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,628 £45,653
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 £53,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.83% -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 1 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 1 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 -85 221 £125,000 +8.70% 21
North of England +29 4 - -
North West - 3 - -
North East +12 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 99 (44.00%) Apache Airflow
2 53 (23.56%) Apache
3 6 (2.67%) Confluence
4 3 (1.33%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.89%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (3.56%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.44%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.44%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 119 (52.89%) AWS
2 98 (43.56%) dbt
3 56 (24.89%) Snowflake
4 49 (21.78%) GCP
5 5 (2.22%) Azure
6 4 (1.78%) GitHub
6 4 (1.78%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.89%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.44%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.44%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.44%) Datadog
8 1 (0.44%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.44%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.22%) Multicast
2 2 (0.89%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (43.56%) Amazon Athena
1 98 (43.56%) Apache Arrow
1 98 (43.56%) Apache Iceberg
1 98 (43.56%) Dremio
2 55 (24.44%) Data Lake
3 53 (23.56%) Apache Ignite
4 47 (20.89%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (4.00%) KDB
6 5 (2.22%) Kdb+
6 5 (2.22%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.22%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.78%) Power BI
8 3 (1.33%) Big Data
8 3 (1.33%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.89%) Tick Data
10 1 (0.44%) Metadata
10 1 (0.44%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (7.56%) JIRA
2 3 (1.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.33%) Selenium
3 2 (0.89%) Cypress.io
3 2 (0.89%) Git
3 2 (0.89%) Maven
3 2 (0.89%) Vite
4 1 (0.44%) GitLab
4 1 (0.44%) Postman
4 1 (0.44%) REST Assured
General
1 200 (88.89%) Finance
2 166 (73.78%) Front Office
3 97 (43.11%) Banking
4 61 (27.11%) Investment Banking
5 27 (12.00%) Social Skills
6 14 (6.22%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (4.00%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.56%) Back Office
8 8 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.56%) Law
9 7 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.33%) Legal
10 3 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.89%) Games
11 2 (0.89%) Spanish Language
11 2 (0.89%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 117 (52.00%) Software Engineer
2 106 (47.11%) Python Engineer
3 105 (46.67%) Python Software Engineer
4 102 (45.33%) Developer
5 100 (44.44%) AWS Engineer
5 100 (44.44%) AWS Software Engineer
6 92 (40.89%) Senior
7 64 (28.44%) Python Developer
7 64 (28.44%) Senior Software Engineer
8 62 (27.56%) Java Engineer
9 57 (25.33%) Java Software Engineer
10 53 (23.56%) Senior Java Engineer
11 51 (22.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 51 (22.67%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 45 (20.00%) AWS Developer
13 32 (14.22%) Quantitative Developer
14 22 (9.78%) Java Developer
15 21 (9.33%) Analyst
15 21 (9.33%) Senior Developer
16 19 (8.44%) C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (44.89%) Pandas
2 98 (43.56%) NumPy
2 98 (43.56%) SciPy
3 54 (24.00%) React
4 53 (23.56%) gRPC
4 53 (23.56%) Protocol Buffers
5 47 (20.89%) AngularJS
5 47 (20.89%) Node.js
5 47 (20.89%) Vue
6 27 (12.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 27 (12.00%) FIX Protocol
7 10 (4.44%) pytest
8 8 (3.56%) Kafka
9 5 (2.22%) Java Concurrency
10 4 (1.78%) .NET
10 4 (1.78%) Redux
10 4 (1.78%) REST
11 3 (1.33%) CSS
11 3 (1.33%) HTML
11 3 (1.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 133 (59.11%) Fixed Income
2 132 (58.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 99 (44.00%) Derivative
4 85 (37.78%) Hedge funds
5 54 (24.00%) Pricing Data
6 51 (22.67%) Algorithms
7 20 (8.89%) Management Information System
8 18 (8.00%) Data Structures
9 16 (7.11%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (2.67%) Cloud Native
11 4 (1.78%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (1.33%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.89%) Credit Derivative
13 2 (0.89%) Equity Derivative
13 2 (0.89%) Eurex
13 2 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.89%) Interest Rate Derivative
13 2 (0.89%) Public Cloud
14 1 (0.44%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 46 (20.44%) Linux
2 11 (4.89%) Windows
3 2 (0.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (57.78%) Agile
2 123 (54.67%) Software Engineering
3 107 (47.56%) Asset Management
4 104 (46.22%) Investment Management
5 71 (31.56%) Order Management
6 65 (28.89%) Low Latency
7 53 (23.56%) Fintech
8 49 (21.78%) Risk Management
9 45 (20.00%) Performance Attribution
10 37 (16.44%) Computer Science
11 34 (15.11%) Algorithmic Trading
12 30 (13.33%) Mathematics
13 29 (12.89%) Electronic Trading
14 27 (12.00%) Analytics
14 27 (12.00%) OOP
14 27 (12.00%) Test Automation
15 24 (10.67%) Data Analysis
16 21 (9.33%) OO
17 20 (8.89%) Quantitative Research
17 20 (8.89%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 174 (77.33%) Python
2 113 (50.22%) Java
3 107 (47.56%) TypeScript
4 105 (46.67%) JavaScript
5 34 (15.11%) C++
6 26 (11.56%) SQL
7 5 (2.22%) C#
8 4 (1.78%) VBA
9 2 (0.89%) C
9 2 (0.89%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (12.44%) Degree
2 17 (7.56%) Master's Degree
3 16 (7.11%) PhD
4 3 (1.33%) ISEB
4 3 (1.33%) ISTQB
4 3 (1.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.44%) CFA
6 1 (0.44%) CISM
6 1 (0.44%) CISSP
6 1 (0.44%) CRISC
6 1 (0.44%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.22%) QA
2 4 (1.78%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.89%) COREP
4 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.44%) FINRA
4 1 (0.44%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.44%) MiFID
4 1 (0.44%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (0.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.22%) Terraform
2 3 (1.33%) Control-M
2 3 (1.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.44%) Grafana
3 1 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (4.44%) Bloomberg
2 4 (1.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.78%) Solace
3 3 (1.33%) Calypso
3 3 (1.33%) ION Trading
4 2 (0.89%) Alteryx
4 2 (0.89%) Atlassian
4 2 (0.89%) Charles River
4 2 (0.89%) CQG
4 2 (0.89%) Databricks
4 2 (0.89%) Oracle
4 2 (0.89%) Patsystems
4 2 (0.89%) Reuters
4 2 (0.89%) Splunk
4 2 (0.89%) Trayport
5 1 (0.44%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.44%) FactSet
5 1 (0.44%) Murex
5 1 (0.44%) Refinitiv