Equity Derivative Contracts in the UK excluding London

Equity Derivatives
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equity Derivative in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Equity Derivative over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 - 439
Rank change year-on-year - - +69
Contract jobs citing Equity Derivative 19 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% - 0.033%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.45% - 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 0 3
10th Percentile £249 - £574
25th Percentile - - £610
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £691
75th Percentile £415 - £721
90th Percentile £425 - £727
UK median daily rate £488 £700 £750
% change year-on-year -30.36% -6.67% +15.38%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,246 6,122 7,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.19% 29.50% 32.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,608 3,666 5,259
10th Percentile £210 £210 £213
25th Percentile £363 £376 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £618
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 724 436
10th Percentile £16.81 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.28 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.42 £28.13 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.72% +27.84% +9.64%
75th Percentile £64.64 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.28 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +7.58% +33.42% -18.24%

Equity Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Equity Derivative in the UK excluding London

Equity Derivative
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Equity Derivative in the UK excluding London

Equity Derivative
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Equity Derivative in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Equity Derivative in the UK excluding London

Equity Derivative
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Northern Ireland - 13 £325 - 1
Scotland - 6 £408 - 5
Equity Derivative
UK

Equity Derivative
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) OpenShift
2 3 (15.79%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) DB2
1 6 (31.58%) MongoDB
1 6 (31.58%) Relational Database
2 4 (21.05%) NoSQL
3 3 (15.79%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (52.63%) Git
2 6 (31.58%) JUnit
3 4 (21.05%) Ant
3 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
3 4 (21.05%) Maven
3 4 (21.05%) Subversion
General
1 17 (89.47%) Finance
2 13 (68.42%) Front Office
3 7 (36.84%) Banking
4 6 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (31.58%) Wholesale Banking
5 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
6 1 (5.26%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (100.00%) Developer
2 12 (63.16%) Java Developer
3 8 (42.11%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 8 (42.11%) Software Engineer
4 6 (31.58%) Java Software Developer
5 4 (21.05%) .NET Developer
5 4 (21.05%) .NET Software Developer
5 4 (21.05%) .NET Software Engineer
5 4 (21.05%) C# .NET Developer
5 4 (21.05%) C# Developer
5 4 (21.05%) C# Software Developer
5 4 (21.05%) C# Software Engineer
5 4 (21.05%) Java Engineer
5 4 (21.05%) Java Software Engineer
6 3 (15.79%) Software Developer
7 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (10.53%) Junior
7 2 (10.53%) Junior Developer
7 2 (10.53%) Junior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (42.11%) Spring
2 7 (36.84%) Spring Boot
3 6 (31.58%) AngularJS
3 6 (31.58%) Apache Avro
3 6 (31.58%) JSON
3 6 (31.58%) Kafka
3 6 (31.58%) React
3 6 (31.58%) RESTful
3 6 (31.58%) Web Services
3 6 (31.58%) XML
4 4 (21.05%) .NET
5 2 (10.53%) MSMQ
6 1 (5.26%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 16 (84.21%) Derivative
1 16 (84.21%) Equities
2 8 (42.11%) Product Ownership
3 3 (15.79%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 10 (52.63%) Linux
2 7 (36.84%) Unix
3 4 (21.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (68.42%) Software Engineering
3 12 (63.16%) Agile
4 9 (47.37%) Clean Code
4 9 (47.37%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (47.37%) DevOps
4 9 (47.37%) SDLC
5 8 (42.11%) User Experience
6 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
6 7 (36.84%) Concurrent Programming
6 7 (36.84%) Continuous Delivery
7 6 (31.58%) Code Quality
7 6 (31.58%) Multithreading
8 4 (21.05%) Design Patterns
8 4 (21.05%) High Availability
8 4 (21.05%) OO
8 4 (21.05%) OOA/OOD
9 3 (15.79%) Event-Driven
9 3 (15.79%) Open Source
9 3 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 15 (78.95%) SQL
2 12 (63.16%) Java
3 6 (31.58%) Python
4 4 (21.05%) C#
5 3 (15.79%) Shell Script
6 2 (10.53%) Kotlin
6 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
6 2 (10.53%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Sybase
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.79%) IBM
4 1 (5.26%) TIBCO