Derivative Jobs

Derivatives
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Derivative in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Derivative over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 371 410
Rank change year-on-year +4 +39 +29
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 409 741 680
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.72% 0.67% 0.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.93% 2.02% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 306 697 553
10th Percentile £83,750 £73,250 £65,000
25th Percentile £91,563 £85,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £136,250 £148,750 £130,750
90th Percentile £151,250 £165,000 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £50,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +35.00% -31.03% +11.54%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 21,173 36,744 39,597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.42% 33.31% 43.63%
Number of salaries quoted 9,894 23,404 21,872
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £64,750
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.06% +3.60%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £97,500 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Derivative as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Derivative in the UK

Derivative
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Derivative.

Salary trend for Derivative in the UK

Derivative
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Derivative over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Derivative in the UK

Derivative
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Derivative within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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
England -13 392 £115,000 - 993
London -11 362 £115,000 - 868
Work from Home -55 255 £115,000 - 311
UK excluding London +189 42 £67,500 +35.00% 203
North of England +64 16 - - 36
Scotland +111 10 - - 11
North West +17 9 - - 19
Midlands - 7 - - 24
Yorkshire - 5 - - 11
South East - 5 - - 68
West Midlands - 4 - - 15
East Midlands - 3 - - 9
South West +92 2 - - 13
Northern Ireland +40 2 £67,500 - 30
North East - 2 - - 6

