KDB Contracts in Central London

Kx Systems KDB
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 168 193
Rank change year-on-year +48 +25 -26
Contract jobs citing KDB 16 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.67% 0.080% 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.02% 0.39% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 3
10th Percentile £701 £773 -
25th Percentile £822 £788 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £825 £700
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +17.86% +3.70%
75th Percentile £879 £881 £779
90th Percentile £1,213 £885 £811
London median daily rate £850 £825 £825
% change year-on-year +3.03% - +22.22%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Central London

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 advertised in Central London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 529 773 909
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.15% 20.72% 20.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 492 697
10th Percentile £407 £413 £420
25th Percentile £475 £500 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £703 £730 £713
90th Percentile £785 £800 £800
London median daily rate £551 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -4.17% -1.71% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 5
10th Percentile - £42.50 £39.45
25th Percentile £46.75 £49.38 £47.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £84.09 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.32% +52.89% +223.53%
75th Percentile £50.25 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £48.00 £52.50 £52.00
% change year-on-year -8.57% +0.96% +68.76%

KDB
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for KDB in Central London

KDB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for KDB in Central London

KDB
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing KDB in Central London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for KDB in Central London

KDB
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing KDB within the Central London region over the 6 months to 3 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
City of London +54 16 £850 +3.03%
KDB
London

KDB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) ION MarketView
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 2 (12.50%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (56.25%) Finance
2 7 (43.75%) Banking
2 7 (43.75%) Investment Banking
3 6 (37.50%) Front Office
4 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Developer
2 6 (37.50%) Java Developer
3 5 (31.25%) KDB Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Senior
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Analyst Developer
5 2 (12.50%) C++ Developer
5 2 (12.50%) C++/Java Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Data Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Developer Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Java Analyst Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Java Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Market Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Market Data Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Market Data Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Pricing Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) FIX Protocol
1 2 (12.50%) Middleware
1 2 (12.50%) Rendezvous
1 2 (12.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (18.75%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (18.75%) Equities
2 3 (18.75%) Fixed Income
3 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Unix
3 2 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Electronic Trading
1 5 (31.25%) Low Latency
2 4 (25.00%) Algorithmic Trading
2 4 (25.00%) OO
2 4 (25.00%) TDD
3 3 (18.75%) Agile
3 3 (18.75%) Analytics
3 3 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (18.75%) E-Commerce
3 3 (18.75%) Multithreaded Programming
3 3 (18.75%) Multithreading
4 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Line Management
4 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (12.50%) Reinforcement Learning
4 2 (12.50%) SDLC
4 2 (12.50%) Statistical Modelling
4 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
4 2 (12.50%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) Java
2 6 (37.50%) SQL
3 5 (31.25%) C#
3 5 (31.25%) Python
4 2 (12.50%) C++
4 2 (12.50%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) ION Trading
2 2 (12.50%) Bloomberg
2 2 (12.50%) Solace
2 2 (12.50%) TIBCO