Kx Systems KDB
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring KDB skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 734 628 866
Rank change year-on-year -106 +238 -73
Permanent jobs citing KDB 14 53 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.11% 0.021%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.16% 0.70% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 11 10 18
10th Percentile - £83,000 £80,000
25th Percentile £85,000 £98,750 £100,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £155,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.71% +47.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £100,000 £172,500 £133,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £172,750 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%

All Database & 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 8,672 7,622 16,582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.82% 15.55% 16.35%
Number of salaries quoted 5,759 4,910 11,670
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,392
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,182 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.93% +6.40% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%

KDB
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing KDB relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

KDB job vacancy trend in the UK

KDB
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing KDB.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing KDB

KDB
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing KDB over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

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 11 July 2026. 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
London -48 12 £95,000 -38.71% 21
England -100 12 £95,000 -38.71% 21
Work from Home -19 1 - - 12

KDB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Multicast
1 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
General
1 8 (57.14%) Front Office
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Advertising
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Linux Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) KDB Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) C++ Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Java Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Low Latency C++ Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Quantitative Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Reliability Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Scala Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior C++ Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Reliability Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Systems Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Fixed Income
2 2 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (7.14%) Hedge funds
3 1 (7.14%) Market Risk
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Observability
1 6 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 4 (28.57%) Analytics
3 3 (21.43%) Low Latency
3 3 (21.43%) Market Making
3 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 1 (7.14%) Agile
5 1 (7.14%) Algorithmic Trading
5 1 (7.14%) BDD
5 1 (7.14%) Change Management
5 1 (7.14%) Configuration Management
5 1 (7.14%) Functional Programming
5 1 (7.14%) High Availability
5 1 (7.14%) Kernel Tuning
5 1 (7.14%) Performance Engineering
5 1 (7.14%) Risk Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) TDD
5 1 (7.14%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) Shell Script
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) Bash
4 1 (7.14%) C++
4 1 (7.14%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
1 1 (7.14%) Grafana
1 1 (7.14%) Graylog
1 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Arista
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco
2 1 (7.14%) Mellanox
2 1 (7.14%) Solarflare
2 1 (7.14%) Splunk