Equities Contracts in Central London

Equities
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in contract job vacancies advertised in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Equities over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 136 147
Rank change year-on-year +18 +11 -13
Contract jobs citing Equities 19 38 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.79% 1.02% 1.05%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.55% 2.88% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 36 28
10th Percentile £483 £488 £420
25th Percentile £653 £606 £574
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £688 £800
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -14.06% +35.59%
75th Percentile £697 £831 £913
90th Percentile £741 £963 -
London median daily rate £750 £700 £650
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% +8.33%

All Generic Skills
Central London

Equities is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 744 1,321 1,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 31.06% 35.62% 35.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 901 1,145
10th Percentile £265 £313 £400
25th Percentile £425 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +8.70% -
75th Percentile £688 £738 £700
90th Percentile £838 £838 £808
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 18 28
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.14 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.38 £35.00 £32.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £37.42 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.53% -19.54% +132.50%
75th Percentile £25.50 £80.00 £59.50
90th Percentile £36.30 £88.30 £65.28
London median hourly rate £27.00 £34.81 £42.26
% change year-on-year -22.44% -17.63% +23.60%

Equities
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Equities as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Equities in Central London

Equities
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Equities in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Equities in Central London

Equities
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Equities in Central London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Equities in Central London

Equities
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Equities in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Equities in Central London

Equities
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Equities within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +25 18 £675 -1.82% 3
City of Westminster - 1 £563 -
Equities
London

Equities
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.26%) MQSeries
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) KDB
2 1 (5.26%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) Selenium
2 3 (15.79%) Cucumber
2 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.79%) WebDriver
3 1 (5.26%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (5.26%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (47.37%) Front Office
2 8 (42.11%) Banking
2 8 (42.11%) Finance
3 7 (36.84%) Prime Brokerage
4 2 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Developer
2 7 (36.84%) Automation Tester
2 7 (36.84%) Tester
3 4 (21.05%) Senior
4 3 (15.79%) Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Business Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Java Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Quantitative Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Senior Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Python Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Report Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (10.53%) SQL Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) SQL Reporting Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Analytics Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Regulatory Business Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Regulatory Reporting Business Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Matplotlib
1 2 (10.53%) NumPy
1 2 (10.53%) Pandas
2 1 (5.26%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (5.26%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Derivative
2 3 (15.79%) Algorithms
2 3 (15.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (10.53%) Hedge funds
4 1 (5.26%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Test Automation
2 4 (21.05%) Low Latency
3 3 (15.79%) Analytics
3 3 (15.79%) Data Analysis
3 3 (15.79%) Multithreading
3 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering
4 2 (10.53%) CI/CD
4 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
4 2 (10.53%) Concurrent Programming
4 2 (10.53%) E-Commerce
4 2 (10.53%) Mathematics
4 2 (10.53%) Multithreaded Programming
4 2 (10.53%) Quantitative Research
4 2 (10.53%) SDLC
4 2 (10.53%) Visualisation
5 1 (5.26%) API Design
5 1 (5.26%) DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Fintech
5 1 (5.26%) Re-Platforming
5 1 (5.26%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) Java
2 5 (26.32%) C#
3 4 (21.05%) Python
4 3 (15.79%) SQL
5 1 (5.26%) C++
5 1 (5.26%) Scala
5 1 (5.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
1 2 (10.53%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) IBM
1 1 (5.26%) Red Hat
1 1 (5.26%) Solace
1 1 (5.26%) TIBCO