Equities Contracts in London

Equities
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Equities over the 6 months to 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 229 197
Rank change year-on-year +107 -32 +10
Contract jobs citing Equities 357 295 575
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.02% 1.16% 1.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.08% 3.23% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 253 509
10th Percentile £550 £475 £538
25th Percentile £650 £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £850 £800 £738
90th Percentile £888 £875 £825
England median daily rate £750 £700 £650
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £85.75
Median hourly rate - - £86.50
75th Percentile - - £87.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £86.50

All Generic Skills
London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,869 9,136 14,209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.26% 36.06% 36.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,136 6,634 10,379
10th Percentile £315 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £719
90th Percentile £850 £838 £806
England median daily rate £550 £568 £550
% change year-on-year -3.08% +3.18% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 106 206
10th Percentile £15.46 £17.88 £17.06
25th Percentile £19.40 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.42 £33.66 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.53% -20.81% +21.43%
75th Percentile £50.63 £58.44 £51.75
90th Percentile £71.25 £84.38 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.39
% change year-on-year +62.33% -14.78% +3.47%

Equities
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Equities in London

Equities
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Equities in London.

Daily rate trend for Equities in London

Equities
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Equities in London over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Equities in London

Equities
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Equities in London.

Hourly rate trend for Equities in London

Equities
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Equities within the London region over the 6 months to 6 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
Central London +24 20 £675 -3.57% 6
Equities
England

