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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 176 182
Rank change year-on-year -93 +6 +41
Contract jobs citing Derivative 267 465 593
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.96% 1.41% 1.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.68% 4.58% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 397 531
10th Percentile £537 £600 £525
25th Percentile £638 £663 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £825 £888 £848
90th Percentile £988 - £1,000
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £700
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £87.50 - £47.73
% change year-on-year - - +47.31%

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 9,971 10,152 13,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.88% 30.82% 32.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,272 6,271 9,491
10th Percentile £300 £300 £300
25th Percentile £408 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £792
UK median daily rate £515 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.63% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 500 414 412
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.61 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -42.37% +25.00% +76.46%
75th Percentile £58.75 £70.00 £67.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.16 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +11.11% +69.81%

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
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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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 -51 260 £750 -6.25% 89
North of England -13 5 £612 +8.80% 1
North West -16 3 £612 +8.80% 1
Yorkshire - 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 £600 -
Midlands - 2 £600 -
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 48 (17.98%) Apache
1 48 (17.98%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.75%) Confluence
3 4 (1.50%) HCL Notes
3 4 (1.50%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.75%) IIS
5 1 (0.37%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 21 (7.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.37%) Fusion 360
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.37%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 31 (11.61%) Aladdin
2 20 (7.49%) thinkFolio
3 4 (1.50%) Fidessa
4 3 (1.12%) Kondor
5 2 (0.75%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.37%) Actimize
6 1 (0.37%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.37%) Endur
6 1 (0.37%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.37%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.37%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 72 (26.97%) AWS
2 48 (17.98%) dbt
2 48 (17.98%) Snowflake
3 36 (13.48%) Azure
4 16 (5.99%) Power Platform
5 8 (3.00%) npm
5 8 (3.00%) Yarn
6 5 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 4 (1.50%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (1.50%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (1.50%) Power Automate
7 4 (1.50%) PowerApps
7 4 (1.50%) Serverless
8 2 (0.75%) GCP
8 2 (0.75%) SaaS
9 1 (0.37%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.87%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (17.98%) Amazon Athena
1 48 (17.98%) Apache Arrow
1 48 (17.98%) Apache Iceberg
1 48 (17.98%) Apache Ignite
1 48 (17.98%) Data Lake
1 48 (17.98%) Dremio
2 33 (12.36%) SQL Server
3 19 (7.12%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (5.99%) Power BI
5 10 (3.75%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.62%) Redis
7 6 (2.25%) Tableau
8 5 (1.87%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.12%) MS Access
9 3 (1.12%) Power Query
10 2 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.75%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.37%) Big Data
11 1 (0.37%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 11 (4.12%) Git
2 10 (3.75%) JIRA
3 9 (3.37%) Octopus Deploy
4 8 (3.00%) webpack
5 2 (0.75%) Gradle
5 2 (0.75%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.75%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.37%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.37%) GitLab
6 1 (0.37%) Hudson
6 1 (0.37%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.37%) Maven
General
1 217 (81.27%) Finance
2 157 (58.80%) Banking
3 150 (56.18%) Front Office
4 123 (46.07%) Investment Banking
5 55 (20.60%) Social Skills
6 23 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (5.24%) Financial Institution
