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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 187 218
Rank change year-on-year -139 +31 -4
Contract jobs citing Derivative 225 371 402
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 1.38% 1.09%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.99% 4.24% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 290 378
10th Percentile £517 £550 £550
25th Percentile £613 £638 £621
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £733 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year +1.03% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £988 £888 £800
90th Percentile £1,000 £938 £869
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 11,299 8,760 11,557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.81% 32.69% 31.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,223 5,266 7,710
10th Percentile £282 £269 £256
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 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 552 248 635
10th Percentile £15.25 £18.39 £14.27
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.18 £18.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.79 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.60% +6.44% +57.88%
75th Percentile £63.03 £68.19 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £83.74 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £27.54 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.31% - +55.66%

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 23 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 23 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 -91 216 £750 +3.45% 25
North of England -52 3 £525 -12.50% 16
Yorkshire - 3 £525 - 9
East of England - 3 £681 - 18
Midlands - 2 £525 - 14
West Midlands - 2 £525 - 3
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 14 (6.22%) Apache
1 14 (6.22%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (4.00%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.67%) Confluence
4 3 (1.33%) HCL Notes
4 3 (1.33%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.89%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
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 6 (2.67%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.22%) Temenos T24
3 3 (1.33%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.89%) Algo Collateral
4 2 (0.89%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.89%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.89%) Summit
5 1 (0.44%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.44%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.44%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.44%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.44%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 46 (20.44%) AWS
2 23 (10.22%) Azure
3 17 (7.56%) Snowflake
4 14 (6.22%) dbt
5 12 (5.33%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.67%) GCP
7 5 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.22%) SaaS
7 5 (2.22%) Serverless
8 4 (1.78%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.78%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.33%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.33%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.33%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.89%) npm
10 2 (0.89%) Yarn
11 1 (0.44%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (0.44%) IaaS
11 1 (0.44%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.11%) FIX Connectivity
2 4 (1.78%) Multicast
3 1 (0.44%) RTMP
3 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.56%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (7.11%) SQL Server
3 14 (6.22%) Amazon Athena
3 14 (6.22%) Apache Arrow
3 14 (6.22%) Apache Iceberg
3 14 (6.22%) Apache Ignite
3 14 (6.22%) Data Lake
3 14 (6.22%) Dremio
4 12 (5.33%) Power BI
5 8 (3.56%) Redis
6 4 (1.78%) Big Data
6 4 (1.78%) KDB
6 4 (1.78%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.78%) Tableau
7 3 (1.33%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.89%) Metadata
8 2 (0.89%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.89%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.44%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 17 (7.56%) Git
2 9 (4.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (4.00%) JIRA
3 7 (3.11%) Octopus Deploy
4 6 (2.67%) Visual Studio
5 5 (2.22%) Maven
6 4 (1.78%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.33%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.33%) GitLab
7 3 (1.33%) Gradle
8 2 (0.89%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.89%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.89%) webpack
9 1 (0.44%) Crucible
9 1 (0.44%) NUnit
9 1 (0.44%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.44%) TeamCity
General
1 170 (75.56%) Finance
2 125 (55.56%) Banking
3 93 (41.33%) Front Office
4 85 (37.78%) Investment Banking
5 66 (29.33%) Social Skills
