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 30 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 207 180
Rank change year-on-year -164 -27 +9
Contract jobs citing Derivative 237 325 483
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 1.35% 1.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.74% 3.95% 4.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 286 432
10th Percentile £502 £538 £563
25th Percentile £638 £663 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £733 £725 £750
Median % change year-on-year +1.03% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £850 £875 £850
90th Percentile £984 £938 £888
UK median daily rate £729 £725 £750
% change year-on-year +0.52% -3.33% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 - -

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 13,591 8,238 11,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.35% 34.29% 30.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,545 5,352 7,345
10th Percentile £313 £300 £270
25th Percentile £413 £411 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.12% -3.41% -3.51%
75th Percentile £634 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 706 337 835
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.64 £15.21
Median hourly rate £44.50 £33.91 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.23% -4.48% +58.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £86.75 £82.50 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £41.46 £32.43 £34.21
% change year-on-year +27.84% -5.20% +55.50%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -90 231 £733 +1.03% 63
East of England - 3 £681 -
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 5 (2.11%) Confluence
2 3 (1.27%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (4.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.84%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (3.80%) Aladdin
2 7 (2.95%) Summit
3 5 (2.11%) Loan IQ
3 5 (2.11%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.84%) Front Arena
4 2 (0.84%) Global One
4 2 (0.84%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.84%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.42%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.42%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.42%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.42%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 48 (20.25%) AWS
2 40 (16.88%) Azure
3 27 (11.39%) GCP
4 8 (3.38%) Power Platform
5 4 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (1.69%) SaaS
6 3 (1.27%) Snowflake
7 2 (0.84%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.84%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (0.84%) Collibra
7 2 (0.84%) npm
7 2 (0.84%) Serverless
7 2 (0.84%) Yarn
8 1 (0.42%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.42%) IaaS
8 1 (0.42%) OCI
8 1 (0.42%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.42%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.44%) FIX Connectivity
2 7 (2.95%) HTTP
3 1 (0.42%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (11.81%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (6.33%) Redis
3 14 (5.91%) SQL Server
4 12 (5.06%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.80%) Metadata
5 9 (3.80%) Tableau
6 8 (3.38%) Power BI
6 8 (3.38%) RDBMS
7 6 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.11%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.11%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.69%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.27%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.84%) Big Data
11 2 (0.84%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (0.84%) Power Query
11 2 (0.84%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.42%) KDB
12 1 (0.42%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 13 (5.49%) Git
1 13 (5.49%) JIRA
2 11 (4.64%) Octopus Deploy
3 8 (3.38%) TeamCity
4 4 (1.69%) ER Studio
4 4 (1.69%) ERwin
4 4 (1.69%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (1.27%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.27%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.27%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.84%) webpack
7 1 (0.42%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.42%) GitLab
7 1 (0.42%) GoogleTest
7 1 (0.42%) Gradle
7 1 (0.42%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.42%) Maven
7 1 (0.42%) NUnit
7 1 (0.42%) REST Assured
General
1 154 (64.98%) Finance
2 120 (50.63%) Banking
3 113 (47.68%) Front Office
4 94 (39.66%) Investment Banking
5 55 (23.21%) Social Skills
6 31 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (5.06%) Financial Institution
8 9 (3.80%) Back Office
9 7 (2.95%) Legal
10 4 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.27%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.27%) Spanish Language
