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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 208 180
Rank change year-on-year -175 -28 -7
Contract jobs citing Derivative 241 324 504
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 1.28% 1.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.69% 3.69% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 285 447
10th Percentile £453 £538 £588
25th Percentile £600 £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 £918 £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 14,285 8,780 11,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.86% 34.75% 30.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,900 5,626 7,328
10th Percentile £313 £305 £280
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £816
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 778 413 843
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.24
25th Percentile £21.14 £19.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.21% -12.00% +61.99%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.16 £81.01 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.10 £31.04 £36.50
% change year-on-year +38.86% -14.96% +62.22%

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 27 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 27 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 -87 235 £725 -3.33% 47
Yorkshire -38 4 £725 - 2
North of England -74 4 £725 +20.23% 3
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 (1.66%) Confluence
2 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (3.73%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.49%) Summit
3 5 (2.07%) Loan IQ
4 3 (1.24%) Orchestrade
4 3 (1.24%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.83%) Front Arena
5 2 (0.83%) Global One
6 1 (0.41%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 43 (17.84%) AWS
2 37 (15.35%) Azure
3 30 (12.45%) GCP
4 6 (2.49%) Power Platform
5 3 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (1.24%) SaaS
5 3 (1.24%) Snowflake
6 2 (0.83%) Collibra
7 1 (0.41%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.41%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.41%) npm
7 1 (0.41%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.41%) Serverless
7 1 (0.41%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.88%) FIX Connectivity
2 8 (3.32%) HTTP
3 1 (0.41%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (11.62%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (7.05%) SQL Server
3 14 (5.81%) Redis
3 14 (5.81%) Relational Database
4 10 (4.15%) MongoDB
5 9 (3.73%) Metadata
6 8 (3.32%) RDBMS
6 8 (3.32%) Tableau
7 6 (2.49%) Power BI
8 5 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.66%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.66%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.83%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.83%) KDB
10 2 (0.83%) Kdb+
10 2 (0.83%) Power Query
10 2 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.41%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.41%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 14 (5.81%) JIRA
2 11 (4.56%) Octopus Deploy
3 10 (4.15%) Git
4 8 (3.32%) TeamCity
5 4 (1.66%) ER Studio
5 4 (1.66%) ERwin
5 4 (1.66%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (1.24%) VTune
7 2 (0.83%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.83%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.41%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.41%) GitLab
8 1 (0.41%) GoogleTest
8 1 (0.41%) Gradle
8 1 (0.41%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.41%) Maven
8 1 (0.41%) NUnit
8 1 (0.41%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 150 (62.24%) Finance
2 127 (52.70%) Banking
3 123 (51.04%) Front Office
4 103 (42.74%) Investment Banking
5 56 (23.24%) Social Skills
6 31 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.73%) Back Office
8 7 (2.90%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.90%) Legal
9 4 (1.66%) Private Banking
10 3 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.24%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.83%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.83%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 131 (54.36%) Developer
2 60 (24.90%) Analyst
