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 3 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 651 358 244
Rank change year-on-year -293 -114 +146
Permanent jobs citing Equities 115 322 759
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.74% 1.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.42% 1.78% 3.51%
Number of salaries quoted 77 255 720
10th Percentile £70,250 £100,000 £77,500
25th Percentile £80,000 £105,000 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £127,500 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.45% +10.87% -
75th Percentile £128,750 £137,500 £148,750
90th Percentile £132,500 - £165,000
UK median annual salary £92,500 £127,500 £115,000
% change year-on-year -27.45% +10.87% -

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 27,182 18,127 21,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.14% 41.94% 32.49%
Number of salaries quoted 17,633 9,221 10,884
10th Percentile £31,069 £28,250 £32,075
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £56,038 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.89% -8.33% -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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -204 114 £92,500 -27.45% 455
North East -62 1 - - 4
North of England -63 1 - - 11
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 12 (10.43%) Confluence
2 1 (0.87%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (6.96%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (5.22%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (11.30%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.74%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (1.74%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.74%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.74%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.74%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (1.74%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (1.74%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.74%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.87%) Bloomberg TOMS
Cloud Services
1 19 (16.52%) Azure
2 16 (13.91%) AWS
2 16 (13.91%) GitHub
3 8 (6.96%) Anthropic Claude
4 7 (6.09%) GitHub Copilot
5 6 (5.22%) GCP
6 5 (4.35%) ChatGPT
6 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (3.48%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.61%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.74%) Google Gemini
9 2 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.74%) SaaS
10 1 (0.87%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.87%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.87%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 23 (20.00%) Multicast
2 12 (10.43%) FIX Connectivity
3 2 (1.74%) DHCP
3 2 (1.74%) DNS
3 2 (1.74%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.65%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.48%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.61%) KDB
3 3 (2.61%) Power BI
4 1 (0.87%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (0.87%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.87%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.87%) HBase
4 1 (0.87%) Redis
4 1 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (28.70%) JIRA
2 13 (11.30%) Git
3 6 (5.22%) Claude Code
3 6 (5.22%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.87%) Selenium
4 1 (0.87%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.87%) Visual Studio
General
1 90 (78.26%) Finance
2 50 (43.48%) Front Office
3 41 (35.65%) Banking
4 31 (26.96%) Social Skills
5 26 (22.61%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (11.30%) Investment Banking
7 9 (7.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (7.83%) Law
8 8 (6.96%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (6.96%) Spanish Language
9 4 (3.48%) Back Office
9 4 (3.48%) Financial Institution
9 4 (3.48%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.87%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.87%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (33.04%) Developer
2 32 (27.83%) Software Engineer
3 30 (26.09%) Senior
4 26 (22.61%) Analyst
5 20 (17.39%) Python Engineer
6 18 (15.65%) Business Analyst
6 18 (15.65%) Python Software Engineer
7 17 (14.78%) Quantitative Developer
8 14 (12.17%) Python Developer
8 14 (12.17%) Senior Developer
9 13 (11.30%) C++ Software Engineer
10 11 (9.57%) Java Developer
11 10 (8.70%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 10 (8.70%) Lead
12 9 (7.83%) Java Engineer
12 9 (7.83%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
12 9 (7.83%) Senior Software Engineer
13 8 (6.96%) Business Manager
13 8 (6.96%) Java Software Engineer
13 8 (6.96%) Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (37.39%) FIX Protocol
2 20 (17.39%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 13 (11.30%) pytest
4 10 (8.70%) Kafka
5 7 (6.09%) .NET
5 7 (6.09%) Django
6 4 (3.48%) CSS
6 4 (3.48%) HTML
6 4 (3.48%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (3.48%) RESTful
7 3 (2.61%) XSLT
8 2 (1.74%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.74%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (1.74%) React
8 2 (1.74%) Spring
8 2 (1.74%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.74%) XML
9 1 (0.87%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.87%) Pandas
9 1 (0.87%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 53 (46.09%) Fixed Income
2 49 (42.61%) Derivative
3 31 (26.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 29 (25.22%) Algorithms
5 19 (16.52%) Hedge funds
6 14 (12.17%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (9.57%) Distributed Architecture
8 10 (8.70%) Distributed Computing
8 10 (8.70%) Equity Derivative
9 9 (7.83%) Onboarding
10 8 (6.96%) Eurex
11 7 (6.09%) Data Structures
11 7 (6.09%) Management Information System
12 6 (5.22%) Market Risk
13 5 (4.35%) Cloud Native
13 5 (4.35%) Distributed Applications
13 5 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (3.48%) AI Agents
15 3 (2.61%) Legacy Applications
16 2 (1.74%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 37 (32.17%) Linux
2 11 (9.57%) Windows
3 2 (1.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 45 (39.13%) Low Latency
3 41 (35.65%) Agile
4 30 (26.09%) Computer Science
4 30 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (26.09%) SDLC
5 21 (18.26%) Investment Management
6 20 (17.39%) OOP
6 20 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
7 19 (16.52%) Electronic Trading
7 19 (16.52%) Mathematics
8 18 (15.65%) AI
8 18 (15.65%) Continuous Integration
9 16 (13.91%) Quantitative Research
9 16 (13.91%) Technical Leadership
10 15 (13.04%) Process Improvement
10 15 (13.04%) Workflow
11 14 (12.17%) Analytics
11 14 (12.17%) Asset Management
11 14 (12.17%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 65 (56.52%) Python
2 32 (27.83%) SQL
3 31 (26.96%) Java
4 30 (26.09%) C++
5 9 (7.83%) C#
6 5 (4.35%) Tcl
7 4 (3.48%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.61%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.61%) R
8 3 (2.61%) VBA
9 1 (0.87%) Bash
9 1 (0.87%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.87%) Perl
9 1 (0.87%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (18.26%) Degree
2 14 (12.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.74%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (15.65%) QA
2 6 (5.22%) MiFID
3 4 (3.48%) GAAP
4 3 (2.61%) SLA
5 2 (1.74%) EMIR
5 2 (1.74%) IFRS
5 2 (1.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (5.22%) Docker
2 2 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.87%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (6.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.74%) Control-M
2 2 (1.74%) SCCM
3 1 (0.87%) Ansible
3 1 (0.87%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.87%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (12.17%) Bloomberg
1 14 (12.17%) Oracle
2 11 (9.57%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.96%) CQG
3 8 (6.96%) ION Trading
3 8 (6.96%) Patsystems
3 8 (6.96%) Reuters
3 8 (6.96%) Trayport
4 6 (5.22%) Atlassian
4 6 (5.22%) IBM
5 5 (4.35%) Sybase
5 5 (4.35%) TIBCO
6 3 (2.61%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.74%) Foundry
7 2 (1.74%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.87%) FXall
8 1 (0.87%) MarketAxess
8 1 (0.87%) Moogsoft
8 1 (0.87%) Splunk
8 1 (0.87%) Tradeweb