Equities Jobs

Equities
UK

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 389 367 553
Rank change year-on-year -22 +186 -56
Permanent jobs citing Equities 379 760 423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.68% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.79% 2.04% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 308 741 333
10th Percentile £91,125 £77,500 £65,500
25th Percentile £105,000 £90,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £117,500 £125,000 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +11.11% -2.17%
75th Percentile £137,500 £148,750 £142,500
90th Percentile £150,750 £165,000 £186,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £20,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year - -76.47% +30.77%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 21,118 37,184 39,954
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.58% 33.30% 43.67%
Number of salaries quoted 9,806 23,665 21,923
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £46,298
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £97,500 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Equities
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Equities in the UK

Equities
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Equities in the UK

Equities
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Equities over the 6 months to 20 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Equities in the UK

Equities
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Equities within the UK over the 6 months to 20 June 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
England -28 371 £122,500 -2.00% 912
London -23 362 £122,500 -2.00% 784
Work from Home -56 239 £125,000 -3.85% 211
UK excluding London +194 13 - - 182
North of England - 7 - - 23
North West - 6 - - 8
Scotland - 4 - - 10
South East - 2 - - 82
North East - 1 - - 6

Equities
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 165 (43.54%) Apache Airflow
2 98 (25.86%) Apache
3 6 (1.58%) Confluence
4 5 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.06%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.79%) GemFire
Applications
1 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.85%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 209 (55.15%) AWS
2 165 (43.54%) dbt
3 102 (26.91%) GCP
4 95 (25.07%) Snowflake
5 20 (5.28%) Azure
6 19 (5.01%) Dagster
7 12 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (0.79%) Amazon S3
9 3 (0.79%) OpenShift
9 3 (0.79%) SaaS
10 2 (0.53%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (0.53%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.26%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 1 (0.26%) Amazon EMR
11 1 (0.26%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.64%) Multicast
2 7 (1.85%) FIX Connectivity
2 7 (1.85%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.32%) DHCP
3 5 (1.32%) DNS
3 5 (1.32%) Firewall
4 4 (1.06%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (43.80%) Amazon Athena
2 165 (43.54%) Apache Iceberg
2 165 (43.54%) Dremio
3 157 (41.42%) Apache Arrow
4 121 (31.93%) Data Lake
5 73 (19.26%) PostgreSQL
6 66 (17.41%) Apache Ignite
7 13 (3.43%) KDB
8 12 (3.17%) SQL Server
9 9 (2.37%) Kdb+
10 8 (2.11%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.32%) Redis
12 4 (1.06%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.06%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.79%) InterSystems Cache
13 3 (0.79%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.53%) Power BI
15 1 (0.26%) DynamoDB
15 1 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 24 (6.33%) Git
2 13 (3.43%) JIRA
3 8 (2.11%) Gradle
4 7 (1.85%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.32%) Cucumber
5 5 (1.32%) Maven
6 4 (1.06%) Subversion
6 4 (1.06%) Vite
7 3 (0.79%) GitLab
7 3 (0.79%) JUnit
7 3 (0.79%) MSTest
7 3 (0.79%) NUnit
7 3 (0.79%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.79%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
General
1 350 (92.35%) Finance
2 302 (79.68%) Front Office
3 172 (45.38%) Banking
4 101 (26.65%) Investment Banking
5 32 (8.44%) Social Skills
