Equities Contracts with Work from Home Options

Equities
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in remote or hybrid contract work. 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 157 357 504
Rank change year-on-year +200 +147 -120
Contract jobs citing Equities 211 100 119
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.43% 0.42% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.90% 1.33% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 83 97
10th Percentile £663 £475 £438
25th Percentile £700 £488 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £888 £800 £738
90th Percentile - £1,006 £825
UK median daily rate £775 £700 £650
% change year-on-year +10.71% +7.69% +8.33%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,304 7,539 13,934
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 29.17% 31.58% 31.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,923 5,349 10,060
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £435 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £835 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 147 225
10th Percentile £15.95 £19.00 £15.13
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.36 £21.00
Median hourly rate £51.00 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +17.98% +27.98%
75th Percentile £68.75 £69.38 £62.25
90th Percentile £73.50 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Equities
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Equities as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Equities trend for jobs with a WFH option

Equities
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Equities.

Equities daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Equities
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Equities over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Equities daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Equities
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 131 (62.09%) Apache Airflow
2 126 (59.72%) Apache
3 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.47%) MQSeries
Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 161 (76.30%) AWS
2 129 (61.14%) dbt
3 112 (53.08%) Snowflake
4 78 (36.97%) GCP
5 19 (9.00%) Azure
6 8 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (3.79%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (3.79%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (3.79%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (61.14%) Apache Arrow
1 129 (61.14%) Dremio
2 121 (57.35%) Amazon Athena
3 120 (56.87%) Data Lake
4 118 (55.92%) Apache Ignite
5 8 (3.79%) Big Data
5 8 (3.79%) Power BI
5 8 (3.79%) Tableau
6 6 (2.84%) KDB
7 4 (1.90%) Kdb+
7 4 (1.90%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.95%) Data Mart
8 2 (0.95%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (2.84%) Git
2 4 (1.90%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.47%) Postman
3 1 (0.47%) Selenium
3 1 (0.47%) TestComplete
General
1 191 (90.52%) Finance
2 188 (89.10%) Front Office
3 149 (70.62%) Banking
4 135 (63.98%) Investment Banking
5 7 (3.32%) Back Office
6 4 (1.90%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (1.90%) Social Skills
7 2 (0.95%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.47%) Prime Brokerage
8 1 (0.47%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 86 (40.76%) Software Engineer
2 76 (36.02%) Developer
3 60 (28.44%) Lead
4 54 (25.59%) Python Engineer
4 54 (25.59%) Python Software Engineer
4 54 (25.59%) Senior
5 50 (23.70%) Senior Software Engineer
6 48 (22.75%) Java Engineer
6 48 (22.75%) Java Software Engineer
7 46 (21.80%) AWS Engineer
7 46 (21.80%) AWS Software Engineer
8 44 (20.85%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 38 (18.01%) Software Developer
10 37 (17.54%) Team Leader
11 36 (17.06%) Lead Developer
11 36 (17.06%) Lead Software Developer
11 36 (17.06%) Lead Software Engineer
11 36 (17.06%) Software Team Leader
12 35 (16.59%) Python Developer
13 33 (15.64%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (60.19%) gRPC
1 127 (60.19%) Protocol Buffers
2 124 (58.77%) Pandas
3 118 (55.92%) NumPy
3 118 (55.92%) SciPy
4 9 (4.27%) .NET
4 9 (4.27%) React
5 7 (3.32%) AngularJS
6 6 (2.84%) Material-UI
6 6 (2.84%) PySpark
6 6 (2.84%) Vue
7 5 (2.37%) WPF
8 3 (1.42%) ASP.NET
8 3 (1.42%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (1.42%) Redux
9 2 (0.95%) FIX Protocol
9 2 (0.95%) Murex MxML
10 1 (0.47%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 172 (81.52%) Derivative
2 170 (80.57%) Fixed Income
3 164 (77.73%) Hedge funds
4 158 (74.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 23 (10.90%) Product Ownership
6 16 (7.58%) Pricing Data
7 4 (1.90%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.90%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.42%) DTCC
9 2 (0.95%) Clustering
9 2 (0.95%) Market Risk
9 2 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.47%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.79%) Unix
2 6 (2.84%) Linux
2 6 (2.84%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (79.62%) Agile
2 163 (77.25%) Asset Management
3 138 (65.40%) Software Engineering
4 122 (57.82%) Investment Management
5 53 (25.12%) Line Management
6 43 (20.38%) Analytics
6 43 (20.38%) Greeks
7 21 (9.95%) Product Management
8 19 (9.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 19 (9.00%) Machine Learning
9 10 (4.74%) Migration
9 10 (4.74%) Quantitative Research
10 8 (3.79%) Business Analysis
11 6 (2.84%) Collaborative Culture
11 6 (2.84%) Data Architecture
11 6 (2.84%) Mentoring
11 6 (2.84%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (2.84%) Test Automation
12 5 (2.37%) Electronic Trading
12 5 (2.37%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 173 (81.99%) Python
2 133 (63.03%) Java
3 128 (60.66%) JavaScript
3 128 (60.66%) TypeScript
4 49 (23.22%) SQL
5 20 (9.48%) C#
6 10 (4.74%) R
7 8 (3.79%) C++
8 7 (3.32%) Scala
9 6 (2.84%) Perl
9 6 (2.84%) Ruby
10 4 (1.90%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.90%) VBA
11 2 (0.95%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (3.79%) Degree
2 4 (1.90%) Numerate Degree
3 3 (1.42%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.47%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (22.27%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.37%) QA
3 4 (1.90%) MiFID
4 2 (0.95%) EMIR
Systems Management
1 2 (0.95%) Ansible
1 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 18 (8.53%) Bloomberg
2 8 (3.79%) Reuters
3 2 (0.95%) Murex
3 2 (0.95%) Oracle
3 2 (0.95%) Splunk
3 2 (0.95%) Sybase
4 1 (0.47%) IBM
4 1 (0.47%) Solace
4 1 (0.47%) TIBCO