KDB Contracts in England

Kx Systems KDB
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 466 563 737
Rank change year-on-year +97 +174 -104
Contract jobs citing KDB 84 73 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.16% 0.071%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.31% 0.89% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 47 43
10th Percentile £695 £600 £615
25th Percentile £775 £700 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £825 £825
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% - +22.22%
75th Percentile £975 £900 £850
90th Percentile £1,089 £985 £918
UK median daily rate £850 £825 £825
% change year-on-year +3.03% - +22.22%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,409 8,241 13,674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.09% 17.52% 19.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,613 5,916 9,942
10th Percentile £350 £365 £369
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £669
90th Percentile £800 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 154 165
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £14.50
25th Percentile £20.77 £32.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.73% +37.86% +72.48%
75th Percentile £52.83 £75.00 £63.60
90th Percentile £72.30 £82.85 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £43.95
% change year-on-year -31.73% +33.31% +62.78%

KDB
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for KDB in England

KDB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for KDB in England

KDB
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for KDB in England

KDB
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 KDB 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 +95 84 £850 +3.03% 13
KDB
UK

KDB
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 7 (8.33%) SAS
2 5 (5.95%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 11 (13.10%) ION MarketView
2 1 (1.19%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.38%) AWS
1 2 (2.38%) GCP
1 2 (2.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (1.19%) npm
2 1 (1.19%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.10%) Kdb+
2 8 (9.52%) Relational Database
3 5 (5.95%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.38%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.38%) Looker
4 2 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.19%) Hazelcast
5 1 (1.19%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.19%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.19%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Bitbucket
1 4 (4.76%) TeamCity
2 3 (3.57%) Gradle
2 3 (3.57%) IntelliJ
2 3 (3.57%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.57%) JIRA
3 2 (2.38%) Git
3 2 (2.38%) Terragrunt
4 1 (1.19%) Babel
4 1 (1.19%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.19%) Maven
4 1 (1.19%) webpack
General
1 42 (50.00%) Finance
2 25 (29.76%) Social Skills
3 24 (28.57%) Front Office
4 19 (22.62%) Banking
5 12 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (14.29%) Investment Banking
6 6 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 76 (90.48%) Developer
2 37 (44.05%) Java Developer
2 37 (44.05%) KDB Developer
3 34 (40.48%) Senior
4 33 (39.29%) Senior Developer
5 15 (17.86%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (15.48%) Electronic Trading Developer
7 9 (10.71%) Low Latency Java Developer
8 8 (9.52%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
9 5 (5.95%) Analytics Developer
10 3 (3.57%) Data Engineer
10 3 (3.57%) Pricing Developer
10 3 (3.57%) Software Engineer
11 2 (2.38%) Analyst
11 2 (2.38%) Analyst Developer
11 2 (2.38%) C++ Developer
11 2 (2.38%) Data Analyst
11 2 (2.38%) Developer Analyst
11 2 (2.38%) Java Software Engineer
11 2 (2.38%) Market Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.90%) FIX Protocol
1 10 (11.90%) Spring
2 8 (9.52%) Middleware
3 7 (8.33%) Rendezvous
4 2 (2.38%) JSON
4 2 (2.38%) Node.js
4 2 (2.38%) React
4 2 (2.38%) REST
4 2 (2.38%) XML
5 1 (1.19%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.19%) Guice
5 1 (1.19%) HTML
5 1 (1.19%) HTML5
5 1 (1.19%) OpenFin
5 1 (1.19%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 33 (39.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 25 (29.76%) Fixed Income
3 18 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (21.43%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (15.48%) Algorithms
5 9 (10.71%) Data Structures
6 8 (9.52%) Derivative
6 8 (9.52%) Equities
7 7 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (5.95%) Management Information System
9 4 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (2.38%) Virtual Team
11 1 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (1.19%) Equity Derivative
11 1 (1.19%) Grid Computing
11 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 18 (21.43%) Linux
2 14 (16.67%) Unix
3 3 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (52.38%) Electronic Trading
2 38 (45.24%) Analytics
3 31 (36.90%) Low Latency
4 29 (34.52%) Multithreading
5 27 (32.14%) Agile
5 27 (32.14%) Test Automation
6 25 (29.76%) Continuous Integration
7 24 (28.57%) OO
8 22 (26.19%) E-Commerce
8 22 (26.19%) User Acceptance Testing
9 21 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (20.24%) Data Analytics
10 17 (20.24%) Multithreaded Programming
11 15 (17.86%) SDLC
12 13 (15.48%) TDD
13 11 (13.10%) CI/CD
13 11 (13.10%) Data Management
13 11 (13.10%) Task Automation
14 10 (11.90%) Data Modelling
14 10 (11.90%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 49 (58.33%) Java
2 15 (17.86%) Python
3 12 (14.29%) SQL
4 10 (11.90%) C#
5 8 (9.52%) C++
6 2 (2.38%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.38%) R
7 1 (1.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.90%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.19%) MiFID
Vendors
1 25 (29.76%) ION Trading
2 8 (9.52%) Solace
3 7 (8.33%) TIBCO
4 4 (4.76%) Tradeweb
5 3 (3.57%) Google
6 2 (2.38%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.38%) MarketAxess
7 1 (1.19%) Oracle