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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 246 156
Rank change year-on-year -141 -90 +19
Contract jobs citing Derivative 248 288 510
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 1.04% 1.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.61% 2.92% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 246 440
10th Percentile £450 £538 £600
25th Percentile £600 £650 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £825 £825 £888
90th Percentile £889 £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 15,395 9,856 10,215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.57% 35.46% 30.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,446 6,213 6,628
10th Percentile £325 £306 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £680
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 911 498 534
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.48 £12.83
25th Percentile £19.34 £18.87 £18.91
Median hourly rate £43.50 £31.18 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.51% -34.36% +10.47%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £29.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +47.46% -34.44% +10.86%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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 16 August 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 -84 240 £725 -3.33% 153
North of England -78 6 £725 +20.23% 4
Yorkshire -40 5 £725 - 1
Midlands -47 1 - -
North West -47 1 £198 -67.16% 3
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 5 (2.02%) Confluence
2 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.81%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (3.63%) Aladdin
2 4 (1.61%) Loan IQ
2 4 (1.61%) Summit
3 3 (1.21%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.81%) Front Arena
4 2 (0.81%) Global One
5 1 (0.40%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 31 (12.50%) AWS
2 29 (11.69%) Azure
3 22 (8.87%) GCP
4 6 (2.42%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.02%) Snowflake
6 4 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.21%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (1.21%) Serverless
8 1 (0.40%) Collibra
8 1 (0.40%) npm
8 1 (0.40%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.40%) SaaS
8 1 (0.40%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.85%) FIX Connectivity
2 8 (3.23%) HTTP
3 1 (0.40%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.85%) SQL Server
2 15 (6.05%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (5.24%) Redis
4 10 (4.03%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.63%) MongoDB
6 8 (3.23%) Metadata
7 7 (2.82%) Tableau
8 6 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.42%) Power BI
8 6 (2.42%) RDBMS
9 5 (2.02%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.61%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.21%) KDB
12 2 (0.81%) Crystal Reports
12 2 (0.81%) Kdb+
12 2 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.40%) Data Mining
13 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 18 (7.26%) JIRA
2 11 (4.44%) Git
3 10 (4.03%) Octopus Deploy
4 8 (3.23%) TeamCity
5 5 (2.02%) ER Studio
5 5 (2.02%) ERwin
5 5 (2.02%) PowerDesigner
6 4 (1.61%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.21%) VTune
8 1 (0.40%) GitLab
8 1 (0.40%) GoogleTest
8 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 164 (66.13%) Finance
2 138 (55.65%) Banking
3 132 (53.23%) Front Office
4 100 (40.32%) Investment Banking
5 61 (24.60%) Social Skills
6 31 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (5.65%) Financial Institution
8 11 (4.44%) Back Office
9 10 (4.03%) Private Banking
10 8 (3.23%) Legal
11 3 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.21%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.40%) Agriculture
13 1 (0.40%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.40%) Legal Technology
13 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 128 (51.61%) Developer
2 64 (25.81%) Analyst
3 56 (22.58%) Business Analyst
4 37 (14.92%) Python Developer
5 32 (12.90%) Senior
6 30 (12.10%) C# Developer
6 30 (12.10%) Front Office Developer
7 28 (11.29%) Java Developer
8 19 (7.66%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 17 (6.85%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
