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 11 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 103 107
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 -36
Contract jobs citing Derivative 33 19 27
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.49% 0.93% 1.04%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.33% 2.85% 3.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 15 19
10th Percentile £525 £566 £473
25th Percentile £594 £644 £680
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £675 £738
Median % change year-on-year - -8.47% -1.67%
75th Percentile £860 £700 £876
90th Percentile £1,028 £814 £1,050
London median daily rate £750 £750 £714
% change year-on-year - +5.12% -4.87%

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 762 667 781
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 34.51% 32.73% 30.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 440 550
10th Percentile £350 £363 £263
25th Percentile £450 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £598
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.77% -0.42%
75th Percentile £675 £694 £713
90th Percentile £788 £775 £838
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 12
10th Percentile £20.82 - £13.18
25th Percentile £26.11 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +63.16% -45.71%
75th Percentile £50.43 - £32.31
90th Percentile £59.72 - £49.90
London median hourly rate £29.00 £35.70 £29.36
% change year-on-year -18.76% +21.58% -16.11%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 +4 29 £733 +8.52% 4
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 3 (9.09%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.06%) Confluence
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Algo Collateral
1 2 (6.06%) Summit
2 1 (3.03%) Aladdin
2 1 (3.03%) Loan IQ
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 10 (30.30%) AWS
2 7 (21.21%) Azure
2 7 (21.21%) GCP
3 3 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 3 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (9.09%) Power Platform
3 3 (9.09%) Serverless
4 2 (6.06%) SaaS
5 1 (3.03%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) Big Data
1 4 (12.12%) Redis
1 4 (12.12%) SQL Server
2 3 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 3 (9.09%) Power BI
2 3 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 3 (9.09%) Tableau
3 1 (3.03%) KDB
3 1 (3.03%) Kdb+
3 1 (3.03%) Metadata
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Git
2 5 (15.15%) Jenkins
3 4 (12.12%) JIRA
3 4 (12.12%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (3.03%) TeamCity
General
1 29 (87.88%) Finance
2 19 (57.58%) Banking
3 14 (42.42%) Front Office
4 13 (39.39%) Social Skills
5 12 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (21.21%) Investment Banking
7 4 (12.12%) Financial Institution
8 3 (9.09%) Back Office
9 1 (3.03%) General Ledger
9 1 (3.03%) Law
9 1 (3.03%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) Developer
2 9 (27.27%) Analyst
3 5 (15.15%) Business Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) C# Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Quantitative Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Senior
5 3 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Lead
6 2 (6.06%) Project Manager
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Data Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Java Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Java Software Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Project Manager
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Test Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Systems Tester
7 1 (3.03%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) Dask
1 3 (9.09%) Google JAX
1 3 (9.09%) JAX
1 3 (9.09%) LightGBM
1 3 (9.09%) NumPy
1 3 (9.09%) Pandas
1 3 (9.09%) PyTorch
1 3 (9.09%) scikit-learn
1 3 (9.09%) SciPy
1 3 (9.09%) TensorFlow
1 3 (9.09%) XGBoost
2 2 (6.06%) React
3 1 (3.03%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.03%) CSS
3 1 (3.03%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (3.03%) HTML
3 1 (3.03%) RESTful
3 1 (3.03%) Spring
3 1 (3.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (36.36%) Equities
1 12 (36.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 11 (33.33%) Fixed Income
3 6 (18.18%) Algorithms
4 4 (12.12%) Data Structures
5 3 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (9.09%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (6.06%) Market Risk
6 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
7 1 (3.03%) Credit Derivative
7 1 (3.03%) Credit Risk
7 1 (3.03%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (3.03%) DTCC
7 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
7 1 (3.03%) Reference Data
7 1 (3.03%) TWAP
7 1 (3.03%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Unix
2 2 (6.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (30.30%) Analytics
1 10 (30.30%) Risk Management
2 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (21.21%) Agile
4 6 (18.18%) Decision-Making
4 6 (18.18%) DevOps
4 6 (18.18%) Greeks
4 6 (18.18%) Low Latency
4 6 (18.18%) Mathematics
4 6 (18.18%) Risk Analytics
4 6 (18.18%) Validation
5 5 (15.15%) CI/CD
5 5 (15.15%) Data Analysis
5 5 (15.15%) Data Engineering
5 5 (15.15%) Quantitative Research
5 5 (15.15%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (12.12%) Asset Management
6 4 (12.12%) Electronic Trading
6 4 (12.12%) Physics
6 4 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (51.52%) SQL
2 15 (45.45%) Python
3 8 (24.24%) C#
4 5 (15.15%) C++
5 3 (9.09%) Java
5 3 (9.09%) Scala
6 2 (6.06%) Perl
7 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) Degree
2 4 (12.12%) Master's Degree
3 3 (9.09%) PhD
4 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.06%) ISTQB
5 1 (3.03%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) IFRS
1 3 (9.09%) QA
2 2 (6.06%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.06%) EMIR
3 1 (3.03%) Basel III
3 1 (3.03%) GAAP
3 1 (3.03%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.06%) Ansible
2 2 (6.06%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 4 (12.12%) Bloomberg
2 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) Tradeweb
3 2 (6.06%) AppDynamics
3 2 (6.06%) MarketAxess
3 2 (6.06%) Murex
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle
3 2 (6.06%) SmartStream
3 2 (6.06%) Splunk
4 1 (3.03%) Charles River
4 1 (3.03%) IBM
4 1 (3.03%) ION Trading
4 1 (3.03%) SimCorp