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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 252 166
Rank change year-on-year -146 -86 +11
Contract jobs citing Derivative 252 284 508
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 1.02% 1.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.63% 2.87% 4.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 244 438
10th Percentile £450 £538 £600
25th Percentile £609 £650 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £825 £825 £888
90th Percentile £893 £988 -
UK median daily rate £725 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £59.13 - -
25th Percentile £63.44 £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £71.25 £87.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% - -
75th Percentile £78.44 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £82.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £71.25 £87.50 -
% change year-on-year -18.57% - -

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 15,429 9,884 10,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.61% 35.64% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,456 6,239 6,564
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 944 500 510
10th Percentile £14.97 £15.48 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.34 £18.87 £18.91
Median hourly rate £42.50 £32.72 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.88% -34.56% +11.11%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.71 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £30.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +45.00% -33.33% +6.27%

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 23 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Derivative in England over the 6 months to 23 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Derivative in England

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 23 August 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 -90 244 £725 -3.33% 48
North of England -62 6 £725 +20.23% 3
Yorkshire -36 5 £725 - 1
Midlands -46 1 - -
North West -48 1 £198 -67.16% 2
West Midlands - 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 5 (1.98%) Confluence
2 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.79%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (3.17%) Aladdin
2 4 (1.59%) Summit
3 3 (1.19%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.79%) Front Arena
4 2 (0.79%) Global One
4 2 (0.79%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.40%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 29 (11.51%) AWS
1 29 (11.51%) Azure
2 22 (8.73%) GCP
3 6 (2.38%) Power Platform
4 5 (1.98%) Snowflake
5 4 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.19%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (1.19%) Serverless
7 1 (0.40%) Collibra
7 1 (0.40%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.35%) FIX Connectivity
2 8 (3.17%) HTTP
3 2 (0.79%) Multicast
4 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.75%) SQL Server
2 15 (5.95%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (5.16%) Redis
4 11 (4.37%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.57%) MongoDB
6 8 (3.17%) Metadata
7 7 (2.78%) Tableau
8 6 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.38%) Power BI
8 6 (2.38%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.98%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.59%) KDB
10 4 (1.59%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.19%) Kdb+
12 2 (0.79%) Crystal Reports
12 2 (0.79%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.40%) Data Mining
13 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 18 (7.14%) JIRA
2 11 (4.37%) Git
3 10 (3.97%) Octopus Deploy
4 8 (3.17%) TeamCity
5 5 (1.98%) ER Studio
5 5 (1.98%) ERwin
5 5 (1.98%) PowerDesigner
6 4 (1.59%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.19%) VTune
8 1 (0.40%) GitLab
8 1 (0.40%) GoogleTest
8 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 167 (66.27%) Finance
2 138 (54.76%) Banking
3 136 (53.97%) Front Office
4 99 (39.29%) Investment Banking
5 60 (23.81%) Social Skills
6 31 (12.30%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (6.35%) Financial Institution
8 11 (4.37%) Back Office
9 10 (3.97%) Private Banking
10 9 (3.57%) Legal
11 3 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.19%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.40%) Agriculture
13 1 (0.40%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.40%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.40%) Legal Technology
13 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 129 (51.19%) Developer
2 64 (25.40%) Analyst
