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 15 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 618 344 343
Rank change year-on-year -274 -1 +37
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 130 388 803
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.79% 0.79%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.51% 1.93% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 102 281 753
10th Percentile £65,250 £82,500 £77,500
25th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £130,000 £136,250 £148,750
90th Percentile £150,000 £150,000 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.81% +35.00% -31.03%

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 25,541 20,119 34,199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.85% 40.94% 33.81%
Number of salaries quoted 16,285 9,950 21,896
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,445 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.64% +4.55% -14.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,619 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.24% - -9.09%

Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Derivative job vacancy trend in the UK

Derivative
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Derivative.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Derivative

Derivative
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Derivative over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Derivative in the UK

Derivative
Top 8 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 15 July 2026. 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 -266 128 £100,000 -13.04% 96
London -179 123 £102,500 -10.87% 66
Work from Home -182 39 £100,000 -13.04% 56
UK excluding London -101 7 £57,500 -14.81% 41
North West -12 5 £57,500 - 5
North of England -44 5 £57,500 - 9
Scotland +8 1 £50,000 - 6
Northern Ireland -58 1 - - 2

Derivative
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 4 (3.08%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.77%) Apache
2 1 (0.77%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.77%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (6.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.31%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 19 (14.62%) AWS
2 18 (13.85%) Azure
3 16 (12.31%) GCP
4 10 (7.69%) GitHub
5 4 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (3.08%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.54%) SaaS
7 1 (0.77%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.77%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 16 (12.31%) Multicast
2 4 (3.08%) DHCP
2 4 (3.08%) DNS
2 4 (3.08%) VLAN
3 1 (0.77%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.31%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.31%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.54%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.77%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.77%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.77%) Power BI
5 1 (0.77%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (15.38%) JIRA
2 12 (9.23%) Git
3 1 (0.77%) Postman
3 1 (0.77%) SoapUI
General
1 107 (82.31%) Finance
2 48 (36.92%) Banking
3 35 (26.92%) Front Office
4 29 (22.31%) Social Skills
5 27 (20.77%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (20.00%) Investment Banking
7 17 (13.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (6.92%) Financial Institution
9 7 (5.38%) Law
9 7 (5.38%) Marketing
9 7 (5.38%) Retail
10 5 (3.85%) Manufacturing
11 4 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.54%) Advertising
12 2 (1.54%) General Ledger
12 2 (1.54%) Legal
12 2 (1.54%) Prime Brokerage
13 1 (0.77%) Back Office
13 1 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (33.85%) Senior
2 37 (28.46%) Developer
3 30 (23.08%) Software Engineer
4 28 (21.54%) Lead
5 25 (19.23%) Analyst
6 24 (18.46%) Python Engineer
7 20 (15.38%) Python Software Engineer
8 17 (13.08%) Lead Developer
9 16 (12.31%) C++ Software Engineer
9 16 (12.31%) Senior Software Engineer
10 15 (11.54%) Business Analyst
10 15 (11.54%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 13 (10.00%) Senior Developer
12 12 (9.23%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 12 (9.23%) Lead Software Developer
12 12 (9.23%) Lead Software Engineer
12 12 (9.23%) Python Developer
13 9 (6.92%) React Developer
13 9 (6.92%) Risk Analyst
14 8 (6.15%) Quantitative Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (16.15%) FIX Protocol
2 20 (15.38%) React
3 17 (13.08%) Node.js
4 16 (12.31%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 16 (12.31%) pytest
4 16 (12.31%) Redux
5 2 (1.54%) .NET
5 2 (1.54%) FpML
5 2 (1.54%) JSON
5 2 (1.54%) Kafka
5 2 (1.54%) NumPy
5 2 (1.54%) Pandas
5 2 (1.54%) REST
5 2 (1.54%) RESTful
6 1 (0.77%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.77%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.77%) Django
6 1 (0.77%) Flask
6 1 (0.77%) WebSockets
6 1 (0.77%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (47.69%) Fixed Income
2 52 (40.00%) Equities
3 22 (16.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 16 (12.31%) Algorithms
5 10 (7.69%) Market Risk
6 9 (6.92%) OTC Derivatives
7 7 (5.38%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (5.38%) Onboarding
8 6 (4.62%) Equity Derivative
9 5 (3.85%) Credit Risk
10 4 (3.08%) Hedge funds
10 4 (3.08%) Virtual Team
10 4 (3.08%) Wiki
11 3 (2.31%) Data Structures
11 3 (2.31%) Reference Data
12 2 (1.54%) Product Ownership
13 1 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
13 1 (0.77%) Cloud Native
13 1 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.77%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (14.62%) Linux
2 4 (3.08%) Windows
3 1 (0.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (34.62%) Agile
2 39 (30.00%) Software Engineering
3 32 (24.62%) Mentoring
4 27 (20.77%) Fintech
5 26 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (20.00%) Process Improvement
5 26 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
6 24 (18.46%) Computer Science
6 24 (18.46%) Stakeholder Management
7 23 (17.69%) Low Latency
7 23 (17.69%) Mathematics
8 22 (16.92%) SDLC
9 20 (15.38%) Analytics
10 19 (14.62%) Workflow
11 18 (13.85%) Asset Management
11 18 (13.85%) Continuous Integration
11 18 (13.85%) Investment Management
12 17 (13.08%) Line Management
12 17 (13.08%) OOP
13 16 (12.31%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (46.15%) Python
2 29 (22.31%) C++
3 25 (19.23%) SQL
4 20 (15.38%) TypeScript
5 17 (13.08%) JavaScript
6 13 (10.00%) R
7 7 (5.38%) C#
7 7 (5.38%) Java
8 6 (4.62%) VBA
9 4 (3.08%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.77%) Bash
10 1 (0.77%) Rust
10 1 (0.77%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (10.77%) Degree
2 7 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (14.62%) QA
2 13 (10.00%) MiFID
3 8 (6.15%) Basel III
4 6 (4.62%) EMIR
5 4 (3.08%) PMO
6 3 (2.31%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (2.31%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.54%) GAAP
7 2 (1.54%) IFRS
7 2 (1.54%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 4 (3.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.08%) SCCM
2 1 (0.77%) Grafana
2 1 (0.77%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (10.77%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.85%) Bloomberg
3 4 (3.08%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.77%) CyberArk
4 1 (0.77%) Databricks
4 1 (0.77%) Google
4 1 (0.77%) HubSpot
4 1 (0.77%) Murex
4 1 (0.77%) Oracle
4 1 (0.77%) Reuters
4 1 (0.77%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.77%) SAP
4 1 (0.77%) ServiceNow