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 2 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 172 205
Rank change year-on-year -183 +33 +21
Contract jobs citing Derivative 231 368 424
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 1.52% 1.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.82% 4.46% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 308 377
10th Percentile £503 £550 £550
25th Percentile £613 £638 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £745 £750 £725
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £919 £888 £850
90th Percentile £1,000 £938 £888
UK median daily rate £745 £725 £725
% change year-on-year +2.76% - -3.33%
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 12,700 8,252 11,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.20% 34.03% 30.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,075 5,415 7,567
10th Percentile £300 £300 £263
25th Percentile £412 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £672
90th Percentile £740 £784 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £537
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.23% -2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 631 312 799
10th Percentile £15.79 £16.68 £12.46
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.44 £15.17
Median hourly rate £45.00 £34.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% +25.45% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.13 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.50 £84.90 £66.80
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.46% +18.18% +22.30%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -101 222 £750 - 44
North of England -70 3 £525 -10.64% 1
East of England - 3 £681 -
Yorkshire - 3 £525 -
Midlands -62 2 £525 -36.36%
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 9 (3.90%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.16%) Confluence
3 2 (0.87%) Apache
3 2 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (6.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.60%) Aladdin
1 6 (2.60%) Summit
2 5 (2.16%) Loan IQ
2 5 (2.16%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.87%) Algo Collateral
3 2 (0.87%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 2 (0.87%) Front Arena
3 2 (0.87%) Global One
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.43%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.43%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 49 (21.21%) AWS
2 33 (14.29%) Azure
3 23 (9.96%) GCP
4 7 (3.03%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.16%) Snowflake
6 4 (1.73%) Amazon S3
6 4 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.73%) Serverless
7 3 (1.30%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (1.30%) npm
7 3 (1.30%) SaaS
7 3 (1.30%) Yarn
8 2 (0.87%) Collibra
8 2 (0.87%) dbt
8 2 (0.87%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.43%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (0.43%) IaaS
9 1 (0.43%) OCI
9 1 (0.43%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.93%) FIX Connectivity
2 4 (1.73%) Multicast
3 1 (0.43%) HTTP
3 1 (0.43%) RTMP
3 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (12.99%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (4.33%) Redis
3 9 (3.90%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.46%) Tableau
5 7 (3.03%) Power BI
5 7 (3.03%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.60%) Metadata
7 5 (2.16%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.73%) Big Data
8 4 (1.73%) KDB
8 4 (1.73%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.30%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.87%) Apache Ignite
10 2 (0.87%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.87%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.87%) Dremio
10 2 (0.87%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.87%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (7.79%) Git
2 9 (3.90%) JIRA
3 8 (3.46%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.46%) Octopus Deploy
4 5 (2.16%) TeamCity
4 5 (2.16%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.30%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.30%) Maven
5 3 (1.30%) webpack
6 2 (0.87%) Gradle
6 2 (0.87%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.43%) Crucible
7 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.43%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.43%) GitLab
7 1 (0.43%) NUnit
7 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
General
1 158 (68.40%) Finance
2 109 (47.19%) Banking
3 104 (45.02%) Front Office
4 79 (34.20%) Investment Banking
5 63 (27.27%) Social Skills
6 37 (16.02%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (8.66%) Financial Institution
8 10 (4.33%) Back Office
9 4 (1.73%) Legal
9 4 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.30%) Spanish Language
10 3 (1.30%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.87%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.43%) Japanese Language
