Kx Systems KDB
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for KDB skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited KDB over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 700 960 1015
Rank change year-on-year +260 +55 -302
Permanent jobs citing KDB 30 112 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.057% 0.091% 0.051%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.27% 0.39% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 23 74 51
10th Percentile £100,000 £65,000 £72,500
25th Percentile £106,250 £75,313 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £150,000 £92,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +62.16% +8.82% -25.27%
75th Percentile £170,000 £110,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £194,000 £116,250 £132,500
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £70,000

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

KDB is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 11,277 28,579 34,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.28% 23.27% 27.11%
Number of salaries quoted 8,446 17,544 22,627
10th Percentile £36,750 £36,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £46,580 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +6.84% +6.36%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +2.04%

KDB
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for KDB in the UK

KDB
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing KDB.

Salary trend for KDB in the UK

KDB
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing KDB over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for KDB in the UK

KDB
Top 3 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 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 +272 30 £150,000 +66.67% 29
London +210 30 £150,000 +66.67% 23
Work from Home +214 3 £110,000 +57.14% 12

KDB
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 1 (3.33%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (46.67%) Kdb+
2 4 (13.33%) NoSQL
3 3 (10.00%) Hazelcast
3 3 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.67%) Big Data
5 1 (3.33%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 23 (76.67%) Finance
2 11 (36.67%) Front Office
3 9 (30.00%) Banking
4 8 (26.67%) Social Skills
5 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (13.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (83.33%) Developer
2 17 (56.67%) KDB Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Quantitative Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Lead
5 3 (10.00%) Python Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Java Quantitative Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Lead Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Lead Java Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Market Data Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Front Office Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Java Team Leader
7 1 (3.33%) Market Data Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Quantitative Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Research Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Team Leader
7 1 (3.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) Guice
1 3 (10.00%) HTML
1 3 (10.00%) HTML5
1 3 (10.00%) OpenFin
1 3 (10.00%) React
2 1 (3.33%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (3.33%) Java EE
2 1 (3.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (16.67%) Equities
3 4 (13.33%) Hedge funds
4 3 (10.00%) Algorithms
4 3 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
6 1 (3.33%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (3.33%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (3.33%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) Linux
1 6 (20.00%) Unix
2 3 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (56.67%) Analytics
1 17 (56.67%) Computer Science
2 11 (36.67%) Low Latency
3 8 (26.67%) Electronic Trading
3 8 (26.67%) Fintech
3 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (23.33%) Mathematics
4 7 (23.33%) Quantitative Research
5 6 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 4 (13.33%) Agile
6 4 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (10.00%) CI/CD
7 3 (10.00%) Data Analytics
7 3 (10.00%) Decision-Making
7 3 (10.00%) DevOps
7 3 (10.00%) Functional Programming
7 3 (10.00%) Garbage Collection
7 3 (10.00%) Investment Management
7 3 (10.00%) Multithreading
7 3 (10.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (43.33%) Java
2 11 (36.67%) Python
3 7 (23.33%) SQL
4 6 (20.00%) C++
5 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (33.33%) Degree
1 10 (33.33%) Master's Degree
2 7 (23.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (10.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (6.67%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Google
1 3 (10.00%) Solace