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 2 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 247 168
Rank change year-on-year -138 -79 +12
Contract jobs citing Derivative 250 291 500
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 1.05% 1.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.64% 2.99% 4.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 248 434
10th Percentile £450 £538 £600
25th Percentile £619 £663 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £847 £833 £888
90th Percentile £891 £988 -
UK median daily rate £725 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £59.13 - -
25th Percentile £63.44 £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £71.25 £87.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% - -
75th Percentile £78.44 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £82.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £71.25 £87.50 -
% change year-on-year -18.57% - -

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 15,220 9,745 10,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.43% 35.09% 30.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,387 6,152 6,757
10th Percentile £322 £306 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 872 484 563
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.48 £12.55
25th Percentile £20.97 £18.87 £17.81
Median hourly rate £43.96 £31.78 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.35% -29.39% +10.31%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.36 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £29.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +49.02% -30.59% +15.25%

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 2 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Derivative in England over the 6 months to 2 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Derivative in England

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 2 August 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 -71 242 £725 -3.33% 103
North of England -72 6 £725 +20.23% 5
Yorkshire -40 5 £725 -
Midlands -52 1 - -
North West -60 1 £198 -67.16% 5
West Midlands - 1 - -
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 6 (2.40%) Confluence
2 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.80%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (3.60%) Aladdin
2 4 (1.60%) Loan IQ
2 4 (1.60%) Summit
3 3 (1.20%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.80%) Front Arena
4 2 (0.80%) Global One
5 1 (0.40%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 42 (16.80%) AWS
2 38 (15.20%) Azure
3 31 (12.40%) GCP
4 7 (2.80%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.00%) Snowflake
6 4 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.20%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (1.20%) Serverless
8 1 (0.40%) Collibra
8 1 (0.40%) npm
8 1 (0.40%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.40%) SaaS
8 1 (0.40%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.20%) FIX Connectivity
2 8 (3.20%) HTTP
3 1 (0.40%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (6.80%) SQL Server
3 13 (5.20%) Redis
4 10 (4.00%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.60%) MongoDB
6 8 (3.20%) Metadata
6 8 (3.20%) Tableau
7 7 (2.80%) Power BI
8 6 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.40%) RDBMS
9 5 (2.00%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.60%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.20%) KDB
12 2 (0.80%) Crystal Reports
12 2 (0.80%) Kdb+
12 2 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (6.80%) JIRA
2 10 (4.00%) Git
2 10 (4.00%) Octopus Deploy
3 8 (3.20%) TeamCity
4 5 (2.00%) ER Studio
4 5 (2.00%) ERwin
4 5 (2.00%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (1.20%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.20%) VTune
6 1 (0.40%) GitLab
6 1 (0.40%) GoogleTest
6 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 166 (66.40%) Finance
2 133 (53.20%) Banking
3 131 (52.40%) Front Office
4 100 (40.00%) Investment Banking
5 57 (22.80%) Social Skills
6 31 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.40%) Financial Institution
8 9 (3.60%) Back Office
8 9 (3.60%) Private Banking
9 8 (3.20%) Legal
10 3 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.20%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.40%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.40%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.40%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.40%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 133 (53.20%) Developer
