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

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 426 288 391
Rank change year-on-year -138 +103 +134
Permanent jobs citing Equities 189 489 295
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.97% 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.01% 2.61% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 139 440 275
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 £153,750
UK median annual salary £112,500 £115,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% - +6.98%

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 18,798 18,721 16,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 36.16% 37.22% 37.85%
Number of salaries quoted 9,493 9,090 12,195
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £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 £77,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%

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 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 23 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 -97 187 £112,500 -2.17% 57
North of England +12 2 - -
North East +5 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 74 (39.15%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (21.69%) Apache
3 4 (2.12%) Confluence
4 3 (1.59%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (4.23%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.53%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.53%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 86 (45.50%) AWS
2 73 (38.62%) dbt
3 44 (23.28%) Snowflake
4 32 (16.93%) GCP
5 6 (3.17%) GitHub
6 3 (1.59%) Azure
7 2 (1.06%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.06%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.53%) Datadog
8 1 (0.53%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.53%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.94%) Multicast
2 2 (1.06%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (38.62%) Amazon Athena
1 73 (38.62%) Apache Arrow
1 73 (38.62%) Apache Iceberg
1 73 (38.62%) Dremio
2 43 (22.75%) Data Lake
3 41 (21.69%) Apache Ignite
4 32 (16.93%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.65%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.65%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.12%) KDB
7 3 (1.59%) Big Data
7 3 (1.59%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.06%) Power BI
8 2 (1.06%) Tick Data
9 1 (0.53%) Kdb+
9 1 (0.53%) Metadata
9 1 (0.53%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.53%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (8.99%) JIRA
2 4 (2.12%) Git
3 3 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.59%) Selenium
4 2 (1.06%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.06%) Maven
5 1 (0.53%) GitLab
5 1 (0.53%) Postman
5 1 (0.53%) REST Assured
General
1 159 (84.13%) Finance
2 134 (70.90%) Front Office
3 76 (40.21%) Banking
4 50 (26.46%) Investment Banking
5 22 (11.64%) Social Skills
6 11 (5.82%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (4.76%) Financial Institution
8 8 (4.23%) Back Office
9 7 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.59%) Legal
10 3 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.06%) Games
11 2 (1.06%) Spanish Language
11 2 (1.06%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (44.97%) Python Engineer
1 85 (44.97%) Software Engineer
2 84 (44.44%) Developer
2 84 (44.44%) Python Software Engineer
3 73 (38.62%) AWS Engineer
3 73 (38.62%) AWS Software Engineer
3 73 (38.62%) Senior
4 56 (29.63%) Python Developer
5 50 (26.46%) Senior Software Engineer
6 45 (23.81%) Java Engineer
7 42 (22.22%) Java Software Engineer
8 39 (20.63%) Senior Java Engineer
8 39 (20.63%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 35 (18.52%) Quantitative Developer
10 32 (16.93%) AWS Developer
10 32 (16.93%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 20 (10.58%) Analyst
12 19 (10.05%) C++ Developer
13 18 (9.52%) Senior C++ Developer
13 18 (9.52%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (39.15%) Pandas
2 73 (38.62%) NumPy
2 73 (38.62%) SciPy
3 41 (21.69%) gRPC
3 41 (21.69%) Protocol Buffers
4 35 (18.52%) React
5 32 (16.93%) AngularJS
5 32 (16.93%) Node.js
5 32 (16.93%) Vue
6 29 (15.34%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 28 (14.81%) FIX Protocol
8 12 (6.35%) pytest
9 11 (5.82%) Kafka
10 7 (3.70%) Java Concurrency
11 4 (2.12%) .NET
11 4 (2.12%) REST
12 3 (1.59%) CSS
12 3 (1.59%) HTML
12 3 (1.59%) Playwright
13 2 (1.06%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 101 (53.44%) Fixed Income
2 98 (51.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 79 (41.80%) Derivative
4 68 (35.98%) Hedge funds
5 55 (29.10%) Algorithms
6 42 (22.22%) Pricing Data
7 20 (10.58%) Management Information System
8 19 (10.05%) Data Structures
9 17 (8.99%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (3.17%) Cloud Native
11 5 (2.65%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (2.12%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (1.59%) Equity Derivative
13 3 (1.59%) Onboarding
14 2 (1.06%) Credit Derivative
14 2 (1.06%) Eurex
14 2 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
14 2 (1.06%) Interest Rate Derivative
14 2 (1.06%) Private Cloud
15 1 (0.53%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 46 (24.34%) Linux
2 11 (5.82%) Windows
3 2 (1.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (48.68%) Agile
2 89 (47.09%) Software Engineering
3 78 (41.27%) Asset Management
4 75 (39.68%) Investment Management
5 64 (33.86%) Low Latency
6 58 (30.69%) Order Management
7 37 (19.58%) Computer Science
8 36 (19.05%) Risk Management
9 35 (18.52%) Fintech
10 34 (17.99%) Algorithmic Trading
10 34 (17.99%) Electronic Trading
11 32 (16.93%) Performance Attribution
12 29 (15.34%) Mathematics
12 29 (15.34%) OOP
13 25 (13.23%) Data Analysis
14 23 (12.17%) Test Automation
15 22 (11.64%) Quantitative Research
16 20 (10.58%) Analytics
17 19 (10.05%) OO
18 17 (8.99%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 146 (77.25%) Python
2 94 (49.74%) Java
3 76 (40.21%) JavaScript
3 76 (40.21%) TypeScript
4 34 (17.99%) C++
5 23 (12.17%) SQL
6 5 (2.65%) C#
7 4 (2.12%) VBA
8 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (15.34%) Degree
2 18 (9.52%) Master's Degree
3 17 (8.99%) PhD
4 4 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.59%) ISEB
5 3 (1.59%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.53%) CFA
6 1 (0.53%) CISM
6 1 (0.53%) CISSP
6 1 (0.53%) CRISC
6 1 (0.53%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.47%) QA
2 4 (2.12%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.06%) COREP
4 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.53%) FINRA
4 1 (0.53%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.53%) MiFID
4 1 (0.53%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (1.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.12%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.59%) Control-M
3 1 (0.53%) Grafana
3 1 (0.53%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (4.23%) Bloomberg
2 4 (2.12%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.59%) Calypso
4 2 (1.06%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.06%) Charles River
4 2 (1.06%) CQG
4 2 (1.06%) Databricks
4 2 (1.06%) ION Trading
4 2 (1.06%) Oracle
4 2 (1.06%) Patsystems
4 2 (1.06%) Reuters
4 2 (1.06%) Solace
4 2 (1.06%) Splunk
4 2 (1.06%) Trayport
5 1 (0.53%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.53%) FactSet
5 1 (0.53%) Murex
5 1 (0.53%) Refinitiv