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 9 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 179 186
Rank change year-on-year -181 +7 +23
Contract jobs citing Derivative 233 380 469
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 1.56% 1.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.77% 4.58% 4.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 335 421
10th Percentile £484 £538 £551
25th Percentile £625 £663 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £733 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% - -
75th Percentile £850 £888 £850
90th Percentile £988 £938 £888
UK median daily rate £733 £725 £750
% change year-on-year +1.03% -3.33% +2.56%

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 13,174 8,301 11,321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.33% 34.16% 30.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,351 5,433 7,416
10th Percentile £308 £300 £268
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -3.93%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.17% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 662 327 821
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.72 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.23 £15.17
Median hourly rate £47.00 £35.00 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year +34.29% +8.98% +42.83%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.88 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.70 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year +38.46% +4.84% +37.87%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -106 225 £733 -2.33% 61
East of England - 3 £681 -
Yorkshire -52 1 - - 1
North of England -67 1 - - 2
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 5 (2.15%) Confluence
2 3 (1.29%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (5.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.43%) Aladdin
2 7 (3.00%) Summit
3 5 (2.15%) Loan IQ
3 5 (2.15%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.86%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.86%) Front Arena
4 2 (0.86%) Global One
4 2 (0.86%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.86%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.43%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.43%) Algo Collateral
5 1 (0.43%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.43%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 48 (20.60%) AWS
2 37 (15.88%) Azure
3 25 (10.73%) GCP
4 8 (3.43%) Power Platform
5 4 (1.72%) Amazon S3
5 4 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (1.72%) Serverless
6 3 (1.29%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (1.29%) npm
6 3 (1.29%) SaaS
6 3 (1.29%) Snowflake
6 3 (1.29%) Yarn
7 2 (0.86%) Collibra
8 1 (0.43%) IaaS
8 1 (0.43%) OCI
8 1 (0.43%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.43%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (8.15%) FIX Connectivity
2 5 (2.15%) HTTP
3 1 (0.43%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (12.02%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (4.72%) Redis
2 11 (4.72%) Relational Database
3 9 (3.86%) Metadata
3 9 (3.86%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.86%) Tableau
4 8 (3.43%) Power BI
5 7 (3.00%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.72%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.29%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.29%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.86%) Big Data
8 2 (0.86%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (0.86%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.86%) Power Query
8 2 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.43%) Data Mart
9 1 (0.43%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (6.87%) Git
2 12 (5.15%) JIRA
3 8 (3.43%) Octopus Deploy
4 7 (3.00%) TeamCity
5 6 (2.58%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.29%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.29%) ER Studio
6 3 (1.29%) ERwin
6 3 (1.29%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (1.29%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.29%) webpack
7 2 (0.86%) Gradle
7 2 (0.86%) Maven
8 1 (0.43%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.43%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.43%) NUnit
8 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
General
1 151 (64.81%) Finance
2 115 (49.36%) Banking
3 108 (46.35%) Front Office
4 83 (35.62%) Investment Banking
5 57 (24.46%) Social Skills
6 34 (14.59%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (6.87%) Financial Institution
8 11 (4.72%) Back Office
9 6 (2.58%) Legal
10 4 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.29%) Spanish Language
11 3 (1.29%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.86%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.43%) Japanese Language
