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

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 102 181
Rank change year-on-year -17 +79 +73
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 365 707 622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.84% 2.83% 2.02%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.27% 7.10% 4.46%
Number of salaries quoted 305 688 543
10th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £64,000
25th Percentile £93,500 £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 £136,250 £148,750 £130,000
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 5,823 9,964 13,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 45.38% 39.93% 45.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3,085 6,926 9,732
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,000 £51,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,554
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -0.73% +0.74%
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £131,250 £125,000
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 22 June 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 22 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
Central London +31 22 £130,000 +85.71% 161
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 95 (26.03%) Apache
1 95 (26.03%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.10%) Jupyter
2 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.27%) Confluence
3 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.27%) Stata
Business Applications
1 55 (15.07%) Aladdin
2 39 (10.68%) thinkFolio
3 4 (1.10%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.55%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.55%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.27%) Eikon
5 1 (0.27%) Endur
5 1 (0.27%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 112 (30.68%) AWS
2 95 (26.03%) dbt
2 95 (26.03%) Snowflake
3 14 (3.84%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (3.01%) Amazon ECS
4 11 (3.01%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (3.01%) Dagster
4 11 (3.01%) GCP
5 6 (1.64%) Azure
6 4 (1.10%) SaaS
7 3 (0.82%) Amazon MSK
7 3 (0.82%) Azure AKS
7 3 (0.82%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.27%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.27%) GitHub
8 1 (0.27%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.47%) Multicast
2 5 (1.37%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.10%) DHCP
3 4 (1.10%) DNS
3 4 (1.10%) Firewall
3 4 (1.10%) FIX Connectivity
4 3 (0.82%) SSL
5 2 (0.55%) HTTP
5 2 (0.55%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (32.05%) Data Lake
2 95 (26.03%) Amazon Athena
2 95 (26.03%) Apache Arrow
2 95 (26.03%) Apache Iceberg
2 95 (26.03%) Dremio
3 63 (17.26%) Apache Ignite
4 11 (3.01%) KDB
5 9 (2.47%) NoSQL
6 8 (2.19%) Big Data
6 8 (2.19%) Kdb+
6 8 (2.19%) SQL Server
7 6 (1.64%) MongoDB
7 6 (1.64%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.10%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.10%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.10%) SAP BW
10 2 (0.55%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.55%) MySQL
10 2 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (3.29%) Git
1 12 (3.29%) JIRA
2 5 (1.37%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.10%) Maven
3 4 (1.10%) Vite
4 2 (0.55%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.27%) JetBrains Rider
5 1 (0.27%) JUnit
5 1 (0.27%) Mockito
General
1 334 (91.51%) Finance
2 280 (76.71%) Front Office
3 172 (47.12%) Banking
4 121 (33.15%) Investment Banking
5 66 (18.08%) Social Skills
6 32 (8.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (8.77%) Law
7 19 (5.21%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (3.29%) Legal
9 7 (1.92%) Back Office
9 7 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.64%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.82%) Marketing
12 3 (0.82%) Spanish Language
13 2 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.27%) Advertising
14 1 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.27%) Prime Brokerage
14 1 (0.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 135 (36.99%) Software Engineer
2 105 (28.77%) Senior
3 103 (28.22%) AWS Engineer
3 103 (28.22%) AWS Software Engineer
4 99 (27.12%) Java Engineer
5 95 (26.03%) Java Software Engineer
