Derivative Contracts in London

Derivatives
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Derivative in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Derivative over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 87 111
Rank change year-on-year -7 +24 +40
Contract jobs citing Derivative 371 453 621
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.96% 2.54% 2.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.22% 7.67% 6.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 409 539
10th Percentile £539 £551 £550
25th Percentile £663 £650 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £888 £850 £838
90th Percentile £938 £888 £975
England median daily rate £750 £750 £750
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%

All Generic Skills
London

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 4,516 5,909 9,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.99% 33.14% 35.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,054 4,182 6,966
10th Percentile £325 £301 £375
25th Percentile £451 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £838
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 160 109
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £18.93
25th Percentile £22.60 £18.93 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%
75th Percentile £50.31 £47.81 £64.50
90th Percentile £80.05 £66.78 £83.15
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Derivative in London

Derivative
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Derivative in London.

Daily rate trend for Derivative in London

Derivative
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Derivative in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Derivative in London

Derivative
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Derivative in London.

Hourly rate trend for Derivative in London

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 Derivative within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 19 £675 -0.74% 15
Derivative
England

Derivative
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 45 (12.13%) Apache
1 45 (12.13%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.35%) Confluence
3 2 (0.54%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.54%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.81%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.54%) Notepad++
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 38 (10.24%) Aladdin
2 14 (3.77%) thinkFolio
3 4 (1.08%) Misys Midas
4 2 (0.54%) FLEXCUBE
4 2 (0.54%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.27%) Endur
5 1 (0.27%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.27%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 72 (19.41%) AWS
2 45 (12.13%) dbt
2 45 (12.13%) Snowflake
3 29 (7.82%) Amazon EC2
3 29 (7.82%) Amazon EKS
4 26 (7.01%) Azure
5 18 (4.85%) GCP
6 17 (4.58%) Amazon ECS
6 17 (4.58%) Dagster
7 15 (4.04%) Amazon S3
8 12 (3.23%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 12 (3.23%) CloudFront
8 12 (3.23%) npm
8 12 (3.23%) Route 53
8 12 (3.23%) Yarn
9 10 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.35%) Kong
11 4 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.08%) Power Platform
12 3 (0.81%) Amazon Neptune
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.96%) FIX Connectivity
2 2 (0.54%) BGP
2 2 (0.54%) Firewall
2 2 (0.54%) HSRP
2 2 (0.54%) IGMP
2 2 (0.54%) Multicast
2 2 (0.54%) OSPF
2 2 (0.54%) VRRP
3 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (33.42%) Data Lake
2 45 (12.13%) Amazon Athena
2 45 (12.13%) Apache Arrow
2 45 (12.13%) Apache Iceberg
2 45 (12.13%) Dremio
3 29 (7.82%) Apache Ignite
4 27 (7.28%) SQL Server
5 22 (5.93%) Redis
6 20 (5.39%) NoSQL
7 14 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
8 12 (3.23%) DocumentDB
9 6 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.35%) Hazelcast
10 5 (1.35%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.08%) Power BI
11 4 (1.08%) Tableau
12 3 (0.81%) Amazon QuickSight
12 3 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.81%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (4.58%) Git
2 12 (3.23%) webpack
3 8 (2.16%) JIRA
4 7 (1.89%) Octopus Deploy
4 7 (1.89%) Visual Studio
5 6 (1.62%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.81%) ERwin
7 2 (0.54%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.54%) MagicDraw
7 2 (0.54%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.54%) XMLSpy
8 1 (0.27%) Ant
8 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.27%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.27%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.27%) Maven
8 1 (0.27%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.27%) Subversion
General
