Derivative Contracts 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 176 180
Rank change year-on-year -45 +4 +64
Contract jobs citing Derivative 318 509 680
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.20% 1.37% 1.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.45% 4.46% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 450 584
10th Percentile £538 £588 £525
25th Percentile £663 £663 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £725
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% +7.41%
75th Percentile £875 £888 £863
90th Percentile £950 - £1,000
UK median daily rate £725 £800 £725
% change year-on-year -9.38% +10.34% +7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £87.50 - £47.73
% change year-on-year - - +47.31%

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 9,213 11,418 15,977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.69% 30.68% 33.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,873 7,342 11,153
10th Percentile £305 £282 £313
25th Percentile £408 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 445 823 513
10th Percentile £15.49 £12.24 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.39 £12.25
Median hourly rate £32.77 £37.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +44.23% -1.46%
75th Percentile £59.00 £63.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £30.25 £36.02 £25.50
% change year-on-year -16.02% +41.26% -5.49%

Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Derivative as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Derivative in England

Derivative
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Derivative in England.

Daily rate trend for Derivative in England

Derivative
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Derivative in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Derivative in England

Derivative
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Derivative in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 6 July 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 -34 304 £750 -6.25% 313
North of England +6 9 £603 -5.41% 2
North West +9 7 £603 -5.41% 2
East Midlands - 2 £600 -
Midlands - 2 £600 -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
Derivative
UK

