Black-Scholes Contract Job Trends

Black-Scholes
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Black-Scholes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 592 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Black-Scholes 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.006% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.006% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Black-Scholes falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,259 31,857 40,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.36% 87.03% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,239 19,190 27,102
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £743 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,092 1,151 1,562
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.22 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.88
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.24% +25.37%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.74 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.05% -26.97% +39.06%

Black-Scholes
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Black-Scholes relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Black-Scholes job vacancy trend in the UK

Black-Scholes
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Black-Scholes.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Black-Scholes

Black-Scholes
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Black-Scholes within the UK over the 6 months to 28 November 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
London - 2 £650 - 1
England - 2 £650 - 1

Black-Scholes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Front Office
2 1 (50.00%) Back Office
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) FX Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Quantitative Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) NumPy
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Derivative
2 1 (50.00%) Equities
2 1 (50.00%) Equity Derivative
2 1 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Greeks
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Benchmarking
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Market Making
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Quantitative Research
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (50.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) EMIR
1 1 (50.00%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Calypso
1 1 (50.00%) Murex