Kx Systems KDB
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 493 617 794
Rank change year-on-year +124 +177 -142
Contract jobs citing KDB 83 67 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.12% 0.063%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.14% 0.66% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 43 45
10th Percentile £650 - £618
25th Percentile £775 £600 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £800 £825
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% +22.22%
75th Percentile £975 £894 £850
90th Percentile £1,058 £988 £910
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £525

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,282 10,198 17,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.11% 17.90% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,219 7,260 12,426
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% - +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +11.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 181 189
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £32.30 £22.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +30.43% +73.58%
75th Percentile £61.58 £73.75 £65.54
90th Percentile £73.75 £82.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £55.70 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.19% +59.14% +44.03%

KDB
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for KDB in the UK

KDB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for KDB in the UK

KDB
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing KDB over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for KDB in the UK

KDB
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing KDB within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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 +133 83 £850 +6.25% 13
London +124 83 £850 +6.25% 13
Work from Home +115 19 £800 -5.88% 7

KDB
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 9 (10.84%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (8.43%) SAS
Business Applications
1 10 (12.05%) ION MarketView
2 1 (1.20%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.41%) AWS
1 2 (2.41%) GCP
1 2 (2.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (1.20%) npm
2 1 (1.20%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (18.07%) Kdb+
2 8 (9.64%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.41%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.41%) Looker
4 2 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.20%) Hazelcast
5 1 (1.20%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.20%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.20%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Bitbucket
1 4 (4.82%) TeamCity
2 3 (3.61%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.61%) JIRA
3 2 (2.41%) Gradle
3 2 (2.41%) IntelliJ
3 2 (2.41%) Terragrunt
4 1 (1.20%) Babel
4 1 (1.20%) Git
4 1 (1.20%) webpack
General
1 44 (53.01%) Finance
2 28 (33.73%) Front Office
3 21 (25.30%) Social Skills
4 18 (21.69%) Banking
5 12 (14.46%) Investment Banking
6 11 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 75 (90.36%) Developer
2 39 (46.99%) KDB Developer
3 34 (40.96%) Java Developer
4 30 (36.14%) Senior
5 29 (34.94%) Senior Developer
6 14 (16.87%) Senior Java Developer
7 12 (14.46%) Electronic Trading Developer
8 8 (9.64%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
8 8 (9.64%) Low Latency Java Developer
9 7 (8.43%) Analytics Developer
10 4 (4.82%) Unix Developer
11 3 (3.61%) Data Engineer
11 3 (3.61%) Pricing Developer
11 3 (3.61%) Software Engineer
12 2 (2.41%) Analyst
12 2 (2.41%) C++ Developer
12 2 (2.41%) Data Analyst
12 2 (2.41%) DevOps Engineer
12 2 (2.41%) Java Pricing Developer
12 2 (2.41%) Market Data Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.05%) Spring
2 8 (9.64%) FIX Protocol
3 7 (8.43%) Middleware
4 6 (7.23%) Rendezvous
5 2 (2.41%) JSON
5 2 (2.41%) Node.js
5 2 (2.41%) React
5 2 (2.41%) REST
5 2 (2.41%) XML
6 1 (1.20%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.20%) Guice
6 1 (1.20%) HTML
6 1 (1.20%) HTML5
6 1 (1.20%) OpenFin
6 1 (1.20%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 30 (36.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 23 (27.71%) Fixed Income
3 17 (20.48%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (16.87%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (14.46%) Algorithms
6 11 (13.25%) Equities
7 9 (10.84%) Data Structures
8 8 (9.64%) Derivative
9 7 (8.43%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (4.82%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (4.82%) Management Information System
11 2 (2.41%) Virtual Team
12 1 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (1.20%) Equity Derivative
12 1 (1.20%) Grid Computing
12 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 18 (21.69%) Unix
2 17 (20.48%) Linux
3 3 (3.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (54.22%) Electronic Trading
2 38 (45.78%) Analytics
3 30 (36.14%) Test Automation
4 28 (33.73%) Low Latency
5 27 (32.53%) Multithreading
6 26 (31.33%) Agile
7 24 (28.92%) Continuous Integration
8 22 (26.51%) OO
9 21 (25.30%) User Acceptance Testing
10 20 (24.10%) E-Commerce
11 18 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (19.28%) Multithreaded Programming
13 14 (16.87%) SDLC
14 13 (15.66%) Computer Science
14 13 (15.66%) Data Analytics
15 12 (14.46%) Data Modelling
15 12 (14.46%) TDD
16 11 (13.25%) CI/CD
17 10 (12.05%) API Design
17 10 (12.05%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (61.45%) Java
2 21 (25.30%) Python
3 16 (19.28%) SQL
4 15 (18.07%) C#
5 8 (9.64%) C++
6 2 (2.41%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.41%) R
7 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (9.64%) Degree
2 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.20%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.46%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.20%) MiFID
Vendors
1 24 (28.92%) ION Trading
2 7 (8.43%) Solace
3 6 (7.23%) TIBCO
4 4 (4.82%) Tradeweb
5 3 (3.61%) Google
6 2 (2.41%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.41%) MarketAxess
7 1 (1.20%) Oracle