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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 278 189
Rank change year-on-year -139 -89 -1
Contract jobs citing Derivative 238 259 435
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.92% 1.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.50% 2.54% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 212 364
10th Percentile £480 £537 £600
25th Percentile £613 £623 £670
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £788 £825 £888
90th Percentile £860 £988 -
UK median daily rate £710 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -5.33% -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 15,903 10,203 10,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.33% 36.34% 31.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,557 6,388 6,079
10th Percentile £325 £300 £294
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year - -4.30% -0.26%
75th Percentile £645 £648 £675
90th Percentile £750 £766 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £530
% change year-on-year +0.96% -1.89% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,160 528 373
10th Percentile £13.99 £15.21 £15.77
25th Percentile £17.57 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £33.99 £30.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +13.30% -47.69% +25.00%
75th Percentile £67.73 £56.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.26 £74.13 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £29.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +24.14% -42.00% +11.73%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -95 230 £710 -5.33% 450
North of England -65 6 £725 +18.46% 6
Yorkshire -37 5 £725 -
Midlands -43 1 - - 1
North West -45 1 £198 -67.65% 6
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 6 (2.52%) Confluence
2 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.42%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.26%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.42%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 9 (3.78%) Aladdin
2 3 (1.26%) Orchestrade
3 2 (0.84%) Oracle FAH
3 2 (0.84%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.84%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.84%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.84%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.42%) Actimize
4 1 (0.42%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.42%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.42%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.42%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 21 (8.82%) Azure
2 17 (7.14%) AWS
3 15 (6.30%) GCP
4 5 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (2.10%) Snowflake
5 4 (1.68%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.26%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (1.26%) Serverless
7 1 (0.42%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.42%) GitHub
7 1 (0.42%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.62%) FIX Connectivity
2 7 (2.94%) HTTP
3 2 (0.84%) Multicast
4 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.20%) MongoDB
3 9 (3.78%) Relational Database
4 8 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.36%) Redis
5 7 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.52%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.10%) Metadata
8 4 (1.68%) KDB
8 4 (1.68%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.68%) Power BI
9 3 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.26%) Kdb+
9 3 (1.26%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.84%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (0.84%) Tableau
11 1 (0.42%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.42%) Db2
11 1 (0.42%) PowerCenter
11 1 (0.42%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 21 (8.82%) JIRA
2 9 (3.78%) Git
3 6 (2.52%) Octopus Deploy
4 5 (2.10%) ER Studio
4 5 (2.10%) ERwin
4 5 (2.10%) PowerDesigner
4 5 (2.10%) TeamCity
5 4 (1.68%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.26%) VTune
7 1 (0.42%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.42%) GitLab
7 1 (0.42%) GoogleTest
7 1 (0.42%) Gradle
7 1 (0.42%) Maven
7 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio
General
1 168 (70.59%) Finance
2 137 (57.56%) Banking
3 117 (49.16%) Front Office
4 88 (36.97%) Investment Banking
5 65 (27.31%) Social Skills
6 32 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (7.98%) Financial Institution
8 11 (4.62%) Private Banking
9 10 (4.20%) Back Office
10 7 (2.94%) Legal
11 4 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.26%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.26%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.84%) Corporate Banking
