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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 538 280 417
Rank change year-on-year -258 +137 +159
Permanent jobs citing Equities 123 392 430
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.17% 1.07% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.56% 2.77% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 67 341 418
10th Percentile £82,000 £85,000 £67,500
25th Percentile £93,750 £98,750 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £115,000 £122,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% -6.12% +16.67%
75th Percentile £150,000 £148,750 £146,250
90th Percentile - £152,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £102,500 £115,000 £122,500
% change year-on-year -10.87% -6.12% +16.67%

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 21,862 14,173 28,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.73% 38.77% 35.40%
Number of salaries quoted 11,373 8,153 20,384
10th Percentile £29,500 £31,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £39,750 £43,750 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 8 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 8 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 -169 122 £102,500 -10.87% 37
North West -37 1 - -
North of England -64 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 (4.07%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (4.07%) Confluence
2 4 (3.25%) Apache
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.88%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.81%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 28 (22.76%) AWS
2 20 (16.26%) Azure
3 16 (13.01%) GCP
4 13 (10.57%) GitHub
5 6 (4.88%) Snowflake
6 4 (3.25%) dbt
7 2 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.63%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.81%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.81%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.81%) Datadog
8 1 (0.81%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.81%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.81%) Prefect
8 1 (0.81%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (15.45%) Multicast
2 2 (1.63%) DHCP
2 2 (1.63%) DNS
2 2 (1.63%) VLAN
3 1 (0.81%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.01%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.07%) Relational Database
2 5 (4.07%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.25%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (3.25%) Apache Arrow
3 4 (3.25%) Apache Iceberg
3 4 (3.25%) Apache Ignite
3 4 (3.25%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.25%) Dremio
4 2 (1.63%) KDB
5 1 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.81%) Metadata
5 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.81%) Power BI
5 1 (0.81%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 19 (15.45%) JIRA
2 16 (13.01%) Git
3 3 (2.44%) Selenium
4 2 (1.63%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.63%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.81%) GitLab
General
1 95 (77.24%) Finance
2 69 (56.10%) Front Office
3 33 (26.83%) Banking
4 29 (23.58%) Social Skills
5 11 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.69%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.44%) Back Office
7 3 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.44%) Spanish Language
8 2 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.63%) Games
8 2 (1.63%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.81%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 55 (44.72%) Developer
2 46 (37.40%) Senior
3 31 (25.20%) Software Engineer
4 30 (24.39%) Python Developer
5 26 (21.14%) Python Engineer
6 25 (20.33%) Senior Developer
7 24 (19.51%) Quantitative Developer
8 22 (17.89%) C++ Developer
8 22 (17.89%) Python Software Engineer
9 21 (17.07%) Lead
10 20 (16.26%) C++ Quantitative Developer
10 20 (16.26%) Linux Developer
10 20 (16.26%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 20 (16.26%) Senior C++ Developer
10 20 (16.26%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
10 20 (16.26%) Senior Python Developer
10 20 (16.26%) Senior Quantitative Developer
11 18 (14.63%) Analyst
12 16 (13.01%) Lead Developer
13 15 (12.20%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (28.46%) FIX Protocol
2 34 (27.64%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 19 (15.45%) React
4 16 (13.01%) Node.js
4 16 (13.01%) Redux
5 14 (11.38%) pytest
6 6 (4.88%) Kafka
7 5 (4.07%) Pandas
8 4 (3.25%) .NET
8 4 (3.25%) gRPC
8 4 (3.25%) NumPy
8 4 (3.25%) Protocol Buffers
8 4 (3.25%) SciPy
9 3 (2.44%) CSS
9 3 (2.44%) HTML
9 3 (2.44%) Java Concurrency
9 3 (2.44%) Playwright
9 3 (2.44%) REST
10 2 (1.63%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.63%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 60 (48.78%) Derivative
2 55 (44.72%) Fixed Income
3 40 (32.52%) Algorithms
4 27 (21.95%) Hedge funds
5 26 (21.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 22 (17.89%) Data Structures
7 20 (16.26%) Management Information System
8 17 (13.82%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (4.88%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (4.07%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (3.25%) Cloud Native
11 4 (3.25%) Pricing Data
12 3 (2.44%) Eurex
12 3 (2.44%) Onboarding
13 2 (1.63%) Credit Derivative
13 2 (1.63%) Interest Rate Derivative
13 2 (1.63%) Private Cloud
14 1 (0.81%) Equity Derivative
14 1 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
14 1 (0.81%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 47 (38.21%) Linux
2 12 (9.76%) Windows
3 3 (2.44%) Unix
4 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (46.34%) Low Latency
2 39 (31.71%) Agile
2 39 (31.71%) Software Engineering
3 34 (27.64%) OOP
4 32 (26.02%) Electronic Trading
5 26 (21.14%) Computer Science
6 24 (19.51%) Algorithmic Trading
6 24 (19.51%) Asset Management
6 24 (19.51%) Test Automation
7 23 (18.70%) Order Management
8 22 (17.89%) SDLC
9 21 (17.07%) Market Making
9 21 (17.07%) Mathematics
9 21 (17.07%) Mentoring
10 20 (16.26%) Data Analysis
10 20 (16.26%) Investment Management
10 20 (16.26%) OO
11 19 (15.45%) High-Frequency Trading
11 19 (15.45%) Technical Leadership
12 18 (14.63%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 84 (68.29%) Python
2 41 (33.33%) Java
3 38 (30.89%) C++
4 24 (19.51%) TypeScript
5 23 (18.70%) JavaScript
6 15 (12.20%) SQL
7 3 (2.44%) C#
8 2 (1.63%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (11.38%) Degree
2 12 (9.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.44%) ISEB
3 3 (2.44%) ISTQB
3 3 (2.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.81%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (16.26%) QA
2 8 (6.50%) MiFID
3 4 (3.25%) EMIR
4 3 (2.44%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.63%) COREP
6 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.81%) FINRA
6 1 (0.81%) GAAP
6 1 (0.81%) IFRS
System Software
1 2 (1.63%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.25%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.63%) SCCM
3 1 (0.81%) Grafana
3 1 (0.81%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.81%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.81%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (5.69%) Bloomberg
1 7 (5.69%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.44%) CQG
2 3 (2.44%) ION Trading
2 3 (2.44%) Oracle
2 3 (2.44%) Patsystems
2 3 (2.44%) Reuters
2 3 (2.44%) Trayport
3 2 (1.63%) Databricks
3 2 (1.63%) Splunk
4 1 (0.81%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.81%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.81%) Charles River
4 1 (0.81%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.81%) Refinitiv