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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 432 304 391
Rank change year-on-year -128 +87 +144
Permanent jobs citing Equities 182 456 288
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.35% 0.92% 0.64%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.97% 2.46% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 132 406 269
10th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £75,000
25th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £93,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £115,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £152,500 £154,000
UK median annual salary £112,500 £115,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% - +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 18,677 18,527 16,722
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.92% 37.22% 37.01%
Number of salaries quoted 9,402 8,906 12,487
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,563 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £43,929
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 31 December 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 31 December 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 -91 180 £112,500 -2.17% 64
North of England +9 2 - - 1
North East +4 1 - - 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 67 (36.81%) Apache Airflow
2 37 (20.33%) Apache
3 4 (2.20%) Confluence
4 3 (1.65%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (4.95%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.55%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.55%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 80 (43.96%) AWS
2 66 (36.26%) dbt
3 40 (21.98%) Snowflake
4 29 (15.93%) GCP
5 7 (3.85%) GitHub
6 4 (2.20%) Azure
7 2 (1.10%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.10%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.55%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.55%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.55%) Datadog
8 1 (0.55%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.55%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.34%) Multicast
2 2 (1.10%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (36.26%) Amazon Athena
1 66 (36.26%) Apache Arrow
1 66 (36.26%) Apache Iceberg
1 66 (36.26%) Dremio
2 39 (21.43%) Data Lake
3 37 (20.33%) Apache Ignite
4 29 (15.93%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.30%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.75%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.20%) KDB
8 3 (1.65%) Big Data
8 3 (1.65%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.10%) Power BI
9 2 (1.10%) Tick Data
10 1 (0.55%) Kdb+
10 1 (0.55%) Metadata
10 1 (0.55%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (9.89%) JIRA
2 5 (2.75%) Git
3 3 (1.65%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.65%) Selenium
4 2 (1.10%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.10%) Maven
5 1 (0.55%) GitLab
5 1 (0.55%) Postman
5 1 (0.55%) REST Assured
General
1 153 (84.07%) Finance
2 127 (69.78%) Front Office
3 72 (39.56%) Banking
4 45 (24.73%) Investment Banking
5 22 (12.09%) Social Skills
6 12 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (4.95%) Financial Institution
8 8 (4.40%) Back Office
9 7 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.65%) Legal
11 3 (1.65%) Spanish Language
12 2 (1.10%) Games
12 2 (1.10%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (43.96%) Developer
2 79 (43.41%) Python Engineer
2 79 (43.41%) Software Engineer
3 78 (42.86%) Python Software Engineer
4 70 (38.46%) Senior
5 66 (36.26%) AWS Engineer
5 66 (36.26%) AWS Software Engineer
6 53 (29.12%) Python Developer
7 47 (25.82%) Senior Software Engineer
8 40 (21.98%) Java Engineer
9 38 (20.88%) Java Software Engineer
10 35 (19.23%) Senior Java Engineer
10 35 (19.23%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 34 (18.68%) Quantitative Developer
12 29 (15.93%) AWS Developer
12 29 (15.93%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 19 (10.44%) Analyst
13 19 (10.44%) C++ Developer
14 18 (9.89%) Senior C++ Developer
14 18 (9.89%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (36.81%) Pandas
2 66 (36.26%) NumPy
2 66 (36.26%) SciPy
3 37 (20.33%) gRPC
3 37 (20.33%) Protocol Buffers
4 32 (17.58%) React
5 30 (16.48%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 30 (16.48%) FIX Protocol
6 29 (15.93%) AngularJS
6 29 (15.93%) Node.js
6 29 (15.93%) Vue
7 13 (7.14%) pytest
8 11 (6.04%) Kafka
9 7 (3.85%) Java Concurrency
10 4 (2.20%) .NET
10 4 (2.20%) REST
11 3 (1.65%) CSS
11 3 (1.65%) HTML
11 3 (1.65%) Playwright
12 2 (1.10%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 95 (52.20%) Fixed Income
2 91 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 75 (41.21%) Derivative
4 62 (34.07%) Hedge funds
5 55 (30.22%) Algorithms
6 38 (20.88%) Pricing Data
7 19 (10.44%) Data Structures
7 19 (10.44%) Management Information System
8 18 (9.89%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (3.30%) Cloud Native
9 6 (3.30%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (2.75%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (2.20%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.65%) Equity Derivative
12 3 (1.65%) Eurex
13 2 (1.10%) Credit Derivative
13 2 (1.10%) Interest Rate Derivative
13 2 (1.10%) Private Cloud
14 1 (0.55%) Grid Computing
14 1 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (26.37%) Linux
2 12 (6.59%) Windows
3 2 (1.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (47.25%) Agile
2 83 (45.60%) Software Engineering
3 71 (39.01%) Asset Management
4 68 (37.36%) Investment Management
5 64 (35.16%) Low Latency
6 55 (30.22%) Order Management
7 37 (20.33%) Computer Science
8 35 (19.23%) Algorithmic Trading
8 35 (19.23%) Electronic Trading
9 33 (18.13%) Risk Management
10 32 (17.58%) Fintech
11 30 (16.48%) OOP
12 29 (15.93%) Mathematics
12 29 (15.93%) Performance Attribution
13 25 (13.74%) Data Analysis
14 23 (12.64%) Test Automation
15 22 (12.09%) Quantitative Research
16 20 (10.99%) Analytics
17 19 (10.44%) OO
18 18 (9.89%) High-Frequency Trading
Programming Languages
1 141 (77.47%) Python
2 89 (48.90%) Java
3 69 (37.91%) JavaScript
3 69 (37.91%) TypeScript
4 34 (18.68%) C++
5 22 (12.09%) SQL
6 5 (2.75%) C#
7 4 (2.20%) VBA
8 1 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (15.93%) Degree
2 18 (9.89%) Master's Degree
3 17 (9.34%) PhD
4 4 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.65%) ISEB
5 3 (1.65%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.55%) CFA
6 1 (0.55%) CISM
6 1 (0.55%) CISSP
6 1 (0.55%) CRISC
6 1 (0.55%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.34%) QA
2 4 (2.20%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.10%) COREP
4 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.55%) FINRA
4 1 (0.55%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.55%) MiFID
4 1 (0.55%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (1.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.20%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.65%) Control-M
3 1 (0.55%) Grafana
3 1 (0.55%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (4.95%) Bloomberg
2 4 (2.20%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.65%) Calypso
3 3 (1.65%) CQG
3 3 (1.65%) ION Trading
3 3 (1.65%) Oracle
3 3 (1.65%) Patsystems
3 3 (1.65%) Reuters
3 3 (1.65%) Trayport
4 2 (1.10%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.10%) Charles River
4 2 (1.10%) Databricks
4 2 (1.10%) Solace
4 2 (1.10%) Splunk
5 1 (0.55%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.55%) FactSet
5 1 (0.55%) Murex
5 1 (0.55%) Refinitiv