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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 201 214
Rank change year-on-year -126 +13 +15
Contract jobs citing Derivative 236 377 408
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.74% 1.31% 1.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.10% 4.04% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 292 380
10th Percentile £513 £550 £550
25th Percentile £613 £638 £624
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -
75th Percentile £978 £888 £821
90th Percentile £1,000 £938 £913
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 11,233 9,331 11,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.43% 32.47% 31.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,089 5,647 7,875
10th Percentile £285 £278 £263
25th Percentile £408 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% - -3.08%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -5.25% -3.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 560 271 465
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.08 £16.57
25th Percentile £18.25 £23.70 £20.51
Median hourly rate £28.06 £37.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.16% -15.43% +24.02%
75th Percentile £61.52 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £33.54 £42.50
% change year-on-year -19.50% -21.08% +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 25 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 25 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 -69 228 £750 - 70
North of England -50 3 £525 -12.50% 2
East of England - 3 £681 - 1
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 22 (9.32%) Apache
1 22 (9.32%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.81%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.54%) Confluence
4 4 (1.69%) HCL Notes
4 4 (1.69%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.85%) IIS
6 1 (0.42%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (8.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (3.39%) Aladdin
2 4 (1.69%) Fidessa
2 4 (1.69%) thinkFolio
3 3 (1.27%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.85%) Algo Collateral
4 2 (0.85%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.42%) Endur
5 1 (0.42%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.42%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.42%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.42%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.42%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 56 (23.73%) AWS
2 27 (11.44%) Azure
3 25 (10.59%) Snowflake
4 22 (9.32%) dbt
5 15 (6.36%) Power Platform
6 8 (3.39%) Serverless
7 6 (2.54%) GCP
8 5 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.12%) npm
8 5 (2.12%) Yarn
9 4 (1.69%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (1.69%) Power Automate
9 4 (1.69%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.85%) SaaS
12 1 (0.42%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.12%) FIX Connectivity
2 4 (1.69%) Multicast
3 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.32%) Amazon Athena
1 22 (9.32%) Apache Arrow
1 22 (9.32%) Apache Iceberg
1 22 (9.32%) Apache Ignite
1 22 (9.32%) Data Lake
1 22 (9.32%) Dremio
2 21 (8.90%) SQL Server
3 19 (8.05%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (6.36%) Power BI
5 6 (2.54%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.54%) Redis
5 6 (2.54%) Tableau
6 4 (1.69%) Big Data
6 4 (1.69%) KDB
7 2 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.85%) Metadata
7 2 (0.85%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.42%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.42%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 17 (7.20%) Git
2 10 (4.24%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.39%) JIRA
4 7 (2.97%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (2.54%) Visual Studio
6 5 (2.12%) webpack
7 4 (1.69%) GitLab
7 4 (1.69%) Maven
8 3 (1.27%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.85%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.85%) Gradle
10 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.42%) Crucible
10 1 (0.42%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.42%) TeamCity
General
1 184 (77.97%) Finance
2 144 (61.02%) Banking
3 104 (44.07%) Investment Banking
4 103 (43.64%) Front Office
5 70 (29.66%) Social Skills
6 32 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (11.02%) Financial Institution
8 9 (3.81%) Back Office
9 4 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.27%) Legal
10 3 (1.27%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.42%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.42%) Law
12 1 (0.42%) Retail
12 1 (0.42%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 101 (42.80%) Developer
2 69 (29.24%) Senior
3 45 (19.07%) Analyst
