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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 340 400
Rank change year-on-year -47 +60 +50
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 393 808 677
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.65% 0.78% 0.79%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.78% 2.33% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 286 758 564
10th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £93,750 £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 £130,188
90th Percentile £150,000 £165,000 £148,125
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 22,060 34,624 35,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.72% 33.56% 41.89%
Number of salaries quoted 10,600 21,801 21,617
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £35,432
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £64,470
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -14.69% +3.15%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £98,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -61 376 £115,000 - 322
London -34 345 £115,000 - 318
Work from Home -100 233 £115,000 -4.17% 113
UK excluding London +160 42 £67,500 +35.00% 87
North of England +67 16 - -
Scotland +95 10 - - 1
North West +18 9 - -
Midlands +80 7 - -
Yorkshire +50 5 - -
South East - 5 - - 78
West Midlands +72 4 - -
East Midlands - 3 - -
South West +74 2 - - 2
Northern Ireland +38 2 £67,500 -1.82% 5
North East - 2 - -

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
1 112 (28.50%) Apache
2 108 (27.48%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.02%) Cloud Foundry
4 4 (1.02%) Confluence
4 4 (1.02%) GemFire
4 4 (1.02%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.25%) Stata
Business Applications
1 50 (12.72%) Aladdin
2 39 (9.92%) thinkFolio
3 5 (1.27%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.51%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.51%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.25%) Eikon
5 1 (0.25%) Endur
5 1 (0.25%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 133 (33.84%) AWS
2 108 (27.48%) dbt
2 108 (27.48%) Snowflake
3 14 (3.56%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (2.80%) Amazon ECS
4 11 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (2.80%) Dagster
4 11 (2.80%) GCP
5 7 (1.78%) SaaS
6 6 (1.53%) OpenShift
7 5 (1.27%) Azure
8 3 (0.76%) Amazon MSK
8 3 (0.76%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.25%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.25%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.25%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.25%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.05%) Multicast
2 6 (1.53%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.27%) DHCP
3 5 (1.27%) DNS
3 5 (1.27%) Firewall
3 5 (1.27%) FIX Connectivity
4 3 (0.76%) SSL
5 2 (0.51%) HTTP
5 2 (0.51%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (28.50%) Amazon Athena
2 108 (27.48%) