Tick Data
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Tick Data skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Tick Data over the 6 months to 5 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 720 1073 1103
Rank change year-on-year +353 +30 -353
Permanent jobs citing Tick Data 16 1 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.001% 0.004%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.14% 0.003% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 12 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £170,000 - £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £200,000 £110,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% +57.14% -46.15%
75th Percentile £225,000 - £78,750
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Tick Data 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 11,361 28,734 34,607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.26% 23.14% 27.17%
Number of salaries quoted 8,551 17,608 22,386
10th Percentile £37,000 £36,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £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%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Tick Data in the UK

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Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Tick Data.

Salary trend for Tick Data in the UK

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Tick Data over the 6 months to 5 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Tick Data in the UK

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Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Tick Data within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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 +353 16 £200,000 +81.82% 7
London +265 16 £200,000 +81.82% 7

Tick Data
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) KDB
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) GCC
General
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) C++ Developer
1 8 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (6.25%) C++ Quantitative Developer
2 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) STL
2 3 (18.75%) Boost C++ Libraries
Miscellaneous
1 10 (62.50%) Hedge funds
2 7 (43.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (31.25%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (6.25%) Derivative
4 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (6.25%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 13 (81.25%) Linux
2 5 (31.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Backtesting
1 15 (93.75%) Data Management
2 13 (81.25%) Algorithmic Trading
2 13 (81.25%) Investment Management
2 13 (81.25%) Low Latency
2 13 (81.25%) Multithreading
3 8 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 8 (50.00%) Concurrent Programming
3 8 (50.00%) Mathematics
3 8 (50.00%) Memory Management
3 8 (50.00%) Physics
4 7 (43.75%) Systematic Trading
4 7 (43.75%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 15 (93.75%) C++
2 7 (43.75%) Python
3 5 (31.25%) C
4 2 (12.50%) SQL
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Red Hat