Derivative
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 99 (24.21%) Apache
2 95 (23.23%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.98%) Cloud Foundry
4 4 (0.98%) GemFire
4 4 (0.98%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.73%) Confluence
6 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.24%) Stata
Business Applications
1 55 (13.45%) Aladdin
2 39 (9.54%) thinkFolio
3 5 (1.22%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.49%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.49%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.24%) Eikon
5 1 (0.24%) Endur
5 1 (0.24%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 120 (29.34%) AWS
2 95 (23.23%) dbt
2 95 (23.23%) Snowflake
3 14 (3.42%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (2.69%) Amazon ECS
4 11 (2.69%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (2.69%) Dagster
4 11 (2.69%) GCP
5 7 (1.71%) SaaS
6 6 (1.47%) Azure
7 3 (0.73%) Amazon MSK
7 3 (0.73%) Azure AKS
7 3 (0.73%) Entra ID
7 3 (0.73%) OpenShift
7 3 (0.73%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.24%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.24%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.44%) Multicast
2 6 (1.47%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.22%) DHCP
3 5 (1.22%) DNS
3 5 (1.22%) Firewall
3 5 (1.22%) FIX Connectivity
4 3 (0.73%) SSL
5 2 (0.49%) HTTP
5 2 (0.49%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (27.87%) Data Lake
2 99 (24.21%) Amazon Athena
3 95 (23.23%) Apache Arrow
3 95 (23.23%) Apache Iceberg
3 95 (23.23%) Dremio
4 67 (16.38%) Apache Ignite
5 15 (3.67%) KDB
6 13 (3.18%) NoSQL
7 12 (2.93%) Kdb+
8 10 (2.44%) MongoDB
8 10 (2.44%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (2.20%) SQL Server
10 8 (1.96%) Big Data
10 8 (1.96%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.47%) Redis
12 4 (0.98%) InterSystems Cache
12 4 (0.98%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.98%) SAP BW
13 3 (0.73%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (3.67%) JIRA
2 14 (3.42%) Git
3 9 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.22%) Maven
5 4 (0.98%) Vite
6 3 (0.73%) MSTest
6 3 (0.73%) NUnit
6 3 (0.73%) SpecFlow
6 3 (0.73%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.49%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.24%) JetBrains Rider
8 1 (0.24%) JUnit
8 1 (0.24%) Mockito
General
1 378 (92.42%) Finance
2 288 (70.42%) Front Office
3 186 (45.48%) Banking
4 126 (30.81%) Investment Banking
5 98 (23.96%) Social Skills
6 71 (17.36%) Law
7 41 (10.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 36 (8.80%) Legal
9 30 (7.33%) Financial Institution
10 25 (6.11%) Prime Brokerage
11 21 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
12 7 (1.71%) Back Office
12 7 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.71%) Marketing
13 4 (0.98%) Advertising
13 4 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.98%) Spanish Language
14 2 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.24%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.24%) Retail
Job Titles
1 145 (35.45%) Software Engineer
2 109 (26.65%) Senior
3 108 (26.41%) Java Engineer
4 103 (25.18%) AWS Engineer
4 103 (25.18%) AWS Software Engineer
5 100 (24.45%) Java Software Engineer
6 94 (22.98%) Analyst
7 93 (22.74%) Senior Software Engineer
8 91 (22.25%) Python Engineer
8 91 (22.25%) Python Software Engineer
9 72 (17.60%) Senior Java Engineer
10 71 (17.36%) Business Analyst
11 68 (16.63%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 62 (15.16%) Lead
13 60 (14.67%) Developer
14 58 (14.18%) Business Manager
15 52 (12.71%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
16 40 (9.78%) Software Developer
17 39 (9.54%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 32 (7.82%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (17.36%) Pandas
2 65 (15.89%) gRPC
3 63 (15.40%) NumPy
3 63 (15.40%) Protocol Buffers
3 63 (15.40%) SciPy
4 43 (10.51%) PySpark
5 27 (6.60%) FIX Protocol
6 20 (4.89%) Spring
7 17 (4.16%) React
8 16 (3.91%) .NET
9 11 (2.69%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 11 (2.69%) Kafka
10 10 (2.44%) pytest
11 9 (2.20%) Web Services
12 8 (1.96%) AngularJS
12 8 (1.96%) Middleware
13 6 (1.47%) Django
14 5 (1.22%) HTML
14 5 (1.22%) HTML5
14 5 (1.22%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 244 (59.66%) Fixed Income
2 237 (57.95%) Hedge funds
3 193 (47.19%) Equities
4 185 (45.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 52 (12.71%) Onboarding
5 52 (12.71%) Pricing Data
6 27 (6.60%) Blockchain
7 23 (5.62%) Algorithms
8 20 (4.89%) Equity Derivative
9 14 (3.42%) Cloud Native
9 14 (3.42%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.71%) Market Risk
10 7 (1.71%) OTC Derivatives
11 6 (1.47%) Credit Derivative
11 6 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.47%) Reference Data
12 5 (1.22%) Bitcoin
12 5 (1.22%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.22%) Eurex
12 5 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (8.07%) Linux
2 15 (3.67%) Unix
3 7 (1.71%) CentOS
3 7 (1.71%) Rocky
3 7 (1.71%) Windows
4 3 (0.73%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.49%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.24%) Debian
6 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (69.19%) Agile
2 165 (40.34%) Investment Management
3 159 (38.88%) Software Engineering
4 156 (38.14%) Asset Management
5 85 (20.78%) Data Management
6 63 (15.40%) Business Analysis
6 63 (15.40%) Migration
7 57 (13.94%) Portfolio Management
8 56 (13.69%) Business Intelligence
9 55 (13.45%) Regulatory Compliance
9 55 (13.45%) Roadmaps
10 53 (12.96%) Data Governance
11 45 (11.00%) Data Mapping
12 43 (10.51%) Risk Management
13 39 (9.54%) Analytics
14 38 (9.29%) Computer Science
15 37 (9.05%) Mathematics
15 37 (9.05%) Operational Stability
15 37 (9.05%) SDLC
16 35 (8.56%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 236 (57.70%) Python
2 171 (41.81%) Java
3 134 (32.76%) SQL
4 75 (18.34%) TypeScript
5 67 (16.38%) JavaScript
6 31 (7.58%) C++
7 29 (7.09%) C#
8 8 (1.96%) Kotlin
8 8 (1.96%) Scala
9 7 (1.71%) Bash
9 7 (1.71%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.47%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.22%) Perl
12 2 (0.49%) R
12 2 (0.49%) Rust
13 1 (0.24%) C
13 1 (0.24%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.24%) Smalltalk
13 1 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 48 (11.74%) Degree
2 16 (3.91%) Master's Degree
3 10 (2.44%) PhD
4 3 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.49%) ACCA
5 2 (0.49%) CFA
5 2 (0.49%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 25 (6.11%) GDPR
2 21 (5.13%) MiFID
3 14 (3.42%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.93%) QA
5 7 (1.71%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.49%) IFRS
6 2 (0.49%) ITGC
7 1 (0.24%) Basel III
7 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (3.18%) Docker
2 3 (0.73%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (3.91%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.96%) Terraform
3 7 (1.71%) Grafana
4 1 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.24%) Nagios
Vendors
1 53 (12.96%) BISAM
2 45 (11.00%) Charles River
3 39 (9.54%) Calypso
3 39 (9.54%) SimCorp
4 25 (6.11%) Oracle
5 12 (2.93%) Bloomberg
6 8 (1.96%) Microsoft
7 7 (1.71%) Atlassian
7 7 (1.71%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.47%) ION Trading
8 6 (1.47%) Reuters
8 6 (1.47%) Solace
9 5 (1.22%) CQG
9 5 (1.22%) Patsystems
9 5 (1.22%) Trayport
10 4 (0.98%) SAP
10 4 (0.98%) TIBCO
10 4 (0.98%) Vertica
11 3 (0.73%) Cisco
11 3 (0.73%) Citrix