Equity Derivative Contracts in England

Equity Derivatives
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equity Derivative in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Equity Derivative over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 510 605 721
Rank change year-on-year +95 +116 -143
Contract jobs citing Equity Derivative 40 31 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.066% 0.094%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.35% 0.20% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 25 49
10th Percentile £598 £473 £555
25th Percentile £600 £563 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £795 £650
Median % change year-on-year -11.95% +22.31% +8.33%
75th Percentile £931 £813 £725
90th Percentile £1,160 £863 £755
UK median daily rate £700 £775 £650
% change year-on-year -9.68% +19.23% +8.33%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,349 15,786 23,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.26% 33.56% 33.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,319 11,005 17,096
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 850 549 600
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.39 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.04
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Equity Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Equity Derivative in England

Equity Derivative
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Equity Derivative in England

Equity Derivative
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Equity Derivative in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Equity Derivative in England

Equity Derivative
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Equity Derivative in England

Equity Derivative
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
London +92 39 £700 -11.95% 8
Equity Derivative
UK

Equity Derivative
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.50%) Azure
2 4 (10.00%) AWS
3 2 (5.00%) npm
3 2 (5.00%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.50%) KDB
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Visual Studio
2 2 (5.00%) Babel
2 2 (5.00%) webpack
3 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 23 (57.50%) Banking
2 22 (55.00%) Finance
2 22 (55.00%) Front Office
3 19 (47.50%) Investment Banking
4 4 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.50%) Prime Brokerage
6 2 (5.00%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
7 1 (2.50%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 33 (82.50%) Developer
2 19 (47.50%) Front Office Developer
3 14 (35.00%) Java Developer
4 13 (32.50%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 10 (25.00%) C# Developer
6 9 (22.50%) C++ Developer
7 6 (15.00%) Low Latency C++ Developer
8 5 (12.50%) Analyst
9 3 (7.50%) C++ Quantitative Developer
9 3 (7.50%) Qualitative Analyst
9 3 (7.50%) Quantitative Analyst
9 3 (7.50%) Quantitative Developer
9 3 (7.50%) RAD Developer
9 3 (7.50%) Senior
10 2 (5.00%) AWS Developer
10 2 (5.00%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
10 2 (5.00%) Front Office RAD Developer
10 2 (5.00%) Pricing Analyst
10 2 (5.00%) Prime Brokerage Project Manager
10 2 (5.00%) Quantitative Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.00%) .NET
1 4 (10.00%) Node.js
2 2 (5.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (5.00%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (5.00%) WPF
3 1 (2.50%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.50%) Material-UI
3 1 (2.50%) Middleware
3 1 (2.50%) React
3 1 (2.50%) REST
3 1 (2.50%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 37 (92.50%) Derivative
2 10 (25.00%) Algorithms
3 9 (22.50%) Equities
4 6 (15.00%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (15.00%) Hedge funds
5 4 (10.00%) Fixed Income
5 4 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (7.50%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (5.00%) Market Risk
8 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
8 1 (2.50%) Grid Computing
8 1 (2.50%) Synthetic Equity
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.00%) RAD
2 8 (20.00%) Mathematics
3 7 (17.50%) Agile
3 7 (17.50%) CI/CD
4 6 (15.00%) Algorithmic Trading
4 6 (15.00%) Analytics
4 6 (15.00%) Low Latency
4 6 (15.00%) Multithreading
4 6 (15.00%) Systematic Trading
5 5 (12.50%) Greeks
5 5 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
5 5 (12.50%) Risk Management
6 4 (10.00%) Clean Code
6 4 (10.00%) Design Patterns
6 4 (10.00%) OO
6 4 (10.00%) OOD
6 4 (10.00%) TDD
7 3 (7.50%) Numerical Analysis
7 3 (7.50%) PnL Attribution
7 3 (7.50%) Quantitative Finance
Programming Languages
1 18 (45.00%) Java
2 16 (40.00%) C++
3 14 (35.00%) C#
4 13 (32.50%) Python
5 9 (22.50%) SQL
6 3 (7.50%) VBA
7 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) Degree
2 3 (7.50%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) MiFID
2 1 (2.50%) EMIR
Vendors
1 5 (12.50%) Oracle