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 21 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 101 119
Rank change year-on-year -4 +18 -25
Contract jobs citing Derivative 27 32 32
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.37% 1.36% 1.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.51% 4.38% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 23 27
10th Percentile £488 £527 £625
25th Percentile £561 £650 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £654 £750 £761
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% -1.38% +1.40%
75th Percentile £813 £850 £888
90th Percentile £1,060 - £1,050
London median daily rate £750 £800 £700
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -
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 769 730 940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.02% 31.09% 32.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 567 466 628
10th Percentile £350 £376 £313
25th Percentile £436 £473 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £591 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% -1.58% +2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £710 £725
90th Percentile £775 £838 £838
London median daily rate £550 £575 £594
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.20% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £25.72 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.95 £26.20 £18.45
Median hourly rate £28.00 £27.00 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +0.93% -47.03%
75th Percentile £41.85 £59.75 £48.31
90th Percentile £65.57 £79.40 £67.18
London median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £30.75
% change year-on-year -27.63% +13.01% +1.65%

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 21 November 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 21 November 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 27 £654 -6.61% 67
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 (7.41%) Apache Spark
1 2 (7.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Algo Collateral
2 1 (3.70%) Aladdin
2 1 (3.70%) Fidessa
2 1 (3.70%) Orchestrade
2 1 (3.70%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) Azure
2 4 (14.81%) AWS
2 4 (14.81%) GCP
3 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) SQL Server
2 4 (14.81%) Redis
3 3 (11.11%) Big Data
3 3 (11.11%) Power BI
3 3 (11.11%) Tableau
4 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.70%) KDB
5 1 (3.70%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Git
1 4 (14.81%) JIRA
1 4 (14.81%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (3.70%) Gradle
2 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
General
1 25 (92.59%) Finance
2 13 (48.15%) Banking
3 10 (37.04%) Front Office
3 10 (37.04%) Investment Banking
3 10 (37.04%) Social Skills
4 7 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (14.81%) Financial Institution
6 2 (7.41%) Back Office
7 1 (3.70%) Law
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Developer
2 6 (22.22%) Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) C# Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Senior
5 2 (7.41%) Banking Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Java Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Product Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Risk Business Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) .NET Technical Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Credit Risk Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Credit Risk Project Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Technical Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) .NET
1 2 (7.41%) Dask
1 2 (7.41%) FIX Protocol
1 2 (7.41%) Google JAX
1 2 (7.41%) JAX
1 2 (7.41%) LightGBM
1 2 (7.41%) PyTorch
1 2 (7.41%) scikit-learn
1 2 (7.41%) Spring
1 2 (7.41%) TensorFlow
1 2 (7.41%) XGBoost
2 1 (3.70%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.70%) CSS
2 1 (3.70%) HTML
2 1 (3.70%) Middleware
2 1 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.70%) React
2 1 (3.70%) RESTful
2 1 (3.70%) XML
2 1 (3.70%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (22.22%) Fixed Income
3 4 (14.81%) Algorithms
4 3 (11.11%) Credit Risk
4 3 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (11.11%) Equities
5 2 (7.41%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (7.41%) Data Structures
5 2 (7.41%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 2 (7.41%) Swaptions
6 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
6 1 (3.70%) Credit Derivative
6 1 (3.70%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (3.70%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (3.70%) Exotic Derivative
6 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
6 1 (3.70%) TWAP
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Linux
1 3 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (40.74%) Agile
2 8 (29.63%) Risk Management
3 7 (25.93%) DevOps
4 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
4 5 (18.52%) Microservices
5 4 (14.81%) Analytics
5 4 (14.81%) Design Patterns
5 4 (14.81%) Low Latency
5 4 (14.81%) Mathematics
5 4 (14.81%) Multithreading
5 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (14.81%) SDLC
6 3 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (11.11%) Collateral Management
6 3 (11.11%) Computer Science
6 3 (11.11%) Data Engineering
6 3 (11.11%) Greeks
6 3 (11.11%) Scrum
6 3 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 3 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) SQL
2 9 (33.33%) Python
3 7 (25.93%) C#
4 4 (14.81%) Java
5 3 (11.11%) C++
6 2 (7.41%) VBA
7 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.70%) Perl
7 1 (3.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Degree
2 3 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.41%) ISTQB
3 2 (7.41%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.70%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (3.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) EMIR
1 2 (7.41%) MiFID
1 2 (7.41%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) Dodd-Frank
2 1 (3.70%) ISO 20022
2 1 (3.70%) PMO
2 1 (3.70%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Ansible
1 1 (3.70%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) Bloomberg
2 2 (7.41%) SmartStream
2 2 (7.41%) Tradeweb
3 1 (3.70%) AppDynamics
3 1 (3.70%) IBM
3 1 (3.70%) ION Trading
3 1 (3.70%) MarketAxess
3 1 (3.70%) Portware
3 1 (3.70%) Splunk