Derivatives
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Derivative in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Derivative over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 400 431 462
Rank change year-on-year +31 +31 -91
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 645 698 1,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.72% 0.78%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.82% 1.68% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 599 561 1,001
10th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £63,750
25th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £105,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £146,250 £130,000 £135,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £150,000 £162,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £90,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -44.44% +33.33% +12.50%

All Generic Skills
UK

Derivative is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,381 41,658 80,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.48% 42.79% 48.24%
Number of salaries quoted 23,078 22,714 34,326
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,738 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,070 £46,350 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Derivative.

Salary trend for Derivative in the UK

Derivative
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Derivative over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Derivative in the UK

Derivative
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Derivative within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +37 633 £115,000 +9.52% 141
London +68 605 £115,000 +9.52% 135
Work from Home +103 487 £115,000 +17.95% 51
UK excluding London -40 36 £50,000 -44.44% 10
South West - 22 - - 1
Scotland -54 7 - - 3
East of England -7 3 £45,000 -
North of England +43 2 £50,000 - 4
North West - 2 £50,000 - 2
Northern Ireland +8 1 £67,500 - 2
West Midlands +4 1 £32,000 -
Midlands -12 1 £32,000 -

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
1 287 (44.50%) Apache Airflow
2 274 (42.48%) Apache
3 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.31%) SAS
3 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 21 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (2.33%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.31%) ION Anvil
2 2 (0.31%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.16%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 469 (72.71%) AWS
2 283 (43.88%) dbt
3 253 (39.22%) Snowflake
4 252 (39.07%) GCP
5 146 (22.64%) Azure
6 8 (1.24%) Power Platform
7 7 (1.09%) Amazon S3
7 7 (1.09%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (1.09%) AWS Step Functions
7 7 (1.09%) Serverless
8 4 (0.62%) Power Automate
9 3 (0.47%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.16%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.16%) GitHub
10 1 (0.16%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 283 (43.88%) Apache Arrow
1 283 (43.88%) Dremio
2 275 (42.64%) Amazon Athena
3 266 (41.24%) Apache Ignite
4 260 (40.31%) Data Lake
5 9 (1.40%) Big Data
6 8 (1.24%) Power BI
6 8 (1.24%) Tableau
7 7 (1.09%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.62%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.31%) SQLPlus
10 1 (0.16%) MySQL
10 1 (0.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (1.55%) JIRA
2 7 (1.09%) Git
3 2 (0.31%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.16%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.16%) GDB
4 1 (0.16%) Selenium
4 1 (0.16%) TestComplete
General
1 596 (92.40%) Finance
2 561 (86.98%) Front Office
3 394 (61.09%) Banking
4 328 (50.85%) Investment Banking
5 103 (15.97%) Back Office
6 39 (6.05%) Law
7 38 (5.89%) Analytical Skills
7 38 (5.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 33 (5.12%) Social Skills
9 15 (2.33%) Legal
10 10 (1.55%) Advertising
11 9 (1.40%) Marketing
12 7 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.09%) Prime Brokerage
13 3 (0.47%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.31%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.16%) Billing
15 1 (0.16%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.16%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 254 (39.38%) Software Engineer
2 214 (33.18%) Developer
3 203 (31.47%) Senior
