Derivative Contracts 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 112 76
Rank change year-on-year +2 -36 +49
Contract jobs citing Derivative 19 21 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.95% 0.86% 2.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.79% 2.80% 7.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 81
10th Percentile £620 £466 £613
25th Percentile £653 £615 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £680 £750
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% -9.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £709 £844 £850
90th Percentile £824 £881 £1,063
London median daily rate £750 £750 £750
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%

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 681 749 1,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 34.10% 30.62% 36.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 524 960
10th Percentile £361 £275 £313
25th Percentile £465 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £605
Median % change year-on-year - -4.96% +5.22%
75th Percentile £695 £700 £750
90th Percentile £780 £850 £850
London median daily rate £575 £583 £600
% change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 16
10th Percentile £23.78 £12.75 £18.42
25th Percentile £26.45 £16.73 £24.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.39% -34.29% -27.08%
75th Percentile £31.00 £26.25 £84.89
90th Percentile £72.40 £29.78 £88.30
London median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%

Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Derivative as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Derivative in Central London

Derivative
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Derivative in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Derivative in Central London

Derivative
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Derivative in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Derivative in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Derivative in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Derivative in Central London

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 May 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 +8 19 £675 -0.74% 13
Derivative
London

Derivative
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) AWS
2 6 (31.58%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (31.58%) Amazon EKS
2 6 (31.58%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 6 (31.58%) Amazon S3
2 6 (31.58%) CloudFront
2 6 (31.58%) Route 53
3 2 (10.53%) Azure
4 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) GCP
4 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) SQL Server
2 7 (36.84%) Redis
3 6 (31.58%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (31.58%) DocumentDB
3 6 (31.58%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.26%) BigQuery
4 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.26%) Essbase
4 1 (5.26%) KDB
4 1 (5.26%) Kdb+
4 1 (5.26%) Looker
4 1 (5.26%) Power BI
4 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (5.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Git
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
1 1 (5.26%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (84.21%) Finance
2 15 (78.95%) Banking
3 8 (42.11%) Investment Banking
4 6 (31.58%) Front Office
4 6 (31.58%) Retail Banking
5 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
7 2 (10.53%) Financial Institution
8 1 (5.26%) Back Office
8 1 (5.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Developer
2 7 (36.84%) C# Developer
3 6 (31.58%) Analyst
4 5 (26.32%) Business Analyst
5 3 (15.79%) Data Analyst
5 3 (15.79%) Data Business Analyst
5 3 (15.79%) Project Manager
6 2 (10.53%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
6 2 (10.53%) Consultant
7 1 (5.26%) Analyst Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Business Project Manager
7 1 (5.26%) Credit Analyst
7 1 (5.26%) Front Office Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Java Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Project Analyst
7 1 (5.26%) Project Leader
7 1 (5.26%) Risk Analyst
7 1 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (5.26%) Senior Business Analyst
7 1 (5.26%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) GraphQL
1 6 (31.58%) RESTful
2 1 (5.26%) .NET
2 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET
2 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (5.26%) Kafka
2 1 (5.26%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Public Cloud
2 4 (21.05%) Equities
2 4 (21.05%) Fixed Income
2 4 (21.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (15.79%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
4 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
4 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
5 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
5 1 (5.26%) Reference Data
5 1 (5.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Asset Management
1 6 (31.58%) Secure Coding
1 6 (31.58%) SOLID
1 6 (31.58%) TDD
1 6 (31.58%) Unit Testing
2 4 (21.05%) Data Analysis
2 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (15.79%) Agile
3 3 (15.79%) Analytics
3 3 (15.79%) Data Management
3 3 (15.79%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (15.79%) Risk Management
3 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering
3 3 (15.79%) Visualisation
4 2 (10.53%) Business Analysis
4 2 (10.53%) Data Analytics
4 2 (10.53%) DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) Process Improvement
4 2 (10.53%) Project Management
4 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) C#
2 6 (31.58%) SQL
3 2 (10.53%) C++
3 2 (10.53%) Python
4 1 (5.26%) Java
4 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.26%) Ruby
4 1 (5.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
1 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
1 1 (5.26%) Numerate Degree
1 1 (5.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) EMIR
1 3 (15.79%) MiFID
2 2 (10.53%) Accessibility
2 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.53%) Dodd-Frank
3 1 (5.26%) PMO
3 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) ION Trading
2 1 (5.26%) Bloomberg
2 1 (5.26%) CQG
2 1 (5.26%) Google
2 1 (5.26%) Reuters