6 29 (7.65%) Law
7 25 (6.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (1.58%) Spanish Language
10 3 (0.79%) Back Office
11 2 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.26%) Advertising
12 1 (0.26%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.26%) German Language
12 1 (0.26%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 202 (53.30%) Software Engineer
2 177 (46.70%) Developer
3 161 (42.48%) AWS Engineer
3 161 (42.48%) AWS Software Engineer
4 127 (33.51%) Python Engineer
5 119 (31.40%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 119 (31.40%) Python Software Engineer
6 114 (30.08%) Java Engineer
7 113 (29.82%) Senior
8 106 (27.97%) Java Software Engineer
9 96 (25.33%) AWS Developer
10 74 (19.53%) Senior Software Engineer
11 72 (19.00%) Python Developer
12 63 (16.62%) Senior Java Engineer
13 59 (15.57%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 50 (13.19%) Java Developer
15 47 (12.40%) Lead
16 38 (10.03%) Java Software Developer
17 36 (9.50%) Software Developer
18 34 (8.97%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (36.15%) Pandas
2 133 (35.09%) NumPy
2 133 (35.09%) SciPy
3 89 (23.48%) React
4 79 (20.84%) AngularJS
5 73 (19.26%) Node.js
6 72 (19.00%) Vue
7 63 (16.62%) gRPC
7 63 (16.62%) Protocol Buffers
8 51 (13.46%) PySpark
9 26 (6.86%) FIX Protocol
10 22 (5.80%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 21 (5.54%) Redux
12 12 (3.17%) Kafka
13 8 (2.11%) Spring
14 7 (1.85%) .NET
14 7 (1.85%) CSS
14 7 (1.85%) HTML
14 7 (1.85%) Middleware
14 7 (1.85%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 284 (74.93%) Fixed Income
2 276 (72.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 204 (53.83%) Hedge funds
4 200 (52.77%) Derivative
5 53 (13.98%) Pricing Data
6 38 (10.03%) Algorithms
7 19 (5.01%) Data Structures
8 14 (3.69%) Management Information System
9 10 (2.64%) Cloud Native
9 10 (2.64%) Product Ownership
10 9 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.85%) Eurex
12 6 (1.58%) Credit Derivative
12 6 (1.58%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.58%) Reference Data
13 5 (1.32%) Bitcoin
14 4 (1.06%) Public Cloud
15 3 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
15 3 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
15 3 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 69 (18.21%) Linux
2 21 (5.54%) Unix
3 9 (2.37%) Rocky
4 7 (1.85%) CentOS
5 6 (1.58%) Windows
6 4 (1.06%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.26%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (77.57%) Agile
2 228 (60.16%) Software Engineering
3 204 (53.83%) Investment Management
4 188 (49.60%) Asset Management
5 91 (24.01%) Data Management
6 88 (23.22%) Fintech
7 78 (20.58%) Order Management
8 69 (18.21%) Migration
9 68 (17.94%) Risk Management
10 66 (17.41%) Roadmaps
11 62 (16.36%) Performance Attribution
12 61 (16.09%) Low Latency
13 58 (15.30%) Data Governance
13 58 (15.30%) Regulatory Compliance
14 32 (8.44%) Algorithmic Trading
14 32 (8.44%) Analytics
15 31 (8.18%) Test Automation
16 29 (7.65%) Computer Science
17 28 (7.39%) OOP
17 28 (7.39%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 241 (63.59%) Python
2 164 (43.27%) Java
3 159 (41.95%) TypeScript
4 155 (40.90%) JavaScript
5 65 (17.15%) SQL
6 43 (11.35%) C++
7 14 (3.69%) C#
8 11 (2.90%) Bash
9 6 (1.58%) Perl
10 5 (1.32%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.06%) C
12 3 (0.79%) Scala
13 2 (0.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 29 (7.65%) Degree
2 9 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (0.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.33%) MiFID
2 8 (2.11%) QA
3 6 (1.58%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.26%) ISO 20022
Systems Management
1 10 (2.64%) Grafana
2 8 (2.11%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (3.69%) Oracle
2 11 (2.90%) Atlassian
3 9 (2.37%) Bloomberg
3 9 (2.37%) Red Hat
4 8 (2.11%) ION Trading
5 7 (1.85%) CQG
5 7 (1.85%) Patsystems
5 7 (1.85%) Reuters
5 7 (1.85%) Trayport
6 6 (1.58%) Microsoft
7 5 (1.32%) Solace
8 3 (0.79%) TIBCO
9 2 (0.53%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.53%) Splunk
10 1 (0.26%) Capita
10 1 (0.26%) Sun