Credit Derivative Contract Job Trends in London

Credit Derivatives
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Credit Derivative in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Credit Derivative over the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 366 365
Rank change year-on-year -68 -1 +61
Contract jobs citing Credit Derivative 9 6 25
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.044% 0.044% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.12% 0.12% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 23
10th Percentile £375 £488 £787
25th Percentile £419 £600 £831
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £688 £850
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% -19.12% +13.33%
75th Percentile £713 £781 £925
90th Percentile £790 £883 £950
England median daily rate £575 £644 £850
% change year-on-year -10.64% -24.29% +13.33%

All Generic Skills
London

Credit 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 7,539 5,070 5,477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.17% 37.34% 33.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,712 3,338 3,823
10th Percentile £358 £335 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £749
90th Percentile £788 £825 £863
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 117 81
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £22.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% -3.61% -13.83%
75th Percentile £57.19 £45.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.56 £32.05 £47.50
% change year-on-year +35.91% -32.53% +15.74%

Credit Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Credit Derivative relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Credit Derivative job vacancy trend in London

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Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Credit Derivative.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Credit Derivative

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Credit Derivative in London over the 6 months to 8 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Credit Derivative in London

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Credit Derivative.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Credit Derivative

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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 (22.22%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
1 2 (22.22%) Tableau
2 1 (11.11%) Data Mining
2 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Banking
2 3 (33.33%) Front Office
3 2 (22.22%) Investment Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Analyst
2 4 (44.44%) Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Python Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Business Analyst
4 2 (22.22%) C++ Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Compliance Analyst
4 2 (22.22%) SQL Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) C++ Quantitative Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Credit Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Junior Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Junior Java Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Qualitative Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Quantitative Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Quantitative Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Regulatory Business Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Regulatory Reporting Business Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Report Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Risk Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Risk Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (11.11%) JSON
1 1 (11.11%) NumPy
1 1 (11.11%) Pandas
1 1 (11.11%) SciPy
1 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Derivative
2 4 (44.44%) Equity Derivative
2 4 (44.44%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 3 (33.33%) Data Structures
3 3 (33.33%) Equities
3 3 (33.33%) Fixed Income
4 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
5 1 (11.11%) Credit Risk
5 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (11.11%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Electronic Trading
1 3 (33.33%) Mathematics
1 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (33.33%) Quantitative Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (22.22%) Case Management
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
2 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
2 2 (22.22%) Greeks
2 2 (22.22%) Multithreading
2 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (22.22%) PnL Attribution
2 2 (22.22%) Process Improvement
2 2 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
2 2 (22.22%) Trade Surveillance
2 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
1 6 (66.67%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) C++
3 3 (33.33%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) COREP
1 1 (11.11%) FINREP
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Bloomberg
1 1 (11.11%) Murex
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle
1 1 (11.11%) Reuters