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 11 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 351 366
Rank change year-on-year -38 +15 +86
Contract jobs citing Credit Derivative 3 1 29
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.019% 0.008% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.050% 0.022% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 26
10th Percentile £473 - £756
25th Percentile £488 - £788
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £838
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.67%
75th Percentile £563 - £906
90th Percentile £578 - £950
England median daily rate £525 - £838
% change year-on-year - - +11.67%

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 5,949 4,521 5,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.84% 34.93% 32.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,868 2,982 4,211
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £440 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £800 £850 £825
England median daily rate £513 £548 £549
% change year-on-year -6.52% -0.14% -4.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 68 180
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.02 £15.50
25th Percentile £21.14 £24.66 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.70 £29.36
Median % change year-on-year -18.76% +21.58% -16.11%
75th Percentile £57.96 £57.81 £47.90
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.75 £65.18
England median hourly rate £36.16 £33.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +7.94% +11.67% +33.33%

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

Credit Derivative
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

Credit Derivative
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

Credit Derivative
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 Credit Derivative within the London region over the 6 months to 11 March 2026. 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 - 1 £575 - 1
Credit Derivative
England

Credit Derivative
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 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Front Office
2 1 (33.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Python Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Qualitative Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Quantitative Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) NumPy
1 1 (33.33%) Pandas
1 1 (33.33%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Derivative
2 2 (66.67%) Data Structures
2 2 (66.67%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (33.33%) Equities
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Greeks
1 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
1 2 (66.67%) Multithreading
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (66.67%) PnL Attribution
1 2 (66.67%) Quantitative Finance
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Collateral Management
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Order Management
2 1 (33.33%) Quantitative Research
2 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Change
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) EMIR
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Bloomberg
1 1 (33.33%) Reuters