Equities Jobs

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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 391 572 494
Rank change year-on-year +181 -78 -109
Permanent jobs citing Equities 700 412 1,224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.65% 0.44% 0.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.91% 1.03% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 681 331 1,030
10th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £75,000
25th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £112,500 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £148,750 £142,500 £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 36,675 40,106 83,653
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.82% 43.08% 48.67%
Number of salaries quoted 23,359 22,226 34,621
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,570 £45,500
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 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +176 696 £120,000 +6.67% 105
London +164 693 £120,000 +6.67% 100
Work from Home +290 503 £115,000 +24.32% 24
South West -28 3 £20,000 -76.47%
UK excluding London -66 3 £20,000 -76.47% 5

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
1 387 (55.29%) Apache Airflow
2 382 (54.57%) Apache
3 1 (0.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.29%) Adobe After Effects
2 2 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.29%) InDesign
2 2 (0.29%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 15 (2.14%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.57%) ION Anvil
3 2 (0.29%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.29%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.14%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 586 (83.71%) AWS
2 339 (48.43%) dbt
3 332 (47.43%) GCP
4 302 (43.14%) Snowflake
5 206 (29.43%) Azure
6 16 (2.29%) Power Platform
7 14 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
8 12 (1.71%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (1.71%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.14%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 366 (52.29%) Apache Ignite
2 339 (48.43%) Apache Arrow
2 339 (48.43%) Dremio
3 323 (46.14%) Amazon Athena
4 316 (45.14%) Data Lake
5 52 (7.43%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (2.29%) Big Data
6 16 (2.29%) Power BI
6 16 (2.29%) Tableau
7 7 (1.00%) Tick Data
8 5 (0.71%) KDB
8 5 (0.71%) Kdb+
8 5 (0.71%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.43%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.29%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.14%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 18 (2.57%) Cypress.io
2 9 (1.29%) JIRA
3 8 (1.14%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.00%) GitLab
5 1 (0.14%) Git
5 1 (0.14%) Gradle
5 1 (0.14%) Maven
General
1 634 (90.57%) Finance
2 615 (87.86%) Front Office
3 427 (61.00%) Banking
4 360 (51.43%) Investment Banking
5 50 (7.14%) Back Office
6 48 (6.86%) Social Skills
7 10 (1.43%) Financial Institution
8 4 (0.57%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.43%) Law
10 2 (0.29%) Advertising
10 2 (0.29%) Marketing
10 2 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.14%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 329 (47.00%) Software Engineer
2 319 (45.57%) Developer
3 213 (30.43%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 182 (26.00%) Senior
5 181 (25.86%) Python Engineer
5 181 (25.86%) Python Software Engineer
6 162 (23.14%) Senior Software Engineer
7 141 (20.14%) Python Developer
8 140 (20.00%) Lead
9 118 (16.86%) AWS Engineer
9 118 (16.86%) AWS Software Engineer
10 115 (16.43%) Java Engineer
10 115 (16.43%) Java Software Engineer
11 114 (16.29%) Finance Manager
12 91 (13.00%) .NET Developer
13 83 (11.86%) Analyst
14 79 (11.29%) .NET Software Developer
14 79 (11.29%) .NET Software Engineer
15 71 (10.14%) Lead Software Developer
15 71 (10.14%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 385 (55.00%) gRPC
1 385 (55.00%) Protocol Buffers
2 328 (46.86%) Pandas
3 315 (45.00%) NumPy
4 313 (44.71%) SciPy
5 167 (23.86%) React
6 142 (20.29%) Redux
7 109 (15.57%) .NET
8 92 (13.14%) AngularJS
9 91 (13.00%) Vue
10 66 (9.43%) Material-UI
11 57 (8.14%) .NET Core
12 43 (6.14%) ASP.NET
12 43 (6.14%) ASP.NET Core
13 18 (2.57%) FIX Protocol
14 12 (1.71%) PySpark
15 4 (0.57%) Middleware
15 4 (0.57%) Rendezvous
16 3 (0.43%) XML
16 3 (0.43%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 604 (86.29%) Fixed Income
2 574 (82.00%) Hedge funds
3 531 (75.86%) Derivative
3 531 (75.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 66 (9.43%) Product Ownership
5 48 (6.86%) Pricing Data
6 17 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (1.57%) FPGA
8 10 (1.43%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.14%) Onboarding
10 5 (0.71%) Equity Derivative
10 5 (0.71%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.29%) Animation
12 2 (0.29%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.29%) Graphic Design
12 2 (0.29%) OTC Derivatives
12 2 (0.29%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.14%) Data Structures
13 1 (0.14%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.57%) Linux
2 6 (0.86%) Unix
3 3 (0.43%) Windows
4 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 589 (84.14%) Asset Management
2 554 (79.14%) Agile
3 519 (74.14%) Software Engineering
4 487 (69.57%) Investment Management
5 129 (18.43%) Greeks
6 124 (17.71%) Line Management
7 113 (16.14%) Machine Learning
8 102 (14.57%) Artificial Intelligence
9 100 (14.29%) Analytics
10 94 (13.43%) Full Stack Development
11 74 (10.57%) Fintech
12 58 (8.29%) Automated Trading
13 49 (7.00%) TDD
14 45 (6.43%) Quantitative Research
15 44 (6.29%) Product Management
16 41 (5.86%) DevOps
17 36 (5.14%) Portfolio Management
18 32 (4.57%) Low Latency
19 28 (4.00%) Multithreading
19 28 (4.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 588 (84.00%) Python
2 469 (67.00%) TypeScript
3 429 (61.29%) JavaScript
4 362 (51.71%) Java
5 192 (27.43%) SQL
6 109 (15.57%) C#
7 33 (4.71%) R
8 30 (4.29%) C++
9 12 (1.71%) Ruby
9 12 (1.71%) Scala
10 9 (1.29%) VBA
11 1 (0.14%) C
Qualifications
1 29 (4.14%) Degree
2 9 (1.29%) Master's Degree
3 7 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.29%) ISEB
4 2 (0.29%) ISTQB
4 2 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.14%) CFA
5 1 (0.14%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (18.43%) Data Quality
2 40 (5.71%) QA
3 4 (0.57%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (0.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (0.86%) Control-M
1 6 (0.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 65 (9.29%) Bloomberg
2 52 (7.43%) Google
3 14 (2.00%) BISAM
4 12 (1.71%) Reuters
5 4 (0.57%) ION Trading
5 4 (0.57%) Oracle
5 4 (0.57%) TIBCO
6 2 (0.29%) Adobe
7 1 (0.14%) FactSet
7 1 (0.14%) Murex
7 1 (0.14%) Progress
7 1 (0.14%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.14%) Solace
7 1 (0.14%) Sybase
7 1 (0.14%) Vertica