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 12 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 560 276 423
Rank change year-on-year -284 +147 +153
Permanent jobs citing Equities 120 402 453
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.16% 1.10% 0.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.54% 2.81% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 63 350 441
10th Percentile £75,250 £85,000 £67,500
25th Percentile £91,875 £98,750 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £115,000 £125,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% -8.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £150,000 £148,750 £146,250
90th Percentile - £152,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £102,500 £115,000 £125,000
% change year-on-year -10.87% -8.00% +19.05%

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 22,041 14,282 28,598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.42% 38.91% 35.50%
Number of salaries quoted 11,447 8,190 20,607
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £58,446 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.59% +9.09% -15.38%

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 12 April 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 12 April 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 -169 119 £102,500 -10.87% 39
North West -36 1 - -
North of England -74 1 - - 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 5 (4.17%) Confluence
2 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (5.00%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.83%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 23 (19.17%) AWS
2 21 (17.50%) Azure
3 16 (13.33%) GCP
4 13 (10.83%) GitHub
5 3 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.67%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.67%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.83%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.83%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.83%) Datadog
7 1 (0.83%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.83%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.83%) Prefect
7 1 (0.83%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (15.83%) Multicast
2 3 (2.50%) DHCP
2 3 (2.50%) DNS
2 3 (2.50%) VLAN
3 1 (0.83%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.17%) Relational Database
2 5 (4.17%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.67%) KDB
4 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.83%) Metadata
4 1 (0.83%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.83%) Power BI
4 1 (0.83%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 19 (15.83%) JIRA
2 16 (13.33%) Git
3 3 (2.50%) Selenium
4 2 (1.67%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.67%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.83%) GitLab
General
1 92 (76.67%) Finance
2 66 (55.00%) Front Office
3 29 (24.17%) Banking
3 29 (24.17%) Social Skills
4 11 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.50%) Back Office
5 3 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.50%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (2.50%) Spanish Language
6 2 (1.67%) Games
6 2 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.67%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.83%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 55 (45.83%) Developer
2 44 (36.67%) Senior
3 30 (25.00%) Python Developer
4 27 (22.50%) Software Engineer
5 25 (20.83%) Senior Developer
6 24 (20.00%) Quantitative Developer
7 22 (18.33%) C++ Developer
7 22 (18.33%) Python Engineer
8 21 (17.50%) Lead
9 20 (16.67%) C++ Quantitative Developer
9 20 (16.67%) Linux Developer
9 20 (16.67%) Low Latency C++ Developer
9 20 (16.67%) Senior C++ Developer
9 20 (16.67%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
9 20 (16.67%) Senior Python Developer
9 20 (16.67%) Senior Quantitative Developer
10 19 (15.83%) Analyst
11 18 (15.00%) Python Software Engineer
12 16 (13.33%) Lead Developer
13 14 (11.67%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (29.17%) FIX Protocol
2 34 (28.33%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 19 (15.83%) React
4 16 (13.33%) Node.js
4 16 (13.33%) Redux
5 14 (11.67%) pytest
6 6 (5.00%) Kafka
7 4 (3.33%) .NET
8 3 (2.50%) CSS
8 3 (2.50%) HTML
8 3 (2.50%) Java Concurrency
8 3 (2.50%) Playwright
8 3 (2.50%) REST
9 2 (1.67%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.67%) GraphQL
10 1 (0.83%) Akka
10 1 (0.83%) Pandas
10 1 (0.83%) Spring Boot
10 1 (0.83%) Spring Integration
10 1 (0.83%) wxWidgets
Miscellaneous
1 57 (47.50%) Derivative
2 51 (42.50%) Fixed Income
3 39 (32.50%) Algorithms
4 24 (20.00%) Hedge funds
5 23 (19.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 22 (18.33%) Data Structures
7 20 (16.67%) Management Information System
8 17 (14.17%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (5.00%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (4.17%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (3.33%) Cloud Native
12 3 (2.50%) Eurex
12 3 (2.50%) Onboarding
13 2 (1.67%) Credit Derivative
13 2 (1.67%) Interest Rate Derivative
13 2 (1.67%) Private Cloud
14 1 (0.83%) Equity Derivative
14 1 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
14 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
14 1 (0.83%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 47 (39.17%) Linux
2 13 (10.83%) Windows
3 3 (2.50%) Unix
4 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (46.67%) Low Latency
2 35 (29.17%) Agile
3 34 (28.33%) OOP
3 34 (28.33%) Software Engineering
4 31 (25.83%) Electronic Trading
5 26 (21.67%) Computer Science
6 25 (20.83%) Test Automation
7 23 (19.17%) Algorithmic Trading
7 23 (19.17%) Order Management
8 22 (18.33%) SDLC
9 21 (17.50%) Mathematics
10 20 (16.67%) Asset Management
10 20 (16.67%) Data Analysis
10 20 (16.67%) Market Making
10 20 (16.67%) Mentoring
10 20 (16.67%) OO
11 19 (15.83%) High-Frequency Trading
11 19 (15.83%) Technical Leadership
12 17 (14.17%) Fintech
12 17 (14.17%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 81 (67.50%) Python
2 38 (31.67%) C++
3 36 (30.00%) Java
4 20 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 19 (15.83%) JavaScript
6 17 (14.17%) SQL
7 4 (3.33%) C#
8 3 (2.50%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.83%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (11.67%) Degree
2 12 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.50%) ISEB
3 3 (2.50%) ISTQB
3 3 (2.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.83%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (16.67%) QA
2 9 (7.50%) MiFID
3 4 (3.33%) EMIR
4 3 (2.50%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.67%) COREP
6 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.83%) FINRA
6 1 (0.83%) GAAP
6 1 (0.83%) IFRS
System Software
1 3 (2.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.50%) SCCM
3 1 (0.83%) Grafana
3 1 (0.83%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.83%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (6.67%) Bloomberg
1 8 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.50%) CQG
2 3 (2.50%) ION Trading
2 3 (2.50%) Oracle
2 3 (2.50%) Patsystems
2 3 (2.50%) Reuters
2 3 (2.50%) Trayport
3 2 (1.67%) Databricks
3 2 (1.67%) Splunk
4 1 (0.83%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.83%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.83%) Charles River
4 1 (0.83%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.83%) Refinitiv