Credit Derivative Contract Job Trends in Central London

Credit Derivatives
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Credit Derivative in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Credit Derivative over the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 126 153
Rank change year-on-year -1 +27 +49
Contract jobs citing Credit Derivative 1 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.052% 0.21% 0.095%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.13% 0.69% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - - £662
25th Percentile £563 - £718
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £850 £821
Median % change year-on-year -32.35% +3.60% +5.87%
75th Percentile £588 - £852
90th Percentile - - £864
London median daily rate £725 £850 £750
% change year-on-year -14.71% +13.33% +3.45%

All Generic Skills
Central London

Credit 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 744 722 1,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.89% 30.83% 33.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 457 692
10th Percentile £359 £350 £321
25th Percentile £456 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -2.50% +3.00%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £738
90th Percentile £788 £838 £850
London median daily rate £556 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -3.26% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 10
10th Percentile £16.96 £19.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £19.79 £22.90 £26.06
Median hourly rate £25.08 £25.79 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.77% -27.35% -29.70%
75th Percentile £36.00 £27.00 £45.64
90th Percentile £70.21 £53.20 £54.58
London median hourly rate £26.50 £33.00 £29.13
% change year-on-year -19.70% +13.30% +7.95%

Credit Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Credit Derivative relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Credit Derivative job vacancy trend in Central London

Credit Derivative
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Credit Derivative.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Credit Derivative

Credit Derivative
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Credit Derivative.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Credit Derivative

Credit Derivative
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Credit Derivative within the Central London region over the 6 months to 5 October 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
City of London - 1 £575 -
Credit Derivative
London

Credit Derivative
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Front Office
1 1 (100.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Qualitative Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Quantitative Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Collateral Management
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Quantitative Research
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Change
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) EMIR