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 6 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 108 101
Rank change year-on-year -10 -7 +10
Contract jobs citing Derivative 28 20 28
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.17% 1.05% 1.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.01% 2.71% 3.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 16 20
10th Percentile £506 £480 £514
25th Percentile £625 £561 £694
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £681 £750
Median % change year-on-year +6.42% -9.17% -0.92%
75th Percentile £781 £766 £850
90th Percentile £919 £975 £856
London median daily rate £705 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -6.00% -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 929 739 718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.77% 38.83% 30.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 625 535 455
10th Percentile £332 £359 £352
25th Percentile £456 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% -2.50%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £788 £838
London median daily rate £550 £555 £575
% change year-on-year -0.90% -3.48% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 9 7
10th Percentile £19.80 £16.96 £19.60
25th Percentile £24.54 £19.79 £22.90
Median hourly rate £36.66 £25.08 £25.79
Median % change year-on-year +46.20% -2.77% -27.35%
75th Percentile £64.25 £36.00 £27.00
90th Percentile £135.36 £70.21 £53.20
London median hourly rate £35.00 £26.50 £32.75
% change year-on-year +32.08% -19.08% +11.02%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -11 28 £725 +6.42% 32
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 (7.14%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
1 1 (3.57%) AWS
1 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (3.57%) GCP
1 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
1 1 (3.57%) SaaS
1 1 (3.57%) Serverless
1 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
2 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.57%) KDB
3 1 (3.57%) Kdb+
3 1 (3.57%) Power BI
3 1 (3.57%) Redis
3 1 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) JIRA
2 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.57%) Git
3 1 (3.57%) Gradle
3 1 (3.57%) Maven
3 1 (3.57%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (3.57%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (64.29%) Finance
2 15 (53.57%) Social Skills
3 14 (50.00%) Front Office
4 12 (42.86%) Banking
5 8 (28.57%) Investment Banking
6 7 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (14.29%) Back Office
8 3 (10.71%) Financial Institution
9 2 (7.14%) Legal
10 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (3.57%) General Ledger
10 1 (3.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 15 (53.57%) Developer
2 8 (28.57%) C# Developer
3 7 (25.00%) Analyst
4 6 (21.43%) C# Developer - Commodities
4 6 (21.43%) Front Office Developer
5 5 (17.86%) Business Analyst
5 5 (17.86%) Senior
6 3 (10.71%) Senior Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Derivatives Business Analyst
7 2 (7.14%) Functional Analyst
7 2 (7.14%) Project Manager
7 2 (7.14%) Python Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Banking Business Analyst
8 1 (3.57%) Data Business Analyst
8 1 (3.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 1 (3.57%) Migration Project Manager
8 1 (3.57%) Murex Analyst
8 1 (3.57%) Principal Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Real Time Developer
8 1 (3.57%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) React
2 3 (10.71%) AngularJS
3 2 (7.14%) Hibernate
3 2 (7.14%) HTML
3 2 (7.14%) JPA
3 2 (7.14%) Spring
3 2 (7.14%) Web Services
4 1 (3.57%) Bootstrap
4 1 (3.57%) Drools
4 1 (3.57%) JMS
4 1 (3.57%) Kafka
4 1 (3.57%) Middleware
4 1 (3.57%) REST
4 1 (3.57%) RESTful
4 1 (3.57%) RxJS
4 1 (3.57%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.57%) Spring Security
4 1 (3.57%) Terraform
4 1 (3.57%) TIBCO EMS
4 1 (3.57%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 10 (35.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (21.43%) Fixed Income
3 3 (10.71%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (10.71%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (10.71%) OTC Derivatives
4 2 (7.14%) Algorithms
4 2 (7.14%) Data Structures
4 2 (7.14%) Equities
4 2 (7.14%) Exotic Derivative
5 1 (3.57%) Credit Derivative
5 1 (3.57%) Credit Risk
5 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Derivative
5 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.57%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
1 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (25.00%) Agile
2 7 (25.00%) Migration
3 6 (21.43%) Analytics
3 6 (21.43%) Software Engineering
4 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
4 5 (17.86%) Translating Business Requirements
5 4 (14.29%) Validation
6 3 (10.71%) Business Analysis
6 3 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (10.71%) Data Mapping
6 3 (10.71%) Data Modelling
6 3 (10.71%) Low Latency
6 3 (10.71%) Mathematics
6 3 (10.71%) Project Management
6 3 (10.71%) Roadmaps
6 3 (10.71%) Test Automation
7 2 (7.14%) Backtesting
7 2 (7.14%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) C#
2 8 (28.57%) SQL
3 4 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 3 (10.71%) C++
4 3 (10.71%) Java
4 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
4 3 (10.71%) Python
5 1 (3.57%) Korn
5 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (3.57%) Degree
1 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
1 1 (3.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) GAAP
1 1 (3.57%) IFRS
1 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Murex
2 1 (3.57%) Bloomberg
2 1 (3.57%) Google
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) Solace
2 1 (3.57%) TIBCO