Equities Contracts in London

Equities
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Equities over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 116 223
Rank change year-on-year -14 +107 -37
Contract jobs citing Equities 260 374 284
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.07% 2.11% 1.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.67% 6.38% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 351 242
10th Percentile £638 £550 £475
25th Percentile £675 £663 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £875 £888 £800
90th Percentile £938 - £875
England median daily rate £775 £800 £700
% change year-on-year -3.13% +14.29% +7.69%

All Generic Skills
London

Equities falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,587 5,858 8,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.58% 33.12% 35.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,048 4,098 6,510
10th Percentile £331 £315 £369
25th Percentile £450 £450 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £738 £732 £743
90th Percentile £838 £850 £838
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.31% +2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 142 100
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.43 £18.84
25th Percentile £23.21 £17.64 £21.56
Median hourly rate £31.95 £27.42 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.50% -21.66% -16.44%
75th Percentile £49.56 £49.88 £55.31
90th Percentile £77.12 £71.25 £85.33
England median hourly rate £33.05 £36.50 £22.49
% change year-on-year -9.45% +62.33% -15.15%

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 22 June 2025.

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 22 June 2025. 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 +2 16 £638 -5.56% 92
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 71 (27.31%) Apache Airflow
2 47 (18.08%) Apache
3 5 (1.92%) Confluence
4 2 (0.77%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.38%) DataSynapse
Applications
1 8 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Actimize
1 1 (0.38%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.38%) Oracle E-Business Tax
1 1 (0.38%) Oracle FAH
1 1 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 106 (40.77%) AWS
2 71 (27.31%) dbt
3 59 (22.69%) GCP
4 49 (18.85%) Snowflake
5 25 (9.62%) Azure
6 5 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (1.92%) Dagster
7 3 (1.15%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.38%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.38%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.31%) FIX Connectivity
2 2 (0.77%) Firewall
3 1 (0.38%) HTTP
3 1 (0.38%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (29.62%) Data Lake
2 71 (27.31%) Amazon Athena
2 71 (27.31%) Apache Arrow
2 71 (27.31%) Apache Iceberg
2 71 (27.31%) Dremio
3 35 (13.46%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (11.92%) Apache Ignite
5 16 (6.15%) MongoDB
5 16 (6.15%) Relational Database
6 15 (5.77%) DB2
7 12 (4.62%) KDB
8 4 (1.54%) Kdb+
9 3 (1.15%) Power BI
9 3 (1.15%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.77%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.77%) Power Query
10 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.38%) Oracle BI EE
11 1 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (6.54%) JUnit
2 8 (3.08%) Git
2 8 (3.08%) Jenkins
2 8 (3.08%) JIRA
3 4 (1.54%) Maven
3 4 (1.54%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.15%) Subversion
5 2 (0.77%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (0.77%) Eclipse
5 2 (0.77%) Gradle
5 2 (0.77%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.77%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.38%) Ant
6 1 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.38%) Crucible
General
1 221 (85.00%) Finance
2 178 (68.46%) Front Office
3 120 (46.15%) Banking
4 101 (38.85%) Investment Banking
5 42 (16.15%) Social Skills
6 41 (15.77%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.54%) Back Office
8 2 (0.77%) Legal
9 1 (0.38%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.38%) International Banking
9 1 (0.38%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.38%) Retail
9 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.38%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 142 (54.62%) Developer
