Kdb+ Contracts in London

Kx Systems Kdb+
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Kdb+ skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Kdb+ over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 475 610
Rank change year-on-year +104 +135 -126
Contract jobs citing Kdb+ 15 12 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.086% 0.046% 0.015%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.39% 0.23% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 6
10th Percentile £635 £680 -
25th Percentile £650 £763 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £825 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +17.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile - £900 £794
90th Percentile £815 £1,050 £875
England median daily rate £800 £825 £700
% change year-on-year -3.03% +17.86% +7.69%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,866 5,307 8,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.12% 20.40% 21.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,866 3,892 6,122
10th Percentile £375 £400 £406
25th Percentile £456 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -0.86% +10.48%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £700
90th Percentile £838 £800 £788
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 51 35
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £26.25
25th Percentile £25.62 £23.70 £32.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +77.22%
75th Percentile £55.00 £78.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £70.30 £90.00 £76.84
England median hourly rate £40.00 £55.70 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.19% +23.78% +85.57%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Kdb+ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Kdb+ in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kdb+ in London.

Daily rate trend for Kdb+ in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kdb+ in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kdb+ in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kdb+ within the London region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Central London +40 1 £700 -15.15%
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 9 (60.00%) Apache Airflow
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (100.00%) KDB
2 1 (6.67%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 11 (73.33%) Front Office
2 6 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (93.33%) Developer
1 14 (93.33%) KDB Developer
2 7 (46.67%) Analytics Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Unix Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) Equities
2 2 (13.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Analytics
1 10 (66.67%) API Design
2 9 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 9 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 7 (46.67%) Electronic Trading
4 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
5 1 (6.67%) Agile
5 1 (6.67%) Backtesting
5 1 (6.67%) Data Analysis
5 1 (6.67%) Data Analytics
5 1 (6.67%) Data Science
5 1 (6.67%) High-Frequency Trading
5 1 (6.67%) Low Latency
5 1 (6.67%) Mathematical Modelling
5 1 (6.67%) Mathematics
5 1 (6.67%) PnL Attribution
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) C#
1 10 (66.67%) Java
1 10 (66.67%) Python
2 9 (60.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (60.00%) Data Quality