Derivative Contracts

Derivatives
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Derivative in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Derivative over the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 201 220 276
Rank change year-on-year +19 +56 +18
Contract jobs citing Derivative 507 676 855
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.17% 1.22% 0.97%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.88% 3.69% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 579 723
10th Percentile £588 £525 £517
25th Percentile £663 £613 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £725 £675
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £875 £863 £763
90th Percentile £888 £1,000 £873
UK excluding London median daily rate £638 £800 £540
% change year-on-year -20.31% +48.15% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31.65
Median hourly rate - £47.73 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year - +47.31% -
75th Percentile - - £33.15
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £47.73 £32.40
% change year-on-year - +47.31% -

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,068 18,305 29,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.13% 32.93% 33.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,298 12,595 20,602
10th Percentile £280 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £671
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +12.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 928 580 684
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.39 £11.87 £17.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £22.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.22% -15.09% +6.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.16 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.05 £22.50 £21.25
% change year-on-year +60.20% +5.88% -4.49%

Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Derivative as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Derivative in the UK

Derivative
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Derivative.

Daily rate trend for Derivative in the UK

Derivative
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Derivative over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Derivative in the UK

Derivative
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Derivative.

Hourly rate trend for Derivative in the UK

Derivative
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 June 2024. 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
England +4 505 £800 +10.34% 102
London +13 488 £800 +10.34% 100
Work from Home +106 298 £800 +10.34% 41
UK excluding London +40 13 £638 -20.31% 5
North of England +31 6 £638 +27.50% 1
North West +15 6 £638 +27.50%
South East +5 6 - - 1
South West +5 1 - -

