Derivative Contract Job Trends 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 4 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 100 90
Rank change year-on-year -44 -10 +32
Contract jobs citing Derivative 253 426 565
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.87% 2.63% 2.64%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.82% 7.79% 7.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 363 514
10th Percentile £537 £600 £538
25th Percentile £636 £673 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £708
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +13.07% +1.07%
75th Percentile £825 £888 £844
90th Percentile £988 - £1,000
England median daily rate £750 £800 £700
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £87.50 - -

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 5,249 5,469 7,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.88% 33.79% 35.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,382 3,546 5,412
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £447 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £731 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
England median daily rate £525 £549 £550
% change year-on-year -4.30% -0.26% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 71 94
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.25 £17.51
25th Percentile £24.24 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.64 £33.00 £29.13
Median % change year-on-year -19.27% +13.30% +5.91%
75th Percentile £47.00 £56.00 £52.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.40 £73.31
England median hourly rate £30.00 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -47.69% +25.00% +78.45%

Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Derivative job vacancy trend in London

Derivative
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Derivative

Derivative
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Derivative in London over the 6 months to 4 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Derivative in London

Derivative
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Derivative

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 4 October 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 -6 20 £681 -9.17% 9
South London 0 7 £775 +10.71% 4
East London +8 5 £1,000 +17.65% 1
Derivative
England

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:

