Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 26 July 2021

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 have cited Equities over the 6 months to 26 July 2021 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Equities
UK
6 months to
26 Jul 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 383 356 484
Rank change year-on-year -27 +128 -76
Permanent jobs citing Equities 882 582 896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.78% 0.82% 0.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.00% 2.32% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 743 564 766
10th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £107,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +43.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £126,250 £133,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £147,250 £160,000 £115,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +30.00% -6.98%

Equities is in the Generic IT Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

All Generic IT Skills
UK
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 44,015 25,080 51,107
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK 39.10% 35.47% 35.19%
Number of salaries quoted 26,653 19,960 39,103
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +3.77% +0.95%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -

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 26 July 2021.

Salary histogram for Equities in the UK

Equities
Top 10 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 26 July 2021. 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
Job
Vacancies
England -17 875 £105,000 -2.33% 66
London -18 858 £107,500 - 62
Work from Home -181 82 £108,750 -5.43% 5
UK excluding London -123 18 £67,500 +3.85% 6
Midlands - 10 £67,500 -
West Midlands - 6 £67,500 -
East Midlands - 4 £72,500 -
Scotland -58 3 £75,000 -
South East - 3 £30,500 - 1
East of England - 2 - - 1

For the 6 months to 26 July 2021, IT jobs citing Equities also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for Equities.

1 670 (75.96%) Finance
2 543 (61.56%) Front Office
3 474 (53.74%) Derivative
4 470 (53.29%) Python
5 450 (51.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 442 (50.11%) Fixed Income
7 415 (47.05%) Hedge funds
8 370 (41.95%) Java
9 369 (41.84%) Agile Software Development
10 366 (41.50%) Asset Management
11 348 (39.46%) AWS
12 347 (39.34%) Software Engineering
13 345 (39.12%) JavaScript
14 319 (36.17%) React
15 311 (35.26%) SQL
16 289 (32.77%) Investment Management
17 248 (28.12%) Analytics
18 237 (26.87%) C#
19 224 (25.40%) AngularJS
20 213 (24.15%) Web Services
21 180 (20.41%) Banking
22 173 (19.61%) Azure
23 167 (18.93%) GCP
24 166 (18.82%) Kotlin
25 156 (17.69%) TypeScript
26 155 (17.57%) Vue.js
27 151 (17.12%) Scala
28 141 (15.99%) Investment Banking
29 137 (15.53%) .NET
30 131 (14.85%) Social Skills

