The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equity Derivative in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Equity Derivative over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Equity Derivatives
Rank 650 525 237
Rank change year-on-year
-125 -288
Permanent jobs citing Equity Derivative 212 398 1224
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.195% 0.328% 1.003%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.585% 0.995% 2.893%
Number of salaries quoted 189 322 1082
Average salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £43,000 £45,000 £57,500
10% offered a salary of more than £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London average salary £43,000 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-21.81% +22.22%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
36262 40019 42312
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 33.38% 33.02% 34.67%
Number of salaries quoted 29773 33735 35431
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,500 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%

Equity Derivative
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Equity Derivative within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Equity Derivative Jobs Demand Trend

Equity Derivative
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Equity Derivative within the UK.

Equity Derivative Salary Trend

Equity Derivative
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Equity Derivative over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 within the UK.

Equity Derivative Salary Histogram

Equity Derivative
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Equity Derivative within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England -150 192 £75,000 +7.14%
London -126 177 £75,000 +7.14%
City of London -63 70 £75,000 +7.14%
Scotland +8 20 £55,000 -
Glasgow -9 20 £55,000 -
Yorkshire +4 12 £39,500 +5.33%
Leeds - 12 £39,500 -
West Yorkshire - 12 £39,500 -
Canary Wharf - 4 £80,000 -
Durham - 2 £42,500 -
Darlington - 2 £42,500 -
North East - 2 £42,500 -
West Midlands - 1 £42,500 -
Birmingham - 1 £42,500 -

Equity Derivative
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Equity Derivative also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Equity Derivative.

1 393 (99.75%) Derivative
2 209 (53.05%) Finance
3 177 (44.92%) Front Office
4 170 (43.15%) C#
5 161 (40.86%) Java
6 135 (34.26%) UNIX
7 128 (32.49%) SQL
7 128 (32.49%) Banking
8 111 (28.17%) Equities
9 87 (22.08%) Investment Banking
10 83 (21.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 75 (19.04%) Degree
12 74 (18.78%) OO
13 71 (18.02%) C++
14 69 (17.51%) Fixed Income
15 64 (16.24%) Linux
16 63 (15.99%) WPF
17 61 (15.48%) Multithreading
18 57 (14.47%) .NET
19 54 (13.71%) Risk Management
20 49 (12.44%) Sybase
21 45 (11.42%) Perl
22 44 (11.17%) Computer Science
23 42 (10.66%) QA
24 39 (9.898%) TDD
25 38 (9.645%) WinForms
26 34 (8.629%) VBA
27 33 (8.376%) Windows
28 32 (8.122%) Credit Derivative
28 32 (8.122%) Analytics

