Derivative Contracts 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 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 235 181 183
Rank change year-on-year -54 +2 +60
Contract jobs citing Derivative 303 502 663
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.11% 1.39% 1.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.20% 4.50% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 440 569
10th Percentile £538 £600 £525
25th Percentile £663 £663 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £725
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% +7.37%
75th Percentile £831 £888 £860
90th Percentile £950 - £1,000
UK median daily rate £725 £800 £725
% change year-on-year -9.38% +10.34% +7.41%
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 9,471 11,154 15,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.78% 30.90% 32.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,009 7,203 10,885
10th Percentile £306 £295 £310
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 473 735 453
10th Percentile £15.36 £12.43 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.12 £18.25
Median hourly rate £32.81 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.98% +14.29% +33.23%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £79.95
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £38.00 £31.05
% change year-on-year -21.05% +22.38% +15.09%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Derivative in England.

Daily rate trend for Derivative in England

Derivative
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Derivative in England over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Derivative in England

Derivative
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Derivative in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 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 -46 289 £750 -6.25% 253
North of England +9 9 £603 -5.41%
North West +9 7 £603 -5.41%
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 56 (18.48%) Apache
1 56 (18.48%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (2.97%) Confluence
3 3 (0.99%) MQSeries
4 2 (0.66%) IIS
5 1 (0.33%) IBM Notes
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (6.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.33%) Fusion 360
3 1 (0.33%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 43 (14.19%) Aladdin
2 22 (7.26%) thinkFolio
3 7 (2.31%) Kondor
4 4 (1.32%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.66%) Endur
5 2 (0.66%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.33%) Actimize
6 1 (0.33%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.33%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.33%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 81 (26.73%) AWS
2 56 (18.48%) dbt
2 56 (18.48%) Snowflake
3 36 (11.88%) Azure
4 11 (3.63%) GCP
5 10 (3.30%) npm
5 10 (3.30%) Yarn
6 9 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (2.97%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (2.64%) Power Platform
8 7 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.65%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (1.65%) Dagster
10 4 (1.32%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 4 (1.32%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.32%) CloudFront
10 4 (1.32%) Route 53
11 3 (0.99%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.99%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.98%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.32%) FIX Connectivity
3 2 (0.66%) BGP
3 2 (0.66%) Firewall
3 2 (0.66%) HSRP
3 2 (0.66%) IGMP
3 2 (0.66%) Multicast
3 2 (0.66%) OSPF
3 2 (0.66%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (18.48%) Amazon Athena
1 56 (18.48%) Apache Arrow
1 56 (18.48%) Apache Iceberg
1 56 (18.48%) Dremio
2 49 (16.17%) Data Lake
3 40 (13.20%) Apache Ignite
4 33 (10.89%) SQL Server
5 15 (4.95%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (4.29%) NoSQL
7 9 (2.97%) Redis
8 8 (2.64%) Power BI
9 7 (2.31%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.32%) Data Mart
10 4 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.32%) DocumentDB
10 4 (1.32%) Tableau
11 3 (0.99%) MS Access
11 3 (0.99%) Power Query
12 2 (0.66%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (3.96%) Git
2 10 (3.30%) JIRA
2 10 (3.30%) webpack
3 7 (2.31%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (0.99%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.66%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.33%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.33%) GitLab
6 1 (0.33%) Gradle
6 1 (0.33%) Hudson
General
1 248 (81.85%) Finance
2 181 (59.74%) Front Office
3 165 (54.46%) Banking
4 133 (43.89%) Investment Banking
5 49 (16.17%) Social Skills