Equities
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 73 (8.28%) Apache
2 57 (6.46%) Apache Spark
3 30 (3.40%) Confluence
4 14 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.13%) IIS
6 3 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.23%) MTS
8 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 18 (2.04%) MetaTrader
2 4 (0.45%) FINCAD Analytics
3 2 (0.23%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.11%) Actimize
4 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.11%) Front Arena
4 1 (0.11%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.11%) Minerva
4 1 (0.11%) Salerio
4 1 (0.11%) Sentinel
4 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.11%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 348 (39.46%) AWS
2 173 (19.61%) Azure
3 167 (18.93%) GCP
4 100 (11.34%) Amazon S3
5 93 (10.54%) Serverless
6 88 (9.98%) Amazon EC2
7 85 (9.64%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (2.38%) OpenShift
9 13 (1.47%) Power Platform
10 9 (1.02%) SaaS
11 5 (0.57%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (0.57%) PaaS
12 3 (0.34%) Amazon EMR
13 1 (0.11%) Amazon ECS
13 1 (0.11%) Amazon EKS
13 1 (0.11%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 1 (0.11%) Amazon Kinesis
13 1 (0.11%) Amazon SQS
13 1 (0.11%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.11%) AWS Data Pipeline
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.13%) FTP
2 6 (0.68%) FIX Connectivity
3 4 (0.45%) HTTP
4 2 (0.23%) Firewall
5 1 (0.11%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.11%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.11%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.11%) Multicast
5 1 (0.11%) Network Security
5 1 (0.11%) VPN
5 1 (0.11%) WAN
5 1 (0.11%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (8.39%) Amazon DynamoDB
2 73 (8.28%) Apache Ignite
3 55 (6.24%) SQL Server
4 45 (5.10%) Flink
5 40 (4.54%) PostgreSQL
6 27 (3.06%) Hadoop
7 22 (2.49%) Big Data
8 17 (1.93%) Data Mart
8 17 (1.93%) Relational Database
9 16 (1.81%) NoSQL
10 13 (1.47%) Power BI
11 12 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
12 9 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (1.02%) KDB
13 8 (0.91%) Tableau
14 7 (0.79%) Data Mining
14 7 (0.79%) Redis
15 5 (0.57%) Data Lake
15 5 (0.57%) Kdb+
16 4 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 67 (7.60%) JIRA
2 56 (6.35%) Git (software)
3 14 (1.59%) GitLab
4 9 (1.02%) Subversion
5 7 (0.79%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.34%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.34%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.23%) Maven
7 2 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.11%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.11%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.11%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.11%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.11%) JUnit
8 1 (0.11%) Mocha
8 1 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.11%) Travis CI
General
1 670 (75.96%) Finance
2 543 (61.56%) Front Office
3 180 (20.41%) Banking
4 141 (15.99%) Investment Banking
5 131 (14.85%) Social Skills
6 74 (8.39%) Analytical Skills
7 29 (3.29%) Retail
8 28 (3.17%) Back Office
9 19 (2.15%) Law
10 14 (1.59%) Financial Institution
11 11 (1.25%) Publishing
12 9 (1.02%) Legal
13 8 (0.91%) Games
14 7 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.68%) Advertising
15 6 (0.68%) Marketing
15 6 (0.68%) Prime Brokerage
16 5 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
17 2 (0.23%) Telecoms
18 1 (0.11%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 524 (59.41%) Developer
2 165 (18.71%) Python Developer
3 152 (17.23%) Analyst
4 151 (17.12%) Software Engineer
5 135 (15.31%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 115 (13.04%) JavaScript Developer
7 112 (12.70%) Front Office Developer
8 81 (9.18%) AWS Developer
9 80 (9.07%) Python Engineer
10 75 (8.50%) Java Developer
11 73 (8.28%) Python Software Engineer
12 72 (8.16%) React Developer
13 69 (7.82%) Senior Developer
14 66 (7.48%) Applications Support
15 63 (7.14%) Business Analyst
16 61 (6.92%) Lead Developer
17 60 (6.80%) AWS Engineer
18 58 (6.58%) C# Developer
19 56 (6.35%) AWS Software Engineer
