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 have cited Equities over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 434 546 443
Rank change year-on-year +112 -103 -149
Permanent jobs citing Equities 320 646 929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.53% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.64% 1.22% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 284 570 797
10th Percentile £59,000 £65,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £110,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £142,500 £136,250 £130,000
90th Percentile £153,750 £162,500 £146,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -23.08% -3.70% -20.59%

All Generic Skills
UK

Equities is in the General and Transferable 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 19,511 52,884 56,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.83% 43.05% 44.00%
Number of salaries quoted 14,245 29,698 33,809
10th Percentile £33,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.47% +7.92% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £106,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

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 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Equities in the UK

Equities
Top 5 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 7 December 2023. 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 +117 318 £115,000 +2.22% 130
London +90 314 £115,000 +2.22% 121
Work from Home +153 99 £107,500 -4.44% 48
UK excluding London +226 3 £50,000 -23.08% 14
South East - 3 £50,000 - 9

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 37 (11.56%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (8.75%) Apache
3 3 (0.94%) Confluence
3 3 (0.94%) Luigi
4 2 (0.63%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.31%) IIS
5 1 (0.31%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Fidessa
1 2 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.31%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.31%) Salerio
Cloud Services
1 130 (40.63%) AWS
2 115 (35.94%) GCP
3 99 (30.94%) Azure
4 4 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (1.25%) Power Platform
5 3 (0.94%) Snowflake
6 2 (0.63%) dbt
6 2 (0.63%) GitHub
6 2 (0.63%) SaaS
6 2 (0.63%) WhatsApp
7 1 (0.31%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.31%) Serverless
7 1 (0.31%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.88%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.31%) DHCP
2 1 (0.31%) DNS
2 1 (0.31%) Firewall
2 1 (0.31%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.31%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (5.63%) Apache Ignite
3 7 (2.19%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.56%) KDB
4 5 (1.56%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.25%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.25%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.25%) Power BI
6 3 (0.94%) Big Data
6 3 (0.94%) Kdb+
6 3 (0.94%) MySQL
6 3 (0.94%) Tableau
7 2 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.63%) Apache Arrow
7 2 (0.63%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.63%) Dremio
8 1 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.31%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 16 (5.00%) Cypress.io
2 5 (1.56%) JIRA
3 4 (1.25%) GitLab
4 2 (0.63%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.63%) Selenium
5 1 (0.31%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.31%) JUnit
General
1 261 (81.56%) Finance
2 217 (67.81%) Front Office
3 73 (22.81%) Social Skills
4 69 (21.56%) Banking
5 34 (10.63%) Investment Banking
6 27 (8.44%) Financial Institution
7 24 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (4.38%) French Language
9 13 (4.06%) Back Office
10 4 (1.25%) Legal
11 2 (0.63%) Marketing
11 2 (0.63%) Prime Brokerage
11 2 (0.63%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.31%) Advertising
12 1 (0.31%) Environmental Health
12 1 (0.31%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.31%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.31%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 181 (56.56%) Developer
2 102 (31.88%) Software Engineer
3 93 (29.06%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 72 (22.50%) .NET Developer
5 69 (21.56%) Analyst
6 61 (19.06%) .NET Software Developer
6 61 (19.06%) .NET Software Engineer
7 60 (18.75%) Finance Manager
8 47 (14.69%) Senior
