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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 276 192
Rank change year-on-year -130 -84 -9
Contract jobs citing Derivative 239 268 448
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.96% 1.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.51% 2.66% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 222 377
10th Percentile £450 £537 £600
25th Percentile £600 £633 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £788 £825 £888
90th Percentile £875 £988 -
UK median daily rate £725 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £59.13 - -
25th Percentile £63.44 £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £71.25 £87.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% - -
75th Percentile £78.44 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £82.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £71.25 £87.50 -
% change year-on-year -18.57% - -

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 15,799 10,079 10,135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.08% 36.09% 30.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,532 6,319 6,164
10th Percentile £325 £300 £294
25th Percentile £425 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £519 £538
% change year-on-year +1.25% -3.53% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,103 514 393
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.32 £15.50
25th Percentile £17.85 £18.87 £24.15
Median hourly rate £35.22 £30.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +15.48% -46.82% +27.15%
75th Percentile £68.32 £56.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £73.75 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £29.33 £50.00
% change year-on-year +27.86% -41.34% +12.36%

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 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Derivative in England over the 6 months to 27 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Derivative in England

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 September 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 -88 231 £725 -3.33% 336
North of England -66 6 £725 +18.46% 7
Yorkshire -43 5 £725 -
Midlands -38 1 - - 1
North West -54 1 £198 -67.65% 7
West Midlands - 1 - -
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 6 (2.51%) Confluence
2 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.84%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (3.77%) Aladdin
2 3 (1.26%) Orchestrade
3 2 (0.84%) Oracle FAH
3 2 (0.84%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.84%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.84%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.84%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.42%) Actimize
4 1 (0.42%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.42%) Front Arena
4 1 (0.42%) Global One
4 1 (0.42%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.42%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.42%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 20 (8.37%) Azure
2 16 (6.69%) AWS
3 14 (5.86%) GCP
4 5 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (1.67%) Power Platform
5 4 (1.67%) Snowflake
6 3 (1.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (0.84%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.84%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (0.84%) Serverless
8 1 (0.42%) GitHub
8 1 (0.42%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.02%) FIX Connectivity
2 7 (2.93%) HTTP
3 2 (0.84%) Multicast
4 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.44%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.18%) MongoDB
3 8 (3.35%) Redis
3 8 (3.35%) Relational Database
4 7 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.51%) Data Lake
5 6 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.09%) Metadata
7 4 (1.67%) KDB
7 4 (1.67%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.67%) Power BI
7 4 (1.67%) Tableau
8 3 (1.26%) Kdb+
8 3 (1.26%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.42%) Big Data
10 1 (0.42%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (0.42%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.42%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.42%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 20 (8.37%) JIRA
2 8 (3.35%) Git
3 6 (2.51%) Octopus Deploy
4 5 (2.09%) ER Studio
4 5 (2.09%) ERwin
4 5 (2.09%) PowerDesigner
4 5 (2.09%) TeamCity
5 3 (1.26%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.26%) VTune
6 1 (0.42%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.42%) GitLab
6 1 (0.42%) GoogleTest
6 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio
General
1 166 (69.46%) Finance
2 135 (56.49%) Banking
3 120 (50.21%) Front Office
4 89 (37.24%) Investment Banking
5 61 (25.52%) Social Skills
