Exotic Derivative Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Exotic Derivatives
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Exotic Derivative in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Exotic 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 303 - 476
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Exotic Derivative 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.010% - 0.004%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.031% - 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate - - -

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Exotic 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Exotic Derivative
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Exotic Derivative as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Exotic Derivative trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Exotic Derivative
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Angular Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) HTML CSS Developer
1 1 (100.00%) HTML Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Scala Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Scala Developer
1 1 (100.00%) UI Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Web UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Derivative
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk