Derivative Contracts in the North of England

Derivatives
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Derivative in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Derivative over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 182 211
Rank change year-on-year +21 +29 +36
Contract jobs citing Derivative 6 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.18% 0.086% 0.018%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.58% 0.33% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £513 £494 -
25th Percentile £545 £541 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £638 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.31% - -
75th Percentile £603 £656 -
90th Percentile £615 - -
England median daily rate £750 £750 £740
% change year-on-year - +1.35% +9.63%

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,034 1,227 1,699
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 31.10% 26.43% 30.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 661 749 1,137
10th Percentile £213 £266 £288
25th Percentile £365 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -3.41% +7.89%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £613
90th Percentile £650 £656 £688
England median daily rate £538 £550 £572
% change year-on-year -2.27% -3.76% +3.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 156 80
10th Percentile £19.75 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £23.93 £13.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £29.52 £15.59 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year +89.38% -7.51% -9.89%
75th Percentile £53.77 £28.55 £40.85
90th Percentile £74.00 £47.47 £66.72
England median hourly rate £33.91 £34.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year -0.26% +51.21% -17.49%

Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Derivative as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Derivative in the North of England

Derivative
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Derivative in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Derivative in the North of England

Derivative
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Derivative in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Derivative in the North of England

Derivative
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Derivative in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Derivative in the North of England

Derivative
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Derivative within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 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
North West +18 5 £585 -8.31% 5
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
Derivative
England

Derivative
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (16.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Kondor
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 6 (100.00%) Banking
2 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Lead
1 1 (16.67%) Lead Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) REST
1 5 (83.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (16.67%) Equities
2 1 (16.67%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
1 5 (83.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Risk Management
2 4 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Kanban
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Management
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) Basel III
1 5 (83.33%) MiFID
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle
1 5 (83.33%) Sybase
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft