Derivative Job Trends 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 8 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 149 71
Rank change year-on-year -165 -78 +66
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 130 286 797
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.53% 2.41% 4.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.55% 5.19% 10.30%
Number of salaries quoted 87 222 771
10th Percentile £70,000 £87,500 £77,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £94,063 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £111,250 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% -3.26% +9.52%
75th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £148,750
90th Percentile £130,000 £149,875 £165,000
England median annual salary £100,000 £111,250 £115,000
% change year-on-year -10.11% -3.26% +9.52%

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 8,391 5,512 7,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.28% 46.51% 40.77%
Number of salaries quoted 5,019 3,230 4,784
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,813 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £140,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -6.98%

Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Derivative relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Derivative job vacancy trend in London

Derivative
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Derivative.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Derivative

Derivative
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Derivative in London over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

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 8 September 2026. 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 -8 11 £80,000 -38.46% 13
Derivative
England

Derivative
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.54%) Confluence
1 2 (1.54%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.77%) Apache
2 1 (0.77%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.77%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (6.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.31%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.77%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.77%) Eikon
2 1 (0.77%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 6 (4.62%) AWS
1 6 (4.62%) GitHub
2 5 (3.85%) Azure
3 4 (3.08%) GCP
3 4 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (2.31%) Power Platform
4 3 (2.31%) Snowflake
5 2 (1.54%) SaaS
6 1 (0.77%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.77%) Multicast
2 4 (3.08%) DHCP
2 4 (3.08%) DNS
2 4 (3.08%) VLAN
3 1 (0.77%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.62%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.31%) Power BI
2 3 (2.31%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.54%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.77%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 17 (13.08%) JIRA
2 7 (5.38%) Git
3 3 (2.31%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.77%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.77%) Postman
4 1 (0.77%) Selenium
4 1 (0.77%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.77%) Visual Studio
General
1 103 (79.23%) Finance
2 55 (42.31%) Banking
3 39 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 32 (24.62%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (24.62%) Front Office
5 31 (23.85%) Investment Banking
6 20 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (8.46%) Financial Institution
7 11 (8.46%) Law
8 7 (5.38%) Retail
9 3 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.31%) Prime Brokerage
10 2 (1.54%) Advertising
10 2 (1.54%) Back Office
10 2 (1.54%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.54%) Legal
11 1 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.77%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.77%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (33.85%) Senior
2 32 (24.62%) Analyst
3 29 (22.31%) Business Analyst
4 18 (13.85%) Developer
5 15 (11.54%) Software Engineer
6 14 (10.77%) Senior Software Engineer
7 12 (9.23%) C++ Software Engineer
7 12 (9.23%) Python Engineer
7 12 (9.23%) Python Software Engineer
7 12 (9.23%) Senior Developer
8 11 (8.46%) Lead
8 11 (8.46%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
9 10 (7.69%) Derivatives Business Analyst
10 9 (6.92%) Qualitative Analyst
10 9 (6.92%) Quantitative Analyst
11 8 (6.15%) Risk Analyst
12 7 (5.38%) Market Risk Analyst
12 7 (5.38%) Quantitative Risk Analyst
12 7 (5.38%) Senior Analyst
12 7 (5.38%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (17.69%) FIX Protocol
2 12 (9.23%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 12 (9.23%) pytest
3 8 (6.15%) .NET
4 6 (4.62%) Kafka
5 5 (3.85%) RESTful
6 4 (3.08%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (2.31%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.31%) NumPy
7 3 (2.31%) Pandas
7 3 (2.31%) XML
7 3 (2.31%) XSLT
8 2 (1.54%) FpML
8 2 (1.54%) JSON
8 2 (1.54%) React
8 2 (1.54%) REST
9 1 (0.77%) CSS
9 1 (0.77%) Django
9 1 (0.77%) SciPy
9 1 (0.77%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 52 (40.00%) Fixed Income
2 47 (36.15%) Equities
3 27 (20.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 13 (10.00%) Algorithms
4 13 (10.00%) Equity Derivative
5 12 (9.23%) Market Risk
6 7 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (5.38%) Hedge funds
6 7 (5.38%) Onboarding
7 6 (4.62%) Credit Risk
7 6 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (3.85%) OTC Derivatives
9 4 (3.08%) Distributed Applications
9 4 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (2.31%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.54%) Data Structures
11 2 (1.54%) Product Ownership
11 2 (1.54%) Reinsurance
11 2 (1.54%) Wiki
12 1 (0.77%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.54%) Linux
2 5 (3.85%) Windows
3 3 (2.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (27.69%) Agile
2 34 (26.15%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (23.85%) Stakeholder Management
4 24 (18.46%) Low Latency
5 23 (17.69%) Computer Science
5 23 (17.69%) Mathematics
6 22 (16.92%) Process Improvement
7 21 (16.15%) SDLC
7 21 (16.15%) Software Engineering
8 20 (15.38%) Business Analysis
9 18 (13.85%) Technical Leadership
10 17 (13.08%) Continuous Integration
11 16 (12.31%) AI
11 16 (12.31%) Workflow
12 15 (11.54%) Mentoring
13 13 (10.00%) Change Management
13 13 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (10.00%) Decision-Making
13 13 (10.00%) Regulatory Compliance
13 13 (10.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (35.38%) Python
2 31 (23.85%) C++
2 31 (23.85%) SQL
3 15 (11.54%) Java
4 13 (10.00%) R
5 10 (7.69%) C#
6 7 (5.38%) VBA
7 4 (3.08%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.54%) Bash
8 2 (1.54%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.54%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.77%) C
9 1 (0.77%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.77%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (10.77%) Degree
2 8 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.54%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.77%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.77%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.77%) QA
2 8 (6.15%) MiFID
3 7 (5.38%) Basel III
3 7 (5.38%) EMIR
4 4 (3.08%) SLA
5 3 (2.31%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.54%) GAAP
6 2 (1.54%) IFRS
6 2 (1.54%) ISO 20022
6 2 (1.54%) PMO
7 1 (0.77%) FINREP
System Software
1 5 (3.85%) Docker
2 4 (3.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.08%) SCCM
3 1 (0.77%) Ansible
3 1 (0.77%) Control-M
3 1 (0.77%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.77%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (6.15%) Bloomberg
1 8 (6.15%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.85%) Oracle
3 3 (2.31%) Alteryx
4 2 (1.54%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.54%) Reuters
5 1 (0.77%) CyberArk
5 1 (0.77%) Databricks
5 1 (0.77%) Duck Creek
5 1 (0.77%) FXall
5 1 (0.77%) Guidewire
5 1 (0.77%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.77%) MarketAxess
5 1 (0.77%) Moogsoft
5 1 (0.77%) Murex
5 1 (0.77%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.77%) Splunk
5 1 (0.77%) Tradeweb