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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 266 201
Rank change year-on-year -138 -65 -16
Contract jobs citing Derivative 232 265 417
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.94% 1.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.45% 2.59% 4.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 217 344
10th Percentile £461 £520 £600
25th Percentile £613 £613 £673
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £718 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -4.33% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £781 £825 £888
90th Percentile £854 £988 -
UK median daily rate £705 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -6.00% -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 15,958 10,217 10,051
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.50% 36.40% 31.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,576 6,391 6,056
10th Percentile £325 £300 £294
25th Percentile £425 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £542
Median % change year-on-year - -3.18% -1.41%
75th Percentile £645 £645 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £519 £527
% change year-on-year +1.25% -1.57% -4.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,183 533 362
10th Percentile £13.81 £15.03 £16.30
25th Percentile £17.48 £18.51 £24.63
Median hourly rate £33.99 £29.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.22% -45.37% +16.93%
75th Percentile £67.77 £55.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.72 £73.75 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £35.91 £27.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +30.58% -42.11% +5.56%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -98 224 £700 -6.67% 393
North of England -75 6 £725 +22.05% 7
Yorkshire -27 5 £725 +38.10%
Midlands -46 1 - - 1
West Midlands -50 1 - -
North West -51 1 £198 -67.65% 6
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 (1.72%) Confluence
2 2 (0.86%) CMS
3 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (0.86%) LaTeX
1 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (0.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (3.88%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.86%) Oracle FAH
2 2 (0.86%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (0.86%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (0.86%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.86%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.86%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.43%) Actimize
3 1 (0.43%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.43%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.43%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 17 (7.33%) Azure
2 14 (6.03%) AWS
2 14 (6.03%) GCP
3 5 (2.16%) Snowflake
4 3 (1.29%) Amazon S3
4 3 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (1.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 3 (1.29%) Power Platform
4 3 (1.29%) Serverless
5 1 (0.43%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (0.43%) GitHub
5 1 (0.43%) npm
5 1 (0.43%) OpenShift
5 1 (0.43%) SaaS
5 1 (0.43%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.31%) FIX Connectivity
2 6 (2.59%) HTTP
3 2 (0.86%) Multicast
4 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.03%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.31%) MongoDB
3 8 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (3.45%) Relational Database
4 7 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (3.02%) Redis
5 6 (2.59%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.72%) KDB
6 4 (1.72%) Metadata
7 3 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.29%) Kdb+
7 3 (1.29%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.29%) Power BI
8 2 (0.86%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.43%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.43%) Db2
9 1 (0.43%) PowerCenter
9 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.43%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 18 (7.76%) JIRA
2 8 (3.45%) Git
3 6 (2.59%) Octopus Deploy
4 5 (2.16%) ER Studio
4 5 (2.16%) ERwin
4 5 (2.16%) PowerDesigner
4 5 (2.16%) TeamCity
5 4 (1.72%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.29%) VTune
7 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.43%) GitLab
7 1 (0.43%) GoogleTest
7 1 (0.43%) Gradle
7 1 (0.43%) Maven
7 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.43%) webpack
General
1 166 (71.55%) Finance
2 131 (56.47%) Banking
3 114 (49.14%) Front Office
4 83 (35.78%) Investment Banking
5 62 (26.72%) Social Skills
6 32 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (7.76%) Financial Institution
8 10 (4.31%) Private Banking
9 9 (3.88%) Back Office
