Equities Jobs in London

Equities
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Equities over the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 78 211
Rank change year-on-year -47 +133 +87
Permanent jobs citing Equities 359 815 461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.74% 3.65% 1.64%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.08% 8.96% 3.78%
Number of salaries quoted 293 795 366
10th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £105,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 £120,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £137,500 £148,750 £142,500
90th Percentile £148,750 £165,000 £175,000
England median annual salary £125,000 £120,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,908 9,095 12,195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 45.08% 40.73% 43.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,258 6,170 9,230
10th Percentile £40,500 £38,750 £43,449
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% - -
75th Percentile £107,500 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £135,000 £126,250
England median annual salary £57,560 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.65% -15.38% +4.00%

Equities
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Equities as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Equities in London

Equities
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Equities in London.

Salary trend for Equities in London

Equities
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Equities in London over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Equities in London

Equities
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Equities within the London region over the 6 months to 20 July 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
Central London +38 14 £112,500 -13.46% 18
Equities
England

Equities
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 197 (54.87%) Apache Airflow
2 112 (31.20%) Apache
3 4 (1.11%) Confluence
3 4 (1.11%) Jupyter
3 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.39%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 236 (65.74%) AWS
2 197 (54.87%) dbt
3 117 (32.59%) GCP
4 112 (31.20%) Snowflake
5 19 (5.29%) Azure
5 19 (5.29%) Dagster
6 12 (3.34%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (3.06%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (0.84%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.56%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (0.28%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 1 (0.28%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (0.28%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.28%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.79%) Multicast
2 6 (1.67%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.39%) FIX Connectivity
4 4 (1.11%) DHCP
4 4 (1.11%) DNS
4 4 (1.11%) Firewall
5 3 (0.84%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (55.15%) Amazon Athena
2 197 (54.87%) Apache Iceberg
2 197 (54.87%) Dremio
3 189 (52.65%) Apache Arrow
4 89 (24.79%) Data Lake
5 88 (24.51%) PostgreSQL
6 80 (22.28%) Apache Ignite
7 13 (3.62%) KDB
8 10 (2.79%) SQL Server
9 9 (2.51%) Kdb+
10 4 (1.11%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.56%) Redis
12 1 (0.28%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.28%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.28%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (5.01%) Git
2 12 (3.34%) JIRA
3 8 (2.23%) Gradle
4 5 (1.39%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.11%) Vite
6 3 (0.84%) GitLab
6 3 (0.84%) JUnit
7 1 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.28%) Maven
General
1 335 (93.31%) Finance
2 289 (80.50%) Front Office
3 183 (50.97%) Banking
4 118 (32.87%) Investment Banking
5 31 (8.64%) Social Skills
6 21 (5.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (5.29%) Law
8 4 (1.11%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.11%) Back Office
8 4 (1.11%) Spanish Language
9 3 (0.84%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.28%) German Language
10 1 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.28%) Legal
10 1 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.28%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 231 (64.35%) Software Engineer
2 197 (54.87%) Developer
3 193 (53.76%) AWS Engineer
3 193 (53.76%) AWS Software Engineer
4 160 (44.57%) Python Engineer
5 152 (42.34%) Python Software Engineer
6 134 (37.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 129 (35.93%) Senior
8 125 (34.82%) Java Engineer
9 119 (33.15%) Java Software Engineer
10 111 (30.92%) AWS Developer
11 92 (25.63%) Senior Software Engineer
12 91 (25.35%) Python Developer
13 80 (22.28%) Senior Java Engineer
14 76 (21.17%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 54 (15.04%) Java Developer
16 38 (10.58%) Java Software Developer
17 37 (10.31%) Quantitative Developer
18 36 (10.03%) Software Developer
19 33 (9.19%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (47.08%) Pandas
2 165 (45.96%) NumPy
2 165 (45.96%) SciPy
3 104 (28.97%) React
4 91 (25.35%) AngularJS
5 88 (24.51%) Node.js
6 87 (24.23%) Vue
7 80 (22.28%) gRPC
7 80 (22.28%) Protocol Buffers
8 51 (14.21%) PySpark
9 25 (6.96%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 24 (6.69%) FIX Protocol
11 21 (5.85%) Redux
12 8 (2.23%) pytest
13 7 (1.95%) Kafka
14 5 (1.39%) .NET
15 4 (1.11%) CSS
15 4 (1.11%) HTML
15 4 (1.11%) Middleware
15 4 (1.11%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 257 (71.59%) Fixed Income
2 253 (70.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 176 (49.03%) Hedge funds
4 163 (45.40%) Derivative
5 70 (19.50%) Pricing Data
6 42 (11.70%) Algorithms
7 18 (5.01%) Data Structures
8 17 (4.74%) Management Information System
9 13 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (2.79%) Product Ownership
11 7 (1.95%) Cloud Native
12 5 (1.39%) Eurex
12 5 (1.39%) Reference Data
13 4 (1.11%) Bitcoin
13 4 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (1.11%) Onboarding
13 4 (1.11%) Public Cloud
14 2 (0.56%) Equity Derivative
14 2 (0.56%) Market Risk
15 1 (0.28%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 64 (17.83%) Linux
2 14 (3.90%) Unix
3 7 (1.95%) Rocky
3 7 (1.95%) Windows
4 6 (1.67%) CentOS
5 3 (0.84%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.28%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (75.77%) Agile
2 258 (71.87%) Software Engineering
3 221 (61.56%) Asset Management
4 188 (52.37%) Investment Management
5 106 (29.53%) Fintech
6 97 (27.02%) Order Management
7 83 (23.12%) Risk Management
8 77 (21.45%) Performance Attribution
9 62 (17.27%) Low Latency
10 42 (11.70%) Data Management
11 34 (9.47%) Analytics
12 33 (9.19%) Computer Science
13 29 (8.08%) Test Automation
14 27 (7.52%) Algorithmic Trading
15 25 (6.96%) Electronic Trading
15 25 (6.96%) Mathematics
15 25 (6.96%) SDLC
16 24 (6.69%) OOP
17 22 (6.13%) OO
18 21 (5.85%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 275 (76.60%) Python
2 188 (52.37%) TypeScript
3 184 (51.25%) JavaScript
4 183 (50.97%) Java
5 69 (19.22%) SQL
6 43 (11.98%) C++
7 14 (3.90%) C#
8 9 (2.51%) Bash
9 5 (1.39%) Perl
9 5 (1.39%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.11%) C
11 3 (0.84%) Scala
11 3 (0.84%) VBA
12 2 (0.56%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (6.96%) Degree
2 8 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.67%) Master's Degree
4 5 (1.39%) PhD
5 1 (0.28%) CFA
5 1 (0.28%) MBA
5 1 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.51%) QA
2 3 (0.84%) MiFID
3 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
Systems Management
1 8 (2.23%) Grafana
1 8 (2.23%) Terraform
2 4 (1.11%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.84%) Control-M
Vendors
1 8 (2.23%) Atlassian
1 8 (2.23%) Bloomberg
2 7 (1.95%) Red Hat
3 6 (1.67%) ION Trading
4 5 (1.39%) CQG
4 5 (1.39%) Oracle
4 5 (1.39%) Patsystems
4 5 (1.39%) Reuters
4 5 (1.39%) Trayport
5 4 (1.11%) Microsoft
6 3 (0.84%) Calypso
7 2 (0.56%) Solace
7 2 (0.56%) Splunk
8 1 (0.28%) Sun