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 8 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 616 325 235
Rank change year-on-year -291 -90 +156
Permanent jobs citing Equities 123 363 842
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.13% 0.83% 1.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.51% 1.97% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 75 289 812
10th Percentile £68,750 £97,500 £77,500
25th Percentile £86,250 £105,000 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £125,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% +2.22%
75th Percentile £131,250 £137,500 £148,750
90th Percentile £150,000 £137,750 £165,000
UK median annual salary £100,000 £125,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% +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 24,216 18,418 23,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.95% 42.26% 32.88%
Number of salaries quoted 15,836 9,311 14,664
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,591 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -10.16%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -191 122 £100,000 -20.00% 163
North East -51 1 - -
North of England -51 1 - - 3
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 11 (8.94%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (5.69%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (9.76%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.63%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (1.63%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.63%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.63%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.63%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (1.63%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (1.63%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.63%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.81%) Bloomberg TOMS
Cloud Services
1 26 (21.14%) Azure
2 23 (18.70%) AWS
3 14 (11.38%) GCP
4 9 (7.32%) GitHub
5 4 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.44%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.63%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (1.63%) Google Gemini
7 2 (1.63%) SaaS
8 1 (0.81%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.81%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.81%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (0.81%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.81%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 23 (18.70%) Multicast
2 6 (4.88%) FIX Connectivity
3 4 (3.25%) DHCP
3 4 (3.25%) DNS
3 4 (3.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.57%) SQL Server
2 12 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.44%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.63%) KDB
5 1 (0.81%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.81%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.81%) Power BI
5 1 (0.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (26.02%) JIRA
2 14 (11.38%) Git
3 6 (4.88%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.81%) GitLab
4 1 (0.81%) Selenium
General
1 98 (79.67%) Finance
2 63 (51.22%) Front Office
3 37 (30.08%) Social Skills
4 35 (28.46%) Banking
5 21 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (6.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (6.50%) Investment Banking
7 7 (5.69%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (5.69%) Spanish Language
8 6 (4.88%) Law
9 4 (3.25%) General Ledger
10 3 (2.44%) Back Office
10 3 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.63%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (39.84%) Developer
2 43 (34.96%) Senior
3 30 (24.39%) Software Engineer
4 23 (18.70%) Senior Developer
5 22 (17.89%) Lead
5 22 (17.89%) Python Engineer
6 21 (17.07%) Python Developer
7 18 (14.63%) Quantitative Developer
8 17 (13.82%) Python Software Engineer
9 16 (13.01%) Analyst
10 15 (12.20%) Business Analyst
10 15 (12.20%) C++ Developer
10 15 (12.20%) C++ Quantitative Developer
10 15 (12.20%) Senior Quantitative Developer
11 14 (11.38%) C++ Software Engineer
11 14 (11.38%) Lead Developer
11 14 (11.38%) Linux Developer
11 14 (11.38%) Senior C++ Developer
11 14 (11.38%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
11 14 (11.38%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (30.89%) FIX Protocol
2 28 (22.76%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 14 (11.38%) pytest
3 14 (11.38%) React
4 13 (10.57%) Node.js
5 12 (9.76%) Redux
6 6 (4.88%) Kafka
7 4 (3.25%) .NET
8 3 (2.44%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.44%) CSS
8 3 (2.44%) HTML
9 2 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (1.63%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.63%) RESTful
9 2 (1.63%) Spring
9 2 (1.63%) Spring Boot
10 1 (0.81%) FpML
10 1 (0.81%) Web Services
10 1 (0.81%) XML
10 1 (0.81%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 60 (48.78%) Fixed Income
2 57 (46.34%) Derivative
3 36 (29.27%) Algorithms
4 28 (22.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 22 (17.89%) Hedge funds
6 18 (14.63%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (11.38%) Data Structures
7 14 (11.38%) Management Information System
8 10 (8.13%) Distributed Architecture
9 8 (6.50%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (6.50%) Onboarding
10 7 (5.69%) Eurex
11 4 (3.25%) Cloud Native
11 4 (3.25%) Market Risk
12 3 (2.44%) Distributed Applications
12 3 (2.44%) Equity Derivative
12 3 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (2.44%) Product Ownership
13 2 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (1.63%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 44 (35.77%) Linux
2 13 (10.57%) Windows
3 2 (1.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (43.09%) Low Latency
2 46 (37.40%) Agile
3 42 (34.15%) Software Engineering
4 33 (26.83%) Computer Science
5 28 (22.76%) OOP
5 28 (22.76%) SDLC
6 27 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (21.14%) Electronic Trading
8 23 (18.70%) Mathematics
9 20 (16.26%) Technical Leadership
10 19 (15.45%) Investment Management
10 19 (15.45%) Order Management
11 18 (14.63%) Market Making
11 18 (14.63%) Mentoring
11 18 (14.63%) Test Automation
12 17 (13.82%) Asset Management
12 17 (13.82%) Continuous Integration
12 17 (13.82%) OO
12 17 (13.82%) Stakeholder Management
12 17 (13.82%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 75 (60.98%) Python
2 37 (30.08%) C++
3 33 (26.83%) Java
4 26 (21.14%) SQL
5 16 (13.01%) TypeScript
6 12 (9.76%) JavaScript
7 7 (5.69%) C#
8 5 (4.07%) Tcl
9 4 (3.25%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.63%) VBA
11 1 (0.81%) Bash
11 1 (0.81%) Perl
11 1 (0.81%) R
11 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (17.89%) Degree
2 16 (13.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.63%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (15.45%) QA
2 9 (7.32%) MiFID
3 5 (4.07%) EMIR
4 4 (3.25%) GAAP
5 2 (1.63%) IFRS
5 2 (1.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.81%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (3.25%) Active Directory
1 4 (3.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.25%) Kubernetes
1 4 (3.25%) SCCM
2 1 (0.81%) Ansible
2 1 (0.81%) Control-M
2 1 (0.81%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (0.81%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.81%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (9.76%) Bloomberg
1 12 (9.76%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.13%) Oracle
3 7 (5.69%) CQG
3 7 (5.69%) ION Trading
3 7 (5.69%) Patsystems
3 7 (5.69%) Reuters
3 7 (5.69%) Trayport
4 5 (4.07%) Atlassian
4 5 (4.07%) IBM
4 5 (4.07%) Sybase
4 5 (4.07%) TIBCO
5 2 (1.63%) Foundry
5 2 (1.63%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.81%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.81%) Databricks
6 1 (0.81%) FXall
6 1 (0.81%) Moogsoft
6 1 (0.81%) Splunk
6 1 (0.81%) Tradeweb