Black-Scholes Contract Job Trends in London

Black-Scholes
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Black-Scholes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Black-Scholes 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.021% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.023% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
England median daily rate £650 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Black-Scholes falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,062 14,204 17,739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.11% 89.64% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,608 9,158 12,720
10th Percentile £335 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.91% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £771 £800 £800
England median daily rate £502 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.48% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 171 238
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.55
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £35.44
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% +5.81% -9.13%
75th Percentile £47.50 £55.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £68.62 £80.75 £75.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.02 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.17% -21.31% +19.85%

Black-Scholes
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Black-Scholes relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Black-Scholes job vacancy trend in London

Black-Scholes
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Black-Scholes.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Black-Scholes

Black-Scholes
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Black-Scholes within the London region over the 6 months to 29 November 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
Central London - 2 £650 - 1
Black-Scholes
England

Black-Scholes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (66.67%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Front Office
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Quantitative Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) FX Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) NumPy
1 2 (66.67%) Pandas
1 2 (66.67%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Derivative
2 2 (66.67%) Equities
2 2 (66.67%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Greeks
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Benchmarking
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 2 (66.67%) Monte Carlo Method
2 2 (66.67%) Physics
2 2 (66.67%) Quantitative Research
2 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Stochastic Calculus
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C++
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Master's Degree
1 2 (66.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) EMIR
1 1 (33.33%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Calypso
1 1 (33.33%) Murex