KDB Contracts

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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 493 609 785
Rank change year-on-year +116 +176 -88
Contract jobs citing KDB 82 73 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.13% 0.061%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.12% 0.74% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 47 45
10th Percentile £690 £600 £613
25th Percentile £775 £681 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £825 £825
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% - +22.22%
75th Percentile £975 £900 £850
90th Percentile £1,090 £985 £910
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 7,300 9,902 17,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.95% 17.66% 19.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,235 7,035 12,303
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% -0.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £754 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 179 180
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.45
25th Percentile £20.77 £33.70 £21.69
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +69.81%
75th Percentile £56.88 £73.75 £63.60
90th Percentile £72.75 £80.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £58.59 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.26% +67.40% +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 1 June 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 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
London +108 82 £850 +3.03% 15
England +98 82 £850 +3.03% 15
Work from Home +100 17 £800 -11.11% 8

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 7 (8.54%) SAS
2 6 (7.32%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 11 (13.41%) ION MarketView
2 1 (1.22%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.44%) AWS
1 2 (2.44%) GCP
1 2 (2.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (1.22%) npm
2 1 (1.22%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.41%) Kdb+
2 8 (9.76%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.44%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.44%) Looker
4 2 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.22%) Hazelcast
5 1 (1.22%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.22%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.22%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 4 (4.88%) Bitbucket
1 4 (4.88%) TeamCity
2 3 (3.66%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.66%) JIRA
3 2 (2.44%) Gradle
3 2 (2.44%) IntelliJ
3 2 (2.44%) Terragrunt
4 1 (1.22%) Babel
4 1 (1.22%) Git
4 1 (1.22%) webpack
General
1 42 (51.22%) Finance
2 24 (29.27%) Front Office
3 23 (28.05%) Social Skills
4 18 (21.95%) Banking
5 12 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (13.41%) Investment Banking
7 6 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 74 (90.24%) Developer
2 36 (43.90%) Java Developer
2 36 (43.90%) KDB Developer
3 32 (39.02%) Senior
4 31 (37.80%) Senior Developer
5 15 (18.29%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (15.85%) Electronic Trading Developer
7 9 (10.98%) Low Latency Java Developer
8 8 (9.76%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
9 6 (7.32%) Analytics Developer
10 3 (3.66%) Data Engineer
10 3 (3.66%) Pricing Developer
10 3 (3.66%) Software Engineer
10 3 (3.66%) Unix Developer
11 2 (2.44%) Analyst
11 2 (2.44%) C++/Java Developer
11 2 (2.44%) DevOps Engineer
11 2 (2.44%) Java Analyst Developer
11 2 (2.44%) Java Engineer
11 2 (2.44%) Market Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.20%) Spring
2 9 (10.98%) FIX Protocol
3 8 (9.76%) Middleware
4 7 (8.54%) Rendezvous
5 2 (2.44%) JSON
5 2 (2.44%) Node.js
5 2 (2.44%) React
5 2 (2.44%) REST
5 2 (2.44%) XML
6 1 (1.22%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.22%) Guice
6 1 (1.22%) HTML
6 1 (1.22%) HTML5
6 1 (1.22%) OpenFin
6 1 (1.22%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 32 (39.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 24 (29.27%) Fixed Income
3 18 (21.95%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (20.73%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (14.63%) Algorithms
6 9 (10.98%) Data Structures
7 8 (9.76%) Derivative
7 8 (9.76%) Equities
8 7 (8.54%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (6.10%) Management Information System
10 4 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (2.44%) Virtual Team
12 1 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (1.22%) Equity Derivative
12 1 (1.22%) Grid Computing
12 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 18 (21.95%) Linux
2 15 (18.29%) Unix
3 3 (3.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (52.44%) Electronic Trading
2 37 (45.12%) Analytics
3 30 (36.59%) Low Latency
4 28 (34.15%) Multithreading
4 28 (34.15%) Test Automation
5 27 (32.93%) Agile
6 25 (30.49%) Continuous Integration
7 23 (28.05%) OO
8 22 (26.83%) E-Commerce
8 22 (26.83%) User Acceptance Testing
9 20 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (20.73%) Multithreaded Programming
11 15 (18.29%) Data Analytics
11 15 (18.29%) SDLC
12 12 (14.63%) TDD
13 11 (13.41%) CI/CD
14 10 (12.20%) Computer Science
14 10 (12.20%) Data Management
14 10 (12.20%) Data Modelling
14 10 (12.20%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 49 (59.76%) Java
2 16 (19.51%) Python
3 13 (15.85%) SQL
4 11 (13.41%) C#
5 8 (9.76%) C++
6 2 (2.44%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.44%) R
7 1 (1.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (6.10%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.20%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.22%) MiFID
Vendors
1 25 (30.49%) ION Trading
2 8 (9.76%) Solace
3 7 (8.54%) TIBCO
4 4 (4.88%) Tradeweb
5 3 (3.66%) Google
6 2 (2.44%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.44%) MarketAxess
7 1 (1.22%) Oracle