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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 196 215
Rank change year-on-year -115 +19 +8
Contract jobs citing Derivative 243 376 435
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.78% 1.29% 1.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.18% 4.00% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 295 396
10th Percentile £513 £605 £550
25th Percentile £613 £644 £624
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £775 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -
75th Percentile £936 £888 £826
90th Percentile £1,000 £924 £931
UK median daily rate £750 £750 £700
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -
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 11,125 9,399 12,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.77% 32.32% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,008 5,689 8,167
10th Percentile £283 £285 £270
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £739 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £501 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.77% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 284 459
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.85 £16.75
25th Percentile £18.22 £23.44 £20.84
Median hourly rate £28.00 £37.25 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -24.83% -15.02% +25.24%
75th Percentile £61.50 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.53 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.11 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -17.86% -22.35% +21.43%

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 December 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 15 December 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 -77 238 £750 -3.23% 49
North of England -40 3 £525 -12.50% 2
Yorkshire - 3 £525 -
Midlands - 3 £525 -
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 26 (10.70%) Apache
1 26 (10.70%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.70%) Apache Spark
3 8 (3.29%) Confluence
4 4 (1.65%) HCL Notes
4 4 (1.65%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.82%) IIS
6 1 (0.41%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (8.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (3.29%) Aladdin
2 4 (1.65%) Fidessa
2 4 (1.65%) thinkFolio
3 3 (1.23%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.82%) Algo Collateral
5 1 (0.41%) Endur
5 1 (0.41%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.41%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.41%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.41%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.41%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 60 (24.69%) AWS
2 31 (12.76%) Azure
3 29 (11.93%) Snowflake
4 26 (10.70%) dbt
5 17 (7.00%) Power Platform
6 8 (3.29%) Serverless
7 6 (2.47%) GCP
8 5 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.06%) npm
8 5 (2.06%) Yarn
9 4 (1.65%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (1.65%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (1.65%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (1.65%) Power Automate
9 4 (1.65%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.23%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.82%) SaaS
12 1 (0.41%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.65%) FIX Connectivity
1 4 (1.65%) Multicast
2 2 (0.82%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.70%) Amazon Athena
1 26 (10.70%) Apache Arrow
1 26 (10.70%) Apache Iceberg
1 26 (10.70%) Apache Ignite
1 26 (10.70%) Data Lake
1 26 (10.70%) Dremio
2 22 (9.05%) SQL Server
3 19 (7.82%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (7.00%) Power BI
5 8 (3.29%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.47%) Redis
6 6 (2.47%) Tableau
7 4 (1.65%) Big Data
7 4 (1.65%) KDB
8 3 (1.23%) Power Query
9 2 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.82%) Metadata
9 2 (0.82%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.41%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 14 (5.76%) Git
2 10 (4.12%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.12%) JIRA
3 7 (2.88%) Octopus Deploy
4 6 (2.47%) Visual Studio
5 5 (2.06%) webpack
6 4 (1.65%) GitLab
6 4 (1.65%) Maven
7 3 (1.23%) Gradle
7 3 (1.23%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.82%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.41%) Crucible
9 1 (0.41%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 195 (80.25%) Finance
2 149 (61.32%) Banking
3 114 (46.91%) Front Office
4 109 (44.86%) Investment Banking
5 72 (29.63%) Social Skills
6 33 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
7 24 (9.88%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.29%) Back Office
9 4 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.23%) Law
