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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 432 591
Rank change year-on-year +72 +159 -137
Permanent jobs citing Equities 406 579 414
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.73% 0.58% 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.02% 1.64% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 357 562 351
10th Percentile £85,000 £72,750 £67,500
25th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £121,250 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.15% +15.48% -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 20,086 35,211 44,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.29% 35.47% 43.47%
Number of salaries quoted 9,903 23,075 23,595
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,314
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,250
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 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £108,348
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 13 May 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 13 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
England +36 403 £115,000 -8.00% 291
London +19 389 £115,000 -8.00% 283
Work from Home +34 264 £115,000 -4.17% 62
UK excluding London +195 14 £70,000 +250.00% 95
North of England - 11 £70,000 - 4
North East - 7 £70,000 - 1
North West - 4 - -
South East - 3 - - 79

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
1 158 (38.92%) Apache Airflow
2 110 (27.09%) Apache
3 5 (1.23%) Jupyter
3 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.74%) GemFire
5 2 (0.49%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.48%) Fidessa
2 5 (1.23%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 176 (43.35%) AWS
2 158 (38.92%) dbt
3 107 (26.35%) Snowflake
4 96 (23.65%) GCP
5 48 (11.82%) Dagster
6 35 (8.62%) Amazon ECS
7 34 (8.37%) Amazon EC2
7 34 (8.37%) Amazon EKS
8 28 (6.90%) Azure
9 4 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (0.99%) PaaS
10 3 (0.74%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.74%) OpenShift
10 3 (0.74%) SaaS
11 2 (0.49%) AWS Step Functions
12 1 (0.25%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 1 (0.25%) Amazon EMR
12 1 (0.25%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.72%) Multicast
2 6 (1.48%) FIX Connectivity
3 5 (1.23%) DHCP
3 5 (1.23%) DNS
3 5 (1.23%) Firewall
3 5 (1.23%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.99%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (47.29%) Data Lake
2 163 (40.15%) Dremio
3 159 (39.16%) Amazon Athena
4 158 (38.92%) Apache Iceberg
5 144 (35.47%) Apache Arrow
6 78 (19.21%) Apache Ignite
7 43 (10.59%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (1.97%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.97%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.23%) Redis
9 5 (1.23%) Tableau
10 4 (0.99%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.99%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.74%) InterSystems Cache
11 3 (0.74%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.25%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.25%) KDB
12 1 (0.25%) Kdb+
12 1 (0.25%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 18 (4.43%) Git
2 11 (2.71%) JIRA
3 8 (1.97%) Gradle
4 3 (0.74%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.74%) MSTest
4 3 (0.74%) NUnit
4 3 (0.74%) SpecFlow
4 3 (0.74%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.25%) Maven
General
1 370 (91.13%) Finance
2 338 (83.25%) Front Office
3 162 (39.90%) Banking
4 115 (28.33%) Investment Banking
5 20 (4.93%) Social Skills
6 9 (2.22%) Back Office
7 7 (1.72%) Law
8 5 (1.23%) Marketing
9 4 (0.99%) Spanish Language
10 3 (0.74%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (0.74%) Retail
11 2 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.25%) Advertising
12 1 (0.25%) German Language
