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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 247 175
Rank change year-on-year -139 -72 +7
Contract jobs citing Derivative 246 291 498
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 1.06% 1.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.63% 3.05% 4.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 249 434
10th Percentile £450 £538 £600
25th Percentile £613 £663 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £850 £825 £888
90th Percentile £895 £988 -
UK median daily rate £725 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +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 15,052 9,548 10,797
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.34% 34.85% 31.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,337 6,029 7,015
10th Percentile £316 £306 £300
25th Percentile £420 £408 £425
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 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 813 479 649
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.36
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.87 £16.63
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.77 £44.74
Median % change year-on-year +34.15% -26.75% +6.52%
75th Percentile £71.50 £60.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £87.43 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.53% -25.00% +6.67%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -71 239 £725 -3.33% 86
Yorkshire -47 5 £725 - 1
North of England -82 5 £725 +20.23% 4
Midlands -54 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 (2.44%) Confluence
2 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.81%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (3.66%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.03%) Summit
3 4 (1.63%) Loan IQ
4 3 (1.22%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.81%) Front Arena
5 2 (0.81%) Global One
6 1 (0.41%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.41%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 43 (17.48%) AWS
2 37 (15.04%) Azure
3 31 (12.60%) GCP
4 6 (2.44%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.03%) Snowflake
6 4 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.22%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (1.22%) Serverless
8 2 (0.81%) Collibra
9 1 (0.41%) npm
9 1 (0.41%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.41%) SaaS
9 1 (0.41%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.32%) FIX Connectivity
2 8 (3.25%) HTTP
3 1 (0.41%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.57%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (6.50%) SQL Server
3 13 (5.28%) Redis
4 11 (4.47%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.66%) Metadata
5 9 (3.66%) MongoDB
6 8 (3.25%) Tableau
7 7 (2.85%) RDBMS
8 6 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.44%) Power BI
9 5 (2.03%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.63%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.22%) KDB
12 2 (0.81%) Crystal Reports
12 2 (0.81%) Kdb+
12 2 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.41%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 16 (6.50%) JIRA
2 10 (4.07%) Octopus Deploy
3 9 (3.66%) Git
4 8 (3.25%) TeamCity
5 5 (2.03%) ER Studio
5 5 (2.03%) ERwin
5 5 (2.03%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (1.22%) VTune
7 2 (0.81%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.41%) GitLab
8 1 (0.41%) GoogleTest
8 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 160 (65.04%) Finance
2 132 (53.66%) Banking
3 127 (51.63%) Front Office
4 99 (40.24%) Investment Banking
5 57 (23.17%) Social Skills
6 30 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.66%) Back Office
7 9 (3.66%) Financial Institution
7 9 (3.66%) Private Banking
8 8 (3.25%) Legal
9 3 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.22%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.41%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.41%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.41%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.41%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 129 (52.44%) Developer
2 63 (25.61%) Analyst
3 57 (23.17%) Business Analyst
4 35 (14.23%) Python Developer
4 35 (14.23%) Senior
5 32 (13.01%) Java Developer
6 29 (11.79%) C# Developer
7 28 (11.38%) Front Office Developer
8 25 (10.16%) Lead
9 21 (8.54%) Software Engineer
10 20 (8.13%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 19 (7.72%) Lead Developer
12 18 (7.32%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
12 18 (7.32%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
12 18 (7.32%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
12 18 (7.32%) Low Latency Java Developer
13 15 (6.10%) Senior Developer
14 14 (5.69%) Lead Software Engineer
15 12 (4.88%) Derivatives Business Analyst
15 12 (4.88%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (14.23%) React
2 34 (13.82%) FIX Protocol
3 17 (6.91%) Redux
4 16 (6.50%) Node.js
5 12 (4.88%) .NET
6 11 (4.47%) Kafka
6 11 (4.47%) NumPy
6 11 (4.47%) WebSockets
7 9 (3.66%) Django
7 9 (3.66%) FastAPI
8 8 (3.25%) Pandas
8 8 (3.25%) REST
8 8 (3.25%) RxJava
8 8 (3.25%) Spring
9 6 (2.44%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.44%) Middleware
9 6 (2.44%) XML
10 5 (2.03%) Flask
11 4 (1.63%) Polars
11 4 (1.63%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 75 (30.49%) Equities
2 60 (24.39%) Fixed Income
3 58 (23.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 26 (10.57%) Equity Derivative
5 21 (8.54%) Market Risk
6 18 (7.32%) TWAP
6 18 (7.32%) VWAP
7 17 (6.91%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (6.50%) Algorithms
8 16 (6.50%) Credit Risk
8 16 (6.50%) OTC Derivatives
9 15 (6.10%) Data Structures
10 12 (4.88%) Hedge funds
11 11 (4.47%) Exotic Derivative
11 11 (4.47%) Management Information System
12 10 (4.07%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (3.25%) Cloud Native
13 8 (3.25%) Reference Data
14 7 (2.85%) Credit Derivative
14 7 (2.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.91%) Unix
2 11 (4.47%) Linux
3 1 (0.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (25.61%) Agile
2 44 (17.89%) Low Latency
2 44 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (16.26%) Electronic Trading
4 39 (15.85%) Multithreading
5 36 (14.63%) Software Engineering
6 33 (13.41%) Asset Management
7 30 (12.20%) Analytics
7 30 (12.20%) DevOps
8 29 (11.79%) Algorithmic Trading
9 28 (11.38%) User Acceptance Testing
10 27 (10.98%) CI/CD
10 27 (10.98%) Microservices
11 26 (10.57%) Risk Management
12 25 (10.16%) Data Analysis
12 25 (10.16%) Fintech
12 25 (10.16%) Portfolio Management
13 23 (9.35%) Computer Science
13 23 (9.35%) Data Modelling
13 23 (9.35%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 103 (41.87%) Python
2 80 (32.52%) SQL
3 65 (26.42%) Java
4 51 (20.73%) C#
5 35 (14.23%) TypeScript
6 27 (10.98%) C++
7 20 (8.13%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.88%) Rust
9 8 (3.25%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.44%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.63%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.63%) Scala
12 2 (0.81%) Bash
12 2 (0.81%) Perl
12 2 (0.81%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.41%) C
13 1 (0.41%) F#
13 1 (0.41%) Korn
13 1 (0.41%) R
13 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (10.57%) Degree
2 13 (5.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (4.47%) Master's Degree
4 10 (4.07%) PhD
5 1 (0.41%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.25%) MiFID
1 8 (3.25%) QA
2 7 (2.85%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.85%) EMIR
3 2 (0.81%) Basel III
3 2 (0.81%) COREP
3 2 (0.81%) FINREP
3 2 (0.81%) GAAP
3 2 (0.81%) IFRS
4 1 (0.41%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (6.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.44%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.22%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (0.81%) Control-M
4 1 (0.41%) Grafana
4 1 (0.41%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.41%) Terraform
4 1 (0.41%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 24 (9.76%) Murex
2 14 (5.69%) Bloomberg
3 9 (3.66%) Oracle
4 7 (2.85%) Charles River
5 5 (2.03%) Calypso
6 3 (1.22%) Databricks
6 3 (1.22%) Google
7 1 (0.41%) Ab Initio
7 1 (0.41%) Advent
7 1 (0.41%) Apple
7 1 (0.41%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.41%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.41%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.41%) NYFIX
7 1 (0.41%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.41%) Reuters
7 1 (0.41%) SimCorp
7 1 (0.41%) Solace
7 1 (0.41%) Splunk