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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 234 177
Rank change year-on-year -144 -57 +6
Contract jobs citing Derivative 250 311 512
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 1.15% 1.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.67% 3.31% 4.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 269 450
10th Percentile £450 £538 £588
25th Percentile £600 £663 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £850 £874 £888
90th Percentile £906 £953 -
UK median daily rate £725 £738 £800
% change year-on-year -1.69% -7.81% +10.34%
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 14,937 9,404 11,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.17% 34.69% 30.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,287 5,985 7,320
10th Percentile £313 £305 £288
25th Percentile £416 £408 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £652 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 796 456 799
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.14 £18.89 £15.62
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.03 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.11% -14.22% +21.26%
75th Percentile £71.62 £60.56 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.73 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £31.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year +39.58% -13.71% +32.73%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -77 243 £725 -3.33% 56
Yorkshire -47 5 £725 - 1
North of England -77 5 £725 +20.23% 3
Midlands -59 1 - -
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 (2.40%) Confluence
2 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (4.40%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.40%) Summit
3 4 (1.60%) Loan IQ
4 3 (1.20%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.80%) Front Arena
5 2 (0.80%) Global One
6 1 (0.40%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 43 (17.20%) AWS
2 37 (14.80%) Azure
3 30 (12.00%) GCP
4 7 (2.80%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.00%) Snowflake
6 4 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.20%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (1.20%) SaaS
7 3 (1.20%) Serverless
8 2 (0.80%) Collibra
9 1 (0.40%) npm
9 1 (0.40%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.40%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.60%) FIX Connectivity
2 8 (3.20%) HTTP
3 1 (0.40%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (10.80%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (6.80%) SQL Server
3 14 (5.60%) Relational Database
4 13 (5.20%) Redis
5 10 (4.00%) MongoDB
6 9 (3.60%) Metadata
7 8 (3.20%) RDBMS
7 8 (3.20%) Tableau
8 7 (2.80%) Power BI
9 5 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.60%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.60%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.80%) Crystal Reports
12 2 (0.80%) KDB
12 2 (0.80%) Kdb+
12 2 (0.80%) Power Query
12 2 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.40%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 16 (6.40%) JIRA
2 11 (4.40%) Octopus Deploy
3 10 (4.00%) Git
4 8 (3.20%) TeamCity
5 4 (1.60%) ER Studio
5 4 (1.60%) ERwin
5 4 (1.60%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (1.20%) VTune
7 2 (0.80%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.40%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.40%) GitLab
8 1 (0.40%) GoogleTest
8 1 (0.40%) Gradle
8 1 (0.40%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.40%) Maven
8 1 (0.40%) NUnit
8 1 (0.40%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 158 (63.20%) Finance
2 133 (53.20%) Banking
3 132 (52.80%) Front Office
4 102 (40.80%) Investment Banking
5 61 (24.40%) Social Skills
6 33 (13.20%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.60%) Back Office
8 8 (3.20%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.20%) Legal
9 6 (2.40%) Private Banking
10 3 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.20%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.80%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.40%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.40%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.40%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 132 (52.80%) Developer
