Equity Derivative Contracts in London

Equity Derivatives
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equity Derivative in contract job vacancies in London. 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 332 342 471
Rank change year-on-year +10 +129 +63
Contract jobs citing Equity Derivative 21 49 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.17% 0.27% 0.081%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.47% 0.83% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 46 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 £803 £818
90th Percentile £1,050 £1,200 £888
England median daily rate £808 £700 £775
% change year-on-year +15.36% -9.68% +19.23%

All Generic Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,516 5,909 9,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.99% 33.14% 35.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,054 4,182 6,966
10th Percentile £325 £301 £375
25th Percentile £451 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £838
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 160 109
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £18.93
25th Percentile £22.60 £18.93 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%
75th Percentile £50.31 £47.81 £64.50
90th Percentile £80.05 £66.78 £83.15
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Equity Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Equity Derivative in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Equity Derivative in London

Equity Derivative
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Equity Derivative in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Equity Derivative in London

Equity Derivative
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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