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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 172 212
Rank change year-on-year -183 +40 +25
Contract jobs citing Derivative 227 362 418
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 1.49% 1.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.80% 4.39% 3.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 300 374
10th Percentile £513 £549 £550
25th Percentile £613 £638 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £738 £725
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +1.72% -3.33%
75th Percentile £913 £888 £850
90th Percentile £1,000 £938 £888
UK median daily rate £750 £725 £725
% change year-on-year +3.45% - -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 12,618 8,255 11,610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.50% 34.07% 30.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,010 5,413 7,575
10th Percentile £300 £300 £258
25th Percentile £412 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £670 £671
90th Percentile £749 £775 £783
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.29% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 633 309 795
10th Percentile £15.73 £16.73 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.46 £22.50 £15.21
Median hourly rate £42.71 £34.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.78% +23.21% +20.95%
75th Percentile £69.44 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.40 £85.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £32.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +29.05% +18.18% +22.22%

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 March 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 March 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 -104 218 £750 +1.69% 44
North of England -70 3 £525 -10.64% 1
East of England - 3 £681 -
Yorkshire - 3 £525 -
Midlands - 2 £525 -
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 (3.96%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.20%) Confluence
3 2 (0.88%) Apache
3 2 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.88%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (7.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.64%) Aladdin
1 6 (2.64%) Summit
2 5 (2.20%) Loan IQ
2 5 (2.20%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.88%) Algo Collateral
3 2 (0.88%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 2 (0.88%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.88%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.44%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.44%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.44%) Front Arena
4 1 (0.44%) Global One
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 50 (22.03%) AWS
2 33 (14.54%) Azure
3 23 (10.13%) GCP
4 7 (3.08%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.20%) Snowflake
6 4 (1.76%) Amazon S3
6 4 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.76%) Serverless
7 3 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (1.32%) npm
7 3 (1.32%) SaaS
7 3 (1.32%) Yarn
8 2 (0.88%) Collibra
8 2 (0.88%) dbt
8 2 (0.88%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.44%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (0.44%) IaaS
9 1 (0.44%) OCI
9 1 (0.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.61%) FIX Connectivity
2 4 (1.76%) Multicast
3 1 (0.44%) HTTP
3 1 (0.44%) RTMP
3 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (13.66%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (4.41%) Redis
3 9 (3.96%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.08%) Power BI
4 7 (3.08%) Relational Database
5 6 (2.64%) Metadata
5 6 (2.64%) Tableau
6 5 (2.20%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.76%) Big Data
7 4 (1.76%) KDB
7 4 (1.76%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.32%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.88%) Apache Ignite
9 2 (0.88%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.88%) Dremio
9 2 (0.88%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.88%) Power Query
9 2 (0.88%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (7.93%) Git
2 8 (3.52%) Jenkins
2 8 (3.52%) JIRA
2 8 (3.52%) Octopus Deploy
3 5 (2.20%) TeamCity
3 5 (2.20%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.76%) Maven
5 3 (1.32%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.32%) IntelliJ
5 3 (1.32%) webpack
6 2 (0.88%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.88%) GitLab
6 2 (0.88%) Gradle
7 1 (0.44%) Crucible
7 1 (0.44%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.44%) NUnit
7 1 (0.44%) REST Assured
General
1 156 (68.72%) Finance
2 109 (48.02%) Banking
3 101 (44.49%) Front Office
4 78 (34.36%) Investment Banking
5 63 (27.75%) Social Skills
6 36 (15.86%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (8.37%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.52%) Back Office
9 4 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.32%) Spanish Language
