Derivative Jobs in the City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Derivative in permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Derivative over the 3 months to 28 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Derivatives London / City of London
Location	3 months to 28 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	138	114	85
Rank change year-on-year	-24	-29
Permanent jobs citing Derivative	90	155	312
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London	1.75%	2.43%	3.07%
As % of the Miscellaneous category	3.71%	5.20%	7.01%
Number of salaries quoted	83	126	280
Median salary	£77,500	£70,000	£70,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	+10.71%	-
90% offered a salary of more than	£39,000	£44,375	£47,500
10% offered a salary of more than	£132,500	£106,250	£91,375
UK excluding London median salary	£60,000	£45,000	£52,500
% change year-on-year	+33.33%	-14.28%

Derivative is in the generic IT skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Generic IT Skills City of London
Permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills	2427	2982	4451
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London	47.23%	46.81%	43.75%
Number of salaries quoted	3350	4213	5577
Median salary	£62,500	£60,000	£57,500
Median salary % change year-on-year	+4.16%	+4.34%
90% offered a salary of more than	£32,500	£35,000	£34,250
10% offered a salary of more than	£97,500	£87,500	£87,500
UK excluding London median salary	£42,500	£42,500	£40,000
% change year-on-year	-	+6.25%

Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Derivative as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Derivative in the City of London

Derivative
Salary Trend in the City of London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Derivative in the City of London.

Salary trend for Derivative in the City of London

Derivative
Salary Histogram in the City of London

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing Derivative in the City of London over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

Salary histogram for Derivative in the City of London

Derivative
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in the City of London

For the 6 months to 28 June 2017, IT jobs citing Derivative also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads across the City of London region with a requirement for Derivative.

1	106 (64.24%)	Finance
2	66 (40.00%)	Java
3	61 (36.97%)	Front Office
4	54 (32.73%)	Linux
5	39 (23.64%)	Fixed Income
6	37 (22.42%)	Banking
6	37 (22.42%)	Unix
6	37 (22.42%)	Python
7	36 (21.82%)	Equities
8	35 (21.21%)	C#
8	35 (21.21%)	SQL
8	35 (21.21%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
9	33 (20.00%)	C++
10	31 (18.79%)	Agile Software Development
11	29 (17.58%)	Degree

12	26 (15.76%)	Equity Derivative
13	25 (15.15%)	Mathematics
14	22 (13.33%)	Multithreading
14	22 (13.33%)	Back Office
14	22 (13.33%)	JavaScript
14	22 (13.33%)	Oracle
15	20 (12.12%)	SQL Server
15	20 (12.12%)	Risk Management
16	19 (11.52%)	Low Latency
17	18 (10.91%)	Investment Banking
17	18 (10.91%)	HTML
18	17 (10.30%)	OO
18	17 (10.30%)	Shell Script
19	16 (9.70%)	SDLC
19	16 (9.70%)	Hedge funds

Derivative
Co-occurring IT Skills in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	6 (3.64%)	Apache
2	2 (1.21%)	Confluence
2	2 (1.21%)	JBoss
2	2 (1.21%)	SharePoint
3	1 (0.61%)	Apache Spark
3	1 (0.61%)	CMS
3	1 (0.61%)	Drupal
3	1 (0.61%)	Oracle Workflow
3	1 (0.61%)	Sitecore CMS
3	1 (0.61%)	WordPress

Applications
1	12 (7.27%)	Microsoft Excel
2	2 (1.21%)	Microsoft Office
3	1 (0.61%)	Photoshop

Business Applications
1	4 (2.42%)	thinkFolio
2	3 (1.82%)	Oracle Cash Management
3	2 (1.21%)	LatentZero
3	2 (1.21%)	Markit EDM
3	2 (1.21%)	Sentinel
4	1 (0.61%)	Bloomberg TOMS
4	1 (0.61%)	Oracle Assets
4	1 (0.61%)	Oracle EBS
4	1 (0.61%)	Oracle EBS R12
4	1 (0.61%)	Oracle Financials
4	1 (0.61%)	Oracle General Ledger
4	1 (0.61%)	Oracle Internet Expenses
4	1 (0.61%)	Oracle iProcurement
4	1 (0.61%)	Oracle Payables
4	1 (0.61%)	Oracle Receivables

Cloud Services
1	1 (0.61%)	PaaS

Communications & Networking
1	3 (1.82%)	DHCP
1	3 (1.82%)	DNS
1	3 (1.82%)	Fibre Channel
1	3 (1.82%)	iSCSI
1	3 (1.82%)	LDAP
1	3 (1.82%)	NAS
1	3 (1.82%)	SAN
1	3 (1.82%)	SMTP
2	2 (1.21%)	FTP
2	2 (1.21%)	TCP/IP
3	1 (0.61%)	FIX Connectivity

