Derivative Contract Job Trends in England

Derivatives
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Derivative in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Derivative over the 6 months leading up to 7 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 192 215
Rank change year-on-year -128 +23 0
Contract jobs citing Derivative 231 362 399
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.73% 1.32% 1.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.08% 4.07% 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 276 377
10th Percentile £516 £544 £550
25th Percentile £613 £638 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -2.61%
75th Percentile £988 £888 £800
90th Percentile £1,000 £938 £888
UK median daily rate £750 £725 £700
% change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £77.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £77.50 -

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,115 8,899 11,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.12% 32.54% 31.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,048 5,359 7,658
10th Percentile £288 £275 £263
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £780 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 548 261 482
10th Percentile £14.31 £17.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £41.37
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% -10.55% +65.46%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.20 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £33.54 £40.00
% change year-on-year -18.01% -16.15% +60.00%

Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Derivative job vacancy trend in England

Derivative
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Derivative.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Derivative

Derivative
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Derivative in England over the 6 months to 7 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Derivative in England

Derivative
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Derivative.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Derivative

Derivative
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 Derivative within the England region over the 6 months to 7 January 2026. 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 -80 222 £750 +3.45% 38
North of England -47 3 £525 -12.50% 2
East of England - 3 £681 -
Yorkshire - 3 £525 -
Midlands - 2 £525 -
West Midlands - 2 £525 -
Derivative
UK

Derivative
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:

