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 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 343 392
Rank change year-on-year +5 +49 +22
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 399 700 659
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.81% 0.73% 0.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.12% 2.20% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 310 661 547
10th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £63,750
25th Percentile £93,563 £85,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -5.62%
75th Percentile £136,250 £148,750 £130,000
90th Percentile £152,500 £165,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -4.55%

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 18,822 31,811 36,020
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 38.16% 33.01% 44.28%
Number of salaries quoted 8,753 21,266 19,925
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £36,120
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £87,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -12 369 £115,000 - 781
North of England +81 16 - - 100
North West +27 9 - - 47
Midlands - 7 - - 83
Yorkshire - 5 - - 43
South East - 5 - - 253
West Midlands - 4 - - 46
East Midlands - 3 - - 36
South West +96 2 - - 52
North East - 2 - - 10
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 95 (23.81%) Apache
2 91 (22.81%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.00%) GemFire
3 4 (1.00%) Jupyter
3 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.50%) Confluence
5 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.25%) Stata
Business Applications
1 57 (14.29%) Aladdin
2 39 (9.77%) thinkFolio
3 4 (1.00%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.50%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.50%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.25%) Eikon
5 1 (0.25%) Endur
5 1 (0.25%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 108 (27.07%) AWS
2 91 (22.81%) dbt
2 91 (22.81%) Snowflake
3 14 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (2.76%) Amazon ECS
4 11 (2.76%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (2.76%) Dagster
4 11 (2.76%) GCP
5 7 (1.75%) SaaS
6 6 (1.50%) Azure
7 3 (0.75%) Amazon MSK
7 3 (0.75%) Azure AKS
7 3 (0.75%) Entra ID
7 3 (0.75%) OpenShift
7 3 (0.75%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.25%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.25%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.26%) Multicast
2 5 (1.25%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.00%) DHCP
3 4 (1.00%) DNS
3 4 (1.00%) Firewall
3 4 (1.00%) FIX Connectivity
4 3 (0.75%) SSL
5 2 (0.50%) HTTP
5 2 (0.50%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (30.58%) Data Lake
2 91 (22.81%) Amazon Athena
2 91 (22.81%) Apache Arrow
2 91 (22.81%) Apache Iceberg
2 91 (22.81%) Dremio
3 63 (15.79%) Apache Ignite
4 13 (3.26%) NoSQL
5 11 (2.76%) KDB
6 10 (2.51%) MongoDB
6 10 (2.51%) Relational Database
7 8 (2.01%) Big Data
7 8 (2.01%) Kdb+
7 8 (2.01%) RDBMS
7 8 (2.01%) SQL Server
8 6 (1.50%) Redis
9 5 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (1.00%) InterSystems Cache
10 4 (1.00%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.00%) SAP BW
11 3 (0.75%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (3.26%) JIRA
2 12 (3.01%) Git
3 8 (2.01%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.00%) Maven
4 4 (1.00%) Vite
5 3 (0.75%) MSTest
5 3 (0.75%) NUnit
5 3 (0.75%) SpecFlow
5 3 (0.75%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.25%) JetBrains Rider
7 1 (0.25%) JUnit
7 1 (0.25%) Mockito
General
1 368 (92.23%) Finance
2 291 (72.93%) Front Office
3 171 (42.86%) Banking
4 117 (29.32%) Investment Banking
5 85 (21.30%) Social Skills
6 58 (14.54%) Law
7 32 (8.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (8.02%) Legal
8 26 (6.52%) Financial Institution
9 21 (5.26%) Prime Brokerage
10 20 (5.01%) Analytical Skills
11 7 (1.75%) Back Office
11 7 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.75%) Marketing
13 3 (0.75%) Spanish Language
14 2 (0.50%) Advertising
14 2 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.25%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 131 (32.83%) Software Engineer
2 103 (25.81%) Senior
3 99 (24.81%) AWS Engineer
3 99 (24.81%) AWS Software Engineer
3 99 (24.81%) Java Engineer
4 91 (22.81%) Analyst
