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 9 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 312 465
Rank change year-on-year -209 +153 +141
Permanent jobs citing Equities 119 376 335
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.95% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.59% 2.44% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 69 319 322
10th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £65,125
25th Percentile £93,750 £98,750 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.52%
75th Percentile £150,000 £148,750 £145,000
90th Percentile - £152,500 £163,750
UK median annual salary £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 20,112 15,438 26,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.54% 39.00% 35.70%
Number of salaries quoted 10,324 8,016 19,569
10th Percentile £28,675 £32,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £61,572 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.04% +11.95% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +9.09% -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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -138 118 £115,000 - 22
North West -13 1 - -
North of England -34 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 12 (10.08%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (5.04%) Apache
3 5 (4.20%) Confluence
4 3 (2.52%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (7.56%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.84%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.84%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 40 (33.61%) AWS
2 21 (17.65%) GCP
3 19 (15.97%) Azure
4 13 (10.92%) GitHub
5 11 (9.24%) dbt
6 10 (8.40%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.68%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.84%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.84%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.84%) Datadog
8 1 (0.84%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.84%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.84%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 16 (13.45%) Multicast
2 1 (0.84%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (9.24%) Amazon Athena
2 11 (9.24%) Apache Arrow
2 11 (9.24%) Apache Iceberg
2 11 (9.24%) Dremio
3 8 (6.72%) Data Lake
4 6 (5.04%) Apache Ignite
5 5 (4.20%) Relational Database
5 5 (4.20%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.52%) Big Data
6 3 (2.52%) Hadoop
6 3 (2.52%) KDB
6 3 (2.52%) Tick Data
7 1 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.84%) Metadata
7 1 (0.84%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.84%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.84%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (15.13%) JIRA
2 13 (10.92%) Git
3 4 (3.36%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.52%) Selenium
5 2 (1.68%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.68%) GitLab
5 2 (1.68%) Maven
6 1 (0.84%) Postman
6 1 (0.84%) REST Assured
General
1 88 (73.95%) Finance
2 72 (60.50%) Front Office
3 31 (26.05%) Banking
4 18 (15.13%) Social Skills
5 12 (10.08%) Investment Banking
6 10 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.52%) Back Office
7 3 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.52%) Spanish Language
8 2 (1.68%) Games
8 2 (1.68%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 58 (48.74%) Developer
2 38 (31.93%) Senior
3 36 (30.25%) Python Developer
4 35 (29.41%) Software Engineer
5 31 (26.05%) Python Engineer
6 26 (21.85%) Python Software Engineer
7 24 (20.17%) Quantitative Developer
8 21 (17.65%) C++ Developer
9 20 (16.81%) Senior Developer
10 19 (15.97%) C++ Quantitative Developer
10 19 (15.97%) Linux Developer
10 19 (15.97%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 19 (15.97%) Senior C++ Developer
10 19 (15.97%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
10 19 (15.97%) Senior Python Developer
10 19 (15.97%) Senior Quantitative Developer
11 18 (15.13%) Analyst
12 17 (14.29%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 17 (14.29%) Lead
13 16 (13.45%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (25.21%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 29 (24.37%) FIX Protocol
3 24 (20.17%) React
4 21 (17.65%) Node.js
5 16 (13.45%) Redux
6 12 (10.08%) Pandas
6 12 (10.08%) pytest
7 11 (9.24%) NumPy
7 11 (9.24%) SciPy
8 7 (5.88%) AngularJS
9 6 (5.04%) gRPC
9 6 (5.04%) Kafka
9 6 (5.04%) Protocol Buffers
10 5 (4.20%) Vue
11 4 (3.36%) .NET
11 4 (3.36%) Java Concurrency
11 4 (3.36%) REST
12 3 (2.52%) CSS
12 3 (2.52%) HTML
12 3 (2.52%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 52 (43.70%) Fixed Income
2 51 (42.86%) Derivative
3 39 (32.77%) Algorithms
4 28 (23.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 27 (22.69%) Hedge funds
6 21 (17.65%) Data Structures
7 19 (15.97%) Management Information System
8 14 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (5.04%) Cloud Native
9 6 (5.04%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (5.04%) Pricing Data
10 5 (4.20%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (3.36%) Onboarding
12 3 (2.52%) Eurex
13 2 (1.68%) Credit Derivative
13 2 (1.68%) Interest Rate Derivative
13 2 (1.68%) Private Cloud
14 1 (0.84%) Equity Derivative
14 1 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
14 1 (0.84%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 44 (36.97%) Linux
2 11 (9.24%) Windows
3 3 (2.52%) Unix
4 1 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (42.86%) Low Latency
2 45 (37.82%) Agile
3 42 (35.29%) Software Engineering
4 30 (25.21%) Asset Management
4 30 (25.21%) OOP
5 28 (23.53%) Electronic Trading
6 27 (22.69%) Investment Management
6 27 (22.69%) Order Management
7 23 (19.33%) Algorithmic Trading
7 23 (19.33%) Test Automation
8 22 (18.49%) Fintech
9 21 (17.65%) Computer Science
10 19 (15.97%) OO
11 18 (15.13%) SDLC
12 17 (14.29%) Mentoring
13 16 (13.45%) Data Analysis
13 16 (13.45%) Line Management
13 16 (13.45%) Mathematics
13 16 (13.45%) Portfolio Management
14 15 (12.61%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 92 (77.31%) Python
2 44 (36.97%) Java
3 34 (28.57%) C++
4 31 (26.05%) TypeScript
5 30 (25.21%) JavaScript
6 12 (10.08%) SQL
7 2 (1.68%) C#
8 1 (0.84%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (9.24%) Degree
2 7 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.52%) ISEB
3 3 (2.52%) ISTQB
3 3 (2.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (1.68%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.68%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.29%) QA
2 4 (3.36%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.52%) MiFID
4 2 (1.68%) COREP
5 1 (0.84%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.84%) FINRA
System Software
1 2 (1.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.36%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.84%) Grafana
2 1 (0.84%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (0.84%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.84%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (4.20%) Bloomberg
2 4 (3.36%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.52%) CQG
3 3 (2.52%) Databricks
3 3 (2.52%) ION Trading
3 3 (2.52%) Oracle
3 3 (2.52%) Patsystems
3 3 (2.52%) Reuters
3 3 (2.52%) Trayport
4 2 (1.68%) Charles River
4 2 (1.68%) Solace
4 2 (1.68%) Splunk
5 1 (0.84%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.84%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.84%) Murex
5 1 (0.84%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.84%) Refinitiv