2 64 (25.60%) Analyst
3 58 (23.20%) Business Analyst
4 35 (14.00%) Java Developer
5 34 (13.60%) Python Developer
5 34 (13.60%) Senior
6 31 (12.40%) C# Developer
7 28 (11.20%) Front Office Developer
8 25 (10.00%) Lead
9 21 (8.40%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 21 (8.40%) Software Engineer
10 20 (8.00%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
10 20 (8.00%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
11 19 (7.60%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
11 19 (7.60%) Lead Developer
11 19 (7.60%) Low Latency Java Developer
12 14 (5.60%) Lead Software Engineer
12 14 (5.60%) Senior Developer
13 13 (5.20%) Derivatives Business Analyst
13 13 (5.20%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (15.60%) React
2 35 (14.00%) FIX Protocol
3 17 (6.80%) Redux
4 16 (6.40%) Node.js
5 15 (6.00%) .NET
6 14 (5.60%) WebSockets
7 12 (4.80%) Kafka
8 10 (4.00%) NumPy
9 8 (3.20%) RxJava
9 8 (3.20%) Spring
10 7 (2.80%) AngularJS
10 7 (2.80%) Django
10 7 (2.80%) FastAPI
10 7 (2.80%) Pandas
10 7 (2.80%) REST
10 7 (2.80%) XML
11 6 (2.40%) Middleware
11 6 (2.40%) RESTful
12 5 (2.00%) HTML
12 5 (2.00%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 79 (31.60%) Equities
2 62 (24.80%) Fixed Income
3 58 (23.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 29 (11.60%) Equity Derivative
5 21 (8.40%) Market Risk
6 20 (8.00%) TWAP
6 20 (8.00%) VWAP
7 18 (7.20%) Credit Risk
8 16 (6.40%) Algorithms
8 16 (6.40%) Data Structures
8 16 (6.40%) Distributed Systems
9 15 (6.00%) OTC Derivatives
10 13 (5.20%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (5.20%) Management Information System
11 12 (4.80%) Hedge funds
12 11 (4.40%) Exotic Derivative
13 8 (3.20%) Cloud Native
13 8 (3.20%) Reference Data
14 7 (2.80%) Credit Derivative
15 6 (2.40%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.60%) Unix
2 8 (3.20%) Linux
3 1 (0.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (27.60%) Agile
2 49 (19.60%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (19.20%) Low Latency
4 42 (16.80%) Electronic Trading
5 41 (16.40%) Multithreading
6 34 (13.60%) Asset Management
7 33 (13.20%) Software Engineering
8 31 (12.40%) Risk Management
9 30 (12.00%) Algorithmic Trading
9 30 (12.00%) Analytics
9 30 (12.00%) User Acceptance Testing
10 29 (11.60%) DevOps
11 28 (11.20%) Microservices
12 27 (10.80%) CI/CD
13 26 (10.40%) Full-Stack Development
13 26 (10.40%) TDD
14 25 (10.00%) Computer Science
14 25 (10.00%) Portfolio Management
15 24 (9.60%) Fintech
15 24 (9.60%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 102 (40.80%) Python
2 84 (33.60%) SQL
3 71 (28.40%) Java
4 54 (21.60%) C#
5 36 (14.40%) TypeScript
6 27 (10.80%) C++
7 22 (8.80%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.80%) Rust
9 7 (2.80%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.80%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.60%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.60%) Scala
11 2 (0.80%) Perl
11 2 (0.80%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.40%) Bash
12 1 (0.40%) C
12 1 (0.40%) F#
12 1 (0.40%) Korn
12 1 (0.40%) R
12 1 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 28 (11.20%) Degree
2 16 (6.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (4.00%) Master's Degree
4 9 (3.60%) PhD
5 1 (0.40%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.00%) QA
2 8 (3.20%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.80%) EMIR
3 7 (2.80%) MiFID
4 4 (1.60%) IFRS
5 2 (0.80%) Basel III
5 2 (0.80%) COREP
5 2 (0.80%) FINREP
5 2 (0.80%) GAAP
6 1 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (7.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (2.80%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.80%) Control-M
2 2 (0.80%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.40%) Grafana
3 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.40%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (10.40%) Murex
2 15 (6.00%) Bloomberg
3 14 (5.60%) Oracle
4 8 (3.20%) Charles River
5 5 (2.00%) Calypso
6 3 (1.20%) Databricks
6 3 (1.20%) Google
6 3 (1.20%) Microsoft
7 2 (0.80%) Reuters
7 2 (0.80%) SimCorp
8 1 (0.40%) Ab Initio
8 1 (0.40%) Advent
8 1 (0.40%) Apple
8 1 (0.40%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.40%) Solace