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 8 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 204 204
Rank change year-on-year -104 0 +14
Contract jobs citing Derivative 246 378 489
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.83% 1.21% 1.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.27% 3.88% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 299 448
10th Percentile £520 £613 £550
25th Percentile £613 £663 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £875 £878 £844
90th Percentile £1,000 £888 £1,000
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £700
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 £76.25 -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £77.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% - -
75th Percentile £88.75 £78.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £87.50 £77.50 -
% change year-on-year +12.90% - -

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 10,815 9,730 12,977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.33% 31.23% 32.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,756 5,827 8,859
10th Percentile £286 £294 £280
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 592 298 465
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.58 £17.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £23.80 £21.31
Median hourly rate £28.00 £46.71 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.06% +4.97% +64.94%
75th Percentile £50.81 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.95 £75.16 £77.80
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £38.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.95% -14.12% +64.01%

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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 2025. 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 -54 240 £750 -6.25% 231
North of England -29 5 £569 -9.04% 7
Midlands - 3 £525 -
Yorkshire - 3 £525 - 2
North West -18 2 £612 -2.08% 1
West Midlands - 2 £525 -
East Midlands - 1 £375 -
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 36 (14.63%) Apache
1 36 (14.63%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (4.47%) Confluence
3 6 (2.44%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.63%) HCL Notes
4 4 (1.63%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.81%) IIS
6 1 (0.41%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (7.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (5.28%) Aladdin
2 7 (2.85%) thinkFolio
3 4 (1.63%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.81%) Kondor
5 1 (0.41%) Actimize
5 1 (0.41%) Algo Collateral
5 1 (0.41%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.41%) Endur
5 1 (0.41%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.41%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.41%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 66 (26.83%) AWS
2 39 (15.85%) Snowflake
3 36 (14.63%) dbt
4 30 (12.20%) Azure
5 16 (6.50%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.03%) Serverless
7 4 (1.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 4 (1.63%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (1.63%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (1.63%) Power Automate
7 4 (1.63%) PowerApps
8 3 (1.22%) GCP
8 3 (1.22%) npm
8 3 (1.22%) Yarn
9 2 (0.81%) SaaS
10 1 (0.41%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.41%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.41%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (0.41%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.44%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.63%) Multicast
3 1 (0.41%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (14.63%) Amazon Athena
1 36 (14.63%) Apache Arrow
1 36 (14.63%) Apache Iceberg
1 36 (14.63%) Apache Ignite
1 36 (14.63%) Data Lake
1 36 (14.63%) Dremio
2 24 (9.76%) SQL Server
3 20 (8.13%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (6.50%) Power BI
5 10 (4.07%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.44%) Redis
6 6 (2.44%) Tableau
7 4 (1.63%) KDB
7 4 (1.63%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.22%) Big Data
8 3 (1.22%) Power Query
9 2 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.41%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.41%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (4.88%) JIRA
2 9 (3.66%) Git
3 7 (2.85%) Octopus Deploy
4 5 (2.03%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.63%) GitLab
6 3 (1.22%) IntelliJ
6 3 (1.22%) Maven
6 3 (1.22%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.22%) webpack
7 2 (0.81%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.81%) Gradle
8 1 (0.41%) Crucible
8 1 (0.41%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.41%) Hudson
8 1 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 199 (80.89%) Finance
2 151 (61.38%) Banking
3 127 (51.63%) Front Office
