KDB Contracts

Kx Systems KDB
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 512 620 813
Rank change year-on-year +108 +193 -112
Contract jobs citing KDB 82 77 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.14% 0.060%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.10% 0.79% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 50 44
10th Percentile £685 £600 £613
25th Percentile £775 £700 £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 £1,091 £1,000 £914
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £525

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,461 9,768 17,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.10% 17.58% 19.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,333 6,925 12,223
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +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 155 175 179
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.38
25th Percentile £20.77 £32.35 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year -31.73% +33.31% +62.78%
75th Percentile £54.56 £74.38 £63.30
90th Percentile £72.50 £81.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £56.95 £35.00
% change year-on-year -38.54% +62.71% +41.02%

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 11 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 11 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
England +109 82 £850 +3.03% 17
London +93 82 £850 +3.03% 15
Work from Home +87 17 £800 -11.11% 10

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 5 (6.10%) 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 5 (6.10%) 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%) Social Skills
3 23 (28.05%) Front Office
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 33 (40.24%) Senior
4 32 (39.02%) 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 5 (6.10%) Analytics Developer
10 3 (3.66%) Data Engineer
10 3 (3.66%) Pricing Developer
10 3 (3.66%) Software Engineer
11 2 (2.44%) Analyst
11 2 (2.44%) Analyst Developer
11 2 (2.44%) C++ Developer
11 2 (2.44%) Data Analyst
11 2 (2.44%) Developer Analyst
11 2 (2.44%) Java Software Engineer
11 2 (2.44%) Market Data 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
3 18 (21.95%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (14.63%) Algorithms
5 9 (10.98%) Data Structures
6 8 (9.76%) Derivative
7 7 (8.54%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (8.54%) Equities
8 5 (6.10%) Management Information System
9 4 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (2.44%) Virtual Team
11 1 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (1.22%) Equity Derivative
11 1 (1.22%) Grid Computing
11 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 18 (21.95%) Linux
2 14 (17.07%) Unix
3 3 (3.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (51.22%) Electronic Trading
2 37 (45.12%) Analytics
3 30 (36.59%) Low Latency
4 28 (34.15%) Multithreading
5 27 (32.93%) Agile
5 27 (32.93%) Test Automation
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 21 (25.61%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (20.73%) Multithreaded Programming
11 16 (19.51%) Data Analytics
12 15 (18.29%) SDLC
13 12 (14.63%) TDD
14 11 (13.41%) CI/CD
14 11 (13.41%) Data Management
15 10 (12.20%) Data Modelling
15 10 (12.20%) Performance Optimisation
15 10 (12.20%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 48 (58.54%) Java
2 15 (18.29%) Python
3 12 (14.63%) SQL
4 10 (12.20%) C#
5 8 (9.76%) C++
6 2 (2.44%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.44%) R
7 1 (1.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (4.88%) 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