9 44 (13.75%) Python Developer
10 43 (13.44%) Java Developer
11 40 (12.50%) Python Engineer
11 40 (12.50%) Software Asset Manager
11 40 (12.50%) Software Manager
12 38 (11.88%) Business Analyst
13 34 (10.63%) Senior Developer
14 32 (10.00%) Python Software Engineer
15 31 (9.69%) Product Owner
16 30 (9.38%) Product Manager
17 28 (8.75%) Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (31.25%) React
2 87 (27.19%) Redux
3 77 (24.06%) .NET
4 67 (20.94%) AngularJS
4 67 (20.94%) Vue
5 65 (20.31%) ASP.NET
5 65 (20.31%) ASP.NET Core
6 22 (6.88%) gRPC
6 22 (6.88%) Material-UI
7 20 (6.25%) J2SE
8 18 (5.63%) FIX Protocol
9 17 (5.31%) Node.js
10 14 (4.38%) Pandas
11 12 (3.75%) Middleware
12 11 (3.44%) .NET Core
13 10 (3.13%) OpenFin
14 8 (2.50%) RESTful
15 7 (2.19%) NumPy
16 6 (1.88%) Protocol Buffers
16 6 (1.88%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 204 (63.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 187 (58.44%) Fixed Income
3 158 (49.38%) Derivative
4 154 (48.13%) Hedge funds
5 34 (10.63%) Product Ownership
6 26 (8.13%) Management Information System
7 18 (5.63%) Mobile App
8 11 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (2.81%) Market Risk
9 9 (2.81%) Reference Data
10 8 (2.50%) Cloud Native
10 8 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.88%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.56%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.56%) Data Structures
13 4 (1.25%) Renewable Energy
14 3 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
15 2 (0.63%) Credit Risk
15 2 (0.63%) Distributed Architecture
15 2 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (9.06%) Linux
2 24 (7.50%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.88%) Windows
4 5 (1.56%) Unix
5 3 (0.94%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.94%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.63%) Android
7 1 (0.31%) Solaris
7 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (58.13%) Asset Management
2 145 (45.31%) Agile
3 140 (43.75%) Software Engineering
4 123 (38.44%) Investment Management
5 83 (25.94%) Fintech
6 67 (20.94%) TDD
7 64 (20.00%) DevOps
8 62 (19.38%) Full Stack Development
9 48 (15.00%) Order Management
10 42 (13.13%) Analytics
11 41 (12.81%) Computer Science
12 39 (12.19%) Mathematics
13 34 (10.63%) Machine Learning
14 32 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
15 31 (9.69%) Electronic Trading
16 30 (9.38%) Market Making
17 29 (9.06%) Roadmaps
18 28 (8.75%) Low Latency
19 25 (7.81%) Multithreading
19 25 (7.81%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 106 (33.13%) Python
2 94 (29.38%) JavaScript
3 93 (29.06%) TypeScript
4 83 (25.94%) C#
5 59 (18.44%) Java
6 47 (14.69%) SQL
7 38 (11.88%) C++
8 11 (3.44%) Rust
9 7 (2.19%) R
10 5 (1.56%) Go
10 5 (1.56%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.63%) VBA
12 1 (0.31%) Bash
12 1 (0.31%) Perl
12 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.31%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.31%) XPath
Qualifications
1 53 (16.56%) Degree
2 18 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (5.31%) Master's Degree
4 4 (1.25%) PhD
5 1 (0.31%) CCNA
5 1 (0.31%) CCNP
5 1 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (19.38%) QA
2 13 (4.06%) MiFID
3 2 (0.63%) EMIR
3 2 (0.63%) SLA
4 1 (0.31%) COREP
4 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.31%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (0.31%) IFRS
4 1 (0.31%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.31%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.31%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (1.25%) Docker
2 1 (0.31%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (5.94%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.94%) Grafana
3 2 (0.63%) Ansible
3 2 (0.63%) SCCM
3 2 (0.63%) Terraform
4 1 (0.31%) Nagios
4 1 (0.31%) Opsgenie
4 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (5.94%) Google
2 11 (3.44%) Bloomberg
3 10 (3.13%) Finsemble
3 10 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 4 (1.25%) Oracle
5 3 (0.94%) Microsoft
5 3 (0.94%) TIBCO
6 2 (0.63%) Apple
6 2 (0.63%) Dell
6 2 (0.63%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.31%) Cisco
7 1 (0.31%) CQG
7 1 (0.31%) Databricks
7 1 (0.31%) IBM
7 1 (0.31%) Patsystems
7 1 (0.31%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.31%) Reuters
7 1 (0.31%) Sybase
7 1 (0.31%) Trayport
7 1 (0.31%) VMware