3 56 (22.22%) Business Analyst
4 38 (15.08%) Python Developer
5 34 (13.49%) Senior
6 30 (11.90%) C# Developer
6 30 (11.90%) Front Office Developer
7 26 (10.32%) Java Developer
8 18 (7.14%) Electronic Trading Developer
8 18 (7.14%) Quantitative Developer
9 16 (6.35%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
9 16 (6.35%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
9 16 (6.35%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
9 16 (6.35%) Low Latency Java Developer
10 15 (5.95%) Lead
10 15 (5.95%) Software Engineer
11 13 (5.16%) Senior Developer
12 11 (4.37%) Lead Developer
12 11 (4.37%) Pricing Developer
13 10 (3.97%) C# Developer - Commodities
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (13.10%) FIX Protocol
2 28 (11.11%) React
3 13 (5.16%) WebSockets
4 12 (4.76%) .NET
4 12 (4.76%) NumPy
5 11 (4.37%) Redux
6 10 (3.97%) Django
6 10 (3.97%) FastAPI
7 9 (3.57%) REST
8 8 (3.17%) AngularJS
8 8 (3.17%) Node.js
8 8 (3.17%) Pandas
9 7 (2.78%) Kafka
9 7 (2.78%) RxJava
9 7 (2.78%) Spring
10 6 (2.38%) Flask
10 6 (2.38%) Middleware
11 5 (1.98%) PySpark
11 5 (1.98%) XML
12 4 (1.59%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 70 (27.78%) Equities
2 65 (25.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 57 (22.62%) Fixed Income
4 33 (13.10%) Equity Derivative
5 19 (7.54%) Market Risk
6 18 (7.14%) Algorithms
7 17 (6.75%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (6.35%) Credit Risk
8 16 (6.35%) Exotic Derivative
8 16 (6.35%) TWAP
8 16 (6.35%) VWAP
9 15 (5.95%) Data Structures
9 15 (5.95%) OTC Derivatives
10 14 (5.56%) Hedge funds
11 12 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (3.97%) Credit Derivative
12 10 (3.97%) Management Information System
13 8 (3.17%) Onboarding
14 7 (2.78%) Interest Rate Derivative
14 7 (2.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.75%) Unix
2 12 (4.76%) Linux
3 1 (0.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (21.03%) Agile
2 45 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (16.27%) Low Latency
4 38 (15.08%) Multithreading
5 34 (13.49%) Electronic Trading
6 32 (12.70%) Analytics
7 31 (12.30%) Software Engineering
8 29 (11.51%) Data Analysis
9 28 (11.11%) Algorithmic Trading
9 28 (11.11%) CI/CD
9 28 (11.11%) DevOps
9 28 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
10 27 (10.71%) Microservices
10 27 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
11 26 (10.32%) Asset Management
12 25 (9.92%) Mathematics
12 25 (9.92%) Risk Management
13 24 (9.52%) Business Analysis
13 24 (9.52%) Computer Science
13 24 (9.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 103 (40.87%) Python
2 79 (31.35%) SQL
3 64 (25.40%) Java
4 56 (22.22%) C#
5 30 (11.90%) C++
6 28 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 13 (5.16%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.76%) Rust
9 9 (3.57%) PowerShell
10 7 (2.78%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.59%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.19%) Scala
13 2 (0.79%) Bash
13 2 (0.79%) C
13 2 (0.79%) Perl
13 2 (0.79%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.40%) F#
14 1 (0.40%) Korn
14 1 (0.40%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 28 (11.11%) Degree
2 13 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (4.37%) Master's Degree
4 10 (3.97%) PhD
5 2 (0.79%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (0.79%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.79%) PMP
6 1 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.17%) MiFID
1 8 (3.17%) QA
2 7 (2.78%) EMIR
3 5 (1.98%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.79%) Basel III
4 2 (0.79%) COREP
4 2 (0.79%) FINREP
4 2 (0.79%) GAAP
4 2 (0.79%) IFRS
4 2 (0.79%) SLA
5 1 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 16 (6.35%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (2.38%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.19%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (0.79%) Control-M
3 2 (0.79%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 1 (0.40%) Grafana
4 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (10.32%) Murex
2 17 (6.75%) Bloomberg
3 8 (3.17%) Oracle
4 7 (2.78%) Calypso
5 6 (2.38%) Charles River
6 3 (1.19%) Databricks
6 3 (1.19%) Google
7 2 (0.79%) NYFIX
7 2 (0.79%) Refinitiv
7 2 (0.79%) SimCorp
7 2 (0.79%) Tradeweb
8 1 (0.40%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.40%) Apple
8 1 (0.40%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.40%) FIS
8 1 (0.40%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.40%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.40%) Reuters
8 1 (0.40%) Solace
8 1 (0.40%) Splunk