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 8 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 196 205
Rank change year-on-year -110 +9 +14
Contract jobs citing Derivative 253 392 444
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.82% 1.29% 1.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.26% 4.03% 3.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 309 406
10th Percentile £513 £600 £550
25th Percentile £600 £644 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £780 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +11.43% -
75th Percentile £850 £888 £838
90th Percentile £1,000 - £950
UK median daily rate £725 £778 £700
% change year-on-year -6.75% +11.07% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 £76.25 -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £77.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% - -
75th Percentile £88.75 £78.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £87.50 £77.50 -
% change year-on-year +12.90% - -

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 11,187 9,716 12,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.13% 32.04% 32.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,048 5,852 8,375
10th Percentile £285 £294 £270
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.68% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £748 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.51% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 306 460
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.82 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.24 £23.59 £21.05
Median hourly rate £27.21 £38.54 £43.92
Median % change year-on-year -29.39% -12.26% +25.49%
75th Percentile £57.63 £67.76 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £78.58 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.06% -20.00% +21.43%

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 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 -61 248 £750 -3.85% 56
North of England -38 3 £525 -12.50% 17
Yorkshire - 3 £525 - 6
Midlands - 3 £525 - 15
West Midlands - 2 £525 - 8
East Midlands - 1 £375 - 5
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 28 (11.07%) Apache
1 28 (11.07%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.56%) Confluence
3 7 (2.77%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.58%) HCL Notes
4 4 (1.58%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.79%) IIS
6 1 (0.40%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
Applications
1 18 (7.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (3.16%) Aladdin
2 4 (1.58%) Fidessa
2 4 (1.58%) thinkFolio
3 2 (0.79%) Algo Collateral
3 2 (0.79%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.40%) Endur
4 1 (0.40%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.40%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.40%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 61 (24.11%) AWS
2 32 (12.65%) Azure
3 31 (12.25%) Snowflake
4 28 (11.07%) dbt
5 16 (6.32%) Power Platform
6 8 (3.16%) Serverless
7 7 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.98%) npm
8 5 (1.98%) Yarn
9 4 (1.58%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (1.58%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (1.58%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (1.58%) GCP
9 4 (1.58%) Power Automate
9 4 (1.58%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.19%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.79%) SaaS
12 1 (0.40%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.58%) Multicast
2 3 (1.19%) FIX Connectivity
3 2 (0.79%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (11.07%) Amazon Athena
1 28 (11.07%) Apache Arrow
1 28 (11.07%) Apache Iceberg
1 28 (11.07%) Apache Ignite
1 28 (11.07%) Data Lake
1 28 (11.07%) Dremio
2 22 (8.70%) SQL Server
3 19 (7.51%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (6.32%) Power BI
5 7 (2.77%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.37%) Redis
7 5 (1.98%) Tableau
8 4 (1.58%) Big Data
8 4 (1.58%) KDB
9 3 (1.19%) Power Query
10 2 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.79%) Metadata
10 2 (0.79%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.40%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (5.93%) Git
2 11 (4.35%) JIRA
3 10 (3.95%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.77%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (1.98%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.98%) webpack
6 4 (1.58%) GitLab
6 4 (1.58%) Maven
7 3 (1.19%) Gradle
7 3 (1.19%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.79%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.40%) Crucible
9 1 (0.40%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.40%) Hudson
9 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
General
1 202 (79.84%) Finance
2 152 (60.08%) Banking
3 118 (46.64%) Front Office
4 113 (44.66%) Investment Banking
5 74 (29.25%) Social Skills
6 35 (13.83%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (8.70%) Financial Institution