13 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.43%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 117 (50.21%) Developer
2 54 (23.18%) Analyst
3 45 (19.31%) Business Analyst
4 38 (16.31%) Java Developer
5 36 (15.45%) Senior
6 29 (12.45%) Python Developer
7 25 (10.73%) Lead
8 24 (10.30%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 22 (9.44%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
9 22 (9.44%) Senior Developer
10 20 (8.58%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
10 20 (8.58%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
11 19 (8.15%) Low Latency Java Developer
12 17 (7.30%) Software Engineer
13 16 (6.87%) Lead Developer
14 14 (6.01%) C# Developer
14 14 (6.01%) Senior Java Developer
15 13 (5.58%) Lead Software Engineer
16 12 (5.15%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 12 (5.15%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (15.45%) React
2 30 (12.88%) FIX Protocol
3 19 (8.15%) Redux
4 16 (6.87%) Node.js
5 14 (6.01%) Kafka
6 13 (5.58%) WebSockets
7 11 (4.72%) .NET
8 8 (3.43%) HTML
9 7 (3.00%) RESTful
9 7 (3.00%) XML
10 6 (2.58%) AngularJS
10 6 (2.58%) HTML5
10 6 (2.58%) NumPy
10 6 (2.58%) Pandas
11 5 (2.15%) CSS
11 5 (2.15%) REST
12 4 (1.72%) SciPy
13 3 (1.29%) Dask
13 3 (1.29%) RxJava
13 3 (1.29%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 87 (37.34%) Equities
2 53 (22.75%) Fixed Income
3 38 (16.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 32 (13.73%) Equity Derivative
5 24 (10.30%) Market Risk
6 21 (9.01%) TWAP
6 21 (9.01%) VWAP
7 19 (8.15%) Credit Risk
8 17 (7.30%) Algorithms
8 17 (7.30%) Distributed Systems
9 15 (6.44%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (6.01%) Management Information System
11 10 (4.29%) Data Structures
11 10 (4.29%) OTC Derivatives
12 9 (3.86%) Hedge funds
13 8 (3.43%) Product Ownership
14 7 (3.00%) Reference Data
15 5 (2.15%) Cloud Native
15 5 (2.15%) Credit Derivative
15 5 (2.15%) Exotic Derivative
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.44%) Unix
2 8 (3.43%) Linux
3 3 (1.29%) Debian
3 3 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.29%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.29%) VMS
4 1 (0.43%) Windows
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (26.18%) Agile
2 47 (20.17%) Risk Management
3 43 (18.45%) Electronic Trading
4 42 (18.03%) Low Latency
5 35 (15.02%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (13.73%) Multithreading
6 32 (13.73%) TDD
7 29 (12.45%) Analytics
7 29 (12.45%) Asset Management
8 26 (11.16%) Algorithmic Trading
8 26 (11.16%) DevOps
8 26 (11.16%) Software Engineering
9 25 (10.73%) Design Patterns
9 25 (10.73%) User Acceptance Testing
10 24 (10.30%) CI/CD
10 24 (10.30%) Mentoring
11 23 (9.87%) Quantitative Trading
12 22 (9.44%) Mathematics
12 22 (9.44%) Portfolio Management
13 21 (9.01%) Smart Order Routing
Programming Languages
1 99 (42.49%) Python
2 75 (32.19%) SQL
3 61 (26.18%) Java
4 35 (15.02%) C#
5 33 (14.16%) TypeScript
6 27 (11.59%) C++
7 25 (10.73%) JavaScript
8 8 (3.43%) Rust
9 5 (2.15%) Scala
10 4 (1.72%) Perl
10 4 (1.72%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.72%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.72%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.86%) R
11 2 (0.86%) VBA
12 1 (0.43%) F#
12 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (12.88%) Degree
2 13 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.86%) Numerate Degree
4 7 (3.00%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.72%) PhD
6 2 (0.86%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.86%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.86%) PMP
7 1 (0.43%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.44%) QA
2 12 (5.15%) EMIR
3 8 (3.43%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.43%) MiFID
4 7 (3.00%) IFRS
5 4 (1.72%) IFRS 9
6 3 (1.29%) Basel III
6 3 (1.29%) IAS 32
6 3 (1.29%) IAS 39
6 3 (1.29%) SLA
7 2 (0.86%) GAAP
8 1 (0.43%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.43%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (4.72%) Docker
2 3 (1.29%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 6 (2.58%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.15%) Ansible
3 4 (1.72%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (1.29%) Control-M
4 3 (1.29%) Grafana
4 3 (1.29%) Podman
4 3 (1.29%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (9.01%) Murex
2 18 (7.73%) Oracle
3 15 (6.44%) Bloomberg
4 6 (2.58%) Calypso
4 6 (2.58%) Charles River
5 5 (2.15%) jBASE
5 5 (2.15%) Temenos
6 4 (1.72%) Google
7 3 (1.29%) Apple
7 3 (1.29%) NVIDIA
8 2 (0.86%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.86%) Databricks
8 2 (0.86%) IBM
8 2 (0.86%) ION Trading
8 2 (0.86%) MarketAxess
8 2 (0.86%) Microsoft
8 2 (0.86%) Reuters
8 2 (0.86%) Splunk
8 2 (0.86%) Tradeweb
9 1 (0.43%) SimCorp