Equity Derivative
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Equity Derivative also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Equity Derivative. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 63 (15.99%) WPF
2 57 (14.47%) .NET
3 38 (9.645%) WinForms
4 26 (6.599%) XML
5 21 (5.330%) Spring
6 20 (5.076%) WCF
7 15 (3.807%) Murex MxML
8 13 (3.299%) Middleware
9 10 (2.538%) FIX Protocol
9 10 (2.538%) Reactive Extensions
10 9 (2.284%) J2EE
11 8 (2.030%) HTML
12 7 (1.777%) J2SE
13 5 (1.269%) Apache CXF
13 5 (1.269%) .NET Framework
13 5 (1.269%) Ajax
14 4 (1.015%) Hibernate
14 4 (1.015%) ASP.NET
14 4 (1.015%) XSD
14 4 (1.015%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 6 (1.523%) Oracle Coherence
2 5 (1.269%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.269%) Apache
3 4 (1.015%) GemFire
3 4 (1.015%) Confluence
4 3 (0.761%) SAS
4 3 (0.761%) Mathematica
5 2 (0.508%) Rendezvous
5 2 (0.508%) MQSeries
5 2 (0.508%) TIBCO EMS
Applications
1 4 (1.015%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.761%) MS Excel
2 3 (0.761%) Stata
3 1 (0.254%) MS Project
3 1 (0.254%) MS Office
3 1 (0.254%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (2.538%) Murex MxG2000
2 6 (1.523%) Sophis RISQUE
3 3 (0.761%) Kondor+
3 3 (0.761%) Summit
4 1 (0.254%) Front Arena
4 1 (0.254%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.599%) HTTP
2 8 (2.030%) Intrusion Detection
3 7 (1.777%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.523%) Firewall
4 6 (1.523%) Wireless
4 6 (1.523%) DHCP
4 6 (1.523%) DNS
4 6 (1.523%) VPN
4 6 (1.523%) LDAP
4 6 (1.523%) Wireless Security
5 2 (0.508%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.508%) Intranet
5 2 (0.508%) Internet
6 1 (0.254%) snoop
6 1 (0.254%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.569%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.284%) DB2
3 8 (2.030%) Data Mart
4 6 (1.523%) Sybase IQ
4 6 (1.523%) SQL Server 2005
5 5 (1.269%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.015%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.015%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.761%) TOAD
7 3 (0.761%) Oracle 10g
8 2 (0.508%) InterSystems Cache
8 2 (0.508%) OLAP
8 2 (0.508%) Oracle OLAP
8 2 (0.508%) Oracle 11g
8 2 (0.508%) KDB
9 1 (0.254%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.254%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.254%) SQL Server 2008
9 1 (0.254%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.254%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 13 (3.299%) JUnit
2 11 (2.792%) QuickTest Pro
3 9 (2.284%) JIRA
4 7 (1.777%) Visual Studio
4 7 (1.777%) Subversion
5 6 (1.523%) Selenium
6 5 (1.269%) MSBuild
6 5 (1.269%) WinRunner
7 4 (1.015%) CruiseControl
7 4 (1.015%) LoadRunner
7 4 (1.015%) FitNesse
8 2 (0.508%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.508%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
8 2 (0.508%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.508%) JBehave
8 2 (0.508%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.254%) Expression Blend
9 1 (0.254%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.254%) ClearCase
9 1 (0.254%) Ant
General
1 209 (53.05%) Finance
2 177 (44.92%) Front Office
3 128 (32.49%) Banking
4 87 (22.08%) Investment Banking
5 10 (2.538%) Financial Institution
6 9 (2.284%) Back Office
6 9 (2.284%) Legal
7 7 (1.777%) Wholesale Banking
8 6 (1.523%) Games
9 5 (1.269%) Advertising
10 1 (0.254%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.254%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.254%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.254%) Retail
10 1 (0.254%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 181 (45.94%) Developer
2 84 (21.32%) Analyst
3 81 (20.56%) Java Developer
4 59 (14.97%) C# Developer
5 39 (9.898%) Business Analyst
6 36 (9.137%) Team Leader
7 32 (8.122%) Senior Developer
8 31 (7.868%) Applications Support
9 27 (6.853%) Senior Java Developer
9 27 (6.853%) C++ Developer
10 26 (6.599%) Support Analyst
11 24 (6.091%) WPF Developer
11 24 (6.091%) Equity Derivatives Business Analyst
12 21 (5.330%) Development Team Leader
13 18 (4.569%) Quantitative Developer
13 18 (4.569%) Senior Analyst
14 16 (4.061%) Senior Business Analyst
15 15 (3.807%) Murex Support
16 14 (3.553%) Test Manager
16 14 (3.553%) Scala Developer
Miscellaneous
1 393 (99.75%) Derivative
2 111 (28.17%) Equities
3 83 (21.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 69 (17.51%) Fixed Income
5 44 (11.17%) Computer Science
6 32 (8.122%) Credit Derivative
7 20 (5.076%) Market Risk
7 20 (5.076%) Hedge funds
8 19 (4.822%) Mathematics
9 16 (4.061%) Credit Risk
