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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 265 168
Rank change year-on-year -135 -97 +9
Contract jobs citing Derivative 242 272 483
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.99% 1.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.56% 2.75% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 234 418
10th Percentile £428 £538 £600
25th Percentile £600 £653 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £794 £825 £888
90th Percentile £892 £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 15,488 9,905 10,061
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.70% 35.96% 30.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,452 6,251 6,324
10th Percentile £325 £300 £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 £684
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +1.25% -5.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 983 488 459
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.50 £14.02
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.87 £22.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £32.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.78% -40.45% +19.88%
75th Percentile £68.75 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £77.50 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £38.39 £30.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +27.96% -36.84% +8.57%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -87 234 £725 -3.33% 235
North of England -70 6 £725 +18.46% 4
Yorkshire -34 5 £725 -
Midlands -56 1 - - 1
North West -57 1 £198 -67.65% 4
West Midlands - 1 - - 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 4 (1.65%) Confluence
2 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.83%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (3.72%) Aladdin
2 4 (1.65%) Summit
3 3 (1.24%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.83%) Front Arena
4 2 (0.83%) Global One
4 2 (0.83%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (0.83%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.83%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.83%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.83%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.41%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.41%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.41%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 19 (7.85%) Azure
2 17 (7.02%) AWS
3 14 (5.79%) GCP
4 6 (2.48%) Power Platform
5 4 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (1.24%) Snowflake
7 2 (0.83%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (0.83%) Serverless
8 1 (0.41%) Collibra
8 1 (0.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.79%) FIX Connectivity
2 8 (3.31%) HTTP
3 2 (0.83%) Multicast
4 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.79%) SQL Server
2 11 (4.55%) Relational Database
3 10 (4.13%) MongoDB
4 9 (3.72%) Redis
5 8 (3.31%) Metadata
6 7 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (2.89%) Tableau
7 6 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.48%) Power BI
7 6 (2.48%) RDBMS
8 5 (2.07%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.65%) KDB
10 3 (1.24%) Kdb+
10 3 (1.24%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.83%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.41%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.41%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (7.02%) JIRA
2 9 (3.72%) Git
3 7 (2.89%) Octopus Deploy
4 5 (2.07%) ER Studio
4 5 (2.07%) ERwin
4 5 (2.07%) PowerDesigner
4 5 (2.07%) TeamCity
5 3 (1.24%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.24%) VTune
6 1 (0.41%) GitLab
6 1 (0.41%) GoogleTest
6 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 160 (66.12%) Finance
2 134 (55.37%) Banking
3 124 (51.24%) Front Office
4 94 (38.84%) Investment Banking
5 60 (24.79%) Social Skills
6 30 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (7.02%) Financial Institution
8 11 (4.55%) Back Office
9 10 (4.13%) Private Banking
10 9 (3.72%) Legal
11 3 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.24%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.24%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.83%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.41%) Agriculture
13 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.41%) International Banking
13 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 115 (47.52%) Developer
