Derivative Jobs in the UK excluding London

Derivatives
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Derivative in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Derivative over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 541 742 663
Rank change year-on-year +201 -79 +147
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 42 36 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.046% 0.099%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.31% 0.14% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 7
10th Percentile - £39,400 £67,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £45,000 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £50,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -31.03% +9.43%
75th Percentile £68,750 - £121,875
90th Percentile - £57,500 £130,000
UK median annual salary £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -4.55%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,657 25,445 23,833
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.17% 32.21% 42.82%
Number of salaries quoted 6,047 15,473 10,824
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,925 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Derivative in the UK excluding London

Derivative
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Derivative in the UK excluding London

Derivative
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Derivative within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
North of England +74 15 - - 7
Scotland +117 10 - - 8
North West +15 8 - - 3
Midlands +84 7 - - 3
South East - 6 - - 87
Yorkshire - 5 - - 3
West Midlands +70 4 - - 3
East Midlands - 3 - -
South West +90 2 - - 2
Northern Ireland +46 2 £67,500 - 18
North East - 2 - - 1
Derivative
UK

Derivative
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 4 (9.52%) Apache
1 4 (9.52%) Cloud Foundry
1 4 (9.52%) GemFire
2 1 (2.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (19.05%) AWS
2 4 (9.52%) OpenShift
3 3 (7.14%) SaaS
4 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (9.52%) Apache Ignite
1 4 (9.52%) InterSystems Cache
1 4 (9.52%) KDB
1 4 (9.52%) Kdb+
1 4 (9.52%) MongoDB
1 4 (9.52%) NoSQL
1 4 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (9.52%) RDBMS
1 4 (9.52%) Redis
1 4 (9.52%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 3 (7.14%) MSTest
1 3 (7.14%) NUnit
1 3 (7.14%) SpecFlow
1 3 (7.14%) TeamCity
2 1 (2.38%) JIRA
General
1 42 (100.00%) Finance
2 37 (88.10%) Law
3 30 (71.43%) Social Skills
4 22 (52.38%) Financial Institution
4 22 (52.38%) Legal
4 22 (52.38%) Prime Brokerage
5 11 (26.19%) Banking
6 10 (23.81%) Front Office
7 8 (19.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (11.90%) Investment Banking
9 4 (9.52%) Marketing
10 3 (7.14%) Advertising
11 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (52.38%) Risk Manager
2 8 (19.05%) Java Engineer
2 8 (19.05%) Python Engineer
2 8 (19.05%) Python Software Engineer
2 8 (19.05%) Software Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Java Server Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Java Software Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Lead
3 4 (9.52%) Lead Software Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Server Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 2 (4.76%) Analyst
5 2 (4.76%) Business Analyst
6 1 (2.38%) Developer
6 1 (2.38%) Java Developer
6 1 (2.38%) Senior
6 1 (2.38%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.05%) Kafka
1 8 (19.05%) Spring
2 7 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 4 (9.52%) Django
3 4 (9.52%) Middleware
3 4 (9.52%) Pandas
3 4 (9.52%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (9.52%) React
4 3 (7.14%) CSS3
4 3 (7.14%) Electron
4 3 (7.14%) Highcharts JS
4 3 (7.14%) HTML
4 3 (7.14%) HTML5
4 3 (7.14%) JSON
4 3 (7.14%) LESS
4 3 (7.14%) NgRx
4 3 (7.14%) Reactive Extensions
4 3 (7.14%) REST
4 3 (7.14%) RxJS
4 3 (7.14%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 22 (52.38%) Blockchain
1 22 (52.38%) Hedge funds
2 11 (26.19%) Fixed Income
3 8 (19.05%) Equities
3 8 (19.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (16.67%) Cloud Native
5 6 (14.29%) Credit Derivative
6 4 (9.52%) Algorithms
6 4 (9.52%) Data Structures
7 3 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (7.14%) Virtual Team
8 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.52%) Linux
1 4 (9.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (52.38%) Data Privacy
1 22 (52.38%) Proactive Monitoring
1 22 (52.38%) Rehypothecation
1 22 (52.38%) Risk Management
1 22 (52.38%) Stress Testing
2 12 (28.57%) OO
2 12 (28.57%) OOP
3 11 (26.19%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (19.05%) Operational Stability
4 8 (19.05%) Software Engineering
5 7 (16.67%) Computer Science
6 6 (14.29%) Agile
6 6 (14.29%) Algorithmic Trading
6 6 (14.29%) Test Automation
7 5 (11.90%) CI/CD
7 5 (11.90%) Mathematics
7 5 (11.90%) TDD
8 4 (9.52%) Electronic Trading
8 4 (9.52%) Multithreading
8 4 (9.52%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 10 (23.81%) Java
1 10 (23.81%) Python
2 8 (19.05%) SQL
3 7 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 5 (11.90%) C#
5 3 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.38%) C++
Qualifications
1 10 (23.81%) Degree
2 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (52.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 22 (52.38%) GDPR
2 7 (16.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (11.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) Oracle
2 4 (9.52%) Solace
2 4 (9.52%) TIBCO
3 1 (2.38%) Alteryx
3 1 (2.38%) Bloomberg
3 1 (2.38%) Capita