4 91 (22.81%) Java Software Engineer
5 87 (21.80%) Senior Software Engineer
6 78 (19.55%) Python Engineer
6 78 (19.55%) Python Software Engineer
7 67 (16.79%) Business Analyst
7 67 (16.79%) Senior Java Engineer
8 64 (16.04%) Lead
9 63 (15.79%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 59 (14.79%) Developer
11 57 (14.29%) Business Manager
12 52 (13.03%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
13 40 (10.03%) Software Developer
14 39 (9.77%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 32 (8.02%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (15.79%) Pandas
2 61 (15.29%) gRPC
3 59 (14.79%) NumPy
3 59 (14.79%) Protocol Buffers
3 59 (14.79%) SciPy
4 43 (10.78%) PySpark
5 23 (5.76%) FIX Protocol
6 16 (4.01%) .NET
6 16 (4.01%) Spring
7 13 (3.26%) React
8 10 (2.51%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 9 (2.26%) pytest
9 9 (2.26%) Web Services
10 8 (2.01%) Middleware
11 7 (1.75%) Kafka
12 5 (1.25%) HTML
12 5 (1.25%) HTML5
12 5 (1.25%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (1.25%) WPF
13 4 (1.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 248 (62.16%) Fixed Income
2 242 (60.65%) Hedge funds
3 197 (49.37%) Equities
4 192 (48.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 51 (12.78%) Onboarding
6 48 (12.03%) Pricing Data
7 23 (5.76%) Blockchain
8 21 (5.26%) Algorithms
9 20 (5.01%) Equity Derivative
10 14 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (2.51%) Cloud Native
12 7 (1.75%) Market Risk
12 7 (1.75%) OTC Derivatives
13 6 (1.50%) Credit Derivative
13 6 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.50%) Reference Data
14 5 (1.25%) Data Structures
14 5 (1.25%) Virtual Team
15 4 (1.00%) Credit Risk
15 4 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 30 (7.52%) Linux
2 14 (3.51%) Unix
3 7 (1.75%) Windows
4 6 (1.50%) CentOS
4 6 (1.50%) Rocky
5 3 (0.75%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.50%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.25%) Debian
7 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (71.43%) Agile
2 174 (43.61%) Investment Management
3 154 (38.60%) Asset Management
4 145 (36.34%) Software Engineering
5 97 (24.31%) Data Management
6 75 (18.80%) Migration
7 67 (16.79%) Regulatory Compliance
7 67 (16.79%) Roadmaps
8 65 (16.29%) Data Governance
9 60 (15.04%) Business Analysis
10 58 (14.54%) Business Intelligence
11 57 (14.29%) Portfolio Management
12 45 (11.28%) Data Mapping
13 41 (10.28%) Analytics
14 39 (9.77%) Risk Management
15 31 (7.77%) CI/CD
15 31 (7.77%) SDLC
16 30 (7.52%) Mathematics
17 29 (7.27%) Computer Science
18 28 (7.02%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 224 (56.14%) Python
2 161 (40.35%) Java
3 124 (31.08%) SQL
4 67 (16.79%) TypeScript
5 63 (15.79%) JavaScript
6 30 (7.52%) C++
7 29 (7.27%) C#
8 8 (2.01%) Kotlin
8 8 (2.01%) Scala
9 7 (1.75%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.50%) Bash
10 6 (1.50%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.00%) Perl
12 2 (0.50%) R
12 2 (0.50%) Rust
13 1 (0.25%) C
13 1 (0.25%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.25%) Smalltalk
13 1 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 43 (10.78%) Degree
2 15 (3.76%) Master's Degree
3 9 (2.26%) PhD
4 2 (0.50%) ACCA
4 2 (0.50%) CFA
4 2 (0.50%) CIMA
4 2 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.77%) MiFID
2 21 (5.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 21 (5.26%) GDPR
3 14 (3.51%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.76%) QA
5 7 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.50%) IFRS
6 2 (0.50%) ITGC
7 1 (0.25%) Basel III
7 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (3.01%) Docker
2 3 (0.75%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (3.01%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.01%) Terraform
3 6 (1.50%) Grafana
4 1 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.25%) Nagios
Vendors
1 55 (13.78%) BISAM
2 45 (11.28%) Charles River
3 39 (9.77%) Calypso
3 39 (9.77%) SimCorp
4 20 (5.01%) Oracle
5 11 (2.76%) Bloomberg
6 8 (2.01%) Microsoft
7 6 (1.50%) Atlassian
7 6 (1.50%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.25%) ION Trading
8 5 (1.25%) Reuters
8 5 (1.25%) Solace
9 4 (1.00%) CQG
9 4 (1.00%) Patsystems
9 4 (1.00%) SAP
9 4 (1.00%) TIBCO
9 4 (1.00%) Trayport
9 4 (1.00%) Vertica
10 3 (0.75%) Cisco
10 3 (0.75%) Citrix