2 68 (28.10%) Analyst
3 59 (24.38%) Business Analyst
4 35 (14.46%) Senior
5 32 (13.22%) Python Developer
6 30 (12.40%) Front Office Developer
7 27 (11.16%) C# Developer
8 24 (9.92%) Java Developer
9 18 (7.44%) Quantitative Developer
10 15 (6.20%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 14 (5.79%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
11 14 (5.79%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
11 14 (5.79%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
11 14 (5.79%) Low Latency Java Developer
12 13 (5.37%) Senior Developer
13 11 (4.55%) Pricing Developer
14 10 (4.13%) Banking Analyst
15 9 (3.72%) Project Manager
15 9 (3.72%) Risk Analyst
15 9 (3.72%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (12.81%) FIX Protocol
2 16 (6.61%) React
3 12 (4.96%) WebSockets
4 11 (4.55%) NumPy
5 10 (4.13%) .NET
5 10 (4.13%) Django
5 10 (4.13%) FastAPI
6 8 (3.31%) REST
7 7 (2.89%) Pandas
7 7 (2.89%) RxJava
7 7 (2.89%) Spring
8 6 (2.48%) Flask
8 6 (2.48%) Kafka
8 6 (2.48%) Middleware
9 5 (2.07%) AngularJS
9 5 (2.07%) PySpark
9 5 (2.07%) XML
10 4 (1.65%) Next.js
10 4 (1.65%) Polars
11 3 (1.24%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 67 (27.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 59 (24.38%) Equities
3 50 (20.66%) Fixed Income
4 32 (13.22%) Equity Derivative
5 18 (7.44%) Market Risk
6 17 (7.02%) Algorithms
6 17 (7.02%) Credit Risk
6 17 (7.02%) Exotic Derivative
7 16 (6.61%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (6.20%) Hedge funds
9 14 (5.79%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (5.79%) OTC Derivatives
9 14 (5.79%) TWAP
9 14 (5.79%) VWAP
10 12 (4.96%) Data Structures
11 10 (4.13%) Management Information System
12 8 (3.31%) Credit Derivative
12 8 (3.31%) Interest Rate Derivative
13 7 (2.89%) Onboarding
14 6 (2.48%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.02%) Unix
2 12 (4.96%) Linux
3 1 (0.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
2 41 (16.94%) Agile
3 36 (14.88%) Low Latency
4 33 (13.64%) Analytics
4 33 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
5 32 (13.22%) Multithreading
6 31 (12.81%) Data Analysis
7 30 (12.40%) User Acceptance Testing
8 29 (11.98%) Electronic Trading
9 26 (10.74%) Algorithmic Trading
9 26 (10.74%) Business Analysis
9 26 (10.74%) Validation
10 25 (10.33%) CI/CD
10 25 (10.33%) Software Engineering
11 24 (9.92%) DevOps
11 24 (9.92%) Microservices
11 24 (9.92%) Requirements Gathering
11 24 (9.92%) Risk Management
12 22 (9.09%) Mathematics
12 22 (9.09%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 90 (37.19%) Python
2 75 (30.99%) SQL
3 60 (24.79%) Java
4 52 (21.49%) C#
5 30 (12.40%) C++
6 18 (7.44%) TypeScript
7 11 (4.55%) Rust
8 9 (3.72%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.89%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.07%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.65%) JavaScript
12 3 (1.24%) Scala
13 2 (0.83%) Bash
13 2 (0.83%) C
13 2 (0.83%) Perl
13 2 (0.83%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.41%) Korn
14 1 (0.41%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 25 (10.33%) Degree
2 10 (4.13%) Master's Degree
2 10 (4.13%) PhD
3 9 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.83%) Numerate Degree
4 2 (0.83%) PMI Certification
4 2 (0.83%) PMP
5 1 (0.41%) CFA
5 1 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.31%) MiFID
2 7 (2.89%) EMIR
2 7 (2.89%) QA
3 6 (2.48%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.24%) Basel III
5 2 (0.83%) COREP
5 2 (0.83%) FINREP
5 2 (0.83%) GAAP
5 2 (0.83%) IFRS
5 2 (0.83%) SLA
6 1 (0.41%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 15 (6.20%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.07%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.24%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (0.83%) Control-M
3 2 (0.83%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 22 (9.09%) Murex
2 14 (5.79%) Bloomberg
3 10 (4.13%) Oracle
4 7 (2.89%) Calypso
5 4 (1.65%) Charles River
6 3 (1.24%) Databricks
7 2 (0.83%) Google
7 2 (0.83%) NYFIX
7 2 (0.83%) Refinitiv
7 2 (0.83%) SimCorp
7 2 (0.83%) Tradeweb
8 1 (0.41%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.41%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.41%) FIS
8 1 (0.41%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.41%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.41%) Solace
8 1 (0.41%) Splunk