Derivative Job Trends 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 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 510 538 533
Rank change year-on-year +28 -5 +196
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 5 29 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.012% 0.077% 0.026%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.036% 0.23% 0.073%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 3
10th Percentile £59,500 £47,250 £35,550
25th Percentile £62,500 £49,938 £42,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -4.35% +19.79%
75th Percentile £83,750 £58,750 £65,625
90th Percentile £90,500 £64,375 £68,250
UK median annual salary £110,000 £115,000 £110,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%

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 13,809 12,723 10,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.91% 34.00% 35.65%
Number of salaries quoted 6,365 5,601 7,795
10th Percentile £26,375 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £41,250 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £54,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.82% -1.36% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,114 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Derivative job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Derivative
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Derivative.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Derivative

Derivative
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Derivative in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram 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 31 December 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 +10 3 £65,000 +30.00% 32
North East +10 2 £65,000 +30.00% 1
North West +24 1 - - 14
West Midlands +24 1 £70,000 - 17
Midlands +21 1 £70,000 - 32
South West +13 1 £90,000 +73.91% 21
Derivative
UK

Derivative
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) AutoCAD
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Modbus
1 1 (20.00%) RS-485
1 1 (20.00%) VLAN
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau
1 1 (20.00%) TimescaleDB
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Electronics
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Head of Technology
2 1 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Operations Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Equities
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (20.00%) CCTV
2 1 (20.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (20.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (20.00%) PKI
2 1 (20.00%) Pricing Data
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Debian
2 1 (20.00%) OpenWrt
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Data Acquisition
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Fintech
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Multithreading
3 1 (20.00%) QMS
3 1 (20.00%) Quality Management
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
3 1 (20.00%) Trade Surveillance
3 1 (20.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) FINRA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) iptables
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco
1 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) MikroTik