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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 424 444 454
Rank change year-on-year +20 +10 -86
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 557 690 1,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.57% 0.66% 0.79%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.59% 1.55% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 513 547 963
10th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £65,000
25th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £105,000 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -6.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £145,000 £127,500 £136,250
90th Percentile £165,000 £150,000 £162,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -34.48% +7.41% +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 34,962 44,378 73,876
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 42.75% 47.31%
Number of salaries quoted 23,044 23,979 34,135
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,375 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
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 £84,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £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 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Derivative in the UK

Derivative
Top 11 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 2 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 +38 546 £115,000 +9.52% 157
London +68 518 £115,000 +9.52% 149
Work from Home +96 397 £115,000 +17.95% 43
UK excluding London -26 35 £47,500 -34.48% 10
South West -5 22 - -
Scotland -54 7 - - 1
East of England +12 3 £45,000 - 4
North of England +39 2 £50,000 - 2
North West - 2 £50,000 - 1
West Midlands +17 1 £32,000 - 2
Midlands -1 1 £32,000 - 2

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
1 195 (35.01%) Apache Airflow
2 173 (31.06%) Apache
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.36%) SAS
3 2 (0.36%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.18%) Gunicorn
4 1 (0.18%) nginx
4 1 (0.18%) uWSGI
4 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (2.69%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.36%) ION Anvil
2 2 (0.36%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.18%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.18%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 369 (66.25%) AWS
2 234 (42.01%) GCP
3 181 (32.50%) dbt
4 160 (28.73%) Azure
5 158 (28.37%) Snowflake
6 5 (0.90%) GitHub
7 4 (0.72%) Power Automate
8 3 (0.54%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.36%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.36%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (0.36%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.36%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (0.36%) Serverless
10 1 (0.18%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.18%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.18%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.18%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.18%) OCI
10 1 (0.18%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.18%) BGP
1 1 (0.18%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (0.18%) DHCP
1 1 (0.18%) DNS
1 1 (0.18%) Firewall
1 1 (0.18%) Internet
1 1 (0.18%) IOS XR
1 1 (0.18%) Network Security
1 1 (0.18%) OSPF
1 1 (0.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (32.50%) Amazon Athena
1 181 (32.50%) Apache Arrow
1 181 (32.50%) Dremio
2 172 (30.88%) Apache Ignite
3 158 (28.37%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.54%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.36%) Big Data
5 2 (0.36%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.36%) SQLPlus
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.18%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (1.97%) JIRA
2 2 (0.36%) Cypress.io
2 2 (0.36%) Git
3 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.18%) GDB
3 1 (0.18%) GitLab
3 1 (0.18%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.18%) Selenium
3 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.18%) TestComplete
General
1 510 (91.56%) Finance
2 472 (84.74%) Front Office
3 295 (52.96%) Banking
4 226 (40.57%) Investment Banking
5 106 (19.03%) Back Office
6 37 (6.64%) Analytical Skills
7 35 (6.28%) Law
8 33 (5.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 32 (5.75%) Social Skills
10 16 (2.87%) Legal
11 9 (1.62%) Advertising
11 9 (1.62%) Marketing
12 8 (1.44%) Prime Brokerage
13 7 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.90%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
16 1 (0.18%) Billing
16 1 (0.18%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.18%) International Banking
