Black-Scholes Contracts in England

Black-Scholes
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Black-Scholes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Black-Scholes over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 - 669
Rank change year-on-year - - +106
Contract jobs citing Black-Scholes 4 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.016% - 0.008%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.018% - 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £1,025 - £825
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,050 - £850
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.25%
75th Percentile £1,075 - £875
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £1,050 - £850
% change year-on-year - - +6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Black-Scholes falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,247 32,161 45,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.13% 86.56% 90.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,550 21,078 31,861
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £768
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 916 2,252 1,585
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.93 £10.91
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Black-Scholes
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Black-Scholes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Black-Scholes in England

Black-Scholes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Black-Scholes in England.

Daily rate trend for Black-Scholes in England

Black-Scholes
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Black-Scholes within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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
London - 4 £1,050 - 6
Black-Scholes
UK

Black-Scholes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Credit Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Qualitative Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Quantitative Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) NumPy
1 1 (25.00%) Pandas
1 1 (25.00%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Mathematical Modelling
1 4 (100.00%) Mathematics
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Data Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Financial Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Greeks
3 1 (25.00%) Information Management
3 1 (25.00%) Monte Carlo Method
3 1 (25.00%) Numerical Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Physics
3 1 (25.00%) Quantitative Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Stochastic Volatility
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C++
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Numerate Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform