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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 179 203
Rank change year-on-year -177 +24 +28
Contract jobs citing Derivative 234 370 434
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 1.52% 1.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.82% 4.45% 3.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 312 386
10th Percentile £503 £550 £550
25th Percentile £622 £638 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £725
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £922 £888 £850
90th Percentile £1,000 £938 £888
UK median daily rate £750 £725 £725
% change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%
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 12,886 8,306 11,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.96% 34.11% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,191 5,455 7,553
10th Percentile £300 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £672 £672
90th Percentile £749 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.05% -2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 654 313 808
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.67 £12.35
25th Percentile £20.31 £22.27 £15.17
Median hourly rate £45.00 £33.00 £28.13
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +17.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.40 £84.80 £67.11
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £32.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +36.92% +16.07% +24.44%

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 April 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 8 April 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 -111 227 £750 - 44
East of England - 3 £681 -
North of England -66 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - -
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 9 (3.85%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.56%) Confluence
3 2 (0.85%) Apache
3 2 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (6.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.85%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (2.99%) Summit
2 6 (2.56%) Aladdin
3 5 (2.14%) Loan IQ
3 5 (2.14%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.85%) Algo Collateral
4 2 (0.85%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.85%) Front Arena
4 2 (0.85%) Global One
4 2 (0.85%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.85%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.43%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.43%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.43%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 51 (21.79%) AWS
2 34 (14.53%) Azure
3 24 (10.26%) GCP
4 8 (3.42%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.14%) Snowflake
6 4 (1.71%) Amazon S3
6 4 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.71%) Serverless
7 3 (1.28%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (1.28%) npm
7 3 (1.28%) SaaS
7 3 (1.28%) Yarn
8 2 (0.85%) Collibra
8 2 (0.85%) dbt
8 2 (0.85%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.43%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (0.43%) IaaS
9 1 (0.43%) OCI
9 1 (0.43%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.26%) FIX Connectivity
2 3 (1.28%) Multicast
3 2 (0.85%) HTTP
4 1 (0.43%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (12.82%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (3.85%) Redis
2 9 (3.85%) Tableau
3 8 (3.42%) Power BI
3 8 (3.42%) Relational Database
3 8 (3.42%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.99%) Metadata
5 6 (2.56%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.71%) Big Data
6 4 (1.71%) KDB
6 4 (1.71%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.28%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.85%) Apache Arrow
8 2 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.85%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (0.85%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.85%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.85%) Power Query
8 2 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (6.84%) Git
2 11 (4.70%) JIRA
3 7 (2.99%) Octopus Deploy
4 6 (2.56%) Jenkins
5 5 (2.14%) TeamCity
5 5 (2.14%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.28%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.28%) webpack
7 2 (0.85%) Gradle
7 2 (0.85%) Maven
8 1 (0.43%) Crucible
8 1 (0.43%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.43%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.43%) NUnit
8 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
General
1 161 (68.80%) Finance
2 115 (49.15%) Banking
3 104 (44.44%) Front Office
4 85 (36.32%) Investment Banking
5 63 (26.92%) Social Skills
6 38 (16.24%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (8.55%) Financial Institution
8 11 (4.70%) Back Office
9 6 (2.56%) Legal
10 4 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.28%) Spanish Language
