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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 282 386
Rank change year-on-year -81 +104 +117
Permanent jobs citing Equities 266 585 333
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.58% 0.97% 0.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.55% 2.91% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 194 542 283
10th Percentile £95,750 £77,500 £55,500
25th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £89,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £126,250 £115,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.78% - +2.22%
75th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £165,000 £155,000
UK median annual salary £125,000 £115,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% - +2.22%

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 17,117 20,120 17,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 37.23% 33.47% 38.60%
Number of salaries quoted 9,695 9,610 13,369
10th Percentile £27,707 £34,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -1.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.00% -

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 19 November 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 19 November 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 -73 262 £126,250 +9.78% 99
North of England +58 4 - -
North West - 3 - -
North East +4 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
1 117 (43.98%) Apache Airflow
2 61 (22.93%) Apache
3 6 (2.26%) Confluence
4 4 (1.50%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.13%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (2.63%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.38%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 144 (54.14%) AWS
2 116 (43.61%) dbt
3 64 (24.06%) Snowflake
4 63 (23.68%) GCP
5 7 (2.63%) Azure
6 4 (1.50%) GitHub
6 4 (1.50%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.38%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.38%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.38%) Datadog
7 1 (0.38%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.38%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.38%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.89%) Multicast
2 2 (0.75%) FIX Connectivity
2 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (43.61%) Amazon Athena
1 116 (43.61%) Apache Arrow
1 116 (43.61%) Apache Iceberg
1 116 (43.61%) Dremio
2 63 (23.68%) Data Lake
3 61 (22.93%) Apache Ignite
4 59 (22.18%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (5.64%) KDB
6 9 (3.38%) Kdb+
7 6 (2.26%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.50%) Power BI
9 3 (1.13%) Big Data
9 3 (1.13%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.13%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.75%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.75%) Tick Data
11 1 (0.38%) Metadata
11 1 (0.38%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (6.39%) JIRA
2 4 (1.50%) Git
2 4 (1.50%) Vite
3 3 (1.13%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.75%) Maven
4 2 (0.75%) Selenium
5 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.38%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.38%) GitLab
5 1 (0.38%) Postman
5 1 (0.38%) REST Assured
General
1 240 (90.23%) Finance
2 199 (74.81%) Front Office
3 116 (43.61%) Banking
4 69 (25.94%) Investment Banking
5 32 (12.03%) Social Skills
6 19 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (7.14%) Law
7 13 (4.89%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (3.76%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.63%) Back Office
9 7 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.13%) Legal
10 3 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.75%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Games
12 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 146 (54.89%) Software Engineer
2 122 (45.86%) Developer
2 122 (45.86%) Python Engineer
3 121 (45.49%) Python Software Engineer
4 120 (45.11%) AWS Engineer
4 120 (45.11%) AWS Software Engineer
5 107 (40.23%) Senior
6 77 (28.95%) Java Engineer
6 77 (28.95%) Senior Software Engineer
7 71 (26.69%) Python Developer
8 70 (26.32%) Java Software Engineer
9 67 (25.19%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 64 (24.06%) Senior Java Engineer
11 60 (22.56%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 55 (20.68%) AWS Developer
13 33 (12.41%) Quantitative Developer
14 26 (9.77%) Java Developer
15 24 (9.02%) Senior Developer
16 21 (7.89%) Analyst
17 20 (7.52%) C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (45.49%) Pandas
2 116 (43.61%) NumPy
2 116 (43.61%) SciPy
3 69 (25.94%) React
4 61 (22.93%) gRPC
4 61 (22.93%) Protocol Buffers
5 60 (22.56%) AngularJS
6 59 (22.18%) Node.js
6 59 (22.18%) Vue
7 28 (10.53%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 28 (10.53%) FIX Protocol
8 10 (3.76%) pytest
9 9 (3.38%) Kafka
10 8 (3.01%) Redux
11 5 (1.88%) Java Concurrency
11 5 (1.88%) Middleware
12 4 (1.50%) .NET
12 4 (1.50%) Jest
13 3 (1.13%) CSS
13 3 (1.13%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 157 (59.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 156 (58.65%) Fixed Income
3 114 (42.86%) Derivative
4 99 (37.22%) Hedge funds
5 62 (23.31%) Pricing Data
6 54 (20.30%) Algorithms
7 21 (7.89%) Management Information System
8 20 (7.52%) Data Structures
9 15 (5.64%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (3.01%) Cloud Native
11 4 (1.50%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.13%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (1.13%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (1.13%) Equity Derivative
12 3 (1.13%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.75%) Eurex
13 2 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.75%) Reference Data
13 2 (0.75%) TWAP
13 2 (0.75%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 48 (18.05%) Linux
2 9 (3.38%) Windows
3 6 (2.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (61.28%) Agile
2 156 (58.65%) Software Engineering
3 128 (48.12%) Asset Management
4 126 (47.37%) Investment Management
5 83 (31.20%) Order Management
6 71 (26.69%) Low Latency
7 69 (25.94%) Fintech
8 62 (23.31%) Risk Management
9 55 (20.68%) Performance Attribution
10 42 (15.79%) Computer Science
11 38 (14.29%) Algorithmic Trading
12 35 (13.16%) Analytics
13 34 (12.78%) Mathematics
14 33 (12.41%) Electronic Trading
15 29 (10.90%) Test Automation
16 28 (10.53%) OOP
16 28 (10.53%) SDLC
17 23 (8.65%) Data Analysis
17 23 (8.65%) OO
18 20 (7.52%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 204 (76.69%) Python
2 131 (49.25%) TypeScript
3 129 (48.50%) Java
4 127 (47.74%) JavaScript
5 36 (13.53%) C++
6 27 (10.15%) SQL
7 9 (3.38%) C#
8 4 (1.50%) C
8 4 (1.50%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.50%) VBA
9 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (10.90%) Degree
2 17 (6.39%) Master's Degree
3 16 (6.02%) PhD
4 3 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.75%) ISEB
5 2 (0.75%) ISTQB
5 2 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.38%) CFA
6 1 (0.38%) CISM
6 1 (0.38%) CISSP
6 1 (0.38%) CRISC
6 1 (0.38%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.89%) QA
2 4 (1.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.38%) COREP
3 1 (0.38%) FINRA
3 1 (0.38%) ISO 22301
3 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.38%) MiFID
3 1 (0.38%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (0.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (3.38%) Terraform
2 5 (1.88%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.13%) Control-M
4 2 (0.75%) Grafana
5 1 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (3.76%) Bloomberg
2 4 (1.50%) Solace
3 3 (1.13%) Calypso
3 3 (1.13%) ION Trading
3 3 (1.13%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.13%) Splunk
4 2 (0.75%) Alteryx
4 2 (0.75%) Atlassian
4 2 (0.75%) Charles River
4 2 (0.75%) CQG
4 2 (0.75%) Databricks
4 2 (0.75%) Oracle
4 2 (0.75%) Patsystems
4 2 (0.75%) Reuters
4 2 (0.75%) Trayport
5 1 (0.38%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.38%) FactSet
5 1 (0.38%) Murex
5 1 (0.38%) Refinitiv