6 29 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.97%) Back Office
7 9 (2.97%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.32%) Retail Banking
9 2 (0.66%) Law
9 2 (0.66%) Legal
9 2 (0.66%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.33%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.33%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (0.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 114 (37.62%) Developer
2 85 (28.05%) Analyst
3 81 (26.73%) Business Analyst
4 76 (25.08%) Senior
5 57 (18.81%) Software Engineer
6 56 (18.48%) AWS Engineer
6 56 (18.48%) AWS Software Engineer
7 48 (15.84%) Java Engineer
7 48 (15.84%) Java Software Engineer
8 43 (14.19%) Python Engineer
8 43 (14.19%) Python Software Engineer
9 42 (13.86%) Business Manager
10 41 (13.53%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
11 38 (12.54%) Senior Java Engineer
11 38 (12.54%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 38 (12.54%) Senior Software Engineer
12 31 (10.23%) Java Developer
13 30 (9.90%) Senior Developer
14 27 (8.91%) AWS Developer
15 24 (7.92%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (13.53%) NumPy
1 41 (13.53%) Pandas
2 40 (13.20%) gRPC
2 40 (13.20%) Protocol Buffers
2 40 (13.20%) SciPy
3 21 (6.93%) PySpark
4 14 (4.62%) .NET
4 14 (4.62%) Kafka
4 14 (4.62%) React
5 13 (4.29%) FIX Protocol
6 12 (3.96%) REST
7 10 (3.30%) CSS
8 8 (2.64%) Middleware
9 7 (2.31%) SOAP
9 7 (2.31%) XML
10 5 (1.65%) FpML
11 4 (1.32%) .NET Core
11 4 (1.32%) RESTful
11 4 (1.32%) Spring
11 4 (1.32%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 138 (45.54%) Fixed Income
2 123 (40.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 107 (35.31%) Hedge funds
4 98 (32.34%) Equities
5 35 (11.55%) Pricing Data
6 26 (8.58%) Equity Derivative
6 26 (8.58%) Onboarding
7 25 (8.25%) Market Risk
8 21 (6.93%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (3.96%) Product Ownership
10 11 (3.63%) Interest Rate Derivative
10 11 (3.63%) Management Information System
11 8 (2.64%) Credit Derivative
11 8 (2.64%) OTC Derivatives
11 8 (2.64%) Reference Data
12 7 (2.31%) Algorithms
12 7 (2.31%) Credit Risk
12 7 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (2.31%) Data Structures
13 3 (0.99%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.28%) Linux
2 11 (3.63%) Unix
3 2 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.66%) Windows
4 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (57.10%) Agile
2 104 (34.32%) Asset Management
3 84 (27.72%) Investment Management
4 67 (22.11%) Software Engineering
5 60 (19.80%) Business Analysis
6 56 (18.48%) Risk Management
7 51 (16.83%) Analytics
8 45 (14.85%) Business Intelligence
9 44 (14.52%) Portfolio Management
10 42 (13.86%) Mathematics
11 34 (11.22%) User Acceptance Testing
12 32 (10.56%) Problem-Solving
13 26 (8.58%) CI/CD
13 26 (8.58%) Electronic Trading
14 24 (7.92%) Data Management
15 23 (7.59%) Data Mapping
15 23 (7.59%) DevOps
16 22 (7.26%) TDD
17 19 (6.27%) Performance Attribution
17 19 (6.27%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 160 (52.81%) Python
2 128 (42.24%) SQL
3 102 (33.66%) Java
4 54 (17.82%) TypeScript
5 51 (16.83%) JavaScript
6 46 (15.18%) C#
7 29 (9.57%) C++
8 7 (2.31%) Haskell
9 4 (1.32%) Scala
10 3 (0.99%) OCaml
11 2 (0.66%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.66%) RPG
11 2 (0.66%) Rust
12 1 (0.33%) Bash
12 1 (0.33%) C
12 1 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.33%) Ruby
12 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 41 (13.53%) Degree
2 14 (4.62%) Numerate Degree
3 13 (4.29%) Master's Degree
4 8 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.31%) PhD
6 2 (0.66%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.66%) PMP
7 1 (0.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.60%) MiFID
2 11 (3.63%) QA
3 10 (3.30%) Basel III
4 6 (1.98%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.65%) EMIR
5 5 (1.65%) GDPR
6 3 (0.99%) COREP
6 3 (0.99%) PMO
6 3 (0.99%) SLA
7 2 (0.66%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.33%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (1.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.99%) ZABBIX
2 2 (0.66%) Control-M
2 2 (0.66%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.33%) Ansible
3 1 (0.33%) Grafana
3 1 (0.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 38 (12.54%) BISAM
2 22 (7.26%) Calypso
2 22 (7.26%) Charles River
3 19 (6.27%) SimCorp
4 13 (4.29%) Murex
5 11 (3.63%) Oracle
6 10 (3.30%) Atlassian
7 9 (2.97%) Sybase
8 8 (2.64%) Microsoft
9 7 (2.31%) Bloomberg
10 4 (1.32%) Databricks
10 4 (1.32%) ION Trading
10 4 (1.32%) Reuters
11 3 (0.99%) Cisco
11 3 (0.99%) Portware
12 2 (0.66%) Arista
12 2 (0.66%) Fortinet
12 2 (0.66%) IBM
12 2 (0.66%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.66%) Sophis