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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 183 214
Rank change year-on-year -165 +31 +22
Contract jobs citing Derivative 232 359 416
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 1.47% 1.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.86% 4.34% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 294 372
10th Percentile £513 £550 £550
25th Percentile £613 £638 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £738 £725
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +1.72% -3.33%
75th Percentile £925 £888 £838
90th Percentile £1,000 £938 £888
UK median daily rate £750 £725 £715
% change year-on-year +3.45% +1.40% -4.67%
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 12,488 8,281 11,656
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.62% 33.88% 30.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,934 5,366 7,623
10th Percentile £300 £299 £256
25th Percentile £412 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £545
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% - -5.22%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £663
90th Percentile £747 £785 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.71% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 620 307 785
10th Percentile £15.62 £16.72 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.39 £15.39
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +17.86% +17.70%
75th Percentile £68.75 £66.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.04 £84.40 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.70 £32.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +12.92% +18.18% +22.22%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 -97 223 £750 +1.69% 38
North of England -74 3 £525 -10.64% 1
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 9 (3.88%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.16%) Confluence
3 2 (0.86%) Apache
3 2 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.86%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (7.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (3.88%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.59%) Summit
3 5 (2.16%) Loan IQ
3 5 (2.16%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.86%) Algo Collateral
4 2 (0.86%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.86%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.86%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.43%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.43%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.43%) Front Arena
5 1 (0.43%) Global One
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 54 (23.28%) AWS
2 33 (14.22%) Azure
3 23 (9.91%) GCP
4 8 (3.45%) Snowflake
5 7 (3.02%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.16%) Amazon S3
6 5 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (2.16%) Serverless
7 4 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.29%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (1.29%) npm
8 3 (1.29%) SaaS
8 3 (1.29%) Yarn
9 2 (0.86%) Collibra
9 2 (0.86%) dbt
9 2 (0.86%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.43%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (0.43%) IaaS
10 1 (0.43%) OCI
10 1 (0.43%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.03%) FIX Connectivity
2 4 (1.72%) Multicast
3 1 (0.43%) HTTP
3 1 (0.43%) RTMP
3 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (3.88%) Redis
3 8 (3.45%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.02%) Power BI
4 7 (3.02%) Relational Database
5 6 (2.59%) Metadata
6 5 (2.16%) RDBMS
6 5 (2.16%) Tableau
7 4 (1.72%) Big Data
7 4 (1.72%) KDB
7 4 (1.72%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.29%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.86%) Apache Arrow
9 2 (0.86%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.86%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.86%) Dremio
9 2 (0.86%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.86%) Power Query
9 2 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (7.76%) Git
2 9 (3.88%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.45%) JIRA
4 7 (3.02%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (2.16%) Visual Studio
6 4 (1.72%) Maven
6 4 (1.72%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.29%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.29%) GitLab
7 3 (1.29%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.29%) webpack
8 2 (0.86%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.86%) Gradle
9 1 (0.43%) Crucible
9 1 (0.43%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.43%) NUnit
9 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
General
1 163 (70.26%) Finance
2 110 (47.41%) Banking
3 104 (44.83%) Front Office
4 79 (34.05%) Investment Banking
5 66 (28.45%) Social Skills
6 38 (16.38%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (8.62%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.45%) Back Office
