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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 200 204
Rank change year-on-year -110 +4 +15
Contract jobs citing Derivative 247 379 471
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.82% 1.24% 1.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.25% 3.91% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 299 431
10th Percentile £520 £610 £550
25th Percentile £612 £656 £623
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £869 £888 £838
90th Percentile £1,000 - £950
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £700
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 £76.25 -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £77.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% - -
75th Percentile £88.75 £78.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £87.50 £77.50 -
% change year-on-year +12.90% - -

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 10,976 9,685 12,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.44% 31.56% 32.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,878 5,782 8,753
10th Percentile £285 £300 £275
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £511 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -3.63% -3.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 588 302 463
10th Percentile £13.50 £17.08 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.24 £24.18 £21.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £46.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.45% +2.62% +52.54%
75th Percentile £52.66 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.16 £77.90
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.33% -15.73% +50.29%

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 18 November 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 18 November 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 -57 239 £750 -6.25% 138
North of England -33 6 £569 -9.04% 1
Yorkshire - 4 £525 -
Midlands - 3 £525 -
North West -21 2 £612 -2.08% 1
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 34 (13.77%) Apache
1 34 (13.77%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (4.45%) Confluence
3 7 (2.83%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.62%) HCL Notes
4 4 (1.62%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.81%) IIS
6 1 (0.40%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
Applications
1 18 (7.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (3.64%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.02%) thinkFolio
3 4 (1.62%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.81%) Algo Collateral
4 2 (0.81%) Kondor
5 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.40%) Endur
5 1 (0.40%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.40%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.40%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 65 (26.32%) AWS
2 37 (14.98%) Snowflake
3 34 (13.77%) dbt
4 31 (12.55%) Azure
5 16 (6.48%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.02%) Serverless
8 4 (1.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (1.62%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (1.62%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (1.62%) GCP
8 4 (1.62%) npm
8 4 (1.62%) Power Automate
8 4 (1.62%) PowerApps
8 4 (1.62%) Yarn
9 2 (0.81%) SaaS
10 1 (0.40%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.40%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.40%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (0.40%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.43%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.62%) Multicast
3 2 (0.81%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (13.77%) Amazon Athena
1 34 (13.77%) Apache Arrow
1 34 (13.77%) Apache Iceberg
1 34 (13.77%) Apache Ignite
1 34 (13.77%) Data Lake
1 34 (13.77%) Dremio
2 24 (9.72%) SQL Server
3 20 (8.10%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (6.48%) Power BI
5 11 (4.45%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.43%) Redis
7 5 (2.02%) Tableau
8 4 (1.62%) Big Data
8 4 (1.62%) KDB
8 4 (1.62%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.21%) Power Query
10 2 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.81%) Metadata
11 1 (0.40%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 13 (5.26%) JIRA
2 9 (3.64%) Git
3 7 (2.83%) Octopus Deploy
4 5 (2.02%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.62%) GitLab
5 4 (1.62%) webpack
6 3 (1.21%) IntelliJ
6 3 (1.21%) Maven
6 3 (1.21%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.81%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.81%) Gradle
8 1 (0.40%) Crucible
8 1 (0.40%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.40%) Hudson
8 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
General
1 197 (79.76%) Finance
2 150 (60.73%) Banking
3 122 (49.39%) Front Office
4 118 (47.77%) Investment Banking
5 69 (27.94%) Social Skills
