Derivative Job Trends in the Midlands

Derivatives
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Derivative in permanent job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Derivative over the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 228 280 227
Rank change year-on-year +52 -53 +112
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 8 4 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.14% 0.042% 0.037%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.34% 0.15% 0.097%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67,500 - £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +51.32%
75th Percentile £72,500 - £61,250
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,359 2,724 2,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 41.78% 28.29% 38.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,173 1,099 1,458
10th Percentile £26,375 £31,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,654 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -5.51% +1.60%

Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Derivative job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Derivative
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Derivative.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Derivative

Derivative
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Derivative within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 October 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
West Midlands +42 5 £70,000 - 2
East Midlands - 3 - -
Derivative
England

Derivative
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
1 1 (12.50%) TimescaleDB
General
1 8 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (87.50%) Finance
2 7 (87.50%) Financial Institution
2 7 (87.50%) Law
2 7 (87.50%) Legal
2 7 (87.50%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Risk Manager
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Operations Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Blockchain
1 7 (87.50%) Hedge funds
2 1 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Data Privacy
1 7 (87.50%) Proactive Monitoring
1 7 (87.50%) Rehypothecation
1 7 (87.50%) Risk Management
1 7 (87.50%) Stress Testing
2 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
2 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
2 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) High Availability
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Storage Management
2 1 (12.50%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (87.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 7 (87.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Google