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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 383 422
Rank change year-on-year +57 +39 -29
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 436 570 654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.90% 0.66% 0.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.52% 1.91% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 390 531 532
10th Percentile £85,000 £66,250 £63,750
25th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -6.67%
75th Percentile £147,500 £146,250 £125,000
90th Percentile £152,500 £165,000 £150,000
UK median annual salary £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -6.67%

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 17,327 29,857 39,545
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.82% 34.77% 43.96%
Number of salaries quoted 8,999 20,876 21,202
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,427
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,570
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 £111,250 £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 11 May 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 11 May 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 +32 406 £115,000 - 296
North of England +76 15 £50,000 - 10
Midlands +71 7 - - 3
North West +7 7 - - 7
South East - 6 - - 71
Yorkshire - 5 - - 2
West Midlands +63 4 - - 2
East Midlands - 3 - - 1
North East - 3 £50,000 - 1
South West +87 2 - - 6
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
1 111 (25.46%) Apache
2 107 (24.54%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.92%) GemFire
3 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.23%) Stata
Business Applications
1 58 (13.30%) Aladdin
2 36 (8.26%) thinkFolio
3 4 (0.92%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.46%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.23%) Eikon
5 1 (0.23%) Endur
5 1 (0.23%) RMDS
5 1 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 109 (25.00%) AWS
2 107 (24.54%) dbt
2 107 (24.54%) Snowflake
3 34 (7.80%) Amazon EC2
3 34 (7.80%) Amazon ECS
3 34 (7.80%) Amazon EKS
3 34 (7.80%) Dagster
3 34 (7.80%) GCP
4 7 (1.61%) SaaS
5 6 (1.38%) Azure
6 4 (0.92%) Azure AKS
6 4 (0.92%) Entra ID
6 4 (0.92%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.23%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.23%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.06%) Multicast
2 5 (1.15%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.92%) DHCP
3 4 (0.92%) DNS
3 4 (0.92%) Firewall
3 4 (0.92%) FIX Connectivity
4 2 (0.46%) HTTP
4 2 (0.46%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (42.89%) Data Lake
2 107 (24.54%) Amazon Athena
2 107 (24.54%) Apache Arrow
2 107 (24.54%) Apache Iceberg
2 107 (24.54%) Dremio
3 79 (18.12%) Apache Ignite
4 9 (2.06%) MongoDB
5 6 (1.38%) Redis
5 6 (1.38%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.38%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.15%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.92%) InterSystems Cache
7 4 (0.92%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.92%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.69%) KDB
9 2 (0.46%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.46%) MySQL
9 2 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.46%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 9 (2.06%) Git
1 9 (2.06%) JIRA
2 5 (1.15%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.69%) MSTest
3 3 (0.69%) NUnit
3 3 (0.69%) SpecFlow
3 3 (0.69%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.23%) JetBrains Rider
4 1 (0.23%) JUnit
4 1 (0.23%) Maven
4 1 (0.23%) Mockito
4 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 412 (94.50%) Finance
2 344 (78.90%) Front Office
3 147 (33.72%) Banking
4 120 (27.52%) Investment Banking
5 63 (14.45%) Social Skills
6 30 (6.88%) Legal
7 28 (6.42%) Law
8 25 (5.73%) Financial Institution
9 23 (5.28%) Prime Brokerage
10 15 (3.44%) Analytical Skills
11 9 (2.06%) Back Office
12 7 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.92%) Advertising
13 4 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.69%) Marketing
14 3 (0.69%) Spanish Language
15 2 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.46%) Retail
16 1 (0.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 120 (27.52%) Software Engineer
