Equity Derivative Contracts in England

Equity Derivatives
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equity Derivative in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Equity Derivative over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 464 492 629
Rank change year-on-year +28 +137 +89
Contract jobs citing Equity Derivative 21 50 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.086% 0.13% 0.048%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.25% 0.44% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 47 20
10th Percentile £488 - £486
25th Percentile £659 £600 £647
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £808 £700 £775
Median % change year-on-year +15.36% -9.68% +19.23%
75th Percentile £1,031 £794 £818
90th Percentile £1,050 £1,190 £888
UK median daily rate £425 £700 £750
% change year-on-year -39.29% -6.67% +15.38%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,317 11,465 17,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.15% 30.83% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,436 7,505 11,795
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 827 591
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.01 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%
75th Percentile £64.63 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.40 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Equity Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Equity Derivative as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Equity Derivative in England

Equity Derivative
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Equity Derivative in England.

Daily rate trend for Equity Derivative in England

Equity Derivative
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Equity Derivative in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Equity Derivative in England

Equity Derivative
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Equity Derivative in England.

Hourly rate trend for Equity Derivative in England

Equity Derivative
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +10 21 £808 +15.36% 52
Equity Derivative
UK

Equity Derivative
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle TCA
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) AWS
1 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
1 1 (4.76%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Visual Studio
2 3 (14.29%) Git
2 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.76%) Ant
3 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (4.76%) Maven
3 1 (4.76%) Subversion
3 1 (4.76%) TeamCity
General
1 16 (76.19%) Finance
2 10 (47.62%) Front Office
3 9 (42.86%) Banking
4 7 (33.33%) Investment Banking
5 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (9.52%) Financial Institution
7 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
7 1 (4.76%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (85.71%) Developer
2 8 (38.10%) Quantitative Developer
3 7 (33.33%) Senior
4 5 (23.81%) Senior Developer
5 4 (19.05%) Java Developer
6 3 (14.29%) Software Engineer
7 2 (9.52%) .NET Developer
7 2 (9.52%) Angular Developer
7 2 (9.52%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (9.52%) C# Developer
7 2 (9.52%) C++ Developer
7 2 (9.52%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 2 (9.52%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (4.76%) .NET Software Developer
8 1 (4.76%) C++ Quantitative Developer
8 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (4.76%) Qualitative Analyst
8 1 (4.76%) Quantitative Analyst Developer
8 1 (4.76%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (4.76%) Senior Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) AngularJS
2 3 (14.29%) HTML
2 3 (14.29%) HTML5
3 2 (9.52%) .NET
3 2 (9.52%) React
3 2 (9.52%) Web Services
4 1 (4.76%) Apache Avro
4 1 (4.76%) CSS
4 1 (4.76%) CSS3
4 1 (4.76%) Flask
4 1 (4.76%) JSON
4 1 (4.76%) Motif
4 1 (4.76%) Node.js
4 1 (4.76%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (4.76%) RESTful
4 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (90.48%) Derivative
2 13 (61.90%) Equities
3 6 (28.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (23.81%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (23.81%) Fixed Income
5 4 (19.05%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (14.29%) N-Tier
7 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
8 1 (4.76%) Algorithms
8 1 (4.76%) Hedge funds
8 1 (4.76%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
1 2 (9.52%) Unix
2 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 9 (42.86%) Mathematics
3 8 (38.10%) Agile
3 8 (38.10%) Design Patterns
4 7 (33.33%) TDD
5 6 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (28.57%) Risk Management
5 6 (28.57%) Test Automation
6 5 (23.81%) Data Analysis
6 5 (23.81%) Numerical Analysis
6 5 (23.81%) Quantitative Finance
7 4 (19.05%) Continuous Delivery
7 4 (19.05%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (19.05%) Physics
7 4 (19.05%) PnL Attribution
8 3 (14.29%) Release Management
8 3 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
8 3 (14.29%) SOA
8 3 (14.29%) Systems Engineering
8 3 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) C++
1 11 (52.38%) Python
2 8 (38.10%) Java
3 3 (14.29%) C#
3 3 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (4.76%) C
4 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.76%) Scala
4 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (42.86%) Degree
1 9 (42.86%) Numerate Degree
2 2 (9.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) MiFID
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) Google
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle
1 1 (4.76%) Splunk