Equity Derivative Jobs

Equity Derivatives
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equity Derivative in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 678 888 924
Rank change year-on-year +210 +36 +187
Permanent jobs citing Equity Derivative 14 8 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.008% 0.063%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.078% 0.023% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 13 6 42
10th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £107,500
25th Percentile £73,750 £80,625 £120,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £112,500 £125,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.78% -10.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £162,500 £125,000 £132,500
90th Percentile £172,500 £137,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 - -

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 permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 18,030 35,099 45,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.65% 35.64% 43.54%
Number of salaries quoted 9,845 23,059 23,957
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,251
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Equity Derivative in the UK

Equity Derivative
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Equity Derivative over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Equity Derivative in the UK

Equity Derivative
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Equity Derivative within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +178 12 £115,000 +2.22% 28
London +113 11 £115,000 +2.22% 28
Work from Home +199 5 £77,500 - 11
UK excluding London - 2 £70,000 - 13
Scotland - 1 £70,000 - 5
South East - 1 - - 7

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Snowflake
2 1 (7.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) MongoDB
2 3 (21.43%) KDB
2 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (14.29%) DB2
3 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 2 (14.29%) RDBMS
3 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
4 1 (7.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JUnit
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 8 (57.14%) Front Office
3 6 (42.86%) Finance
4 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (28.57%) Back Office
5 3 (21.43%) Banking
5 3 (21.43%) Investment Banking
6 1 (7.14%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
2 4 (28.57%) Senior Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Java Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Quantitative Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Applications Specialist
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Sophis Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Applications Support
5 1 (7.14%) Applications Support Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) C++ Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior C++ Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Sophis Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (21.43%) React
3 2 (14.29%) Kafka
3 2 (14.29%) Spring
3 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
4 1 (7.14%) Flask
4 1 (7.14%) HTML
4 1 (7.14%) HTML5
4 1 (7.14%) Jest
4 1 (7.14%) Motif
4 1 (7.14%) Redux
4 1 (7.14%) REST
4 1 (7.14%) Web Services
4 1 (7.14%) WebSockets
4 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (78.57%) Derivative
2 4 (28.57%) Onboarding
3 3 (21.43%) Algorithms
3 3 (21.43%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (14.29%) Equities
4 2 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (7.14%) Hedge funds
5 1 (7.14%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Unix
2 7 (50.00%) Linux
3 3 (21.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (35.71%) Decision-Making
3 4 (28.57%) Client Onboarding
3 4 (28.57%) Low Latency
3 4 (28.57%) Risk Management
4 3 (21.43%) Algorithmic Trading
4 3 (21.43%) Change Management
4 3 (21.43%) Compliance Audit
4 3 (21.43%) Concurrent Programming
4 3 (21.43%) Data Analysis
4 3 (21.43%) Incident Management
4 3 (21.43%) ITIL
4 3 (21.43%) Market Making
4 3 (21.43%) Microservices
4 3 (21.43%) Portfolio Management
4 3 (21.43%) Statistical Modelling
4 3 (21.43%) Workflow
5 2 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (14.29%) Electronic Trading
5 2 (14.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) SQL
2 8 (57.14%) Python
3 4 (28.57%) C++
4 3 (21.43%) Java
4 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
5 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
6 1 (7.14%) C
6 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle
2 3 (21.43%) Sophis
3 2 (14.29%) IBM
3 2 (14.29%) Sybase
4 1 (7.14%) Bloomberg
4 1 (7.14%) NYFIX
4 1 (7.14%) Sun