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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 383 281 377
Rank change year-on-year -102 +96 +113
Permanent jobs citing Equities 247 592 331
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.53% 0.98% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.46% 2.86% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 182 546 285
10th Percentile £95,000 £77,500 £56,000
25th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 £115,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - +2.22%
75th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £162,500 £155,000
UK median annual salary £125,000 £115,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year +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 16,929 20,668 17,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 36.30% 34.35% 38.41%
Number of salaries quoted 9,685 10,051 13,103
10th Percentile £27,707 £33,750 £33,448
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,250 £45,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -2.34%
75th Percentile £77,500 £84,982 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £54,939 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.44% -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 26 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 26 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 -79 243 £125,000 +8.70% 21
North of England +52 4 - -
North West - 3 - -
North East +17 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
1 108 (43.72%) Apache Airflow
2 57 (23.08%) Apache
3 6 (2.43%) Confluence
4 3 (1.21%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.21%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (2.83%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 132 (53.44%) AWS
2 107 (43.32%) dbt
3 60 (24.29%) Snowflake
4 56 (22.67%) GCP
5 6 (2.43%) Azure
6 4 (1.62%) GitHub
6 4 (1.62%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.81%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.40%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.40%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.40%) Datadog
8 1 (0.40%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.40%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.67%) Multicast
2 2 (0.81%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (43.32%) Amazon Athena
1 107 (43.32%) Apache Arrow
1 107 (43.32%) Apache Iceberg
1 107 (43.32%) Dremio
2 59 (23.89%) Data Lake
3 57 (23.08%) Apache Ignite
4 53 (21.46%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (4.86%) KDB
6 7 (2.83%) Kdb+
6 7 (2.83%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.02%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.62%) Power BI
9 3 (1.21%) Big Data
9 3 (1.21%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.81%) Tick Data
11 1 (0.40%) Metadata
11 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (6.88%) JIRA
2 3 (1.21%) Git
2 3 (1.21%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.21%) Selenium
2 3 (1.21%) Vite
3 2 (0.81%) Cypress.io
3 2 (0.81%) Maven
4 1 (0.40%) GitLab
4 1 (0.40%) Postman
4 1 (0.40%) REST Assured
General
1 221 (89.47%) Finance
2 183 (74.09%) Front Office
3 107 (43.32%) Banking
4 65 (26.32%) Investment Banking
5 30 (12.15%) Social Skills
6 14 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (5.26%) Law
8 9 (3.64%) Financial Institution
9 8 (3.24%) Back Office
10 7 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.21%) Legal
11 3 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.81%) Games
12 2 (0.81%) Spanish Language
12 2 (0.81%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 131 (53.04%) Software Engineer
2 114 (46.15%) Python Engineer
3 113 (45.75%) Developer
3 113 (45.75%) Python Software Engineer
4 110 (44.53%) AWS Engineer
4 110 (44.53%) AWS Software Engineer
5 100 (40.49%) Senior
6 70 (28.34%) Senior Software Engineer
7 69 (27.94%) Java Engineer
8 68 (27.53%) Python Developer
9 63 (25.51%) Java Software Engineer
10 59 (23.89%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 58 (23.48%) Senior Java Engineer
12 55 (22.27%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 50 (20.24%) AWS Developer
14 33 (13.36%) Quantitative Developer
15 24 (9.72%) Java Developer
16 23 (9.31%) Senior Developer
17 22 (8.91%) Analyst
18 20 (8.10%) C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (44.94%) Pandas
2 107 (43.32%) NumPy
2 107 (43.32%) SciPy
3 62 (25.10%) React
4 57 (23.08%) gRPC
4 57 (23.08%) Protocol Buffers
5 53 (21.46%) AngularJS
5 53 (21.46%) Node.js
5 53 (21.46%) Vue
6 28 (11.34%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 27 (10.93%) FIX Protocol
8 10 (4.05%) pytest
9 8 (3.24%) Kafka
10 6 (2.43%) Redux
11 5 (2.02%) Java Concurrency
12 4 (1.62%) .NET
12 4 (1.62%) Middleware
12 4 (1.62%) REST
13 3 (1.21%) CSS
13 3 (1.21%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 145 (58.70%) Fixed Income
1 145 (58.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 107 (43.32%) Derivative
3 92 (37.25%) Hedge funds
4 58 (23.48%) Pricing Data
5 52 (21.05%) Algorithms
6 21 (8.50%) Management Information System
7 19 (7.69%) Data Structures
8 16 (6.48%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (2.83%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.62%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (1.21%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (1.21%) Equity Derivative
11 3 (1.21%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.21%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.81%) Credit Derivative
12 2 (0.81%) Eurex
12 2 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.81%) Interest Rate Derivative
12 2 (0.81%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 47 (19.03%) Linux
2 10 (4.05%) Windows
3 4 (1.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (59.11%) Agile
2 139 (56.28%) Software Engineering
3 118 (47.77%) Asset Management
4 115 (46.56%) Investment Management
5 77 (31.17%) Order Management
6 69 (27.94%) Low Latency
7 62 (25.10%) Fintech
8 55 (22.27%) Risk Management
9 50 (20.24%) Performance Attribution
10 39 (15.79%) Computer Science
11 35 (14.17%) Algorithmic Trading
12 32 (12.96%) Mathematics
13 31 (12.55%) Analytics
13 31 (12.55%) Electronic Trading
14 29 (11.74%) Test Automation
15 28 (11.34%) OOP
16 24 (9.72%) Data Analysis
16 24 (9.72%) SDLC
17 22 (8.91%) OO
18 20 (8.10%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 189 (76.52%) Python
2 121 (48.99%) Java
3 119 (48.18%) TypeScript
4 116 (46.96%) JavaScript
5 36 (14.57%) C++
6 26 (10.53%) SQL
7 7 (2.83%) C#
8 4 (1.62%) VBA
9 3 (1.21%) C
9 3 (1.21%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (11.34%) Degree
2 17 (6.88%) Master's Degree
3 16 (6.48%) PhD
4 3 (1.21%) ISEB
4 3 (1.21%) ISTQB
4 3 (1.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.40%) CFA
6 1 (0.40%) CISM
6 1 (0.40%) CISSP
6 1 (0.40%) CRISC
6 1 (0.40%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.67%) QA
2 4 (1.62%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.81%) COREP
4 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.40%) FINRA
4 1 (0.40%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.40%) MiFID
4 1 (0.40%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (0.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (2.83%) Terraform
2 4 (1.62%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.21%) Control-M
4 1 (0.40%) Grafana
4 1 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (4.05%) Bloomberg
2 4 (1.62%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.62%) Solace
3 3 (1.21%) Calypso
3 3 (1.21%) ION Trading
4 2 (0.81%) Alteryx
4 2 (0.81%) Atlassian
4 2 (0.81%) Charles River
4 2 (0.81%) CQG
4 2 (0.81%) Databricks
4 2 (0.81%) Oracle
4 2 (0.81%) Patsystems
4 2 (0.81%) Reuters
4 2 (0.81%) Splunk
4 2 (0.81%) Trayport
5 1 (0.40%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.40%) FactSet
5 1 (0.40%) Murex
5 1 (0.40%) Refinitiv