8 9 (3.56%) Back Office
9 4 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.19%) Law
11 2 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.79%) Legal
11 2 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.40%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 97 (38.34%) Developer
2 73 (28.85%) Senior
3 54 (21.34%) Analyst
4 34 (13.44%) Senior Developer
5 33 (13.04%) Java Developer
6 31 (12.25%) Business Analyst
7 30 (11.86%) Java Engineer
7 30 (11.86%) Software Engineer
8 29 (11.46%) Java Software Engineer
9 28 (11.07%) AWS Engineer
9 28 (11.07%) AWS Software Engineer
9 28 (11.07%) Python Engineer
9 28 (11.07%) Python Software Engineer
10 27 (10.67%) Senior Java Engineer
10 27 (10.67%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 27 (10.67%) Senior Software Engineer
11 21 (8.30%) Senior Java Developer
12 18 (7.11%) AWS Developer
12 18 (7.11%) Kafka Developer
12 18 (7.11%) PostgreSQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (12.25%) NumPy
1 31 (12.25%) Pandas
1 31 (12.25%) SciPy
2 29 (11.46%) Protocol Buffers
3 28 (11.07%) gRPC
4 22 (8.70%) Kafka
5 17 (6.72%) FIX Protocol
6 15 (5.93%) .NET
7 11 (4.35%) React
8 8 (3.16%) CSS
8 8 (3.16%) Spring
9 7 (2.77%) Dask
9 7 (2.77%) REST
10 6 (2.37%) RESTful
11 5 (1.98%) HTML
11 5 (1.98%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (1.98%) XML
12 4 (1.58%) .NET Core
12 4 (1.58%) .NET Framework
12 4 (1.58%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 81 (32.02%) Equities
2 78 (30.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 77 (30.43%) Fixed Income
4 38 (15.02%) Hedge funds
5 30 (11.86%) Equity Derivative
6 28 (11.07%) Pricing Data
7 24 (9.49%) Market Risk
8 18 (7.11%) Management Information System
9 16 (6.32%) Product Ownership
10 15 (5.93%) Algorithms
10 15 (5.93%) Distributed Systems
11 12 (4.74%) Cloud Native
11 12 (4.74%) Credit Risk
12 10 (3.95%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (3.95%) Interest Rate Derivative
12 10 (3.95%) Onboarding
13 9 (3.56%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (3.16%) Credit Derivative
15 7 (2.77%) OTC Derivatives
16 6 (2.37%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.93%) Linux
2 7 (2.77%) Unix
2 7 (2.77%) Windows
3 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (35.97%) Agile
2 56 (22.13%) Risk Management
3 49 (19.37%) Analytics
4 47 (18.58%) Mathematics
5 41 (16.21%) Software Engineering
6 33 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (12.65%) Asset Management
7 32 (12.65%) CI/CD
8 28 (11.07%) DevOps
8 28 (11.07%) Investment Management
9 26 (10.28%) Physics
9 26 (10.28%) TDD
10 25 (9.88%) Computer Science
10 25 (9.88%) Stakeholder Management
11 22 (8.70%) Validation
12 21 (8.30%) Design Patterns
13 20 (7.91%) Data Pipeline
13 20 (7.91%) Electronic Trading
13 20 (7.91%) Low Latency
13 20 (7.91%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 110 (43.48%) Python
2 76 (30.04%) Java
3 68 (26.88%) SQL
4 38 (15.02%) C++
5 37 (14.62%) JavaScript
6 36 (14.23%) C#
6 36 (14.23%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.37%) VBA
8 4 (1.58%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.79%) Perl
10 1 (0.40%) Bash
10 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.40%) R
10 1 (0.40%) Scala
10 1 (0.40%) VC++
Qualifications
1 51 (20.16%) Degree
2 27 (10.67%) Master's Degree
3 16 (6.32%) PhD
4 12 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.95%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (1.19%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.19%) PMP
7 2 (0.79%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.40%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.93%) QA
2 12 (4.74%) EMIR
2 12 (4.74%) MiFID
3 10 (3.95%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.37%) SLA
5 4 (1.58%) Basel III
5 4 (1.58%) GDPR
5 4 (1.58%) IFRS
6 3 (1.19%) IAS 32
6 3 (1.19%) IAS 39
6 3 (1.19%) IFRS 9
6 3 (1.19%) PMO
7 1 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.40%) FINRA
7 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.40%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.40%) SEPA
7 1 (0.40%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (2.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.37%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.98%) Ansible
3 3 (1.19%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 2 (0.79%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.40%) Grafana
5 1 (0.40%) Terraform
5 1 (0.40%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (5.93%) Bloomberg
1 15 (5.93%) Murex
2 14 (5.53%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.16%) Calypso
4 7 (2.77%) ION Trading
4 7 (2.77%) Oracle
5 6 (2.37%) Databricks
5 6 (2.37%) Sophis
5 6 (2.37%) Tradeweb
6 4 (1.58%) Lotus
6 4 (1.58%) Portware
7 3 (1.19%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.19%) Charles River
7 3 (1.19%) NYFIX
7 3 (1.19%) Refinitiv
7 3 (1.19%) Reuters
7 3 (1.19%) Splunk
8 2 (0.79%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.79%) MarketAxess
8 2 (0.79%) Salesforce