Equities Contracts in England

Equities
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Equities over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 236 360 332
Rank change year-on-year +124 -28 +13
Contract jobs citing Equities 371 300 578
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.99% 0.64% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.27% 1.90% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 257 512
10th Percentile £550 £475 £538
25th Percentile £663 £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £788 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £884 £800 £738
90th Percentile £888 £913 £825
UK median daily rate £775 £700 £650
% change year-on-year +10.71% +7.69% +8.33%
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 median hourly rate - - £86.50

All Generic Skills
England

Equities falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,349 15,786 23,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.26% 33.56% 33.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,319 11,005 17,096
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 850 549 600
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.39 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.04
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Equities
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Equities as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Equities in England

Equities
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Equities in England

Equities
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Equities in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Equities in England

Equities
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Equities in England.

Hourly rate trend for Equities in England

Equities
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Equities within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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 +103 365 £788 +12.50% 106
North of England +18 2 - - 2
North West +16 2 - - 2
South East +11 1 - - 2
Equities
UK

Equities
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 182 (49.06%) Apache Airflow
2 176 (47.44%) Apache
3 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.27%) MQSeries
Applications
1 6 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (3.23%) Aladdin
2 4 (1.08%) Markit EDM
2 4 (1.08%) thinkFolio
3 3 (0.81%) IntelliMatch
3 3 (0.81%) ION Anvil
4 1 (0.27%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 248 (66.85%) AWS
2 156 (42.05%) GCP
3 145 (39.08%) dbt
4 127 (34.23%) Snowflake
5 78 (21.02%) Azure
6 8 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (2.16%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (2.16%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (2.16%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.08%) Cloud Run
7 4 (1.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.27%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (45.28%) Apache Ignite
2 145 (39.08%) Apache Arrow
2 145 (39.08%) Dremio
3 137 (36.93%) Amazon Athena
4 135 (36.39%) Data Lake
5 34 (9.16%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (3.50%) Relational Database
7 8 (2.16%) Big Data
7 8 (2.16%) KDB
7 8 (2.16%) Power BI
7 8 (2.16%) Tableau
8 6 (1.62%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.35%) Kdb+
10 4 (1.08%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.81%) Data Mart
12 1 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 16 (4.31%) Cypress.io
2 10 (2.70%) Git
3 9 (2.43%) Selenium
4 7 (1.89%) JIRA
4 7 (1.89%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.35%) Maven
6 4 (1.08%) Eclipse
6 4 (1.08%) Gradle
6 4 (1.08%) IntelliJ
6 4 (1.08%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (1.08%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.81%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.81%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.81%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.27%) Postman
8 1 (0.27%) TestComplete
General
1 316 (85.18%) Finance
2 298 (80.32%) Front Office
3 253 (68.19%) Banking
4 186 (50.13%) Investment Banking
5 24 (6.47%) Social Skills
6 12 (3.23%) Back Office
7 11 (2.96%) Prime Brokerage
8 9 (2.43%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.08%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.81%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
11 2 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.54%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.27%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 159 (42.86%) Developer
2 139 (37.47%) Software Engineer
3 97 (26.15%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 88 (23.72%) Python Engineer
4 88 (23.72%) Python Software Engineer
5 75 (20.22%) Python Developer
6 67 (18.06%) Analyst
7 61 (16.44%) Lead
7 61 (16.44%) Senior
8 57 (15.36%) Finance Manager
9 52 (14.02%) Java Engineer
10 50 (13.48%) Business Analyst
10 50 (13.48%) Senior Software Engineer
11 48 (12.94%) Java Software Engineer
12 46 (12.40%) AWS Engineer
12 46 (12.40%) AWS Software Engineer
13 38 (10.24%) Architect
13 38 (10.24%) Software Developer
14 37 (9.97%) Solutions Architect
14 37 (9.97%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (47.44%) gRPC
1 176 (47.44%) Protocol Buffers
2 143 (38.54%) Pandas
3 137 (36.93%) NumPy
4 133 (35.85%) SciPy
5 69 (18.60%) React
6 56 (15.09%) Redux
7 40 (10.78%) Material-UI
8 34 (9.16%) .NET
9 21 (5.66%) .NET Core
10 11 (2.96%) AngularJS
10 11 (2.96%) WPF
11 10 (2.70%) Vue
12 8 (2.16%) FIX Protocol
13 7 (1.89%) ASP.NET
13 7 (1.89%) ASP.NET Core
14 6 (1.62%) PySpark
15 4 (1.08%) Matplotlib
16 3 (0.81%) Middleware
16 3 (0.81%) Murex MxML
Miscellaneous
1 281 (75.74%) Fixed Income
2 256 (69.00%) Derivative
3 250 (67.39%) Hedge funds
4 226 (60.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 37 (9.97%) Product Ownership
6 16 (4.31%) Pricing Data
7 9 (2.43%) Equity Derivative
8 8 (2.16%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.08%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.08%) Reference Data
12 3 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (0.81%) DTCC
12 3 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.54%) Clustering
13 2 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.54%) Market Risk
13 2 (0.54%) TWAP
13 2 (0.54%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.23%) Unix
2 8 (2.16%) Linux
3 7 (1.89%) Windows
4 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (70.08%) Asset Management
2 258 (69.54%) Agile
3 219 (59.03%) Software Engineering
4 202 (54.45%) Investment Management
5 68 (18.33%) Line Management
6 67 (18.06%) Artificial Intelligence
6 67 (18.06%) Machine Learning
7 54 (14.56%) Analytics
7 54 (14.56%) Full Stack Development
8 43 (11.59%) Greeks
9 39 (10.51%) Automated Trading
10 33 (8.89%) Fintech
11 26 (7.01%) TDD
12 25 (6.74%) DevOps
13 23 (6.20%) Test Automation
14 21 (5.66%) Product Management
15 18 (4.85%) Roadmaps
16 15 (4.04%) Quantitative Research
17 14 (3.77%) Problem-Solving
18 13 (3.50%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 245 (66.04%) Python
2 196 (52.83%) TypeScript
3 169 (45.55%) Java
4 168 (45.28%) JavaScript
5 106 (28.57%) SQL
6 57 (15.36%) C#
7 14 (3.77%) C++
8 10 (2.70%) R
9 9 (2.43%) Scala
10 7 (1.89%) VBA
11 6 (1.62%) Perl
11 6 (1.62%) Ruby
12 4 (1.08%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.54%) Bash
14 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (4.85%) Degree
2 8 (2.16%) Master's Degree
3 7 (1.89%) Numerate Degree
4 4 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.27%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (12.94%) Data Quality
2 30 (8.09%) QA
3 5 (1.35%) MiFID
4 4 (1.08%) IFRS
5 3 (0.81%) EMIR
6 2 (0.54%) Basel III
6 2 (0.54%) GAAP
7 1 (0.27%) FINREP
7 1 (0.27%) IFRS 9
Systems Management
1 4 (1.08%) Control-M
2 2 (0.54%) Ansible
2 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 36 (9.70%) Bloomberg
2 34 (9.16%) Google
3 12 (3.23%) BISAM
4 8 (2.16%) Reuters
5 5 (1.35%) Oracle
6 3 (0.81%) ION Trading
6 3 (0.81%) Murex
7 2 (0.54%) Splunk
7 2 (0.54%) Sybase
8 1 (0.27%) Charles River
8 1 (0.27%) IBM
8 1 (0.27%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.27%) SimCorp
8 1 (0.27%) Solace
8 1 (0.27%) TIBCO