2 64 (25.60%) Analyst
3 55 (22.00%) Business Analyst
4 38 (15.20%) Python Developer
5 35 (14.00%) Senior
6 31 (12.40%) Java Developer
7 29 (11.60%) C# Developer
7 29 (11.60%) Front Office Developer
8 24 (9.60%) Lead
9 21 (8.40%) Software Engineer
10 20 (8.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 19 (7.60%) Lead Developer
12 18 (7.20%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
12 18 (7.20%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
12 18 (7.20%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
12 18 (7.20%) Low Latency Java Developer
13 15 (6.00%) Senior Developer
14 14 (5.60%) Lead Software Engineer
15 12 (4.80%) Lead Software Developer
15 12 (4.80%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (14.00%) React
2 34 (13.60%) FIX Protocol
3 17 (6.80%) Redux
4 16 (6.40%) Node.js
5 12 (4.80%) .NET
5 12 (4.80%) NumPy
6 11 (4.40%) WebSockets
7 10 (4.00%) Django
7 10 (4.00%) FastAPI
7 10 (4.00%) Kafka
8 9 (3.60%) Pandas
8 9 (3.60%) REST
9 8 (3.20%) RxJava
9 8 (3.20%) Spring
10 7 (2.80%) AngularJS
11 6 (2.40%) Flask
11 6 (2.40%) Middleware
12 5 (2.00%) PySpark
12 5 (2.00%) XML
13 4 (1.60%) Polars
Miscellaneous
1 75 (30.00%) Equities
2 61 (24.40%) Fixed Income
3 60 (24.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 26 (10.40%) Equity Derivative
5 21 (8.40%) Market Risk
6 18 (7.20%) TWAP
6 18 (7.20%) VWAP
7 17 (6.80%) Algorithms
7 17 (6.80%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (6.80%) OTC Derivatives
8 15 (6.00%) Credit Risk
8 15 (6.00%) Data Structures
9 12 (4.80%) Exotic Derivative
9 12 (4.80%) Hedge funds
10 11 (4.40%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (4.40%) Management Information System
11 9 (3.60%) Credit Derivative
12 8 (3.20%) Cloud Native
12 8 (3.20%) Reference Data
13 7 (2.80%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.80%) Unix
2 12 (4.80%) Linux
3 1 (0.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (25.20%) Agile
2 45 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (17.60%) Low Latency
4 39 (15.60%) Multithreading
5 38 (15.20%) Electronic Trading
6 36 (14.40%) Software Engineering
7 33 (13.20%) Asset Management
8 30 (12.00%) Analytics
8 30 (12.00%) DevOps
9 29 (11.60%) Algorithmic Trading
10 28 (11.20%) CI/CD
10 28 (11.20%) User Acceptance Testing
11 27 (10.80%) Microservices
12 25 (10.00%) Data Analysis
12 25 (10.00%) Fintech
12 25 (10.00%) Portfolio Management
12 25 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
13 24 (9.60%) Mathematics
13 24 (9.60%) Performance Optimisation
13 24 (9.60%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 107 (42.80%) Python
2 81 (32.40%) SQL
3 66 (26.40%) Java
4 51 (20.40%) C#
5 35 (14.00%) TypeScript
6 28 (11.20%) C++
7 21 (8.40%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.80%) Rust
9 8 (3.20%) PowerShell
10 7 (2.80%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.60%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.60%) Scala
12 2 (0.80%) Bash
12 2 (0.80%) Perl
12 2 (0.80%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.40%) C
13 1 (0.40%) F#
13 1 (0.40%) Korn
13 1 (0.40%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (10.40%) Degree
2 13 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (4.40%) Master's Degree
4 10 (4.00%) PhD
5 1 (0.40%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.60%) MiFID
1 9 (3.60%) QA
2 8 (3.20%) EMIR
3 6 (2.40%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.80%) Basel III
4 2 (0.80%) COREP
4 2 (0.80%) FINREP
4 2 (0.80%) GAAP
4 2 (0.80%) IFRS
5 1 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (6.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.40%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.20%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (0.80%) Control-M
4 1 (0.40%) Grafana
4 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.40%) Terraform
4 1 (0.40%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 24 (9.60%) Murex
2 13 (5.20%) Bloomberg
3 8 (3.20%) Oracle
4 7 (2.80%) Charles River
5 5 (2.00%) Calypso
6 3 (1.20%) Databricks
6 3 (1.20%) Google
7 1 (0.40%) Ab Initio
7 1 (0.40%) Advent
7 1 (0.40%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.40%) Apple
7 1 (0.40%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.40%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.40%) NYFIX
7 1 (0.40%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.40%) Reuters
7 1 (0.40%) SimCorp
7 1 (0.40%) Solace
7 1 (0.40%) Splunk