Equities Contracts in London

Equities
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Equities over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 220 203
Rank change year-on-year +96 -17 -6
Contract jobs citing Equities 341 305 569
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.95% 1.17% 1.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.84% 3.26% 4.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 265 504
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 £725
90th Percentile £888 £875 £825
England median daily rate £750 £700 £650
% change year-on-year +7.14% +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 - - -
England median hourly rate - - £86.50

All Generic Skills
London

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 advertised in London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,841 9,345 14,187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.42% 35.92% 36.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,137 6,749 10,347
10th Percentile £313 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £713
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £571 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% +3.77% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 112 201
10th Percentile £15.49 £18.93 £17.99
25th Percentile £18.79 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -19.54% +33.85%
75th Percentile £50.25 £63.88 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.25 £84.88 £68.75
England median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +52.15% -15.15% +1.92%

Equities
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Equities in London

Equities
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Equities in London

Equities
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Equities in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Equities in London

Equities
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Equities in London

Equities
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Equities within the London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +19 20 £675 -3.57% 6
Equities
England

Equities
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 148 (43.40%) Apache Airflow
2 132 (38.71%) Apache
3 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.29%) MQSeries
Applications
1 6 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 15 (4.40%) Aladdin
2 4 (1.17%) Markit EDM
2 4 (1.17%) thinkFolio
3 3 (0.88%) IntelliMatch
3 3 (0.88%) ION Anvil
4 1 (0.29%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 209 (61.29%) AWS
2 143 (41.94%) GCP
3 101 (29.62%) dbt
4 89 (26.10%) Snowflake
5 86 (25.22%) Azure
6 4 (1.17%) Cloud Run
6 4 (1.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (0.59%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.29%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (38.12%) Apache Ignite
2 101 (29.62%) Apache Arrow
2 101 (29.62%) Dremio
3 99 (29.03%) Amazon Athena
4 91 (26.69%) Data Lake
5 34 (9.97%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (4.11%) Relational Database
7 11 (3.23%) KDB
8 9 (2.64%) Kdb+
9 6 (1.76%) SQL Server
10 4 (1.17%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.88%) Big Data
11 3 (0.88%) Data Mart
12 2 (0.59%) Power BI
12 2 (0.59%) Tableau
13 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 16 (4.69%) Cypress.io
2 9 (2.64%) Selenium
3 8 (2.35%) JIRA
4 6 (1.76%) Git
4 6 (1.76%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.17%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (1.17%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.88%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.88%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.88%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.29%) Postman
7 1 (0.29%) TestComplete
General
1 286 (83.87%) Finance
2 264 (77.42%) Front Office
3 209 (61.29%) Banking
4 145 (42.52%) Investment Banking
5 19 (5.57%) Social Skills
6 14 (4.11%) Back Office
6 14 (4.11%) Prime Brokerage
7 7 (2.05%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (1.76%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
9 4 (1.17%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.59%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.29%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 156 (45.75%) Developer
2 118 (34.60%) Software Engineer
3 90 (26.39%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 73 (21.41%) Python Developer
4 73 (21.41%) Python Engineer
4 73 (21.41%) Python Software Engineer
5 62 (18.18%) Analyst
6 59 (17.30%) Finance Manager
7 51 (14.96%) Business Analyst
8 48 (14.08%) Lead
8 48 (14.08%) Senior
9 37 (10.85%) Java Engineer
10 36 (10.56%) Senior Software Engineer
11 34 (9.97%) React Developer
12 33 (9.68%) Java Software Engineer
13 30 (8.80%) .NET Developer
14 28 (8.21%) Architect
14 28 (8.21%) AWS Engineer
14 28 (8.21%) AWS Software Engineer
14 28 (8.21%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (40.47%) gRPC
1 138 (40.47%) Protocol Buffers
2 105 (30.79%) Pandas
3 99 (29.03%) NumPy
4 95 (27.86%) SciPy
5 71 (20.82%) React
6 59 (17.30%) Redux
7 40 (11.73%) Material-UI
8 39 (11.44%) .NET
9 21 (6.16%) .NET Core
10 13 (3.81%) AngularJS
10 13 (3.81%) Vue
11 12 (3.52%) WPF
12 10 (2.93%) ASP.NET
12 10 (2.93%) ASP.NET Core
13 5 (1.47%) FIX Protocol
14 4 (1.17%) Matplotlib
15 3 (0.88%) Middleware
15 3 (0.88%) Murex MxML
16 1 (0.29%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 247 (72.43%) Fixed Income
2 218 (63.93%) Derivative
3 216 (63.34%) Hedge funds
4 181 (53.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 32 (9.38%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.93%) Pricing Data
7 8 (2.35%) Equity Derivative
8 6 (1.76%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.76%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.17%) DTCC
9 4 (1.17%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.17%) Reference Data
10 3 (0.88%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.59%) Clustering
11 2 (0.59%) Credit Derivative
11 2 (0.59%) Market Risk
11 2 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.59%) Synthetic Equity
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.69%) Unix
2 8 (2.35%) Linux
3 7 (2.05%) Windows
4 4 (1.17%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (66.86%) Asset Management
2 224 (65.69%) Agile
3 190 (55.72%) Investment Management
4 187 (54.84%) Software Engineering
5 68 (19.94%) Artificial Intelligence
5 68 (19.94%) Machine Learning
6 56 (16.42%) Full Stack Development
7 50 (14.66%) Analytics
8 48 (14.08%) Line Management
9 39 (11.44%) Automated Trading
10 36 (10.56%) Fintech
11 31 (9.09%) Greeks
12 30 (8.80%) DevOps
13 28 (8.21%) Test Automation
14 25 (7.33%) TDD
15 20 (5.87%) Quantitative Research
15 20 (5.87%) Roadmaps
16 19 (5.57%) Product Management
17 14 (4.11%) Electronic Trading
18 13 (3.81%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 206 (60.41%) Python
2 160 (46.92%) TypeScript
3 133 (39.00%) JavaScript
4 131 (38.42%) Java
5 94 (27.57%) SQL
6 67 (19.65%) C#
7 14 (4.11%) R
8 13 (3.81%) C++
9 9 (2.64%) Scala
10 7 (2.05%) VBA
11 6 (1.76%) Perl
11 6 (1.76%) Ruby
12 4 (1.17%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.59%) Bash
14 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (6.16%) Degree
2 8 (2.35%) Master's Degree
3 6 (1.76%) Numerate Degree
4 4 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.29%) ISEB
5 1 (0.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (11.73%) Data Quality
2 34 (9.97%) QA
3 6 (1.76%) MiFID
4 4 (1.17%) EMIR
5 2 (0.59%) GAAP
6 1 (0.29%) Basel III
6 1 (0.29%) IFRS
System Software
1 2 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (1.17%) Control-M
2 2 (0.59%) Ansible
2 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 34 (9.97%) Google
2 32 (9.38%) Bloomberg
3 12 (3.52%) BISAM
4 5 (1.47%) Oracle
5 3 (0.88%) ION Trading
5 3 (0.88%) Murex
6 2 (0.59%) Splunk
6 2 (0.59%) Sybase
7 1 (0.29%) Charles River
7 1 (0.29%) IBM
7 1 (0.29%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.29%) SimCorp
7 1 (0.29%) Solace
7 1 (0.29%) TIBCO