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 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 100 120
Rank change year-on-year -11 +20 -2
Contract jobs citing Derivative 16 30 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.82% 1.30% 1.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.20% 4.24% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 29
10th Percentile £474 £533 £565
25th Percentile £555 £656 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £750 £761
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% -1.38% +8.64%
75th Percentile £738 £850 £873
90th Percentile £973 - £895
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 - -

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 726 708 1,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 37.29% 30.78% 33.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 449 728
10th Percentile £350 £359 £313
25th Percentile £446 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £589 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -1.92% +2.56%
75th Percentile £689 £719 £730
90th Percentile £800 £838 £838
London median daily rate £556 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -3.26% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 10
10th Percentile £17.08 £19.60 £16.96
25th Percentile £20.89 £22.90 £19.25
Median hourly rate £26.45 £25.79 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -17.47% -36.22%
75th Percentile £50.79 £27.00 £40.87
90th Percentile £88.75 £53.20 £54.58
London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.31 £29.75
% change year-on-year -12.17% +5.24% -2.46%

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
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 17 September 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 17 September 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 0 16 £663 -8.62% 23
Southwark - 1 - -
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 2 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Aladdin
2 1 (6.25%) Fidessa
2 1 (6.25%) Orchestrade
2 1 (6.25%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
3 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (18.75%) Power BI
2 3 (18.75%) Tableau
3 1 (6.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Gradle
2 1 (6.25%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 14 (87.50%) Finance
2 8 (50.00%) Banking
2 8 (50.00%) Front Office
3 7 (43.75%) Investment Banking
4 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (12.50%) Back Office
5 2 (12.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Banking Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Product Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Risk Business Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Credit Risk Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Migration Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Payments Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Payments Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Quantitative Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Risk Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Delivery Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Transformation Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
2 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
2 1 (6.25%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (6.25%) Middleware
2 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (6.25%) REST
2 1 (6.25%) Spring
2 1 (6.25%) XML
2 1 (6.25%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Fixed Income
1 4 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (18.75%) Credit Risk
3 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (12.50%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 2 (12.50%) Swaptions
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.25%) Equities
4 1 (6.25%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (6.25%) Exotic Derivative
4 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (6.25%) Market Risk
4 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 1 (6.25%) PACS
4 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 1 (6.25%) Reference Data
4 1 (6.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
1 2 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Agile
2 5 (31.25%) DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
3 3 (18.75%) Greeks
3 3 (18.75%) Risk Management
3 3 (18.75%) SDLC
4 2 (12.50%) Asset Management
4 2 (12.50%) Batch Processing
4 2 (12.50%) Microservices
4 2 (12.50%) Multithreading
4 2 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (12.50%) Project Management
4 2 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (12.50%) Scrum
4 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
5 1 (6.25%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (6.25%) Credit Risk Management
5 1 (6.25%) Multithreaded Programming
5 1 (6.25%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) SQL
2 4 (25.00%) Python
3 3 (18.75%) C#
4 2 (12.50%) VBA
5 1 (6.25%) C++
5 1 (6.25%) Java
5 1 (6.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) MiFID
2 1 (6.25%) Dodd-Frank
2 1 (6.25%) EMIR
2 1 (6.25%) ISO 20022
2 1 (6.25%) PMO
2 1 (6.25%) SEPA
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) ION Trading
2 1 (6.25%) Portware