9 4 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.29%) Legal
10 3 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.29%) Spanish Language
10 3 (1.29%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.86%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.43%) Japanese Language
12 1 (0.43%) Law
12 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 116 (50.00%) Developer
2 45 (19.40%) Analyst
2 45 (19.40%) Senior
3 42 (18.10%) Java Developer
4 34 (14.66%) Business Analyst
5 28 (12.07%) Senior Developer
6 25 (10.78%) Python Developer
7 24 (10.34%) Lead
8 18 (7.76%) Electronic Trading Developer
8 18 (7.76%) Senior Java Developer
9 17 (7.33%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
10 16 (6.90%) Lead Developer
10 16 (6.90%) Software Engineer
11 15 (6.47%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
11 15 (6.47%) Analytics Developer
11 15 (6.47%) AWS Developer
11 15 (6.47%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
11 15 (6.47%) Kafka Developer
11 15 (6.47%) Low Latency Java Developer
11 15 (6.47%) PostgreSQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (14.22%) React
2 24 (10.34%) FIX Protocol
3 21 (9.05%) Kafka
4 20 (8.62%) Redux
5 16 (6.90%) Node.js
6 12 (5.17%) RESTful
7 9 (3.88%) .NET
7 9 (3.88%) Dask
8 8 (3.45%) HTML
8 8 (3.45%) NumPy
8 8 (3.45%) Pandas
8 8 (3.45%) Spring
8 8 (3.45%) WebSockets
9 7 (3.02%) REST
9 7 (3.02%) XML
10 6 (2.59%) HTML5
10 6 (2.59%) SciPy
11 5 (2.16%) CSS
12 4 (1.72%) AngularJS
13 3 (1.29%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 92 (39.66%) Equities
2 60 (25.86%) Fixed Income
3 37 (15.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 34 (14.66%) Equity Derivative
5 25 (10.78%) Market Risk
6 19 (8.19%) Algorithms
7 17 (7.33%) TWAP
7 17 (7.33%) VWAP
8 16 (6.90%) Management Information System
9 15 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (6.03%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (5.17%) Credit Risk
11 12 (5.17%) Hedge funds
12 11 (4.74%) Cloud Native
13 8 (3.45%) Data Structures
13 8 (3.45%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (3.45%) Onboarding
14 7 (3.02%) OTC Derivatives
14 7 (3.02%) Product Ownership
15 6 (2.59%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.60%) Unix
2 9 (3.88%) Linux
3 3 (1.29%) Debian
3 3 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.29%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.29%) VMS
4 2 (0.86%) Windows
5 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (30.17%) Agile
2 65 (28.02%) Risk Management
3 42 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (16.81%) Low Latency
5 35 (15.09%) Mathematics
5 35 (15.09%) TDD
6 33 (14.22%) Analytics
6 33 (14.22%) Electronic Trading
7 32 (13.79%) CI/CD
8 30 (12.93%) Asset Management
9 29 (12.50%) DevOps
9 29 (12.50%) Software Engineering
10 27 (11.64%) Multithreading
11 26 (11.21%) Design Patterns
11 26 (11.21%) Mentoring
12 24 (10.34%) Computer Science
12 24 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
13 23 (9.91%) Portfolio Management
14 22 (9.48%) Algorithmic Trading
15 21 (9.05%) Quantitative Finance
Programming Languages
1 105 (45.26%) Python
2 76 (32.76%) SQL
3 62 (26.72%) Java
4 32 (13.79%) C++
5 30 (12.93%) TypeScript
6 28 (12.07%) C#
7 26 (11.21%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.72%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.72%) Rust
8 4 (1.72%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.29%) Perl
9 3 (1.29%) Scala
9 3 (1.29%) VBA
10 2 (0.86%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.43%) F#
11 1 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 43 (18.53%) Degree
2 17 (7.33%) Master's Degree
3 13 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (5.60%) Numerate Degree
4 10 (4.31%) PhD
5 3 (1.29%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.29%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.29%) PMP
6 1 (0.43%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.60%) QA
2 12 (5.17%) EMIR
3 7 (3.02%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.02%) IFRS
3 7 (3.02%) MiFID
4 4 (1.72%) IFRS 9
4 4 (1.72%) SLA
5 3 (1.29%) IAS 32
5 3 (1.29%) IAS 39
6 2 (0.86%) Basel III
6 2 (0.86%) GAAP
7 1 (0.43%) FINRA
7 1 (0.43%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.43%) PMO
7 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (3.88%) Docker
2 3 (1.29%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 7 (3.02%) Ansible
1 7 (3.02%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.29%) Grafana
2 3 (1.29%) ITRS Geneos
2 3 (1.29%) Podman
2 3 (1.29%) Prometheus
2 3 (1.29%) Terraform
2 3 (1.29%) Thomson Reuters DACS
3 2 (0.86%) Control-M
Vendors
1 23 (9.91%) Murex
2 20 (8.62%) Bloomberg
3 16 (6.90%) Oracle
4 7 (3.02%) Charles River
5 6 (2.59%) ION Trading
6 5 (2.16%) jBASE
6 5 (2.16%) Temenos
6 5 (2.16%) Tradeweb
7 4 (1.72%) Calypso
7 4 (1.72%) Microsoft
8 3 (1.29%) Apple
8 3 (1.29%) Google
8 3 (1.29%) IBM
8 3 (1.29%) NVIDIA
8 3 (1.29%) NYFIX
8 3 (1.29%) Refinitiv
9 2 (0.86%) MarketAxess
9 2 (0.86%) Reuters
9 2 (0.86%) SmartStream
9 2 (0.86%) Splunk