11 3 (1.28%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.85%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.43%) Japanese Language
13 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.43%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 115 (49.15%) Developer
2 48 (20.51%) Analyst
3 44 (18.80%) Senior
4 43 (18.38%) Java Developer
5 40 (17.09%) Business Analyst
6 27 (11.54%) Senior Developer
7 25 (10.68%) Python Developer
8 24 (10.26%) Lead
9 21 (8.97%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 20 (8.55%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
11 18 (7.69%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
11 18 (7.69%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
12 17 (7.26%) Low Latency Java Developer
12 17 (7.26%) Senior Java Developer
13 16 (6.84%) Lead Developer
13 16 (6.84%) Software Engineer
14 13 (5.56%) Analytics Developer
14 13 (5.56%) AWS Developer
14 13 (5.56%) Kafka Developer
14 13 (5.56%) PostgreSQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (13.68%) React
2 28 (11.97%) FIX Protocol
3 20 (8.55%) Redux
4 19 (8.12%) Kafka
5 16 (6.84%) Node.js
6 12 (5.13%) RESTful
7 10 (4.27%) .NET
8 9 (3.85%) Dask
8 9 (3.85%) WebSockets
9 8 (3.42%) HTML
9 8 (3.42%) NumPy
9 8 (3.42%) Pandas
9 8 (3.42%) XML
10 7 (2.99%) REST
11 6 (2.56%) HTML5
11 6 (2.56%) SciPy
11 6 (2.56%) Spring
12 5 (2.14%) CSS
13 4 (1.71%) AngularJS
13 4 (1.71%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 91 (38.89%) Equities
2 59 (25.21%) Fixed Income
3 39 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 34 (14.53%) Equity Derivative
5 27 (11.54%) Market Risk
6 20 (8.55%) Algorithms
7 19 (8.12%) TWAP
7 19 (8.12%) VWAP
8 16 (6.84%) Credit Risk
8 16 (6.84%) Distributed Systems
9 14 (5.98%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (5.98%) Management Information System
10 13 (5.56%) Hedge funds
11 9 (3.85%) Cloud Native
11 9 (3.85%) Data Structures
12 8 (3.42%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (3.42%) OTC Derivatives
13 7 (2.99%) Product Ownership
14 6 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
15 5 (2.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.98%) Unix
2 7 (2.99%) Linux
3 3 (1.28%) Debian
3 3 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.28%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.28%) VMS
4 1 (0.43%) Windows
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (27.78%) Agile
2 61 (26.07%) Risk Management
3 41 (17.52%) Low Latency
4 39 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (15.81%) Electronic Trading
6 35 (14.96%) TDD
7 33 (14.10%) Mathematics
8 32 (13.68%) Analytics
9 30 (12.82%) Multithreading
9 30 (12.82%) Software Engineering
10 29 (12.39%) Asset Management
11 28 (11.97%) CI/CD
11 28 (11.97%) Design Patterns
12 26 (11.11%) DevOps
12 26 (11.11%) Mentoring
13 24 (10.26%) Algorithmic Trading
14 23 (9.83%) Computer Science
14 23 (9.83%) Stakeholder Management
15 21 (8.97%) OO
15 21 (8.97%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 105 (44.87%) Python
2 75 (32.05%) SQL
3 60 (25.64%) Java
4 32 (13.68%) C++
5 30 (12.82%) TypeScript
6 29 (12.39%) C#
7 26 (11.11%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.14%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.14%) Rust
9 4 (1.71%) Perl
9 4 (1.71%) Scala
9 4 (1.71%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.28%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.85%) VBA
12 1 (0.43%) F#
12 1 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 41 (17.52%) Degree
2 15 (6.41%) Master's Degree
3 13 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (5.56%) Numerate Degree
4 10 (4.27%) PhD
5 3 (1.28%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.28%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.28%) PMP
6 1 (0.43%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.41%) QA
2 12 (5.13%) EMIR
3 8 (3.42%) MiFID
4 7 (2.99%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.99%) IFRS
5 4 (1.71%) IFRS 9
5 4 (1.71%) SLA
6 3 (1.28%) Basel III
6 3 (1.28%) IAS 32
6 3 (1.28%) IAS 39
7 2 (0.85%) GAAP
8 1 (0.43%) FINRA
8 1 (0.43%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.43%) PMO
8 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (3.85%) Docker
2 3 (1.28%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 7 (2.99%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.14%) Ansible
3 4 (1.71%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (1.28%) Control-M
4 3 (1.28%) Grafana
4 3 (1.28%) Podman
4 3 (1.28%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.28%) Terraform
4 3 (1.28%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 20 (8.55%) Bloomberg
1 20 (8.55%) Murex
2 17 (7.26%) Oracle
3 6 (2.56%) ION Trading
4 5 (2.14%) jBASE
4 5 (2.14%) Temenos
4 5 (2.14%) Tradeweb
5 4 (1.71%) Charles River
6 3 (1.28%) Apple
6 3 (1.28%) Calypso
6 3 (1.28%) Google
6 3 (1.28%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.28%) NVIDIA
6 3 (1.28%) NYFIX
6 3 (1.28%) Refinitiv
7 2 (0.85%) IBM
7 2 (0.85%) MarketAxess
7 2 (0.85%) Reuters
7 2 (0.85%) SmartStream
7 2 (0.85%) Splunk