2 118 (27.06%) Analyst
3 107 (24.54%) AWS Engineer
3 107 (24.54%) AWS Software Engineer
4 86 (19.72%) Business Analyst
4 86 (19.72%) Java Engineer
5 82 (18.81%) Java Software Engineer
5 82 (18.81%) Senior
6 74 (16.97%) Python Engineer
6 74 (16.97%) Python Software Engineer
7 72 (16.51%) Senior Software Engineer
8 67 (15.37%) Business Manager
9 57 (13.07%) Developer
10 55 (12.61%) Senior Java Engineer
10 55 (12.61%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 49 (11.24%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
12 42 (9.63%) Lead
13 36 (8.26%) Data Governance Analyst
13 36 (8.26%) Data Governance Manager
13 36 (8.26%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (17.66%) gRPC
2 75 (17.20%) NumPy
2 75 (17.20%) Pandas
2 75 (17.20%) Protocol Buffers
2 75 (17.20%) SciPy
3 66 (15.14%) PySpark
4 19 (4.36%) FIX Protocol
5 12 (2.75%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 11 (2.52%) .NET
7 9 (2.06%) pytest
7 9 (2.06%) Spring
8 7 (1.61%) Kafka
9 5 (1.15%) HTML
9 5 (1.15%) HTML5
9 5 (1.15%) JSON
9 5 (1.15%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (1.15%) Spring Boot
10 4 (0.92%) Middleware
10 4 (0.92%) React
10 4 (0.92%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 325 (74.54%) Fixed Income
2 324 (74.31%) Hedge funds
3 264 (60.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 263 (60.32%) Equities
5 52 (11.93%) Product Ownership
6 49 (11.24%) Onboarding
7 41 (9.40%) Pricing Data
8 23 (5.28%) Blockchain
9 17 (3.90%) Algorithms
10 10 (2.29%) Credit Derivative
10 10 (2.29%) Equity Derivative
11 8 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.83%) Reference Data
12 7 (1.61%) OTC Derivatives
13 6 (1.38%) Market Risk
14 5 (1.15%) Cloud Native
14 5 (1.15%) Data Structures
15 4 (0.92%) Bitcoin
15 4 (0.92%) Data Centre
15 4 (0.92%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.42%) Linux
2 18 (4.13%) Apple iOS
3 15 (3.44%) Unix
4 10 (2.29%) Windows
5 6 (1.38%) CentOS
5 6 (1.38%) Rocky
6 4 (0.92%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.46%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.23%) Debian
8 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (74.77%) Agile
2 235 (53.90%) Investment Management
3 189 (43.35%) Asset Management
4 148 (33.94%) Migration
5 133 (30.50%) Roadmaps
6 128 (29.36%) Software Engineering
7 114 (26.15%) Data Management
8 112 (25.69%) Data Governance
8 112 (25.69%) Regulatory Compliance
9 72 (16.51%) Portfolio Management
10 60 (13.76%) Business Intelligence
11 58 (13.30%) Business Analysis
12 57 (13.07%) Analytics
13 42 (9.63%) Data Mapping
14 37 (8.49%) Risk Management
15 22 (5.05%) Low Latency
16 21 (4.82%) Data Privacy
16 21 (4.82%) Proactive Monitoring
16 21 (4.82%) Rehypothecation
16 21 (4.82%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 222 (50.92%) Python
2 146 (33.49%) Java
3 118 (27.06%) SQL
4 79 (18.12%) JavaScript
4 79 (18.12%) TypeScript
5 31 (7.11%) C++
6 20 (4.59%) C#
7 9 (2.06%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.38%) Bash
9 4 (0.92%) Perl
10 2 (0.46%) Rust
10 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.23%) C
11 1 (0.23%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.23%) R
11 1 (0.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 51 (11.70%) Degree
2 9 (2.06%) Master's Degree
3 4 (0.92%) PhD
4 2 (0.46%) CFA
4 2 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.23%) ACCA
5 1 (0.23%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (12.61%) MiFID
2 21 (4.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 21 (4.82%) GDPR
3 13 (2.98%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.75%) QA
5 7 (1.61%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.23%) IFRS
System Software
1 5 (1.15%) Docker
2 4 (0.92%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (1.38%) Grafana
2 5 (1.15%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.23%) Nagios
Vendors
1 57 (13.07%) BISAM
2 42 (9.63%) Charles River
3 36 (8.26%) Calypso
3 36 (8.26%) SimCorp
4 16 (3.67%) Oracle
5 8 (1.83%) Bloomberg
6 6 (1.38%) Atlassian
6 6 (1.38%) Microsoft
6 6 (1.38%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.15%) ION Trading
7 5 (1.15%) Reuters
7 5 (1.15%) Solace
8 4 (0.92%) Cisco
8 4 (0.92%) Citrix
8 4 (0.92%) CQG
8 4 (0.92%) Patsystems
8 4 (0.92%) TIBCO
8 4 (0.92%) Trayport
8 4 (0.92%) VMware
9 2 (0.46%) Sophis