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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 336 464
Rank change year-on-year -177 +128 +102
Permanent jobs citing Equities 123 369 313
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.20% 0.85% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.62% 2.24% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 71 319 298
10th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £65,875
25th Percentile £93,750 £98,750 £89,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £115,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £142,500 £148,750 £142,500
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 19,882 16,505 24,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.69% 38.12% 36.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,200 7,867 18,103
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,001
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 23 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 23 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 -127 121 £110,000 -4.35% 26
North of England -22 2 - -
North East -20 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 20 (16.26%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (6.50%) Apache
3 5 (4.07%) Confluence
4 3 (2.44%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (7.32%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.81%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.81%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 41 (33.33%) AWS
2 19 (15.45%) dbt
2 19 (15.45%) GCP
3 12 (9.76%) Azure
3 12 (9.76%) GitHub
3 12 (9.76%) Snowflake
4 2 (1.63%) OpenShift
4 2 (1.63%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.81%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (0.81%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (0.81%) Datadog
5 1 (0.81%) Power Automate
5 1 (0.81%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 16 (13.01%) Multicast
2 1 (0.81%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (15.45%) Amazon Athena
1 19 (15.45%) Apache Arrow
1 19 (15.45%) Apache Iceberg
1 19 (15.45%) Dremio
1 19 (15.45%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (8.13%) Data Lake
3 8 (6.50%) Apache Ignite
4 5 (4.07%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.07%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.44%) Big Data
5 3 (2.44%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.44%) KDB
5 3 (2.44%) Tick Data
6 2 (1.63%) Power BI
7 1 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.81%) Metadata
7 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (14.63%) JIRA
2 12 (9.76%) Git
3 4 (3.25%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.44%) Selenium
5 2 (1.63%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.63%) GitLab
5 2 (1.63%) Maven
6 1 (0.81%) Postman
6 1 (0.81%) REST Assured
General
1 92 (74.80%) Finance
2 74 (60.16%) Front Office
3 34 (27.64%) Banking
4 20 (16.26%) Social Skills
5 14 (11.38%) Investment Banking
6 12 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.44%) Back Office
7 3 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.44%) Spanish Language
8 2 (1.63%) Games
8 2 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.63%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.81%) Legal
Job Titles
1 56 (45.53%) Developer
2 40 (32.52%) Senior
3 37 (30.08%) Python Developer
3 37 (30.08%) Software Engineer
4 35 (28.46%) Python Engineer
5 32 (26.02%) Python Software Engineer
6 25 (20.33%) Quantitative Developer
7 20 (16.26%) C++ Developer
8 19 (15.45%) AWS Engineer
8 19 (15.45%) AWS Software Engineer
8 19 (15.45%) Senior Developer
9 18 (14.63%) Analyst
9 18 (14.63%) C++ Quantitative Developer
9 18 (14.63%) Linux Developer
9 18 (14.63%) Low Latency C++ Developer
9 18 (14.63%) Senior C++ Developer
9 18 (14.63%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
9 18 (14.63%) Senior Python Developer
9 18 (14.63%) Senior Quantitative Developer
10 17 (13.82%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (23.58%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 29 (23.58%) FIX Protocol
2 22 (17.89%) React
3 20 (16.26%) Pandas
4 19 (15.45%) Node.js
4 19 (15.45%) NumPy
4 19 (15.45%) SciPy
5 13 (10.57%) AngularJS
6 12 (9.76%) pytest
7 11 (8.94%) Vue
8 8 (6.50%) gRPC
8 8 (6.50%) Protocol Buffers
8 8 (6.50%) Redux
9 6 (4.88%) Kafka
10 4 (3.25%) .NET
10 4 (3.25%) Java Concurrency
10 4 (3.25%) REST
11 3 (2.44%) CSS
11 3 (2.44%) HTML
11 3 (2.44%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 54 (43.90%) Fixed Income
2 47 (38.21%) Derivative
3 39 (31.71%) Algorithms
4 38 (30.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 29 (23.58%) Hedge funds
6 20 (16.26%) Data Structures
7 19 (15.45%) Management Information System
8 13 (10.57%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (7.32%) Pricing Data
10 6 (4.88%) Cloud Native
10 6 (4.88%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (4.07%) Distributed Computing
12 4 (3.25%) Onboarding
13 3 (2.44%) Eurex
14 2 (1.63%) Credit Derivative
14 2 (1.63%) Equity Derivative
14 2 (1.63%) Interest Rate Derivative
14 2 (1.63%) Private Cloud
15 1 (0.81%) Grid Computing
15 1 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (34.96%) Linux
2 11 (8.94%) Windows
3 3 (2.44%) Unix
4 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (41.46%) Low Latency
2 45 (36.59%) Agile
3 42 (34.15%) Software Engineering
4 32 (26.02%) Order Management
5 31 (25.20%) Asset Management
6 29 (23.58%) Electronic Trading
6 29 (23.58%) OOP
7 28 (22.76%) Investment Management
8 23 (18.70%) Computer Science
9 22 (17.89%) Algorithmic Trading
9 22 (17.89%) Test Automation
10 20 (16.26%) Fintech
11 18 (14.63%) Mathematics
11 18 (14.63%) OO
12 17 (13.82%) Data Analysis
12 17 (13.82%) SDLC
13 15 (12.20%) Process Improvement
13 15 (12.20%) Workflow
14 14 (11.38%) Risk Management
15 13 (10.57%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 92 (74.80%) Python
2 45 (36.59%) Java
3 34 (27.64%) C++
4 31 (25.20%) TypeScript
5 30 (24.39%) JavaScript
6 14 (11.38%) SQL
7 2 (1.63%) C#
8 1 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (13.01%) Degree
2 7 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.44%) ISEB
3 3 (2.44%) ISTQB
3 3 (2.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 3 (2.44%) Master's Degree
3 3 (2.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.82%) QA
2 4 (3.25%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.44%) MiFID
4 2 (1.63%) COREP
5 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.81%) FINRA
System Software
1 2 (1.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.81%) Grafana
2 1 (0.81%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (0.81%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.81%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (4.88%) Bloomberg
2 4 (3.25%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.44%) CQG
3 3 (2.44%) Databricks
3 3 (2.44%) ION Trading
3 3 (2.44%) Oracle
3 3 (2.44%) Patsystems
3 3 (2.44%) Reuters
3 3 (2.44%) Trayport
4 2 (1.63%) Charles River
4 2 (1.63%) Solace
4 2 (1.63%) Splunk
5 1 (0.81%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.81%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.81%) FactSet
5 1 (0.81%) Murex
5 1 (0.81%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.81%) Refinitiv