Equities Contracts

Equities
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Equities over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 268 391 393
Rank change year-on-year +123 +2 -19
Contract jobs citing Equities 341 320 572
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.80% 0.56% 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.65% 1.69% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 275 498
10th Percentile £550 £475 £538
25th Percentile £650 £594 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £850 £800 £725
90th Percentile £888 £923 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £539 £1,000 £505
% change year-on-year -46.15% +98.02% +15.17%
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 - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,884 18,935 29,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.26% 33.25% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,299 13,036 20,297
10th Percentile £266 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £680 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 896 624 711
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.16 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.38 £22.26 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.98% -19.07% +4.90%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £21.13
% change year-on-year +36.36% +4.14% -11.29%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Equities in the UK

Equities
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Equities over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Equities in the UK

Equities
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Equities in the UK

Equities
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Equities within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
England +107 339 £750 +7.14% 138
London +104 335 £750 +7.14% 133
Work from Home +171 175 £800 +14.29% 34
UK excluding London +47 3 £539 -46.15% 30
Scotland +37 2 £539 -13.84% 1
North of England +33 1 - - 2
North West +21 1 - - 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
1 140 (41.06%) Apache Airflow
2 124 (36.36%) Apache
3 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.29%) MQSeries
Applications
1 6 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 15 (4.40%) Aladdin
2 4 (1.17%) Markit EDM
2 4 (1.17%) thinkFolio
3 3 (0.88%) IntelliMatch
3 3 (0.88%) ION Anvil
4 1 (0.29%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 202 (59.24%) AWS
2 136 (39.88%) GCP
3 97 (28.45%) dbt
4 85 (24.93%) Snowflake
5 83 (24.34%) Azure
6 4 (1.17%) Cloud Run
6 4 (1.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (0.59%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.29%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (35.78%) Apache Ignite
2 97 (28.45%) Apache Arrow
2 97 (28.45%) Dremio
3 95 (27.86%) Amazon Athena
4 87 (25.51%) Data Lake
5 30 (8.80%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (4.11%) Relational Database
7 11 (3.23%) KDB
8 9 (2.64%) Kdb+
9 6 (1.76%) SQL Server
10 4 (1.17%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.88%) Big Data
11 3 (0.88%) Data Mart
12 2 (0.59%) Power BI
12 2 (0.59%) Tableau
13 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 12 (3.52%) Cypress.io
2 10 (2.93%) JIRA
3 9 (2.64%) Selenium
4 6 (1.76%) Git
4 6 (1.76%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.17%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (1.17%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.88%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.88%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.88%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.29%) Postman
7 1 (0.29%) TestComplete
General
1 284 (83.28%) Finance
2 258 (75.66%) Front Office
3 206 (60.41%) Banking
4 141 (41.35%) Investment Banking
5 22 (6.45%) Social Skills
6 14 (4.11%) Back Office
6 14 (4.11%) Prime Brokerage
7 8 (2.35%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (1.76%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
9 4 (1.17%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.59%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.29%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 151 (44.28%) Developer
2 113 (33.14%) Software Engineer
3 85 (24.93%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 68 (19.94%) Python Developer
4 68 (19.94%) Python Engineer
4 68 (19.94%) Python Software Engineer
5 66 (19.35%) Analyst
6 60 (17.60%) Finance Manager
7 51 (14.96%) Business Analyst
8 48 (14.08%) Senior
9 47 (13.78%) Lead
10 36 (10.56%) Java Engineer
10 36 (10.56%) Senior Software Engineer
11 32 (9.38%) Java Software Engineer
12 31 (9.09%) .NET Developer
13 30 (8.80%) React Developer
14 28 (8.21%) AWS Engineer
14 28 (8.21%) AWS Software Engineer
15 27 (7.92%) Finance Business Analyst
15 27 (7.92%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (38.12%) gRPC
1 130 (38.12%) Protocol Buffers
2 101 (29.62%) Pandas
3 95 (27.86%) NumPy
4 91 (26.69%) SciPy
5 68 (19.94%) React
6 56 (16.42%) Redux
7 40 (11.73%) .NET
8 36 (10.56%) Material-UI
9 21 (6.16%) .NET Core
10 14 (4.11%) AngularJS
10 14 (4.11%) Vue
11 12 (3.52%) WPF
12 11 (3.23%) ASP.NET
12 11 (3.23%) ASP.NET Core
13 5 (1.47%) FIX Protocol
14 4 (1.17%) Matplotlib
15 3 (0.88%) Middleware
15 3 (0.88%) Murex MxML
16 1 (0.29%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 240 (70.38%) Fixed Income
2 219 (64.22%) Derivative
3 209 (61.29%) Hedge funds
4 181 (53.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 32 (9.38%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.93%) Pricing Data
7 8 (2.35%) Equity Derivative
8 6 (1.76%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.76%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.17%) DTCC
9 4 (1.17%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.17%) Reference Data
10 3 (0.88%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.59%) Clustering
11 2 (0.59%) Credit Derivative
11 2 (0.59%) Market Risk
11 2 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.59%) Synthetic Equity
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.69%) Unix
2 9 (2.64%) Linux
3 7 (2.05%) Windows
4 4 (1.17%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (64.81%) Asset Management
2 219 (64.22%) Agile
3 187 (54.84%) Investment Management
4 180 (52.79%) Software Engineering
5 64 (18.77%) Artificial Intelligence
5 64 (18.77%) Machine Learning
6 53 (15.54%) Full Stack Development
7 50 (14.66%) Analytics
8 44 (12.90%) Line Management
9 37 (10.85%) Fintech
10 35 (10.26%) Automated Trading
11 33 (9.68%) DevOps
12 31 (9.09%) Greeks
13 30 (8.80%) Test Automation
14 26 (7.62%) TDD
15 20 (5.87%) Quantitative Research
15 20 (5.87%) Roadmaps
16 19 (5.57%) Product Management
17 15 (4.40%) Electronic Trading
18 13 (3.81%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 199 (58.36%) Python
2 153 (44.87%) TypeScript
3 130 (38.12%) JavaScript
4 128 (37.54%) Java
5 96 (28.15%) SQL
6 68 (19.94%) C#
7 14 (4.11%) R
8 13 (3.81%) C++
9 9 (2.64%) Scala
10 7 (2.05%) VBA
11 6 (1.76%) Perl
11 6 (1.76%) Ruby
12 4 (1.17%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.59%) Bash
14 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (6.74%) Degree
2 8 (2.35%) Master's Degree
3 6 (1.76%) Numerate Degree
4 4 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.88%) ISEB
6 2 (0.59%) ISEB Practitioner
7 1 (0.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (11.73%) Data Quality
2 38 (11.14%) QA
3 6 (1.76%) MiFID
4 4 (1.17%) EMIR
4 4 (1.17%) IFRS
5 2 (0.59%) Basel III
5 2 (0.59%) GAAP
5 2 (0.59%) PMO
6 1 (0.29%) FINREP
6 1 (0.29%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 2 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (1.17%) Control-M
2 2 (0.59%) Ansible
2 2 (0.59%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 32 (9.38%) Bloomberg
2 30 (8.80%) Google
3 12 (3.52%) BISAM
4 5 (1.47%) Oracle
5 4 (1.17%) Murex
6 3 (0.88%) ION Trading
7 2 (0.59%) Splunk
7 2 (0.59%) Sybase
8 1 (0.29%) Charles River
8 1 (0.29%) IBM
8 1 (0.29%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.29%) SimCorp
8 1 (0.29%) Solace
8 1 (0.29%) TIBCO