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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 191 224
Rank change year-on-year -151 +33 +10
Contract jobs citing Derivative 235 345 398
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 1.36% 1.06%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.91% 4.06% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 276 357
10th Percentile £513 £556 £550
25th Percentile £613 £638 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £969 £888 £800
90th Percentile £1,000 £938 £850
UK median daily rate £750 £725 £700
% change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £77.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £77.50 -

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 12,299 8,501 11,553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.87% 33.51% 30.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,801 5,334 7,552
10th Percentile £290 £281 £256
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £547 £545
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% +0.37% -5.22%
75th Percentile £630 £671 £656
90th Percentile £749 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 602 274 762
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.81 £12.87
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.52 £16.25
Median hourly rate £33.50 £35.70 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +18.35% +34.04%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £84.52 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.50 £32.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +3.08% +8.33% +33.42%

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 5 March 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
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 5 March 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 -90 226 £750 - 54
North of England -61 3 £525 -10.64% 1
East of England - 3 £681 -
Yorkshire - 3 £525 -
Midlands - 2 £525 -
West Midlands - 2 £525 -
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 9 (3.83%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.98%) Confluence
3 4 (1.70%) Apache
3 4 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.85%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 19 (8.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.55%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.13%) Loan IQ
2 5 (2.13%) Temenos T24
3 3 (1.28%) Summit
4 2 (0.85%) Algo Collateral
4 2 (0.85%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.85%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.85%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.43%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.43%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 55 (23.40%) AWS
2 33 (14.04%) Azure
3 22 (9.36%) GCP
4 8 (3.40%) Snowflake
5 5 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (2.13%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.13%) SaaS
6 4 (1.70%) Amazon S3
6 4 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (1.70%) dbt
6 4 (1.70%) Serverless
7 3 (1.28%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (1.28%) npm
7 3 (1.28%) Yarn
8 2 (0.85%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.43%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (0.43%) Collibra
9 1 (0.43%) Figma
9 1 (0.43%) IaaS
9 1 (0.43%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.11%) FIX Connectivity
2 4 (1.70%) Multicast
3 1 (0.43%) RTMP
3 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (13.62%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (4.68%) Redis
2 11 (4.68%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.13%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.13%) Power BI
4 4 (1.70%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (1.70%) Apache Arrow
4 4 (1.70%) Apache Iceberg
4 4 (1.70%) Apache Ignite
4 4 (1.70%) Big Data
4 4 (1.70%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.70%) Dremio
4 4 (1.70%) KDB
4 4 (1.70%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.28%) Metadata
5 3 (1.28%) Tableau
6 2 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.85%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.85%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (7.23%) Git
2 10 (4.26%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.83%) JIRA
4 8 (3.40%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (2.13%) Visual Studio
6 4 (1.70%) Maven
7 3 (1.28%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.28%) GitLab
7 3 (1.28%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.28%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.28%) webpack
8 2 (0.85%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.85%) Gradle
9 1 (0.43%) Crucible
9 1 (0.43%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.43%) NUnit
9 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
General
1 170 (72.34%) Finance
2 114 (48.51%) Banking
3 99 (42.13%) Front Office
4 79 (33.62%) Investment Banking
5 70 (29.79%) Social Skills
6 40 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (9.36%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.98%) Back Office
