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

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 137 195
Rank change year-on-year +32 +58 +43
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 402 542 625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 3.09% 2.29% 1.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.02% 5.66% 3.94%
Number of salaries quoted 385 525 539
10th Percentile £85,000 £67,500 £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 £127,500
90th Percentile £152,500 £165,000 £150,000
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 5,730 9,569 15,856
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 44.06% 40.44% 46.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,204 6,785 10,735
10th Percentile £41,750 £37,500 £44,192
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,532 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £137,125 £128,750 £122,500
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 13 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 13 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 +35 23 £127,500 +78.95% 13
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
1 107 (26.62%) Apache
1 107 (26.62%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.25%) Stata
Business Applications
1 58 (14.43%) Aladdin
2 36 (8.96%) thinkFolio
3 4 (1.00%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.50%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.25%) Eikon
5 1 (0.25%) Endur
5 1 (0.25%) RMDS
5 1 (0.25%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 109 (27.11%) AWS
2 107 (26.62%) dbt
2 107 (26.62%) Snowflake
3 34 (8.46%) Amazon EC2
3 34 (8.46%) Amazon ECS
3 34 (8.46%) Amazon EKS
3 34 (8.46%) Dagster
3 34 (8.46%) GCP
4 6 (1.49%) Azure
5 4 (1.00%) Azure AKS
5 4 (1.00%) Entra ID
5 4 (1.00%) SaaS
6 1 (0.25%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.24%) Multicast
2 5 (1.24%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.00%) DHCP
3 4 (1.00%) DNS
3 4 (1.00%) Firewall
3 4 (1.00%) FIX Connectivity
4 2 (0.50%) HTTP
4 2 (0.50%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (46.52%) Data Lake
2 107 (26.62%) Amazon Athena
2 107 (26.62%) Apache Arrow
2 107 (26.62%) Apache Iceberg
2 107 (26.62%) Dremio
3 75 (18.66%) Apache Ignite
4 6 (1.49%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.24%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.00%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.75%) KDB
8 2 (0.50%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.50%) MySQL
8 2 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.50%) Redis
8 2 (0.50%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.50%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (2.24%) Git
1 9 (2.24%) JIRA
2 2 (0.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.25%) JetBrains Rider
3 1 (0.25%) JUnit
3 1 (0.25%) Maven
3 1 (0.25%) Mockito
3 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 379 (94.28%) Finance
2 335 (83.33%) Front Office
3 144 (35.82%) Banking
4 119 (29.60%) Investment Banking
5 40 (9.95%) Social Skills
6 15 (3.73%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (2.49%) Legal
8 8 (1.99%) Back Office
9 7 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.24%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.75%) Advertising
12 3 (0.75%) Marketing
12 3 (0.75%) Prime Brokerage
12 3 (0.75%) Spanish Language
13 2 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.50%) Retail
14 1 (0.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 120 (29.85%) Software Engineer
2 114 (28.36%) Analyst
3 107 (26.62%) AWS Engineer
3 107 (26.62%) AWS Software Engineer
4 83 (20.65%) Business Analyst
5 82 (20.40%) Java Engineer
5 82 (20.40%) Java Software Engineer
5 82 (20.40%) Senior
6 74 (18.41%) Python Engineer
6 74 (18.41%) Python Software Engineer
7 72 (17.91%) Senior Software Engineer
8 64 (15.92%) Business Manager
9 55 (13.68%) Developer
9 55 (13.68%) Senior Java Engineer