2 97 (37.31%) Software Engineer
3 72 (27.69%) AWS Engineer
4 71 (27.31%) AWS Software Engineer
5 66 (25.38%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 58 (22.31%) Java Developer
7 54 (20.77%) Senior
8 51 (19.62%) Java Engineer
9 50 (19.23%) Java Software Engineer
10 47 (18.08%) Python Engineer
10 47 (18.08%) Python Software Engineer
11 40 (15.38%) AWS Developer
12 31 (11.92%) Analyst
13 30 (11.54%) Python Developer
14 29 (11.15%) Senior Java Engineer
14 29 (11.15%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 29 (11.15%) Senior Software Engineer
15 25 (9.62%) Head of Finance
16 22 (8.46%) Senior Developer
17 19 (7.31%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (22.31%) NumPy
1 58 (22.31%) Pandas
2 55 (21.15%) SciPy
3 50 (19.23%) React
4 44 (16.92%) AngularJS
5 38 (14.62%) Vue
6 35 (13.46%) Node.js
7 32 (12.31%) Protocol Buffers
8 31 (11.92%) gRPC
9 26 (10.00%) Redux
10 21 (8.08%) PySpark
11 19 (7.31%) Kafka
12 15 (5.77%) FIX Protocol
12 15 (5.77%) JMS
12 15 (5.77%) Spring
13 5 (1.92%) REST
13 5 (1.92%) Smart Contracts
14 4 (1.54%) .NET
14 4 (1.54%) HTML
14 4 (1.54%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 170 (65.38%) Fixed Income
2 168 (64.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 125 (48.08%) Derivative
4 109 (41.92%) Hedge funds
5 28 (10.77%) Pricing Data
6 16 (6.15%) Data Structures
6 16 (6.15%) Equity Derivative
7 11 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (3.46%) Product Ownership
9 8 (3.08%) Market Risk
10 6 (2.31%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (2.31%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.92%) Blockchain
11 5 (1.92%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 4 (1.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 3 (1.15%) Grid Computing
13 3 (1.15%) Reference Data
14 2 (0.77%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.31%) Linux
2 13 (5.00%) Unix
3 7 (2.69%) Windows
4 4 (1.54%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (66.54%) Agile
2 130 (50.00%) Investment Management
3 102 (39.23%) Software Engineering
4 101 (38.85%) Asset Management
5 59 (22.69%) Data Management
6 53 (20.38%) Migration
7 49 (18.85%) Fintech
8 48 (18.46%) Regulatory Compliance
9 47 (18.08%) Roadmaps
10 46 (17.69%) Data Governance
11 38 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
11 38 (14.62%) Risk Management
12 27 (10.38%) Analytics
12 27 (10.38%) Order Management
13 25 (9.62%) SDLC
13 25 (9.62%) TDD
14 24 (9.23%) Low Latency
14 24 (9.23%) Multithreading
14 24 (9.23%) Performance Attribution
15 18 (6.92%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 144 (55.38%) Python
2 113 (43.46%) Java
3 86 (33.08%) JavaScript
4 83 (31.92%) TypeScript
5 58 (22.31%) SQL
6 25 (9.62%) C++
7 20 (7.69%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.69%) C#
9 5 (1.92%) C
10 4 (1.54%) DAML
11 2 (0.77%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.38%) Bash
12 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.38%) Groovy
12 1 (0.38%) Perl
12 1 (0.38%) Ruby
12 1 (0.38%) Rust
12 1 (0.38%) Scala
12 1 (0.38%) Solidity
12 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (6.15%) Degree
2 11 (4.23%) Numerate Degree
3 3 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.77%) CFA
5 1 (0.38%) CBAP
5 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.08%) MiFID
2 2 (0.77%) EMIR
2 2 (0.77%) PMO
3 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.38%) Basel III
3 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.38%) Dodd-Frank
3 1 (0.38%) FINRA
3 1 (0.38%) GDPR
3 1 (0.38%) QA
3 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (0.77%) Docker
2 1 (0.38%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 3 (1.15%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (0.77%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.38%) Control-M
3 1 (0.38%) Grafana
3 1 (0.38%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (6.54%) Sybase
2 6 (2.31%) Bloomberg
3 5 (1.92%) Reuters
4 3 (1.15%) Citrix
4 3 (1.15%) Murex
4 3 (1.15%) Oracle
4 3 (1.15%) Refinitiv
5 2 (0.77%) Dynatrace
5 2 (0.77%) IBM
5 2 (0.77%) Microsoft
5 2 (0.77%) Splunk
6 1 (0.38%) Calypso
6 1 (0.38%) CQG
6 1 (0.38%) Google
6 1 (0.38%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.38%) Sophis
6 1 (0.38%) TIBCO
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