Derivative Contract Job Trends in Central London

Derivatives
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Derivative in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Derivative over the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 105 112
Rank change year-on-year -8 +7 -29
Contract jobs citing Derivative 28 19 21
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.14% 0.95% 0.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.48% 2.80% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 14 14
10th Percentile £525 £620 £466
25th Percentile £619 £653 £615
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £675 £680
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -0.74% -9.33%
75th Percentile £907 £709 £844
90th Percentile £975 £824 £881
London median daily rate £745 £750 £750
% change year-on-year -0.67% - +1.35%

All Generic Skills
Central London

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 805 679 744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 32.79% 33.95% 30.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 439 524
10th Percentile £350 £355 £266
25th Percentile £463 £473 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £683 £695 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £850
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 10
10th Percentile £19.29 £23.78 £12.75
25th Percentile £21.99 £26.45 £16.73
Median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% +26.39% -34.29%
75th Percentile £41.85 £31.00 £26.25
90th Percentile £59.40 £72.40 £29.78
London median hourly rate £35.00 £35.45 £26.00
% change year-on-year -1.26% +36.33% -25.71%

Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Derivative job vacancy trend in Central London

Derivative
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

Derivative
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Derivative in Central London over the 6 months to 6 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Derivative in Central London

Derivative
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

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 Derivative within the Central London region over the 6 months to 6 May 2026. 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 -2 24 £733 +8.52% 22
Derivative
London

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.14%) Apache Spark
1 2 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Summit
2 1 (3.57%) Aladdin
2 1 (3.57%) Algo Collateral
2 1 (3.57%) Loan IQ
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (3.57%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) AWS
2 5 (17.86%) Azure
2 5 (17.86%) GCP
3 3 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (10.71%) Amazon S3
3 3 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (10.71%) Power Platform
3 3 (10.71%) Serverless
4 2 (7.14%) SaaS
5 1 (3.57%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 3 (10.71%) Power BI
2 3 (10.71%) Tableau
3 2 (7.14%) Big Data
3 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 2 (7.14%) Redis
3 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.57%) Metadata
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Git
1 5 (17.86%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.29%) JIRA
3 2 (7.14%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (7.14%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (75.00%) Finance
2 16 (57.14%) Banking
3 14 (50.00%) Front Office
4 10 (35.71%) Social Skills
5 8 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (17.86%) Investment Banking
7 4 (14.29%) Financial Institution
8 3 (10.71%) Back Office
8 3 (10.71%) Legal
9 1 (3.57%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Developer
2 7 (25.00%) Analyst
3 6 (21.43%) Business Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Quantitative Developer
5 3 (10.71%) C# Developer
5 3 (10.71%) C# Developer - Commodities
5 3 (10.71%) Data Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Lead
5 3 (10.71%) Senior
6 2 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Front Office Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Project Manager
7 1 (3.57%) Data Scientist
7 1 (3.57%) Financial Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Lead Business Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Market Data Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) QA Leader
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Financial Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) NumPy
1 3 (10.71%) Pandas
1 3 (10.71%) React
1 3 (10.71%) SciPy
2 2 (7.14%) Dask
2 2 (7.14%) Google JAX
2 2 (7.14%) JAX
2 2 (7.14%) LightGBM
2 2 (7.14%) PyTorch
2 2 (7.14%) scikit-learn
2 2 (7.14%) TensorFlow
2 2 (7.14%) XGBoost
3 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.57%) Web Services
3 1 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (42.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 10 (35.71%) Equities
3 9 (32.14%) Fixed Income
4 3 (10.71%) Algorithms
4 3 (10.71%) Equity Derivative
4 3 (10.71%) Market Risk
5 2 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (7.14%) Credit Risk
5 2 (7.14%) Data Structures
5 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
6 1 (3.57%) DTCC
6 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
6 1 (3.57%) Reference Data
6 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Unix
2 2 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) Analytics
2 7 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 6 (21.43%) Data Analysis
3 6 (21.43%) Greeks
3 6 (21.43%) Risk Analytics
4 5 (17.86%) Decision-Making
4 5 (17.86%) DevOps
4 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (17.86%) Validation
5 4 (14.29%) Asset Management
5 4 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (14.29%) Data Engineering
5 4 (14.29%) Low Latency
5 4 (14.29%) Mathematics
5 4 (14.29%) Process Improvement
5 4 (14.29%) Quantitative Research
5 4 (14.29%) Regression Testing
5 4 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) SQL
2 12 (42.86%) Python
3 8 (28.57%) C#
4 4 (14.29%) C++
5 3 (10.71%) Scala
6 2 (7.14%) Perl
6 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Degree
1 3 (10.71%) Master's Degree
1 3 (10.71%) PhD
2 1 (3.57%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) IFRS
2 2 (7.14%) Basel III
2 2 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.14%) QA
3 1 (3.57%) EMIR
3 1 (3.57%) GAAP
3 1 (3.57%) MiFID
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.14%) Ansible
2 2 (7.14%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Bloomberg
2 2 (7.14%) AppDynamics
2 2 (7.14%) MarketAxess
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Murex
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle
2 2 (7.14%) Splunk
2 2 (7.14%) Tradeweb
3 1 (3.57%) Charles River
3 1 (3.57%) IBM
3 1 (3.57%) SimCorp
3 1 (3.57%) SmartStream