10 3 (1.32%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.88%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.88%) Legal
12 1 (0.44%) Japanese Language
12 1 (0.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 116 (51.10%) Developer
2 44 (19.38%) Analyst
3 43 (18.94%) Senior
4 42 (18.50%) Java Developer
5 34 (14.98%) Business Analyst
6 27 (11.89%) Senior Developer
7 25 (11.01%) Python Developer
8 23 (10.13%) Lead
9 19 (8.37%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 18 (7.93%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
11 17 (7.49%) Senior Java Developer
12 16 (7.05%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
12 16 (7.05%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
12 16 (7.05%) Lead Developer
12 16 (7.05%) Low Latency Java Developer
13 15 (6.61%) Software Engineer
14 14 (6.17%) Analytics Developer
14 14 (6.17%) AWS Developer
14 14 (6.17%) Kafka Developer
14 14 (6.17%) PostgreSQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (14.54%) React
2 24 (10.57%) FIX Protocol
3 20 (8.81%) Kafka
3 20 (8.81%) Redux
4 16 (7.05%) Node.js
5 12 (5.29%) RESTful
6 10 (4.41%) .NET
7 9 (3.96%) Dask
8 8 (3.52%) HTML
8 8 (3.52%) NumPy
8 8 (3.52%) Pandas
8 8 (3.52%) Spring
8 8 (3.52%) WebSockets
9 7 (3.08%) REST
9 7 (3.08%) XML
10 6 (2.64%) HTML5
10 6 (2.64%) SciPy
11 5 (2.20%) CSS
12 4 (1.76%) AngularJS
13 3 (1.32%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 88 (38.77%) Equities
2 57 (25.11%) Fixed Income
3 35 (15.42%) Equity Derivative
3 35 (15.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 24 (10.57%) Market Risk
5 19 (8.37%) Algorithms
6 17 (7.49%) TWAP
6 17 (7.49%) VWAP
7 15 (6.61%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (6.61%) Management Information System
8 14 (6.17%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (5.73%) Hedge funds
10 11 (4.85%) Credit Risk
11 9 (3.96%) Cloud Native
12 8 (3.52%) Data Structures
12 8 (3.52%) Distributed Computing
13 7 (3.08%) Onboarding
13 7 (3.08%) OTC Derivatives
13 7 (3.08%) Product Ownership
14 6 (2.64%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.73%) Unix
2 9 (3.96%) Linux
3 3 (1.32%) Debian
3 3 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.32%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.32%) VMS
4 2 (0.88%) Windows
5 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (29.07%) Agile
2 60 (26.43%) Risk Management
3 39 (17.18%) Low Latency
4 37 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (14.98%) Electronic Trading
5 34 (14.98%) TDD
6 33 (14.54%) Mathematics
7 30 (13.22%) Analytics
8 29 (12.78%) CI/CD
9 28 (12.33%) Software Engineering
10 27 (11.89%) Asset Management
10 27 (11.89%) DevOps
10 27 (11.89%) Multithreading
11 26 (11.45%) Design Patterns
11 26 (11.45%) Mentoring
12 23 (10.13%) Computer Science
13 22 (9.69%) Algorithmic Trading
13 22 (9.69%) Stakeholder Management
14 21 (9.25%) Portfolio Management
14 21 (9.25%) Quantitative Finance
Programming Languages
1 102 (44.93%) Python
2 74 (32.60%) SQL
3 61 (26.87%) Java
4 30 (13.22%) C++
4 30 (13.22%) TypeScript
5 28 (12.33%) C#
6 26 (11.45%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.76%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.76%) Rust
7 4 (1.76%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.32%) Perl
8 3 (1.32%) Scala
9 2 (0.88%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.88%) VBA
10 1 (0.44%) F#
10 1 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 42 (18.50%) Degree
2 16 (7.05%) Master's Degree
3 13 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (5.73%) Numerate Degree
4 10 (4.41%) PhD
5 3 (1.32%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.32%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.32%) PMP
6 1 (0.44%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.73%) QA
2 11 (4.85%) EMIR
3 7 (3.08%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.08%) IFRS
3 7 (3.08%) MiFID
4 4 (1.76%) IFRS 9
4 4 (1.76%) SLA
5 3 (1.32%) IAS 32
5 3 (1.32%) IAS 39
6 2 (0.88%) Basel III
6 2 (0.88%) GAAP
7 1 (0.44%) FINRA
7 1 (0.44%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.44%) PMO
7 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (3.96%) Docker
2 3 (1.32%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 7 (3.08%) Ansible
1 7 (3.08%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.32%) Grafana
2 3 (1.32%) ITRS Geneos
2 3 (1.32%) Podman
2 3 (1.32%) Prometheus
2 3 (1.32%) Terraform
2 3 (1.32%) Thomson Reuters DACS
3 2 (0.88%) Control-M
Vendors
1 20 (8.81%) Bloomberg
2 19 (8.37%) Murex
3 16 (7.05%) Oracle
4 6 (2.64%) ION Trading
5 5 (2.20%) jBASE
5 5 (2.20%) Temenos
5 5 (2.20%) Tradeweb
6 4 (1.76%) Calypso
6 4 (1.76%) Charles River
7 3 (1.32%) Apple
7 3 (1.32%) Google
7 3 (1.32%) IBM
7 3 (1.32%) Microsoft
7 3 (1.32%) NVIDIA
7 3 (1.32%) NYFIX
7 3 (1.32%) Refinitiv
8 2 (0.88%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.88%) MarketAxess
8 2 (0.88%) SmartStream
8 2 (0.88%) Splunk