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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 417 559
Rank change year-on-year +105 +142 -107
Contract jobs citing KDB 83 63 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.47% 0.24% 0.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.15% 1.19% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 42 43
10th Percentile £650 £600 £625
25th Percentile £775 £606 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £800 £825
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% +22.22%
75th Percentile £975 £897 £850
90th Percentile £1,058 £934 £918
England median daily rate £850 £800 £825
% change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% +22.22%

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 3,856 5,280 8,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.06% 20.44% 21.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,854 3,870 6,074
10th Percentile £375 £400 £406
25th Percentile £456 £475 £490
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 £529 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.82% - +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% - +62.78%
75th Percentile £55.00 £78.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £70.30 £90.00 £76.84
England median hourly rate £40.13 £56.95 £45.00
% change year-on-year -29.54% +26.56% +83.67%

KDB
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

KDB
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

KDB
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing KDB in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for KDB in London

KDB
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 17 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 +65 16 £850 +3.03%
East London - 2 £850 - 1
KDB
England

KDB
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 (10.84%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (8.43%) SAS
Business Applications
1 10 (12.05%) ION MarketView
2 1 (1.20%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.41%) AWS
1 2 (2.41%) GCP
1 2 (2.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (1.20%) npm
2 1 (1.20%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (18.07%) Kdb+
2 8 (9.64%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.41%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.41%) Looker
4 2 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.20%) Hazelcast
5 1 (1.20%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.20%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.20%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Bitbucket
1 4 (4.82%) TeamCity
2 3 (3.61%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.61%) JIRA
3 2 (2.41%) Gradle
3 2 (2.41%) IntelliJ
3 2 (2.41%) Terragrunt
4 1 (1.20%) Babel
4 1 (1.20%) Git
4 1 (1.20%) webpack
General
1 44 (53.01%) Finance
2 28 (33.73%) Front Office
3 21 (25.30%) Social Skills
4 18 (21.69%) Banking
5 12 (14.46%) Investment Banking
6 11 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 75 (90.36%) Developer
2 39 (46.99%) KDB Developer
3 34 (40.96%) Java Developer
4 30 (36.14%) Senior
5 29 (34.94%) Senior Developer
6 14 (16.87%) Senior Java Developer
7 12 (14.46%) Electronic Trading Developer
8 8 (9.64%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
8 8 (9.64%) Low Latency Java Developer
9 7 (8.43%) Analytics Developer
10 4 (4.82%) Unix Developer
11 3 (3.61%) Data Engineer
11 3 (3.61%) Pricing Developer
11 3 (3.61%) Software Engineer
12 2 (2.41%) Analyst
12 2 (2.41%) C++ Developer
12 2 (2.41%) Developer Analyst
12 2 (2.41%) Java Pricing Developer
12 2 (2.41%) Market Data Analyst
12 2 (2.41%) Market Data Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.05%) Spring
2 8 (9.64%) FIX Protocol
3 7 (8.43%) Middleware
4 6 (7.23%) Rendezvous
5 2 (2.41%) JSON
5 2 (2.41%) Node.js
5 2 (2.41%) React
5 2 (2.41%) REST
5 2 (2.41%) XML
6 1 (1.20%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.20%) Guice
6 1 (1.20%) HTML
6 1 (1.20%) HTML5
6 1 (1.20%) OpenFin
6 1 (1.20%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 30 (36.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 23 (27.71%) Fixed Income
3 17 (20.48%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (16.87%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (14.46%) Algorithms
6 11 (13.25%) Equities
7 9 (10.84%) Data Structures
8 8 (9.64%) Derivative
9 7 (8.43%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (4.82%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (4.82%) Management Information System
11 2 (2.41%) Virtual Team
12 1 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (1.20%) Equity Derivative
12 1 (1.20%) Grid Computing
12 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 18 (21.69%) Unix
2 17 (20.48%) Linux
3 3 (3.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (54.22%) Electronic Trading
2 38 (45.78%) Analytics
3 30 (36.14%) Test Automation
4 28 (33.73%) Low Latency
5 27 (32.53%) Multithreading
6 26 (31.33%) Agile
7 24 (28.92%) Continuous Integration
8 22 (26.51%) OO
9 21 (25.30%) User Acceptance Testing
10 20 (24.10%) E-Commerce
11 18 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (19.28%) Multithreaded Programming
13 14 (16.87%) SDLC
14 13 (15.66%) Computer Science
14 13 (15.66%) Data Analytics
15 12 (14.46%) Data Modelling
15 12 (14.46%) TDD
16 11 (13.25%) CI/CD
17 10 (12.05%) API Design
17 10 (12.05%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (61.45%) Java
2 21 (25.30%) Python
3 16 (19.28%) SQL
4 15 (18.07%) C#
5 8 (9.64%) C++
6 2 (2.41%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.41%) R
7 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (9.64%) Degree
2 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.20%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.46%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.20%) MiFID
Vendors
1 24 (28.92%) ION Trading
2 7 (8.43%) Solace
3 6 (7.23%) TIBCO
4 4 (4.82%) Tradeweb
5 3 (3.61%) Google
6 2 (2.41%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.41%) MarketAxess
7 1 (1.20%) Oracle