1 317 (85.44%) Finance
2 251 (67.65%) Front Office
3 153 (41.24%) Banking
4 116 (31.27%) Investment Banking
5 36 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (9.43%) Social Skills
7 12 (3.23%) Retail Banking
8 8 (2.16%) Back Office
9 7 (1.89%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.35%) French Language
11 2 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.54%) Law
11 2 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.54%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.27%) Legal
12 1 (0.27%) Marketing
12 1 (0.27%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 131 (35.31%) Developer
2 96 (25.88%) Analyst
3 78 (21.02%) Business Analyst
4 53 (14.29%) Business Manager
5 47 (12.67%) Senior
5 47 (12.67%) Software Engineer
6 45 (12.13%) AWS Engineer
6 45 (12.13%) AWS Software Engineer
7 37 (9.97%) Head of Finance
8 34 (9.16%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
8 34 (9.16%) Java Developer
9 33 (8.89%) C# Developer
10 32 (8.63%) Java Engineer
10 32 (8.63%) Java Software Engineer
11 29 (7.82%) Lead
12 28 (7.55%) Python Engineer
13 26 (7.01%) Product Manager
13 26 (7.01%) Python Software Engineer
14 24 (6.47%) Senior Developer
15 22 (5.93%) Data Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (9.43%) PySpark
2 31 (8.36%) NumPy
2 31 (8.36%) Pandas
2 31 (8.36%) SciPy
3 30 (8.09%) Protocol Buffers
4 29 (7.82%) gRPC
5 17 (4.58%) React
6 14 (3.77%) CSS
6 14 (3.77%) RESTful
7 13 (3.50%) GraphQL
8 11 (2.96%) FIX Protocol
9 10 (2.70%) .NET
10 9 (2.43%) Kafka
11 8 (2.16%) XML
12 7 (1.89%) AngularJS
12 7 (1.89%) RxJS
13 5 (1.35%) Murex MxML
13 5 (1.35%) Redux
14 4 (1.08%) HTML5
14 4 (1.08%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 212 (57.14%) Fixed Income
2 197 (53.10%) Hedge funds
3 194 (52.29%) Equities
4 193 (52.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 54 (14.56%) Product Ownership
6 21 (5.66%) Onboarding
7 20 (5.39%) Market Risk
8 19 (5.12%) Equity Derivative
9 14 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (3.23%) Interest Rate Derivative
10 12 (3.23%) Pricing Data
11 7 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.89%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.89%) OTC Derivatives
12 6 (1.62%) Public Cloud
13 5 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (1.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 4 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (1.08%) N-Tier
15 3 (0.81%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.85%) Apple iOS
2 12 (3.23%) Unix
3 9 (2.43%) Linux
4 4 (1.08%) Windows
5 2 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (69.27%) Agile
2 164 (44.20%) Investment Management
3 125 (33.69%) Asset Management
4 119 (32.08%) Migration
5 111 (29.92%) Roadmaps
6 95 (25.61%) Regulatory Compliance
7 93 (25.07%) Data Governance
8 83 (22.37%) Data Management
9 76 (20.49%) Analytics
10 57 (15.36%) Portfolio Management
11 54 (14.56%) Software Engineering
12 42 (11.32%) Business Analysis
12 42 (11.32%) Electronic Trading
13 41 (11.05%) Business Intelligence
14 38 (10.24%) Risk Management
15 37 (9.97%) Problem-Solving
16 34 (9.16%) Mathematics
17 28 (7.55%) DevOps
18 26 (7.01%) CI/CD
19 25 (6.74%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 139 (37.47%) Python
2 108 (29.11%) SQL
3 94 (25.34%) Java
4 48 (12.94%) TypeScript
5 44 (11.86%) C#
5 44 (11.86%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.85%) C++
7 8 (2.16%) Haskell
8 7 (1.89%) Scala
9 4 (1.08%) OCaml
10 2 (0.54%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.54%) RPG
10 2 (0.54%) Rust
11 1 (0.27%) Bicep
11 1 (0.27%) C
11 1 (0.27%) Ruby
11 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (11.86%) Degree
2 19 (5.12%) Numerate Degree
3 7 (1.89%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.27%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.09%) MiFID
2 6 (1.62%) EMIR
2 6 (1.62%) QA
3 3 (0.81%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.81%) Dodd-Frank
4 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.27%) COREP
5 1 (0.27%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (2.16%) Docker
2 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.54%) Control-M
2 2 (0.54%) Terraform
2 2 (0.54%) ZABBIX
3 1 (0.27%) Ansible
Vendors
1 37 (9.97%) BISAM
2 20 (5.39%) Charles River
3 14 (3.77%) Calypso
3 14 (3.77%) SimCorp
4 12 (3.23%) Atlassian
5 10 (2.70%) Murex
6 7 (1.89%) Oracle
7 5 (1.35%) Bloomberg
8 4 (1.08%) ION Trading
8 4 (1.08%) Solace
9 3 (0.81%) Cisco
9 3 (0.81%) Databricks
9 3 (0.81%) Google
9 3 (0.81%) Informatica
10 2 (0.54%) Arista
10 2 (0.54%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.54%) IBM
10 2 (0.54%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.54%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.54%) Sybase