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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 410 599 471
Rank change year-on-year +189 -128 -87
Permanent jobs citing Equities 617 418 1,243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 0.42% 0.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.76% 0.99% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 600 352 1,067
10th Percentile £77,250 £67,500 £75,750
25th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 £107,500 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% -6.52% +15.00%
75th Percentile £146,250 £132,813 £136,250
90th Percentile £165,000 £186,750 £162,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £20,000 £85,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -76.47% +30.77% +4.00%

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 35,155 42,392 77,992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.18% 42.62% 47.91%
Number of salaries quoted 23,026 23,184 34,267
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,483 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,625
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 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £109,865 £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 20 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 20 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 +183 613 £123,750 +13.79% 137
London +164 610 £125,000 +13.64% 130
Work from Home +279 417 £130,000 +42.47% 41
UK excluding London -11 3 £20,000 -76.47% 29
South West -21 3 £20,000 -76.47%

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
1 305 (49.43%) Apache Airflow
2 288 (46.68%) Apache
3 1 (0.16%) Confluence
3 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.32%) Adobe After Effects
2 2 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.32%) InDesign
2 2 (0.32%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 15 (2.43%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.65%) ION Anvil
3 2 (0.32%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.32%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.16%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 498 (80.71%) AWS
2 313 (50.73%) GCP
3 245 (39.71%) dbt
4 220 (35.66%) Snowflake
5 216 (35.01%) Azure
6 4 (0.65%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.32%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.16%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.16%) GitHub
8 1 (0.16%) OCI
8 1 (0.16%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 284 (46.03%) Apache Ignite
2 245 (39.71%) Apache Arrow
2 245 (39.71%) Dremio
3 241 (39.06%) Amazon Athena
4 222 (35.98%) Data Lake
5 52 (8.43%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (0.81%) KDB
6 5 (0.81%) Kdb+
6 5 (0.81%) Tick Data
7 4 (0.65%) Big Data
7 4 (0.65%) Power BI
7 4 (0.65%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.65%) Tableau
8 3 (0.49%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.32%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.16%) Data Mart
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.16%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (2.92%) Cypress.io
2 9 (1.46%) Jenkins
2 9 (1.46%) JIRA
3 8 (1.30%) GitLab
4 1 (0.16%) Git
4 1 (0.16%) Gradle
4 1 (0.16%) Maven
General
1 554 (89.79%) Finance
2 535 (86.71%) Front Office
3 331 (53.65%) Banking
4 266 (43.11%) Investment Banking
5 49 (7.94%) Back Office
6 47 (7.62%) Social Skills
7 11 (1.78%) Financial Institution
8 4 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.49%) Law
10 2 (0.32%) Advertising
10 2 (0.32%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (0.32%) Marketing
11 1 (0.16%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.16%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.16%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 311 (50.41%) Developer
2 282 (45.71%) Software Engineer
3 202 (32.74%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 152 (24.64%) Senior
5 147 (23.82%) Python Engineer
5 147 (23.82%) Python Software Engineer
6 139 (22.53%) Python Developer
7 129 (20.91%) Senior Software Engineer
8 111 (17.99%) Lead
9 107 (17.34%) Finance Manager
10 94 (15.24%) .NET Developer
11 82 (13.29%) .NET Software Developer
11 82 (13.29%) .NET Software Engineer
12 81 (13.13%) Java Engineer
12 81 (13.13%) Java Software Engineer
13 76 (12.32%) AWS Engineer
13 76 (12.32%) AWS Software Engineer
14 75 (12.16%) Analyst
15 72 (11.67%) Senior Developer
16 67 (10.86%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 303 (49.11%) gRPC
1 303 (49.11%) Protocol Buffers
2 246 (39.87%) Pandas
3 233 (37.76%) NumPy
4 231 (37.44%) SciPy
5 170 (27.55%) React
6 145 (23.50%) Redux
7 110 (17.83%) .NET
8 95 (15.40%) AngularJS
9 94 (15.24%) Vue
10 66 (10.70%) Material-UI
11 57 (9.24%) .NET Core
12 46 (7.46%) ASP.NET
12 46 (7.46%) ASP.NET Core
13 16 (2.59%) FIX Protocol
14 5 (0.81%) Middleware
15 4 (0.65%) Rendezvous
15 4 (0.65%) XML
16 3 (0.49%) REST
16 3 (0.49%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 524 (84.93%) Fixed Income
2 488 (79.09%) Hedge funds
3 450 (72.93%) Derivative
4 441 (71.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 56 (9.08%) Product Ownership
6 30 (4.86%) Pricing Data
7 17 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (1.94%) FPGA
9 9 (1.46%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.13%) Onboarding
11 6 (0.97%) Management Information System
12 5 (0.81%) Equity Derivative
13 4 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
14 2 (0.32%) Animation
14 2 (0.32%) Data Centre
14 2 (0.32%) Graphic Design
14 2 (0.32%) OTC Derivatives
14 2 (0.32%) Self-Motivation
15 1 (0.16%) Data Structures
15 1 (0.16%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.76%) Linux
2 8 (1.30%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.32%) Unix
4 1 (0.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 505 (81.85%) Asset Management
2 471 (76.34%) Agile
3 446 (72.29%) Software Engineering
4 430 (69.69%) Investment Management
5 114 (18.48%) Machine Learning
6 104 (16.86%) Artificial Intelligence
7 97 (15.72%) Full Stack Development
8 96 (15.56%) Line Management
9 93 (15.07%) Greeks
10 84 (13.61%) Analytics
11 76 (12.32%) Fintech
12 58 (9.40%) Automated Trading
13 52 (8.43%) Quantitative Research
13 52 (8.43%) TDD
14 44 (7.13%) DevOps
15 40 (6.48%) Product Management
16 36 (5.83%) Portfolio Management
17 34 (5.51%) Roadmaps
18 31 (5.02%) Low Latency
19 29 (4.70%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 496 (80.39%) Python
2 388 (62.88%) TypeScript
3 348 (56.40%) JavaScript
4 275 (44.57%) Java
5 161 (26.09%) SQL
6 112 (18.15%) C#
7 39 (6.32%) R
8 30 (4.86%) C++
9 12 (1.94%) Ruby
9 12 (1.94%) Scala
10 8 (1.30%) VBA
11 1 (0.16%) C
11 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.16%) XPath
Qualifications
1 27 (4.38%) Degree
2 8 (1.30%) Master's Degree
3 6 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (15.07%) Data Quality
2 41 (6.65%) QA
3 4 (0.65%) SLA
4 1 (0.16%) COREP
4 1 (0.16%) IFRS
4 1 (0.16%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.16%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 3 (0.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (1.13%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.65%) Control-M
3 2 (0.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 59 (9.56%) Bloomberg
2 52 (8.43%) Google
3 14 (2.27%) BISAM
4 5 (0.81%) Oracle
5 4 (0.65%) ION Trading
5 4 (0.65%) TIBCO
6 2 (0.32%) Adobe
7 1 (0.16%) FactSet
7 1 (0.16%) IBM
7 1 (0.16%) Murex
7 1 (0.16%) Progress
7 1 (0.16%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.16%) Solace
7 1 (0.16%) Sybase
7 1 (0.16%) Vertica