Derivative Jobs in England

Derivatives
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Derivative in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Derivative over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 256 339
Rank change year-on-year -121 +83 +72
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 371 803 638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.70% 1.08% 0.93%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.79% 3.30% 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 274 753 561
10th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £95,625 £85,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £135,000 £148,750 £130,000
90th Percentile £148,750 £165,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -3.45%

All Generic Skills
England

Derivative falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 20,673 24,354 28,996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 39.02% 32.85% 42.11%
Number of salaries quoted 9,894 14,901 18,308
10th Percentile £29,250 £30,000 £35,375
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £63,575
% change year-on-year - -9.56% +1.72%

Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Derivative in England

Derivative
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Derivative in England

Derivative
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Derivative in England over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Derivative in England

Derivative
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Derivative within the England region over the 6 months to 3 August 2025. 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
London -64 340 £115,000 - 233
North of England +29 16 - - 3
North West +10 9 - - 2
Midlands +53 7 - - 1
Yorkshire +16 5 - -
South East - 5 - - 15
West Midlands +48 4 - - 1
East Midlands - 3 - -
South West +50 2 - - 1
North East - 2 - - 1
Derivative
UK

Derivative
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 125 (33.69%) Apache
2 121 (32.61%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.08%) Confluence
3 4 (1.08%) GemFire
3 4 (1.08%) Jupyter
4 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.54%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (2.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.54%) Stata
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 45 (12.13%) Aladdin
2 39 (10.51%) thinkFolio
3 3 (0.81%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.54%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.54%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.27%) Eikon
5 1 (0.27%) Endur
5 1 (0.27%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 138 (37.20%) AWS
2 121 (32.61%) dbt
2 121 (32.61%) Snowflake
3 14 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (2.96%) Amazon ECS
4 11 (2.96%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (2.96%) Dagster
4 11 (2.96%) GCP
5 7 (1.89%) OpenShift
5 7 (1.89%) SaaS
6 6 (1.62%) Azure
7 3 (0.81%) Amazon MSK
7 3 (0.81%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.54%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.27%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.27%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.27%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.27%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.27%) GitHub
9 1 (0.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.70%) Multicast
2 4 (1.08%) DNS
2 4 (1.08%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.81%) DHCP
3 3 (0.81%) Firewall
3 3 (0.81%) FIX Connectivity
3 3 (0.81%) SSL
4 2 (0.54%) HTTP
4 2 (0.54%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (32.61%) Amazon Athena
1 121 (32.61%) Apache Arrow
1 121 (32.61%) Apache Iceberg
1 121 (32.61%) Dremio
2 93 (25.07%) Apache Ignite
3 89 (23.99%) Data Lake
4 14 (3.77%) NoSQL
5 13 (3.50%) KDB
6 11 (2.96%) Relational Database
7 9 (2.43%) MongoDB
7 9 (2.43%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.16%) Big Data
8 8 (2.16%) Kdb+
8 8 (2.16%) RDBMS
9 6 (1.62%) Redis
10 5 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (1.08%) InterSystems Cache
11 4 (1.08%) Oracle Database
11 4 (1.08%) SAP BW
12 3 (0.81%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (4.31%) JIRA
2 13 (3.50%) Git
3 9 (2.43%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.08%) Maven
4 4 (1.08%) Vite
5 3 (0.81%) MSTest
5 3 (0.81%) NUnit
5 3 (0.81%) SpecFlow
5 3 (0.81%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.54%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.27%) JetBrains Rider
7 1 (0.27%) JUnit
7 1 (0.27%) Mockito
7 1 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 338 (91.11%) Finance
2 250 (67.39%) Front Office
3 204 (54.99%) Banking
4 149 (40.16%) Investment Banking
5 92 (24.80%) Social Skills
6 58 (15.63%) Law
7 33 (8.89%) Legal
8 32 (8.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 28 (7.55%) Financial Institution
10 22 (5.93%) Prime Brokerage
11 21 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
12 7 (1.89%) Back Office
13 6 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.81%) Marketing
15 3 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.54%) Spanish Language
17 1 (0.27%) Advertising
17 1 (0.27%) Public Sector
17 1 (0.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 162 (43.67%) Software Engineer
2 140 (37.74%) Senior
3 129 (34.77%) AWS Engineer
3 129 (34.77%) AWS Software Engineer
3 129 (34.77%) Java Engineer
4 121 (32.61%) Java Software Engineer
5 118 (31.81%) Senior Software Engineer
6 111 (29.92%) Python Engineer
6 111 (29.92%) Python Software Engineer
7 97 (26.15%) Senior Java Engineer
8 93 (25.07%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 84 (22.64%) Analyst
10 70 (18.87%) Business Analyst
11 63 (16.98%) Developer
12 59 (15.90%) Business Manager
13 48 (12.94%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
14 38 (10.24%) Lead
14 38 (10.24%) Software Developer
15 37 (9.97%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 32 (8.63%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (25.07%) Pandas
2 91 (24.53%) gRPC
3 89 (23.99%) NumPy
3 89 (23.99%) Protocol Buffers
3 89 (23.99%) SciPy
4 43 (11.59%) PySpark
5 23 (6.20%) FIX Protocol
6 17 (4.58%) .NET
7 16 (4.31%) Spring
8 13 (3.50%) React
9 12 (3.23%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 10 (2.70%) pytest
10 10 (2.70%) Web Services
11 8 (2.16%) Middleware
12 7 (1.89%) Kafka
13 6 (1.62%) WPF
14 5 (1.35%) HTML
14 5 (1.35%) HTML5
14 5 (1.35%) RabbitMQ
15 4 (1.08%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 206 (55.53%) Fixed Income
2 202 (54.45%) Hedge funds
3 175 (47.17%) Equities
4 161 (43.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 78 (21.02%) Pricing Data
6 51 (13.75%) Onboarding
7 26 (7.01%) Algorithms
8 23 (6.20%) Blockchain
9 21 (5.66%) Equity Derivative
10 14 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (2.96%) Cloud Native
12 7 (1.89%) Market Risk
12 7 (1.89%) Reference Data
13 6 (1.62%) Credit Derivative
13 6 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.62%) OTC Derivatives
14 5 (1.35%) Credit Risk
14 5 (1.35%) Data Structures
14 5 (1.35%) Virtual Team
15 4 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 33 (8.89%) Linux
2 12 (3.23%) Unix
3 5 (1.35%) CentOS
3 5 (1.35%) Rocky
3 5 (1.35%) Windows
4 2 (0.54%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.27%) Debian
5 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (67.12%) Agile
2 177 (47.71%) Software Engineering
3 171 (46.09%) Asset Management
4 130 (35.04%) Investment Management
5 58 (15.63%) Business Analysis
6 53 (14.29%) Portfolio Management
7 45 (12.13%) Business Intelligence
7 45 (12.13%) Data Mapping
8 44 (11.86%) Risk Management
9 37 (9.97%) Mathematics
10 36 (9.70%) Computer Science
10 36 (9.70%) SDLC
11 34 (9.16%) Data Management
12 32 (8.63%) CI/CD
12 32 (8.63%) Low Latency
13 31 (8.36%) Problem-Solving
14 28 (7.55%) Analytics
14 28 (7.55%) Operational Stability
15 27 (7.28%) Continuous Improvement
15 27 (7.28%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 241 (64.96%) Python
2 194 (52.29%) Java
3 118 (31.81%) SQL
4 97 (26.15%) TypeScript
5 93 (25.07%) JavaScript
6 33 (8.89%) C++
7 31 (8.36%) C#
8 12 (3.23%) Scala
9 8 (2.16%) Kotlin
10 6 (1.62%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.35%) Bash
11 5 (1.35%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.08%) F#
12 4 (1.08%) Haskell
12 4 (1.08%) OCaml
13 3 (0.81%) Perl
13 3 (0.81%) R
14 2 (0.54%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.54%) Rust
14 2 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 51 (13.75%) Degree
2 20 (5.39%) Master's Degree
3 13 (3.50%) PhD
4 3 (0.81%) CFA
4 3 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.54%) ACCA
5 2 (0.54%) CIMA
6 1 (0.27%) CISM
6 1 (0.27%) CISSP
6 1 (0.27%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 21 (5.66%) GDPR
2 14 (3.77%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.23%) QA
4 6 (1.62%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.54%) IFRS
5 2 (0.54%) ITGC
6 1 (0.27%) Basel III
6 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.27%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.27%) NIST
6 1 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (2.70%) Docker
2 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (3.77%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.43%) Terraform
3 5 (1.35%) Grafana
4 1 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.27%) Nagios
Vendors
1 45 (12.13%) Charles River
2 42 (11.32%) BISAM
3 40 (10.78%) Calypso
4 39 (10.51%) SimCorp
5 18 (4.85%) Oracle
6 10 (2.70%) Bloomberg
7 9 (2.43%) Microsoft
8 6 (1.62%) Solace
9 5 (1.35%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.35%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.08%) ION Trading
10 4 (1.08%) Reuters
10 4 (1.08%) SAP
10 4 (1.08%) TIBCO
10 4 (1.08%) Vertica
11 3 (0.81%) CQG
11 3 (0.81%) Patsystems
11 3 (0.81%) Trayport
12 2 (0.54%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.54%) Wallstreet Suite