Equity Derivative Contract Job Trends in Central London

Equity Derivatives
London > Central London

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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 - 150
Rank change year-on-year - - +58
Contract jobs citing Equity Derivative 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.10% - 0.068%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.26% - 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £506 - £563
25th Percentile £530 - £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £577 - £775
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.25%
75th Percentile £616 - £969
90th Percentile £637 - £1,048
London median daily rate £900 £840 £700
% change year-on-year +7.14% +20.00% -2.61%

All Generic Skills
Central London

Equity Derivative 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 769 743 945
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.96% 31.13% 32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 566 477 633
10th Percentile £350 £376 £314
25th Percentile £434 £474 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% -1.67% +2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £710 £725
90th Percentile £775 £838 £840
London median daily rate £550 £575 £596
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.56% -0.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £25.72 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.95 £26.20 £18.45
Median hourly rate £28.00 £27.00 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +0.93% -47.03%
75th Percentile £41.85 £59.75 £48.31
90th Percentile £65.57 £79.40 £67.18
London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +9.38% +4.92%

Equity Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Equity Derivative relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Equity Derivative job vacancy trend in Central London

Equity Derivative
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Equity Derivative.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Equity Derivative

Equity Derivative
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Equity Derivative in Central London over the 6 months to 22 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Equity Derivative in Central London

Equity Derivative
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Equity Derivative.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Equity Derivative

Equity Derivative
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Equity Derivative within the Central London region over the 6 months to 22 November 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
City of London - 1 £503 - 3
Equity Derivative
London

Equity Derivative
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Front Office
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Quantitative Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Quantitative Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) NumPy
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Derivative
2 1 (50.00%) Equities
2 1 (50.00%) Exotic Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (100.00%) Physics
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Benchmarking
2 1 (50.00%) Black-Scholes
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Greeks
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Model Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Monte Carlo Method
2 1 (50.00%) Quantitative Research
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stochastic Calculus
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (100.00%) PhD
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft