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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 692 887 912
Rank change year-on-year +195 +25 +220
Permanent jobs citing Equity Derivative 13 10 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.010% 0.065%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.065% 0.028% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 11 7 40
10th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £104,000
25th Percentile £73,750 £88,750 £116,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £115,000 £125,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £167,500 £125,000 £132,500
90th Percentile £172,500 £135,000 -
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 20,117 35,114 43,636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.47% 35.46% 43.49%
Number of salaries quoted 9,817 23,006 23,361
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,375
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £108,750
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 15 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 15 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 +149 11 £120,000 +4.35% 45
London +104 10 £120,000 +4.35% 45
Work from Home +139 5 £77,500 - 13
UK excluding London - 2 £70,000 - 12
Scotland - 1 £70,000 - 4
South East - 1 - - 8

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:

Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) MongoDB
2 3 (23.08%) KDB
3 2 (15.38%) DB2
3 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
3 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (15.38%) RDBMS
3 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
4 1 (7.69%) Redis
4 1 (7.69%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) JUnit
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 7 (53.85%) Front Office
3 5 (38.46%) Finance
4 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (23.08%) Back Office
5 3 (23.08%) Banking
5 3 (23.08%) Investment Banking
6 1 (7.69%) Law
6 1 (7.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Java Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Quantitative Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
2 3 (23.08%) Senior Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) C++ Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior C++ Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Sophis Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Sophis Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (15.38%) Kafka
2 2 (15.38%) React
2 2 (15.38%) Spring
2 2 (15.38%) Spring Boot
3 1 (7.69%) Flask
3 1 (7.69%) HTML
3 1 (7.69%) HTML5
3 1 (7.69%) Motif
3 1 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) Web Services
3 1 (7.69%) WebSockets
3 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (76.92%) Derivative
2 3 (23.08%) Algorithms
2 3 (23.08%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (23.08%) Onboarding
3 2 (15.38%) Equities
3 2 (15.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (7.69%) Fixed Income
4 1 (7.69%) Hedge funds
4 1 (7.69%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Unix
2 6 (46.15%) Linux
3 2 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (46.15%) Decision-Making
3 4 (30.77%) Low Latency
4 3 (23.08%) Algorithmic Trading
4 3 (23.08%) Client Onboarding
4 3 (23.08%) Concurrent Programming
4 3 (23.08%) Data Analysis
4 3 (23.08%) Market Making
4 3 (23.08%) Microservices
4 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
4 3 (23.08%) Statistical Modelling
5 2 (15.38%) Change Management
5 2 (15.38%) Clean Code
5 2 (15.38%) Compliance Audit
5 2 (15.38%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
5 2 (15.38%) ITIL
5 2 (15.38%) SDLC
5 2 (15.38%) TDD
5 2 (15.38%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) SQL
2 7 (53.85%) Python
3 4 (30.77%) C++
4 3 (23.08%) Java
5 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
5 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
6 1 (7.69%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) ACCA
2 1 (7.69%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
1 2 (15.38%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) IBM
2 2 (15.38%) Sophis
2 2 (15.38%) Sybase
3 1 (7.69%) Bloomberg
3 1 (7.69%) NYFIX
3 1 (7.69%) SAP
3 1 (7.69%) Sun