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 20 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 217 184
Rank change year-on-year -144 -33 -8
Contract jobs citing Derivative 247 324 491
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 1.30% 1.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.75% 3.75% 4.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 288 435
10th Percentile £461 £538 £588
25th Percentile £622 £663 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £850 £875 £875
90th Percentile £919 £938 £888
UK median daily rate £725 £725 £800
% change year-on-year - -9.38% +10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £87.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% - -
75th Percentile £58.75 £88.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £87.50 -
% change year-on-year -34.29% - -

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 14,118 8,638 11,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.68% 34.69% 30.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,812 5,547 7,340
10th Percentile £313 £304 £275
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 775 391 860
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.23
25th Percentile £21.15 £20.45 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.89 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.73% -7.16% +62.31%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.15 £82.50 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.71 £32.81 £35.50
% change year-on-year +30.16% -7.58% +57.88%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -93 237 £725 -3.33% 41
Yorkshire -57 4 £725 - 1
North of England -81 4 £725 +20.23% 4
East of England - 3 £681 -
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 4 (1.62%) Confluence
2 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (2.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.81%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (3.64%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.43%) Summit
3 5 (2.02%) Loan IQ
3 5 (2.02%) Temenos T24
4 3 (1.21%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.81%) Front Arena
5 2 (0.81%) Global One
5 2 (0.81%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.81%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.40%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 44 (17.81%) AWS
2 38 (15.38%) Azure
3 28 (11.34%) GCP
4 7 (2.83%) Power Platform
5 4 (1.62%) SaaS
6 3 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.21%) Snowflake
7 2 (0.81%) Collibra
7 2 (0.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.40%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.40%) IaaS
8 1 (0.40%) npm
8 1 (0.40%) OCI
8 1 (0.40%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.40%) PaaS
8 1 (0.40%) Serverless
8 1 (0.40%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.69%) FIX Connectivity
2 8 (3.24%) HTTP
3 1 (0.40%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (11.74%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (7.29%) SQL Server
3 15 (6.07%) Redis
4 14 (5.67%) Relational Database
5 10 (4.05%) MongoDB
6 9 (3.64%) Metadata
7 8 (3.24%) RDBMS
7 8 (3.24%) Tableau
8 7 (2.83%) Power BI
9 6 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.62%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.62%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.81%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (0.81%) Power Query
11 2 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.40%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.40%) KDB
12 1 (0.40%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 15 (6.07%) JIRA
2 14 (5.67%) Git
3 11 (4.45%) Octopus Deploy
4 8 (3.24%) TeamCity
5 4 (1.62%) ER Studio
5 4 (1.62%) ERwin
5 4 (1.62%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (1.21%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.81%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.81%) VTune
8 1 (0.40%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.40%) GitLab
8 1 (0.40%) GoogleTest
8 1 (0.40%) Gradle
8 1 (0.40%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.40%) Maven
8 1 (0.40%) NUnit
8 1 (0.40%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 153 (61.94%) Finance
2 127 (51.42%) Banking
3 123 (49.80%) Front Office
4 101 (40.89%) Investment Banking
5 56 (22.67%) Social Skills
6 30 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.64%) Financial Institution
7 9 (3.64%) Legal
8 8 (3.24%) Back Office
9 4 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.62%) Private Banking
10 3 (1.21%) General Ledger
10 3 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.21%) Spanish Language
