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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 298 444
Rank change year-on-year -237 +146 +143
Permanent jobs citing Equities 118 381 380
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.17% 1.00% 0.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.56% 2.58% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 63 325 370
10th Percentile £83,000 £85,000 £67,500
25th Percentile £93,750 £98,750 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £115,000 £120,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £150,000 £148,750 £145,000
90th Percentile - £152,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £105,000 £115,000 £120,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +14.29%

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 20,983 14,752 27,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.90% 38.80% 35.64%
Number of salaries quoted 10,814 8,114 19,986
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,562 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.73% +9.09% -15.38%

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 23 March 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 23 March 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 -156 117 £105,000 -8.70% 42
North West -18 1 - -
North of England -53 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 5 (4.24%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (4.24%) Confluence
2 4 (3.39%) Apache
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (7.63%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.85%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.85%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 30 (25.42%) AWS
2 19 (16.10%) Azure
3 16 (13.56%) GCP
4 14 (11.86%) GitHub
5 7 (5.93%) Snowflake
6 4 (3.39%) dbt
7 2 (1.69%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.85%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.85%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.85%) Datadog
8 1 (0.85%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.85%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.85%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.85%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 18 (15.25%) Multicast
2 1 (0.85%) DHCP
2 1 (0.85%) DNS
2 1 (0.85%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.85%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.56%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.24%) Relational Database
2 5 (4.24%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.39%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (3.39%) Apache Arrow
3 4 (3.39%) Apache Iceberg
3 4 (3.39%) Apache Ignite
3 4 (3.39%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.39%) Dremio
4 3 (2.54%) KDB
4 3 (2.54%) Tick Data
5 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.85%) Metadata
5 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.85%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (16.95%) JIRA
2 14 (11.86%) Git
3 4 (3.39%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.54%) Selenium
5 2 (1.69%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.69%) GitLab
5 2 (1.69%) Maven
6 1 (0.85%) Postman
6 1 (0.85%) REST Assured
General
1 89 (75.42%) Finance
2 66 (55.93%) Front Office
3 31 (26.27%) Banking
4 22 (18.64%) Social Skills
5 10 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (6.78%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.54%) Back Office
7 3 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.54%) Spanish Language
8 2 (1.69%) Games
8 2 (1.69%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (46.61%) Developer
2 41 (34.75%) Senior
3 32 (27.12%) Python Developer
4 30 (25.42%) Software Engineer
5 25 (21.19%) Python Engineer
5 25 (21.19%) Quantitative Developer
6 23 (19.49%) Senior Developer
7 22 (18.64%) C++ Developer
8 21 (17.80%) Python Software Engineer
9 20 (16.95%) C++ Quantitative Developer
9 20 (16.95%) Linux Developer
9 20 (16.95%) Low Latency C++ Developer
9 20 (16.95%) Senior C++ Developer
9 20 (16.95%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
9 20 (16.95%) Senior Python Developer
9 20 (16.95%) Senior Quantitative Developer
10 18 (15.25%) Analyst
10 18 (15.25%) Lead
11 16 (13.56%) Lead Developer
12 14 (11.86%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (27.97%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 33 (27.97%) FIX Protocol
2 19 (16.10%) React
3 16 (13.56%) Node.js
3 16 (13.56%) Redux
4 14 (11.86%) pytest
5 6 (5.08%) Kafka
6 5 (4.24%) Pandas
7 4 (3.39%) .NET
7 4 (3.39%) gRPC
7 4 (3.39%) NumPy
7 4 (3.39%) Protocol Buffers
7 4 (3.39%) REST
7 4 (3.39%) SciPy
8 3 (2.54%) CSS
8 3 (2.54%) HTML
8 3 (2.54%) Java Concurrency
8 3 (2.54%) Playwright
8 3 (2.54%) Spring
9 2 (1.69%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 55 (46.61%) Derivative
2 50 (42.37%) Fixed Income
3 41 (34.75%) Algorithms
4 26 (22.03%) Hedge funds
5 24 (20.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 22 (18.64%) Data Structures
7 20 (16.95%) Management Information System
8 16 (13.56%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (5.08%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (4.24%) Cloud Native
10 5 (4.24%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (3.39%) Onboarding
11 4 (3.39%) Pricing Data
12 3 (2.54%) Eurex
13 2 (1.69%) Credit Derivative
13 2 (1.69%) Interest Rate Derivative
13 2 (1.69%) Private Cloud
14 1 (0.85%) Equity Derivative
14 1 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
14 1 (0.85%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 47 (39.83%) Linux
2 12 (10.17%) Windows
3 3 (2.54%) Unix
4 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (46.61%) Low Latency
2 40 (33.90%) Agile
3 37 (31.36%) Software Engineering
4 33 (27.97%) OOP
5 31 (26.27%) Electronic Trading
6 24 (20.34%) Algorithmic Trading
6 24 (20.34%) Computer Science
6 24 (20.34%) Test Automation
7 23 (19.49%) Asset Management
7 23 (19.49%) Order Management
8 20 (16.95%) Investment Management
8 20 (16.95%) OO
8 20 (16.95%) SDLC
9 19 (16.10%) Mathematics
9 19 (16.10%) Mentoring
10 18 (15.25%) Data Analysis
10 18 (15.25%) Market Making
11 17 (14.41%) Fintech
11 17 (14.41%) Workflow
12 16 (13.56%) High-Frequency Trading
Programming Languages
1 86 (72.88%) Python
2 42 (35.59%) Java
3 37 (31.36%) C++
4 24 (20.34%) TypeScript
5 23 (19.49%) JavaScript
6 13 (11.02%) SQL
7 2 (1.69%) C#
8 1 (0.85%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (11.02%) Degree
2 9 (7.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.54%) ISEB
3 3 (2.54%) ISTQB
3 3 (2.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (1.69%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (16.10%) QA
2 4 (3.39%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.39%) MiFID
3 2 (1.69%) COREP
4 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.85%) EMIR
4 1 (0.85%) FINRA
System Software
1 2 (1.69%) Docker
2 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.39%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.85%) Grafana
2 1 (0.85%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.85%) SCCM
2 1 (0.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (5.08%) Bloomberg
2 5 (4.24%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.54%) CQG
3 3 (2.54%) ION Trading
3 3 (2.54%) Oracle
3 3 (2.54%) Patsystems
3 3 (2.54%) Reuters
3 3 (2.54%) Trayport
4 2 (1.69%) Charles River
4 2 (1.69%) Databricks
4 2 (1.69%) Solace
4 2 (1.69%) Splunk
5 1 (0.85%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.85%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.85%) Murex
5 1 (0.85%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.85%) Refinitiv