Equities Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Equities
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Equities over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 196 293 521
Rank change year-on-year +97 +228 +51
Permanent jobs citing Equities 256 352 138
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.66% 1.04% 0.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.27% 2.93% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 249 348 132
10th Percentile £85,000 £65,000 £67,500
25th Percentile £105,000 £90,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £120,000 £91,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +31.51% -23.96%
75th Percentile £147,500 £148,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £152,500 £165,000 £116,250
UK median annual salary £115,000 £120,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -8.70%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,992 12,005 16,380
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.86% 35.53% 38.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3,850 9,227 11,835
10th Percentile £34,975 £32,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,300 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.61% -8.77% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £101,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Equities
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Equities as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Equities trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Equities
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Equities.

Equities salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Equities
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Equities over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Equities salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Equities
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 122 (47.66%) Apache Airflow
2 93 (36.33%) Apache
3 3 (1.17%) GemFire
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 131 (51.17%) AWS
2 122 (47.66%) dbt
3 90 (35.16%) Snowflake
4 75 (29.30%) GCP
5 34 (13.28%) Amazon EC2
5 34 (13.28%) Amazon ECS
5 34 (13.28%) Amazon EKS
5 34 (13.28%) Dagster
6 4 (1.56%) Azure
7 3 (1.17%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.39%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (72.66%) Data Lake
2 122 (47.66%) Amazon Athena
2 122 (47.66%) Apache Arrow
2 122 (47.66%) Apache Iceberg
2 122 (47.66%) Dremio
3 77 (30.08%) Apache Ignite
4 37 (14.45%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.17%) InterSystems Cache
5 3 (1.17%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.17%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.17%) RDBMS
5 3 (1.17%) Redis
5 3 (1.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (1.17%) Jenkins
1 3 (1.17%) MSTest
1 3 (1.17%) NUnit
1 3 (1.17%) SpecFlow
1 3 (1.17%) TeamCity
2 1 (0.39%) Gradle
General
1 254 (99.22%) Finance
1 254 (99.22%) Front Office
2 97 (37.89%) Banking
3 91 (35.55%) Investment Banking
4 7 (2.73%) Law
5 2 (0.78%) Back Office
6 1 (0.39%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.39%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 131 (51.17%) Software Engineer
2 122 (47.66%) AWS Engineer
2 122 (47.66%) AWS Software Engineer
3 84 (32.81%) Java Engineer
4 81 (31.64%) Java Software Engineer
4 81 (31.64%) Python Engineer
4 81 (31.64%) Python Software Engineer
5 61 (23.83%) Developer
6 58 (22.66%) Senior
6 58 (22.66%) Senior Software Engineer
7 57 (22.27%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 52 (20.31%) Senior Java Engineer
8 52 (20.31%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 48 (18.75%) AWS Developer
10 36 (14.06%) Data Governance Analyst
10 36 (14.06%) Data Governance Manager
10 36 (14.06%) Governance Manager
10 36 (14.06%) Lead
11 30 (11.72%) Head of Finance
11 30 (11.72%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (41.41%) NumPy
1 106 (41.41%) Pandas
1 106 (41.41%) SciPy
2 74 (28.91%) gRPC
2 74 (28.91%) Protocol Buffers
3 50 (19.53%) PySpark
4 42 (16.41%) AngularJS
5 41 (16.02%) React
6 37 (14.45%) Node.js
7 36 (14.06%) Vue
8 9 (3.52%) Redux
9 6 (2.34%) .NET
9 6 (2.34%) CSS
9 6 (2.34%) HTML
10 3 (1.17%) CSS3
10 3 (1.17%) JSON
10 3 (1.17%) Middleware
10 3 (1.17%) REST
10 3 (1.17%) Spring
10 3 (1.17%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 250 (97.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 249 (97.27%) Fixed Income
3 209 (81.64%) Hedge funds
4 208 (81.25%) Derivative
5 40 (15.63%) Pricing Data
6 34 (13.28%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.34%) Credit Derivative
8 3 (1.17%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.17%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.17%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.17%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.39%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.39%) Equity Derivative
9 1 (0.39%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.34%) Linux
1 6 (2.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (96.09%) Agile
2 193 (75.39%) Investment Management
3 146 (57.03%) Migration
4 131 (51.17%) Asset Management
4 131 (51.17%) Software Engineering
5 112 (43.75%) Data Governance
5 112 (43.75%) Regulatory Compliance
5 112 (43.75%) Roadmaps
6 96 (37.50%) Data Management
7 41 (16.02%) Fintech
8 32 (12.50%) Order Management
8 32 (12.50%) Performance Attribution
8 32 (12.50%) Risk Management
9 9 (3.52%) Algorithmic Trading
9 9 (3.52%) OO
10 7 (2.73%) Full-Stack Development
10 7 (2.73%) TDD
11 6 (2.34%) Design Patterns
11 6 (2.34%) OOP
12 5 (1.95%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 121 (47.27%) JavaScript
1 121 (47.27%) Python
1 121 (47.27%) TypeScript
2 104 (40.63%) Java
3 23 (8.98%) SQL
4 6 (2.34%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (3.91%) Degree
2 3 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (21.48%) MiFID
2 7 (2.73%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.39%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (1.17%) Oracle
1 3 (1.17%) Solace
1 3 (1.17%) TIBCO
2 1 (0.39%) Bloomberg
2 1 (0.39%) NYFIX
2 1 (0.39%) Sun