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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 197 213
Rank change year-on-year -124 +16 +13
Contract jobs citing Derivative 234 371 428
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.75% 1.28% 1.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.09% 3.96% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 289 393
10th Percentile £513 £570 £550
25th Percentile £612 £638 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -
75th Percentile £975 £888 £825
90th Percentile £1,000 £933 £913
UK median daily rate £750 £750 £700
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -
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 11,171 9,362 11,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.75% 32.32% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,045 5,679 8,116
10th Percentile £281 £278 £269
25th Percentile £408 £413 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.37% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.51% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 560 277 459
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.08 £16.75
25th Percentile £18.25 £23.60 £20.84
Median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% -15.60% +25.16%
75th Percentile £61.52 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -17.55% -22.35% +21.43%

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 December 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 December 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 -69 229 £750 - 52
North of England -48 3 £525 -12.50% 10
Yorkshire - 3 £525 - 4
Midlands - 3 £525 - 9
West Midlands - 2 £525 - 5
East Midlands - 1 £375 - 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 24 (10.26%) Apache
1 24 (10.26%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.85%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.56%) Confluence
4 4 (1.71%) HCL Notes
4 4 (1.71%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.85%) IIS
6 1 (0.43%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
Applications
1 22 (9.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (3.42%) Aladdin
2 4 (1.71%) Fidessa
2 4 (1.71%) thinkFolio
3 3 (1.28%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.85%) Algo Collateral
5 1 (0.43%) Endur
5 1 (0.43%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.43%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.43%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.43%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.43%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 58 (24.79%) AWS
2 29 (12.39%) Azure
3 27 (11.54%) Snowflake
4 24 (10.26%) dbt
5 15 (6.41%) Power Platform
6 8 (3.42%) Serverless
7 6 (2.56%) GCP
8 5 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.14%) npm
8 5 (2.14%) Yarn
9 4 (1.71%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (1.71%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (1.71%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (1.71%) Power Automate
9 4 (1.71%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.28%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.85%) SaaS
12 1 (0.43%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.71%) FIX Connectivity
1 4 (1.71%) Multicast
2 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.26%) Amazon Athena
1 24 (10.26%) Apache Arrow
1 24 (10.26%) Apache Iceberg
1 24 (10.26%) Apache Ignite
1 24 (10.26%) Data Lake
1 24 (10.26%) Dremio
2 22 (9.40%) SQL Server
3 19 (8.12%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (6.41%) Power BI
5 6 (2.56%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.56%) Redis
5 6 (2.56%) Tableau
6 4 (1.71%) Big Data
6 4 (1.71%) KDB
7 2 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.85%) Metadata
7 2 (0.85%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.43%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.43%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 14 (5.98%) Git
2 10 (4.27%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.42%) JIRA
4 7 (2.99%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (2.56%) Visual Studio
6 5 (2.14%) webpack
7 4 (1.71%) GitLab
7 4 (1.71%) Maven
8 3 (1.28%) Gradle
8 3 (1.28%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.85%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.43%) Crucible
10 1 (0.43%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
General
1 187 (79.91%) Finance
2 144 (61.54%) Banking
3 105 (44.87%) Investment Banking
4 103 (44.02%) Front Office
5 71 (30.34%) Social Skills
6 34 (14.53%) Analytical Skills
7 24 (10.26%) Financial Institution
8 9 (3.85%) Back Office
9 4 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.28%) Law
11 2 (0.85%) Legal