9 17 (6.85%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
9 17 (6.85%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
9 17 (6.85%) Low Latency Java Developer
10 16 (6.45%) Lead
10 16 (6.45%) Quantitative Developer
11 15 (6.05%) Software Engineer
12 13 (5.24%) Senior Developer
13 11 (4.44%) Derivatives Business Analyst
13 11 (4.44%) Lead Developer
13 11 (4.44%) Pricing Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (13.31%) FIX Protocol
2 28 (11.29%) React
3 12 (4.84%) .NET
3 12 (4.84%) NumPy
3 12 (4.84%) WebSockets
4 10 (4.03%) Django
4 10 (4.03%) FastAPI
4 10 (4.03%) Redux
5 9 (3.63%) Pandas
5 9 (3.63%) REST
6 8 (3.23%) AngularJS
6 8 (3.23%) Kafka
6 8 (3.23%) Node.js
6 8 (3.23%) RxJava
6 8 (3.23%) Spring
7 6 (2.42%) Flask
7 6 (2.42%) Middleware
8 5 (2.02%) PySpark
8 5 (2.02%) XML
9 4 (1.61%) Polars
Miscellaneous
1 68 (27.42%) Equities
2 65 (26.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 57 (22.98%) Fixed Income
4 30 (12.10%) Equity Derivative
5 19 (7.66%) Market Risk
6 18 (7.26%) Algorithms
7 17 (6.85%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (6.85%) TWAP
7 17 (6.85%) VWAP
8 16 (6.45%) Credit Risk
8 16 (6.45%) OTC Derivatives
9 15 (6.05%) Data Structures
10 14 (5.65%) Exotic Derivative
11 13 (5.24%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (4.84%) Hedge funds
13 10 (4.03%) Credit Derivative
13 10 (4.03%) Management Information System
14 8 (3.23%) Cloud Native
14 8 (3.23%) Onboarding
14 8 (3.23%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.85%) Unix
2 12 (4.84%) Linux
3 1 (0.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (22.58%) Agile
2 44 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (17.34%) Low Latency
4 38 (15.32%) Multithreading
5 37 (14.92%) Electronic Trading
6 30 (12.10%) Analytics
6 30 (12.10%) Software Engineering
7 29 (11.69%) CI/CD
7 29 (11.69%) DevOps
7 29 (11.69%) User Acceptance Testing
8 28 (11.29%) Algorithmic Trading
8 28 (11.29%) Microservices
8 28 (11.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 27 (10.89%) Data Analysis
10 25 (10.08%) Asset Management
10 25 (10.08%) Mathematics
10 25 (10.08%) Risk Management
11 24 (9.68%) Performance Optimisation
11 24 (9.68%) Validation
12 23 (9.27%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 102 (41.13%) Python
2 79 (31.85%) SQL
3 65 (26.21%) Java
4 53 (21.37%) C#
5 28 (11.29%) C++
5 28 (11.29%) TypeScript
6 14 (5.65%) JavaScript
7 12 (4.84%) Rust
8 8 (3.23%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.82%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.61%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.21%) Scala
12 2 (0.81%) Bash
12 2 (0.81%) Perl
12 2 (0.81%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.40%) C
13 1 (0.40%) F#
13 1 (0.40%) Korn
13 1 (0.40%) R
13 1 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 27 (10.89%) Degree
2 13 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (4.44%) Master's Degree
4 10 (4.03%) PhD
5 2 (0.81%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.81%) PMP
6 1 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.23%) MiFID
1 8 (3.23%) QA
2 7 (2.82%) EMIR
3 6 (2.42%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.81%) Basel III
4 2 (0.81%) COREP
4 2 (0.81%) FINREP
4 2 (0.81%) GAAP
4 2 (0.81%) IFRS
5 1 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (6.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.42%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.21%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (0.81%) Control-M
4 1 (0.40%) Grafana
4 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.40%) Terraform
4 1 (0.40%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 28 (11.29%) Murex
2 16 (6.45%) Bloomberg
3 8 (3.23%) Oracle
4 7 (2.82%) Charles River
5 6 (2.42%) Calypso
6 3 (1.21%) Databricks
6 3 (1.21%) Google
7 2 (0.81%) SimCorp
8 1 (0.40%) Advent
8 1 (0.40%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.40%) Apple
8 1 (0.40%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.40%) FIS
8 1 (0.40%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.40%) NYFIX
8 1 (0.40%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.40%) Reuters
8 1 (0.40%) Solace
8 1 (0.40%) Splunk
8 1 (0.40%) Tradeweb