KDB Contracts with Work from Home Options

Kx Systems KDB
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring KDB skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited KDB over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 324 425 602
Rank change year-on-year +101 +177 -98
Contract jobs citing KDB 17 32 21
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.13% 0.048%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.58% 0.72% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 16 20
10th Percentile £650 £550 £559
25th Percentile £702 £722 £791
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £900 £825
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +9.09% +26.92%
75th Percentile £900 - £838
90th Percentile £963 £1,056 £875
UK median daily rate £850 £825 £825
% change year-on-year +3.03% - +22.22%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

KDB falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,914 4,470 9,288
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.75% 18.72% 21.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,132 3,273 6,790
10th Percentile £356 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -0.94% +6.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £800 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 78 85
10th Percentile £18.20 £23.86 £19.00
25th Percentile £22.25 £41.44 £21.17
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.93% +37.89% +58.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £73.75 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £43.95
% change year-on-year -31.73% +33.31% +62.78%

KDB
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing KDB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

KDB trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing KDB.

KDB daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

KDB
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing KDB over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

KDB daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (23.53%) Apache Airflow
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) Kdb+
General
1 12 (70.59%) Finance
2 9 (52.94%) Front Office
3 6 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Banking
4 2 (11.76%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (100.00%) Developer
2 12 (70.59%) KDB Developer
3 7 (41.18%) Senior
3 7 (41.18%) Senior Developer
4 5 (29.41%) Java Developer
5 4 (23.53%) Analytics Developer
6 3 (17.65%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Electronic Trading Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Front Office Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Java Pricing Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Low Latency Java Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Pricing Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Unix Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Spring
2 1 (5.88%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 9 (52.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (35.29%) Equities
3 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (11.76%) Fixed Income
4 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Analytics
2 7 (41.18%) SDLC
3 6 (35.29%) BDD
3 6 (35.29%) Build Automation
3 6 (35.29%) Collaborative Culture
3 6 (35.29%) Data Management
3 6 (35.29%) OO
3 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (29.41%) Electronic Trading
5 4 (23.53%) API Design
5 4 (23.53%) Data Modelling
5 4 (23.53%) Low Latency
5 4 (23.53%) Multithreading
5 4 (23.53%) Test Automation
6 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (11.76%) E-Commerce
7 2 (11.76%) Multithreaded Programming
7 2 (11.76%) Requirements Gathering
8 1 (5.88%) Computer Science
8 1 (5.88%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Java
2 4 (23.53%) C#
2 4 (23.53%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) ION Trading