Equities
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Equities over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 445 607 448
Rank change year-on-year +162 -159 -73
Permanent jobs citing Equities 541 412 1,253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.40% 0.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.55% 0.93% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 527 348 1,088
10th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £77,500
25th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 £105,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +21.05%
75th Percentile £146,250 £132,500 £136,250
90th Percentile £165,000 £187,500 £162,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £20,000 £85,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -76.47% +30.77% +4.00%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,988 44,314 74,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 42.70% 47.35%
Number of salaries quoted 23,043 23,940 34,254
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Equities.

Salary trend for Equities in the UK

Equities
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Equities over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Equities in the UK

Equities
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Equities within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +168 537 £125,000 +19.05% 103
London +150 534 £125,000 +19.05% 99
Work from Home +251 352 £120,000 +31.51% 24
UK excluding London +14 3 £20,000 -76.47% 8
South West -21 3 £20,000 -76.47% 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
1 229 (42.33%) Apache Airflow
2 208 (38.45%) Apache
3 1 (0.18%) Confluence
3 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.37%) Adobe After Effects
2 2 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.37%) InDesign
2 2 (0.37%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 15 (2.77%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.74%) ION Anvil
3 2 (0.37%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.37%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.18%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 415 (76.71%) AWS
2 275 (50.83%) GCP
3 202 (37.34%) Azure
4 181 (33.46%) dbt
5 159 (29.39%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.18%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.18%) GitHub
6 1 (0.18%) OCI
6 1 (0.18%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.48%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (38.45%) Apache Ignite
2 181 (33.46%) Amazon Athena
2 181 (33.46%) Apache Arrow
2 181 (33.46%) Dremio
3 158 (29.21%) Data Lake
4 36 (6.65%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (0.92%) KDB
5 5 (0.92%) Kdb+
5 5 (0.92%) Tick Data
6 4 (0.74%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.37%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.18%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.18%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (1.66%) Jenkins
1 9 (1.66%) JIRA
2 8 (1.48%) GitLab
3 4 (0.74%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.18%) Git
4 1 (0.18%) Gradle
4 1 (0.18%) Maven
General
1 472 (87.25%) Finance
2 460 (85.03%) Front Office
3 253 (46.77%) Banking
4 204 (37.71%) Investment Banking
5 48 (8.87%) Back Office
6 44 (8.13%) Social Skills
7 12 (2.22%) Financial Institution
8 4 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.37%) Advertising
9 2 (0.37%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (0.37%) Marketing
10 1 (0.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.18%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.18%) Law
10 1 (0.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 293 (54.16%) Developer
2 230 (42.51%) Software Engineer
3 176 (32.53%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 130 (24.03%) Senior
5 118 (21.81%) Python Developer
6 107 (19.78%) Python Engineer
6 107 (19.78%) Python Software Engineer
7 105 (19.41%) Senior Software Engineer
8 103 (19.04%) Finance Manager
9 96 (17.74%) .NET Developer
10 89 (16.45%) Lead
11 84 (15.53%) .NET Software Developer
11 84 (15.53%) .NET Software Engineer
12 74 (13.68%) Senior Developer
13 69 (12.75%) Analyst
14 62 (11.46%) Business Analyst
15 59 (10.91%) Quantitative Developer
16 58 (10.72%) Senior Software Developer
17 57 (10.54%) Java Engineer
17 57 (10.54%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 227 (41.96%) gRPC
1 227 (41.96%) Protocol Buffers
2 184 (34.01%) Pandas
3 172 (31.79%) NumPy
4 171 (31.61%) SciPy
5 153 (28.28%) React
6 129 (23.84%) Redux
7 110 (20.33%) .NET
8 96 (17.74%) AngularJS
8 96 (17.74%) Vue
9 57 (10.54%) .NET Core
10 48 (8.87%) ASP.NET
10 48 (8.87%) ASP.NET Core
10 48 (8.87%) Material-UI
11 16 (2.96%) FIX Protocol
12 5 (0.92%) Middleware
13 4 (0.74%) Rendezvous
14 3 (0.55%) J2SE
14 3 (0.55%) XML
15 2 (0.37%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 448 (82.81%) Fixed Income
2 410 (75.79%) Hedge funds
3 385 (71.16%) Derivative
4 382 (70.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 50 (9.24%) Product Ownership
6 18 (3.33%) Pricing Data
7 17 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (2.22%) FPGA
9 8 (1.48%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.29%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.11%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
13 3 (0.55%) Equity Derivative
14 2 (0.37%) Animation
14 2 (0.37%) Data Centre
14 2 (0.37%) Graphic Design
14 2 (0.37%) OTC Derivatives
15 1 (0.18%) Cloud Native
15 1 (0.18%) Renewable Energy
15 1 (0.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.33%) Linux
2 8 (1.48%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (78.37%) Asset Management
2 391 (72.27%) Agile
3 370 (68.39%) Software Engineering
4 369 (68.21%) Investment Management
5 96 (17.74%) Machine Learning
6 86 (15.90%) Artificial Intelligence
7 80 (14.79%) Full Stack Development
8 78 (14.42%) Analytics
8 78 (14.42%) Fintech
9 72 (13.31%) Line Management
10 69 (12.75%) Greeks
11 56 (10.35%) Quantitative Research
12 54 (9.98%) TDD
13 46 (8.50%) DevOps
14 45 (8.32%) Automated Trading
15 38 (7.02%) Product Management
16 34 (6.28%) Low Latency
16 34 (6.28%) Roadmaps
17 33 (6.10%) Portfolio Management
18 31 (5.73%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 416 (76.89%) Python
2 311 (57.49%) TypeScript
3 287 (53.05%) JavaScript
4 220 (40.67%) Java
5 146 (26.99%) SQL
6 114 (21.07%) C#
7 39 (7.21%) R
8 33 (6.10%) C++
9 12 (2.22%) Ruby
9 12 (2.22%) Scala
10 6 (1.11%) VBA
11 1 (0.18%) C
11 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.18%) XPath
Qualifications
1 29 (5.36%) Degree
2 9 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.48%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (12.75%) Data Quality
2 43 (7.95%) QA
3 4 (0.74%) SLA
4 1 (0.18%) COREP
4 1 (0.18%) IFRS
4 1 (0.18%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 3 (0.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (1.48%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.55%) Control-M
3 2 (0.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 58 (10.72%) Bloomberg
2 36 (6.65%) Google
3 14 (2.59%) BISAM
4 4 (0.74%) ION Trading
4 4 (0.74%) Oracle
4 4 (0.74%) TIBCO
5 2 (0.37%) Adobe
6 1 (0.18%) FactSet
6 1 (0.18%) IBM
6 1 (0.18%) Murex
6 1 (0.18%) Progress
6 1 (0.18%) Refinitiv
6 1 (0.18%) Solace
6 1 (0.18%) Sybase
6 1 (0.18%) Vertica