4 34 (14.41%) Java Developer
4 34 (14.41%) Senior Developer
5 27 (11.44%) Business Analyst
6 24 (10.17%) Java Engineer
7 23 (9.75%) Java Software Engineer
7 23 (9.75%) Software Engineer
8 22 (9.32%) AWS Engineer
8 22 (9.32%) AWS Software Engineer
8 22 (9.32%) Python Engineer
8 22 (9.32%) Python Software Engineer
9 21 (8.90%) Senior Java Developer
9 21 (8.90%) Senior Java Engineer
9 21 (8.90%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 21 (8.90%) Senior Software Engineer
10 18 (7.63%) Analytics Developer
10 18 (7.63%) AWS Developer
10 18 (7.63%) PostgreSQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (10.59%) NumPy
1 25 (10.59%) Pandas
1 25 (10.59%) SciPy
2 23 (9.75%) Protocol Buffers
3 22 (9.32%) gRPC
3 22 (9.32%) Kafka
4 18 (7.63%) FIX Protocol
5 16 (6.78%) .NET
6 12 (5.08%) React
7 9 (3.81%) Dask
8 8 (3.39%) CSS
9 7 (2.97%) REST
9 7 (2.97%) RESTful
9 7 (2.97%) Spring
10 6 (2.54%) HTML
11 5 (2.12%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (1.69%) .NET Core
12 4 (1.69%) .NET Framework
12 4 (1.69%) XML
13 3 (1.27%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 82 (34.75%) Equities
2 72 (30.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 63 (26.69%) Fixed Income
4 33 (13.98%) Hedge funds
5 27 (11.44%) Equity Derivative
6 22 (9.32%) Market Risk
6 22 (9.32%) Pricing Data
7 18 (7.63%) Algorithms
7 18 (7.63%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (7.63%) Management Information System
8 13 (5.51%) Cloud Native
8 13 (5.51%) Product Ownership
9 12 (5.08%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (4.66%) Interest Rate Derivative
11 10 (4.24%) Distributed Computing
11 10 (4.24%) Onboarding
12 8 (3.39%) Credit Risk
13 7 (2.97%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (2.97%) TWAP
13 7 (2.97%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.78%) Linux
2 7 (2.97%) Windows
3 6 (2.54%) Unix
4 3 (1.27%) Debian
4 3 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.27%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.27%) VMS
5 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (32.63%) Agile
2 60 (25.42%) Risk Management
3 43 (18.22%) Mathematics
4 42 (17.80%) Analytics
5 36 (15.25%) CI/CD
6 35 (14.83%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (14.41%) Software Engineering
8 28 (11.86%) TDD
9 27 (11.44%) Asset Management
9 27 (11.44%) DevOps
10 22 (9.32%) Computer Science
10 22 (9.32%) Data Pipeline
10 22 (9.32%) Design Patterns
10 22 (9.32%) Investment Management
10 22 (9.32%) Stakeholder Management
11 21 (8.90%) Low Latency
11 21 (8.90%) Physics
12 20 (8.47%) Quantitative Finance
13 19 (8.05%) Electronic Trading
13 19 (8.05%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 100 (42.37%) Python
2 70 (29.66%) Java
3 65 (27.54%) SQL
4 36 (15.25%) C#
4 36 (15.25%) C++
5 31 (13.14%) JavaScript
6 30 (12.71%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.54%) VBA
8 4 (1.69%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.85%) Perl
9 2 (0.85%) Scala
10 1 (0.42%) Bash
10 1 (0.42%) R
10 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.42%) VC++
Qualifications
1 43 (18.22%) Degree
2 20 (8.47%) Master's Degree
3 14 (5.93%) Numerate Degree
4 10 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (4.24%) PhD
5 4 (1.69%) PMI Certification
5 4 (1.69%) PMP
6 2 (0.85%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.42%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.93%) EMIR
1 14 (5.93%) MiFID
2 11 (4.66%) QA
3 8 (3.39%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.97%) SLA
5 4 (1.69%) IFRS
6 3 (1.27%) Basel III
6 3 (1.27%) GDPR
6 3 (1.27%) IAS 32
6 3 (1.27%) IAS 39
6 3 (1.27%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.42%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.42%) FINRA
7 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.42%) PMO
7 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.42%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (2.54%) Docker
2 3 (1.27%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 8 (3.39%) Ansible
2 6 (2.54%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.27%) Podman
3 3 (1.27%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 2 (0.85%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.42%) Grafana
5 1 (0.42%) Terraform
5 1 (0.42%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (6.78%) Bloomberg
2 14 (5.93%) Murex
3 11 (4.66%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.81%) Oracle
5 7 (2.97%) Calypso
5 7 (2.97%) ION Trading
6 6 (2.54%) Databricks
6 6 (2.54%) Sophis
6 6 (2.54%) Tradeweb
7 4 (1.69%) Lotus
7 4 (1.69%) Portware
8 3 (1.27%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.27%) Charles River
8 3 (1.27%) NVIDIA
8 3 (1.27%) NYFIX
8 3 (1.27%) Refinitiv
8 3 (1.27%) Splunk
9 2 (0.85%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.85%) jBASE
9 2 (0.85%) MarketAxess