12 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 116 (50.22%) Developer
2 46 (19.91%) Analyst
3 42 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 42 (18.18%) Senior
4 37 (16.02%) Business Analyst
5 26 (11.26%) Senior Developer
6 25 (10.82%) Python Developer
7 24 (10.39%) Lead
8 20 (8.66%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 19 (8.23%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
10 17 (7.36%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
10 17 (7.36%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
11 16 (6.93%) Lead Developer
11 16 (6.93%) Low Latency Java Developer
11 16 (6.93%) Senior Java Developer
12 15 (6.49%) Software Engineer
13 13 (5.63%) Analytics Developer
13 13 (5.63%) AWS Developer
13 13 (5.63%) C# Developer
13 13 (5.63%) PostgreSQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (13.85%) React
2 26 (11.26%) FIX Protocol
3 20 (8.66%) Redux
4 19 (8.23%) Kafka
5 16 (6.93%) Node.js
6 12 (5.19%) RESTful
7 10 (4.33%) .NET
8 9 (3.90%) Dask
9 8 (3.46%) HTML
9 8 (3.46%) NumPy
9 8 (3.46%) Pandas
9 8 (3.46%) Spring
9 8 (3.46%) WebSockets
10 7 (3.03%) REST
10 7 (3.03%) XML
11 6 (2.60%) HTML5
11 6 (2.60%) SciPy
12 5 (2.16%) CSS
13 4 (1.73%) AngularJS
13 4 (1.73%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 89 (38.53%) Equities
2 58 (25.11%) Fixed Income
3 37 (16.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 34 (14.72%) Equity Derivative
5 25 (10.82%) Market Risk
6 19 (8.23%) Algorithms
7 18 (7.79%) TWAP
7 18 (7.79%) VWAP
8 15 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
9 14 (6.06%) Credit Risk
9 14 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (6.06%) Management Information System
10 13 (5.63%) Hedge funds
11 9 (3.90%) Cloud Native
12 8 (3.46%) Data Structures
12 8 (3.46%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (3.46%) OTC Derivatives
12 8 (3.46%) Product Ownership
13 7 (3.03%) Onboarding
14 6 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.19%) Unix
2 8 (3.46%) Linux
3 3 (1.30%) Debian
3 3 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.30%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.30%) VMS
4 1 (0.43%) Windows
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (28.57%) Agile
2 60 (25.97%) Risk Management
3 39 (16.88%) Low Latency
4 38 (16.45%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (15.58%) Electronic Trading
6 34 (14.72%) TDD
7 32 (13.85%) Mathematics
8 30 (12.99%) Analytics
9 29 (12.55%) CI/CD
10 28 (12.12%) Asset Management
10 28 (12.12%) Multithreading
10 28 (12.12%) Software Engineering
11 27 (11.69%) Design Patterns
11 27 (11.69%) DevOps
12 26 (11.26%) Mentoring
13 23 (9.96%) Computer Science
14 22 (9.52%) Algorithmic Trading
14 22 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
15 21 (9.09%) Quantitative Finance
15 21 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 103 (44.59%) Python
2 74 (32.03%) SQL
3 61 (26.41%) Java
4 30 (12.99%) C++
5 29 (12.55%) TypeScript
6 28 (12.12%) C#
7 26 (11.26%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.73%) Perl
8 4 (1.73%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.73%) Rust
8 4 (1.73%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.30%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.30%) Scala
10 2 (0.87%) VBA
11 1 (0.43%) F#
11 1 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 41 (17.75%) Degree
2 15 (6.49%) Master's Degree
3 13 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (5.63%) Numerate Degree
4 10 (4.33%) PhD
5 3 (1.30%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.30%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.30%) PMP
6 1 (0.43%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.49%) QA
2 11 (4.76%) EMIR
3 7 (3.03%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.03%) IFRS
3 7 (3.03%) MiFID
4 4 (1.73%) IFRS 9
4 4 (1.73%) SLA
5 3 (1.30%) Basel III
5 3 (1.30%) IAS 32
5 3 (1.30%) IAS 39
6 2 (0.87%) GAAP
7 1 (0.43%) FINRA
7 1 (0.43%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.43%) PMO
7 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (3.90%) Docker
2 3 (1.30%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 7 (3.03%) Ansible
1 7 (3.03%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.73%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (1.30%) Control-M
3 3 (1.30%) Grafana
3 3 (1.30%) Podman
3 3 (1.30%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.30%) Terraform
3 3 (1.30%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 20 (8.66%) Bloomberg
1 20 (8.66%) Murex
2 15 (6.49%) Oracle
3 6 (2.60%) ION Trading
4 5 (2.16%) Calypso
4 5 (2.16%) jBASE
4 5 (2.16%) Temenos
4 5 (2.16%) Tradeweb
5 4 (1.73%) Charles River
6 3 (1.30%) Apple
6 3 (1.30%) Google
6 3 (1.30%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.30%) NVIDIA
6 3 (1.30%) NYFIX
6 3 (1.30%) Refinitiv
7 2 (0.87%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.87%) IBM
7 2 (0.87%) MarketAxess
7 2 (0.87%) SmartStream
7 2 (0.87%) Splunk