3 55 (22.82%) Business Analyst
4 37 (15.35%) Senior
5 36 (14.94%) Java Developer
6 32 (13.28%) Python Developer
7 31 (12.86%) C# Developer
8 26 (10.79%) Front Office Developer
9 25 (10.37%) Lead
10 21 (8.71%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 21 (8.71%) Software Engineer
11 20 (8.30%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
11 20 (8.30%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
12 19 (7.88%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
12 19 (7.88%) Lead Developer
12 19 (7.88%) Low Latency Java Developer
13 15 (6.22%) Senior Developer
14 14 (5.81%) Lead Software Engineer
15 13 (5.39%) Derivatives Business Analyst
15 13 (5.39%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (16.60%) React
2 35 (14.52%) FIX Protocol
3 17 (7.05%) Redux
4 16 (6.64%) .NET
4 16 (6.64%) Node.js
5 15 (6.22%) WebSockets
6 14 (5.81%) Kafka
7 9 (3.73%) NumPy
8 8 (3.32%) RxJava
8 8 (3.32%) Spring
9 7 (2.90%) AngularJS
9 7 (2.90%) REST
9 7 (2.90%) RESTful
9 7 (2.90%) XML
10 6 (2.49%) Django
10 6 (2.49%) FastAPI
10 6 (2.49%) Middleware
10 6 (2.49%) Pandas
11 5 (2.07%) HTML
11 5 (2.07%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 77 (31.95%) Equities
2 57 (23.65%) Fixed Income
3 53 (21.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 29 (12.03%) Equity Derivative
5 21 (8.71%) Market Risk
6 20 (8.30%) TWAP
6 20 (8.30%) VWAP
7 18 (7.47%) Credit Risk
8 17 (7.05%) Distributed Systems
9 16 (6.64%) Data Structures
10 14 (5.81%) Algorithms
11 13 (5.39%) Management Information System
11 13 (5.39%) OTC Derivatives
12 12 (4.98%) Hedge funds
13 11 (4.56%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (4.15%) Exotic Derivative
15 8 (3.32%) Reference Data
16 7 (2.90%) Credit Derivative
17 5 (2.07%) Cloud Native
17 5 (2.07%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.47%) Unix
2 7 (2.90%) Linux
3 1 (0.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (27.80%) Agile
2 48 (19.92%) Low Latency
3 44 (18.26%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (17.84%) Electronic Trading
5 41 (17.01%) Multithreading
6 34 (14.11%) Software Engineering
7 32 (13.28%) Risk Management
8 31 (12.86%) Asset Management
9 29 (12.03%) Algorithmic Trading
10 27 (11.20%) CI/CD
10 27 (11.20%) DevOps
10 27 (11.20%) Full-Stack Development
10 27 (11.20%) Microservices
10 27 (11.20%) TDD
10 27 (11.20%) User Acceptance Testing
11 26 (10.79%) Analytics
12 24 (9.96%) Computer Science
13 23 (9.54%) Quantitative Trading
14 22 (9.13%) Design Patterns
14 22 (9.13%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 96 (39.83%) Python
2 79 (32.78%) SQL
3 70 (29.05%) Java
4 54 (22.41%) C#
5 37 (15.35%) TypeScript
6 27 (11.20%) C++
7 23 (9.54%) JavaScript
8 13 (5.39%) Rust
9 7 (2.90%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.49%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.66%) Scala
12 3 (1.24%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.83%) Perl
14 1 (0.41%) Bash
14 1 (0.41%) C
14 1 (0.41%) F#
14 1 (0.41%) Korn
14 1 (0.41%) R
14 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 27 (11.20%) Degree
2 17 (7.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (3.32%) Master's Degree
4 7 (2.90%) PhD
5 2 (0.83%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.41%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.56%) QA
2 7 (2.90%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.90%) EMIR
2 7 (2.90%) MiFID
3 5 (2.07%) IFRS
4 3 (1.24%) GAAP
5 2 (0.83%) COREP
5 2 (0.83%) FINREP
6 1 (0.41%) Basel III
6 1 (0.41%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 18 (7.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (2.90%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.83%) Control-M
2 2 (0.83%) Grafana
2 2 (0.83%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (0.83%) Prometheus
2 2 (0.83%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (9.13%) Murex
2 15 (6.22%) Oracle
3 13 (5.39%) Bloomberg
4 6 (2.49%) Charles River
5 4 (1.66%) Calypso
5 4 (1.66%) Google
6 3 (1.24%) Databricks
6 3 (1.24%) jBASE
6 3 (1.24%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.24%) Temenos
7 2 (0.83%) Apple
7 2 (0.83%) Reuters
8 1 (0.41%) Ab Initio
8 1 (0.41%) Advent
8 1 (0.41%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.41%) SimCorp
8 1 (0.41%) Solace