9 55 (13.68%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 49 (12.19%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
11 42 (10.45%) Lead
12 36 (8.96%) Data Governance Analyst
12 36 (8.96%) Data Governance Manager
12 36 (8.96%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (19.15%) gRPC
2 75 (18.66%) NumPy
2 75 (18.66%) Pandas
2 75 (18.66%) Protocol Buffers
2 75 (18.66%) SciPy
3 66 (16.42%) PySpark
4 19 (4.73%) FIX Protocol
5 12 (2.99%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 9 (2.24%) pytest
7 8 (1.99%) .NET
8 4 (1.00%) React
8 4 (1.00%) Spring
8 4 (1.00%) Spring Boot
9 3 (0.75%) Kafka
10 2 (0.50%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.50%) Django
10 2 (0.50%) FastAPI
10 2 (0.50%) HTML
10 2 (0.50%) HTML5
10 2 (0.50%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 316 (78.61%) Fixed Income
2 301 (74.88%) Hedge funds
3 254 (63.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 252 (62.69%) Equities
5 49 (12.19%) Onboarding
5 49 (12.19%) Product Ownership
6 41 (10.20%) Pricing Data
7 13 (3.23%) Algorithms
8 10 (2.49%) Equity Derivative
9 8 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.99%) Reference Data
10 7 (1.74%) OTC Derivatives
11 6 (1.49%) Market Risk
12 4 (1.00%) Bitcoin
12 4 (1.00%) Credit Risk
12 4 (1.00%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.00%) Eurex
12 4 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.75%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.97%) Linux
2 15 (3.73%) Apple iOS
3 11 (2.74%) Unix
4 10 (2.49%) Windows
5 6 (1.49%) CentOS
5 6 (1.49%) Rocky
6 4 (1.00%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.50%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.25%) Debian
8 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (80.10%) Agile
2 232 (57.71%) Investment Management
3 186 (46.27%) Asset Management
4 147 (36.57%) Migration
5 130 (32.34%) Roadmaps
6 128 (31.84%) Software Engineering
7 114 (28.36%) Data Management
8 112 (27.86%) Data Governance
8 112 (27.86%) Regulatory Compliance
9 69 (17.16%) Portfolio Management
10 60 (14.93%) Business Intelligence
11 58 (14.43%) Business Analysis
12 53 (13.18%) Analytics
13 42 (10.45%) Data Mapping
14 21 (5.22%) Stakeholder Management
15 18 (4.48%) Low Latency
16 17 (4.23%) Mathematics
16 17 (4.23%) Risk Management
17 16 (3.98%) Computer Science
17 16 (3.98%) Quantitative Analysis
Programming Languages
1 219 (54.48%) Python
2 139 (34.58%) Java
3 117 (29.10%) SQL
4 76 (18.91%) JavaScript
4 76 (18.91%) TypeScript
5 30 (7.46%) C++
6 15 (3.73%) C#
7 9 (2.24%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.49%) Bash
9 4 (1.00%) Perl
10 2 (0.50%) Rust
10 2 (0.50%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.25%) C
11 1 (0.25%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.25%) R
11 1 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (9.95%) Degree
2 8 (1.99%) Master's Degree
3 3 (0.75%) PhD
4 2 (0.50%) CFA
4 2 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.25%) ACCA
5 1 (0.25%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (13.68%) MiFID
2 12 (2.99%) QA
3 7 (1.74%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (1.49%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.25%) GDPR
5 1 (0.25%) IFRS
System Software
1 4 (1.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (1.00%) Docker
1 4 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (1.49%) Grafana
2 4 (1.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.25%) Nagios
Vendors
1 57 (14.18%) BISAM
2 42 (10.45%) Charles River
3 36 (8.96%) Calypso
3 36 (8.96%) SimCorp
4 12 (2.99%) Oracle
5 8 (1.99%) Bloomberg
6 6 (1.49%) Atlassian
6 6 (1.49%) Microsoft
6 6 (1.49%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.24%) ION Trading
7 5 (1.24%) Reuters
8 4 (1.00%) Cisco
8 4 (1.00%) Citrix
8 4 (1.00%) CQG
8 4 (1.00%) Patsystems
8 4 (1.00%) Trayport
8 4 (1.00%) VMware
9 2 (0.50%) Murex
9 2 (0.50%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.50%) Sophis