Derivative
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 51 (16.04%) Apache
1 51 (16.04%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.14%) Confluence
3 2 (0.63%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.31%) IIS
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 20 (6.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.31%) Fusion 360
3 1 (0.31%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 43 (13.52%) Aladdin
2 21 (6.60%) thinkFolio
3 7 (2.20%) Kondor
4 3 (0.94%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.63%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.31%) Actimize
6 1 (0.31%) Endur
6 1 (0.31%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.31%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.31%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.31%) Summit
6 1 (0.31%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 78 (24.53%) AWS
2 51 (16.04%) dbt
2 51 (16.04%) Snowflake
3 34 (10.69%) Azure
4 11 (3.46%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (3.46%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (3.46%) GCP
5 10 (3.14%) npm
5 10 (3.14%) Yarn
6 9 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.20%) Amazon S3
8 6 (1.89%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 6 (1.89%) CloudFront
8 6 (1.89%) Power Platform
8 6 (1.89%) Route 53
9 5 (1.57%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (1.57%) Dagster
10 4 (1.26%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.94%) Kong
12 2 (0.63%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.89%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.57%) FIX Connectivity
3 2 (0.63%) BGP
3 2 (0.63%) Firewall
3 2 (0.63%) HSRP
3 2 (0.63%) IGMP
3 2 (0.63%) Multicast
3 2 (0.63%) OSPF
3 2 (0.63%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (20.44%) Data Lake
2 51 (16.04%) Amazon Athena
2 51 (16.04%) Apache Arrow
2 51 (16.04%) Apache Iceberg
2 51 (16.04%) Dremio
3 35 (11.01%) Apache Ignite
4 32 (10.06%) SQL Server
5 16 (5.03%) NoSQL
5 16 (5.03%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (3.77%) Redis
7 7 (2.20%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (1.89%) DocumentDB
8 6 (1.89%) Power BI
9 5 (1.57%) Data Mart
10 4 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.26%) Tableau
11 3 (0.94%) Hazelcast
11 3 (0.94%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.94%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 13 (4.09%) JIRA
2 12 (3.77%) Git
3 10 (3.14%) webpack
4 7 (2.20%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (1.26%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.63%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.31%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.31%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.31%) ERwin
7 1 (0.31%) Gradle
7 1 (0.31%) Hudson
General
1 263 (82.70%) Finance
2 192 (60.38%) Front Office
3 159 (50.00%) Banking
4 125 (39.31%) Investment Banking
5 48 (15.09%) Social Skills
6 33 (10.38%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (3.14%) Back Office
7 10 (3.14%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.89%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.63%) Law
11 2 (0.63%) Legal
11 2 (0.63%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.31%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.31%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.31%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 119 (37.42%) Developer
2 83 (26.10%) Analyst
3 79 (24.84%) Business Analyst
4 70 (22.01%) Senior
5 52 (16.35%) Software Engineer
6 51 (16.04%) AWS Engineer
6 51 (16.04%) AWS Software Engineer
7 43 (13.52%) Java Engineer
7 43 (13.52%) Java Software Engineer
8 42 (13.21%) Business Manager
9 41 (12.89%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
10 38 (11.95%) Python Engineer
10 38 (11.95%) Python Software Engineer
11 33 (10.38%) Senior Java Engineer
11 33 (10.38%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 33 (10.38%) Senior Software Engineer
12 32 (10.06%) Java Developer
13 29 (9.12%) Senior Developer
14 26 (8.18%) AWS Developer
14 26 (8.18%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (11.64%) NumPy
1 37 (11.64%) Pandas
2 36 (11.32%) Protocol Buffers
2 36 (11.32%) SciPy
3 35 (11.01%) gRPC
4 22 (6.92%) PySpark
5 14 (4.40%) Kafka
5 14 (4.40%) React
6 12 (3.77%) .NET
6 12 (3.77%) FIX Protocol
7 11 (3.46%) REST
8 10 (3.14%) CSS
9 7 (2.20%) Middleware
9 7 (2.20%) SOAP
10 6 (1.89%) GraphQL
10 6 (1.89%) RESTful
10 6 (1.89%) XML
11 5 (1.57%) FpML
12 4 (1.26%) Spring
12 4 (1.26%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 153 (48.11%) Fixed Income
2 136 (42.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 122 (38.36%) Hedge funds
4 113 (35.53%) Equities
5 30 (9.43%) Pricing Data
6 27 (8.49%) Equity Derivative
7 26 (8.18%) Onboarding
8 25 (7.86%) Market Risk
9 21 (6.60%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (3.77%) Interest Rate Derivative
10 12 (3.77%) Product Ownership
11 11 (3.46%) Management Information System
12 8 (2.52%) Credit Derivative
13 7 (2.20%) Algorithms
13 7 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (2.20%) Data Structures
13 7 (2.20%) OTC Derivatives
13 7 (2.20%) Reference Data
14 6 (1.89%) Credit Risk
15 4 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.03%) Linux
2 12 (3.77%) Unix
3 2 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.31%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (59.12%) Agile
2 103 (32.39%) Asset Management
3 100 (31.45%) Investment Management
4 63 (19.81%) Software Engineering
5 59 (18.55%) Business Analysis
5 59 (18.55%) Risk Management
6 52 (16.35%) Analytics
7 46 (14.47%) Mathematics
8 44 (13.84%) Business Intelligence
8 44 (13.84%) Data Management
8 44 (13.84%) Portfolio Management
9 39 (12.26%) Migration
10 34 (10.69%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (10.06%) Roadmaps
11 32 (10.06%) User Acceptance Testing
12 31 (9.75%) Regulatory Compliance
13 30 (9.43%) Data Governance
14 28 (8.81%) Electronic Trading
15 27 (8.49%) CI/CD
16 25 (7.86%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 156 (49.06%) Python
2 127 (39.94%) SQL
3 98 (30.82%) Java
4 49 (15.41%) TypeScript
5 46 (14.47%) JavaScript
6 45 (14.15%) C#
7 31 (9.75%) C++
8 8 (2.52%) Haskell
9 5 (1.57%) Scala
10 4 (1.26%) OCaml
11 3 (0.94%) Rust
12 2 (0.63%) RPG
13 1 (0.31%) C
13 1 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.31%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.31%) Ruby
13 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 42 (13.21%) Degree
2 17 (5.35%) Numerate Degree
3 13 (4.09%) Master's Degree
4 8 (2.52%) PhD
5 6 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.63%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.63%) PMP
7 1 (0.31%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.31%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.49%) MiFID
2 10 (3.14%) Basel III
3 9 (2.83%) QA
4 6 (1.89%) EMIR
5 5 (1.57%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.26%) GDPR
7 3 (0.94%) COREP
7 3 (0.94%) Dodd-Frank
7 3 (0.94%) PMO
8 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.31%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.31%) SEPA
8 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (1.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.63%) Control-M
1 2 (0.63%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.63%) ZABBIX
2 1 (0.31%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (12.26%) BISAM
2 22 (6.92%) Charles River
3 21 (6.60%) Calypso
4 19 (5.97%) SimCorp
5 14 (4.40%) Murex
6 11 (3.46%) Oracle
7 10 (3.14%) Atlassian
8 9 (2.83%) Sybase
9 7 (2.20%) Microsoft
10 6 (1.89%) Bloomberg
11 4 (1.26%) ION Trading
12 3 (0.94%) Cisco
12 3 (0.94%) Solace
13 2 (0.63%) Arista
13 2 (0.63%) Databricks
13 2 (0.63%) Google
13 2 (0.63%) IBM
13 2 (0.63%) Red Hat
13 2 (0.63%) Reuters
13 2 (0.63%) ServiceNow