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

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 396 281 375
Rank change year-on-year -115 +94 +124
Permanent jobs citing Equities 218 562 322
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 1.01% 0.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.21% 2.83% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 165 515 287
10th Percentile £93,750 £77,500 £60,500
25th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 £115,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - +2.22%
75th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £152,500 £154,250
UK median annual salary £117,500 £115,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year +2.17% - +3.37%

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 17,990 19,861 17,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 36.55% 35.67% 38.05%
Number of salaries quoted 9,522 9,774 12,922
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,875 £33,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £78,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £53,877 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.21% -4.00% -0.33%

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 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 12 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 -78 215 £120,000 +4.35% 40
North of England +30 3 - -
North West - 2 - -
North East +6 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 95 (43.58%) Apache Airflow
2 49 (22.48%) Apache
3 5 (2.29%) Confluence
4 3 (1.38%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (3.67%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.46%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.46%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 113 (51.83%) AWS
2 94 (43.12%) dbt
3 52 (23.85%) Snowflake
4 49 (22.48%) GCP
5 5 (2.29%) Azure
5 5 (2.29%) GitHub
6 3 (1.38%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.92%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.46%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.46%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.46%) Datadog
8 1 (0.46%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.46%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.88%) Multicast
2 2 (0.92%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (43.12%) Amazon Athena
1 94 (43.12%) Apache Arrow
1 94 (43.12%) Apache Iceberg
1 94 (43.12%) Dremio
2 51 (23.39%) Data Lake
3 49 (22.48%) Apache Ignite
4 47 (21.56%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.75%) KDB
6 5 (2.29%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.29%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.38%) Big Data
7 3 (1.38%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.38%) Kdb+
7 3 (1.38%) Power BI
8 2 (0.92%) Tick Data
9 1 (0.46%) Metadata
9 1 (0.46%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.46%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (7.80%) JIRA
2 3 (1.38%) Git
2 3 (1.38%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.38%) Selenium
3 2 (0.92%) Cypress.io
3 2 (0.92%) Maven
4 1 (0.46%) GitLab
4 1 (0.46%) Postman
4 1 (0.46%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.46%) Vite
General
1 190 (87.16%) Finance
2 161 (73.85%) Front Office
3 89 (40.83%) Banking
4 57 (26.15%) Investment Banking
5 25 (11.47%) Social Skills
6 13 (5.96%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (4.13%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.67%) Back Office
9 7 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.83%) Law
11 3 (1.38%) Legal
11 3 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.92%) Games
12 2 (0.92%) Spanish Language
12 2 (0.92%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 111 (50.92%) Software Engineer
2 102 (46.79%) Python Engineer
3 101 (46.33%) Developer
3 101 (46.33%) Python Software Engineer
4 95 (43.58%) AWS Engineer
4 95 (43.58%) AWS Software Engineer
5 85 (38.99%) Senior
6 64 (29.36%) Python Developer
7 59 (27.06%) Senior Software Engineer
8 57 (26.15%) Java Engineer
9 53 (24.31%) Java Software Engineer
10 50 (22.94%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 48 (22.02%) Senior Java Engineer
12 47 (21.56%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 45 (20.64%) AWS Developer
14 32 (14.68%) Quantitative Developer
15 22 (10.09%) Java Developer
16 20 (9.17%) Analyst
16 20 (9.17%) Senior Developer
17 19 (8.72%) C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (44.04%) Pandas
2 94 (43.12%) NumPy
2 94 (43.12%) SciPy
3 53 (24.31%) React
4 49 (22.48%) gRPC
4 49 (22.48%) Protocol Buffers
5 47 (21.56%) AngularJS
5 47 (21.56%) Node.js
5 47 (21.56%) Vue
6 28 (12.84%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 28 (12.84%) FIX Protocol
7 11 (5.05%) pytest
8 9 (4.13%) Kafka
9 6 (2.75%) Java Concurrency
10 4 (1.83%) .NET
10 4 (1.83%) Redux
10 4 (1.83%) REST
11 3 (1.38%) CSS
11 3 (1.38%) HTML
11 3 (1.38%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 128 (58.72%) Fixed Income
2 126 (57.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 92 (42.20%) Derivative
4 80 (36.70%) Hedge funds
5 53 (24.31%) Algorithms
6 50 (22.94%) Pricing Data
7 20 (9.17%) Management Information System
8 18 (8.26%) Data Structures
9 16 (7.34%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (2.75%) Cloud Native
11 4 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (1.83%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (1.38%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.92%) Credit Derivative
13 2 (0.92%) Equity Derivative
13 2 (0.92%) Eurex
13 2 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.92%) Interest Rate Derivative
13 2 (0.92%) Private Cloud
14 1 (0.46%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 47 (21.56%) Linux
2 11 (5.05%) Windows
3 3 (1.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (55.96%) Agile
2 116 (53.21%) Software Engineering
3 103 (47.25%) Asset Management
4 100 (45.87%) Investment Management
5 71 (32.57%) Order Management
6 65 (29.82%) Low Latency
7 53 (24.31%) Fintech
8 49 (22.48%) Risk Management
9 45 (20.64%) Performance Attribution
10 37 (16.97%) Computer Science
11 35 (16.06%) Algorithmic Trading
12 32 (14.68%) Electronic Trading
13 30 (13.76%) Mathematics
14 28 (12.84%) OOP
15 25 (11.47%) Test Automation
16 24 (11.01%) Analytics
16 24 (11.01%) Data Analysis
17 21 (9.63%) OO
17 21 (9.63%) Quantitative Research
18 18 (8.26%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 167 (76.61%) Python
2 107 (49.08%) Java
3 102 (46.79%) TypeScript
4 101 (46.33%) JavaScript
5 34 (15.60%) C++
6 25 (11.47%) SQL
7 5 (2.29%) C#
8 4 (1.83%) VBA
9 1 (0.46%) C
9 1 (0.46%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (12.84%) Degree
2 17 (7.80%) Master's Degree
3 16 (7.34%) PhD
4 3 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.38%) ISEB
4 3 (1.38%) ISTQB
4 3 (1.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.46%) CFA
5 1 (0.46%) CISM
5 1 (0.46%) CISSP
5 1 (0.46%) CRISC
5 1 (0.46%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.88%) QA
2 4 (1.83%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.92%) COREP
4 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.46%) FINRA
4 1 (0.46%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.46%) MiFID
4 1 (0.46%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (0.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.83%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.38%) Control-M
2 3 (1.38%) Terraform
3 1 (0.46%) Grafana
3 1 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.46%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (4.13%) Bloomberg
2 4 (1.83%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.83%) Solace
3 3 (1.38%) Calypso
3 3 (1.38%) ION Trading
4 2 (0.92%) Atlassian
4 2 (0.92%) Charles River
4 2 (0.92%) CQG
4 2 (0.92%) Databricks
4 2 (0.92%) Oracle
4 2 (0.92%) Patsystems
4 2 (0.92%) Reuters
4 2 (0.92%) Splunk
4 2 (0.92%) Trayport
5 1 (0.46%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.46%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.46%) FactSet
5 1 (0.46%) Murex
5 1 (0.46%) Refinitiv