Derivative
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 178 (35.11%) Apache
2 171 (33.73%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.58%) Confluence
4 7 (1.38%) SAS
5 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.39%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 18 (3.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (1.58%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.39%) Mingle
4 2 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (2.76%) Aladdin
2 6 (1.18%) ION MarketView
3 5 (0.99%) Markit EDM
4 4 (0.79%) thinkFolio
5 3 (0.59%) IntelliMatch
5 3 (0.59%) ION Anvil
6 2 (0.39%) Endur
7 1 (0.20%) Eagle PACE
Cloud Services
1 261 (51.48%) AWS
2 179 (35.31%) dbt
3 155 (30.57%) Snowflake
4 124 (24.46%) GCP
5 66 (13.02%) Azure
6 19 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
7 16 (3.16%) Amazon ECS
7 16 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (2.76%) Power Platform
9 11 (2.17%) GitHub
10 7 (1.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (1.18%) Azure App Service
11 6 (1.18%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (0.99%) npm
12 5 (0.99%) Yarn
13 3 (0.59%) Amazon S3
14 2 (0.39%) Collibra
15 1 (0.20%) Figma
15 1 (0.20%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.78%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.20%) Multicast
2 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (35.31%) Apache Arrow
1 179 (35.31%) Dremio
2 168 (33.14%) Data Lake
3 165 (32.54%) Amazon Athena
4 162 (31.95%) Apache Ignite
5 21 (4.14%) Relational Database
6 15 (2.96%) Tableau
7 14 (2.76%) NoSQL
7 14 (2.76%) Power BI
8 13 (2.56%) SQL Server
9 12 (2.37%) Big Data
10 8 (1.58%) KDB
11 5 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (0.79%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.59%) Data Mart
13 3 (0.59%) MySQL
13 3 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
14 2 (0.39%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.39%) Metadata
15 1 (0.20%) DataStax
Development Applications
1 20 (3.94%) JIRA
2 13 (2.56%) TeamCity
3 10 (1.97%) Git
4 9 (1.78%) SpecFlow
5 7 (1.38%) Visual Studio
6 6 (1.18%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.99%) MLflow
7 5 (0.99%) webpack
8 4 (0.79%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.79%) Gradle
8 4 (0.79%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.59%) FitNesse
9 3 (0.59%) JUnit
9 3 (0.59%) Maven
9 3 (0.59%) Mockito
9 3 (0.59%) Selenium
10 2 (0.39%) Babel
10 2 (0.39%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 437 (86.19%) Finance
2 358 (70.61%) Front Office
3 316 (62.33%) Banking
4 245 (48.32%) Investment Banking
5 54 (10.65%) Social Skills
6 45 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
7 25 (4.93%) Back Office
8 11 (2.17%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.79%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.39%) Agriculture
11 2 (0.39%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.39%) Prime Brokerage
11 2 (0.39%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
11 2 (0.39%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.20%) Legal
12 1 (0.20%) Marketing
12 1 (0.20%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 216 (42.60%) Developer
2 133 (26.23%) Software Engineer
3 103 (20.32%) Analyst
4 101 (19.92%) Senior
5 82 (16.17%) Lead
6 69 (13.61%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 66 (13.02%) Java Developer
7 66 (13.02%) Python Engineer
7 66 (13.02%) Python Software Engineer
8 65 (12.82%) Business Analyst
9 64 (12.62%) Python Developer
10 62 (12.23%) Senior Software Engineer
11 61 (12.03%) Java Engineer
12 60 (11.83%) AWS Engineer
12 60 (11.83%) AWS Software Engineer
12 60 (11.83%) Java Software Engineer
13 49 (9.66%) Finance Manager
13 49 (9.66%) Financial Analyst
13 49 (9.66%) Lead Developer
13 49 (9.66%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (36.49%) Pandas
2 179 (35.31%) NumPy
3 173 (34.12%) SciPy
4 172 (33.93%) gRPC
5 170 (33.53%) Protocol Buffers
6 46 (9.07%) React
7 37 (7.30%) .NET
8 22 (4.34%) FIX Protocol
8 22 (4.34%) Redux
9 19 (3.75%) AngularJS
10 18 (3.55%) Spring
11 15 (2.96%) .NET Core
12 13 (2.56%) CSS
13 12 (2.37%) PySpark
14 11 (2.17%) HTML
14 11 (2.17%) XML
15 9 (1.78%) Kafka
16 8 (1.58%) Spring Boot
16 8 (1.58%) Vue
17 7 (1.38%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 293 (57.79%) Fixed Income
2 285 (56.21%) Equities
3 284 (56.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 263 (51.87%) Hedge funds
5 45 (8.88%) Product Ownership
6 34 (6.71%) Equity Derivative
7 29 (5.72%) Algorithms
8 22 (4.34%) Pricing Data
9 18 (3.55%) Data Structures
10 17 (3.35%) Credit Derivative
11 10 (1.97%) OTC Derivatives
12 9 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.58%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 7 (1.38%) Market Risk
15 6 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
16 4 (0.79%) Management Information System
16 4 (0.79%) Onboarding
16 4 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
17 3 (0.59%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (6.11%) Linux
2 17 (3.35%) Unix
3 8 (1.58%) Windows
4 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (59.17%) Agile
2 261 (51.48%) Asset Management
3 221 (43.59%) Software Engineering
4 193 (38.07%) Investment Management
5 84 (16.57%) Line Management
6 61 (12.03%) Analytics
7 53 (10.45%) DevOps
7 53 (10.45%) Greeks
8 52 (10.26%) TDD
9 41 (8.09%) Computer Science
10 39 (7.69%) Mathematics
11 38 (7.50%) CI/CD
12 33 (6.51%) Risk Management
13 31 (6.11%) Electronic Trading
13 31 (6.11%) Fintech
14 30 (5.92%) Problem-Solving
14 30 (5.92%) Test Automation
15 29 (5.72%) Mentoring
16 28 (5.52%) Artificial Intelligence
16 28 (5.52%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 321 (63.31%) Python
2 246 (48.52%) Java
3 207 (40.83%) JavaScript
4 200 (39.45%) TypeScript
5 152 (29.98%) SQL
6 75 (14.79%) C#
7 59 (11.64%) C++
8 16 (3.16%) R
9 14 (2.76%) Scala
10 12 (2.37%) Rust
11 6 (1.18%) Ruby
11 6 (1.18%) VBA
12 5 (0.99%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.79%) Bicep
14 3 (0.59%) Perl
15 2 (0.39%) Haskell
16 1 (0.20%) Bash
16 1 (0.20%) C
16 1 (0.20%) Go
16 1 (0.20%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 57 (11.24%) Degree
2 20 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (3.75%) Numerate Degree
4 16 (3.16%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.59%) PhD
6 2 (0.39%) CIMA
6 2 (0.39%) CISA
6 2 (0.39%) CISM
6 2 (0.39%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (11.64%) Data Quality
2 34 (6.71%) QA
3 11 (2.17%) EMIR
4 9 (1.78%) MiFID
5 6 (1.18%) IFRS
6 5 (0.99%) SEPA
7 4 (0.79%) GAAP
8 3 (0.59%) Basel III
8 3 (0.59%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.20%) FINREP
9 1 (0.20%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 9 (1.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (1.78%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.18%) ITRS Geneos
3 5 (0.99%) Grafana
4 4 (0.79%) Control-M
5 3 (0.59%) Ansible
6 1 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 56 (11.05%) Bloomberg
2 22 (4.34%) ION Trading
3 19 (3.75%) Reuters
4 17 (3.35%) Oracle
5 12 (2.37%) BISAM
6 8 (1.58%) Tradeweb
7 7 (1.38%) MarketAxess
8 5 (0.99%) Databricks
8 5 (0.99%) Dynatrace
8 5 (0.99%) IBM
8 5 (0.99%) Murex
9 4 (0.79%) Calypso
9 4 (0.79%) Microsoft
10 3 (0.59%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.59%) Refinitiv
11 2 (0.39%) CA
11 2 (0.39%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.39%) Charles River
12 1 (0.20%) Informatica
12 1 (0.20%) Red Hat