Derivative Jobs in London

Derivatives
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Derivative in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Derivative over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 123 182
Rank change year-on-year +9 +59 +69
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 359 605 635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.83% 2.52% 1.94%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.37% 6.26% 4.18%
Number of salaries quoted 319 588 549
10th Percentile £85,000 £71,750 £63,750
25th Percentile £91,250 £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 £146,250 £127,500
90th Percentile £152,500 £165,000 £143,750
England median annual salary £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -4.55%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,640 9,664 15,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 44.44% 40.31% 46.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,014 6,778 10,288
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £44,142
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £76,391
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -1.82% +1.85%
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £130,000 £123,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Derivative in London

Derivative
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Derivative in London

Derivative
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Derivative in London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Derivative in London

Derivative
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Derivative within the London region over the 6 months to 30 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
Central London +23 18 £130,000 +79.31% 9
Derivative
England

Derivative
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 83 (23.12%) Apache
1 83 (23.12%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.56%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.28%) Stata
Business Applications
1 60 (16.71%) Aladdin
2 39 (10.86%) thinkFolio
3 4 (1.11%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.56%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.56%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.28%) Eikon
5 1 (0.28%) Endur
5 1 (0.28%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 93 (25.91%) AWS
2 83 (23.12%) dbt
2 83 (23.12%) Snowflake
3 13 (3.62%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (3.06%) Amazon ECS
4 11 (3.06%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (3.06%) Dagster
4 11 (3.06%) GCP
5 5 (1.39%) Azure
6 4 (1.11%) SaaS
7 3 (0.84%) Azure AKS
7 3 (0.84%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.56%) Amazon MSK
9 1 (0.28%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.28%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.51%) Multicast
2 5 (1.39%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.11%) DHCP
3 4 (1.11%) DNS
3 4 (1.11%) Firewall
3 4 (1.11%) FIX Connectivity
4 2 (0.56%) HTTP
4 2 (0.56%) SSL
4 2 (0.56%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (37.05%) Data Lake
2 83 (23.12%) Amazon Athena
2 83 (23.12%) Apache Arrow
2 83 (23.12%) Apache Iceberg
2 83 (23.12%) Dremio
3 51 (14.21%) Apache Ignite
4 8 (2.23%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.95%) KDB
5 7 (1.95%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.39%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.11%) Big Data
7 4 (1.11%) Kdb+
7 4 (1.11%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.11%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.11%) SAP BW
8 2 (0.56%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.56%) MySQL
8 2 (0.56%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (2.79%) Git
2 9 (2.51%) JIRA
3 3 (0.84%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.56%) Maven
4 2 (0.56%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.56%) Vite
5 1 (0.28%) JetBrains Rider
5 1 (0.28%) JUnit
5 1 (0.28%) Mockito
General
1 333 (92.76%) Finance
2 284 (79.11%) Front Office
3 140 (39.00%) Banking
4 100 (27.86%) Investment Banking
5 53 (14.76%) Social Skills
6 17 (4.74%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (4.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (4.74%) Law
7 12 (3.34%) Legal
8 8 (2.23%) Back Office
9 7 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.67%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.84%) Marketing
12 3 (0.84%) Spanish Language
13 2 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.28%) Advertising
14 1 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.28%) Prime Brokerage
