Kdb+ Contracts in London

Kx Systems Kdb+
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Kdb+ skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kdb+ 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 389 469 598
Rank change year-on-year +80 +129 -99
Contract jobs citing Kdb+ 11 13 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.062% 0.052% 0.016%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.28% 0.25% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 4
10th Percentile - £688 -
25th Percentile £650 £753 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £825 £763
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% +8.20% +17.31%
75th Percentile £800 £897 £850
90th Percentile - £1,025 £895
England median daily rate £700 £825 £763
% change year-on-year -15.15% +8.20% +17.31%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
London

Kdb+ falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,964 5,127 8,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.42% 20.39% 20.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,948 3,762 5,974
10th Percentile £375 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £475 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £587
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -2.00% +8.66%
75th Percentile £715 £700 £700
90th Percentile £850 £800 £788
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 51 37
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £26.69
25th Percentile £25.63 £28.95 £34.25
Median hourly rate £48.00 £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +4.76% +85.43%
75th Percentile £54.03 £81.25 £68.75
90th Percentile £70.85 £90.00 £75.34
England median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £42.50
% change year-on-year -31.73% +37.86% +72.48%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kdb+ in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Kdb+ in London

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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 Kdb+ within the London 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
Central London +39 1 £700 -13.85%
Kdb+
England

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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 5 (45.45%) Apache Airflow
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) KDB
2 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (9.09%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 6 (54.55%) Front Office
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Developer
1 10 (90.91%) KDB Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Analytics Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Unix Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Equities
2 2 (18.18%) Algorithms
3 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
3 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Analytics
2 6 (54.55%) Data Modelling
3 5 (45.45%) API Design
3 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
4 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
4 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) Electronic Trading
5 1 (9.09%) Agile
5 1 (9.09%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (9.09%) Data Integration
5 1 (9.09%) Data Management
5 1 (9.09%) Data Validation
5 1 (9.09%) ETL
5 1 (9.09%) High-Frequency Trading
5 1 (9.09%) Mathematical Modelling
5 1 (9.09%) Mathematics
5 1 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (9.09%) PnL Attribution
5 1 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) C#
1 5 (45.45%) Java
1 5 (45.45%) Python
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) Data Quality