10 5 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.16%) Legal
11 4 (1.72%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.29%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.86%) Corporate Banking
14 1 (0.43%) German Language
14 1 (0.43%) International Banking
14 1 (0.43%) Marketing
14 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 109 (46.98%) Developer
2 54 (23.28%) Analyst
3 46 (19.83%) Business Analyst
4 37 (15.95%) Senior
5 30 (12.93%) Front Office Developer
6 29 (12.50%) Python Developer
7 27 (11.64%) C# Developer
8 18 (7.76%) Java Developer
8 18 (7.76%) Quantitative Developer
9 12 (5.17%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 12 (5.17%) Project Manager
9 12 (5.17%) Senior Developer
10 10 (4.31%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
10 10 (4.31%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
10 10 (4.31%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
10 10 (4.31%) Low Latency Java Developer
10 10 (4.31%) Pricing Developer
11 8 (3.45%) Banking Analyst
11 8 (3.45%) Lead
12 7 (3.02%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.05%) FIX Protocol
2 16 (6.90%) React
3 12 (5.17%) NumPy
4 11 (4.74%) Django
4 11 (4.74%) FastAPI
5 10 (4.31%) REST
5 10 (4.31%) Spring
5 10 (4.31%) WebSockets
6 9 (3.88%) .NET
6 9 (3.88%) Pandas
6 9 (3.88%) PySpark
7 8 (3.45%) Flask
7 8 (3.45%) RxJava
8 7 (3.02%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.02%) Kafka
9 4 (1.72%) Middleware
10 3 (1.29%) HTML
10 3 (1.29%) JSON
10 3 (1.29%) RESTful
10 3 (1.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 69 (29.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 58 (25.00%) Equities
3 52 (22.41%) Fixed Income
4 27 (11.64%) Equity Derivative
5 17 (7.33%) Exotic Derivative
6 15 (6.47%) Algorithms
6 15 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (6.47%) Market Risk
7 14 (6.03%) OTC Derivatives
8 12 (5.17%) Credit Risk
8 12 (5.17%) Data Structures
8 12 (5.17%) Hedge funds
9 11 (4.74%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (4.74%) Onboarding
10 10 (4.31%) Management Information System
10 10 (4.31%) TWAP
10 10 (4.31%) VWAP
11 9 (3.88%) Reference Data
12 8 (3.45%) Cloud Native
13 6 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.47%) Unix
2 14 (6.03%) Linux
3 2 (0.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (17.67%) Agile
1 41 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
3 36 (15.52%) Analytics
4 31 (13.36%) User Acceptance Testing
5 29 (12.50%) Validation
6 28 (12.07%) Low Latency
7 27 (11.64%) Data Analysis
7 27 (11.64%) Software Engineering
8 26 (11.21%) CI/CD
8 26 (11.21%) Multithreading
9 25 (10.78%) Business Analysis
9 25 (10.78%) Microservices
10 24 (10.34%) Performance Optimisation
11 23 (9.91%) DevOps
11 23 (9.91%) Electronic Trading
11 23 (9.91%) Risk Management
12 22 (9.48%) Data Modelling
13 21 (9.05%) Mathematics
14 20 (8.62%) Algorithmic Trading
Programming Languages
1 82 (35.34%) Python
2 70 (30.17%) SQL
3 55 (23.71%) Java
4 49 (21.12%) C#
5 26 (11.21%) C++
6 16 (6.90%) TypeScript
7 10 (4.31%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.45%) Rust
9 6 (2.59%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.59%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.72%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.29%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.86%) Bash
12 2 (0.86%) C
13 1 (0.43%) ABAP
13 1 (0.43%) Korn
13 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.43%) R
13 1 (0.43%) Scala
13 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (9.48%) Degree
2 10 (4.31%) Master's Degree
2 10 (4.31%) PhD
3 6 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.29%) PMI Certification
4 3 (1.29%) PMP
5 2 (0.86%) CFA
5 2 (0.86%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (0.86%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.88%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.45%) MiFID
3 5 (2.16%) EMIR
4 4 (1.72%) QA
5 3 (1.29%) SLA
6 2 (0.86%) Basel III
6 2 (0.86%) COREP
6 2 (0.86%) FINREP
6 2 (0.86%) GAAP
6 2 (0.86%) IFRS
7 1 (0.43%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 15 (6.47%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (1.72%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.86%) Thomson Reuters DACS
3 1 (0.43%) Control-M
3 1 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (8.19%) Murex
2 17 (7.33%) Bloomberg
3 6 (2.59%) Oracle
4 5 (2.16%) Calypso
4 5 (2.16%) Databricks
5 3 (1.29%) Charles River
5 3 (1.29%) Google
6 2 (0.86%) Microsoft
6 2 (0.86%) NYFIX
6 2 (0.86%) Refinitiv
6 2 (0.86%) SAP
6 2 (0.86%) SimCorp
6 2 (0.86%) Tradeweb
7 1 (0.43%) BEA
7 1 (0.43%) BMC
7 1 (0.43%) eFront
7 1 (0.43%) Informatica
7 1 (0.43%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.43%) Sybase
7 1 (0.43%) TIBCO