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 24 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 194 196
Rank change year-on-year -94 +2 +17
Contract jobs citing Derivative 255 392 514
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.89% 1.24% 1.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.46% 3.98% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 318 472
10th Percentile £520 £613 £538
25th Percentile £613 £664 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £825 £888 £844
90th Percentile £991 - £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 10,377 9,854 13,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.39% 31.21% 32.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,484 5,934 9,117
10th Percentile £293 £294 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% -1.77% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -3.30% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 563 328 443
10th Percentile £14.46 £17.08 £17.03
25th Percentile £18.38 £25.30 £21.68
Median hourly rate £28.13 £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.43% +16.67% +73.08%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.16 £78.29
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £45.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +1.12% +71.15%

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 24 October 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 24 October 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 -50 248 £750 -6.25% 123
North of England -30 6 £569 -12.54% 3
Yorkshire - 4 £525 - 2
Midlands - 3 £525 -
North West -20 2 £612 -5.85% 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 40 (15.69%) Apache
1 40 (15.69%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (4.71%) Confluence
3 4 (1.57%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.57%) HCL Notes
3 4 (1.57%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.78%) IIS
5 1 (0.39%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (8.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (7.45%) Aladdin
2 11 (4.31%) thinkFolio
3 4 (1.57%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.78%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.78%) Kondor
5 1 (0.39%) Actimize
5 1 (0.39%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.39%) Endur
5 1 (0.39%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.39%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 69 (27.06%) AWS
2 43 (16.86%) Snowflake
3 40 (15.69%) dbt
4 32 (12.55%) Azure
5 16 (6.27%) Power Platform
6 5 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (1.96%) Serverless
7 4 (1.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 4 (1.57%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (1.57%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (1.57%) Power Automate
7 4 (1.57%) PowerApps
8 3 (1.18%) GCP
8 3 (1.18%) npm
8 3 (1.18%) Yarn
9 2 (0.78%) SaaS
10 1 (0.39%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.39%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.39%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (0.39%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.35%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.57%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (15.69%) Amazon Athena
1 40 (15.69%) Apache Arrow
1 40 (15.69%) Apache Iceberg
1 40 (15.69%) Apache Ignite
1 40 (15.69%) Data Lake
1 40 (15.69%) Dremio
2 26 (10.20%) SQL Server
3 20 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (6.27%) Power BI
5 10 (3.92%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.35%) Tableau
7 5 (1.96%) Redis
7 5 (1.96%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.57%) KDB
9 3 (1.18%) Big Data
9 3 (1.18%) Power Query
10 2 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.78%) MS Access
10 2 (0.78%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (4.71%) JIRA
2 9 (3.53%) Git
3 7 (2.75%) Octopus Deploy
4 5 (1.96%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.57%) GitLab
6 3 (1.18%) IntelliJ
6 3 (1.18%) Maven
6 3 (1.18%) webpack
7 2 (0.78%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.78%) Gradle
7 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.39%) Crucible
8 1 (0.39%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.39%) Hudson
General
1 203 (79.61%) Finance
2 151 (59.22%) Banking
3 138 (54.12%) Front Office
4 117 (45.88%) Investment Banking
5 68 (26.67%) Social Skills
6 27 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (7.45%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.14%) Back Office
9 6 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.18%) Law
