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 5 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 273 381
Rank change year-on-year -87 +108 +131
Permanent jobs citing Equities 277 614 357
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.64% 1.01% 0.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.67% 3.05% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 209 572 304
10th Percentile £97,500 £77,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £105,000 £95,000 £87,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £127,500 £115,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.87% - +2.22%
75th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £138,500 £165,000 £155,000
UK median annual salary £126,250 £115,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year +9.78% - +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 16,566 20,100 18,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 38.18% 33.06% 38.90%
Number of salaries quoted 9,531 9,669 13,748
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.68% -4.00% -0.79%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £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 5 November 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 5 November 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 -68 273 £127,500 +10.87% 83
North of England - 4 - -
North West - 3 - -
North East - 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
1 131 (47.29%) Apache Airflow
2 65 (23.47%) Apache
3 6 (2.17%) Confluence
4 4 (1.44%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.08%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.81%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 164 (59.21%) AWS
2 130 (46.93%) dbt
3 77 (27.80%) GCP
4 68 (24.55%) Snowflake
5 9 (3.25%) Azure
6 3 (1.08%) GitHub
6 3 (1.08%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.36%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.36%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.33%) Multicast
2 2 (0.72%) FIX Connectivity
2 2 (0.72%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (46.93%) Amazon Athena
1 130 (46.93%) Apache Arrow
1 130 (46.93%) Apache Iceberg
1 130 (46.93%) Dremio
2 71 (25.63%) PostgreSQL
3 67 (24.19%) Data Lake
4 65 (23.47%) Apache Ignite
5 14 (5.05%) KDB
6 9 (3.25%) Kdb+
7 5 (1.81%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.08%) Big Data
8 3 (1.08%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.08%) Power BI
9 2 (0.72%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.72%) Tick Data
10 1 (0.36%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (5.78%) JIRA
2 4 (1.44%) Cucumber
2 4 (1.44%) GitLab
2 4 (1.44%) Vite
3 3 (1.08%) Git
3 3 (1.08%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.08%) JUnit
4 2 (0.72%) Maven
5 1 (0.36%) Postman
5 1 (0.36%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.36%) Selenium
General
1 254 (91.70%) Finance
2 211 (76.17%) Front Office
3 118 (42.60%) Banking
4 72 (25.99%) Investment Banking
5 30 (10.83%) Social Skills
6 19 (6.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (6.86%) Law
7 10 (3.61%) Financial Institution
8 9 (3.25%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.17%) Back Office
11 3 (1.08%) Legal
11 3 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.72%) Spanish Language
13 1 (0.36%) Games
13 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 163 (58.84%) Software Engineer
2 134 (48.38%) AWS Engineer
2 134 (48.38%) AWS Software Engineer
2 134 (48.38%) Developer
3 131 (47.29%) Python Engineer
4 130 (46.93%) Python Software Engineer
5 110 (39.71%) Senior
6 85 (30.69%) Java Engineer
7 81 (29.24%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 80 (28.88%) Senior Software Engineer
9 78 (28.16%) Java Software Engineer
10 76 (27.44%) Python Developer
11 68 (24.55%) Senior Java Engineer
12 65 (23.47%) AWS Developer
13 64 (23.10%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 32 (11.55%) Quantitative Developer
15 30 (10.83%) Java Developer
16 23 (8.30%) Senior Developer
17 22 (7.94%) Lead
18 19 (6.86%) C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (48.38%) Pandas
2 130 (46.93%) NumPy
2 130 (46.93%) SciPy
3 82 (29.60%) React
4 72 (25.99%) AngularJS
5 71 (25.63%) Node.js
5 71 (25.63%) Vue
6 65 (23.47%) gRPC
6 65 (23.47%) Protocol Buffers
7 26 (9.39%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 22 (7.94%) FIX Protocol
9 12 (4.33%) Redux
10 10 (3.61%) Kafka
11 9 (3.25%) pytest
12 4 (1.44%) Java Concurrency
12 4 (1.44%) Jest
12 4 (1.44%) Middleware
13 3 (1.08%) .NET
13 3 (1.08%) Gherkin
13 3 (1.08%) Scalaz
Miscellaneous
1 172 (62.09%) Fixed Income
1 172 (62.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 112 (40.43%) Derivative
3 104 (37.55%) Hedge funds
4 66 (23.83%) Pricing Data
5 50 (18.05%) Algorithms
6 20 (7.22%) Management Information System
7 19 (6.86%) Data Structures
8 15 (5.42%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (2.53%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.44%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (1.08%) Equity Derivative
12 3 (1.08%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (0.72%) Eurex
13 2 (0.72%) Reference Data
13 2 (0.72%) TWAP
13 2 (0.72%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 44 (15.88%) Linux
2 7 (2.53%) Windows
3 6 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (64.98%) Agile
2 176 (63.54%) Software Engineering
3 145 (52.35%) Asset Management
4 144 (51.99%) Investment Management
5 91 (32.85%) Order Management
6 83 (29.96%) Fintech
7 72 (25.99%) Risk Management
8 67 (24.19%) Low Latency
9 65 (23.47%) Performance Attribution
10 40 (14.44%) Computer Science
11 35 (12.64%) Algorithmic Trading
11 35 (12.64%) Analytics
12 32 (11.55%) Mathematics
13 31 (11.19%) Electronic Trading
14 27 (9.75%) SDLC
14 27 (9.75%) Test Automation
15 26 (9.39%) OOP
16 22 (7.94%) OO
17 21 (7.58%) Data Analysis
18 19 (6.86%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 211 (76.17%) Python
2 148 (53.43%) TypeScript
3 144 (51.99%) JavaScript
4 133 (48.01%) Java
5 34 (12.27%) C++
6 22 (7.94%) SQL
7 9 (3.25%) C#
8 4 (1.44%) C
8 4 (1.44%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.44%) VBA
9 3 (1.08%) Scala
10 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (10.11%) Degree
2 17 (6.14%) Master's Degree
3 16 (5.78%) PhD
4 2 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.36%) CFA
5 1 (0.36%) CISM
5 1 (0.36%) CISSP
5 1 (0.36%) CRISC
5 1 (0.36%) ISEB
5 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.36%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.97%) QA
2 2 (0.72%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.36%) FINRA
3 1 (0.36%) ISO 22301
3 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.36%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (0.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (2.89%) Terraform
2 4 (1.44%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.08%) Control-M
4 1 (0.36%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (3.25%) Bloomberg
2 4 (1.44%) Solace
3 3 (1.08%) Calypso
3 3 (1.08%) ION Trading
4 2 (0.72%) Alteryx
4 2 (0.72%) Atlassian
4 2 (0.72%) CQG
4 2 (0.72%) Microsoft
4 2 (0.72%) Oracle
4 2 (0.72%) Patsystems
4 2 (0.72%) Reuters
4 2 (0.72%) Trayport
5 1 (0.36%) Charles River
5 1 (0.36%) Databricks
5 1 (0.36%) FactSet
5 1 (0.36%) Murex
5 1 (0.36%) Refinitiv
5 1 (0.36%) Splunk