Black-Scholes Contract Job Trends in England

Black-Scholes
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Black-Scholes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 534 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Black-Scholes 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.010% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
UK median daily rate £650 - -

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 27,575 27,131 34,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.77% 87.57% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,561 16,585 23,601
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,784 990 1,459
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.63
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.27 £19.18
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.02 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.17% -21.31% +19.85%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.04 £43.84
% change year-on-year -23.87% -24.65% +25.26%

Black-Scholes
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Black-Scholes relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Black-Scholes job vacancy trend in England

Black-Scholes
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Black-Scholes.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Black-Scholes

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 29 November 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 - 3 £650 - 1
Black-Scholes
UK

Black-Scholes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (66.67%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Front Office
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Quantitative Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) FX Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) NumPy
1 2 (66.67%) Pandas
1 2 (66.67%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Derivative
2 2 (66.67%) Equities
2 2 (66.67%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Greeks
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Benchmarking
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 2 (66.67%) Monte Carlo Method
2 2 (66.67%) Physics
2 2 (66.67%) Quantitative Research
2 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Stochastic Calculus
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C++
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Master's Degree
1 2 (66.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) EMIR
1 1 (33.33%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Calypso
1 1 (33.33%) Murex