6 32 (14.22%) Analytical Skills
7 25 (11.11%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.11%) Back Office
9 4 (1.78%) Legal
10 3 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.33%) Spanish Language
10 3 (1.33%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.89%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.44%) Japanese Language
12 1 (0.44%) Law
12 1 (0.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 107 (47.56%) Developer
2 59 (26.22%) Senior
3 42 (18.67%) Analyst
4 36 (16.00%) Java Developer
5 30 (13.33%) Senior Developer
6 25 (11.11%) Business Analyst
7 20 (8.89%) Senior Java Developer
8 17 (7.56%) Analytics Developer
8 17 (7.56%) AWS Developer
8 17 (7.56%) Java Engineer
8 17 (7.56%) Kafka Developer
8 17 (7.56%) PostgreSQL Developer
9 15 (6.67%) C# Developer
9 15 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
9 15 (6.67%) Python Engineer
9 15 (6.67%) Quantitative Developer
9 15 (6.67%) Software Engineer
10 14 (6.22%) AWS Engineer
10 14 (6.22%) AWS Software Engineer
10 14 (6.22%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.78%) Kafka
2 18 (8.00%) NumPy
2 18 (8.00%) Pandas
3 17 (7.56%) FIX Protocol
3 17 (7.56%) SciPy
4 15 (6.67%) Protocol Buffers
4 15 (6.67%) React
5 14 (6.22%) gRPC
6 13 (5.78%) .NET
7 12 (5.33%) RESTful
8 10 (4.44%) HTML
9 9 (4.00%) Dask
10 7 (3.11%) REST
10 7 (3.11%) Spring
11 6 (2.67%) CSS
11 6 (2.67%) WebSockets
12 5 (2.22%) HTML5
13 4 (1.78%) XML
14 3 (1.33%) Redux
14 3 (1.33%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 83 (36.89%) Equities
2 57 (25.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 54 (24.00%) Fixed Income
4 36 (16.00%) Equity Derivative
5 23 (10.22%) Hedge funds
5 23 (10.22%) Market Risk
6 20 (8.89%) Algorithms
7 18 (8.00%) Management Information System
8 16 (7.11%) Distributed Systems
9 14 (6.22%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (6.22%) Pricing Data
10 10 (4.44%) Cloud Native
10 10 (4.44%) Distributed Computing
10 10 (4.44%) Interest Rate Derivative
10 10 (4.44%) TWAP
10 10 (4.44%) VWAP
11 9 (4.00%) Credit Risk
11 9 (4.00%) Onboarding
12 8 (3.56%) Product Ownership
13 6 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.11%) Linux
2 11 (4.89%) Unix
3 7 (3.11%) Windows
4 3 (1.33%) Debian
4 3 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.33%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.33%) VMS
5 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (28.89%) Agile
2 62 (27.56%) Risk Management
3 42 (18.67%) Mathematics
4 38 (16.89%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (16.44%) Analytics
6 33 (14.67%) CI/CD
7 32 (14.22%) TDD
8 28 (12.44%) Low Latency
9 25 (11.11%) Software Engineering
10 24 (10.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 23 (10.22%) Computer Science
11 23 (10.22%) Data Pipeline
11 23 (10.22%) Design Patterns
11 23 (10.22%) DevOps
12 21 (9.33%) Asset Management
12 21 (9.33%) Electronic Trading
13 20 (8.89%) Physics
13 20 (8.89%) Quantitative Finance
14 19 (8.44%) Multithreading
14 19 (8.44%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 95 (42.22%) Python
2 65 (28.89%) Java
3 63 (28.00%) SQL
4 39 (17.33%) C++
5 33 (14.67%) C#
6 24 (10.67%) JavaScript
7 22 (9.78%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.67%) VBA
9 4 (1.78%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.33%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.89%) Perl
11 2 (0.89%) Rust
11 2 (0.89%) Scala
12 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.44%) R
12 1 (0.44%) VC++
Qualifications
1 43 (19.11%) Degree
2 17 (7.56%) 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%) QA
2 12 (5.33%) EMIR
3 8 (3.56%) IFRS
4 7 (3.11%) MiFID
5 6 (2.67%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.78%) IFRS 9
6 4 (1.78%) SLA
7 3 (1.33%) IAS 32
7 3 (1.33%) IAS 39
8 2 (0.89%) Basel III
8 2 (0.89%) GAAP
8 2 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.44%) FINRA
9 1 (0.44%) GDPR
9 1 (0.44%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.44%) PMO
9 1 (0.44%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 7 (3.11%) Docker
2 3 (1.33%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 7 (3.11%) Ansible
1 7 (3.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.33%) Podman
2 3 (1.33%) Thomson Reuters DACS
3 2 (0.89%) Grafana
3 2 (0.89%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (0.89%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.89%) Terraform
4 1 (0.44%) Control-M
Vendors
1 16 (7.11%) Bloomberg
2 15 (6.67%) Murex
2 15 (6.67%) Oracle
3 10 (4.44%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.11%) ION Trading
5 6 (2.67%) Tradeweb
6 5 (2.22%) jBASE
6 5 (2.22%) Sophis
6 5 (2.22%) Temenos
7 4 (1.78%) Calypso
7 4 (1.78%) Charles River
8 3 (1.33%) Databricks
8 3 (1.33%) IBM
8 3 (1.33%) Lotus
8 3 (1.33%) NVIDIA
8 3 (1.33%) NYFIX
8 3 (1.33%) Refinitiv
9 2 (0.89%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.89%) MarketAxess
9 2 (0.89%) Splunk