4 155 (24.03%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 145 (22.48%) Senior Software Engineer
6 135 (20.93%) Lead
7 122 (18.91%) Analyst
8 111 (17.21%) Python Engineer
9 110 (17.05%) Python Software Engineer
10 97 (15.04%) Finance Manager
11 95 (14.73%) Java Engineer
11 95 (14.73%) Java Software Engineer
12 92 (14.26%) AWS Engineer
12 92 (14.26%) AWS Software Engineer
13 82 (12.71%) .NET Developer
14 81 (12.56%) .NET Software Developer
14 81 (12.56%) .NET Software Engineer
15 78 (12.09%) Python Developer
16 76 (11.78%) Financial Analyst
17 72 (11.16%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 285 (44.19%) gRPC
1 285 (44.19%) Protocol Buffers
2 280 (43.41%) Pandas
3 265 (41.09%) NumPy
4 264 (40.93%) SciPy
5 121 (18.76%) React
6 112 (17.36%) .NET
7 99 (15.35%) AngularJS
8 93 (14.42%) Redux
8 93 (14.42%) Vue
9 55 (8.53%) .NET Core
10 47 (7.29%) ASP.NET
11 45 (6.98%) ASP.NET Core
12 12 (1.86%) Material-UI
13 10 (1.55%) .NET Framework
14 8 (1.24%) FIX Protocol
14 8 (1.24%) REST
15 7 (1.09%) Unity DI Container
16 5 (0.78%) XML
17 4 (0.62%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 523 (81.09%) Hedge funds
2 485 (75.19%) Fixed Income
3 483 (74.88%) Equities
4 453 (70.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 65 (10.08%) Product Ownership
6 36 (5.58%) Pricing Data
7 18 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (2.17%) Credit Derivative
8 14 (2.17%) Credit Risk
9 11 (1.71%) Equity Derivative
10 8 (1.24%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.24%) Reference Data
11 7 (1.09%) Blog
11 7 (1.09%) Interest Rate Derivative
11 7 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
11 7 (1.09%) N-Tier
11 7 (1.09%) Private Cloud
12 6 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (0.78%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.24%) Windows
2 6 (0.93%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.62%) Linux
4 2 (0.31%) Unix
5 1 (0.16%) CentOS
5 1 (0.16%) Debian
5 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.16%) Scientific Linux
5 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 522 (80.93%) Asset Management
2 504 (78.14%) Agile
3 455 (70.54%) Investment Management
4 422 (65.43%) Software Engineering
5 112 (17.36%) Greeks
6 106 (16.43%) Line Management
7 85 (13.18%) Analytics
8 75 (11.63%) Mentoring
9 72 (11.16%) Fintech
10 65 (10.08%) TDD
11 52 (8.06%) Artificial Intelligence
11 52 (8.06%) Machine Learning
12 48 (7.44%) DevOps
13 44 (6.82%) Full Stack Development
14 42 (6.51%) Product Management
15 37 (5.74%) Problem-Solving
16 36 (5.58%) Quantitative Research
17 34 (5.27%) Roadmaps
18 33 (5.12%) Business Analysis
19 27 (4.19%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 495 (76.74%) Python
2 384 (59.53%) JavaScript
3 378 (58.60%) TypeScript
4 290 (44.96%) Java
5 174 (26.98%) SQL
6 164 (25.43%) C#
7 34 (5.27%) R
8 12 (1.86%) Ruby
8 12 (1.86%) Scala
9 7 (1.09%) C++
9 7 (1.09%) PowerShell
10 6 (0.93%) VBA
11 3 (0.47%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.16%) Go
12 1 (0.16%) Perl
12 1 (0.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 34 (5.27%) Degree
2 5 (0.78%) ACCA
2 5 (0.78%) CIMA
3 3 (0.47%) CCAB
3 3 (0.47%) CISA
3 3 (0.47%) CISM
3 3 (0.47%) CISSP
3 3 (0.47%) QiCA
4 1 (0.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.16%) IIBA
4 1 (0.16%) ISEB
4 1 (0.16%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (0.16%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (17.36%) Data Quality
2 56 (8.68%) QA
3 3 (0.47%) COBIT
3 3 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.47%) ITGC
4 2 (0.31%) EMIR
4 2 (0.31%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.31%) MiFID
4 2 (0.31%) PMO
5 1 (0.16%) SOC 1
5 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 4 (0.62%) Docker
2 1 (0.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (0.93%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.47%) Control-M
3 2 (0.31%) Kibana
3 2 (0.31%) Terraform
Vendors
1 61 (9.46%) Bloomberg
2 14 (2.17%) BISAM
3 13 (2.02%) Oracle
4 8 (1.24%) Microsoft
5 5 (0.78%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.47%) Cadence
6 3 (0.47%) SAP
6 3 (0.47%) Trayport
7 2 (0.31%) Calypso
7 2 (0.31%) ION Trading
7 2 (0.31%) Sophis
8 1 (0.16%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.16%) FactSet
8 1 (0.16%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.16%) Sun