Equities Job Trends 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 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 125 196
Rank change year-on-year -95 +71 +88
Permanent jobs citing Equities 162 407 286
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.15% 2.62% 1.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.80% 6.01% 3.86%
Number of salaries quoted 115 364 268
10th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £75,000
25th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £94,688
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 £145,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £152,500 £155,000
England median annual salary £112,500 £115,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% - +5.75%

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 5,789 6,772 7,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 41.05% 43.65% 40.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,424 3,529 5,596
10th Percentile £35,750 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £79,566
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +0.55% +2.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £127,500 £127,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Equities
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Equities relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Equities job vacancy trend in London

Equities
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Equities.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Equities

Equities
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Equities in London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

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 14 January 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
Central London +36 20 £112,500 +13.92% 14
Equities
England

Equities
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 53 (32.72%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (17.90%) Apache
3 5 (3.09%) Confluence
4 3 (1.85%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (6.17%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.62%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.62%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 67 (41.36%) AWS
2 52 (32.10%) dbt
3 32 (19.75%) Snowflake
4 23 (14.20%) GCP
5 9 (5.56%) GitHub
6 5 (3.09%) Azure
7 2 (1.23%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.23%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.62%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.62%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.62%) Datadog
8 1 (0.62%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.62%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 20 (12.35%) Multicast
2 2 (1.23%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (32.10%) Amazon Athena
1 52 (32.10%) Apache Arrow
1 52 (32.10%) Apache Iceberg
1 52 (32.10%) Dremio
2 31 (19.14%) Data Lake
3 29 (17.90%) Apache Ignite
4 23 (14.20%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (4.32%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.09%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.47%) KDB
8 3 (1.85%) Big Data
8 3 (1.85%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.23%) Power BI
9 2 (1.23%) Tick Data
10 1 (0.62%) Kdb+
10 1 (0.62%) Metadata
10 1 (0.62%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.62%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (12.96%) JIRA
2 7 (4.32%) Git
3 3 (1.85%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.85%) Selenium
4 2 (1.23%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.23%) Maven
5 1 (0.62%) GitLab
5 1 (0.62%) Postman
5 1 (0.62%) REST Assured
General
1 130 (80.25%) Finance
2 107 (66.05%) Front Office
3 65 (40.12%) Banking
4 37 (22.84%) Investment Banking
5 19 (11.73%) Social Skills
6 12 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (4.94%) Financial Institution
8 6 (3.70%) Back Office
8 6 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.47%) Spanish Language
11 2 (1.23%) Games
11 2 (1.23%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.62%) Legal
Job Titles
1 70 (43.21%) Developer
2 67 (41.36%) Python Engineer
2 67 (41.36%) Software Engineer
3 66 (40.74%) Python Software Engineer
4 62 (38.27%) Senior
5 52 (32.10%) AWS Engineer
5 52 (32.10%) AWS Software Engineer
6 46 (28.40%) Python Developer
7 41 (25.31%) Senior Software Engineer
8 32 (19.75%) Java Engineer
9 31 (19.14%) Quantitative Developer
10 30 (18.52%) Java Software Engineer
11 27 (16.67%) Senior Java Engineer
11 27 (16.67%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 23 (14.20%) AWS Developer
12 23 (14.20%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 19 (11.73%) Analyst
13 19 (11.73%) C++ Developer
14 18 (11.11%) Senior C++ Developer
14 18 (11.11%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (32.72%) Pandas
2 52 (32.10%) NumPy
2 52 (32.10%) SciPy
3 34 (20.99%) FIX Protocol
4 32 (19.75%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 29 (17.90%) gRPC
5 29 (17.90%) Protocol Buffers
6 26 (16.05%) React
7 23 (14.20%) AngularJS
7 23 (14.20%) Node.js
7 23 (14.20%) Vue
8 15 (9.26%) pytest
9 10 (6.17%) Kafka
10 6 (3.70%) Java Concurrency
11 4 (2.47%) REST
12 3 (1.85%) .NET
12 3 (1.85%) CSS
12 3 (1.85%) HTML
12 3 (1.85%) Playwright
13 2 (1.23%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 84 (51.85%) Fixed Income
2 75 (46.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 65 (40.12%) Derivative
4 55 (33.95%) Algorithms
5 52 (32.10%) Hedge funds
6 29 (17.90%) Pricing Data
7 19 (11.73%) Data Structures
7 19 (11.73%) Management Information System
8 17 (10.49%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (4.32%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (3.70%) Cloud Native
10 6 (3.70%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (3.09%) Onboarding
12 4 (2.47%) Eurex
13 3 (1.85%) Equity Derivative
14 2 (1.23%) Credit Derivative
14 2 (1.23%) Interest Rate Derivative
14 2 (1.23%) Private Cloud
15 1 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
15 1 (0.62%) TWAP
Operating Systems
1 49 (30.25%) Linux
2 11 (6.79%) Windows
3 3 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (46.30%) Agile
2 70 (43.21%) Software Engineering
3 65 (40.12%) Low Latency
4 56 (34.57%) Asset Management
5 53 (32.72%) Investment Management
6 48 (29.63%) Order Management
7 36 (22.22%) Computer Science
7 36 (22.22%) Electronic Trading
8 35 (21.60%) Algorithmic Trading
9 32 (19.75%) OOP
10 29 (17.90%) Mathematics
11 27 (16.67%) Risk Management
12 24 (14.81%) Data Analysis
12 24 (14.81%) Fintech
13 23 (14.20%) Performance Attribution
14 22 (13.58%) Test Automation
15 20 (12.35%) SDLC
16 19 (11.73%) Analytics
16 19 (11.73%) OO
16 19 (11.73%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 126 (77.78%) Python
2 77 (47.53%) Java
3 55 (33.95%) JavaScript
3 55 (33.95%) TypeScript
4 36 (22.22%) C++
5 16 (9.88%) SQL
6 2 (1.23%) C#
6 2 (1.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (14.20%) Degree
2 14 (8.64%) Master's Degree
2 14 (8.64%) PhD
3 4 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.85%) ISEB
4 3 (1.85%) ISTQB
4 3 (1.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.62%) CISM
5 1 (0.62%) CISSP
5 1 (0.62%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.11%) QA
2 4 (2.47%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.23%) COREP
3 2 (1.23%) MiFID
4 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.62%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.62%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (1.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.47%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.62%) Control-M
2 1 (0.62%) Grafana
2 1 (0.62%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (0.62%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.62%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (4.94%) Bloomberg
2 4 (2.47%) CQG
2 4 (2.47%) ION Trading
2 4 (2.47%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.47%) Oracle
2 4 (2.47%) Patsystems
2 4 (2.47%) Reuters
2 4 (2.47%) Trayport
3 2 (1.23%) Atlassian
3 2 (1.23%) Charles River
3 2 (1.23%) Databricks
3 2 (1.23%) Solace
3 2 (1.23%) Splunk
4 1 (0.62%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.62%) Calypso
4 1 (0.62%) FactSet
4 1 (0.62%) Murex
4 1 (0.62%) Refinitiv