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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 337 445 619
Rank change year-on-year +108 +174 -175
Permanent jobs citing Equities 415 524 413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.80% 0.53% 0.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.30% 1.50% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 362 512 351
10th Percentile £85,000 £67,500 £67,500
25th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £125,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +19.05% -8.70%
75th Percentile £147,500 £146,250 £132,500
90th Percentile £152,500 £165,000 £187,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £20,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +250.00% -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 18,032 35,027 45,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.57% 35.62% 43.58%
Number of salaries quoted 9,839 23,030 23,975
10th Percentile £31,500 £28,000 £35,271
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Equities in the UK

Equities
Top 8 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 30 April 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 +94 412 £115,000 -8.00% 166
London +31 398 £115,000 -8.00% 160
Work from Home +107 249 £115,000 -6.12% 45
UK excluding London +218 14 £70,000 +250.00% 16
North of England - 11 £70,000 - 2
North East - 7 £70,000 - 1
North West - 4 - -
South East - 3 - - 1

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
1 150 (36.14%) Apache Airflow
2 108 (26.02%) Apache
3 5 (1.20%) Jupyter
3 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.72%) GemFire
5 2 (0.48%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (1.69%) Fidessa
2 5 (1.20%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 166 (40.00%) AWS
2 150 (36.14%) dbt
3 105 (25.30%) Snowflake
4 87 (20.96%) GCP
5 52 (12.53%) Dagster
6 35 (8.43%) Amazon ECS
7 34 (8.19%) Amazon EC2
7 34 (8.19%) Amazon EKS
8 31 (7.47%) Azure
9 4 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (0.96%) PaaS
10 3 (0.72%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.72%) OpenShift
10 3 (0.72%) SaaS
11 2 (0.48%) AWS Step Functions
12 1 (0.24%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 1 (0.24%) Amazon EMR
12 1 (0.24%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.24%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.93%) Multicast
2 6 (1.45%) FIX Connectivity
3 5 (1.20%) DHCP
3 5 (1.20%) DNS
3 5 (1.20%) Firewall
3 5 (1.20%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.96%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (45.78%) Data Lake
2 155 (37.35%) Dremio
3 151 (36.39%) Amazon Athena
4 150 (36.14%) Apache Iceberg
5 132 (31.81%) Apache Arrow
6 76 (18.31%) Apache Ignite
7 31 (7.47%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (1.93%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.93%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.20%) Redis
9 5 (1.20%) Tableau
10 4 (0.96%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.96%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.72%) InterSystems Cache
11 3 (0.72%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.48%) KDB
12 2 (0.48%) Kdb+
13 1 (0.24%) DynamoDB
13 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
13 1 (0.24%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 18 (4.34%) Git
2 11 (2.65%) JIRA
3 8 (1.93%) Gradle
4 3 (0.72%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.72%) MSTest
4 3 (0.72%) NUnit
4 3 (0.72%) SpecFlow
4 3 (0.72%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.24%) Maven
General
1 374 (90.12%) Finance
2 342 (82.41%) Front Office
3 164 (39.52%) Banking
4 114 (27.47%) Investment Banking
5 20 (4.82%) Social Skills
6 9 (2.17%) Back Office
7 7 (1.69%) Law
8 5 (1.20%) Marketing
8 5 (1.20%) Spanish Language
9 3 (0.72%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (0.72%) Retail
10 2 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.24%) Advertising