12 1 (0.25%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 162 (39.90%) Software Engineer
2 144 (35.47%) AWS Engineer
2 144 (35.47%) AWS Software Engineer
3 141 (34.73%) Developer
4 114 (28.08%) Python Engineer
5 107 (26.35%) Senior
6 100 (24.63%) Python Software Engineer
7 96 (23.65%) Java Engineer
8 92 (22.66%) Java Software Engineer
9 80 (19.70%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 71 (17.49%) AWS Developer
11 66 (16.26%) Senior Software Engineer
12 57 (14.04%) Python Developer
13 53 (13.05%) Senior Java Engineer
13 53 (13.05%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 45 (11.08%) Analyst
15 41 (10.10%) Quantitative Developer
16 39 (9.61%) Java Developer
17 37 (9.11%) Lead
18 36 (8.87%) Data Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (31.03%) NumPy
1 126 (31.03%) Pandas
1 126 (31.03%) SciPy
2 80 (19.70%) PySpark
3 75 (18.47%) gRPC
3 75 (18.47%) Protocol Buffers
4 50 (12.32%) React
5 48 (11.82%) AngularJS
6 43 (10.59%) Node.js
7 42 (10.34%) Vue
8 24 (5.91%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 21 (5.17%) FIX Protocol
10 11 (2.71%) Redux
11 9 (2.22%) .NET
12 7 (1.72%) pytest
13 6 (1.48%) CSS
13 6 (1.48%) HTML
14 5 (1.23%) RabbitMQ
15 4 (0.99%) Kafka
15 4 (0.99%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 328 (80.79%) Fixed Income
2 313 (77.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 279 (68.72%) Hedge funds
4 262 (64.53%) Derivative
5 65 (16.01%) Product Ownership
6 42 (10.34%) Pricing Data
7 35 (8.62%) Algorithms
8 18 (4.43%) Data Structures
9 14 (3.45%) Management Information System
10 11 (2.71%) Onboarding
10 11 (2.71%) Reference Data
11 9 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (1.48%) Cloud Native
12 6 (1.48%) Credit Derivative
13 5 (1.23%) Bitcoin
13 5 (1.23%) Eurex
14 3 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (0.74%) Virtual Team
15 2 (0.49%) Equity Derivative
15 2 (0.49%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 66 (16.26%) Linux
2 16 (3.94%) Unix
3 15 (3.69%) Apple iOS
4 9 (2.22%) Rocky
5 7 (1.72%) CentOS
6 4 (0.99%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.99%) Windows
7 3 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.25%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (78.08%) Agile
2 233 (57.39%) Investment Management
3 191 (47.04%) Asset Management
4 188 (46.31%) Software Engineering
5 146 (35.96%) Migration
6 142 (34.98%) Roadmaps
7 114 (28.08%) Data Management
8 112 (27.59%) Data Governance
8 112 (27.59%) Regulatory Compliance
9 66 (16.26%) Order Management
10 55 (13.55%) Low Latency
11 51 (12.56%) Fintech
12 40 (9.85%) Risk Management
13 37 (9.11%) Performance Attribution
14 36 (8.87%) Analytics
15 33 (8.13%) Portfolio Management
16 30 (7.39%) Quantitative Analysis
17 29 (7.14%) Front End Development
17 29 (7.14%) Multithreading
17 29 (7.14%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 228 (56.16%) Python
2 155 (38.18%) Java
3 131 (32.27%) JavaScript
3 131 (32.27%) TypeScript
4 68 (16.75%) SQL
5 46 (11.33%) C++
6 11 (2.71%) Bash
6 11 (2.71%) C#
7 6 (1.48%) Perl
8 2 (0.49%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.25%) F#
9 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 54 (13.30%) Degree
2 8 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (0.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (13.55%) MiFID
2 11 (2.71%) QA
3 7 (1.72%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.23%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.25%) ISO 20022
Systems Management
1 9 (2.22%) Grafana
2 1 (0.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (2.71%) Bloomberg
2 10 (2.46%) Reuters
3 9 (2.22%) Atlassian
3 9 (2.22%) Red Hat
4 8 (1.97%) Oracle
5 5 (1.23%) CQG
5 5 (1.23%) Databricks
5 5 (1.23%) ION Trading
5 5 (1.23%) Microsoft
5 5 (1.23%) Patsystems
5 5 (1.23%) Trayport
6 3 (0.74%) Solace
6 3 (0.74%) TIBCO
7 2 (0.49%) Splunk
8 1 (0.25%) Capita
8 1 (0.25%) NYFIX
8 1 (0.25%) Sun