Database & Business Intelligence
1	20 (12.12%)	SQL Server
2	7 (4.24%)	KDB
2	7 (4.24%)	Kdb+
3	5 (3.03%)	Relational Database
4	3 (1.82%)	Data Warehouse
4	3 (1.82%)	MySQL
4	3 (1.82%)	RDBMS
5	2 (1.21%)	DB2
5	2 (1.21%)	Power BI
5	2 (1.21%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
5	2 (1.21%)	SQL Server Integration Services
5	2 (1.21%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
6	1 (0.61%)	Apache Cassandra
6	1 (0.61%)	Big Data
6	1 (0.61%)	Hadoop
6	1 (0.61%)	Hazelcast
6	1 (0.61%)	NoSQL
6	1 (0.61%)	Oracle BI Publisher
6	1 (0.61%)	Oracle Database
6	1 (0.61%)	Oracle Discoverer

Development Applications
1	8 (4.85%)	JIRA
2	4 (2.42%)	Oracle APEX
3	3 (1.82%)	Subversion
4	2 (1.21%)	Jenkins
5	1 (0.61%)	Atlassian Bamboo
5	1 (0.61%)	Bugzilla
5	1 (0.61%)	Cucumber
5	1 (0.61%)	Eclipse
5	1 (0.61%)	GCC
5	1 (0.61%)	Git (software)
5	1 (0.61%)	Gradle
5	1 (0.61%)	JUnit
5	1 (0.61%)	Maven
5	1 (0.61%)	Robot Framework
5	1 (0.61%)	Selenium
5	1 (0.61%)	SoapUI
5	1 (0.61%)	Team Foundation Server
5	1 (0.61%)	TestNG

General
1	106 (64.24%)	Finance
2	61 (36.97%)	Front Office
3	37 (22.42%)	Banking
4	22 (13.33%)	Back Office
5	18 (10.91%)	Investment Banking
6	12 (7.27%)	Advertising
7	11 (6.67%)	French Language
8	6 (3.64%)	Financial Institution
9	4 (2.42%)	German Language
9	4 (2.42%)	Legal
10	1 (0.61%)	General Ledger
10	1 (0.61%)	Marketing
10	1 (0.61%)	Private Banking
10	1 (0.61%)	Telecoms

Job Titles
1	74 (44.85%)	Developer
2	41 (24.85%)	Analyst
3	36 (21.82%)	Java Developer
4	18 (10.91%)	Quantitative Developer
5	17 (10.30%)	Business Analyst
6	14 (8.48%)	C# Developer
7	13 (7.88%)	Java Quantitative Developer
8	11 (6.67%)	Front Office Developer
9	9 (5.45%)	Support Analyst
10	8 (4.85%)	C++ Developer
10	8 (4.85%)	Software Developer
11	7 (4.24%)	Applications Support
11	7 (4.24%)	KDB Developer
12	6 (3.64%)	.NET Developer
12	6 (3.64%)	C# .NET Developer
12	6 (3.64%)	Financial Analyst
13	5 (3.03%)	Data Analyst
13	5 (3.03%)	Junior
13	5 (3.03%)	Senior Analyst
13	5 (3.03%)	Senior Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	18 (10.91%)	HTML
2	15 (9.09%)	FIX Protocol
3	13 (7.88%)	AngularJS
4	12 (7.27%)	STL
5	11 (6.67%)	Boost C++ Libraries
5	11 (6.67%)	HTML5
6	10 (6.06%)	.NET
6	10 (6.06%)	Middleware
6	10 (6.06%)	XML
7	6 (3.64%)	Spring
8	5 (3.03%)	CSS
8	5 (3.03%)	SOAP
8	5 (3.03%)	XSLT
9	4 (2.42%)	Angular 2
9	4 (2.42%)	ASP.NET
9	4 (2.42%)	JMS
9	4 (2.42%)	WPF
10	3 (1.82%)	FpML
10	3 (1.82%)	JSON
10	3 (1.82%)	TIBCO EMS

Miscellaneous
1	39 (23.64%)	Fixed Income
2	36 (21.82%)	Equities
3	35 (21.21%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
4	26 (15.76%)	Equity Derivative
5	16 (9.70%)	Hedge funds
6	14 (8.48%)	OTC Derivatives
7	13 (7.88%)	Fintech
8	9 (5.45%)	Computer Science
8	9 (5.45%)	Credit Derivative
9	8 (4.85%)	Market Risk
10	6 (3.64%)	Greenfield Project
10	6 (3.64%)	Interest Rate Derivative
10	6 (3.64%)	Swaptions
11	5 (3.03%)	Exotic Derivative
12	4 (2.42%)	Algorithms
12	4 (2.42%)	Credit Risk
12	4 (2.42%)	Data Centre
12	4 (2.42%)	Data Structures
13	3 (1.82%)	Enterprise Storage
13	3 (1.82%)	Private Cloud

