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

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 350 385
Rank change year-on-year +9 +35 +22
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 400 678 665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.81% 0.72% 0.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.13% 2.17% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 314 638 551
10th Percentile £85,000 £69,250 £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% -4.55%
75th Percentile £136,250 £146,250 £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 18,807 31,246 36,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 37.97% 33.28% 44.31%
Number of salaries quoted 8,692 21,105 20,153
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,357 £46,909
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 £87,500
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 9 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 9 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 +1 370 £115,000 - 406
North of England +77 15 - - 7
North West +9 8 - - 3
Midlands +95 7 - - 3
South East - 6 - - 133
Yorkshire - 5 - - 3
West Midlands +69 4 - - 3
East Midlands - 3 - -
South West +92 2 - - 2
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 91 (22.75%) Apache
2 87 (21.75%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.00%) GemFire
3 4 (1.00%) Jupyter
3 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.25%) Confluence
4 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.25%) Stata
Business Applications
1 59 (14.75%) Aladdin
2 39 (9.75%) 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
1 104 (26.00%) AWS
2 87 (21.75%) dbt
2 87 (21.75%) Snowflake
3 14 (3.50%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
4 11 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (2.75%) Dagster
4 11 (2.75%) GCP
5 7 (1.75%) SaaS
6 5 (1.25%) Azure
7 4 (1.00%) OpenShift
8 3 (0.75%) Amazon MSK
8 3 (0.75%) Azure AKS
8 3 (0.75%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.25%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.25%) GitHub
9 1 (0.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.25%) 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
1 127 (31.75%) Data Lake
2 87 (21.75%) Amazon Athena
2 87 (21.75%) Apache Arrow
2 87 (21.75%) Apache Iceberg
2 87 (21.75%) Dremio
3 59 (14.75%) Apache Ignite
4 13 (3.25%) NoSQL
5 11 (2.75%) KDB
5 11 (2.75%) MongoDB
6 10 (2.50%) Relational Database
7 8 (2.00%) Big Data
7 8 (2.00%) Kdb+
7 8 (2.00%) RDBMS
7 8 (2.00%) SQL Server
8 6 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.50%) Redis
9 4 (1.00%) InterSystems Cache
9 4 (1.00%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.00%) SAP BW
10 2 (0.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (3.00%) Git
2 10 (2.50%) JIRA
3 8 (2.00%) 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
1 372 (93.00%) Finance
2 293 (73.25%) Front Office
3 163 (40.75%) Banking
4 110 (27.50%) Investment Banking
5 82 (20.50%) Social Skills
6 59 (14.75%) Law
7 32 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (8.00%) Legal
8 26 (6.50%) Financial Institution
9 21 (5.25%) Prime Brokerage
10 18 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (2.00%) Back Office
12 7 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.75%) Marketing
14 3 (0.75%) Spanish Language
15 2 (0.50%) Advertising
15 2 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.25%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 127 (31.75%) Software Engineer
2 98 (24.50%) Senior
3 95 (23.75%) AWS Engineer
3 95 (23.75%) AWS Software Engineer
3 95 (23.75%) Java Engineer
4 92 (23.00%) Analyst
5 87 (21.75%) Java Software Engineer
6 83 (20.75%) Senior Software Engineer
7 74 (18.50%) Python Engineer
7 74 (18.50%) Python Software Engineer
8 66 (16.50%) Lead
9 65 (16.25%) Business Analyst
10 63 (15.75%) Senior Java Engineer
11 59 (14.75%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 57 (14.25%) Developer
13 56 (14.00%) Business Manager
14 52 (13.00%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
15 40 (10.00%) Software Developer
16 39 (9.75%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 32 (8.00%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (14.75%) Pandas
2 57 (14.25%) gRPC
3 55 (13.75%) NumPy
3 55 (13.75%) Protocol Buffers
3 55 (13.75%) SciPy
4 43 (10.75%) PySpark
5 25 (6.25%) FIX Protocol
6 16 (4.00%) Spring
7 15 (3.75%) .NET
8 13 (3.25%) React
9 11 (2.75%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 9 (2.25%) pytest
10 9 (2.25%) Web Services
11 8 (2.00%) Middleware
12 7 (1.75%) Kafka
13 5 (1.25%) HTML
13 5 (1.25%) HTML5
13 5 (1.25%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (1.25%) WPF
14 4 (1.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 253 (63.25%) Fixed Income
2 248 (62.00%) Hedge funds
3 199 (49.75%) Equities
4 195 (48.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 52 (13.00%) Onboarding
6 44 (11.00%) Pricing Data
7 23 (5.75%) Blockchain
8 21 (5.25%) Algorithms
9 20 (5.00%) Equity Derivative
10 15 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (2.50%) 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%) Bitcoin
15 4 (1.00%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 30 (7.50%) Linux
2 15 (3.75%) Unix
3 8 (2.00%) 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
1 290 (72.50%) Agile
2 181 (45.25%) Investment Management
3 152 (38.00%) Asset Management
4 141 (35.25%) Software Engineering
5 106 (26.50%) Data Management
6 85 (21.25%) Migration
7 76 (19.00%) Roadmaps
8 75 (18.75%) Regulatory Compliance
9 73 (18.25%) Data Governance
10 60 (15.00%) Business Analysis
10 60 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
11 58 (14.50%) Portfolio Management
12 45 (11.25%) Data Mapping
13 43 (10.75%) Analytics
14 40 (10.00%) Risk Management
15 31 (7.75%) CI/CD
16 30 (7.50%) Mathematics
16 30 (7.50%) SDLC
17 29 (7.25%) Computer Science
18 28 (7.00%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 222 (55.50%) Python
2 155 (38.75%) Java
3 125 (31.25%) SQL
4 63 (15.75%) TypeScript
5 59 (14.75%) JavaScript
6 30 (7.50%) C++
7 29 (7.25%) C#
8 8 (2.00%) Kotlin
8 8 (2.00%) PowerShell
8 8 (2.00%) Scala
9 6 (1.50%) Bash
9 6 (1.50%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.00%) Perl
11 2 (0.50%) R
11 2 (0.50%) Rust
12 1 (0.25%) C
12 1 (0.25%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.25%) Smalltalk
12 1 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 41 (10.25%) Degree
2 14 (3.50%) Master's Degree
3 9 (2.25%) 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 30 (7.50%) MiFID
2 21 (5.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 21 (5.25%) GDPR
3 15 (3.75%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.75%) QA
5 7 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.50%) IFRS
7 1 (0.25%) Basel III
7 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.25%) ITGC
System Software
1 13 (3.25%) Docker
2 3 (0.75%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (3.25%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.00%) Terraform
3 6 (1.50%) Grafana
4 1 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.25%) Nagios
Vendors
1 57 (14.25%) BISAM
2 45 (11.25%) Charles River
3 39 (9.75%) Calypso
3 39 (9.75%) SimCorp
4 21 (5.25%) Oracle
5 10 (2.50%) Bloomberg
6 8 (2.00%) 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