Interest Rate Derivative Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Interest Rate Derivatives
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Interest Rate Derivative in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Interest Rate Derivative over the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 120 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Interest Rate Derivative 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.12% 0.048% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.30% 0.15% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £623 £156 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £163 -
Median % change year-on-year +296.92% - -
75th Percentile £668 £169 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £645 £163 -
% change year-on-year +296.92% - -

All Generic Skills
City of London

Interest Rate 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 659 646 881
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.72% 30.79% 31.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 480 402 565
10th Percentile £350 £357 £316
25th Percentile £450 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% -1.25% -
75th Percentile £688 £725 £730
90th Percentile £775 £830 £825
Central London median daily rate £556 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -4.09% -3.33% +3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 10
10th Percentile £16.90 £32.05 £17.00
25th Percentile £19.11 £39.63 £19.31
Median hourly rate £27.75 £56.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.45% +57.75% -29.70%
75th Percentile £43.39 £76.13 £45.64
90th Percentile £72.53 £85.95 £54.58
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +1.85% -22.86% -30.69%

Interest Rate Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Interest Rate Derivative relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Interest Rate Derivative job vacancy trend in the City of London

Interest Rate Derivative
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Interest Rate Derivative.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Interest Rate Derivative

Interest Rate Derivative
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Interest Rate Derivative.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Interest Rate Derivative

Interest Rate Derivative
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
1 2 (100.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Front Office
1 2 (100.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Banking Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Product Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Derivative
1 2 (100.00%) Swaptions
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) VBA