Operating Systems
1	54 (32.73%)	Linux
2	37 (22.42%)	Unix
3	10 (6.06%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3	10 (6.06%)	Windows
4	4 (2.42%)	Solaris
5	3 (1.82%)	Data ONTAP
6	1 (0.61%)	Android
6	1 (0.61%)	CentOS
6	1 (0.61%)	Ubuntu
6	1 (0.61%)	Windows Server

Processes & Methodologies
1	31 (18.79%)	Agile Software Development
2	25 (15.15%)	Mathematics
3	22 (13.33%)	Multithreading
4	20 (12.12%)	Risk Management
5	19 (11.52%)	Low Latency
6	17 (10.30%)	OO
7	16 (9.70%)	SDLC
8	14 (8.48%)	Scrum
9	12 (7.27%)	Algorithmic Trading
9	12 (7.27%)	Asset Management
9	12 (7.27%)	Electronic Trading
10	11 (6.67%)	Functional Programming
11	10 (6.06%)	Physics
12	9 (5.45%)	Quantitative Finance
12	9 (5.45%)	Software Engineering
13	8 (4.85%)	Analytics
13	8 (4.85%)	Project Management
13	8 (4.85%)	TDD
13	8 (4.85%)	Validation
14	7 (4.24%)	Ultra-Low Latency

Programming Languages
1	66 (40.00%)	Java
2	37 (22.42%)	Python
3	35 (21.21%)	C#
3	35 (21.21%)	SQL
4	33 (20.00%)	C++
5	22 (13.33%)	JavaScript
6	17 (10.30%)	Shell Script
7	15 (9.09%)	Scala
8	12 (7.27%)	VBA
9	11 (6.67%)	Perl
10	3 (1.82%)	T-SQL
11	2 (1.21%)	PL/SQL
11	2 (1.21%)	VBScript
12	1 (0.61%)	Assembly Language
12	1 (0.61%)	Clojure
12	1 (0.61%)	F#
12	1 (0.61%)	Korn
12	1 (0.61%)	MATLAB
12	1 (0.61%)	PowerShell
12	1 (0.61%)	R

Qualifications
1	29 (17.58%)	Degree
2	6 (3.64%)	Computer Science Degree
3	5 (3.03%)	Numerate Degree
4	3 (1.82%)	Microsoft Certification
5	1 (0.61%)	PhD
5	1 (0.61%)	PMI Certification
5	1 (0.61%)	Postgraduate

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	12 (7.27%)	QA
2	9 (5.45%)	MiFID
3	3 (1.82%)	SLA
4	2 (1.21%)	AIFMD
4	2 (1.21%)	EMIR
4	2 (1.21%)	PMO
4	2 (1.21%)	UCITS
5	1 (0.61%)	Basel III
5	1 (0.61%)	Solvency II

System Software
1	3 (1.82%)	Active Directory
1	3 (1.82%)	Hyper-V
1	3 (1.82%)	NFS
2	2 (1.21%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	1 (0.61%)	Apache ZooKeeper
3	1 (0.61%)	Docker
3	1 (0.61%)	Virtual Machines

Systems Management
1	3 (1.82%)	Ansible
1	3 (1.82%)	Control-M
1	3 (1.82%)	Opscode Chef
1	3 (1.82%)	Puppet
1	3 (1.82%)	Salt
2	2 (1.21%)	HP Quality Center
2	2 (1.21%)	vCenter Server
3	1 (0.61%)	ZABBIX

Vendors
1	22 (13.33%)	Oracle
2	10 (6.06%)	Sybase
3	8 (4.85%)	Microsoft
4	6 (3.64%)	Murex
5	5 (3.03%)	HP
5	5 (3.03%)	Solace
5	5 (3.03%)	TIBCO
6	4 (2.42%)	Charles River
6	4 (2.42%)	Cisco
6	4 (2.42%)	Fidessa
6	4 (2.42%)	ION Trading
6	4 (2.42%)	Sophis
7	3 (1.82%)	Calypso
7	3 (1.82%)	NetApp
7	3 (1.82%)	VMware
8	2 (1.21%)	Bloomberg
8	2 (1.21%)	Citrix
8	2 (1.21%)	CQG
9	1 (0.61%)	eSpeed
9	1 (0.61%)	Tradeweb