The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Derivative in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Derivative over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Derivatives
Rank 81 93 99
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +6
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 4 2 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.373% 0.146% 0.394%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.286% 0.506% 1.386%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 2
Average salary £48,750 £40,000 £90,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.87% -55.55%
UK excluding London average salary £43,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+2.35% -5.55%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
311 395 433
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 28.98% 28.77% 28.41%
Number of salaries quoted 185 290 295
Average salary £40,000 £36,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% -4.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £68,800 £50,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Derivative
Scotland

Derivative
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Derivative across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Edinburgh Derivative Jobs Demand Trend

Derivative
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Derivative across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Derivative Salary Trend

Derivative
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Derivative also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Derivative.

1 9 (81.82%) Front Office
1 9 (81.82%) Degree
2 8 (72.73%) Finance
3 7 (63.64%) Equities
3 7 (63.64%) Java
3 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
4 6 (54.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (54.55%) MS Excel
4 6 (54.55%) C#
4 6 (54.55%) OO
4 6 (54.55%) Analytics
5 5 (45.45%) SQL
5 5 (45.45%) PhD
6 4 (36.36%) Fixed Income
6 4 (36.36%) Investment Management
7 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Data Management
7 3 (27.27%) Cadis
7 3 (27.27%) Data Management
7 3 (27.27%) Business Analysis
7 3 (27.27%) Exotic Derivative
7 3 (27.27%) OOP
7 3 (27.27%) Python
7 3 (27.27%) Middleware
7 3 (27.27%) VBA
7 3 (27.27%) C++
7 3 (27.27%) Bloomberg
7 3 (27.27%) Charles River
8 2 (18.18%) Hibernate
8 2 (18.18%) Spring
8 2 (18.18%) Wealth Management

Derivative
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Derivative also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Derivative. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (27.27%) Middleware
2 2 (18.18%) Hibernate
2 2 (18.18%) Spring
3 1 (9.091%) FpML
3 1 (9.091%) Swing
3 1 (9.091%) .NET
3 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (54.55%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Subversion
1 1 (9.091%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (9.091%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.091%) Git (software)
1 1 (9.091%) Hudson
1 1 (9.091%) JUnit
General
1 9 (81.82%) Front Office
2 8 (72.73%) Finance
3 1 (9.091%) Banking
3 1 (9.091%) Investment Banking
3 1 (9.091%) Back Office
3 1 (9.091%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Quantitative Developer
3 1 (9.091%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Platform Manager
3 1 (9.091%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Service Manager
3 1 (9.091%) Java Developer
3 1 (9.091%) .NET Developer
3 1 (9.091%) C# Developer
3 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Business Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Equities
2 6 (54.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (36.36%) Fixed Income
4 3 (27.27%) Exotic Derivative
5 1 (9.091%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) OO
1 6 (54.55%) Analytics
2 4 (36.36%) Investment Management
3 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Data Management
3 3 (27.27%) Data Management
3 3 (27.27%) Business Analysis
3 3 (27.27%) OOP
4 2 (18.18%) Wealth Management
4 2 (18.18%) Workflow
5 1 (9.091%) TDD
5 1 (9.091%) Asset Management
5 1 (9.091%) Multithreading
5 1 (9.091%) Portfolio Management
5 1 (9.091%) Risk Management
5 1 (9.091%) Project Management
5 1 (9.091%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Java
2 6 (54.55%) C#
3 5 (45.45%) SQL
4 3 (27.27%) Python
4 3 (27.27%) VBA
4 3 (27.27%) C++
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) Degree
2 5 (45.45%) PhD
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Cadis
2 3 (27.27%) Bloomberg
2 3 (27.27%) Charles River
3 1 (9.091%) Reuters