KDB Jobs in the UK excluding London

Kx Systems KDB
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring KDB skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited KDB over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 569 758 744
Rank change year-on-year +189 -14 +124
Permanent jobs citing KDB 10 4 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.025% 0.005% 0.007%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.22% 0.032% 0.036%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - - £37,525
25th Percentile - - £55,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £80,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year - +12.28% +9.62%
75th Percentile - - £76,250
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £130,000 £110,000 £110,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% - +12.82%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

KDB falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,537 12,396 11,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.43% 16.55% 19.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,827 8,109 6,561
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £34,250
25th Percentile £42,062 £40,855 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,751 £79,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.22% -11.54% +8.33%

KDB
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing KDB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for KDB in the UK excluding London

KDB
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing KDB in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for KDB in the UK excluding London

KDB
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing KDB within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Scotland - 6 - -
North of England - 4 - - 1
North West - 4 - -
KDB
UK

KDB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Kdb+
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 10 (100.00%) Finance
2 6 (60.00%) Banking
2 6 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (60.00%) Law
3 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Java Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) Software Engineer
3 4 (40.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 4 (40.00%) Lead
3 4 (40.00%) Lead Software Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Lead Java Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Python Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (40.00%) Kafka
2 4 (40.00%) Middleware
2 4 (40.00%) React
2 4 (40.00%) Rendezvous
2 4 (40.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) SDLC
2 6 (60.00%) Operational Stability
2 6 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Data Design
3 4 (40.00%) Electronic Trading
3 4 (40.00%) Low Latency
3 4 (40.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (20.00%) Architectural Design
4 2 (20.00%) Community of Practice
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) Creative Thinking
4 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (20.00%) Functional Programming
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Bloomberg
1 4 (40.00%) Solace
1 4 (40.00%) TIBCO
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle