Equity Derivative Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Equity Derivatives
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equity Derivative in remote or hybrid contract work. 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 286 305 464
Rank change year-on-year +19 +159 +148
Contract jobs citing Equity Derivative 18 40 13
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.26% 0.050%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.55% 0.91% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 38 12
10th Percentile - - £491
25th Percentile £325 £600 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £366 £700 £744
Median % change year-on-year -47.68% -5.88% +10.19%
75th Percentile £425 £803 £842
90th Percentile £560 £1,250 £888
UK median daily rate £425 £700 £750
% change year-on-year -39.29% -6.67% +15.38%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Equity Derivative
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Equity Derivative as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Equity Derivative trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Equity Derivative
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Equity Derivative.

Equity Derivative daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Equity Derivative
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Equity Derivative over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Equity Derivative daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Equity Derivative
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (5.56%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) AWS
1 1 (5.56%) Azure
1 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) DB2
1 4 (22.22%) MongoDB
1 4 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Git
2 6 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 5 (27.78%) Ant
3 5 (27.78%) Maven
3 5 (27.78%) Subversion
4 4 (22.22%) JUnit
5 2 (11.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (83.33%) Finance
2 12 (66.67%) Banking
3 10 (55.56%) Front Office
4 7 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (38.89%) Wholesale Banking
5 5 (27.78%) Investment Banking
5 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 5 (27.78%) .NET Developer
3 5 (27.78%) .NET Software Developer
3 5 (27.78%) .NET Software Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) C# .NET Developer
3 5 (27.78%) C# Developer
3 5 (27.78%) C# Software Developer
3 5 (27.78%) C# Software Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) Software Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Software Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Applications Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Java Software Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Quantitative Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Angular Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Front Office Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) Spring
2 5 (27.78%) .NET
3 4 (22.22%) Kafka
4 3 (16.67%) React
4 3 (16.67%) Web Services
5 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
5 2 (11.11%) Apache Avro
5 2 (11.11%) JSON
5 2 (11.11%) MSMQ
5 2 (11.11%) RESTful
5 2 (11.11%) XML
6 1 (5.56%) Flask
6 1 (5.56%) JMS
6 1 (5.56%) Motif
6 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 17 (94.44%) Derivative
2 13 (72.22%) Equities
3 5 (27.78%) Product Ownership
4 3 (16.67%) Data Structures
5 2 (11.11%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (5.56%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 10 (55.56%) Linux
2 7 (38.89%) Unix
3 5 (27.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (50.00%) SDLC
2 9 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 7 (38.89%) Agile
4 6 (33.33%) Concurrent Programming
5 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
5 5 (27.78%) Clean Code
5 5 (27.78%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (27.78%) Design Patterns
5 5 (27.78%) DevOps
5 5 (27.78%) High Availability
5 5 (27.78%) OO
5 5 (27.78%) OOA/OOD
6 4 (22.22%) Multithreading
6 4 (22.22%) User Experience
7 3 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
7 3 (16.67%) Database Tuning
7 3 (16.67%) Open Source
7 3 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (11.11%) Numerical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) SQL
2 7 (38.89%) Java
2 7 (38.89%) Python
3 5 (27.78%) C#
4 3 (16.67%) C++
4 3 (16.67%) Shell Script
5 2 (11.11%) Kotlin
5 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 2 (11.11%) Scala
6 1 (5.56%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
1 2 (11.11%) Master's Degree
1 2 (11.11%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Sybase
3 1 (5.56%) IBM
3 1 (5.56%) TIBCO