14 1 (0.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 110 (30.64%) Software Engineer
2 93 (25.91%) Analyst
3 87 (24.23%) AWS Engineer
3 87 (24.23%) AWS Software Engineer
4 81 (22.56%) Senior
5 78 (21.73%) Java Engineer
6 76 (21.17%) Java Software Engineer
7 70 (19.50%) Senior Software Engineer
8 66 (18.38%) Python Engineer
8 66 (18.38%) Python Software Engineer
9 65 (18.11%) Business Analyst
10 57 (15.88%) Lead
11 55 (15.32%) Business Manager
11 55 (15.32%) Developer
12 54 (15.04%) Senior Java Engineer
13 52 (14.48%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
13 52 (14.48%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 38 (10.58%) Software Developer
15 37 (10.31%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 32 (8.91%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (14.76%) gRPC
1 53 (14.76%) Pandas
2 51 (14.21%) NumPy
2 51 (14.21%) Protocol Buffers
2 51 (14.21%) SciPy
3 43 (11.98%) PySpark
4 22 (6.13%) FIX Protocol
5 11 (3.06%) .NET
5 11 (3.06%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 9 (2.51%) pytest
6 9 (2.51%) React
7 8 (2.23%) Spring
8 5 (1.39%) Web Services
9 3 (0.84%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.84%) Kafka
10 2 (0.56%) .NET Framework
10 2 (0.56%) FastAPI
10 2 (0.56%) Jest
10 2 (0.56%) Lambda Expressions
10 2 (0.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 252 (70.19%) Fixed Income
2 234 (65.18%) Hedge funds
3 191 (53.20%) Equities
4 190 (52.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 52 (14.48%) Onboarding
6 40 (11.14%) Pricing Data
7 16 (4.46%) Equity Derivative
8 15 (4.18%) Algorithms
9 8 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.95%) Market Risk
10 7 (1.95%) OTC Derivatives
10 7 (1.95%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.67%) Reference Data
12 5 (1.39%) Cloud Native
13 4 (1.11%) Bitcoin
13 4 (1.11%) Credit Risk
13 4 (1.11%) Eurex
13 4 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.69%) Linux
2 11 (3.06%) Unix
3 8 (2.23%) Windows
4 6 (1.67%) CentOS
4 6 (1.67%) Rocky
5 3 (0.84%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.56%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.28%) Debian
7 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (77.44%) Agile
2 188 (52.37%) Investment Management
3 149 (41.50%) Asset Management
4 122 (33.98%) Software Engineering
5 111 (30.92%) Data Management
6 94 (26.18%) Migration
7 85 (23.68%) Roadmaps
8 84 (23.40%) Regulatory Compliance
9 82 (22.84%) Data Governance
10 61 (16.99%) Business Intelligence
11 60 (16.71%) Business Analysis
12 58 (16.16%) Portfolio Management
13 45 (12.53%) Data Mapping
14 39 (10.86%) Analytics
15 25 (6.96%) Stakeholder Management
16 23 (6.41%) Mathematics
17 22 (6.13%) Computer Science
18 20 (5.57%) Low Latency
18 20 (5.57%) Risk Management
19 19 (5.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 207 (57.66%) Python
2 132 (36.77%) Java
3 123 (34.26%) SQL
4 54 (15.04%) TypeScript
5 52 (14.48%) JavaScript
6 29 (8.08%) C++
7 22 (6.13%) C#
8 8 (2.23%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.67%) Bash
10 4 (1.11%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.11%) Perl
10 4 (1.11%) Scala
10 4 (1.11%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.56%) R
11 2 (0.56%) Rust
12 1 (0.28%) C
12 1 (0.28%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.28%) Smalltalk
12 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (8.36%) Degree
2 11 (3.06%) Master's Degree
3 6 (1.67%) PhD
4 2 (0.56%) ACCA
4 2 (0.56%) CFA
4 2 (0.56%) CIMA
4 2 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (10.31%) MiFID
2 11 (3.06%) QA
3 8 (2.23%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.95%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.56%) IFRS
6 1 (0.28%) Basel III
6 1 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.28%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (2.23%) Docker
2 3 (0.84%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (2.23%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.67%) Grafana
3 4 (1.11%) Terraform
4 1 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.28%) Nagios
Vendors
1 58 (16.16%) BISAM
2 45 (12.53%) Charles River
3 39 (10.86%) Calypso
3 39 (10.86%) SimCorp
4 15 (4.18%) Oracle
5 9 (2.51%) Bloomberg
6 8 (2.23%) Microsoft
7 6 (1.67%) Atlassian
7 6 (1.67%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.39%) ION Trading
8 5 (1.39%) Reuters
9 4 (1.11%) CQG
9 4 (1.11%) Patsystems
9 4 (1.11%) SAP
9 4 (1.11%) Trayport
10 3 (0.84%) Cisco
10 3 (0.84%) Citrix
10 3 (0.84%) VMware
11 2 (0.56%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.56%) Sophis