4 118 (47.97%) Investment Banking
5 68 (27.64%) Social Skills
6 31 (12.60%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (8.54%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.25%) Back Office
9 5 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.22%) Law
10 3 (1.22%) Legal
10 3 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.41%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 92 (37.40%) Developer
2 82 (33.33%) Senior
3 59 (23.98%) Analyst
4 39 (15.85%) Business Analyst
5 38 (15.45%) Software Engineer
6 37 (15.04%) Java Engineer
6 37 (15.04%) Java Software Engineer
7 36 (14.63%) AWS Engineer
7 36 (14.63%) AWS Software Engineer
7 36 (14.63%) Python Engineer
7 36 (14.63%) Python Software Engineer
8 35 (14.23%) Senior Java Engineer
8 35 (14.23%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 35 (14.23%) Senior Software Engineer
9 32 (13.01%) Senior Developer
10 29 (11.79%) Java Developer
11 19 (7.72%) Analytics Developer
11 19 (7.72%) AWS Developer
11 19 (7.72%) PostgreSQL Developer
11 19 (7.72%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (15.04%) Protocol Buffers
2 36 (14.63%) gRPC
2 36 (14.63%) NumPy
2 36 (14.63%) Pandas
2 36 (14.63%) SciPy
3 23 (9.35%) Kafka
4 18 (7.32%) FIX Protocol
5 15 (6.10%) .NET
6 9 (3.66%) React
6 9 (3.66%) REST
7 8 (3.25%) Middleware
7 8 (3.25%) Spring
8 6 (2.44%) CSS
8 6 (2.44%) Dask
8 6 (2.44%) RESTful
9 5 (2.03%) FpML
9 5 (2.03%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (2.03%) XML
10 4 (1.63%) .NET Core
10 4 (1.63%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 93 (37.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 90 (36.59%) Fixed Income
3 80 (32.52%) Equities
4 48 (19.51%) Hedge funds
5 36 (14.63%) Pricing Data
6 29 (11.79%) Equity Derivative
7 26 (10.57%) Market Risk
8 19 (7.72%) Management Information System
9 16 (6.50%) Algorithms
9 16 (6.50%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (5.69%) Onboarding
11 13 (5.28%) Product Ownership
12 12 (4.88%) Cloud Native
13 10 (4.07%) Credit Derivative
13 10 (4.07%) Credit Risk
13 10 (4.07%) Interest Rate Derivative
14 9 (3.66%) Data Structures
14 9 (3.66%) Distributed Computing
15 8 (3.25%) Data Protection Act
16 7 (2.85%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.10%) Linux
2 7 (2.85%) Unix
2 7 (2.85%) Windows
3 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (42.28%) Agile
2 53 (21.54%) Risk Management
3 49 (19.92%) Software Engineering
4 47 (19.11%) Mathematics
5 46 (18.70%) Analytics
6 45 (18.29%) Asset Management
7 40 (16.26%) Investment Management
8 34 (13.82%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (11.38%) CI/CD
9 28 (11.38%) Computer Science
10 25 (10.16%) Physics
11 24 (9.76%) Data Pipeline
11 24 (9.76%) Scrum
11 24 (9.76%) TDD
12 22 (8.94%) Business Analysis
13 21 (8.54%) Stakeholder Management
14 20 (8.13%) Design Patterns
14 20 (8.13%) DevOps
15 18 (7.32%) Business Intelligence
15 18 (7.32%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 119 (48.37%) Python
2 81 (32.93%) Java
3 77 (31.30%) SQL
4 43 (17.48%) JavaScript
5 42 (17.07%) TypeScript
6 37 (15.04%) C#
6 37 (15.04%) C++
7 6 (2.44%) VBA
8 4 (1.63%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.81%) Scala
10 1 (0.41%) Bash
10 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.41%) Rust
10 1 (0.41%) VC++
Qualifications
1 47 (19.11%) Degree
2 23 (9.35%) Master's Degree
3 14 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (5.28%) PhD
5 9 (3.66%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (1.22%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.22%) PMP
7 1 (0.41%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.69%) MiFID
2 11 (4.47%) QA
3 9 (3.66%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.85%) EMIR
5 6 (2.44%) GDPR
6 5 (2.03%) Basel III
7 4 (1.63%) SLA
8 3 (1.22%) PMO
9 2 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.41%) COREP
10 1 (0.41%) Dodd-Frank
10 1 (0.41%) FINRA
10 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.41%) IFRS
10 1 (0.41%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.41%) SEPA
10 1 (0.41%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (1.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.22%) Ansible
1 3 (1.22%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.22%) Thomson Reuters DACS
2 1 (0.41%) Grafana
2 1 (0.41%) Terraform
2 1 (0.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (6.50%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.88%) Murex
3 11 (4.47%) Bloomberg
4 9 (3.66%) Calypso
5 8 (3.25%) Oracle
6 7 (2.85%) Databricks
6 7 (2.85%) Sophis
7 6 (2.44%) Charles River
7 6 (2.44%) ION Trading
8 4 (1.63%) BISAM
8 4 (1.63%) Lotus
8 4 (1.63%) Portware
8 4 (1.63%) Tradeweb
9 3 (1.22%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.22%) NYFIX
9 3 (1.22%) Refinitiv
9 3 (1.22%) Reuters
9 3 (1.22%) SimCorp
10 2 (0.81%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.81%) Sybase