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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 187 221
Rank change year-on-year -131 +34 -3
Contract jobs citing Derivative 225 368 399
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.71% 1.36% 1.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.03% 4.19% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 285 376
10th Percentile £513 £543 £550
25th Percentile £613 £638 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £988 £888 £800
90th Percentile £1,000 £938 £872
UK median daily rate £729 £725 £700
% change year-on-year +0.52% +3.57% -1.58%
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 11,104 8,780 11,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.96% 32.56% 31.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,063 5,284 7,551
10th Percentile £281 £275 £263
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £780 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £545
% change year-on-year -6.15% -2.25% -1.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 540 254 512
10th Percentile £14.95 £17.33 £15.26
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.18 £19.86
Median hourly rate £28.00 £37.00 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.32% -1.99% +57.29%
75th Percentile £61.50 £66.89 £63.95
90th Percentile £74.26 £83.20 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £34.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year -20.55% -8.67% +56.25%

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 15 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 15 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 -86 216 £750 +3.45% 29
North of England -39 3 £525 -12.50% 2
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 17 (7.56%) Apache
1 17 (7.56%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (4.00%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.67%) Confluence
4 4 (1.78%) HCL Notes
4 4 (1.78%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.89%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.44%) IIS
6 1 (0.44%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (9.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.22%) Aladdin
1 5 (2.22%) Temenos T24
2 3 (1.33%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 2 (0.89%) Algo Collateral
3 2 (0.89%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.89%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.44%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.44%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.44%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.44%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.44%) Summit
4 1 (0.44%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 51 (22.67%) AWS
2 24 (10.67%) Azure
3 20 (8.89%) Snowflake
4 17 (7.56%) dbt
5 12 (5.33%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.67%) GCP
7 5 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.22%) Serverless
8 4 (1.78%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.78%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.78%) Power Automate
8 4 (1.78%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.33%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.33%) npm
9 3 (1.33%) SaaS
9 3 (1.33%) Yarn
10 1 (0.44%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (0.44%) IaaS
10 1 (0.44%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.11%) FIX Connectivity
2 4 (1.78%) Multicast
3 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.44%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (7.56%) Amazon Athena
2 17 (7.56%) Apache Arrow
2 17 (7.56%) Apache Iceberg
2 17 (7.56%) Apache Ignite
2 17 (7.56%) Data Lake
2 17 (7.56%) Dremio
2 17 (7.56%) SQL Server
3 12 (5.33%) Power BI
4 8 (3.56%) Redis
5 4 (1.78%) Big Data
5 4 (1.78%) KDB
5 4 (1.78%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.78%) Tableau
6 2 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.89%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.44%) Hazelcast
7 1 (0.44%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.44%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (8.00%) Git
2 10 (4.44%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.00%) JIRA
4 6 (2.67%) Octopus Deploy
4 6 (2.67%) Visual Studio
5 5 (2.22%) Maven
6 4 (1.78%) GitLab
6 4 (1.78%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.33%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.33%) Gradle
7 3 (1.33%) webpack
8 2 (0.89%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.89%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.44%) Crucible
9 1 (0.44%) TeamCity
General
1 176 (78.22%) Finance
2 132 (58.67%) Banking
3 93 (41.33%) Front Office
4 90 (40.00%) Investment Banking
5 64 (28.44%) Social Skills
6 29 (12.89%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (11.56%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.56%) Back Office
9 4 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.78%) Legal
10 3 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.33%) Spanish Language
