Equities
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 419 599 479
Rank change year-on-year +180 -120 -107
Permanent jobs citing Equities 609 414 1,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.42% 0.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.73% 0.98% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 592 350 1,053
10th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £75,000
25th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £117,500 £107,500 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.30% -6.52% +15.00%
75th Percentile £146,250 £132,500 £136,250
90th Percentile £165,000 £187,500 £162,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £20,000 £85,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -76.47% +30.77% +4.00%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,145 42,330 76,975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.18% 42.69% 47.89%
Number of salaries quoted 23,044 23,098 33,984
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,427 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,719
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £109,865 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Equities.

Salary trend for Equities in the UK

Equities
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Equities in the UK

Equities
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +183 605 £120,000 +10.34% 136
London +170 602 £120,000 +9.09% 131
Work from Home +260 411 £120,000 +29.73% 32
South West -25 3 £20,000 -76.47% 1
UK excluding London -32 3 £20,000 -76.47% 29

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
1 293 (48.11%) Apache Airflow
2 276 (45.32%) Apache
3 1 (0.16%) Confluence
3 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.33%) Adobe After Effects
2 2 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.33%) InDesign
2 2 (0.33%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 15 (2.46%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.66%) ION Anvil
3 2 (0.33%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.33%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.16%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 486 (79.80%) AWS
2 301 (49.43%) GCP
3 237 (38.92%) dbt
4 212 (34.81%) Azure
4 212 (34.81%) Snowflake
5 4 (0.66%) Power Platform
6 2 (0.33%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.16%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.16%) GitHub
7 1 (0.16%) OCI
7 1 (0.16%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 272 (44.66%) Apache Ignite
2 237 (38.92%) Apache Arrow
2 237 (38.92%) Dremio
3 233 (38.26%) Amazon Athena
4 214 (35.14%) Data Lake
5 48 (7.88%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (0.82%) KDB
6 5 (0.82%) Kdb+
6 5 (0.82%) Tick Data
7 4 (0.66%) Big Data
7 4 (0.66%) Power BI
7 4 (0.66%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.66%) Tableau
8 2 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.33%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.33%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.16%) Data Mart
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.16%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (2.30%) Cypress.io
2 9 (1.48%) Jenkins
2 9 (1.48%) JIRA
3 8 (1.31%) GitLab
4 1 (0.16%) Git
4 1 (0.16%) Gradle
4 1 (0.16%) Maven
General
1 542 (89.00%) Finance
2 524 (86.04%) Front Office
3 322 (52.87%) Banking
4 261 (42.86%) Investment Banking
5 48 (7.88%) Back Office
6 47 (7.72%) Social Skills
7 11 (1.81%) Financial Institution
8 4 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.49%) Law
10 2 (0.33%) Advertising
10 2 (0.33%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (0.33%) Marketing
11 1 (0.16%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.16%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.16%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 306 (50.25%) Developer
2 274 (44.99%) Software Engineer
3 194 (31.86%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 153 (25.12%) Senior
5 141 (23.15%) Python Engineer
5 141 (23.15%) Python Software Engineer
6 133 (21.84%) Python Developer
7 129 (21.18%) Senior Software Engineer
8 107 (17.57%) Finance Manager
8 107 (17.57%) Lead
9 94 (15.44%) .NET Developer
10 82 (13.46%) .NET Software Developer
10 82 (13.46%) .NET Software Engineer
11 79 (12.97%) Java Engineer
11 79 (12.97%) Java Software Engineer
12 76 (12.48%) AWS Engineer
12 76 (12.48%) AWS Software Engineer
13 74 (12.15%) Analyst
14 73 (11.99%) Senior Developer
15 66 (10.84%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 291 (47.78%) gRPC
1 291 (47.78%) Protocol Buffers
2 238 (39.08%) Pandas
3 225 (36.95%) NumPy
4 223 (36.62%) SciPy
5 166 (27.26%) React
6 141 (23.15%) Redux
7 110 (18.06%) .NET
8 95 (15.60%) AngularJS
9 94 (15.44%) Vue
10 62 (10.18%) Material-UI
11 57 (9.36%) .NET Core
12 46 (7.55%) ASP.NET
12 46 (7.55%) ASP.NET Core
13 16 (2.63%) FIX Protocol
14 5 (0.82%) Middleware
15 4 (0.66%) Rendezvous
16 3 (0.49%) REST
16 3 (0.49%) XML
17 2 (0.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 513 (84.24%) Fixed Income
2 475 (78.00%) Hedge funds
3 441 (72.41%) Derivative
4 434 (71.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 56 (9.20%) Product Ownership
6 30 (4.93%) Pricing Data
7 17 (2.79%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (1.97%) FPGA
9 9 (1.48%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.15%) Onboarding
11 6 (0.99%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.66%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (0.66%) Equity Derivative
13 2 (0.33%) Animation
13 2 (0.33%) Data Centre
13 2 (0.33%) Graphic Design
13 2 (0.33%) OTC Derivatives
13 2 (0.33%) Self-Motivation
14 1 (0.16%) Data Structures
14 1 (0.16%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.96%) Linux
2 8 (1.31%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.33%) Unix
4 1 (0.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 493 (80.95%) Asset Management
2 459 (75.37%) Agile
3 434 (71.26%) Software Engineering
4 425 (69.79%) Investment Management
5 110 (18.06%) Machine Learning
6 100 (16.42%) Artificial Intelligence
7 93 (15.27%) Full Stack Development
7 93 (15.27%) Greeks
8 88 (14.45%) Line Management
9 84 (13.79%) Analytics
10 76 (12.48%) Fintech
11 54 (8.87%) Automated Trading
12 53 (8.70%) Quantitative Research
13 52 (8.54%) TDD
14 44 (7.22%) DevOps
15 40 (6.57%) Product Management
16 35 (5.75%) Portfolio Management
17 34 (5.58%) Low Latency
17 34 (5.58%) Roadmaps
18 32 (5.25%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 486 (79.80%) Python
2 376 (61.74%) TypeScript
3 340 (55.83%) JavaScript
4 270 (44.33%) Java
5 161 (26.44%) SQL
6 112 (18.39%) C#
7 39 (6.40%) R
8 30 (4.93%) C++
9 12 (1.97%) Ruby
9 12 (1.97%) Scala
10 7 (1.15%) VBA
11 1 (0.16%) C
11 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.16%) XPath
Qualifications
1 26 (4.27%) Degree
2 8 (1.31%) Master's Degree
3 6 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (15.27%) Data Quality
2 41 (6.73%) QA
3 4 (0.66%) SLA
4 1 (0.16%) COREP
4 1 (0.16%) IFRS
4 1 (0.16%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.16%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 3 (0.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (1.31%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.66%) Control-M
3 2 (0.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 58 (9.52%) Bloomberg
2 48 (7.88%) Google
3 14 (2.30%) BISAM
4 4 (0.66%) ION Trading
4 4 (0.66%) Oracle
4 4 (0.66%) TIBCO
5 2 (0.33%) Adobe
6 1 (0.16%) FactSet
6 1 (0.16%) IBM
6 1 (0.16%) Murex
6 1 (0.16%) Progress
6 1 (0.16%) Refinitiv
6 1 (0.16%) Solace
6 1 (0.16%) Sybase
6 1 (0.16%) Vertica