Kdb+ Contracts in England

Kx Systems Kdb+
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Kdb+ skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Kdb+ over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 531 626 787
Rank change year-on-year +95 +161 -156
Contract jobs citing Kdb+ 11 13 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.030% 0.027% 0.010%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.18% 0.15% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 5
10th Percentile - £680 -
25th Percentile £650 £763 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £825 £700
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +17.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £800 £900 £825
90th Percentile - £1,050 £885
UK median daily rate £750 £825 £700
% change year-on-year -9.09% +17.86% +7.69%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

Kdb+ is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,263 8,425 13,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.96% 17.65% 19.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,520 6,057 10,008
10th Percentile £350 £375 £368
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 £663
90th Percentile £788 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.50% -0.05% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 157 166
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £14.56
25th Percentile £20.77 £32.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £42.96
Median % change year-on-year -31.73% +36.39% +71.83%
75th Percentile £55.00 £75.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £82.70 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £44.48
% change year-on-year -33.33% +34.91% +64.97%

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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

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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

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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 2 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 +99 11 £750 -9.09% 5
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UK

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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 6 (54.55%) Apache Airflow
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) KDB
2 1 (9.09%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 7 (63.64%) Front Office
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Developer
1 10 (90.91%) KDB Developer
2 6 (54.55%) Analytics Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Unix Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Equities
2 2 (18.18%) Algorithms
3 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Analytics
2 6 (54.55%) API Design
2 6 (54.55%) Data Modelling
2 6 (54.55%) Test Automation
3 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
3 3 (27.27%) Electronic Trading
4 1 (9.09%) Agile
4 1 (9.09%) Backtesting
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) Data Science
4 1 (9.09%) High-Frequency Trading
4 1 (9.09%) Low Latency
4 1 (9.09%) Mathematical Modelling
4 1 (9.09%) Mathematics
4 1 (9.09%) PnL Attribution
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) C#
1 6 (54.55%) Java
1 6 (54.55%) Python
1 6 (54.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) Data Quality