10 3 (1.21%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.81%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.40%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 134 (54.25%) Developer
2 58 (23.48%) Analyst
3 54 (21.86%) Business Analyst
4 42 (17.00%) Senior
5 35 (14.17%) Java Developer
6 32 (12.96%) C# Developer
6 32 (12.96%) Python Developer
7 26 (10.53%) Front Office Developer
8 25 (10.12%) Lead
9 21 (8.50%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 21 (8.50%) Software Engineer
10 20 (8.10%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
10 20 (8.10%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
11 19 (7.69%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
11 19 (7.69%) Low Latency Java Developer
12 18 (7.29%) Lead Developer
13 17 (6.88%) Senior Developer
14 14 (5.67%) Lead Software Engineer
15 13 (5.26%) Derivatives Business Analyst
15 13 (5.26%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (16.60%) React
2 35 (14.17%) FIX Protocol
3 17 (6.88%) .NET
3 17 (6.88%) Redux
4 16 (6.48%) Node.js
4 16 (6.48%) WebSockets
5 14 (5.67%) Kafka
6 9 (3.64%) NumPy
7 8 (3.24%) REST
7 8 (3.24%) RESTful
7 8 (3.24%) XML
8 7 (2.83%) AngularJS
8 7 (2.83%) RxJava
8 7 (2.83%) Spring
9 6 (2.43%) Django
9 6 (2.43%) FastAPI
9 6 (2.43%) Middleware
9 6 (2.43%) Pandas
10 5 (2.02%) HTML
10 5 (2.02%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 79 (31.98%) Equities
2 57 (23.08%) Fixed Income
3 51 (20.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 30 (12.15%) Equity Derivative
5 23 (9.31%) Market Risk
6 20 (8.10%) TWAP
6 20 (8.10%) VWAP
7 19 (7.69%) Credit Risk
8 18 (7.29%) Distributed Systems
9 16 (6.48%) Data Structures
10 15 (6.07%) Algorithms
11 14 (5.67%) Management Information System
12 13 (5.26%) OTC Derivatives
13 12 (4.86%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (4.86%) Hedge funds
14 10 (4.05%) Exotic Derivative
15 8 (3.24%) Reference Data
16 7 (2.83%) Credit Derivative
17 5 (2.02%) Cloud Native
17 5 (2.02%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.48%) Unix
2 9 (3.64%) Linux
3 3 (1.21%) Debian
3 3 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.21%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.21%) VMS
4 2 (0.81%) Windows
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (26.32%) Agile
2 48 (19.43%) Low Latency
3 43 (17.41%) Electronic Trading
3 43 (17.41%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (16.60%) Multithreading
5 34 (13.77%) Risk Management
5 34 (13.77%) Software Engineering
6 32 (12.96%) Asset Management
7 29 (11.74%) Algorithmic Trading
8 28 (11.34%) TDD
9 27 (10.93%) Analytics
9 27 (10.93%) DevOps
9 27 (10.93%) Full-Stack Development
10 26 (10.53%) CI/CD
10 26 (10.53%) Computer Science
10 26 (10.53%) Microservices
10 26 (10.53%) User Acceptance Testing
11 23 (9.31%) Quantitative Trading
12 22 (8.91%) Design Patterns
12 22 (8.91%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 99 (40.08%) Python
2 81 (32.79%) SQL
3 69 (27.94%) Java
4 56 (22.67%) C#
5 38 (15.38%) TypeScript
6 28 (11.34%) C++
7 24 (9.72%) JavaScript
8 13 (5.26%) Rust
9 7 (2.83%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.02%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.62%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.62%) Scala
12 2 (0.81%) Perl
13 1 (0.40%) Bash
13 1 (0.40%) C
13 1 (0.40%) F#
13 1 (0.40%) Korn
13 1 (0.40%) R
13 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 29 (11.74%) Degree
2 19 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.64%) Master's Degree
4 7 (2.83%) PhD
5 3 (1.21%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.40%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.86%) QA
2 7 (2.83%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.83%) EMIR
2 7 (2.83%) MiFID
3 6 (2.43%) IFRS
4 4 (1.62%) GAAP
5 2 (0.81%) Basel III
5 2 (0.81%) COREP
5 2 (0.81%) FINREP
6 1 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.40%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.40%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (6.88%) Docker
2 3 (1.21%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 6 (2.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.21%) Ansible
2 3 (1.21%) Control-M
2 3 (1.21%) Grafana
2 3 (1.21%) Podman
2 3 (1.21%) Prometheus
2 3 (1.21%) Terraform
3 2 (0.81%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 20 (8.10%) Murex
2 16 (6.48%) Oracle
3 12 (4.86%) Bloomberg
4 6 (2.43%) Charles River
5 5 (2.02%) Google
5 5 (2.02%) jBASE
5 5 (2.02%) Temenos
6 4 (1.62%) Calypso
7 3 (1.21%) Apple
7 3 (1.21%) Databricks
7 3 (1.21%) Microsoft
7 3 (1.21%) NVIDIA
8 2 (0.81%) Reuters
9 1 (0.40%) Ab Initio
9 1 (0.40%) IBM
9 1 (0.40%) Informatica
9 1 (0.40%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.40%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.40%) SAP
9 1 (0.40%) SimCorp