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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 233 181
Rank change year-on-year -152 -52 +2
Contract jobs citing Derivative 244 303 502
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 1.11% 1.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.63% 3.20% 4.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 261 440
10th Percentile £450 £538 £600
25th Percentile £600 £663 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £850 £831 £888
90th Percentile £895 £950 -
UK median daily rate £725 £725 £800
% change year-on-year - -9.38% +10.34%
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 14,954 9,481 11,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.23% 34.83% 30.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,288 6,018 7,214
10th Percentile £317 £306 £293
25th Percentile £420 £410 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 803 468 735
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.43
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.87 £16.12
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.21% -17.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £72.25 £62.24 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.87 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +46.53% -21.05% +20.63%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -76 237 £725 -3.33% 58
Yorkshire -39 5 £725 - 1
North of England -84 5 £725 +20.23% 3
Midlands -55 1 - -
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 6 (2.46%) Confluence
2 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (4.51%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.46%) Summit
3 4 (1.64%) Loan IQ
4 3 (1.23%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.82%) Front Arena
5 2 (0.82%) Global One
6 1 (0.41%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.41%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 42 (17.21%) AWS
2 36 (14.75%) Azure
3 30 (12.30%) GCP
4 6 (2.46%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.05%) Snowflake
6 4 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.23%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (1.23%) Serverless
8 2 (0.82%) Collibra
8 2 (0.82%) SaaS
9 1 (0.41%) npm
9 1 (0.41%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.41%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.38%) FIX Connectivity
2 8 (3.28%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.66%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (6.56%) SQL Server
3 13 (5.33%) Redis
3 13 (5.33%) Relational Database
4 10 (4.10%) MongoDB
5 9 (3.69%) Metadata
6 8 (3.28%) RDBMS
6 8 (3.28%) Tableau
7 6 (2.46%) Power BI
8 5 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.64%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.64%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.82%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (0.82%) KDB
11 2 (0.82%) Kdb+
11 2 (0.82%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.41%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.41%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 16 (6.56%) JIRA
2 10 (4.10%) Octopus Deploy
3 9 (3.69%) Git
4 8 (3.28%) TeamCity
5 4 (1.64%) ER Studio
5 4 (1.64%) ERwin
5 4 (1.64%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (1.23%) VTune
7 2 (0.82%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.41%) GitLab
8 1 (0.41%) GoogleTest
8 1 (0.41%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 156 (63.93%) Finance
2 130 (53.28%) Banking
3 128 (52.46%) Front Office
4 98 (40.16%) Investment Banking
5 58 (23.77%) Social Skills
6 31 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.69%) Back Office
8 8 (3.28%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.28%) Legal
9 7 (2.87%) Private Banking
10 3 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.23%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.82%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.41%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.41%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.41%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 127 (52.05%) Developer
2 65 (26.64%) Analyst
3 59 (24.18%) Business Analyst
4 35 (14.34%) Python Developer
5 33 (13.52%) Senior
6 32 (13.11%) Java Developer
7 30 (12.30%) C# Developer
8 28 (11.48%) Front Office Developer
9 25 (10.25%) Lead
10 21 (8.61%) Software Engineer
11 20 (8.20%) Electronic Trading Developer
12 19 (7.79%) Lead Developer
13 18 (7.38%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
13 18 (7.38%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
13 18 (7.38%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
13 18 (7.38%) Low Latency Java Developer
14 14 (5.74%) Lead Software Engineer
14 14 (5.74%) Senior Developer
15 13 (5.33%) Derivatives Business Analyst
16 12 (4.92%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (15.57%) React
2 33 (13.52%) FIX Protocol
3 17 (6.97%) Redux
4 16 (6.56%) Node.js
5 13 (5.33%) .NET
5 13 (5.33%) WebSockets
6 11 (4.51%) Kafka
7 10 (4.10%) NumPy
8 8 (3.28%) Django
8 8 (3.28%) FastAPI
8 8 (3.28%) REST
8 8 (3.28%) RxJava
8 8 (3.28%) Spring
9 7 (2.87%) Pandas
9 7 (2.87%) XML
10 6 (2.46%) AngularJS
10 6 (2.46%) Middleware
11 5 (2.05%) RESTful
12 4 (1.64%) Flask
12 4 (1.64%) Polars
Miscellaneous
1 74 (30.33%) Equities
2 60 (24.59%) Fixed Income
3 57 (23.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 28 (11.48%) Equity Derivative
5 21 (8.61%) Market Risk
6 18 (7.38%) TWAP
6 18 (7.38%) VWAP
7 17 (6.97%) Credit Risk
8 16 (6.56%) Data Structures
8 16 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
9 15 (6.15%) Algorithms
9 15 (6.15%) OTC Derivatives
10 12 (4.92%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (4.92%) Hedge funds
10 12 (4.92%) Management Information System
11 10 (4.10%) Exotic Derivative
12 8 (3.28%) Cloud Native
13 7 (2.87%) Credit Derivative
13 7 (2.87%) Reference Data
14 6 (2.46%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.79%) Unix
2 9 (3.69%) Linux
3 1 (0.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (27.05%) Agile
2 46 (18.85%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (18.44%) Low Latency
4 40 (16.39%) Electronic Trading
5 39 (15.98%) Multithreading
6 34 (13.93%) Software Engineering
7 33 (13.52%) Asset Management
8 29 (11.89%) Analytics
8 29 (11.89%) DevOps
8 29 (11.89%) User Acceptance Testing
9 28 (11.48%) Algorithmic Trading
9 28 (11.48%) Risk Management
10 27 (11.07%) CI/CD
10 27 (11.07%) Microservices
11 25 (10.25%) Portfolio Management
12 24 (9.84%) Computer Science
12 24 (9.84%) Fintech
12 24 (9.84%) Full-Stack Development
13 23 (9.43%) Data Analysis
13 23 (9.43%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 101 (41.39%) Python
2 81 (33.20%) SQL
3 66 (27.05%) Java
4 52 (21.31%) C#
5 35 (14.34%) TypeScript
6 26 (10.66%) C++
7 21 (8.61%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.92%) Rust
9 7 (2.87%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.87%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.64%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.64%) Scala
11 2 (0.82%) Perl
11 2 (0.82%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.41%) Bash
12 1 (0.41%) C
12 1 (0.41%) F#
12 1 (0.41%) Korn
12 1 (0.41%) R
12 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 27 (11.07%) Degree
2 15 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (4.10%) Master's Degree
4 9 (3.69%) PhD
5 1 (0.41%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.10%) QA
2 7 (2.87%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.87%) EMIR
2 7 (2.87%) MiFID
3 3 (1.23%) IFRS
4 2 (0.82%) Basel III
4 2 (0.82%) COREP
4 2 (0.82%) FINREP
4 2 (0.82%) GAAP
5 1 (0.41%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (7.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (2.87%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.82%) Control-M
2 2 (0.82%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.41%) Grafana
3 1 (0.41%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (10.25%) Murex
2 13 (5.33%) Bloomberg
2 13 (5.33%) Oracle
3 8 (3.28%) Charles River
4 5 (2.05%) Calypso
5 3 (1.23%) Databricks
5 3 (1.23%) Google
6 2 (0.82%) Microsoft
6 2 (0.82%) SimCorp
7 1 (0.41%) Ab Initio
7 1 (0.41%) Advent
7 1 (0.41%) Apple
7 1 (0.41%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.41%) Reuters
7 1 (0.41%) Solace