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 1 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 100 114
Rank change year-on-year +4 +14 -29
Contract jobs citing Derivative 31 32 33
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.59% 1.34% 1.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.05% 4.26% 3.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 23 28
10th Percentile £493 £527 £610
25th Percentile £591 £650 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -0.03% +0.03%
75th Percentile £813 £850 £888
90th Percentile £1,028 - £1,050
London median daily rate £750 £789 £700
% change year-on-year -4.94% +12.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £87.50 £77.50 -
% change year-on-year +12.90% - -

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 766 751 917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.26% 31.36% 31.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 484 622
10th Percentile £351 £363 £313
25th Percentile £438 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% -1.25% +0.42%
75th Percentile £684 £708 £725
90th Percentile £775 £838 £840
London median daily rate £550 £575 £590
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.54% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 13
10th Percentile £19.51 £25.72 £17.00
25th Percentile £26.15 £26.20 £18.93
Median hourly rate £31.00 £27.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% +8.00% -50.98%
75th Percentile £41.89 £59.75 £36.50
90th Percentile £67.89 £79.40 £51.75
London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +16.67% -6.98%

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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 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 +7 29 £654 -6.61% 15
Southwark - 1 - -
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 (6.45%) Apache Spark
1 2 (6.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Algo Collateral
2 1 (3.23%) Aladdin
2 1 (3.23%) Fidessa
2 1 (3.23%) Orchestrade
2 1 (3.23%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 7 (22.58%) Azure
2 6 (19.35%) AWS
3 4 (12.90%) GCP
4 3 (9.68%) Power Platform
4 3 (9.68%) Serverless
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (22.58%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.90%) Redis
3 3 (9.68%) Big Data
3 3 (9.68%) Power BI
3 3 (9.68%) Tableau
4 2 (6.45%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.23%) KDB
5 1 (3.23%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 7 (22.58%) Git
2 4 (12.90%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.90%) JIRA
2 4 (12.90%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (3.23%) Gradle
General
1 29 (93.55%) Finance
2 17 (54.84%) Banking
3 13 (41.94%) Front Office
4 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
5 10 (32.26%) Investment Banking
6 9 (29.03%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (16.13%) Financial Institution
8 2 (6.45%) Back Office
9 1 (3.23%) Law
Job Titles
1 12 (38.71%) Developer
2 6 (19.35%) Analyst
3 4 (12.90%) C# Developer
4 3 (9.68%) Business Analyst
4 3 (9.68%) Senior
5 2 (6.45%) Banking Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Java Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Product Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Project Manager
5 2 (6.45%) Quantitative Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Risk Business Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) .NET Technical Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Credit Risk Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Quantitative Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) .NET
1 2 (6.45%) Dask
1 2 (6.45%) FIX Protocol
1 2 (6.45%) Google JAX
1 2 (6.45%) JAX
1 2 (6.45%) LightGBM
1 2 (6.45%) NumPy
1 2 (6.45%) Pandas
1 2 (6.45%) PyTorch
1 2 (6.45%) scikit-learn
1 2 (6.45%) SciPy
1 2 (6.45%) Spring
1 2 (6.45%) TensorFlow
1 2 (6.45%) XGBoost
2 1 (3.23%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.23%) CSS
2 1 (3.23%) HTML
2 1 (3.23%) Middleware
2 1 (3.23%) XML
2 1 (3.23%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (22.58%) Fixed Income
3 5 (16.13%) Equities
4 4 (12.90%) Algorithms
5 3 (9.68%) Credit Risk
5 3 (9.68%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (9.68%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (6.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (6.45%) Data Structures
6 2 (6.45%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
6 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
6 2 (6.45%) Swaptions
7 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
7 1 (3.23%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (3.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (3.23%) TWAP
7 1 (3.23%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Linux
1 4 (12.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (35.48%) Agile
2 10 (32.26%) DevOps
3 9 (29.03%) Risk Management
4 7 (22.58%) CI/CD
5 6 (19.35%) Analytics
5 6 (19.35%) Mathematics
6 5 (16.13%) Greeks
6 5 (16.13%) Low Latency
6 5 (16.13%) Microservices
6 5 (16.13%) Risk Analytics
7 4 (12.90%) Decision-Making
7 4 (12.90%) Design Patterns
7 4 (12.90%) Multithreading
7 4 (12.90%) Physics
7 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (12.90%) SDLC
8 3 (9.68%) Computer Science
8 3 (9.68%) Electronic Trading
8 3 (9.68%) Regression Testing
8 3 (9.68%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) Python
2 11 (35.48%) SQL
3 9 (29.03%) C#
4 5 (16.13%) C++
5 4 (12.90%) Java
6 2 (6.45%) Perl
6 2 (6.45%) VBA
7 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (22.58%) Degree
2 4 (12.90%) Master's Degree
3 3 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (9.68%) PhD
4 2 (6.45%) ISTQB
5 1 (3.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) EMIR
1 2 (6.45%) MiFID
1 2 (6.45%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) Dodd-Frank
2 1 (3.23%) ISO 20022
2 1 (3.23%) PMO
2 1 (3.23%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.45%) Ansible
2 2 (6.45%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.68%) Bloomberg
2 3 (9.68%) Tradeweb
3 2 (6.45%) AppDynamics
3 2 (6.45%) MarketAxess
3 2 (6.45%) SmartStream
3 2 (6.45%) Splunk
4 1 (3.23%) IBM
4 1 (3.23%) ION Trading
4 1 (3.23%) Portware