Equity Derivative Contract Job Trends 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 22 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 - 414
Rank change year-on-year - - +98
Contract jobs citing Equity Derivative 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.012% - 0.019%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.036% - 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £503 - £578
25th Percentile £506 - £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £625
75th Percentile £556 - £638
90th Percentile £568 - -
UK median daily rate £875 £783 £650
% change year-on-year +11.82% +20.38% -

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 5,600 5,013 6,583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.54% 29.33% 31.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,390 2,757 4,313
10th Percentile £219 £208 £213
25th Percentile £363 £360 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -3.39% -3.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 470 301 366
10th Percentile £13.25 £15.62 £16.50
25th Percentile £16.95 £22.50 £21.05
Median hourly rate £25.04 £50.00 £47.59
Median % change year-on-year -49.93% +5.06% +111.51%
75th Percentile £52.50 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.16 £79.60
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £45.59 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.87% +2.45% +71.15%

Equity Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Equity Derivative job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Equity Derivative
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Equity Derivative.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Equity Derivative

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 22 October 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
Scotland - 2 £525 -
Equity Derivative
UK

Equity Derivative
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
2 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Front Office
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JMS
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) J2SE
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Derivative
2 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (50.00%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Database Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) OOD
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Sybase