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 31 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 184 220
Rank change year-on-year -152 +36 -1
Contract jobs citing Derivative 223 370 408
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 1.39% 1.07%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.95% 4.24% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 290 382
10th Percentile £520 £550 £550
25th Percentile £613 £638 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £733 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year +1.03% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £988 £888 £800
90th Percentile £1,000 £938 £868
UK median daily rate £725 £725 £700
% change year-on-year - +3.57% -3.45%
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 11,451 8,726 11,858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.63% 32.89% 31.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,316 5,260 7,882
10th Percentile £275 £267 £252
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £632 £675 £665
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 554 248 707
10th Percentile £15.25 £18.51 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.18 £17.57
Median hourly rate £30.30 £37.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% +6.43% +55.66%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.13 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.90 £83.20 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.56% - +56.18%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 -90 214 £750 +3.45% 31
North of England -50 3 £525 -12.50% 2
Yorkshire - 3 £525 -
East of England - 3 £681 -
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 11 (4.93%) Apache
1 11 (4.93%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (4.04%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.24%) Confluence
4 2 (0.90%) HCL Notes
4 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.90%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 23 (10.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.69%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.24%) Temenos T24
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%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.45%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.45%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.45%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.45%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 44 (19.73%) AWS
2 22 (9.87%) Azure
3 14 (6.28%) Snowflake
4 11 (4.93%) dbt
4 11 (4.93%) Power Platform
5 6 (2.69%) GCP
6 5 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.24%) SaaS
6 5 (2.24%) Serverless
7 4 (1.79%) Amazon S3
7 4 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (0.90%) npm
9 2 (0.90%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.90%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.90%) Yarn
10 1 (0.45%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (0.45%) IaaS
10 1 (0.45%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.59%) FIX Connectivity
2 4 (1.79%) Multicast
3 1 (0.45%) RTMP
3 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.07%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (6.73%) SQL Server
3 11 (4.93%) Amazon Athena
3 11 (4.93%) Apache Arrow
3 11 (4.93%) Apache Iceberg
3 11 (4.93%) Apache Ignite
3 11 (4.93%) Data Lake
3 11 (4.93%) Dremio
3 11 (4.93%) Power BI
4 8 (3.59%) Redis
5 4 (1.79%) Big Data
5 4 (1.79%) KDB
5 4 (1.79%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.79%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.79%) Tableau
6 3 (1.35%) Metadata
7 2 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.90%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.90%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.90%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (7.62%) Git
2 9 (4.04%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.59%) JIRA
4 6 (2.69%) Octopus Deploy
4 6 (2.69%) Visual Studio
5 5 (2.24%) Maven
6 4 (1.79%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.35%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.35%) GitLab
7 3 (1.35%) Gradle
8 2 (0.90%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.90%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.90%) webpack
9 1 (0.45%) Crucible
9 1 (0.45%) NUnit
9 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.45%) TeamCity
General
