Derivative Contracts 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 188 214
Rank change year-on-year +13 +26 +49
Contract jobs citing Derivative 382 461 634
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.57% 1.24% 1.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.59% 4.02% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 413 546
10th Percentile £538 £550 £550
25th Percentile £645 £638 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £881 £850 £838
90th Percentile £938 £888 £975
UK median daily rate £725 £750 £742
% change year-on-year -3.33% +1.04% +9.96%

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 8,317 11,465 17,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.15% 30.83% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,436 7,505 11,795
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 827 591
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.01 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%
75th Percentile £64.63 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.40 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Derivative as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Derivative in England

Derivative
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Derivative in England.

Daily rate trend for Derivative in England

Derivative
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Derivative in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Derivative in England

Derivative
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Derivative in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 2025. 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 -7 371 £750 - 230
North of England +21 5 £585 -8.31% 9
North West +19 5 £585 -8.31% 7
South East - 1 £765 - 48
East Midlands - 1 £825 -
Midlands - 1 £825 - 2
Derivative
UK

Derivative
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 45 (11.78%) Apache
1 45 (11.78%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.31%) Confluence
3 2 (0.52%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.52%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (4.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.79%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.52%) Notepad++
4 1 (0.26%) Fusion 360
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.26%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 38 (9.95%) Aladdin
2 14 (3.66%) thinkFolio
3 5 (1.31%) Kondor
4 4 (1.05%) Misys Midas
5 2 (0.52%) FLEXCUBE
5 2 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.26%) Endur
6 1 (0.26%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.26%) ION Anvil
6 1 (0.26%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.26%) Summit
6 1 (0.26%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 77 (20.16%) AWS
2 45 (11.78%) dbt
2 45 (11.78%) Snowflake
3 31 (8.12%) Azure
4 29 (7.59%) Amazon EC2
4 29 (7.59%) Amazon EKS
5 23 (6.02%) GCP
6 17 (4.45%) Amazon ECS
6 17 (4.45%) Dagster
7 15 (3.93%) Amazon S3
8 12 (3.14%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 12 (3.14%) CloudFront
8 12 (3.14%) npm
8 12 (3.14%) Route 53
8 12 (3.14%) Yarn
9 10 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.31%) Kong
11 4 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.05%) Power Platform
12 3 (0.79%) AWS Data Pipeline
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.88%) FIX Connectivity
2 2 (0.52%) BGP
2 2 (0.52%) Firewall
2 2 (0.52%) HSRP
2 2 (0.52%) IGMP
2 2 (0.52%) Multicast
2 2 (0.52%) OSPF
2 2 (0.52%) VRRP
3 1 (0.26%) DHCP
3 1 (0.26%) DNS
3 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (32.46%) Data Lake
2 45 (11.78%) Amazon Athena
2 45 (11.78%) Apache Arrow
2 45 (11.78%) Apache Iceberg
2 45 (11.78%) Dremio
3 32 (8.38%) SQL Server
4 29 (7.59%) Apache Ignite
5 22 (5.76%) Redis
6 20 (5.24%) NoSQL
7 14 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (3.14%) Amazon Aurora
8 12 (3.14%) DocumentDB
9 6 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.31%) Data Mart
10 5 (1.31%) Hazelcast
10 5 (1.31%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.05%) Power BI
11 4 (1.05%) Tableau
12 3 (0.79%) Amazon QuickSight
12 3 (0.79%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 17 (4.45%) Git
2 12 (3.14%) webpack
3 8 (2.09%) JIRA
4 7 (1.83%) Octopus Deploy
4 7 (1.83%) Visual Studio
5 6 (1.57%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.79%) ERwin
7 2 (0.52%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.52%) MagicDraw
7 2 (0.52%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.52%) XMLSpy
8 1 (0.26%) Ant
8 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.26%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.26%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.26%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.26%) Maven
8 1 (0.26%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.26%) Subversion
General
1 323 (84.55%) Finance
2 251 (65.71%) Front Office
3 158 (41.36%) Banking