11 3 (1.18%) Legal
11 3 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.39%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.39%) Prime Brokerage
13 1 (0.39%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 90 (35.29%) Developer
2 82 (32.16%) Senior
3 67 (26.27%) Analyst
4 49 (19.22%) Business Analyst
5 42 (16.47%) Software Engineer
6 41 (16.08%) Java Engineer
6 41 (16.08%) Java Software Engineer
7 40 (15.69%) AWS Engineer
7 40 (15.69%) AWS Software Engineer
7 40 (15.69%) Python Engineer
7 40 (15.69%) Python Software Engineer
8 39 (15.29%) Senior Java Engineer
8 39 (15.29%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 39 (15.29%) Senior Software Engineer
9 30 (11.76%) Senior Developer
10 25 (9.80%) Java Developer
11 18 (7.06%) AWS Developer
11 18 (7.06%) PostgreSQL Developer
11 18 (7.06%) Quantitative Developer
11 18 (7.06%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (16.08%) NumPy
1 41 (16.08%) Pandas
1 41 (16.08%) Protocol Buffers
2 40 (15.69%) gRPC
2 40 (15.69%) SciPy
3 22 (8.63%) Kafka
4 17 (6.67%) FIX Protocol
5 15 (5.88%) .NET
6 10 (3.92%) React
7 9 (3.53%) REST
8 8 (3.14%) Middleware
9 6 (2.35%) CSS
10 5 (1.96%) FpML
10 5 (1.96%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (1.96%) XML
11 4 (1.57%) .NET Core
11 4 (1.57%) .NET Framework
11 4 (1.57%) Dask
11 4 (1.57%) Spring
12 3 (1.18%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 97 (38.04%) Fixed Income
2 96 (37.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 82 (32.16%) Equities
4 56 (21.96%) Hedge funds
5 40 (15.69%) Pricing Data
6 31 (12.16%) Equity Derivative
7 26 (10.20%) Market Risk
8 18 (7.06%) Distributed Systems
8 18 (7.06%) Management Information System
9 17 (6.67%) Onboarding
10 15 (5.88%) Algorithms
11 13 (5.10%) Product Ownership
12 11 (4.31%) Interest Rate Derivative
13 10 (3.92%) Cloud Native
13 10 (3.92%) Credit Derivative
13 10 (3.92%) Credit Risk
14 9 (3.53%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (3.53%) Data Structures
15 7 (2.75%) Distributed Computing
15 7 (2.75%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.88%) Linux
2 7 (2.75%) Unix
2 7 (2.75%) Windows
3 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (43.92%) Agile
2 55 (21.57%) Asset Management
3 52 (20.39%) Risk Management
4 51 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 50 (19.61%) Investment Management
6 48 (18.82%) Mathematics
7 47 (18.43%) Analytics
8 32 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (10.98%) Business Analysis
10 27 (10.59%) CI/CD
11 26 (10.20%) Computer Science
11 26 (10.20%) Scrum
12 24 (9.41%) Business Intelligence
13 23 (9.02%) Physics
13 23 (9.02%) TDD
14 22 (8.63%) Data Pipeline
15 20 (7.84%) DevOps
15 20 (7.84%) Stakeholder Management
15 20 (7.84%) User Acceptance Testing
16 18 (7.06%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 129 (50.59%) Python
2 86 (33.73%) SQL
3 81 (31.76%) Java
4 47 (18.43%) JavaScript
4 47 (18.43%) TypeScript
5 40 (15.69%) C#
6 37 (14.51%) C++
7 6 (2.35%) VBA
8 4 (1.57%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.78%) Rust
9 2 (0.78%) Scala
10 1 (0.39%) Bash
10 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.39%) VC++
Qualifications
1 45 (17.65%) Degree
2 20 (7.84%) Master's Degree
3 14 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.31%) PhD
5 9 (3.53%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (1.18%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.18%) PMP
7 1 (0.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.88%) MiFID
2 10 (3.92%) QA
3 9 (3.53%) Data Quality
4 8 (3.14%) EMIR
5 6 (2.35%) GDPR
6 5 (1.96%) Basel III
7 4 (1.57%) SLA
8 3 (1.18%) PMO
9 2 (0.78%) COREP
9 2 (0.78%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.39%) IFRS
10 1 (0.39%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.39%) SEPA
10 1 (0.39%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (1.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.18%) Ansible
1 3 (1.18%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.18%) Thomson Reuters DACS
2 1 (0.39%) Grafana
2 1 (0.39%) Terraform
2 1 (0.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (6.27%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.10%) Calypso
3 12 (4.71%) Murex
4 10 (3.92%) BISAM
4 10 (3.92%) Charles River
5 9 (3.53%) Oracle
6 8 (3.14%) Bloomberg
7 7 (2.75%) Databricks
7 7 (2.75%) SimCorp
7 7 (2.75%) Sophis
8 4 (1.57%) Lotus
8 4 (1.57%) Portware
9 3 (1.18%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.18%) ION Trading
9 3 (1.18%) NYFIX
9 3 (1.18%) Refinitiv
9 3 (1.18%) Reuters
10 2 (0.78%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.78%) Sybase
11 1 (0.39%) TIBCO