6 33 (13.36%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (8.50%) Financial Institution
8 9 (3.64%) Back Office
9 5 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.21%) Law
11 3 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.81%) Legal
13 1 (0.40%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.40%) Prime Brokerage
13 1 (0.40%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 94 (38.06%) Developer
2 79 (31.98%) Senior
3 55 (22.27%) Analyst
4 36 (14.57%) Java Engineer
4 36 (14.57%) Software Engineer
5 35 (14.17%) Java Software Engineer
6 34 (13.77%) AWS Engineer
6 34 (13.77%) AWS Software Engineer
6 34 (13.77%) Python Engineer
6 34 (13.77%) Python Software Engineer
7 33 (13.36%) Senior Developer
7 33 (13.36%) Senior Java Engineer
7 33 (13.36%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 33 (13.36%) Senior Software Engineer
8 32 (12.96%) Business Analyst
9 31 (12.55%) Java Developer
10 20 (8.10%) Senior Java Developer
11 19 (7.69%) Analytics Developer
11 19 (7.69%) AWS Developer
11 19 (7.69%) PostgreSQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (14.17%) Protocol Buffers
2 34 (13.77%) gRPC
2 34 (13.77%) NumPy
2 34 (13.77%) Pandas
2 34 (13.77%) SciPy
3 23 (9.31%) Kafka
4 19 (7.69%) FIX Protocol
5 15 (6.07%) .NET
6 10 (4.05%) React
7 9 (3.64%) REST
8 8 (3.24%) Middleware
8 8 (3.24%) Spring
9 7 (2.83%) CSS
9 7 (2.83%) Dask
10 6 (2.43%) RESTful
11 5 (2.02%) FpML
11 5 (2.02%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (2.02%) XML
12 4 (1.62%) .NET Framework
12 4 (1.62%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 89 (36.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 85 (34.41%) Fixed Income
3 80 (32.39%) Equities
4 43 (17.41%) Hedge funds
5 34 (13.77%) Pricing Data
6 28 (11.34%) Equity Derivative
7 25 (10.12%) Market Risk
8 19 (7.69%) Management Information System
9 17 (6.88%) Algorithms
10 15 (6.07%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (6.07%) Product Ownership
11 12 (4.86%) Cloud Native
12 10 (4.05%) Credit Derivative
12 10 (4.05%) Credit Risk
12 10 (4.05%) Interest Rate Derivative
12 10 (4.05%) Onboarding
13 9 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (3.64%) Data Structures
13 9 (3.64%) Distributed Computing
14 6 (2.43%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.07%) Linux
2 7 (2.83%) Unix
2 7 (2.83%) Windows
3 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (40.49%) Agile
2 53 (21.46%) Risk Management
3 47 (19.03%) Software Engineering
4 46 (18.62%) Analytics
4 46 (18.62%) Mathematics
5 39 (15.79%) Asset Management
6 35 (14.17%) Investment Management
7 34 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (11.34%) CI/CD
8 28 (11.34%) Computer Science
9 25 (10.12%) Physics
9 25 (10.12%) TDD
10 23 (9.31%) Scrum
11 22 (8.91%) Data Pipeline
11 22 (8.91%) Design Patterns
11 22 (8.91%) Stakeholder Management
12 21 (8.50%) DevOps
13 16 (6.48%) Low Latency
13 16 (6.48%) Microservices
13 16 (6.48%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 114 (46.15%) Python
2 83 (33.60%) Java
3 74 (29.96%) SQL
4 42 (17.00%) JavaScript
5 41 (16.60%) TypeScript
6 37 (14.98%) C#
7 36 (14.57%) C++
8 6 (2.43%) VBA
9 4 (1.62%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.40%) Bash
10 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.40%) Rust
10 1 (0.40%) Scala
10 1 (0.40%) VC++
Qualifications
1 47 (19.03%) Degree
2 23 (9.31%) Master's Degree
3 14 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (5.26%) PhD
5 8 (3.24%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (1.21%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.21%) PMP
7 2 (0.81%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.40%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.26%) MiFID
2 12 (4.86%) QA
3 10 (4.05%) EMIR
4 8 (3.24%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.02%) Basel III
6 4 (1.62%) GDPR
6 4 (1.62%) SLA
7 3 (1.21%) PMO
8 2 (0.81%) IFRS
9 1 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.40%) FINRA
9 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.40%) IAS 32
9 1 (0.40%) IAS 39
9 1 (0.40%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.40%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.40%) SEPA
9 1 (0.40%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (1.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.21%) Ansible
1 3 (1.21%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.21%) Thomson Reuters DACS
2 1 (0.40%) Grafana
2 1 (0.40%) Terraform
2 1 (0.40%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (6.48%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.26%) Murex
3 12 (4.86%) Bloomberg
4 8 (3.24%) Calypso
5 7 (2.83%) Oracle
5 7 (2.83%) Sophis
6 6 (2.43%) Databricks
6 6 (2.43%) ION Trading
7 4 (1.62%) Charles River
7 4 (1.62%) Lotus
7 4 (1.62%) Portware
7 4 (1.62%) Tradeweb
8 3 (1.21%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.21%) NYFIX
8 3 (1.21%) Refinitiv
8 3 (1.21%) Reuters
9 2 (0.81%) IBM
9 2 (0.81%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.81%) SmartStream
9 2 (0.81%) Sybase