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 31 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 105 117
Rank change year-on-year -1 +12 -23
Contract jobs citing Derivative 22 30 34
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.17% 1.29% 1.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.08% 4.12% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 22 28
10th Percentile £482 £526 £625
25th Percentile £563 £644 £681
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £750 £768
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% -2.31% +5.17%
75th Percentile £775 £850 £888
90th Percentile £1,035 - £954
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 714 728 986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.08% 31.19% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 466 647
10th Percentile £355 £350 £323
25th Percentile £442 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £579 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.97% -3.54% +3.45%
75th Percentile £688 £712 £725
90th Percentile £775 £838 £827
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 13
10th Percentile £16.96 £25.72 £17.00
25th Percentile £19.79 £26.20 £18.93
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -22.86% -30.69%
75th Percentile £36.00 £59.75 £46.75
90th Percentile £70.21 £79.40 £65.60
London median hourly rate £26.30 £34.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -23.77% +15.00% +11.19%

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 31 October 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 31 October 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 +1 22 £663 -8.62% 21
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 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Aladdin
2 1 (4.55%) Fidessa
2 1 (4.55%) Orchestrade
2 1 (4.55%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) AWS
2 3 (13.64%) GCP
2 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
3 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.64%) Power BI
2 3 (13.64%) Redis
2 3 (13.64%) Tableau
3 2 (9.09%) Big Data
4 1 (4.55%) KDB
4 1 (4.55%) Kdb+
4 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Git
1 3 (13.64%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (9.09%) JIRA
3 1 (4.55%) Gradle
General
1 19 (86.36%) Finance
2 11 (50.00%) Front Office
3 10 (45.45%) Banking
4 9 (40.91%) Investment Banking
5 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
6 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (13.64%) Financial Institution
8 2 (9.09%) Back Office
9 1 (4.55%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Business Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) C# Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Senior
5 2 (9.09%) Banking Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Product Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Risk Business Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) .NET Technical Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Front Office Developer
6 1 (4.55%) IT Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Business Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) .NET
1 2 (9.09%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (4.55%) .NET Core
2 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
2 1 (4.55%) CSS
2 1 (4.55%) Dask
2 1 (4.55%) Google JAX
2 1 (4.55%) HTML
2 1 (4.55%) LightGBM
2 1 (4.55%) Middleware
2 1 (4.55%) PyTorch
2 1 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (4.55%) React
2 1 (4.55%) REST
2 1 (4.55%) scikit-learn
2 1 (4.55%) Spring
2 1 (4.55%) TensorFlow
2 1 (4.55%) XGBoost
2 1 (4.55%) XML
2 1 (4.55%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Fixed Income
1 6 (27.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (13.64%) Algorithms
2 3 (13.64%) Credit Risk
2 3 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (13.64%) Equities
3 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
3 2 (9.09%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 2 (9.09%) Swaptions
4 1 (4.55%) Credit Derivative
4 1 (4.55%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (4.55%) Exotic Derivative
4 1 (4.55%) Market Risk
4 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.55%) PACS
4 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.55%) Reference Data
4 1 (4.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (4.55%) TWAP
4 1 (4.55%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
1 2 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Agile
2 6 (27.27%) DevOps
2 6 (27.27%) Risk Management
3 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
4 4 (18.18%) Mathematics
4 4 (18.18%) Microservices
4 4 (18.18%) SDLC
5 3 (13.64%) Analytics
5 3 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (13.64%) Computer Science
5 3 (13.64%) Design Patterns
5 3 (13.64%) Greeks
5 3 (13.64%) Multithreading
5 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (13.64%) Scrum
5 3 (13.64%) Software Engineering
6 2 (9.09%) Batch Processing
6 2 (9.09%) Concurrent Programming
6 2 (9.09%) Data Engineering
6 2 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) Python
2 6 (27.27%) C#
2 6 (27.27%) SQL
3 3 (13.64%) C++
3 3 (13.64%) Java
4 2 (9.09%) VBA
5 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) Degree
2 3 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (9.09%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.55%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (4.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) EMIR
1 2 (9.09%) MiFID
2 1 (4.55%) Dodd-Frank
2 1 (4.55%) ISO 20022
2 1 (4.55%) PMO
2 1 (4.55%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Portware