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 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 544 724 699
Rank change year-on-year +180 -25 +114
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 32 36 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.082% 0.051% 0.095%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.25% 0.15% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 7
10th Percentile - £39,400 £59,630
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - -31.03% +7.41%
75th Percentile £55,000 - £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 12,965 24,142 25,435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.10% 34.00% 42.28%
Number of salaries quoted 6,104 15,240 11,340
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £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 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
North of England +63 15 £50,000 - 10
Midlands +77 7 - - 3
North West +17 7 - - 7
South East - 6 - - 63
Yorkshire - 5 - - 2
West Midlands +51 4 - - 2
East Midlands - 3 - - 1
North East - 3 £50,000 - 1
Scotland +119 2 - - 4
South West +99 2 - -
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 (12.50%) Apache
1 4 (12.50%) GemFire
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.50%) OpenShift
2 3 (9.38%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Apache Ignite
1 4 (12.50%) InterSystems Cache
1 4 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 4 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 4 (12.50%) RDBMS
1 4 (12.50%) Redis
1 4 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Jenkins
1 3 (9.38%) MSTest
1 3 (9.38%) NUnit
1 3 (9.38%) SpecFlow
1 3 (9.38%) TeamCity
General
1 31 (96.88%) Finance
2 29 (90.63%) Law
3 25 (78.13%) Social Skills
4 22 (68.75%) Financial Institution
4 22 (68.75%) Legal
4 22 (68.75%) Prime Brokerage
5 6 (18.75%) Front Office
6 2 (6.25%) Banking
7 1 (3.13%) Advertising
7 1 (3.13%) Back Office
7 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (68.75%) Risk Manager
2 4 (12.50%) Java Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Java Server Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Server Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (3.13%) Analyst
4 1 (3.13%) Data Analyst
4 1 (3.13%) Developer
4 1 (3.13%) Java Developer
4 1 (3.13%) Market Analyst
4 1 (3.13%) Market Data Analyst
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) Kafka
1 4 (12.50%) Middleware
1 4 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (12.50%) Spring
2 3 (9.38%) .NET
2 3 (9.38%) AngularJS
2 3 (9.38%) CSS
2 3 (9.38%) CSS3
2 3 (9.38%) Electron
2 3 (9.38%) Highcharts JS
2 3 (9.38%) HTML
2 3 (9.38%) HTML5
2 3 (9.38%) JSON
2 3 (9.38%) LESS
2 3 (9.38%) NgRx
2 3 (9.38%) Reactive Extensions
2 3 (9.38%) REST
2 3 (9.38%) RxJS
2 3 (9.38%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 22 (68.75%) Blockchain
1 22 (68.75%) Hedge funds
2 8 (25.00%) Equities
3 7 (21.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (18.75%) Credit Derivative
4 6 (18.75%) Fixed Income
5 4 (12.50%) Algorithms
5 4 (12.50%) Data Structures
6 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
6 3 (9.38%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (9.38%) Virtual Team
7 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) Linux
1 4 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (68.75%) Data Privacy
1 22 (68.75%) Proactive Monitoring
1 22 (68.75%) Rehypothecation
1 22 (68.75%) Risk Management
1 22 (68.75%) Stress Testing
2 8 (25.00%) OO
2 8 (25.00%) OOP
3 6 (18.75%) Algorithmic Trading
4 5 (15.63%) CI/CD
4 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (15.63%) TDD
5 4 (12.50%) Dependency Injection
5 4 (12.50%) Design Patterns
5 4 (12.50%) Electronic Trading
5 4 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
5 4 (12.50%) Low Latency
5 4 (12.50%) Microservices
5 4 (12.50%) Multithreading
6 3 (9.38%) Use Case
6 3 (9.38%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) Java
2 5 (15.63%) C#
3 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
3 3 (9.38%) Python
3 3 (9.38%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.13%) C++
4 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.13%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (68.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 22 (68.75%) GDPR
2 7 (21.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (12.50%) Oracle
1 4 (12.50%) Solace
1 4 (12.50%) TIBCO
2 1 (3.13%) Capita