10 3 (1.33%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.44%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.44%) Japanese Language
12 1 (0.44%) Law
12 1 (0.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 106 (47.11%) Developer
2 63 (28.00%) Senior
3 40 (17.78%) Analyst
4 37 (16.44%) Java Developer
5 32 (14.22%) Senior Developer
6 21 (9.33%) Business Analyst
6 21 (9.33%) Senior Java Developer
7 19 (8.44%) Java Engineer
8 18 (8.00%) Analytics Developer
8 18 (8.00%) AWS Developer
8 18 (8.00%) Java Software Engineer
8 18 (8.00%) Kafka Developer
8 18 (8.00%) PostgreSQL Developer
8 18 (8.00%) Software Engineer
9 17 (7.56%) AWS Engineer
9 17 (7.56%) AWS Software Engineer
9 17 (7.56%) Python Engineer
9 17 (7.56%) Python Software Engineer
10 16 (7.11%) Senior Java Engineer
10 16 (7.11%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.67%) Kafka
2 20 (8.89%) NumPy
2 20 (8.89%) Pandas
2 20 (8.89%) SciPy
3 18 (8.00%) FIX Protocol
3 18 (8.00%) Protocol Buffers
4 17 (7.56%) gRPC
5 12 (5.33%) .NET
5 12 (5.33%) React
6 9 (4.00%) Dask
6 9 (4.00%) RESTful
7 7 (3.11%) Spring
8 6 (2.67%) CSS
8 6 (2.67%) HTML
8 6 (2.67%) REST
9 4 (1.78%) XML
10 3 (1.33%) Middleware
10 3 (1.33%) Redux
10 3 (1.33%) WebSockets
10 3 (1.33%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 82 (36.44%) Equities
2 62 (27.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 53 (23.56%) Fixed Income
4 31 (13.78%) Equity Derivative
5 26 (11.56%) Hedge funds
6 23 (10.22%) Market Risk
7 20 (8.89%) Algorithms
8 18 (8.00%) Management Information System
9 17 (7.56%) Pricing Data
10 16 (7.11%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (4.89%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (4.44%) Cloud Native
12 10 (4.44%) Distributed Computing
12 10 (4.44%) Interest Rate Derivative
12 10 (4.44%) TWAP
12 10 (4.44%) VWAP
13 9 (4.00%) Onboarding
13 9 (4.00%) Product Ownership
14 8 (3.56%) Credit Risk
15 6 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.56%) Linux
2 8 (3.56%) Windows
3 6 (2.67%) Unix
4 3 (1.33%) Debian
4 3 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.33%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.33%) VMS
5 2 (0.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (29.33%) Agile
2 59 (26.22%) Risk Management
3 43 (19.11%) Mathematics
4 37 (16.44%) Analytics
5 34 (15.11%) CI/CD
5 34 (15.11%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (13.78%) TDD
7 28 (12.44%) Software Engineering
8 25 (11.11%) Low Latency
9 24 (10.67%) DevOps
10 23 (10.22%) Asset Management
10 23 (10.22%) Computer Science
11 22 (9.78%) Data Pipeline
11 22 (9.78%) Design Patterns
11 22 (9.78%) Electronic Trading
12 21 (9.33%) Physics
12 21 (9.33%) Quantitative Finance
13 20 (8.89%) Stakeholder Management
13 20 (8.89%) Validation
14 19 (8.44%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 97 (43.11%) Python
2 68 (30.22%) Java
3 59 (26.22%) SQL
4 40 (17.78%) C++
5 34 (15.11%) C#
6 26 (11.56%) JavaScript
7 25 (11.11%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.67%) VBA
9 4 (1.78%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.89%) Perl
10 2 (0.89%) Rust
10 2 (0.89%) Scala
11 1 (0.44%) Bash
11 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.44%) R
11 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.44%) VC++
Qualifications
1 44 (19.56%) Degree
2 20 (8.89%) Master's Degree
3 15 (6.67%) Numerate Degree
4 11 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.44%) PhD
6 3 (1.33%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.33%) PMP
7 2 (0.89%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.44%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.78%) EMIR
1 13 (5.78%) QA
2 8 (3.56%) MiFID
3 6 (2.67%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.67%) IFRS
3 6 (2.67%) SLA
4 4 (1.78%) IFRS 9
5 3 (1.33%) IAS 32
5 3 (1.33%) IAS 39
6 2 (0.89%) Basel III
6 2 (0.89%) GAAP
6 2 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.44%) FINRA
7 1 (0.44%) GDPR
7 1 (0.44%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.44%) PMO
7 1 (0.44%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (2.67%) Docker
2 3 (1.33%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 8 (3.56%) Ansible
2 6 (2.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.33%) Grafana
3 3 (1.33%) Podman
3 3 (1.33%) Terraform
3 3 (1.33%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 2 (0.89%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (0.89%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.44%) Control-M
5 1 (0.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (6.67%) Bloomberg
1 15 (6.67%) Murex
2 11 (4.89%) Oracle
3 10 (4.44%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.11%) ION Trading
5 6 (2.67%) Calypso
5 6 (2.67%) Sophis
5 6 (2.67%) Tradeweb
6 5 (2.22%) jBASE
6 5 (2.22%) Temenos
7 4 (1.78%) Lotus
8 3 (1.33%) Charles River
8 3 (1.33%) Databricks
8 3 (1.33%) IBM
8 3 (1.33%) NVIDIA
8 3 (1.33%) NYFIX
8 3 (1.33%) Refinitiv
8 3 (1.33%) Splunk
9 2 (0.89%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.89%) MarketAxess