10 12 (3.046%) Interest Rate Derivative
11 10 (2.538%) Client/Server
11 10 (2.538%) N-Tier
12 7 (1.777%) Equity Risk
13 6 (1.523%) PKI
14 4 (1.015%) Economics
14 4 (1.015%) Exotic Derivative
14 4 (1.015%) Wiki
15 3 (0.761%) Commodity Exotics
16 1 (0.254%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 135 (34.26%) UNIX
2 64 (16.24%) Linux
3 33 (8.376%) Windows
4 1 (0.254%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.254%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (18.78%) OO
2 61 (15.48%) Multithreading
3 54 (13.71%) Risk Management
4 39 (9.898%) TDD
5 32 (8.122%) Analytics
6 31 (7.868%) Agile Software Development
7 30 (7.614%) OOD
8 28 (7.107%) Electronic Trading
9 27 (6.853%) Unit Testing
10 24 (6.091%) Project Management
10 24 (6.091%) Algorithmic Trading
11 21 (5.330%) Test Strategy
12 20 (5.076%) User Acceptance Testing
13 18 (4.569%) Workflow
13 18 (4.569%) Migration
14 16 (4.061%) Business Analysis
15 13 (3.299%) Greeks
16 12 (3.046%) Scrum
16 12 (3.046%) RAD
16 12 (3.046%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 170 (43.15%) C#
2 161 (40.86%) Java
3 128 (32.49%) SQL
4 71 (18.02%) C++
5 45 (11.42%) Perl
6 34 (8.629%) VBA
7 31 (7.868%) Python
8 15 (3.807%) Scala
8 15 (3.807%) Shell Script
8 15 (3.807%) C
9 9 (2.284%) JavaScript
10 7 (1.777%) VB
11 6 (1.523%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.523%) Korn
12 5 (1.269%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.015%) VBScript
14 3 (0.761%) Haskell
14 3 (0.761%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.508%) XAML
15 2 (0.508%) VB6
Qualifications
1 75 (19.04%) Degree
2 3 (0.761%) PMP
2 3 (0.761%) PMI Certification
3 2 (0.508%) ISEB
3 2 (0.508%) CISSP
3 2 (0.508%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (10.66%) QA
2 6 (1.523%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.508%) Basel III
System Software
1 8 (2.030%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.508%) Snort
Systems Management
1 4 (1.015%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (0.508%) Nessus
3 1 (0.254%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 49 (12.44%) Sybase
2 30 (7.614%) Oracle
3 18 (4.569%) Murex
4 13 (3.299%) Microsoft
5 9 (2.284%) Sun
6 8 (2.030%) Calypso
6 8 (2.030%) TIBCO
7 7 (1.777%) Sophis
8 6 (1.523%) Reuters
8 6 (1.523%) Bloomberg
9 5 (1.269%) Fidessa
10 3 (0.761%) Wall Street Systems
10 3 (0.761%) Algorithmics
10 3 (0.761%) OpenLink
11 2 (0.508%) Perforce
11 2 (0.508%) Tripwire
11 2 (0.508%) Sourcefire
11 2 (0.508%) Adobe
11 2 (0.508%) Sophos
11 2 (0.508%) Twitter
City of London
The role is extremely hands on, demanding technical skills with SQL databases, UNIX and scripting... The client is only willing to see candidates who have: - Previously supported applications...
Huxley Associates
Salary: £1 per annum + Excellent Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
Due to increased investment the fund's development team has the capacity to create 2 # N-Tier opportunities with extensive opportunity to work with cutting edge technologies such...
Real Staffing
Salary: £30000 - £100000 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 15 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
They must be familiar with financial products related to Equity Derivatives. Essential technical skills include: - Strong RDMS skills, preferably Sybase or Sybase IQ - UNIX shell scripting and the...
Thomson Keene Associates
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + benefits + bonus
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
Developer, C#, equity, derivative, WPF, MVVM, GUI, Unix, London, Investment Bank, finance, trading systems My client, London's leading Investment Bank is now looking for a C# GUI...
Aston Carter
Salary: £60000 - £90000 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 19 May 2013
London
Technical skills required: Java Developer - Options Market Making - Java / C++ / Linux / Multi threading / KDB / FIX - London* Solid Java Core experience in a Linux runtime and Windows IDE (Eclipse/...
Argyll Scott International
Salary: £85000 - £100000 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
Skills: NET 3.5 and C# WPF and WCF (and SOA, Restful services in general) Enterprise messaging (e.g. Tibco EMS) SQL Server and XML/FPML. Design Patterns...
Citi
Salary: Competitive salary offered
Posted: 15 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
The successful candidate will have a good bachelors or masters degree in Computer Science or similar. Equity Derivatives Product Knowledge is not a pre-requisite, although it is...
Aston Carter
Salary: £40000 - £65000 per annum + Bonus, pension, 28 days hol
Posted: 17 May 2013