11 3 (1.27%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.84%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.42%) Japanese Language
13 1 (0.42%) Retail
Job Titles
1 127 (53.59%) Developer
2 53 (22.36%) Analyst
3 49 (20.68%) Business Analyst
4 38 (16.03%) Senior
5 36 (15.19%) Java Developer
6 33 (13.92%) Python Developer
7 25 (10.55%) Lead
8 23 (9.70%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 21 (8.86%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
9 21 (8.86%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
9 21 (8.86%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
9 21 (8.86%) Software Engineer
10 20 (8.44%) C# Developer
10 20 (8.44%) Low Latency Java Developer
10 20 (8.44%) Senior Developer
11 17 (7.17%) Front Office Developer
12 16 (6.75%) Lead Developer
13 14 (5.91%) Lead Software Engineer
14 13 (5.49%) Python Engineer
15 12 (5.06%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (16.03%) React
2 35 (14.77%) FIX Protocol
3 18 (7.59%) Redux
4 16 (6.75%) Node.js
4 16 (6.75%) WebSockets
5 15 (6.33%) Kafka
6 14 (5.91%) .NET
7 8 (3.38%) RESTful
8 7 (2.95%) AngularJS
8 7 (2.95%) HTML
8 7 (2.95%) NumPy
8 7 (2.95%) REST
8 7 (2.95%) XML
9 6 (2.53%) HTML5
9 6 (2.53%) Pandas
10 4 (1.69%) CSS
10 4 (1.69%) RxJava
10 4 (1.69%) Spring
11 3 (1.27%) Django
11 3 (1.27%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 85 (35.86%) Equities
2 54 (22.78%) Fixed Income
3 43 (18.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 32 (13.50%) Equity Derivative
5 25 (10.55%) Market Risk
6 21 (8.86%) TWAP
6 21 (8.86%) VWAP
7 20 (8.44%) Credit Risk
7 20 (8.44%) Distributed Systems
8 19 (8.02%) Algorithms
9 15 (6.33%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (6.33%) Management Information System
10 13 (5.49%) Data Structures
11 11 (4.64%) Hedge funds
11 11 (4.64%) OTC Derivatives
12 8 (3.38%) Exotic Derivative
12 8 (3.38%) Reference Data
13 6 (2.53%) Cloud Native
13 6 (2.53%) Credit Derivative
13 6 (2.53%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.33%) Unix
2 7 (2.95%) Linux
3 3 (1.27%) Debian
3 3 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.27%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.27%) VMS
4 2 (0.84%) Windows
5 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (26.16%) Agile
2 46 (19.41%) Low Latency
3 44 (18.57%) Risk Management
4 41 (17.30%) Electronic Trading
5 40 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (15.61%) Multithreading
7 33 (13.92%) Software Engineering
8 32 (13.50%) Asset Management
9 31 (13.08%) TDD
10 29 (12.24%) Algorithmic Trading
11 28 (11.81%) Analytics
12 26 (10.97%) CI/CD
12 26 (10.97%) Computer Science
13 25 (10.55%) User Acceptance Testing
14 24 (10.13%) Design Patterns
14 24 (10.13%) Quantitative Trading
15 23 (9.70%) DevOps
15 23 (9.70%) Mathematics
15 23 (9.70%) Portfolio Management
16 22 (9.28%) OO
Programming Languages
1 104 (43.88%) Python
2 79 (33.33%) SQL
3 64 (27.00%) Java
4 44 (18.57%) C#
5 35 (14.77%) TypeScript
6 28 (11.81%) C++
7 25 (10.55%) JavaScript
8 10 (4.22%) Rust
9 6 (2.53%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.11%) Scala
10 5 (2.11%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.69%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.84%) Perl
12 2 (0.84%) VBA
13 1 (0.42%) Bash
13 1 (0.42%) C
13 1 (0.42%) F#
13 1 (0.42%) R
13 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (13.92%) Degree
2 17 (7.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.80%) Master's Degree
4 8 (3.38%) Numerate Degree
5 7 (2.95%) PhD
6 2 (0.84%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.84%) PMP
7 1 (0.42%) CBAP
7 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.49%) QA
2 9 (3.80%) EMIR
2 9 (3.80%) MiFID
3 8 (3.38%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.53%) IFRS
5 3 (1.27%) Basel III
5 3 (1.27%) GAAP
6 2 (0.84%) IFRS 9
6 2 (0.84%) SLA
7 1 (0.42%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.42%) IAS 32
7 1 (0.42%) IAS 39
7 1 (0.42%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (5.49%) Docker
2 3 (1.27%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 6 (2.53%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.27%) Ansible
2 3 (1.27%) Control-M
2 3 (1.27%) Grafana
2 3 (1.27%) Podman
2 3 (1.27%) Prometheus
2 3 (1.27%) Terraform
3 2 (0.84%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 18 (7.59%) Murex
1 18 (7.59%) Oracle
2 11 (4.64%) Bloomberg
3 6 (2.53%) Charles River
4 5 (2.11%) Google
4 5 (2.11%) jBASE
4 5 (2.11%) Temenos
5 4 (1.69%) Calypso
6 3 (1.27%) Apple
6 3 (1.27%) Databricks
6 3 (1.27%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.27%) NVIDIA
7 2 (0.84%) Reuters
8 1 (0.42%) Ab Initio
8 1 (0.42%) IBM
8 1 (0.42%) Informatica
8 1 (0.42%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.42%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.42%) SAP
8 1 (0.42%) SimCorp