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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 624 340 239
Rank change year-on-year -284 -101 +159
Permanent jobs citing Equities 120 343 857
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.12% 0.78% 1.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.49% 1.87% 3.64%
Number of salaries quoted 72 275 827
10th Percentile £68,750 £98,500 £77,500
25th Percentile £80,000 £105,000 £95,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £125,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% -
75th Percentile £130,000 £137,500 £148,750
90th Percentile £132,500 - £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 24,664 18,369 23,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.59% 41.98% 32.21%
Number of salaries quoted 16,161 9,356 13,948
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,742 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £42,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.09%

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 26 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 26 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 -205 119 £100,000 -20.00% 65
North of England -53 1 - -
North East -62 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 12 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (10.83%) 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 21 (17.50%) Azure
2 18 (15.00%) AWS
3 8 (6.67%) GCP
4 7 (5.83%) GitHub
5 4 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (3.33%) Snowflake
6 3 (2.50%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.67%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (1.67%) Google Gemini
7 2 (1.67%) SaaS
8 1 (0.83%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.83%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.83%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (0.83%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (18.33%) Multicast
2 9 (7.50%) FIX Connectivity
3 4 (3.33%) DHCP
3 4 (3.33%) DNS
3 4 (3.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.33%) NoSQL
2 4 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.50%) KDB
3 3 (2.50%) Power BI
4 1 (0.83%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.83%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (25.83%) JIRA
2 11 (9.17%) Git
3 6 (5.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.83%) Selenium
General
1 93 (77.50%) Finance
2 59 (49.17%) Front Office
3 39 (32.50%) Banking
3 39 (32.50%) Social Skills
4 25 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (10.83%) Investment Banking
6 10 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (7.50%) Law
8 8 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (6.67%) Spanish Language
9 4 (3.33%) Back Office
9 4 (3.33%) Financial Institution
9 4 (3.33%) General Ledger
10 3 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.83%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (34.17%) Developer
2 40 (33.33%) Senior
3 24 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 23 (19.17%) Analyst
5 22 (18.33%) Senior Developer
6 18 (15.00%) Business Analyst
7 17 (14.17%) Quantitative Developer
8 16 (13.33%) Lead
8 16 (13.33%) Python Engineer
9 15 (12.50%) Python Developer
10 13 (10.83%) C++ Developer
10 13 (10.83%) C++ Quantitative Developer
10 13 (10.83%) Python Software Engineer
10 13 (10.83%) Senior Quantitative Developer
11 12 (10.00%) C++ Software Engineer
11 12 (10.00%) Linux Developer
11 12 (10.00%) Low Latency C++ Developer
11 12 (10.00%) Senior C++ Developer
11 12 (10.00%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
11 12 (10.00%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (34.17%) FIX Protocol
2 24 (20.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 12 (10.00%) pytest
4 8 (6.67%) Kafka
5 6 (5.00%) .NET
5 6 (5.00%) React
6 5 (4.17%) Node.js
7 4 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (3.33%) Redux
7 4 (3.33%) RESTful
8 3 (2.50%) CSS
8 3 (2.50%) HTML
8 3 (2.50%) XSLT
9 2 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (1.67%) XML
10 1 (0.83%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.83%) NumPy
10 1 (0.83%) Pandas
10 1 (0.83%) SciPy
10 1 (0.83%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 56 (46.67%) Fixed Income
2 53 (44.17%) Derivative
3 33 (27.50%) Algorithms
3 33 (27.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 19 (15.83%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (15.83%) Hedge funds
5 12 (10.00%) Data Structures
5 12 (10.00%) Management Information System
6 11 (9.17%) Distributed Architecture
7 9 (7.50%) Distributed Computing
7 9 (7.50%) Onboarding
8 8 (6.67%) Eurex
9 5 (4.17%) Distributed Applications
9 5 (4.17%) Equity Derivative
9 5 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (4.17%) Market Risk
10 4 (3.33%) Cloud Native
11 3 (2.50%) AI Agents
11 3 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (1.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 41 (34.17%) Linux
2 13 (10.83%) Windows
3 2 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (43.33%) Low Latency
2 41 (34.17%) Agile
3 34 (28.33%) Software Engineering
4 33 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (25.83%) Computer Science
6 29 (24.17%) SDLC
7 27 (22.50%) Electronic Trading
8 24 (20.00%) OOP
9 21 (17.50%) Mathematics
10 20 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 18 (15.00%) Test Automation
12 17 (14.17%) Continuous Integration
12 17 (14.17%) Order Management
12 17 (14.17%) Technical Leadership
13 16 (13.33%) Market Making
13 16 (13.33%) OO
14 15 (12.50%) Ultra-Low Latency
14 15 (12.50%) Workflow
15 14 (11.67%) Process Improvement
15 14 (11.67%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 65 (54.17%) Python
2 34 (28.33%) C++
3 33 (27.50%) Java
4 29 (24.17%) SQL
5 10 (8.33%) C#
6 7 (5.83%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.17%) Tcl
8 4 (3.33%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.33%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.33%) VBA
9 1 (0.83%) Bash
9 1 (0.83%) Perl
9 1 (0.83%) R
9 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (19.17%) Degree
2 16 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.67%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.17%) QA
2 9 (7.50%) MiFID
3 5 (4.17%) EMIR
4 4 (3.33%) GAAP
5 3 (2.50%) SLA
6 2 (1.67%) IFRS
6 2 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (5.00%) Docker
2 4 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.33%) SCCM
3 1 (0.83%) Ansible
3 1 (0.83%) Control-M
3 1 (0.83%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (11.67%) Bloomberg
2 13 (10.83%) Oracle
3 12 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.67%) CQG
4 8 (6.67%) ION Trading
4 8 (6.67%) Patsystems
4 8 (6.67%) Reuters
4 8 (6.67%) Trayport
5 6 (5.00%) Atlassian
6 5 (4.17%) IBM
6 5 (4.17%) Sybase
6 5 (4.17%) TIBCO
7 3 (2.50%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.67%) Foundry
8 2 (1.67%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.83%) FXall
9 1 (0.83%) MarketAxess
9 1 (0.83%) Moogsoft
9 1 (0.83%) Splunk
9 1 (0.83%) Tradeweb