11 2 (0.82%) Legal
11 2 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.41%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 100 (41.15%) Developer
2 72 (29.63%) Senior
3 46 (18.93%) Analyst
4 35 (14.40%) Senior Developer
5 34 (13.99%) Java Developer
6 28 (11.52%) Java Engineer
7 27 (11.11%) Business Analyst
7 27 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
7 27 (11.11%) Software Engineer
8 26 (10.70%) AWS Engineer
8 26 (10.70%) AWS Software Engineer
8 26 (10.70%) Python Engineer
8 26 (10.70%) Python Software Engineer
9 25 (10.29%) Senior Java Engineer
9 25 (10.29%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 25 (10.29%) Senior Software Engineer
10 21 (8.64%) Senior Java Developer
11 18 (7.41%) Analytics Developer
11 18 (7.41%) AWS Developer
11 18 (7.41%) PostgreSQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (11.93%) NumPy
1 29 (11.93%) Pandas
1 29 (11.93%) SciPy
2 27 (11.11%) Protocol Buffers
3 26 (10.70%) gRPC
4 22 (9.05%) Kafka
5 18 (7.41%) FIX Protocol
6 15 (6.17%) .NET
7 12 (4.94%) React
8 9 (3.70%) Dask
9 8 (3.29%) CSS
9 8 (3.29%) Spring
10 7 (2.88%) REST
10 7 (2.88%) RESTful
11 6 (2.47%) HTML
12 5 (2.06%) RabbitMQ
13 4 (1.65%) .NET Core
13 4 (1.65%) .NET Framework
13 4 (1.65%) XML
14 3 (1.23%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 85 (34.98%) Equities
2 78 (32.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 73 (30.04%) Fixed Income
4 37 (15.23%) Hedge funds
5 26 (10.70%) Equity Derivative
5 26 (10.70%) Pricing Data
6 24 (9.88%) Market Risk
7 18 (7.41%) Management Information System
8 17 (7.00%) Algorithms
8 17 (7.00%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (7.00%) Product Ownership
9 13 (5.35%) Cloud Native
10 11 (4.53%) Credit Risk
10 11 (4.53%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (4.53%) Interest Rate Derivative
11 10 (4.12%) Distributed Computing
11 10 (4.12%) Onboarding
12 8 (3.29%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (2.88%) OTC Derivatives
14 6 (2.47%) TWAP
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.76%) Linux
2 7 (2.88%) Unix
2 7 (2.88%) Windows
3 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (35.80%) Agile
2 60 (24.69%) Risk Management
3 48 (19.75%) Analytics
4 42 (17.28%) Mathematics
5 39 (16.05%) Software Engineering
6 35 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (13.99%) CI/CD
8 31 (12.76%) Asset Management
9 27 (11.11%) TDD
10 26 (10.70%) DevOps
10 26 (10.70%) Investment Management
11 25 (10.29%) Stakeholder Management
12 24 (9.88%) Computer Science
13 22 (9.05%) Data Pipeline
13 22 (9.05%) Design Patterns
13 22 (9.05%) Physics
14 21 (8.64%) Low Latency
15 20 (8.23%) Quantitative Finance
16 19 (7.82%) Multithreading
17 18 (7.41%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 105 (43.21%) Python
2 75 (30.86%) Java
3 68 (27.98%) SQL
4 35 (14.40%) C#
4 35 (14.40%) JavaScript
5 34 (13.99%) C++
5 34 (13.99%) TypeScript
6 7 (2.88%) VBA
7 4 (1.65%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.82%) Perl
8 2 (0.82%) Scala
9 1 (0.41%) Bash
9 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.41%) R
9 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.41%) VC++
Qualifications
1 46 (18.93%) Degree
2 20 (8.23%) Master's Degree
3 12 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (4.94%) Numerate Degree
4 10 (4.12%) PhD
5 4 (1.65%) PMI Certification
5 4 (1.65%) PMP
6 2 (0.82%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.41%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.35%) EMIR
1 13 (5.35%) MiFID
2 11 (4.53%) QA
3 9 (3.70%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.88%) SLA
5 4 (1.65%) Basel III
5 4 (1.65%) IFRS
6 3 (1.23%) GDPR
6 3 (1.23%) IAS 32
6 3 (1.23%) IAS 39
6 3 (1.23%) IFRS 9
6 3 (1.23%) PMO
7 1 (0.41%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.41%) FINRA
7 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.41%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (2.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.47%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.06%) Ansible
3 3 (1.23%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 2 (0.82%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.41%) Grafana
5 1 (0.41%) Terraform
5 1 (0.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (7.00%) Bloomberg
2 14 (5.76%) Murex
3 12 (4.94%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.70%) Oracle
5 7 (2.88%) Calypso
5 7 (2.88%) ION Trading
6 6 (2.47%) Databricks
6 6 (2.47%) Sophis
6 6 (2.47%) Tradeweb
7 4 (1.65%) Lotus
7 4 (1.65%) Portware
8 3 (1.23%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.23%) Charles River
8 3 (1.23%) NYFIX
8 3 (1.23%) Refinitiv
8 3 (1.23%) Reuters
8 3 (1.23%) Splunk
9 2 (0.82%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.82%) MarketAxess
9 2 (0.82%) SmartStream