8 9 (3.37%) Back Office
9 4 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.75%) Law
10 2 (0.75%) Legal
11 1 (0.37%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.37%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 94 (35.21%) Developer
2 87 (32.58%) Senior
3 77 (28.84%) Analyst
4 62 (23.22%) Business Analyst
5 49 (18.35%) Software Engineer
6 48 (17.98%) AWS Engineer
6 48 (17.98%) AWS Software Engineer
6 48 (17.98%) Java Engineer
6 48 (17.98%) Java Software Engineer
6 48 (17.98%) Python Engineer
6 48 (17.98%) Python Software Engineer
6 48 (17.98%) Senior Java Engineer
6 48 (17.98%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 48 (17.98%) Senior Software Engineer
7 30 (11.24%) Senior Developer
8 25 (9.36%) Business Manager
8 25 (9.36%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
9 24 (8.99%) Java Developer
10 23 (8.61%) C# Developer
11 18 (6.74%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (18.35%) NumPy
1 49 (18.35%) Pandas
1 49 (18.35%) Protocol Buffers
2 48 (17.98%) gRPC
2 48 (17.98%) SciPy
3 20 (7.49%) Kafka
4 17 (6.37%) .NET
5 13 (4.87%) React
6 12 (4.49%) FIX Protocol
7 10 (3.75%) CSS
8 7 (2.62%) Middleware
8 7 (2.62%) REST
9 5 (1.87%) .NET Core
9 5 (1.87%) FpML
9 5 (1.87%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (1.87%) XML
10 4 (1.50%) .NET Framework
11 3 (1.12%) SOAP
11 3 (1.12%) Spring
11 3 (1.12%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 111 (41.57%) Fixed Income
2 104 (38.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 81 (30.34%) Equities
4 76 (28.46%) Hedge funds
5 48 (17.98%) Pricing Data
6 28 (10.49%) Market Risk
7 27 (10.11%) Equity Derivative
8 21 (7.87%) Onboarding
9 20 (7.49%) Distributed Systems
10 17 (6.37%) Management Information System
11 12 (4.49%) Product Ownership
12 10 (3.75%) Credit Derivative
12 10 (3.75%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (3.75%) Interest Rate Derivative
13 9 (3.37%) Algorithms
13 9 (3.37%) Credit Risk
14 7 (2.62%) Data Structures
14 7 (2.62%) OTC Derivatives
15 6 (2.25%) Reference Data
16 5 (1.87%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.24%) Linux
2 7 (2.62%) Unix
3 6 (2.25%) Windows
4 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (50.94%) Agile
2 75 (28.09%) Asset Management
3 73 (27.34%) Investment Management
4 56 (20.97%) Software Engineering
5 48 (17.98%) Risk Management
6 47 (17.60%) Analytics
7 44 (16.48%) Mathematics
8 42 (15.73%) Business Analysis
9 39 (14.61%) Business Intelligence
10 27 (10.11%) User Acceptance Testing
11 26 (9.74%) Portfolio Management
12 25 (9.36%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (8.99%) TDD
14 23 (8.61%) CI/CD
14 23 (8.61%) Scrum
15 19 (7.12%) Computer Science
15 19 (7.12%) Physics
16 17 (6.37%) Microservices
17 16 (5.99%) DevOps
17 16 (5.99%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 139 (52.06%) Python
2 95 (35.58%) SQL
3 91 (34.08%) Java
4 59 (22.10%) JavaScript
4 59 (22.10%) TypeScript
5 44 (16.48%) C#
6 30 (11.24%) C++
7 4 (1.50%) VBA
8 2 (0.75%) Haskell
8 2 (0.75%) Rust
8 2 (0.75%) Scala
9 1 (0.37%) Bash
9 1 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.37%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.37%) VC++
Qualifications
1 38 (14.23%) Degree
2 12 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
2 12 (4.49%) Master's Degree
3 10 (3.75%) Numerate Degree
4 7 (2.62%) PhD
5 2 (0.75%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.75%) PMP
6 1 (0.37%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.87%) MiFID
2 9 (3.37%) QA
3 8 (3.00%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.25%) Basel III
4 6 (2.25%) GDPR
5 4 (1.50%) EMIR
6 3 (1.12%) COREP
6 3 (1.12%) SLA
7 2 (0.75%) Dodd-Frank
7 2 (0.75%) PMO
7 2 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.37%) IFRS
8 1 (0.37%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.37%) SEPA
8 1 (0.37%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 4 (1.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.37%) Ansible
2 1 (0.37%) Grafana
2 1 (0.37%) Terraform
2 1 (0.37%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (9.36%) BISAM
2 20 (7.49%) Calypso
3 16 (5.99%) Charles River
3 16 (5.99%) SimCorp
4 14 (5.24%) Microsoft
5 10 (3.75%) Oracle
6 8 (3.00%) Atlassian
6 8 (3.00%) Murex
7 7 (2.62%) Sophis
8 6 (2.25%) Bloomberg
8 6 (2.25%) Databricks
9 4 (1.50%) ION Trading
9 4 (1.50%) Lotus
9 4 (1.50%) Portware
9 4 (1.50%) Sybase
10 3 (1.12%) Reuters
11 2 (0.75%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.37%) Cisco
12 1 (0.37%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.37%) Siemens