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 5 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 646 350 280
Rank change year-on-year -296 -70 +63
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 145 384 819
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.77% 0.98%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.53% 1.87% 2.93%
Number of salaries quoted 105 274 761
10th Percentile £66,000 £87,500 £77,500
25th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £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 £135,000 £148,750
90th Percentile £150,000 £148,750 £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 27,160 20,553 27,987
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.03% 41.43% 33.39%
Number of salaries quoted 17,155 10,324 16,624
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -10.16%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% -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 5 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Derivative in the UK

Derivative
Top 9 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 5 August 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 -261 142 £100,000 -13.04% 162
London -181 136 £100,000 -13.04% 153
Work from Home -174 42 £100,000 -13.04% 56
UK excluding London -119 9 £57,500 -14.81% 23
North of England -46 6 £57,500 - 6
North West -3 5 £57,500 - 5
Scotland +3 2 £50,000 - 2
North East -54 1 - -
Northern Ireland -77 1 - - 11

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 (2.76%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.69%) Apache
2 1 (0.69%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.69%) Confluence
2 1 (0.69%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.07%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.69%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.69%) Eikon
2 1 (0.69%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 16 (11.03%) AWS
2 15 (10.34%) Azure
3 13 (8.97%) GCP
4 8 (5.52%) GitHub
5 5 (3.45%) Snowflake
6 4 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.38%) SaaS
8 1 (0.69%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.69%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.03%) Multicast
2 4 (2.76%) DHCP
2 4 (2.76%) DNS
2 4 (2.76%) VLAN
3 1 (0.69%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.28%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (3.45%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.76%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.38%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.69%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.69%) Power BI
5 1 (0.69%) Redis
5 1 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (13.79%) JIRA
2 10 (6.90%) Git
3 3 (2.07%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.69%) Postman
4 1 (0.69%) Selenium
4 1 (0.69%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 118 (81.38%) Finance
2 54 (37.24%) Banking
3 37 (25.52%) Front Office
4 34 (23.45%) Social Skills
5 32 (22.07%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (19.31%) Investment Banking
7 20 (13.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (7.59%) Law
9 10 (6.90%) Financial Institution
10 7 (4.83%) Marketing
10 7 (4.83%) Retail
11 5 (3.45%) Manufacturing
12 4 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (2.07%) Prime Brokerage
14 2 (1.38%) Advertising
14 2 (1.38%) Back Office
14 2 (1.38%) General Ledger
15 1 (0.69%) Legal
15 1 (0.69%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
15 1 (0.69%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (32.41%) Senior
2 35 (24.14%) Developer
3 28 (19.31%) Analyst
4 27 (18.62%) Software Engineer
5 24 (16.55%) Business Analyst
5 24 (16.55%) Lead
6 20 (13.79%) Python Engineer
7 17 (11.72%) Python Software Engineer
8 16 (11.03%) Senior Software Engineer
9 14 (9.66%) C++ Software Engineer
9 14 (9.66%) Senior Developer
10 13 (8.97%) Lead Developer
10 13 (8.97%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 10 (6.90%) Python Developer
12 9 (6.21%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 9 (6.21%) Lead Software Developer
12 9 (6.21%) Lead Software Engineer
13 8 (5.52%) Qualitative Analyst
13 8 (5.52%) Quantitative Analyst
13 8 (5.52%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (15.17%) FIX Protocol
2 16 (11.03%) React
3 14 (9.66%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 14 (9.66%) pytest
4 13 (8.97%) Node.js
5 12 (8.28%) Redux
6 5 (3.45%) .NET
7 4 (2.76%) Kafka
8 3 (2.07%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.07%) NumPy
8 3 (2.07%) Pandas
8 3 (2.07%) RESTful
9 2 (1.38%) FpML
9 2 (1.38%) JSON
9 2 (1.38%) REST
10 1 (0.69%) CSS
10 1 (0.69%) Django
10 1 (0.69%) Web Services
10 1 (0.69%) XML
10 1 (0.69%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 61 (42.07%) Fixed Income
2 56 (38.62%) Equities
3 25 (17.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 15 (10.34%) Algorithms
5 12 (8.28%) Market Risk
6 10 (6.90%) Equity Derivative
7 8 (5.52%) Hedge funds
7 8 (5.52%) Onboarding
8 7 (4.83%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (4.83%) OTC Derivatives
9 6 (4.14%) Credit Risk
10 5 (3.45%) Virtual Team
11 4 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (2.76%) Wiki
12 3 (2.07%) Data Structures
13 2 (1.38%) Management Information System
13 2 (1.38%) Product Ownership
13 2 (1.38%) Reference Data
13 2 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
14 1 (0.69%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.72%) Linux
2 5 (3.45%) Windows
3 3 (2.07%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (31.03%) Agile
2 36 (24.83%) Software Engineering
3 31 (21.38%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (20.69%) Mentoring
5 27 (18.62%) Stakeholder Management
6 25 (17.24%) Computer Science
6 25 (17.24%) Process Improvement
7 24 (16.55%) Low Latency
7 24 (16.55%) Mathematics
7 24 (16.55%) Technical Leadership
8 22 (15.17%) SDLC
9 20 (13.79%) Fintech
10 19 (13.10%) Analytics
10 19 (13.10%) Business Analysis
10 19 (13.10%) Workflow
11 16 (11.03%) AI
11 16 (11.03%) Asset Management
11 16 (11.03%) Change Management
11 16 (11.03%) Continuous Integration
11 16 (11.03%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (40.69%) Python
2 34 (23.45%) SQL
3 31 (21.38%) C++
4 16 (11.03%) TypeScript
5 14 (9.66%) Java
5 14 (9.66%) JavaScript
6 13 (8.97%) R
7 9 (6.21%) C#
8 7 (4.83%) VBA
9 4 (2.76%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.38%) Bash
10 2 (1.38%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.69%) C
11 1 (0.69%) Perl
11 1 (0.69%) Rust
Qualifications
1 15 (10.34%) Degree
2 8 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.38%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.72%) QA
2 11 (7.59%) MiFID
3 7 (4.83%) Basel III
4 6 (4.14%) EMIR
5 4 (2.76%) PMO
6 3 (2.07%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.38%) GAAP
7 2 (1.38%) IFRS
7 2 (1.38%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.69%) FINREP
System Software
1 4 (2.76%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.76%) SCCM
2 2 (1.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.38%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.69%) Ansible
3 1 (0.69%) Control-M
3 1 (0.69%) Grafana
3 1 (0.69%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 14 (9.66%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.83%) Bloomberg
3 4 (2.76%) Atlassian
4 3 (2.07%) Oracle
5 2 (1.38%) Databricks
5 2 (1.38%) Reuters
6 1 (0.69%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.69%) FXall
6 1 (0.69%) Google
6 1 (0.69%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.69%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.69%) MarketAxess
6 1 (0.69%) Moogsoft
6 1 (0.69%) Murex
6 1 (0.69%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.69%) SAP
6 1 (0.69%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.69%) Splunk
6 1 (0.69%) Tradeweb