16 1 (0.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 218 (39.14%) Developer
2 203 (36.45%) Software Engineer
3 166 (29.80%) Senior
4 144 (25.85%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 114 (20.47%) Analyst
6 110 (19.75%) Senior Software Engineer
7 103 (18.49%) Lead
8 93 (16.70%) Finance Manager
9 86 (15.44%) .NET Developer
10 85 (15.26%) .NET Software Developer
10 85 (15.26%) .NET Software Engineer
11 81 (14.54%) Python Developer
12 76 (13.64%) Python Engineer
13 75 (13.46%) Python Software Engineer
14 71 (12.75%) Senior Developer
15 68 (12.21%) Financial Analyst
16 62 (11.13%) Business Analyst
17 61 (10.95%) Senior Software Developer
18 58 (10.41%) Java Software Engineer
18 58 (10.41%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (34.65%) gRPC
1 193 (34.65%) Protocol Buffers
2 188 (33.75%) Pandas
3 172 (30.88%) NumPy
4 170 (30.52%) SciPy
5 120 (21.54%) React
6 110 (19.75%) .NET
7 105 (18.85%) AngularJS
8 99 (17.77%) Vue
9 97 (17.41%) Redux
10 51 (9.16%) .NET Core
11 50 (8.98%) ASP.NET
12 49 (8.80%) ASP.NET Core
13 14 (2.51%) Material-UI
14 6 (1.08%) FIX Protocol
14 6 (1.08%) REST
14 6 (1.08%) XML
15 4 (0.72%) J2SE
15 4 (0.72%) JSON
16 3 (0.54%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 433 (77.74%) Hedge funds
2 396 (71.10%) Fixed Income
3 387 (69.48%) Equities
4 358 (64.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 54 (9.69%) Product Ownership
6 19 (3.41%) Credit Derivative
7 18 (3.23%) Pricing Data
7 18 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (2.69%) Credit Risk
9 12 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.62%) Equity Derivative
11 8 (1.44%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.44%) Reference Data
12 7 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.26%) Interest Rate Derivative
12 7 (1.26%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
13 5 (0.90%) OTC Derivatives
14 4 (0.72%) Algorithms
15 3 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.44%) Apple iOS
1 8 (1.44%) Windows
2 5 (0.90%) Linux
3 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.36%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.18%) CentOS
4 1 (0.18%) Debian
4 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.18%) Scientific Linux
4 1 (0.18%) Unix
4 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (77.74%) Asset Management
2 402 (72.17%) Agile
3 393 (70.56%) Investment Management
4 339 (60.86%) Software Engineering
5 82 (14.72%) Mentoring
6 77 (13.82%) Fintech
7 74 (13.29%) Line Management
8 73 (13.11%) Analytics
9 68 (12.21%) Greeks
10 65 (11.67%) TDD
11 53 (9.52%) DevOps
12 48 (8.62%) Artificial Intelligence
12 48 (8.62%) Machine Learning
13 47 (8.44%) Full Stack Development
14 46 (8.26%) Quantitative Research
15 36 (6.46%) Product Management
16 35 (6.28%) Problem-Solving
17 34 (6.10%) Roadmaps
18 25 (4.49%) Project Management
19 22 (3.95%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 403 (72.35%) Python
2 287 (51.53%) JavaScript
3 283 (50.81%) TypeScript
4 196 (35.19%) Java
5 170 (30.52%) C#
6 158 (28.37%) SQL
7 42 (7.54%) R
8 15 (2.69%) C++
9 13 (2.33%) Ruby
10 12 (2.15%) Scala
11 6 (1.08%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.08%) VBA
12 3 (0.54%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.18%) C
13 1 (0.18%) Go
13 1 (0.18%) Perl
13 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.18%) VBScript
13 1 (0.18%) VC++
13 1 (0.18%) XPath
Qualifications
1 34 (6.10%) Degree
2 3 (0.54%) ACCA
2 3 (0.54%) CCAB
2 3 (0.54%) CIMA
2 3 (0.54%) CISA
2 3 (0.54%) CISM
2 3 (0.54%) CISSP
2 3 (0.54%) QiCA
3 1 (0.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.18%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (12.21%) Data Quality
2 53 (9.52%) QA
3 3 (0.54%) COBIT
3 3 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.54%) ITGC
4 2 (0.36%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.18%) COREP
5 1 (0.18%) EMIR
5 1 (0.18%) IFRS
5 1 (0.18%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.18%) MiFID
5 1 (0.18%) PMO
5 1 (0.18%) SOC 1
System Software
1 4 (0.72%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (1.26%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.54%) Control-M
2 3 (0.54%) Terraform
3 2 (0.36%) Kibana
4 1 (0.18%) Ansible
4 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 59 (10.59%) Bloomberg
2 14 (2.51%) BISAM
2 14 (2.51%) Oracle
3 8 (1.44%) Microsoft
4 5 (0.90%) Salesforce
5 3 (0.54%) Cadence
5 3 (0.54%) SAP
5 3 (0.54%) Trayport
6 2 (0.36%) Calypso
6 2 (0.36%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.18%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.18%) Cisco
7 1 (0.18%) FactSet
7 1 (0.18%) IBM
7 1 (0.18%) Juniper
7 1 (0.18%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.18%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.18%) Sun
7 1 (0.18%) VMware