20 54 (6.12%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 319 (36.17%) React
2 224 (25.40%) AngularJS
3 213 (24.15%) Web Services
4 155 (17.57%) Vue.js
5 137 (15.53%) .NET
6 108 (12.24%) Node.js
7 70 (7.94%) .NET Core
8 63 (7.14%) ASP.NET
9 61 (6.92%) Kafka
10 60 (6.80%) FIX Protocol
11 55 (6.24%) GraphQL
12 49 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web API
13 48 (5.44%) ASP.NET Core
14 41 (4.65%) HTML
15 35 (3.97%) NumPy
15 35 (3.97%) REST
16 32 (3.63%) Shiny
17 28 (3.17%) Spring
18 24 (2.72%) JSON
19 23 (2.61%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 474 (53.74%) Derivative
2 450 (51.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 442 (50.11%) Fixed Income
4 415 (47.05%) Hedge funds
5 107 (12.13%) Greenfield Project
6 79 (8.96%) Equity Derivative
7 68 (7.71%) Market Risk
8 54 (6.12%) Credit Risk
9 42 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
10 34 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
11 29 (3.29%) Contract for Difference
11 29 (3.29%) Spread Betting
12 19 (2.15%) Exotic Derivative
13 17 (1.93%) Reference Data
14 16 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
15 13 (1.47%) Data Structures
16 12 (1.36%) Algorithms
16 12 (1.36%) OTC Derivatives
17 11 (1.25%) Mobile App
18 10 (1.13%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 70 (7.94%) Linux
2 60 (6.80%) Unix
3 20 (2.27%) Windows
4 11 (1.25%) Android
4 11 (1.25%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.45%) CentOS
6 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (41.84%) Agile Software Development
2 366 (41.50%) Asset Management
3 347 (39.34%) Software Engineering
4 289 (32.77%) Investment Management
5 248 (28.12%) Analytics
6 108 (12.24%) SDLC
7 91 (10.32%) Microservices
8 90 (10.20%) Fintech
9 80 (9.07%) Migration
10 75 (8.50%) Machine Learning
11 67 (7.60%) Risk Management
12 66 (7.48%) Order Management
13 64 (7.26%) Mathematics
14 62 (7.03%) Risk Analytics
15 56 (6.35%) DevOps
15 56 (6.35%) Problem-Solving
16 55 (6.24%) Data Analytics
16 55 (6.24%) TDD
17 52 (5.90%) Artificial Intelligence
18 49 (5.56%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 470 (53.29%) Python
2 370 (41.95%) Java
3 345 (39.12%) JavaScript
4 311 (35.26%) SQL
5 237 (26.87%) C#
6 166 (18.82%) Kotlin
7 156 (17.69%) TypeScript
8 151 (17.12%) Scala
9 117 (13.27%) C++
10 79 (8.96%) Clojure
11 64 (7.26%) R
12 38 (4.31%) Bash Shell
13 28 (3.17%) Perl
14 23 (2.61%) VBA
15 16 (1.81%) Java 8
16 15 (1.70%) F#
17 12 (1.36%) Erlang
18 11 (1.25%) ES6
18 11 (1.25%) Groovy
18 11 (1.25%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 57 (6.46%) Degree
2 23 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (0.79%) PhD
4 5 (0.57%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (0.23%) PMP
6 2 (0.23%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.11%) CEH
7 1 (0.11%) CHECK Team Member
7 1 (0.11%) CISSP
7 1 (0.11%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.11%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.11%) OSCP
7 1 (0.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (3.63%) MiFID
2 16 (1.81%) QA
3 6 (0.68%) Dodd-Frank
4 5 (0.57%) EMIR
5 4 (0.45%) PMO
6 3 (0.34%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.11%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.11%) Basel III
7 1 (0.11%) FATCA
7 1 (0.11%) GLBA
7 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.11%) SLA
7 1 (0.11%) UCITS
System Software
1 89 (10.09%) Docker
2 2 (0.23%) HDFS
3 1 (0.11%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 116 (13.15%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.57%) Ansible
3 4 (0.45%) Prometheus
3 4 (0.45%) Terraform
4 3 (0.34%) Puppet
5 2 (0.23%) Hadoop YARN
5 2 (0.23%) Oozie
6 1 (0.11%) Control-M
6 1 (0.11%) Nagios
6 1 (0.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 33 (3.74%) Fidessa
2 30 (3.40%) Microsoft
3 23 (2.61%) Bloomberg
4 22 (2.49%) Murex
5 20 (2.27%) Oracle
5 20 (2.27%) Sybase
6 12 (1.36%) ServiceNow
7 8 (0.91%) Charles River
8 7 (0.79%) Portware
9 6 (0.68%) Google
9 6 (0.68%) Salesforce.com
9 6 (0.68%) Tradeweb
10 5 (0.57%) Sun
11 4 (0.45%) Advent
11 4 (0.45%) Concur
11 4 (0.45%) Instagram
11 4 (0.45%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.45%) Sage
12 3 (0.34%) Sophis
13 2 (0.23%) TIBCO
68 Equities job vacancies Nationwide