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 12 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 113 98
Rank change year-on-year -10 -15 +23
Contract jobs citing Derivative 24 17 31
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.96% 0.86% 1.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.61% 2.26% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 23
10th Percentile £486 £474 £540
25th Percentile £613 £555 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £663 £750
Median % change year-on-year +9.43% -11.67% -0.92%
75th Percentile £919 £738 £850
90th Percentile £931 £973 -
London median daily rate £725 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £87.50 -
London median hourly rate £71.25 £87.50 -
% change year-on-year -18.57% - -

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 919 753 726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 36.75% 38.01% 31.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 624 527 461
10th Percentile £344 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £588
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -1.28% -2.08%
75th Percentile £684 £689 £711
90th Percentile £775 £800 £838
London median daily rate £550 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 7
10th Percentile £19.44 £17.35 £19.60
25th Percentile £23.16 £21.45 £22.90
Median hourly rate £32.07 £26.98 £25.79
Median % change year-on-year +18.87% +4.59% -27.35%
75th Percentile £43.00 £43.39 £27.00
90th Percentile £64.25 £86.43 £53.20
London median hourly rate £33.60 £27.81 £31.31
% change year-on-year +20.81% -11.17% -10.54%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -15 24 £725 +9.43% 14
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
1 1 (4.17%) SaaS
1 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.17%) KDB
2 1 (4.17%) Kdb+
2 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.17%) Power BI
2 1 (4.17%) Redis
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) JIRA
2 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.17%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (4.17%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (58.33%) Finance
1 14 (58.33%) Front Office
2 12 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (37.50%) Banking
4 6 (25.00%) Investment Banking
5 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (12.50%) Back Office
6 3 (12.50%) Financial Institution
6 3 (12.50%) Legal
7 1 (4.17%) General Ledger
7 1 (4.17%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (54.17%) Developer
2 8 (33.33%) C# Developer
3 6 (25.00%) Analyst
3 6 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 6 (25.00%) C# Developer - Commodities
3 6 (25.00%) Front Office Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Senior
5 2 (8.33%) Derivatives Business Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Python Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Banking Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Functional Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Implementation Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) Murex Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Murex Business Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Quantitative Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Real Time Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) React
2 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
2 2 (8.33%) HTML
2 2 (8.33%) Web Services
3 1 (4.17%) Kafka
3 1 (4.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (20.83%) Fixed Income
3 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (8.33%) Equities
3 2 (8.33%) Exotic Derivative
3 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (8.33%) OTC Derivatives
4 1 (4.17%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.17%) Credit Derivative
4 1 (4.17%) Credit Risk
4 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Derivative
4 1 (4.17%) Market Risk
4 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (25.00%) Agile
2 6 (25.00%) Analytics
3 5 (20.83%) Migration
4 4 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 4 (16.67%) Validation
5 3 (12.50%) Business Analysis
5 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (12.50%) Data Analysis
5 3 (12.50%) Data Mapping
5 3 (12.50%) Data Modelling
5 3 (12.50%) Low Latency
5 3 (12.50%) Mathematics
5 3 (12.50%) Project Delivery
5 3 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
6 2 (8.33%) Backtesting
6 2 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (8.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) C#
2 6 (25.00%) SQL
3 3 (12.50%) C++
3 3 (12.50%) Python
3 3 (12.50%) TypeScript
4 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.17%) Java
5 1 (4.17%) Korn
5 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) Degree
1 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
1 1 (4.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Basel III
1 1 (4.17%) GAAP
1 1 (4.17%) IFRS
1 1 (4.17%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Murex
2 1 (4.17%) Bloomberg
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) Solace