Equities Contracts

Equities
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Equities over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 403 389
Rank change year-on-year +91 -14 -45
Contract jobs citing Equities 309 333 593
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.71% 0.56% 0.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.33% 1.68% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 287 515
10th Percentile £550 £475 £538
25th Percentile £650 £600 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £850 £813 £725
90th Percentile £888 £934 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £539 £1,000 £505
% change year-on-year -46.15% +98.02% +15.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £85.75
Median hourly rate - - £86.50
75th Percentile - - £87.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,239 19,871 29,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.37% 33.29% 33.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,498 13,667 20,456
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £659 £680 £656
90th Percentile £788 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 907 640 726
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.42% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%

Equities
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Equities in the UK

Equities
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Equities in the UK

Equities
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Equities over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Equities in the UK

Equities
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Equities in the UK

Equities
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Equities within the UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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
England +87 307 £750 +7.14% 106
London +78 304 £750 +7.14% 102
Work from Home +155 153 £800 +8.47% 30
UK excluding London +52 2 £539 -46.15% 7
Scotland +30 2 £539 -13.84% 1

Equities
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:

Application Platforms
1 106 (34.30%) Apache Airflow
2 87 (28.16%) Apache
3 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.32%) Confluence
4 1 (0.32%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.32%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 14 (4.53%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.97%) IntelliMatch
2 3 (0.97%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.32%) Actimize
3 1 (0.32%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.32%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 167 (54.05%) AWS
2 120 (38.83%) GCP
3 76 (24.60%) Azure
4 72 (23.30%) dbt
5 62 (20.06%) Snowflake
6 3 (0.97%) Cloud Run
6 3 (0.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (0.32%) OCI
7 1 (0.32%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (28.16%) Apache Ignite
2 72 (23.30%) Amazon Athena
2 72 (23.30%) Apache Arrow
2 72 (23.30%) Dremio
3 62 (20.06%) Data Lake
4 19 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (4.85%) Relational Database
6 10 (3.24%) KDB
7 9 (2.91%) Kdb+
8 7 (2.27%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.97%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.97%) Data Mart
10 1 (0.32%) Big Data
10 1 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.32%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (3.24%) JIRA
2 9 (2.91%) Selenium
3 6 (1.94%) Git
4 5 (1.62%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.29%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.29%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (1.29%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.97%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.97%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.97%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.32%) Postman
7 1 (0.32%) TestComplete
General
1 247 (79.94%) Finance
2 218 (70.55%) Front Office
3 173 (55.99%) Banking
4 118 (38.19%) Investment Banking
5 22 (7.12%) Social Skills
6 16 (5.18%) Prime Brokerage
7 12 (3.88%) Back Office
8 8 (2.59%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
9 7 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.29%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.65%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.32%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.32%) Electronics
12 1 (0.32%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 140 (45.31%) Developer
2 89 (28.80%) Software Engineer
3 73 (23.62%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 61 (19.74%) Finance Manager
5 59 (19.09%) Analyst
6 55 (17.80%) Python Developer
7 48 (15.53%) Business Analyst
8 46 (14.89%) Python Engineer
8 46 (14.89%) Python Software Engineer
9 40 (12.94%) Lead
10 36 (11.65%) Senior
11 34 (11.00%) .NET Developer
12 26 (8.41%) .NET Software Developer
12 26 (8.41%) .NET Software Engineer
12 26 (8.41%) Software Asset Manager
12 26 (8.41%) Software Manager
13 25 (8.09%) Senior Software Engineer
14 24 (7.77%) Java Engineer
15 23 (7.44%) Finance Business Analyst
15 23 (7.44%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (31.07%) gRPC
1 96 (31.07%) Protocol Buffers
2 80 (25.89%) Pandas
3 73 (23.62%) NumPy
4 68 (22.01%) SciPy
5 61 (19.74%) React
6 47 (15.21%) Redux
7 43 (13.92%) .NET
8 25 (8.09%) Material-UI
9 22 (7.12%) .NET Core
10 18 (5.83%) AngularJS
10 18 (5.83%) Vue
11 14 (4.53%) ASP.NET
11 14 (4.53%) ASP.NET Core
12 12 (3.88%) WPF
13 5 (1.62%) FIX Protocol
14 4 (1.29%) Matplotlib
14 4 (1.29%) Middleware
15 3 (0.97%) Murex MxML
16 1 (0.32%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 205 (66.34%) Fixed Income
2 195 (63.11%) Derivative
3 174 (56.31%) Hedge funds
4 155 (50.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 27 (8.74%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.91%) Equity Derivative
6 9 (2.91%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.27%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.62%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.29%) DTCC
9 4 (1.29%) Pricing Data
10 3 (0.97%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.97%) Market Risk
10 3 (0.97%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.97%) Reference Data
11 2 (0.65%) Clustering
11 2 (0.65%) Credit Derivative
11 2 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.65%) Synthetic Equity
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.18%) Unix
2 8 (2.59%) Linux
3 7 (2.27%) Windows
4 4 (1.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (59.22%) Agile
1 183 (59.22%) Asset Management
2 157 (50.81%) Investment Management
3 152 (49.19%) Software Engineering
4 51 (16.50%) Analytics
5 48 (15.53%) Artificial Intelligence
5 48 (15.53%) Machine Learning
6 44 (14.24%) Full Stack Development
7 39 (12.62%) Fintech
8 36 (11.65%) Line Management
9 34 (11.00%) DevOps
10 31 (10.03%) Test Automation
11 29 (9.39%) TDD
12 25 (8.09%) Automated Trading
13 23 (7.44%) Greeks
14 20 (6.47%) Quantitative Research
15 19 (6.15%) Roadmaps
16 17 (5.50%) Product Management
17 16 (5.18%) Computer Science
18 15 (4.85%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 161 (52.10%) Python
2 123 (39.81%) TypeScript
3 112 (36.25%) JavaScript
4 105 (33.98%) Java
5 88 (28.48%) SQL
6 71 (22.98%) C#
7 14 (4.53%) R
8 13 (4.21%) C++
9 9 (2.91%) Scala
10 7 (2.27%) VBA
11 6 (1.94%) Perl
11 6 (1.94%) Ruby
12 4 (1.29%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.65%) Bash
14 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.32%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.32%) XPath
Qualifications
1 26 (8.41%) Degree
2 10 (3.24%) Master's Degree
3 6 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.62%) Numerate Degree
5 4 (1.29%) ISEB
6 2 (0.65%) ISEB Practitioner
7 1 (0.32%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (13.92%) QA
2 31 (10.03%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.27%) MiFID
4 5 (1.62%) IFRS
5 4 (1.29%) EMIR
6 2 (0.65%) Basel III
6 2 (0.65%) GAAP
6 2 (0.65%) IFRS 9
6 2 (0.65%) PMO
7 1 (0.32%) COREP
7 1 (0.32%) FINREP
7 1 (0.32%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 2 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.65%) Ansible
1 2 (0.65%) HP Quality Center
1 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (0.32%) Control-M
2 1 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 31 (10.03%) Bloomberg
2 18 (5.83%) Google
3 11 (3.56%) BISAM
4 6 (1.94%) Oracle
5 4 (1.29%) Murex
6 3 (0.97%) ION Trading
7 2 (0.65%) IBM
7 2 (0.65%) Splunk
7 2 (0.65%) Sybase
8 1 (0.32%) Charles River
8 1 (0.32%) SimCorp
8 1 (0.32%) Solace
8 1 (0.32%) TIBCO