6 30 (12.55%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (7.95%) Financial Institution
8 11 (4.60%) Back Office
8 11 (4.60%) Private Banking
9 9 (3.77%) Legal
10 3 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.26%) General Ledger
10 3 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.26%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.84%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.42%) International Banking
12 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 110 (46.03%) Developer
2 61 (25.52%) Analyst
3 54 (22.59%) Business Analyst
4 36 (15.06%) Senior
5 30 (12.55%) Front Office Developer
6 27 (11.30%) C# Developer
6 27 (11.30%) Python Developer
7 21 (8.79%) Java Developer
8 18 (7.53%) Quantitative Developer
9 13 (5.44%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 12 (5.02%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
10 12 (5.02%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
10 12 (5.02%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
10 12 (5.02%) Low Latency Java Developer
10 12 (5.02%) Project Manager
10 12 (5.02%) Senior Developer
11 11 (4.60%) Pricing Developer
12 10 (4.18%) Banking Analyst
13 9 (3.77%) Software Engineer
14 8 (3.35%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (10.88%) FIX Protocol
2 17 (7.11%) React
3 12 (5.02%) WebSockets
4 10 (4.18%) .NET
4 10 (4.18%) NumPy
5 9 (3.77%) Django
5 9 (3.77%) FastAPI
5 9 (3.77%) REST
6 8 (3.35%) Spring
7 7 (2.93%) Pandas
7 7 (2.93%) RxJava
8 6 (2.51%) AngularJS
8 6 (2.51%) Flask
8 6 (2.51%) Kafka
8 6 (2.51%) PySpark
9 5 (2.09%) Middleware
10 4 (1.67%) Next.js
11 3 (1.26%) gRPC
11 3 (1.26%) Redux
11 3 (1.26%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 68 (28.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 60 (25.10%) Equities
3 50 (20.92%) Fixed Income
4 29 (12.13%) Equity Derivative
5 17 (7.11%) Exotic Derivative
6 16 (6.69%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (6.28%) Algorithms
7 15 (6.28%) Credit Risk
7 15 (6.28%) Market Risk
8 14 (5.86%) OTC Derivatives
9 13 (5.44%) Hedge funds
10 12 (5.02%) TWAP
10 12 (5.02%) VWAP
11 11 (4.60%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (4.60%) Data Structures
12 10 (4.18%) Management Information System
12 10 (4.18%) Onboarding
13 7 (2.93%) Credit Derivative
13 7 (2.93%) Interest Rate Derivative
13 7 (2.93%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.86%) Unix
2 12 (5.02%) Linux
3 1 (0.42%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
2 41 (17.15%) Agile
3 40 (16.74%) Stakeholder Management
4 35 (14.64%) Analytics
5 32 (13.39%) Low Latency
6 31 (12.97%) User Acceptance Testing
7 30 (12.55%) Data Analysis
8 29 (12.13%) Multithreading
9 28 (11.72%) Business Analysis
9 28 (11.72%) Validation
10 26 (10.88%) CI/CD
10 26 (10.88%) Electronic Trading
10 26 (10.88%) Software Engineering
11 25 (10.46%) Microservices
12 24 (10.04%) DevOps
13 23 (9.62%) Algorithmic Trading
13 23 (9.62%) Data Modelling
14 22 (9.21%) Performance Optimisation
15 21 (8.79%) Project Delivery
15 21 (8.79%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 82 (34.31%) Python
2 71 (29.71%) SQL
3 57 (23.85%) Java
4 53 (22.18%) C#
5 28 (11.72%) C++
6 19 (7.95%) TypeScript
7 10 (4.18%) Rust
8 8 (3.35%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.93%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.09%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.67%) JavaScript
12 3 (1.26%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.84%) Bash
13 2 (0.84%) C
13 2 (0.84%) Scala
14 1 (0.42%) Korn
14 1 (0.42%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.42%) Perl
14 1 (0.42%) R
14 1 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (9.21%) Degree
2 10 (4.18%) Master's Degree
2 10 (4.18%) PhD
3 7 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.84%) CFA
4 2 (0.84%) Numerate Degree
4 2 (0.84%) PMI Certification
4 2 (0.84%) PMP
5 1 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.77%) MiFID
2 8 (3.35%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.93%) EMIR
3 7 (2.93%) QA
4 3 (1.26%) Basel III
4 3 (1.26%) SLA
5 2 (0.84%) COREP
5 2 (0.84%) FINREP
5 2 (0.84%) GAAP
5 2 (0.84%) IFRS
6 1 (0.42%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 14 (5.86%) Docker
2 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.84%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (0.84%) Thomson Reuters DACS
3 1 (0.42%) Control-M
3 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (8.37%) Murex
2 16 (6.69%) Bloomberg
3 7 (2.93%) Calypso
3 7 (2.93%) Oracle
4 5 (2.09%) Databricks
5 4 (1.67%) Charles River
6 3 (1.26%) Google
7 2 (0.84%) Microsoft
7 2 (0.84%) NYFIX
7 2 (0.84%) Refinitiv
7 2 (0.84%) SimCorp
7 2 (0.84%) Tradeweb
8 1 (0.42%) BEA
8 1 (0.42%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.42%) eFront
8 1 (0.42%) FIS
8 1 (0.42%) GoldenSource
8 1 (0.42%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.42%) Splunk
8 1 (0.42%) TIBCO