Derivative Contracts in the City of London

Derivatives
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Derivative in contract job vacancies in the City of 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 100 108 83
Rank change year-on-year +8 -25 +37
Contract jobs citing Derivative 19 19 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.08% 0.86% 2.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.10% 2.81% 8.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 81
10th Percentile £620 £464 £613
25th Percentile £653 £572 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £680 £750
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% -9.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £709 £716 £850
90th Percentile £824 £861 £1,063
Central London median daily rate £675 £680 £750
% change year-on-year -0.74% -9.33% +7.14%

All Generic Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 612 676 1,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.85% 30.77% 35.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 462 889
10th Percentile £363 £276 £350
25th Percentile £475 £425 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% -8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £750
90th Percentile £800 £849 £861
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £605
% change year-on-year - -4.96% +5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 12
10th Percentile £23.80 £12.75 £16.97
25th Percentile £26.50 £14.38 £31.31
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -46.82% -9.90%
75th Percentile £65.50 £27.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £86.20 £36.60 -
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £23.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.39% -34.29% -27.08%

Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Derivative in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Derivative in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Derivative in the City of London

Derivative
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Derivative in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Derivative in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Derivative in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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