Kx Systems KDB
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 502 651 816
Rank change year-on-year +149 +165 -146
Contract jobs citing KDB 76 65 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.11% 0.057%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.04% 0.61% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 42 41
10th Percentile £650 £600 £625
25th Percentile £775 £634 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £775 £825
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -6.06% +22.22%
75th Percentile £963 £888 £850
90th Percentile £1,043 £995 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £525

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,337 10,575 17,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.91% 17.90% 20.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,241 7,524 12,672
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 186 186
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £14.78
25th Percentile £20.98 £33.05 £21.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £43.38
Median % change year-on-year -32.54% +36.70% +60.89%
75th Percentile £58.88 £73.41 £62.41
90th Percentile £72.50 £81.25 £74.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £55.70 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.19% +59.14% +42.86%

KDB
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for KDB in the UK

KDB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for KDB in the UK

KDB
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for KDB in the UK

KDB
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing KDB within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
London +128 76 £850 +9.68% 13
England +122 76 £850 +9.68% 13
Work from Home +126 17 £800 - 4

KDB
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 9 (11.84%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (9.21%) SAS
Business Applications
1 8 (10.53%) ION MarketView
2 1 (1.32%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.63%) AWS
1 2 (2.63%) GCP
1 2 (2.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (1.32%) npm
2 1 (1.32%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (19.74%) Kdb+
2 8 (10.53%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.63%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.63%) Hazelcast
3 2 (2.63%) Looker
3 2 (2.63%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.63%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.32%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Bitbucket
1 4 (5.26%) TeamCity
2 3 (3.95%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.95%) JIRA
3 2 (2.63%) Gradle
3 2 (2.63%) IntelliJ
3 2 (2.63%) Terragrunt
4 1 (1.32%) Babel
4 1 (1.32%) Git
4 1 (1.32%) webpack
General
1 41 (53.95%) Finance
2 27 (35.53%) Front Office
3 18 (23.68%) Banking
3 18 (23.68%) Social Skills
4 13 (17.11%) Investment Banking
5 11 (14.47%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 68 (89.47%) Developer
2 35 (46.05%) KDB Developer
3 31 (40.79%) Java Developer
4 26 (34.21%) Senior
5 25 (32.89%) Senior Developer
6 12 (15.79%) Senior Java Developer
7 9 (11.84%) Electronic Trading Developer
7 9 (11.84%) Low Latency Java Developer
8 7 (9.21%) Analytics Developer
8 7 (9.21%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
9 4 (5.26%) Unix Developer
10 3 (3.95%) Data Engineer
10 3 (3.95%) Software Engineer
11 2 (2.63%) Analyst
11 2 (2.63%) C++ Developer
11 2 (2.63%) Developer Analyst
11 2 (2.63%) Investment Banking Java Developer
11 2 (2.63%) Market Data Analyst
11 2 (2.63%) Market Data Developer
11 2 (2.63%) Pricing Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.84%) Spring
2 8 (10.53%) FIX Protocol
3 7 (9.21%) Middleware
4 6 (7.89%) Rendezvous
5 3 (3.95%) React
6 2 (2.63%) Guice
6 2 (2.63%) HTML
6 2 (2.63%) HTML5
6 2 (2.63%) JSON
6 2 (2.63%) Node.js
6 2 (2.63%) OpenFin
6 2 (2.63%) REST
6 2 (2.63%) XML
7 1 (1.32%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.32%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 26 (34.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 22 (28.95%) Fixed Income
3 14 (18.42%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (17.11%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (15.79%) Algorithms
6 10 (13.16%) Equities
7 9 (11.84%) Data Structures
8 8 (10.53%) Derivative
9 7 (9.21%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (5.26%) Management Information System
11 2 (2.63%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (2.63%) Virtual Team
12 1 (1.32%) Equity Derivative
12 1 (1.32%) Grid Computing
12 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 19 (25.00%) Unix
2 17 (22.37%) Linux
3 4 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (53.95%) Electronic Trading
2 34 (44.74%) Analytics
3 28 (36.84%) Test Automation
4 26 (34.21%) Low Latency
5 24 (31.58%) Agile
5 24 (31.58%) Multithreading
6 22 (28.95%) Continuous Integration
7 21 (27.63%) OO
8 19 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
9 17 (22.37%) E-Commerce
10 16 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (18.42%) SDLC
12 13 (17.11%) Computer Science
12 13 (17.11%) Multithreaded Programming
13 11 (14.47%) CI/CD
13 11 (14.47%) Data Modelling
13 11 (14.47%) TDD
14 10 (13.16%) API Design
14 10 (13.16%) Data Analytics
15 9 (11.84%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (63.16%) Java
2 21 (27.63%) Python
3 17 (22.37%) SQL
4 15 (19.74%) C#
5 8 (10.53%) C++
6 3 (3.95%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.63%) R
7 2 (2.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (10.53%) Degree
2 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.32%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.47%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.32%) MiFID
Vendors
1 21 (27.63%) ION Trading
2 8 (10.53%) Solace
3 6 (7.89%) TIBCO
4 4 (5.26%) Google
5 3 (3.95%) Tradeweb
6 2 (2.63%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.63%) MarketAxess
7 1 (1.32%) Oracle