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

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 363 421
Rank change year-on-year +10 +58 +114
Contract jobs citing Credit Derivative 8 17 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.060% 0.11% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.16% 0.31% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 32
10th Percentile £538 £777 £626
25th Percentile £666 £796 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £850 £750
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +13.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £750 - £800
90th Percentile £850 £900 £830
England median daily rate £688 £850 £750
% change year-on-year -19.12% +13.33% +3.45%

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 5,044 5,403 7,847
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.09% 33.59% 35.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,262 3,591 5,675
10th Percentile £333 £325 £350
25th Percentile £438 £450 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £738 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 68 86
10th Percentile £15.84 £17.25 £17.65
25th Percentile £23.21 £23.35 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £31.31 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% +1.82% +0.82%
75th Percentile £46.15 £54.06 £53.63
90th Percentile £68.63 £71.44 £75.63
England median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.37% +25.00% +76.46%

Credit Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Credit Derivative as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Credit Derivative 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 September 2025.

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 and Capabilities in London 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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Hudson
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Banking
2 4 (50.00%) Front Office
2 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Product Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Credit Risk Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Front Office Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Murex Support
3 1 (12.50%) Qualitative Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Quantitative Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Quantitative Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Validation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (12.50%) Murex MxML
2 1 (12.50%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Derivative
2 4 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (37.50%) Fixed Income
3 3 (37.50%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 3 (37.50%) Product Ownership
4 2 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
5 1 (12.50%) Credit Risk
5 1 (12.50%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Quantitative Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (25.00%) Scrum
2 2 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (25.00%) User Stories
2 2 (25.00%) Validation
2 2 (25.00%) Workflow
3 1 (12.50%) Functional Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
3 1 (12.50%) Mathematics
3 1 (12.50%) Monte Carlo Method
3 1 (12.50%) Multithreading
3 1 (12.50%) Time Management
3 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) C++
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) VBA
2 1 (12.50%) VC++
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) EMIR
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) Murex
3 1 (12.50%) Bloomberg
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (12.50%) Sybase