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 25 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 599 325 260
Rank change year-on-year -274 -65 +156
Permanent jobs citing Equities 120 363 822
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.13% 0.84% 1.05%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.52% 2.00% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 75 288 799
10th Percentile £68,750 £97,500 £77,500
25th Percentile £88,750 £105,000 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £125,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +8.70% -
75th Percentile £136,250 £137,500 £148,750
90th Percentile £150,000 £143,750 £165,000
UK median annual salary £102,500 £125,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -18.00% +8.70% -

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 22,888 18,139 26,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.62% 41.90% 33.30%
Number of salaries quoted 15,093 9,134 16,753
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,773 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.95% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £78,138
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £58,589 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.79% +3.64% -14.06%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -193 120 £102,500 -18.00% 74
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 10 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (9.17%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.67%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (1.67%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.67%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.67%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.67%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (1.67%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (1.67%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.67%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.83%) Bloomberg TOMS
Cloud Services
1 28 (23.33%) Azure
2 25 (20.83%) AWS
3 17 (14.17%) GCP
4 10 (8.33%) GitHub
5 4 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.67%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (1.67%) Google Gemini
6 2 (1.67%) SaaS
6 2 (1.67%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.83%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.83%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.83%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (0.83%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (17.50%) Multicast
2 5 (4.17%) FIX Connectivity
3 4 (3.33%) DHCP
3 4 (3.33%) DNS
3 4 (3.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.83%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (0.83%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.83%) KDB
Development Applications
1 32 (26.67%) JIRA
2 15 (12.50%) Git
3 4 (3.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.83%) GitLab
4 1 (0.83%) Selenium
General
1 98 (81.67%) Finance
2 66 (55.00%) Front Office
3 35 (29.17%) Social Skills
4 30 (25.00%) Banking
5 15 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.00%) Investment Banking
6 6 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (5.00%) Spanish Language
7 4 (3.33%) General Ledger
7 4 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.67%) Back Office
9 2 (1.67%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.67%) Law
10 1 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (43.33%) Developer
2 45 (37.50%) Senior
3 32 (26.67%) Software Engineer
4 25 (20.83%) Python Developer
4 25 (20.83%) Python Engineer
5 24 (20.00%) Lead
5 24 (20.00%) Senior Developer
6 19 (15.83%) Python Software Engineer
7 18 (15.00%) Quantitative Developer
8 17 (14.17%) Lead Developer
8 17 (14.17%) Senior Quantitative Developer
9 16 (13.33%) C++ Developer
9 16 (13.33%) C++ Quantitative Developer
9 16 (13.33%) Linux Developer
9 16 (13.33%) Low Latency C++ Developer
9 16 (13.33%) Senior C++ Developer
9 16 (13.33%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
9 16 (13.33%) Senior Python Developer
10 15 (12.50%) C++ Software Engineer
11 14 (11.67%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (28.33%) FIX Protocol
2 31 (25.83%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 18 (15.00%) React
4 17 (14.17%) Node.js
5 16 (13.33%) Redux
6 15 (12.50%) pytest
7 4 (3.33%) Kafka
8 3 (2.50%) .NET
8 3 (2.50%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.50%) CSS
8 3 (2.50%) HTML
9 2 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (1.67%) Spring
9 2 (1.67%) Spring Boot
10 1 (0.83%) Akka
10 1 (0.83%) JSON
10 1 (0.83%) NumPy
10 1 (0.83%) Pandas
10 1 (0.83%) RESTful
10 1 (0.83%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 58 (48.33%) Fixed Income
2 54 (45.00%) Derivative
3 38 (31.67%) Algorithms
4 24 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 20 (16.67%) Hedge funds
6 16 (13.33%) Data Structures
6 16 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (13.33%) Management Information System
7 9 (7.50%) Distributed Architecture
8 7 (5.83%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (5.83%) Onboarding
9 6 (5.00%) Eurex
10 4 (3.33%) Cloud Native
11 3 (2.50%) Market Risk
11 3 (2.50%) Product Ownership
12 2 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (1.67%) Distributed Applications
12 2 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (1.67%) Mobile App
13 1 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 46 (38.33%) Linux
2 12 (10.00%) Windows
3 2 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (43.33%) Low Latency
2 48 (40.00%) Agile
3 43 (35.83%) Software Engineering
4 31 (25.83%) Computer Science
4 31 (25.83%) OOP
5 27 (22.50%) SDLC
6 25 (20.83%) Electronic Trading
7 23 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (18.33%) Mathematics
9 21 (17.50%) Fintech
9 21 (17.50%) Technical Leadership
10 20 (16.67%) Investment Management
10 20 (16.67%) Mentoring
11 19 (15.83%) Test Automation
12 18 (15.00%) Asset Management
12 18 (15.00%) Market Making
12 18 (15.00%) OO
12 18 (15.00%) Order Management
12 18 (15.00%) Workflow
13 17 (14.17%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 79 (65.83%) Python
2 36 (30.00%) C++
3 34 (28.33%) Java
4 22 (18.33%) SQL
5 20 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 16 (13.33%) JavaScript
7 6 (5.00%) C#
8 5 (4.17%) Tcl
9 4 (3.33%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.67%) VBA
11 1 (0.83%) Bash
11 1 (0.83%) Perl
11 1 (0.83%) R
11 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (15.00%) Degree
2 13 (10.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.67%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (16.67%) QA
2 9 (7.50%) MiFID
3 5 (4.17%) EMIR
4 4 (3.33%) GAAP
5 2 (1.67%) IFRS
5 2 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.33%) SCCM
2 3 (2.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.83%) Ansible
3 1 (0.83%) Control-M
3 1 (0.83%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.83%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (9.17%) Bloomberg
1 11 (9.17%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.50%) Oracle
3 6 (5.00%) CQG
3 6 (5.00%) ION Trading
3 6 (5.00%) Patsystems
3 6 (5.00%) Reuters
3 6 (5.00%) Trayport
4 5 (4.17%) IBM
4 5 (4.17%) Sybase
4 5 (4.17%) TIBCO
5 4 (3.33%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.67%) Foundry
6 2 (1.67%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.83%) Databricks
7 1 (0.83%) FXall
7 1 (0.83%) MarketAxess
7 1 (0.83%) Moogsoft
7 1 (0.83%) Splunk
7 1 (0.83%) Tradeweb