6 91 (24.93%) Analyst
6 91 (24.93%) Senior Software Engineer
7 82 (22.47%) Python Engineer
7 82 (22.47%) Python Software Engineer
8 71 (19.45%) Senior Java Engineer
9 69 (18.90%) Business Analyst
10 67 (18.36%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 61 (16.71%) Lead
12 60 (16.44%) Developer
13 58 (15.89%) Business Manager
14 52 (14.25%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
15 40 (10.96%) Software Developer
16 39 (10.68%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 32 (8.77%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (18.36%) Pandas
2 65 (17.81%) gRPC
3 63 (17.26%) NumPy
3 63 (17.26%) Protocol Buffers
3 63 (17.26%) SciPy
4 43 (11.78%) PySpark
5 23 (6.30%) FIX Protocol
6 13 (3.56%) .NET
6 13 (3.56%) React
7 12 (3.29%) Spring
8 10 (2.74%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 9 (2.47%) pytest
9 9 (2.47%) Web Services
10 4 (1.10%) Jest
10 4 (1.10%) Middleware
11 3 (0.82%) .NET Core
11 3 (0.82%) Kafka
11 3 (0.82%) Lambda Expressions
11 3 (0.82%) RESTful
12 2 (0.55%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 233 (63.84%) Fixed Income
2 216 (59.18%) Hedge funds
3 185 (50.68%) Equities
4 180 (49.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 52 (14.25%) Onboarding
5 52 (14.25%) Pricing Data
6 20 (5.48%) Equity Derivative
7 18 (4.93%) Algorithms
8 14 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.92%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.92%) Market Risk
9 7 (1.92%) OTC Derivatives
10 6 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.64%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.10%) Bitcoin
11 4 (1.10%) Credit Risk
11 4 (1.10%) Eurex
11 4 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.82%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.12%) Linux
2 10 (2.74%) Unix
3 7 (1.92%) Windows
4 6 (1.64%) CentOS
4 6 (1.64%) Rocky
5 3 (0.82%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.55%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.27%) Debian
7 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (76.16%) Agile
2 168 (46.03%) Investment Management
3 156 (42.74%) Asset Management
4 149 (40.82%) Software Engineering
5 88 (24.11%) Data Management
6 66 (18.08%) Migration
7 61 (16.71%) Business Analysis
8 58 (15.89%) Regulatory Compliance
8 58 (15.89%) Roadmaps
9 57 (15.62%) Portfolio Management
10 56 (15.34%) Business Intelligence
10 56 (15.34%) Data Governance
11 45 (12.33%) Data Mapping
12 38 (10.41%) Analytics
13 31 (8.49%) SDLC
14 30 (8.22%) Mathematics
15 29 (7.95%) Computer Science
16 28 (7.67%) Operational Stability
16 28 (7.67%) Stakeholder Management
17 27 (7.40%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 225 (61.64%) Python
2 161 (44.11%) Java
3 124 (33.97%) SQL
4 68 (18.63%) TypeScript
5 64 (17.53%) JavaScript
6 29 (7.95%) C++
7 25 (6.85%) C#
8 8 (2.19%) Kotlin
8 8 (2.19%) Scala
9 7 (1.92%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.64%) Bash
10 6 (1.64%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.10%) Perl
12 2 (0.55%) R
12 2 (0.55%) Rust
13 1 (0.27%) C
13 1 (0.27%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.27%) Smalltalk
13 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (9.86%) Degree
2 14 (3.84%) Master's Degree
3 8 (2.19%) PhD
4 3 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.55%) ACCA
5 2 (0.55%) CFA
5 2 (0.55%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.58%) MiFID
2 11 (3.01%) QA
3 8 (2.19%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.92%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.55%) IFRS
5 2 (0.55%) ITGC
6 1 (0.27%) Basel III
6 1 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (3.29%) Docker
2 3 (0.82%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (3.29%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.19%) Terraform
3 6 (1.64%) Grafana
4 1 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.27%) Nagios
Vendors
1 53 (14.52%) BISAM
2 45 (12.33%) Charles River
3 39 (10.68%) Calypso
3 39 (10.68%) SimCorp
4 16 (4.38%) Oracle
5 9 (2.47%) Bloomberg
6 8 (2.19%) Microsoft
7 6 (1.64%) Atlassian
7 6 (1.64%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.37%) ION Trading
8 5 (1.37%) Reuters
9 4 (1.10%) CQG
9 4 (1.10%) Patsystems
9 4 (1.10%) SAP
9 4 (1.10%) Trayport
9 4 (1.10%) Vertica
10 3 (0.82%) Cisco
10 3 (0.82%) Citrix
10 3 (0.82%) VMware
11 2 (0.55%) Salesforce