Application Platforms
1 44 (17.39%) Apache
1 44 (17.39%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (3.16%) Confluence
3 4 (1.58%) HCL Notes
3 4 (1.58%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.79%) IIS
5 1 (0.40%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (7.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 28 (11.07%) Aladdin
2 17 (6.72%) thinkFolio
3 4 (1.58%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.79%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.40%) Actimize
5 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.40%) Endur
5 1 (0.40%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.40%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 71 (28.06%) AWS
2 47 (18.58%) Snowflake
3 44 (17.39%) dbt
4 31 (12.25%) Azure
5 16 (6.32%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.37%) npm
6 6 (2.37%) Yarn
7 5 (1.98%) Serverless
8 4 (1.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (1.58%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (1.58%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (1.58%) Power Automate
8 4 (1.58%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.79%) SaaS
11 1 (0.40%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.40%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.40%) Figma
11 1 (0.40%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.98%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (17.39%) Amazon Athena
1 44 (17.39%) Apache Arrow
1 44 (17.39%) Apache Iceberg
1 44 (17.39%) Apache Ignite
1 44 (17.39%) Data Lake
1 44 (17.39%) Dremio
2 27 (10.67%) SQL Server
3 20 (7.91%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (6.32%) Power BI
5 10 (3.95%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.77%) Redis
7 6 (2.37%) Tableau
8 3 (1.19%) MS Access
8 3 (1.19%) Power Query
9 2 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.40%) Big Data
10 1 (0.40%) Metadata
10 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (3.56%) Git
1 9 (3.56%) Octopus Deploy
2 8 (3.16%) JIRA
3 6 (2.37%) webpack
4 3 (1.19%) GitLab
4 3 (1.19%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.79%) Gradle
5 2 (0.79%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.79%) Maven
5 2 (0.79%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.40%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.40%) Hudson
General
1 205 (81.03%) Finance
2 150 (59.29%) Banking
3 146 (57.71%) Front Office
4 116 (45.85%) Investment Banking
5 56 (22.13%) Social Skills
6 25 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (5.14%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.37%) Back Office
8 6 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.19%) Law
9 3 (1.19%) Legal
10 2 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.40%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 89 (35.18%) Developer
2 82 (32.41%) Senior
3 72 (28.46%) Analyst
4 54 (21.34%) Business Analyst
5 46 (18.18%) Software Engineer
6 45 (17.79%) Java Engineer
6 45 (17.79%) Java Software Engineer
7 44 (17.39%) AWS Engineer
7 44 (17.39%) AWS Software Engineer
7 44 (17.39%) Python Engineer
7 44 (17.39%) Python Software Engineer
7 44 (17.39%) Senior Java Engineer
7 44 (17.39%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 44 (17.39%) Senior Software Engineer
8 29 (11.46%) Senior Developer
9 26 (10.28%) Java Developer
10 19 (7.51%) Business Manager
10 19 (7.51%) C# Developer
10 19 (7.51%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
10 19 (7.51%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (17.79%) NumPy
1 45 (17.79%) Pandas
1 45 (17.79%) Protocol Buffers
2 44 (17.39%) gRPC
2 44 (17.39%) SciPy
3 21 (8.30%) Kafka
4 15 (5.93%) .NET
5 13 (5.14%) FIX Protocol
5 13 (5.14%) React
6 9 (3.56%) CSS
7 7 (2.77%) Middleware
8 5 (1.98%) .NET Core
8 5 (1.98%) FpML
8 5 (1.98%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (1.58%) .NET Framework
9 4 (1.58%) REST
9 4 (1.58%) XML
10 3 (1.19%) HTML
11 2 (0.79%) RxJS
12 1 (0.40%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 104 (41.11%) Fixed Income
2 97 (38.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 79 (31.23%) Equities
4 66 (26.09%) Hedge funds
5 44 (17.39%) Pricing Data
6 28 (11.07%) Equity Derivative
7 25 (9.88%) Market Risk
8 19 (7.51%) Onboarding
9 18 (7.11%) Management Information System
10 16 (6.32%) Distributed Systems
11 12 (4.74%) Product Ownership
12 10 (3.95%) Algorithms
12 10 (3.95%) Interest Rate Derivative
13 9 (3.56%) Credit Risk
13 9 (3.56%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (3.16%) Credit Derivative
14 8 (3.16%) Data Structures
15 7 (2.77%) Cloud Native
15 7 (2.77%) OTC Derivatives
15 7 (2.77%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.35%) Linux
2 7 (2.77%) Windows
3 5 (1.98%) Unix
4 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (48.62%) Agile
2 68 (26.88%) Asset Management
3 63 (24.90%) Investment Management
4 52 (20.55%) Software Engineering
5 48 (18.97%) Analytics
6 44 (17.39%) Risk Management
7 43 (17.00%) Mathematics
8 37 (14.62%) Business Analysis
9 33 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
10 26 (10.28%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (9.49%) Scrum
11 24 (9.49%) TDD
12 23 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
13 22 (8.70%) CI/CD
13 22 (8.70%) Portfolio Management
14 20 (7.91%) Computer Science
14 20 (7.91%) Physics
15 18 (7.11%) Stakeholder Management
16 16 (6.32%) Microservices
16 16 (6.32%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 129 (50.99%) Python
2 88 (34.78%) SQL
3 86 (33.99%) Java
4 54 (21.34%) JavaScript
4 54 (21.34%) TypeScript
5 41 (16.21%) C#
6 31 (12.25%) C++
7 6 (2.37%) VBA
8 2 (0.79%) Rust
8 2 (0.79%) Scala
9 1 (0.40%) Bash
9 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.40%) VC++
Qualifications
1 37 (14.62%) Degree
2 15 (5.93%) Master's Degree
3 13 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.77%) Numerate Degree
4 7 (2.77%) PhD
5 2 (0.79%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.79%) PMP
6 1 (0.40%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.95%) MiFID
2 9 (3.56%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.56%) QA
3 6 (2.37%) GDPR
4 5 (1.98%) EMIR
5 3 (1.19%) Basel III
5 3 (1.19%) COREP
5 3 (1.19%) SLA
6 2 (0.79%) Dodd-Frank
6 2 (0.79%) PMO
6 2 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.40%) IFRS
7 1 (0.40%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.40%) SEPA
7 1 (0.40%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (0.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.79%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.40%) Ansible
2 1 (0.40%) Grafana
2 1 (0.40%) Terraform
2 1 (0.40%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (7.51%) BISAM
2 17 (6.72%) Calypso
3 16 (6.32%) Charles River
4 13 (5.14%) Microsoft
4 13 (5.14%) SimCorp
5 11 (4.35%) Murex
6 8 (3.16%) Oracle
7 7 (2.77%) Sophis
8 6 (2.37%) Atlassian
8 6 (2.37%) Databricks
9 5 (1.98%) Bloomberg
10 4 (1.58%) ION Trading
10 4 (1.58%) Lotus
10 4 (1.58%) Portware
11 3 (1.19%) Reuters
12 2 (0.79%) Salesforce
13 1 (0.40%) Cisco
13 1 (0.40%) IBM
13 1 (0.40%) OpenLink
13 1 (0.40%) TIBCO