Derivative Contracts in the UK excluding London

Derivatives
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Derivative in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 312 388 430
Rank change year-on-year +76 +42 +58
Contract jobs citing Derivative 36 7 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.034% 0.091%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.83% 0.12% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 3 12
10th Percentile £307 £494 £563
25th Percentile £325 £541 £666
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 £638 £800
Median % change year-on-year -36.63% -20.31% +50.94%
75th Percentile £575 £656 £825
90th Percentile £602 - -
UK median daily rate £725 £750 £725
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £47.73
UK median hourly rate - - £47.73
% change year-on-year - - +47.31%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,327 5,889 7,468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.33% 29.02% 32.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,621 3,540 5,014
10th Percentile £205 £210 £220
25th Percentile £363 £378 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £613
90th Percentile £656 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 719 420
10th Percentile £16.52 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.92 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £29.53 £30.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.58% +36.36% +3.53%
75th Percentile £64.51 £61.30 £64.63
90th Percentile £83.31 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £31.76 £31.50 £22.49
% change year-on-year +0.83% +40.09% -19.70%

Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Derivative in the UK excluding London

Derivative
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Derivative in the UK excluding London

Derivative
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Derivative in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Derivative in the UK excluding London

Derivative
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Derivative in the UK excluding London

Derivative
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
Northern Ireland - 18 £325 - 18
Scotland - 10 £404 - 4
North of England +21 6 £585 -8.31% 10
North West +18 5 £585 -8.31% 7
South East +44 1 £765 - 64
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 £825 - 1
Midlands - 1 £825 - 2
Derivative
UK

Derivative
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 (2.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Fusion 360
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.78%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Kondor
2 3 (8.33%) Finacle
3 1 (2.78%) BusinessWorks
3 1 (2.78%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.89%) AWS
1 5 (13.89%) Azure
1 5 (13.89%) GCP
2 4 (11.11%) OpenShift
3 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) DHCP
1 1 (2.78%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 5 (13.89%) DB2
2 5 (13.89%) MongoDB
2 5 (13.89%) SQL Server
3 4 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.78%) Power BI
4 1 (2.78%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.78%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (33.33%) Git
2 4 (11.11%) Ant
2 4 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 4 (11.11%) JUnit
2 4 (11.11%) Maven
2 4 (11.11%) Subversion
3 3 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 31 (86.11%) Finance
2 17 (47.22%) Banking
3 15 (41.67%) Front Office
3 15 (41.67%) Social Skills
4 9 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (16.67%) Wholesale Banking
6 3 (8.33%) Investment Banking
6 3 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (8.33%) Private Banking
7 2 (5.56%) Back Office
8 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 19 (52.78%) Developer
2 11 (30.56%) Java Developer
3 8 (22.22%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 8 (22.22%) Software Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Analyst
4 6 (16.67%) Java Software Developer
5 4 (11.11%) .NET Developer
5 4 (11.11%) .NET Software Developer
5 4 (11.11%) .NET Software Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Business Analyst
5 4 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
5 4 (11.11%) C# Developer
5 4 (11.11%) C# Software Developer
5 4 (11.11%) C# Software Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Java Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Architect
6 3 (8.33%) Software Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.56%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.67%) AngularJS
1 6 (16.67%) Apache Avro
1 6 (16.67%) JSON
1 6 (16.67%) React
1 6 (16.67%) RESTful
1 6 (16.67%) Spring
1 6 (16.67%) Web Services
1 6 (16.67%) XML
2 5 (13.89%) REST
2 5 (13.89%) SOAP
3 4 (11.11%) .NET
3 4 (11.11%) Kafka
3 4 (11.11%) Spring Boot
4 2 (5.56%) JMS
4 2 (5.56%) MSMQ
5 1 (2.78%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 20 (55.56%) Equities
2 17 (47.22%) Equity Derivative
3 10 (27.78%) Product Ownership
4 8 (22.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (13.89%) Data Structures
6 4 (11.11%) Fixed Income
7 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
7 1 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (2.78%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (2.78%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 14 (38.89%) Linux
2 9 (25.00%) Unix
3 5 (13.89%) Windows
4 1 (2.78%) CentOS
4 1 (2.78%) Fedora
4 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (61.11%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (44.44%) Agile
3 12 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 10 (27.78%) SDLC
5 9 (25.00%) Clean Code
5 9 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (22.22%) User Experience
7 7 (19.44%) CI/CD
7 7 (19.44%) Continuous Delivery
7 7 (19.44%) DevOps
8 6 (16.67%) Code Quality
9 5 (13.89%) Data Analysis
9 5 (13.89%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (13.89%) Risk Management
10 4 (11.11%) Data Governance
10 4 (11.11%) Data Modelling
10 4 (11.11%) High Availability
10 4 (11.11%) OO
10 4 (11.11%) OOA/OOD
10 4 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 19 (52.78%) SQL
2 12 (33.33%) Java
3 10 (27.78%) Python
4 4 (11.11%) C#
4 4 (11.11%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.56%) Kotlin
5 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.56%) Scala
6 1 (2.78%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (2.78%) Degree
1 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
1 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) Basel III
1 5 (13.89%) MiFID
2 4 (11.11%) QA
3 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.78%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (27.78%) Sybase
2 6 (16.67%) Oracle
3 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
4 3 (8.33%) Avaloq
4 3 (8.33%) Temenos
5 2 (5.56%) Bloomberg
5 2 (5.56%) Reuters
6 1 (2.78%) Autodesk
6 1 (2.78%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.78%) Siemens
6 1 (2.78%) TIBCO