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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 276 396 390
Rank change year-on-year +120 -6 -8
Contract jobs citing Equities 351 313 581
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 0.56% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.71% 1.68% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 267 507
10th Percentile £550 £475 £538
25th Percentile £650 £575 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £850 £800 £738
90th Percentile £888 £900 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £539 £865 £515
% change year-on-year -37.75% +67.96% +17.98%
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 12,955 18,685 29,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.09% 33.33% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,317 12,877 20,364
10th Percentile £270 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 922 612 691
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.18 £10.63 £17.19
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.13 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +58.19% -17.99% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £74.93 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.61 £22.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year +57.30% +3.53% -7.61%

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 1 June 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 8 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 1 June 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 +113 349 £750 +7.14% 119
London +102 343 £750 +7.14% 112
Work from Home +191 190 £800 +18.52% 57
UK excluding London +30 5 £539 -37.75% 5
Scotland +33 2 £539 -13.84%
North of England +24 2 - - 2
North West +22 2 - - 2
South East +7 1 - - 2

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
1 159 (45.30%) Apache Airflow
2 150 (42.74%) Apache
3 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.28%) MQSeries
Applications
1 6 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 14 (3.99%) Aladdin
2 4 (1.14%) Markit EDM
2 4 (1.14%) thinkFolio
3 3 (0.85%) IntelliMatch
3 3 (0.85%) ION Anvil
4 1 (0.28%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 224 (63.82%) AWS
2 144 (41.03%) GCP
3 119 (33.90%) dbt
4 103 (29.34%) Snowflake
5 82 (23.36%) Azure
6 6 (1.71%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.14%) Cloud Run
7 4 (1.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.28%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (41.03%) Apache Ignite
2 119 (33.90%) Apache Arrow
2 119 (33.90%) Dremio
3 113 (32.19%) Amazon Athena
4 109 (31.05%) Data Lake
5 34 (9.69%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (3.70%) Relational Database
7 8 (2.28%) KDB
8 6 (1.71%) Big Data
8 6 (1.71%) Kdb+
8 6 (1.71%) Power BI
8 6 (1.71%) SQL Server
8 6 (1.71%) Tableau
9 4 (1.14%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.85%) Data Mart
11 1 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 16 (4.56%) Cypress.io
2 10 (2.85%) JIRA
3 9 (2.56%) Selenium
4 7 (1.99%) Visual Studio
5 6 (1.71%) Git
6 4 (1.14%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (1.14%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.85%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.85%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.85%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.28%) Postman
8 1 (0.28%) TestComplete
General
1 298 (84.90%) Finance
2 272 (77.49%) Front Office
3 228 (64.96%) Banking
4 159 (45.30%) Investment Banking
5 22 (6.27%) Social Skills
6 13 (3.70%) Prime Brokerage
7 12 (3.42%) Back Office
8 9 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (1.42%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
10 4 (1.14%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.57%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.28%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 150 (42.74%) Developer
2 127 (36.18%) Software Engineer
3 91 (25.93%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 80 (22.79%) Python Engineer
4 80 (22.79%) Python Software Engineer
5 73 (20.80%) Python Developer
6 66 (18.80%) Analyst
7 59 (16.81%) Finance Manager
8 55 (15.67%) Senior
9 53 (15.10%) Lead
10 50 (14.25%) Business Analyst
11 44 (12.54%) Java Engineer
11 44 (12.54%) Senior Software Engineer
12 40 (11.40%) Java Software Engineer
13 36 (10.26%) AWS Engineer
13 36 (10.26%) AWS Software Engineer
14 34 (9.69%) React Developer
15 30 (8.55%) Architect
15 30 (8.55%) Finance Business Analyst
15 30 (8.55%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (43.30%) gRPC
1 152 (43.30%) Protocol Buffers
2 119 (33.90%) Pandas
3 113 (32.19%) NumPy
4 109 (31.05%) SciPy
5 70 (19.94%) React
6 58 (16.52%) Redux
7 40 (11.40%) Material-UI
8 36 (10.26%) .NET
9 21 (5.98%) .NET Core
10 12 (3.42%) AngularJS
10 12 (3.42%) Vue
11 11 (3.13%) WPF
12 9 (2.56%) ASP.NET
12 9 (2.56%) ASP.NET Core
13 5 (1.42%) FIX Protocol
14 4 (1.14%) Matplotlib
15 3 (0.85%) Middleware
15 3 (0.85%) Murex MxML
16 1 (0.28%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 259 (73.79%) Fixed Income
2 233 (66.38%) Derivative
3 229 (65.24%) Hedge funds
4 201 (57.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 35 (9.97%) Product Ownership
6 14 (3.99%) Pricing Data
7 9 (2.56%) Equity Derivative
8 7 (1.99%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.42%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.14%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.14%) Reference Data
12 3 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (0.85%) DTCC
12 3 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.57%) Clustering
13 2 (0.57%) Credit Derivative
13 2 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.57%) Market Risk
14 1 (0.28%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.70%) Unix
2 8 (2.28%) Linux
3 7 (1.99%) Windows
4 2 (0.57%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (68.38%) Asset Management
2 237 (67.52%) Agile
3 198 (56.41%) Investment Management
4 197 (56.13%) Software Engineering
5 67 (19.09%) Artificial Intelligence
5 67 (19.09%) Machine Learning
6 55 (15.67%) Full Stack Development
7 52 (14.81%) Analytics
7 52 (14.81%) Line Management
8 39 (11.11%) Automated Trading
9 37 (10.54%) Greeks
10 35 (9.97%) Fintech
11 30 (8.55%) DevOps
12 26 (7.41%) Test Automation
13 24 (6.84%) TDD
14 20 (5.70%) Product Management
15 19 (5.41%) Roadmaps
16 17 (4.84%) Quantitative Research
17 13 (3.70%) Portfolio Management
17 13 (3.70%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 221 (62.96%) Python
2 173 (49.29%) TypeScript
3 145 (41.31%) JavaScript
4 141 (40.17%) Java
5 95 (27.07%) SQL
6 60 (17.09%) C#
7 14 (3.99%) C++
8 12 (3.42%) R
9 9 (2.56%) Scala
10 7 (1.99%) VBA
11 6 (1.71%) Perl
11 6 (1.71%) Ruby
12 4 (1.14%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.57%) Bash
14 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (6.27%) Degree
2 8 (2.28%) Master's Degree
3 7 (1.99%) Numerate Degree
4 4 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.85%) ISEB
6 2 (0.57%) ISEB Practitioner
7 1 (0.28%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (12.25%) Data Quality
2 35 (9.97%) QA
3 5 (1.42%) MiFID
4 4 (1.14%) IFRS
5 3 (0.85%) EMIR
6 2 (0.57%) Basel III
6 2 (0.57%) GAAP
6 2 (0.57%) PMO
7 1 (0.28%) FINREP
7 1 (0.28%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (1.14%) Control-M
2 2 (0.57%) Ansible
2 2 (0.57%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 34 (9.69%) Google
2 30 (8.55%) Bloomberg
3 12 (3.42%) BISAM
4 5 (1.42%) Oracle
5 3 (0.85%) ION Trading
5 3 (0.85%) Murex
6 2 (0.57%) Splunk
6 2 (0.57%) Sybase
7 1 (0.28%) Charles River
7 1 (0.28%) IBM
7 1 (0.28%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.28%) SimCorp
7 1 (0.28%) Solace
7 1 (0.28%) TIBCO