Equity Derivative Contracts

Equity Derivatives
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equity Derivative in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Equity Derivative over the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 542 646
Rank change year-on-year +46 +104 +149
Contract jobs citing Equity Derivative 43 38 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.087% 0.081%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.41% 0.29% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 38 34
10th Percentile £325 £593 £489
25th Percentile £421 £600 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £775
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -9.68% +19.23%
75th Percentile £969 £897 £809
90th Percentile £1,050 £1,150 £843
UK excluding London median daily rate £408 - £691

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 10,390 13,045 18,315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.61% 29.90% 33.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,464 8,271 12,601
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.51% -2.09% -
75th Percentile £650 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 465 944 598
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £19.00 £15.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.76 £35.65 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +58.55% -16.66%
75th Percentile £58.75 £61.63 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.79 £35.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year -12.65% +60.23% +2.33%

Equity Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Equity Derivative in the UK

Equity Derivative
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Equity Derivative in the UK

Equity Derivative
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Equity Derivative over the 6 months to 23 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Equity Derivative in the UK

Equity Derivative
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Equity Derivative in the UK

Equity Derivative
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 23 June 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
England +59 27 £850 +21.43% 217
London +43 27 £850 +21.43% 154
Work from Home +23 20 £425 -39.29% 50
UK excluding London - 16 £408 - 79
Northern Ireland - 9 £325 - 3
Scotland - 7 £479 - 10

Equity Derivative
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (18.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 3 (6.98%) AWS
1 3 (6.98%) Azure
1 3 (6.98%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.28%) DB2
1 7 (16.28%) MongoDB
1 7 (16.28%) Relational Database
2 3 (6.98%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (16.28%) Git
1 7 (16.28%) JUnit
2 6 (13.95%) Jenkins
3 5 (11.63%) Ant
3 5 (11.63%) Maven
3 5 (11.63%) Subversion
4 3 (6.98%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.33%) JIRA
General
1 36 (83.72%) Finance
2 20 (46.51%) Front Office
3 15 (34.88%) Banking
4 11 (25.58%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (18.60%) Social Skills
6 7 (16.28%) Wholesale Banking
7 6 (13.95%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 35 (81.40%) Developer
2 13 (30.23%) Java Developer
3 12 (27.91%) Quantitative Developer
4 5 (11.63%) .NET Developer
4 5 (11.63%) .NET Software Developer
4 5 (11.63%) .NET Software Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) C# .NET Developer
4 5 (11.63%) C# Developer
4 5 (11.63%) C# Software Developer
4 5 (11.63%) C# Software Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Senior
4 5 (11.63%) Senior Developer
4 5 (11.63%) Software Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Qualitative Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) Quantitative Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.93%) Spring
2 8 (18.60%) Kafka
3 5 (11.63%) .NET
4 4 (9.30%) AngularJS
5 3 (6.98%) React
5 3 (6.98%) Spring Boot
5 3 (6.98%) Web Services
6 2 (4.65%) Apache Avro
6 2 (4.65%) HTML
6 2 (4.65%) HTML5
6 2 (4.65%) JMS
6 2 (4.65%) JSON
6 2 (4.65%) MSMQ
6 2 (4.65%) RESTful
6 2 (4.65%) XML
7 1 (2.33%) Flask
7 1 (2.33%) Motif
7 1 (2.33%) NumPy
7 1 (2.33%) Pandas
7 1 (2.33%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 40 (93.02%) Derivative
2 29 (67.44%) Equities
3 8 (18.60%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (11.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (11.63%) Product Ownership
5 4 (9.30%) Data Structures
6 3 (6.98%) Fixed Income
7 2 (4.65%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (4.65%) N-Tier
8 1 (2.33%) Algorithms
8 1 (2.33%) Exotic Derivative
8 1 (2.33%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 13 (30.23%) Linux
2 9 (20.93%) Unix
3 5 (11.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (41.86%) CI/CD
1 18 (41.86%) Mathematics
2 14 (32.56%) Agile
3 13 (30.23%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (25.58%) SDLC
5 10 (23.26%) Risk Management
5 10 (23.26%) Software Engineering
6 9 (20.93%) Design Patterns
6 9 (20.93%) Test Automation
7 8 (18.60%) Concurrent Programming
7 8 (18.60%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (16.28%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (16.28%) Multithreading
8 7 (16.28%) Physics
9 6 (13.95%) DevOps
9 6 (13.95%) OO
10 5 (11.63%) Continuous Delivery
10 5 (11.63%) High Availability
10 5 (11.63%) OOA/OOD
10 5 (11.63%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 27 (62.79%) Python
2 16 (37.21%) C++
3 15 (34.88%) SQL
4 14 (32.56%) Java
5 5 (11.63%) C#
6 4 (9.30%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.65%) Kotlin
7 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.65%) Scala
8 1 (2.33%) C
8 1 (2.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (41.86%) Degree
2 11 (25.58%) Numerate Degree
3 7 (16.28%) Master's Degree
3 7 (16.28%) PhD
4 1 (2.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (16.28%) Sybase
2 6 (13.95%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.98%) IBM
4 1 (2.33%) Google
4 1 (2.33%) TIBCO