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 9 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 334 462
Rank change year-on-year -164 +128 +89
Permanent jobs citing Equities 133 372 307
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.82% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.69% 2.18% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 85 327 290
10th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £66,125
25th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £115,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £137,500 £148,750 £145,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £160,000 £155,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £115,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%

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 19,169 17,096 23,660
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.24% 37.67% 35.79%
Number of salaries quoted 9,787 7,945 17,871
10th Percentile £28,000 £34,567 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +11.11% -13.46%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,644 £56,376
% change year-on-year -10.78% +9.34% -13.27%

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 -119 131 £112,500 -2.17% 29
North of England -7 2 - -
North East -7 1 - -
North West - 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 29 (21.80%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (10.53%) Apache
3 6 (4.51%) Confluence
4 3 (2.26%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (7.52%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.75%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.75%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 47 (35.34%) AWS
2 28 (21.05%) dbt
3 18 (13.53%) GCP
4 17 (12.78%) Snowflake
5 11 (8.27%) GitHub
6 9 (6.77%) Azure
7 2 (1.50%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.50%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.75%) Datadog
8 1 (0.75%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.75%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 18 (13.53%) Multicast
2 2 (1.50%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (21.05%) Amazon Athena
1 28 (21.05%) Apache Arrow
1 28 (21.05%) Apache Iceberg
1 28 (21.05%) Dremio
2 18 (13.53%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (12.03%) Data Lake
4 14 (10.53%) Apache Ignite
5 7 (5.26%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.76%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.01%) KDB
8 3 (2.26%) Big Data
8 3 (2.26%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.26%) Tick Data
9 2 (1.50%) Power BI
10 1 (0.75%) Kdb+
10 1 (0.75%) Metadata
10 1 (0.75%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (15.04%) JIRA
2 10 (7.52%) Git
3 4 (3.01%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.26%) Selenium
5 2 (1.50%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.50%) Maven
6 1 (0.75%) GitLab
6 1 (0.75%) Postman
6 1 (0.75%) REST Assured
General
1 99 (74.44%) Finance
2 82 (61.65%) Front Office
3 45 (33.83%) Banking
4 22 (16.54%) Investment Banking
5 18 (13.53%) Social Skills
6 13 (9.77%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.01%) Back Office
7 4 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.01%) Spanish Language
8 3 (2.26%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.50%) Games
9 2 (1.50%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Legal
Job Titles
1 58 (43.61%) Developer
2 45 (33.83%) Senior
3 44 (33.08%) Software Engineer
4 43 (32.33%) Python Engineer
5 41 (30.83%) Python Software Engineer
6 37 (27.82%) Python Developer
7 28 (21.05%) AWS Engineer
7 28 (21.05%) AWS Software Engineer
8 26 (19.55%) Quantitative Developer
9 24 (18.05%) Senior Software Engineer
10 20 (15.04%) C++ Developer
11 19 (14.29%) Analyst
12 17 (12.78%) C++ Quantitative Developer
12 17 (12.78%) Linux Developer
12 17 (12.78%) Low Latency C++ Developer
12 17 (12.78%) Senior C++ Developer
12 17 (12.78%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
12 17 (12.78%) Senior Developer
12 17 (12.78%) Senior Python Developer
12 17 (12.78%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (23.31%) FIX Protocol
2 29 (21.80%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 29 (21.80%) Pandas
3 28 (21.05%) NumPy
3 28 (21.05%) SciPy
4 21 (15.79%) React
5 18 (13.53%) Node.js
6 14 (10.53%) AngularJS
6 14 (10.53%) gRPC
6 14 (10.53%) Protocol Buffers
6 14 (10.53%) Vue
7 13 (9.77%) pytest
8 7 (5.26%) Kafka
9 5 (3.76%) Java Concurrency
10 4 (3.01%) Redux
10 4 (3.01%) REST
11 3 (2.26%) .NET
11 3 (2.26%) CSS
11 3 (2.26%) HTML
11 3 (2.26%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 61 (45.86%) Fixed Income
2 51 (38.35%) Derivative
3 50 (37.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 43 (32.33%) Algorithms
5 33 (24.81%) Hedge funds
6 19 (14.29%) Data Structures
7 18 (13.53%) Management Information System
8 15 (11.28%) Pricing Data
9 14 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (5.26%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (4.51%) Cloud Native
11 6 (4.51%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (3.76%) Onboarding
13 4 (3.01%) Eurex
14 3 (2.26%) Equity Derivative
15 2 (1.50%) Credit Derivative
15 2 (1.50%) Interest Rate Derivative
15 2 (1.50%) Private Cloud
16 1 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
16 1 (0.75%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 45 (33.83%) Linux
2 11 (8.27%) Windows
3 3 (2.26%) Unix
4 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (42.86%) Low Latency
2 52 (39.10%) Agile
3 48 (36.09%) Software Engineering
4 36 (27.07%) Asset Management
5 35 (26.32%) Order Management
6 33 (24.81%) Investment Management
7 31 (23.31%) Electronic Trading
8 29 (21.80%) Computer Science
8 29 (21.80%) OOP
9 27 (20.30%) Algorithmic Trading
10 23 (17.29%) Mathematics
11 21 (15.79%) Test Automation
12 19 (14.29%) Fintech
12 19 (14.29%) SDLC
13 18 (13.53%) Data Analysis
14 17 (12.78%) OO
14 17 (12.78%) Risk Management
15 16 (12.03%) Analytics
15 16 (12.03%) Process Improvement
15 16 (12.03%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 99 (74.44%) Python
2 54 (40.60%) Java
3 35 (26.32%) C++
3 35 (26.32%) JavaScript
3 35 (26.32%) TypeScript
4 14 (10.53%) SQL
5 1 (0.75%) C#
5 1 (0.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (13.53%) Degree
2 6 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (4.51%) Master's Degree
2 6 (4.51%) PhD
3 3 (2.26%) ISEB
3 3 (2.26%) ISTQB
3 3 (2.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.53%) QA
2 4 (3.01%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.26%) MiFID
4 2 (1.50%) COREP
5 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.75%) FINRA
System Software
1 2 (1.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.01%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.75%) Grafana
2 1 (0.75%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (5.26%) Bloomberg
2 4 (3.01%) CQG
2 4 (3.01%) ION Trading
2 4 (3.01%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.01%) Oracle
2 4 (3.01%) Patsystems
2 4 (3.01%) Reuters
2 4 (3.01%) Trayport
3 2 (1.50%) Atlassian
3 2 (1.50%) Charles River
3 2 (1.50%) Databricks
3 2 (1.50%) Solace
3 2 (1.50%) Splunk
4 1 (0.75%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.75%) FactSet
4 1 (0.75%) Murex
4 1 (0.75%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.75%) Refinitiv