4 116 (30.37%) Investment Banking
5 39 (10.21%) Social Skills
6 36 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (3.14%) Retail Banking
8 8 (2.09%) Back Office
9 7 (1.83%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.31%) French Language
11 2 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.52%) Law
11 2 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.52%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.26%) Legal
12 1 (0.26%) Marketing
12 1 (0.26%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 131 (34.29%) Developer
2 96 (25.13%) Analyst
3 81 (21.20%) Business Analyst
4 53 (13.87%) Business Manager
5 47 (12.30%) Senior
5 47 (12.30%) Software Engineer
6 45 (11.78%) AWS Engineer
6 45 (11.78%) AWS Software Engineer
7 37 (9.69%) Head of Finance
8 34 (8.90%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
8 34 (8.90%) Java Developer
9 33 (8.64%) C# Developer
10 32 (8.38%) Java Engineer
10 32 (8.38%) Java Software Engineer
11 29 (7.59%) Lead
12 28 (7.33%) Python Engineer
13 26 (6.81%) Product Manager
13 26 (6.81%) Python Software Engineer
14 24 (6.28%) Senior Developer
15 22 (5.76%) Data Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (9.16%) PySpark
2 31 (8.12%) NumPy
2 31 (8.12%) Pandas
2 31 (8.12%) SciPy
3 30 (7.85%) Protocol Buffers
4 29 (7.59%) gRPC
5 17 (4.45%) React
6 14 (3.66%) CSS
6 14 (3.66%) RESTful
7 13 (3.40%) GraphQL
8 12 (3.14%) FIX Protocol
9 10 (2.62%) .NET
9 10 (2.62%) Kafka
10 9 (2.36%) REST
11 8 (2.09%) XML
12 7 (1.83%) AngularJS
12 7 (1.83%) RxJS
13 5 (1.31%) Murex MxML
13 5 (1.31%) Redux
13 5 (1.31%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 213 (55.76%) Fixed Income
2 202 (52.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 197 (51.57%) Hedge funds
4 195 (51.05%) Equities
5 54 (14.14%) Product Ownership
6 21 (5.50%) Onboarding
7 20 (5.24%) Market Risk
8 19 (4.97%) Equity Derivative
9 15 (3.93%) Interest Rate Derivative
10 14 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
11 12 (3.14%) Pricing Data
12 7 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.83%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.83%) OTC Derivatives
13 6 (1.57%) Public Cloud
14 5 (1.31%) Distributed Computing
14 5 (1.31%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 4 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
15 4 (1.05%) N-Tier
16 3 (0.79%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.71%) Apple iOS
2 17 (4.45%) Unix
3 15 (3.93%) Linux
4 5 (1.31%) Windows
5 3 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.26%) CentOS
6 1 (0.26%) Fedora
6 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (67.28%) Agile
2 164 (42.93%) Investment Management
3 125 (32.72%) Asset Management
4 119 (31.15%) Migration
5 111 (29.06%) Roadmaps
6 95 (24.87%) Regulatory Compliance
7 93 (24.35%) Data Governance
8 83 (21.73%) Data Management
9 76 (19.90%) Analytics
10 57 (14.92%) Portfolio Management
11 55 (14.40%) Software Engineering
12 46 (12.04%) Risk Management
13 42 (10.99%) Business Analysis
13 42 (10.99%) Electronic Trading
14 41 (10.73%) Business Intelligence
15 38 (9.95%) Problem-Solving
16 34 (8.90%) Mathematics
17 28 (7.33%) DevOps
18 26 (6.81%) CI/CD
19 25 (6.54%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 145 (37.96%) Python
2 114 (29.84%) SQL
3 95 (24.87%) Java
4 48 (12.57%) TypeScript
5 44 (11.52%) C#
5 44 (11.52%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.71%) C++
7 8 (2.09%) Haskell
8 7 (1.83%) Scala
9 4 (1.05%) OCaml
10 2 (0.52%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.52%) RPG
10 2 (0.52%) Rust
11 1 (0.26%) Bash
11 1 (0.26%) Bicep
11 1 (0.26%) C
11 1 (0.26%) Ruby
11 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (11.78%) Degree
2 19 (4.97%) Numerate Degree
3 7 (1.83%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.26%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.26%) PhD
4 1 (0.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (9.16%) MiFID
2 6 (1.57%) EMIR
2 6 (1.57%) QA
3 5 (1.31%) Basel III
4 3 (0.79%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.79%) Dodd-Frank
5 2 (0.52%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.26%) COREP
6 1 (0.26%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (2.09%) Docker
2 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.05%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.52%) Ansible
2 2 (0.52%) Control-M
2 2 (0.52%) Terraform
2 2 (0.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 37 (9.69%) BISAM
2 20 (5.24%) Charles River
3 14 (3.66%) Calypso
3 14 (3.66%) SimCorp
4 13 (3.40%) Murex
5 12 (3.14%) Atlassian
5 12 (3.14%) Oracle
6 7 (1.83%) Sybase
7 5 (1.31%) Bloomberg
7 5 (1.31%) ION Trading
8 4 (1.05%) Solace
9 3 (0.79%) Cisco
9 3 (0.79%) Databricks
9 3 (0.79%) Google
9 3 (0.79%) Informatica
9 3 (0.79%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.52%) Arista
10 2 (0.52%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.52%) IBM
10 2 (0.52%) Microsoft