11 1 (0.24%) German Language
11 1 (0.24%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 147 (35.42%) Software Engineer
2 133 (32.05%) Developer
3 132 (31.81%) AWS Engineer
3 132 (31.81%) AWS Software Engineer
4 110 (26.51%) Python Engineer
5 107 (25.78%) Senior
6 92 (22.17%) Python Software Engineer
7 90 (21.69%) Java Engineer
8 86 (20.72%) Java Software Engineer
9 67 (16.14%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 64 (15.42%) Senior Software Engineer
11 61 (14.70%) AWS Developer
12 59 (14.22%) Analyst
13 51 (12.29%) Python Developer
13 51 (12.29%) Senior Java Engineer
13 51 (12.29%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 45 (10.84%) Quantitative Developer
15 43 (10.36%) Business Analyst
16 39 (9.40%) Product Manager
17 38 (9.16%) C++ Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (28.43%) NumPy
1 118 (28.43%) Pandas
1 118 (28.43%) SciPy
2 84 (20.24%) PySpark
3 73 (17.59%) gRPC
3 73 (17.59%) Protocol Buffers
4 37 (8.92%) AngularJS
4 37 (8.92%) React
5 31 (7.47%) Node.js
5 31 (7.47%) Vue
6 24 (5.78%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 23 (5.54%) FIX Protocol
8 9 (2.17%) .NET
9 8 (1.93%) Redux
10 7 (1.69%) pytest
11 6 (1.45%) CSS
11 6 (1.45%) HTML
12 5 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
13 4 (0.96%) Kafka
13 4 (0.96%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 332 (80.00%) Fixed Income
2 313 (75.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 291 (70.12%) Hedge funds
4 273 (65.78%) Derivative
5 82 (19.76%) Product Ownership
6 40 (9.64%) Pricing Data
7 36 (8.67%) Algorithms
8 19 (4.58%) Data Structures
9 14 (3.37%) Management Information System
10 12 (2.89%) Onboarding
11 11 (2.65%) Reference Data
12 9 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
13 6 (1.45%) Cloud Native
13 6 (1.45%) Credit Derivative
13 6 (1.45%) Eurex
14 5 (1.20%) Bitcoin
15 3 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
15 3 (0.72%) Virtual Team
16 2 (0.48%) Equity Derivative
16 2 (0.48%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 71 (17.11%) Linux
2 28 (6.75%) Apple iOS
3 16 (3.86%) Unix
4 9 (2.17%) Rocky
5 7 (1.69%) CentOS
6 4 (0.96%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.96%) Windows
7 3 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.24%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (77.11%) Agile
2 235 (56.63%) Investment Management
3 193 (46.51%) Asset Management
4 177 (42.65%) Software Engineering
5 159 (38.31%) Roadmaps
6 146 (35.18%) Migration
7 114 (27.47%) Data Management
8 112 (26.99%) Data Governance
8 112 (26.99%) Regulatory Compliance
9 69 (16.63%) Order Management
10 60 (14.46%) Low Latency
11 51 (12.29%) Analytics
12 50 (12.05%) Portfolio Management
13 46 (11.08%) Quantitative Analysis
14 45 (10.84%) Front End Development
14 45 (10.84%) Risk Analytics
15 38 (9.16%) Fintech
16 33 (7.95%) Multithreading
17 30 (7.23%) Machine Learning
17 30 (7.23%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 224 (53.98%) Python
2 154 (37.11%) Java
3 116 (27.95%) JavaScript
3 116 (27.95%) TypeScript
4 68 (16.39%) SQL
5 49 (11.81%) C++
6 11 (2.65%) Bash
6 11 (2.65%) C#
7 6 (1.45%) Perl
8 2 (0.48%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.24%) F#
9 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 71 (17.11%) Degree
2 8 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (0.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (13.25%) MiFID
2 11 (2.65%) QA
3 7 (1.69%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.20%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.24%) ISO 20022
Systems Management
1 9 (2.17%) Grafana
2 1 (0.24%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (2.89%) Bloomberg
2 11 (2.65%) Reuters
3 9 (2.17%) Atlassian
3 9 (2.17%) Red Hat
4 8 (1.93%) Oracle
5 6 (1.45%) CQG
5 6 (1.45%) ION Trading
5 6 (1.45%) Patsystems
5 6 (1.45%) Trayport
6 5 (1.20%) Databricks
6 5 (1.20%) Microsoft
7 3 (0.72%) Solace
7 3 (0.72%) TIBCO
8 2 (0.48%) Splunk
9 1 (0.24%) Capita
9 1 (0.24%) NYFIX
9 1 (0.24%) Sun