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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 198 230
Rank change year-on-year -152 +32 -7
Contract jobs citing Derivative 223 341 400
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 1.32% 1.05%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.88% 3.94% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 270 368
10th Percentile £513 £550 £550
25th Percentile £613 £638 £624
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £733 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £988 £888 £800
90th Percentile £1,000 £938 £850
UK median daily rate £729 £725 £700
% change year-on-year +0.52% +3.57% -6.67%
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 11,890 8,645 11,753
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.03% 33.44% 30.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,554 5,326 7,698
10th Percentile £280 £275 £256
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £668 £660
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 590 260 761
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.13 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.83 £24.18 £17.00
Median hourly rate £33.00 £36.25 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.97% +11.54% +44.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.13 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.80 £83.22 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.75 £32.91 £32.50
% change year-on-year -6.55% +1.25% +44.54%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -92 214 £750 - 31
North of England -59 3 £525 -12.50% 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 (4.04%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.69%) Confluence
3 5 (2.24%) Apache
3 5 (2.24%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.90%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 21 (9.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.69%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.24%) Temenos T24
3 3 (1.35%) Loan IQ
3 3 (1.35%) Summit
4 2 (0.90%) Algo Collateral
4 2 (0.90%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.90%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.90%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.45%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.45%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 47 (21.08%) AWS
2 23 (10.31%) Azure
3 14 (6.28%) GCP
4 9 (4.04%) Snowflake
5 5 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (2.24%) dbt
5 5 (2.24%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.24%) SaaS
6 4 (1.79%) Amazon S3
6 4 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (1.79%) Serverless
7 3 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (1.35%) npm
7 3 (1.35%) Yarn
8 2 (0.90%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.45%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (0.45%) Collibra
9 1 (0.45%) Figma
9 1 (0.45%) IaaS
9 1 (0.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.93%) FIX Connectivity
2 4 (1.79%) Multicast
3 1 (0.45%) RTMP
3 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (11.21%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (4.93%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.59%) Redis
4 5 (2.24%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (2.24%) Apache Arrow
4 5 (2.24%) Apache Iceberg
4 5 (2.24%) Apache Ignite
4 5 (2.24%) Data Lake
4 5 (2.24%) Dremio
4 5 (2.24%) Power BI
5 4 (1.79%) Big Data
5 4 (1.79%) KDB
5 4 (1.79%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.79%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.35%) Metadata
6 3 (1.35%) Tableau
7 2 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.90%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.90%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 16 (7.17%) Git
2 9 (4.04%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.59%) JIRA
4 6 (2.69%) Octopus Deploy
4 6 (2.69%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.79%) Maven
6 3 (1.35%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.35%) GitLab
6 3 (1.35%) IntelliJ
6 3 (1.35%) webpack
7 2 (0.90%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.90%) Gradle
8 1 (0.45%) Crucible
8 1 (0.45%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.45%) NUnit
8 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.45%) TeamCity
General
1 162 (72.65%) Finance
2 115 (51.57%) Banking
3 90 (40.36%) Front Office
4 80 (35.87%) Investment Banking
5 68 (30.49%) Social Skills
6 37 (16.59%) Analytical Skills
7 23 (10.31%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.14%) Back Office
9 3 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.35%) Legal
9 3 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.35%) Spanish Language
9 3 (1.35%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.90%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Japanese Language
