Kx Systems Kdb+
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Kdb+ skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kdb+ over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 697 874 860
Rank change year-on-year +177 -14 +388
Permanent jobs citing Kdb+ 38 12 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.063% 0.012% 0.047%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.48% 0.070% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 35
10th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £67,500
25th Percentile £90,000 £95,625 £84,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £100,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -9.09% +33.33%
75th Percentile £152,500 £119,375 £121,250
90th Percentile £166,000 £150,000 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +14.29% +7.69%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Kdb+ falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,989 17,094 18,005
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.30% 16.57% 21.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4,985 11,542 12,447
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,503 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,725 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Kdb+ in the UK

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Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kdb+.

Salary trend for Kdb+ in the UK

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kdb+ over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Kdb+ in the UK

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Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kdb+ within the UK over the 6 months to 16 July 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 +165 26 £130,000 +30.00% 15
London +128 26 £130,000 +30.00% 15
UK excluding London +167 12 - - 5
Scotland - 12 - -
Work from Home +104 1 £70,000 -46.15% 1

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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 4 (10.53%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 21 (55.26%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (100.00%) KDB
2 8 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (10.53%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (10.53%) RDBMS
3 4 (10.53%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
General
1 30 (78.95%) Finance
2 29 (76.32%) Banking
3 28 (73.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 28 (73.68%) Law
4 10 (26.32%) Front Office
5 1 (2.63%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (63.16%) Software Engineer
2 20 (52.63%) Lead
3 16 (42.11%) Lead Software Engineer
4 12 (31.58%) Java Engineer
4 12 (31.58%) Senior
5 8 (21.05%) Java Software Engineer
5 8 (21.05%) Lead Java Engineer
5 8 (21.05%) Python Engineer
5 8 (21.05%) Python Software Engineer
5 8 (21.05%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (15.79%) Developer
7 5 (13.16%) KDB Developer
8 4 (10.53%) Architect
8 4 (10.53%) Principal Architect
8 4 (10.53%) Senior Java Engineer
9 3 (7.89%) AWS Architect
10 1 (2.63%) C++ Quantitative Developer
10 1 (2.63%) Java Pricing Developer
10 1 (2.63%) Pricing Developer
10 1 (2.63%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (31.58%) FIX Protocol
2 8 (21.05%) Kafka
2 8 (21.05%) React
2 8 (21.05%) Spring
3 4 (10.53%) Middleware
3 4 (10.53%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 12 (31.58%) Derivative
2 9 (23.68%) Equities
3 8 (21.05%) Public Cloud
4 6 (15.79%) Algorithms
5 5 (13.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (13.16%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (10.53%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.63%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Linux
2 2 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (73.68%) Operational Stability
1 28 (73.68%) Software Engineering
2 25 (65.79%) Agile
3 17 (44.74%) SDLC
4 16 (42.11%) CI/CD
5 13 (34.21%) Analytics
5 13 (34.21%) Computer Science
5 13 (34.21%) Mathematics
6 12 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (23.68%) High Availability
8 8 (21.05%) Artificial Intelligence
8 8 (21.05%) Community of Practice
8 8 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (21.05%) Data Analytics
8 8 (21.05%) Data Design
8 8 (21.05%) Data Engineering
8 8 (21.05%) Decision-Making
8 8 (21.05%) Machine Learning
8 8 (21.05%) Product Management
8 8 (21.05%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 27 (71.05%) Python
2 22 (57.89%) Java
3 10 (26.32%) C++
4 9 (23.68%) C#
5 8 (21.05%) C
6 4 (10.53%) Shell Script
6 4 (10.53%) SQL
7 1 (2.63%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (7.89%) Degree
Systems Management
1 8 (21.05%) Kubernetes
1 8 (21.05%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) Oracle
2 4 (10.53%) Vertica