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 15 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 347 367
Rank change year-on-year -61 +20 +56
Contract jobs citing Credit Derivative 6 2 30
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.034% 0.016% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.095% 0.045% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 28
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £375 £413 £788
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £850
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -50.00% +13.33%
75th Percentile £578 £438 £903
90th Percentile £741 - £950
England median daily rate £438 £425 £850
% change year-on-year +2.94% -50.00% +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 6,336 4,446 5,841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.45% 35.87% 33.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,045 3,016 4,138
10th Percentile £350 £336 £313
25th Percentile £445 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £725
90th Percentile £800 £850 £850
England median daily rate £515 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.63% -1.82% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 80 149
10th Percentile £18.16 £15.84 £15.49
25th Percentile £22.82 £23.42 £17.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +32.69% -25.71%
75th Percentile £61.25 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £78.64 £69.25
England median hourly rate £46.00 £34.50 £33.50
% change year-on-year +33.33% +2.99% +48.99%

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 15 May 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 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Tableau
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Front Office
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Python Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) C++ Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Compliance Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) C++ Quantitative Developer
4 1 (16.67%) C++/Java Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Junior
4 1 (16.67%) Junior C++ Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Junior Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Junior Java Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Junior Python Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (16.67%) NumPy
1 1 (16.67%) Pandas
1 1 (16.67%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Derivative
2 4 (66.67%) Equity Derivative
3 3 (50.00%) Data Structures
3 3 (50.00%) Fixed Income
4 2 (33.33%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
5 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (16.67%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Electronic Trading
1 3 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 3 (50.00%) Quantitative Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Case Management
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 2 (33.33%) Greeks
2 2 (33.33%) Multithreading
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (33.33%) PnL Attribution
2 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Trade Surveillance
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Low Latency
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Systematic Trading
3 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) C++
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Numerate Degree
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Bloomberg
1 1 (16.67%) Reuters