11 1 (0.45%) Law
11 1 (0.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 108 (48.43%) Developer
2 48 (21.52%) Senior
3 42 (18.83%) Analyst
4 40 (17.94%) Java Developer
5 32 (14.35%) Business Analyst
6 29 (13.00%) Senior Developer
7 20 (8.97%) Senior Java Developer
8 17 (7.62%) Analytics Developer
8 17 (7.62%) AWS Developer
8 17 (7.62%) Kafka Developer
8 17 (7.62%) PostgreSQL Developer
9 15 (6.73%) Lead
10 14 (6.28%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 14 (6.28%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
10 14 (6.28%) Python Developer
11 13 (5.83%) Quantitative Developer
12 12 (5.38%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
12 12 (5.38%) C# Developer
12 12 (5.38%) Low Latency Java Developer
12 12 (5.38%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.76%) React
2 23 (10.31%) Kafka
3 19 (8.52%) FIX Protocol
4 12 (5.38%) RESTful
5 11 (4.93%) Redux
6 10 (4.48%) HTML
7 9 (4.04%) Dask
7 9 (4.04%) NumPy
7 9 (4.04%) Pandas
8 8 (3.59%) .NET
8 8 (3.59%) Node.js
8 8 (3.59%) SciPy
8 8 (3.59%) Spring
9 7 (3.14%) CSS
10 6 (2.69%) Protocol Buffers
10 6 (2.69%) REST
10 6 (2.69%) WebSockets
11 5 (2.24%) gRPC
11 5 (2.24%) HTML5
11 5 (2.24%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 82 (36.77%) Equities
2 53 (23.77%) Fixed Income
3 46 (20.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 34 (15.25%) Equity Derivative
5 23 (10.31%) Market Risk
6 20 (8.97%) Algorithms
7 18 (8.07%) Management Information System
8 14 (6.28%) Hedge funds
8 14 (6.28%) TWAP
8 14 (6.28%) VWAP
9 13 (5.83%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (5.38%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (4.93%) Credit Risk
12 10 (4.48%) Cloud Native
12 10 (4.48%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (3.59%) Onboarding
14 6 (2.69%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (2.69%) Interest Rate Derivative
14 6 (2.69%) Product Ownership
15 5 (2.24%) Exotic Derivative
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.38%) Linux
2 10 (4.48%) Unix
3 5 (2.24%) Windows
4 3 (1.35%) Debian
4 3 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.35%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.35%) VMS
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (30.49%) Agile
2 65 (29.15%) Risk Management
3 42 (18.83%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (17.04%) Mathematics
5 37 (16.59%) Analytics
6 35 (15.70%) TDD
7 32 (14.35%) CI/CD
8 31 (13.90%) Low Latency
9 27 (12.11%) Electronic Trading
10 25 (11.21%) Design Patterns
10 25 (11.21%) DevOps
11 24 (10.76%) Stakeholder Management
12 23 (10.31%) Software Engineering
13 22 (9.87%) Computer Science
14 21 (9.42%) Asset Management
15 20 (8.97%) Data Pipeline
15 20 (8.97%) Quantitative Finance
15 20 (8.97%) Validation
16 19 (8.52%) Algorithmic Trading
16 19 (8.52%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 93 (41.70%) Python
2 66 (29.60%) SQL
3 61 (27.35%) Java
4 35 (15.70%) C++
5 27 (12.11%) C#
6 24 (10.76%) JavaScript
7 22 (9.87%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.24%) VBA
9 4 (1.79%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.35%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.90%) Perl
11 2 (0.90%) Rust
11 2 (0.90%) Scala
12 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.45%) R
12 1 (0.45%) VC++
Qualifications
1 41 (18.39%) Degree
2 17 (7.62%) Master's Degree
3 15 (6.73%) Numerate Degree
4 10 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (4.48%) PhD
5 3 (1.35%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.35%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.35%) PMP
6 1 (0.45%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.83%) EMIR
1 13 (5.83%) QA
2 7 (3.14%) IFRS
2 7 (3.14%) MiFID
3 5 (2.24%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.79%) IFRS 9
4 4 (1.79%) SLA
5 3 (1.35%) IAS 32
5 3 (1.35%) IAS 39
6 2 (0.90%) Basel III
6 2 (0.90%) GAAP
7 1 (0.45%) FINRA
7 1 (0.45%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.45%) PMO
7 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 8 (3.59%) Docker
2 3 (1.35%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 7 (3.14%) Ansible
1 7 (3.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.35%) Podman
2 3 (1.35%) Thomson Reuters DACS
3 2 (0.90%) Grafana
3 2 (0.90%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (0.90%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.90%) Terraform
4 1 (0.45%) Control-M
Vendors
1 19 (8.52%) Murex
2 18 (8.07%) Bloomberg
3 15 (6.73%) Oracle
4 7 (3.14%) ION Trading
4 7 (3.14%) Microsoft
5 6 (2.69%) Tradeweb
6 5 (2.24%) Charles River
6 5 (2.24%) jBASE
6 5 (2.24%) Temenos
7 4 (1.79%) Calypso
8 3 (1.35%) IBM
8 3 (1.35%) NVIDIA
8 3 (1.35%) NYFIX
8 3 (1.35%) Refinitiv
8 3 (1.35%) Sophis
9 2 (0.90%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.90%) Google
9 2 (0.90%) MarketAxess
9 2 (0.90%) SmartStream
9 2 (0.90%) Splunk