14 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.42%) International Banking
14 1 (0.42%) Marketing
14 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 111 (46.64%) Developer
2 58 (24.37%) Analyst
3 51 (21.43%) Business Analyst
4 38 (15.97%) Senior
5 30 (12.61%) Front Office Developer
6 28 (11.76%) Python Developer
7 27 (11.34%) C# Developer
8 20 (8.40%) Java Developer
9 18 (7.56%) Quantitative Developer
10 13 (5.46%) Senior Developer
11 12 (5.04%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 12 (5.04%) Project Manager
12 11 (4.62%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
12 11 (4.62%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
12 11 (4.62%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
12 11 (4.62%) Low Latency Java Developer
12 11 (4.62%) Pricing Developer
13 9 (3.78%) Banking Analyst
14 8 (3.36%) Software Engineer
15 7 (2.94%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.08%) FIX Protocol
2 17 (7.14%) React
3 12 (5.04%) WebSockets
4 11 (4.62%) NumPy
5 10 (4.20%) .NET
5 10 (4.20%) Django
5 10 (4.20%) FastAPI
5 10 (4.20%) REST
6 9 (3.78%) Spring
7 8 (3.36%) Pandas
7 8 (3.36%) PySpark
8 7 (2.94%) AngularJS
8 7 (2.94%) Flask
8 7 (2.94%) Kafka
8 7 (2.94%) RxJava
9 4 (1.68%) Middleware
9 4 (1.68%) Next.js
10 3 (1.26%) RESTful
10 3 (1.26%) Web Services
10 3 (1.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 68 (28.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 60 (25.21%) Equities
3 51 (21.43%) Fixed Income
4 28 (11.76%) Equity Derivative
5 17 (7.14%) Exotic Derivative
6 16 (6.72%) Algorithms
7 15 (6.30%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (6.30%) Market Risk
8 13 (5.46%) Credit Risk
8 13 (5.46%) Data Structures
8 13 (5.46%) Hedge funds
8 13 (5.46%) OTC Derivatives
9 11 (4.62%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (4.62%) TWAP
9 11 (4.62%) VWAP
10 10 (4.20%) Management Information System
10 10 (4.20%) Onboarding
11 8 (3.36%) Cloud Native
11 8 (3.36%) Reference Data
12 7 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.72%) Unix
2 14 (5.88%) Linux
3 2 (0.84%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (18.07%) Agile
2 42 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (17.23%) Stakeholder Management
4 36 (15.13%) Analytics
5 31 (13.03%) Low Latency
5 31 (13.03%) User Acceptance Testing
6 29 (12.18%) Data Analysis
7 28 (11.76%) Multithreading
7 28 (11.76%) Validation
8 27 (11.34%) Business Analysis
8 27 (11.34%) CI/CD
8 27 (11.34%) Software Engineering
9 25 (10.50%) Microservices
10 24 (10.08%) Data Modelling
10 24 (10.08%) DevOps
10 24 (10.08%) Electronic Trading
10 24 (10.08%) Performance Optimisation
11 22 (9.24%) Algorithmic Trading
12 21 (8.82%) Mathematics
12 21 (8.82%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 84 (35.29%) Python
2 73 (30.67%) SQL
3 56 (23.53%) Java
4 53 (22.27%) C#
5 28 (11.76%) C++
6 18 (7.56%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.78%) Rust
7 9 (3.78%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.94%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.10%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.10%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.68%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.84%) Bash
11 2 (0.84%) C
11 2 (0.84%) Scala
12 1 (0.42%) Korn
12 1 (0.42%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.42%) R
12 1 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (9.66%) Degree
2 10 (4.20%) Master's Degree
2 10 (4.20%) PhD
3 7 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.26%) PMI Certification
4 3 (1.26%) PMP
5 2 (0.84%) CFA
5 2 (0.84%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.78%) Data Quality
1 9 (3.78%) MiFID
2 7 (2.94%) EMIR
3 5 (2.10%) QA
4 3 (1.26%) SLA
5 2 (0.84%) Basel III
5 2 (0.84%) COREP
5 2 (0.84%) FINREP
5 2 (0.84%) GAAP
5 2 (0.84%) IFRS
6 1 (0.42%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 15 (6.30%) Docker
2 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.10%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.84%) Thomson Reuters DACS
3 1 (0.42%) Control-M
3 1 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (7.98%) Murex
2 16 (6.72%) Bloomberg
3 8 (3.36%) Oracle
4 6 (2.52%) Calypso
4 6 (2.52%) Databricks
5 4 (1.68%) Charles River
6 3 (1.26%) Google
7 2 (0.84%) Microsoft
7 2 (0.84%) NYFIX
7 2 (0.84%) Refinitiv
7 2 (0.84%) SimCorp
7 2 (0.84%) Tradeweb
8 1 (0.42%) BEA
8 1 (0.42%) BMC
8 1 (0.42%) eFront
8 1 (0.42%) GoldenSource
8 1 (0.42%) Informatica
8 1 (0.42%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.42%) Sybase
8 1 (0.42%) TIBCO