Application Platforms
1 20 (8.66%) Apache
1 20 (8.66%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.90%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.60%) Confluence
4 4 (1.73%) HCL Notes
4 4 (1.73%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.87%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.43%) IIS
6 1 (0.43%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.60%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.16%) Temenos T24
3 3 (1.30%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.87%) Algo Collateral
4 2 (0.87%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.87%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.87%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.87%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.43%) Endur
5 1 (0.43%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.43%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.43%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.43%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 55 (23.81%) AWS
2 27 (11.69%) Azure
3 23 (9.96%) Snowflake
4 20 (8.66%) dbt
5 14 (6.06%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.60%) GCP
6 6 (2.60%) Serverless
7 5 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.73%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.73%) npm
8 4 (1.73%) Power Automate
8 4 (1.73%) PowerApps
8 4 (1.73%) Yarn
9 3 (1.30%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.30%) SaaS
10 2 (0.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (0.87%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (0.87%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (0.43%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.60%) FIX Connectivity
2 4 (1.73%) Multicast
3 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.66%) Amazon Athena
1 20 (8.66%) Apache Arrow
1 20 (8.66%) Apache Iceberg
1 20 (8.66%) Apache Ignite
1 20 (8.66%) Data Lake
1 20 (8.66%) Dremio
2 19 (8.23%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (7.79%) SQL Server
4 14 (6.06%) Power BI
5 8 (3.46%) Redis
6 5 (2.16%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.16%) Tableau
7 4 (1.73%) Big Data
7 4 (1.73%) KDB
8 2 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.87%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.43%) Hazelcast
9 1 (0.43%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (7.79%) Git
2 10 (4.33%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.90%) JIRA
4 6 (2.60%) Octopus Deploy
4 6 (2.60%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.73%) GitLab
5 4 (1.73%) Maven
5 4 (1.73%) webpack
6 3 (1.30%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.30%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.87%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.87%) Gradle
8 1 (0.43%) Crucible
8 1 (0.43%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
General
1 183 (79.22%) Finance
2 138 (59.74%) Banking
3 98 (42.42%) Front Office
4 96 (41.56%) Investment Banking
5 65 (28.14%) Social Skills
6 29 (12.55%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (11.26%) Financial Institution
8 9 (3.90%) Back Office
9 4 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.73%) Legal
9 4 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.30%) Spanish Language
10 3 (1.30%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.43%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.43%) Japanese Language
12 1 (0.43%) Law
12 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 105 (45.45%) Developer
2 68 (29.44%) Senior
3 42 (18.18%) Analyst
4 35 (15.15%) Java Developer
5 34 (14.72%) Senior Developer
6 23 (9.96%) Business Analyst
7 22 (9.52%) Java Engineer
8 21 (9.09%) Java Software Engineer
8 21 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
8 21 (9.09%) Software Engineer
9 20 (8.66%) AWS Engineer
9 20 (8.66%) AWS Software Engineer
9 20 (8.66%) Python Engineer
9 20 (8.66%) Python Software Engineer
10 19 (8.23%) Senior Java Engineer
10 19 (8.23%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 19 (8.23%) Senior Software Engineer
11 18 (7.79%) Analytics Developer
11 18 (7.79%) AWS Developer
11 18 (7.79%) PostgreSQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.39%) Kafka
2 23 (9.96%) NumPy
2 23 (9.96%) Pandas
2 23 (9.96%) SciPy
3 21 (9.09%) Protocol Buffers
4 20 (8.66%) gRPC
5 17 (7.36%) FIX Protocol
6 13 (5.63%) .NET
6 13 (5.63%) React
7 9 (3.90%) Dask
7 9 (3.90%) RESTful
8 7 (3.03%) CSS
8 7 (3.03%) REST
8 7 (3.03%) Spring
9 6 (2.60%) HTML
10 4 (1.73%) XML
11 3 (1.30%) Middleware
11 3 (1.30%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (1.30%) scikit-learn
11 3 (1.30%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 84 (36.36%) Equities
2 69 (29.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 59 (25.54%) Fixed Income
4 30 (12.99%) Equity Derivative
4 30 (12.99%) Hedge funds
5 23 (9.96%) Market Risk
6 20 (8.66%) Pricing Data
7 19 (8.23%) Algorithms
8 18 (7.79%) Management Information System
9 17 (7.36%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (4.76%) Cloud Native
10 11 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (4.33%) Distributed Computing
11 10 (4.33%) Interest Rate Derivative
11 10 (4.33%) Product Ownership
12 9 (3.90%) Onboarding
13 8 (3.46%) Credit Risk
13 8 (3.46%) TWAP
13 8 (3.46%) VWAP
14 6 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.36%) Linux
2 8 (3.46%) Windows
3 6 (2.60%) Unix
4 3 (1.30%) Debian
4 3 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.30%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.30%) VMS
5 2 (0.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (30.74%) Agile
2 59 (25.54%) Risk Management
3 43 (18.61%) Mathematics
4 40 (17.32%) Analytics
5 35 (15.15%) CI/CD
6 34 (14.72%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (13.85%) Software Engineering
8 29 (12.55%) TDD
9 26 (11.26%) Asset Management
10 25 (10.82%) DevOps
11 24 (10.39%) Low Latency
12 23 (9.96%) Computer Science
12 23 (9.96%) Data Pipeline
13 22 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
14 21 (9.09%) Design Patterns
14 21 (9.09%) Electronic Trading
14 21 (9.09%) Physics
14 21 (9.09%) Quantitative Finance
15 20 (8.66%) Investment Management
15 20 (8.66%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 100 (43.29%) Python
2 69 (29.87%) Java
3 62 (26.84%) SQL
4 39 (16.88%) C++
5 34 (14.72%) C#
6 30 (12.99%) JavaScript
7 29 (12.55%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.60%) VBA
9 4 (1.73%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.87%) Perl
10 2 (0.87%) Rust
10 2 (0.87%) Scala
11 1 (0.43%) Bash
11 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.43%) R
11 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.43%) VC++
Qualifications
1 44 (19.05%) Degree
2 20 (8.66%) Master's Degree
3 15 (6.49%) Numerate Degree
4 11 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.33%) PhD
6 3 (1.30%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.30%) PMP
7 2 (0.87%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.43%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.63%) EMIR
1 13 (5.63%) QA
2 10 (4.33%) MiFID
3 7 (3.03%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.60%) IFRS
4 6 (2.60%) SLA
5 4 (1.73%) IFRS 9
6 3 (1.30%) IAS 32
6 3 (1.30%) IAS 39
7 2 (0.87%) Basel III
7 2 (0.87%) GAAP
7 2 (0.87%) GDPR
7 2 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.43%) FINRA
8 1 (0.43%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.43%) PMO
8 1 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (2.60%) Docker
2 3 (1.30%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 8 (3.46%) Ansible
2 6 (2.60%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.30%) Grafana
3 3 (1.30%) Podman
3 3 (1.30%) Terraform
3 3 (1.30%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 2 (0.87%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (0.87%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.43%) Control-M
5 1 (0.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (6.93%) Bloomberg
2 15 (6.49%) Murex
3 11 (4.76%) Oracle
4 10 (4.33%) Microsoft
5 7 (3.03%) ION Trading
6 6 (2.60%) Calypso
6 6 (2.60%) Sophis
6 6 (2.60%) Tradeweb
7 5 (2.16%) Databricks
7 5 (2.16%) jBASE
7 5 (2.16%) Temenos
8 4 (1.73%) Lotus
9 3 (1.30%) Charles River
9 3 (1.30%) IBM
9 3 (1.30%) NVIDIA
9 3 (1.30%) NYFIX
9 3 (1.30%) Refinitiv
9 3 (1.30%) Splunk
10 2 (0.87%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.87%) MarketAxess