Equities
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Equities over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 428 606 452
Rank change year-on-year +178 -154 -71
Permanent jobs citing Equities 577 407 1,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.40% 0.79%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.65% 0.94% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 560 345 1,074
10th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £76,625
25th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £123,750 £105,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% -8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £146,250 £132,500 £136,250
90th Percentile £165,000 £187,500 £162,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £20,000 £85,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -76.47% +30.77% +8.33%

All Generic Skills
UK

Equities is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,043 43,311 74,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.36% 42.74% 47.65%
Number of salaries quoted 23,056 23,480 33,820
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,550 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Equities
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Equities in the UK

Equities
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Equities.

Salary trend for Equities in the UK

Equities
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Equities over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Equities in the UK

Equities
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Equities within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +193 573 £125,000 +19.05% 105
London +158 570 £125,000 +19.05% 98
Work from Home +248 379 £120,000 +29.73% 30
UK excluding London +1 3 £20,000 -76.47% 9
South West -20 3 £20,000 -76.47% 1

Equities
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
1 263 (45.58%) Apache Airflow
2 242 (41.94%) Apache
3 1 (0.17%) Confluence
3 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.35%) Adobe After Effects
2 2 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.35%) InDesign
2 2 (0.35%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 15 (2.60%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.69%) ION Anvil
3 2 (0.35%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.35%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.17%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 451 (78.16%) AWS
2 290 (50.26%) GCP
3 209 (36.22%) Azure
4 207 (35.88%) dbt
5 186 (32.24%) Snowflake
6 2 (0.35%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.17%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.17%) GitHub
7 1 (0.17%) OCI
7 1 (0.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 242 (41.94%) Apache Ignite
2 207 (35.88%) Amazon Athena
2 207 (35.88%) Apache Arrow
2 207 (35.88%) Dremio
3 184 (31.89%) Data Lake
4 44 (7.63%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (0.87%) KDB
5 5 (0.87%) Kdb+
5 5 (0.87%) Tick Data
6 4 (0.69%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.35%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.35%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.17%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.17%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (1.73%) Cypress.io
2 9 (1.56%) Jenkins
2 9 (1.56%) JIRA
3 8 (1.39%) GitLab
4 1 (0.17%) Git
4 1 (0.17%) Gradle
4 1 (0.17%) Maven
General
1 507 (87.87%) Finance
2 492 (85.27%) Front Office
3 288 (49.91%) Banking
4 231 (40.03%) Investment Banking
5 48 (8.32%) Back Office
6 47 (8.15%) Social Skills
7 11 (1.91%) Financial Institution
8 4 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.52%) Law
10 2 (0.35%) Advertising
10 2 (0.35%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (0.35%) Marketing
11 1 (0.17%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.17%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 303 (52.51%) Developer
2 255 (44.19%) Software Engineer
3 187 (32.41%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 142 (24.61%) Senior
5 128 (22.18%) Python Developer
6 126 (21.84%) Python Engineer
6 126 (21.84%) Python Software Engineer
7 118 (20.45%) Senior Software Engineer
8 103 (17.85%) Finance Manager
9 98 (16.98%) Lead
10 95 (16.46%) .NET Developer
11 83 (14.38%) .NET Software Developer
11 83 (14.38%) .NET Software Engineer
12 73 (12.65%) Senior Developer
13 69 (11.96%) Analyst
14 68 (11.79%) Java Engineer
14 68 (11.79%) Java Software Engineer
15 64 (11.09%) AWS Engineer
15 64 (11.09%) AWS Software Engineer
16 62 (10.75%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 261 (45.23%) gRPC
1 261 (45.23%) Protocol Buffers
2 213 (36.92%) Pandas
3 200 (34.66%) NumPy
4 197 (34.14%) SciPy
5 163 (28.25%) React
6 138 (23.92%) Redux
7 110 (19.06%) .NET
8 96 (16.64%) AngularJS
9 95 (16.46%) Vue
10 58 (10.05%) Material-UI
11 57 (9.88%) .NET Core
12 47 (8.15%) ASP.NET
12 47 (8.15%) ASP.NET Core
13 16 (2.77%) FIX Protocol
14 5 (0.87%) Middleware
15 4 (0.69%) Rendezvous
16 3 (0.52%) REST
16 3 (0.52%) XML
17 2 (0.35%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 481 (83.36%) Fixed Income
2 443 (76.78%) Hedge funds
3 410 (71.06%) Derivative
4 407 (70.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 50 (8.67%) Product Ownership
6 24 (4.16%) Pricing Data
7 17 (2.95%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (2.08%) FPGA
9 9 (1.56%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.04%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.04%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.69%) Equity Derivative
12 2 (0.35%) Animation
12 2 (0.35%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.35%) Graphic Design
12 2 (0.35%) OTC Derivatives
12 2 (0.35%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.17%) Client/Server
13 1 (0.17%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.12%) Linux
2 8 (1.39%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 458 (79.38%) Asset Management
2 424 (73.48%) Agile
3 406 (70.36%) Software Engineering
4 397 (68.80%) Investment Management
5 104 (18.02%) Machine Learning
6 94 (16.29%) Artificial Intelligence
7 90 (15.60%) Full Stack Development
8 81 (14.04%) Greeks
9 80 (13.86%) Line Management
10 78 (13.52%) Analytics
11 77 (13.34%) Fintech
12 56 (9.71%) Quantitative Research
13 53 (9.19%) Automated Trading
13 53 (9.19%) TDD
14 45 (7.80%) DevOps
15 38 (6.59%) Product Management
16 35 (6.07%) Portfolio Management
17 34 (5.89%) Low Latency
17 34 (5.89%) Roadmaps
18 32 (5.55%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 454 (78.68%) Python
2 347 (60.14%) TypeScript
3 315 (54.59%) JavaScript
4 246 (42.63%) Java
5 154 (26.69%) SQL
6 113 (19.58%) C#
7 39 (6.76%) R
8 33 (5.72%) C++
9 12 (2.08%) Ruby
9 12 (2.08%) Scala
10 6 (1.04%) VBA
11 1 (0.17%) C
11 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.17%) XPath
Qualifications
1 29 (5.03%) Degree
2 9 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (14.04%) Data Quality
2 42 (7.28%) QA
3 4 (0.69%) SLA
4 1 (0.17%) COREP
4 1 (0.17%) IFRS
4 1 (0.17%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 3 (0.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (1.39%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.52%) Control-M
3 2 (0.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 58 (10.05%) Bloomberg
2 44 (7.63%) Google
3 14 (2.43%) BISAM
4 4 (0.69%) ION Trading
4 4 (0.69%) Oracle
4 4 (0.69%) TIBCO
5 2 (0.35%) Adobe
6 1 (0.17%) FactSet
6 1 (0.17%) IBM
6 1 (0.17%) Murex
6 1 (0.17%) Progress
6 1 (0.17%) Refinitiv
6 1 (0.17%) Solace
6 1 (0.17%) Sybase
6 1 (0.17%) Vertica