Equities
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 172 (48.18%) Apache Airflow
2 164 (45.94%) Apache
3 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.28%) MQSeries
Applications
1 6 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (3.36%) Aladdin
2 4 (1.12%) Markit EDM
2 4 (1.12%) thinkFolio
3 3 (0.84%) IntelliMatch
3 3 (0.84%) ION Anvil
4 1 (0.28%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 238 (66.67%) AWS
2 150 (42.02%) GCP
3 133 (37.25%) dbt
4 116 (32.49%) Snowflake
5 80 (22.41%) Azure
6 7 (1.96%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (1.12%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (1.12%) Cloud Run
7 4 (1.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.28%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (43.98%) Apache Ignite
2 133 (37.25%) Apache Arrow
2 133 (37.25%) Dremio
3 126 (35.29%) Amazon Athena
4 123 (34.45%) Data Lake
5 34 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (3.64%) Relational Database
7 8 (2.24%) KDB
8 7 (1.96%) Big Data
8 7 (1.96%) Power BI
8 7 (1.96%) Tableau
9 6 (1.68%) Kdb+
9 6 (1.68%) SQL Server
10 4 (1.12%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.84%) Data Mart
12 1 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 16 (4.48%) Cypress.io
2 9 (2.52%) Selenium
3 8 (2.24%) JIRA
4 7 (1.96%) Visual Studio
5 6 (1.68%) Git
6 4 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (1.12%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.84%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.84%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.84%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.28%) Maven
8 1 (0.28%) Postman
8 1 (0.28%) TestComplete
General
1 304 (85.15%) Finance
2 286 (80.11%) Front Office
3 237 (66.39%) Banking
4 174 (48.74%) Investment Banking
5 17 (4.76%) Social Skills
6 13 (3.64%) Prime Brokerage
7 12 (3.36%) Back Office
8 6 (1.68%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (1.40%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
10 4 (1.12%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.56%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.28%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 154 (43.14%) Developer
2 134 (37.54%) Software Engineer
3 94 (26.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 85 (23.81%) Python Engineer
4 85 (23.81%) Python Software Engineer
5 74 (20.73%) Python Developer
6 64 (17.93%) Analyst
7 60 (16.81%) Senior
8 58 (16.25%) Finance Manager
9 57 (15.97%) Lead
10 52 (14.57%) Business Analyst
11 49 (13.73%) Java Engineer
12 48 (13.45%) Senior Software Engineer
13 45 (12.61%) Java Software Engineer
14 42 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
14 42 (11.76%) AWS Software Engineer
15 35 (9.80%) React Developer
16 34 (9.52%) Software Developer
17 33 (9.24%) Architect
17 33 (9.24%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (46.22%) gRPC
1 165 (46.22%) Protocol Buffers
2 132 (36.97%) Pandas
3 126 (35.29%) NumPy
4 122 (34.17%) SciPy
5 70 (19.61%) React
6 57 (15.97%) Redux
7 40 (11.20%) Material-UI
8 35 (9.80%) .NET
9 21 (5.88%) .NET Core
10 12 (3.36%) AngularJS
11 11 (3.08%) Vue
11 11 (3.08%) WPF
12 8 (2.24%) ASP.NET
12 8 (2.24%) ASP.NET Core
13 5 (1.40%) FIX Protocol
14 4 (1.12%) Matplotlib
15 3 (0.84%) Murex MxML
15 3 (0.84%) PySpark
16 2 (0.56%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 274 (76.75%) Fixed Income
2 242 (67.79%) Hedge funds
3 241 (67.51%) Derivative
4 213 (59.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 37 (10.36%) Product Ownership
6 16 (4.48%) Pricing Data
7 9 (2.52%) Equity Derivative
8 7 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.40%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.12%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.12%) Reference Data
12 3 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (0.84%) DTCC
13 2 (0.56%) Clustering
13 2 (0.56%) Credit Derivative
13 2 (0.56%) Market Risk
13 2 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
14 1 (0.28%) Data Structures
14 1 (0.28%) Synthetic Equity
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.64%) Unix
2 8 (2.24%) Linux
3 7 (1.96%) Windows
4 2 (0.56%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (70.59%) Asset Management
2 247 (69.19%) Agile
3 208 (58.26%) Software Engineering
4 201 (56.30%) Investment Management
5 68 (19.05%) Artificial Intelligence
5 68 (19.05%) Machine Learning
6 60 (16.81%) Line Management
7 55 (15.41%) Full Stack Development
8 54 (15.13%) Analytics
9 40 (11.20%) Greeks
10 39 (10.92%) Automated Trading
11 34 (9.52%) Fintech
12 27 (7.56%) DevOps
13 25 (7.00%) Test Automation
14 23 (6.44%) TDD
15 21 (5.88%) Product Management
16 18 (5.04%) Roadmaps
17 16 (4.48%) Quantitative Research
18 13 (3.64%) Portfolio Management
19 12 (3.36%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 235 (65.83%) Python
2 186 (52.10%) TypeScript
3 158 (44.26%) JavaScript
4 154 (43.14%) Java
5 101 (28.29%) SQL
6 59 (16.53%) C#
7 14 (3.92%) C++
8 11 (3.08%) R
9 9 (2.52%) Scala
10 7 (1.96%) VBA
11 6 (1.68%) Perl
11 6 (1.68%) Ruby
12 4 (1.12%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.56%) Bash
14 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (5.60%) Degree
2 8 (2.24%) Master's Degree
3 7 (1.96%) Numerate Degree
4 4 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.28%) ISEB
5 1 (0.28%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (12.89%) Data Quality
2 31 (8.68%) QA
3 5 (1.40%) MiFID
4 3 (0.84%) EMIR
5 2 (0.56%) GAAP
6 1 (0.28%) Basel III
6 1 (0.28%) IFRS
System Software
1 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (1.12%) Control-M
2 2 (0.56%) Ansible
2 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 34 (9.52%) Google
2 33 (9.24%) Bloomberg
3 12 (3.36%) BISAM
4 5 (1.40%) Oracle
5 4 (1.12%) Reuters
6 3 (0.84%) ION Trading
6 3 (0.84%) Murex
7 2 (0.56%) Splunk
7 2 (0.56%) Sybase
8 1 (0.28%) Charles River
8 1 (0.28%) IBM
8 1 (0.28%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.28%) SimCorp
8 1 (0.28%) Solace
8 1 (0.28%) TIBCO