1 166 (74.44%) Finance
2 122 (54.71%) Banking
3 91 (40.81%) Front Office
4 84 (37.67%) Investment Banking
5 66 (29.60%) Social Skills
6 33 (14.80%) Analytical Skills
7 24 (10.76%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.14%) Back Office
9 3 (1.35%) Documentation 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%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Japanese Language
11 1 (0.45%) Law
11 1 (0.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 106 (47.53%) Developer
2 57 (25.56%) Senior
3 42 (18.83%) Analyst
4 38 (17.04%) Java Developer
5 31 (13.90%) Senior Developer
6 28 (12.56%) Business Analyst
7 21 (9.42%) Senior Java Developer
8 18 (8.07%) Analytics Developer
8 18 (8.07%) AWS Developer
8 18 (8.07%) Kafka Developer
8 18 (8.07%) PostgreSQL Developer
9 15 (6.73%) Quantitative Developer
10 14 (6.28%) C# Developer
10 14 (6.28%) Java Engineer
11 12 (5.38%) C++ Developer
11 12 (5.38%) Java Software Engineer
11 12 (5.38%) Python Engineer
11 12 (5.38%) Software Engineer
12 11 (4.93%) Python Developer
12 11 (4.93%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.31%) Kafka
2 18 (8.07%) FIX Protocol
3 15 (6.73%) NumPy
3 15 (6.73%) Pandas
3 15 (6.73%) React
4 14 (6.28%) SciPy
5 12 (5.38%) Protocol Buffers
5 12 (5.38%) RESTful
6 11 (4.93%) .NET
6 11 (4.93%) gRPC
7 10 (4.48%) HTML
8 9 (4.04%) Dask
9 7 (3.14%) REST
9 7 (3.14%) Spring
10 6 (2.69%) CSS
10 6 (2.69%) WebSockets
11 5 (2.24%) HTML5
11 5 (2.24%) XML
12 3 (1.35%) Redux
12 3 (1.35%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 82 (36.77%) Equities
2 54 (24.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 52 (23.32%) Fixed Income
4 35 (15.70%) Equity Derivative
5 24 (10.76%) Market Risk
6 20 (8.97%) Algorithms
6 20 (8.97%) Hedge funds
7 19 (8.52%) Management Information System
8 16 (7.17%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (4.93%) Credit Risk
9 11 (4.93%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (4.93%) Pricing Data
9 11 (4.93%) TWAP
9 11 (4.93%) VWAP
10 10 (4.48%) Cloud Native
10 10 (4.48%) Distributed Computing
11 9 (4.04%) Interest Rate Derivative
11 9 (4.04%) Onboarding
12 8 (3.59%) Product Ownership
13 6 (2.69%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.73%) Linux
2 11 (4.93%) Unix
3 7 (3.14%) 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 66 (29.60%) Risk Management
2 64 (28.70%) Agile
3 42 (18.83%) Mathematics
4 39 (17.49%) Analytics
4 39 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (15.25%) TDD
6 33 (14.80%) CI/CD
7 28 (12.56%) Low Latency
8 24 (10.76%) Design Patterns
9 23 (10.31%) Computer Science
9 23 (10.31%) Data Pipeline
9 23 (10.31%) DevOps
9 23 (10.31%) Electronic Trading
9 23 (10.31%) Stakeholder Management
10 22 (9.87%) Software Engineering
11 20 (8.97%) Multithreading
11 20 (8.97%) Physics
11 20 (8.97%) Quantitative Finance
11 20 (8.97%) Validation
12 18 (8.07%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 92 (41.26%) Python
2 65 (29.15%) SQL
3 64 (28.70%) Java
4 38 (17.04%) C++
5 31 (13.90%) C#
6 21 (9.42%) JavaScript
7 19 (8.52%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.69%) 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 42 (18.83%) Degree
2 17 (7.62%) Master's Degree
3 15 (6.73%) Numerate Degree
4 11 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.48%) PhD
6 3 (1.35%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.35%) PMP
7 2 (0.90%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.45%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.83%) QA
2 12 (5.38%) EMIR
3 8 (3.59%) IFRS
4 7 (3.14%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.14%) MiFID
5 4 (1.79%) IFRS 9
5 4 (1.79%) SLA
6 3 (1.35%) IAS 32
6 3 (1.35%) IAS 39
7 2 (0.90%) Basel III
7 2 (0.90%) GAAP
8 1 (0.45%) FINRA
8 1 (0.45%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.45%) PMO
8 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 7 (3.14%) 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 16 (7.17%) Bloomberg
1 16 (7.17%) Murex
1 16 (7.17%) Oracle
2 9 (4.04%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.69%) ION Trading
3 6 (2.69%) Tradeweb
4 5 (2.24%) jBASE
4 5 (2.24%) Sophis
4 5 (2.24%) Temenos
5 4 (1.79%) Calypso
5 4 (1.79%) Charles River
6 3 (1.35%) Databricks
6 3 (1.35%) IBM
6 3 (1.35%) NVIDIA
6 3 (1.35%) NYFIX
6 3 (1.35%) Refinitiv
7 2 (0.90%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.90%) MarketAxess
7 2 (0.90%) SmartStream
7 2 (0.90%) Splunk