11 2 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.43%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 97 (41.45%) Developer
2 67 (28.63%) Senior
3 47 (20.09%) Analyst
4 34 (14.53%) Java Developer
5 33 (14.10%) Senior Developer
6 28 (11.97%) Business Analyst
7 26 (11.11%) Java Engineer
8 25 (10.68%) Java Software Engineer
8 25 (10.68%) Software Engineer
9 24 (10.26%) AWS Engineer
9 24 (10.26%) AWS Software Engineer
9 24 (10.26%) Python Engineer
9 24 (10.26%) Python Software Engineer
10 23 (9.83%) Senior Java Engineer
10 23 (9.83%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 23 (9.83%) Senior Software Engineer
11 21 (8.97%) Senior Java Developer
12 18 (7.69%) Analytics Developer
12 18 (7.69%) AWS Developer
12 18 (7.69%) PostgreSQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (11.54%) NumPy
1 27 (11.54%) Pandas
1 27 (11.54%) SciPy
2 25 (10.68%) Protocol Buffers
3 24 (10.26%) gRPC
4 22 (9.40%) Kafka
5 17 (7.26%) FIX Protocol
6 15 (6.41%) .NET
7 12 (5.13%) React
8 9 (3.85%) Dask
9 8 (3.42%) CSS
9 8 (3.42%) Spring
10 7 (2.99%) REST
10 7 (2.99%) RESTful
11 6 (2.56%) HTML
12 5 (2.14%) RabbitMQ
13 4 (1.71%) .NET Core
13 4 (1.71%) .NET Framework
13 4 (1.71%) XML
14 3 (1.28%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 83 (35.47%) Equities
2 72 (30.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 67 (28.63%) Fixed Income
4 35 (14.96%) Hedge funds
5 27 (11.54%) Equity Derivative
6 24 (10.26%) Pricing Data
7 22 (9.40%) Market Risk
8 18 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
8 18 (7.69%) Management Information System
9 17 (7.26%) Algorithms
10 15 (6.41%) Product Ownership
11 13 (5.56%) Cloud Native
12 11 (4.70%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (4.70%) Interest Rate Derivative
13 10 (4.27%) Distributed Computing
13 10 (4.27%) Onboarding
14 9 (3.85%) Credit Risk
15 8 (3.42%) Analytical Mindset
16 7 (2.99%) OTC Derivatives
17 6 (2.56%) TWAP
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.98%) Linux
2 7 (2.99%) Unix
2 7 (2.99%) Windows
3 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (34.19%) Agile
2 60 (25.64%) Risk Management
3 45 (19.23%) Analytics
4 42 (17.95%) Mathematics
5 37 (15.81%) Software Engineering
6 35 (14.96%) CI/CD
6 35 (14.96%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (12.39%) Asset Management
8 27 (11.54%) TDD
9 26 (11.11%) DevOps
10 24 (10.26%) Investment Management
11 23 (9.83%) Computer Science
12 22 (9.40%) Stakeholder Management
13 21 (8.97%) Data Pipeline
13 21 (8.97%) Design Patterns
13 21 (8.97%) Physics
14 20 (8.55%) Low Latency
15 19 (8.12%) Multithreading
15 19 (8.12%) Quantitative Finance
15 19 (8.12%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 100 (42.74%) Python
2 72 (30.77%) Java
3 65 (27.78%) SQL
4 34 (14.53%) C#
4 34 (14.53%) C++
5 33 (14.10%) JavaScript
6 32 (13.68%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.99%) VBA
8 4 (1.71%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.85%) Perl
9 2 (0.85%) Scala
10 1 (0.43%) Bash
10 1 (0.43%) R
10 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.43%) VC++
Qualifications
1 44 (18.80%) Degree
2 20 (8.55%) Master's Degree
3 13 (5.56%) Numerate Degree
4 11 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.27%) PhD
6 4 (1.71%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.71%) PMP
7 2 (0.85%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.43%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.98%) EMIR
1 14 (5.98%) MiFID
2 11 (4.70%) QA
3 8 (3.42%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.99%) SLA
5 4 (1.71%) IFRS
6 3 (1.28%) Basel III
6 3 (1.28%) GDPR
6 3 (1.28%) IAS 32
6 3 (1.28%) IAS 39
6 3 (1.28%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.43%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.43%) FINRA
7 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.43%) PMO
7 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.56%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.14%) Ansible
3 3 (1.28%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 2 (0.85%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.43%) Grafana
5 1 (0.43%) Terraform
5 1 (0.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (6.84%) Bloomberg
2 14 (5.98%) Murex
3 12 (5.13%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.85%) Oracle
5 7 (2.99%) Calypso
5 7 (2.99%) ION Trading
6 6 (2.56%) Databricks
6 6 (2.56%) Sophis
6 6 (2.56%) Tradeweb
7 4 (1.71%) Lotus
7 4 (1.71%) Portware
8 3 (1.28%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.28%) Charles River
8 3 (1.28%) NYFIX
8 3 (1.28%) Refinitiv
8 3 (1.28%) Splunk
9 2 (0.85%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.85%) MarketAxess
9 2 (0.85%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.85%) SmartStream