9 3 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.28%) Legal
9 3 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.28%) Spanish Language
9 3 (1.28%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.85%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Japanese Language
11 1 (0.43%) Law
11 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 118 (50.21%) Developer
2 47 (20.00%) Senior
3 44 (18.72%) Analyst
4 40 (17.02%) Java Developer
5 32 (13.62%) Business Analyst
6 28 (11.91%) Senior Developer
7 23 (9.79%) Lead
8 20 (8.51%) Python Developer
9 19 (8.09%) Senior Java Developer
10 17 (7.23%) Software Engineer
11 16 (6.81%) Analytics Developer
11 16 (6.81%) AWS Developer
11 16 (6.81%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 16 (6.81%) Kafka Developer
11 16 (6.81%) Lead Developer
11 16 (6.81%) PostgreSQL Developer
12 15 (6.38%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
13 14 (5.96%) C# Developer
14 13 (5.53%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
14 13 (5.53%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (14.89%) React
2 23 (9.79%) Kafka
3 20 (8.51%) FIX Protocol
3 20 (8.51%) Redux
4 16 (6.81%) Node.js
5 13 (5.53%) RESTful
6 11 (4.68%) HTML
7 10 (4.26%) .NET
7 10 (4.26%) Pandas
8 9 (3.83%) Dask
8 9 (3.83%) NumPy
9 8 (3.40%) CSS
9 8 (3.40%) SciPy
9 8 (3.40%) Spring
10 7 (2.98%) REST
10 7 (2.98%) WebSockets
11 6 (2.55%) HTML5
12 5 (2.13%) Protocol Buffers
12 5 (2.13%) XML
13 4 (1.70%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 91 (38.72%) Equities
2 61 (25.96%) Fixed Income
3 46 (19.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 34 (14.47%) Equity Derivative
5 22 (9.36%) Market Risk
6 20 (8.51%) Algorithms
7 17 (7.23%) Management Information System
8 15 (6.38%) TWAP
8 15 (6.38%) VWAP
9 14 (5.96%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (5.53%) Hedge funds
11 12 (5.11%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (4.26%) Cloud Native
13 9 (3.83%) Credit Risk
13 9 (3.83%) Distributed Computing
13 9 (3.83%) Onboarding
14 8 (3.40%) Data Structures
15 7 (2.98%) OTC Derivatives
16 6 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
16 6 (2.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.68%) Linux
2 10 (4.26%) Unix
3 4 (1.70%) Windows
4 3 (1.28%) Debian
4 3 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.28%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.28%) VMS
5 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (32.34%) Agile
2 64 (27.23%) Risk Management
3 43 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (16.17%) Mathematics
5 35 (14.89%) Analytics
6 34 (14.47%) Low Latency
6 34 (14.47%) TDD
7 32 (13.62%) CI/CD
8 30 (12.77%) Electronic Trading
8 30 (12.77%) Software Engineering
9 28 (11.91%) Asset Management
10 27 (11.49%) DevOps
11 26 (11.06%) Design Patterns
11 26 (11.06%) Mentoring
12 24 (10.21%) Stakeholder Management
13 23 (9.79%) Computer Science
13 23 (9.79%) Multithreading
14 21 (8.94%) Investment Management
14 21 (8.94%) Portfolio Management
14 21 (8.94%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 103 (43.83%) Python
2 70 (29.79%) SQL
3 62 (26.38%) Java
4 34 (14.47%) C++
5 32 (13.62%) JavaScript
6 31 (13.19%) TypeScript
7 30 (12.77%) C#
8 5 (2.13%) VBA
9 4 (1.70%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.28%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.28%) Rust
11 2 (0.85%) Perl
11 2 (0.85%) Scala
12 1 (0.43%) F#
12 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.43%) R
12 1 (0.43%) VC++
Qualifications
1 42 (17.87%) Degree
2 18 (7.66%) Master's Degree
3 14 (5.96%) Numerate Degree
4 12 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.26%) PhD
6 3 (1.28%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.28%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.28%) PMP
7 1 (0.43%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.96%) QA
2 13 (5.53%) EMIR
3 7 (2.98%) IFRS
3 7 (2.98%) MiFID
4 6 (2.55%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.70%) IFRS 9
5 4 (1.70%) SLA
6 3 (1.28%) IAS 32
6 3 (1.28%) IAS 39
7 2 (0.85%) Basel III
7 2 (0.85%) GAAP
8 1 (0.43%) FINRA
8 1 (0.43%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.43%) PMO
8 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (3.83%) Docker
2 3 (1.28%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 8 (3.40%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.98%) Ansible
3 3 (1.28%) Grafana
3 3 (1.28%) Podman
3 3 (1.28%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.28%) Terraform
3 3 (1.28%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 2 (0.85%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.43%) Control-M
Vendors
1 21 (8.94%) Bloomberg
1 21 (8.94%) Murex
2 15 (6.38%) Oracle
3 6 (2.55%) ION Trading
3 6 (2.55%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.55%) Tradeweb
4 5 (2.13%) Charles River
4 5 (2.13%) jBASE
4 5 (2.13%) Temenos
5 4 (1.70%) Calypso
6 3 (1.28%) Apple
6 3 (1.28%) Google
6 3 (1.28%) IBM
6 3 (1.28%) NVIDIA
6 3 (1.28%) NYFIX
6 3 (1.28%) Refinitiv
7 2 (0.85%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.85%) Reuters
7 2 (0.85%) Sophis
7 2 (0.85%) Splunk