KDB Contracts in London

Kx Systems KDB
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 308 412 544
Rank change year-on-year +104 +132 -88
Contract jobs citing KDB 82 65 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.47% 0.26% 0.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.11% 1.25% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 42 45
10th Percentile £690 £600 £618
25th Percentile £775 £672 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £813 £825
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -1.52% +22.22%
75th Percentile £975 £900 £850
90th Percentile £1,090 £934 £910
England median daily rate £850 £813 £825
% change year-on-year +4.62% -1.52% +22.22%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,883 5,199 8,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.21% 20.45% 20.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,880 3,811 5,986
10th Percentile £375 £400 £406
25th Percentile £454 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -3.74% -0.86% +10.37%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £700
90th Percentile £850 £800 £788
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 53 34
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £27.14
25th Percentile £25.31 £24.50 £34.75
Median hourly rate £48.00 £52.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -2.33% +74.44%
75th Percentile £54.03 £80.00 £71.56
90th Percentile £70.85 £90.00 £75.59
England median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £43.68
% change year-on-year -33.33% +37.35% +77.28%

KDB
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for KDB in London

KDB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for KDB in London

KDB
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing KDB in London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for KDB in London

KDB
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 KDB within the London region over the 6 months to 31 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +51 16 £850 +3.03%
East London - 2 £850 -
KDB
England

KDB
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 7 (8.54%) SAS
2 6 (7.32%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 11 (13.41%) ION MarketView
2 1 (1.22%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.44%) AWS
1 2 (2.44%) GCP
1 2 (2.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (1.22%) npm
2 1 (1.22%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.41%) Kdb+
2 8 (9.76%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.44%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.44%) Looker
4 2 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.22%) Hazelcast
5 1 (1.22%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.22%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.22%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 4 (4.88%) Bitbucket
1 4 (4.88%) TeamCity
2 3 (3.66%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.66%) JIRA
3 2 (2.44%) Gradle
3 2 (2.44%) IntelliJ
3 2 (2.44%) Terragrunt
4 1 (1.22%) Babel
4 1 (1.22%) Git
4 1 (1.22%) webpack
General
1 42 (51.22%) Finance
2 24 (29.27%) Front Office
3 23 (28.05%) Social Skills
4 18 (21.95%) Banking
5 12 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (13.41%) Investment Banking
7 6 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 74 (90.24%) Developer
2 36 (43.90%) Java Developer
2 36 (43.90%) KDB Developer
3 32 (39.02%) Senior
4 31 (37.80%) Senior Developer
5 15 (18.29%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (15.85%) Electronic Trading Developer
7 9 (10.98%) Low Latency Java Developer
8 8 (9.76%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
9 6 (7.32%) Analytics Developer
10 3 (3.66%) Data Engineer
10 3 (3.66%) Pricing Developer
10 3 (3.66%) Software Engineer
10 3 (3.66%) Unix Developer
11 2 (2.44%) Analyst
11 2 (2.44%) C++/Java Developer
11 2 (2.44%) DevOps Engineer
11 2 (2.44%) Java Analyst Developer
11 2 (2.44%) Java Engineer
11 2 (2.44%) Market Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.20%) Spring
2 9 (10.98%) FIX Protocol
3 8 (9.76%) Middleware
4 7 (8.54%) Rendezvous
5 2 (2.44%) JSON
5 2 (2.44%) Node.js
5 2 (2.44%) React
5 2 (2.44%) REST
5 2 (2.44%) XML
6 1 (1.22%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.22%) Guice
6 1 (1.22%) HTML
6 1 (1.22%) HTML5
6 1 (1.22%) OpenFin
6 1 (1.22%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 32 (39.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 24 (29.27%) Fixed Income
3 18 (21.95%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (20.73%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (14.63%) Algorithms
6 9 (10.98%) Data Structures
7 8 (9.76%) Derivative
7 8 (9.76%) Equities
8 7 (8.54%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (6.10%) Management Information System
10 4 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (2.44%) Virtual Team
12 1 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (1.22%) Equity Derivative
12 1 (1.22%) Grid Computing
12 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 18 (21.95%) Linux
2 15 (18.29%) Unix
3 3 (3.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (52.44%) Electronic Trading
2 37 (45.12%) Analytics
3 30 (36.59%) Low Latency
4 28 (34.15%) Multithreading
4 28 (34.15%) Test Automation
5 27 (32.93%) Agile
6 25 (30.49%) Continuous Integration
7 23 (28.05%) OO
8 22 (26.83%) E-Commerce
8 22 (26.83%) User Acceptance Testing
9 20 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (20.73%) Multithreaded Programming
11 15 (18.29%) Data Analytics
11 15 (18.29%) SDLC
12 12 (14.63%) TDD
13 11 (13.41%) CI/CD
14 10 (12.20%) Computer Science
14 10 (12.20%) Data Management
14 10 (12.20%) Data Modelling
14 10 (12.20%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 49 (59.76%) Java
2 16 (19.51%) Python
3 13 (15.85%) SQL
4 11 (13.41%) C#
5 8 (9.76%) C++
6 2 (2.44%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.44%) R
7 1 (1.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (6.10%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.20%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.22%) MiFID
Vendors
1 25 (30.49%) ION Trading
2 8 (9.76%) Solace
3 7 (8.54%) TIBCO
4 4 (4.88%) Tradeweb
5 3 (3.66%) Google
6 2 (2.44%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.44%) MarketAxess
7 1 (1.22%) Oracle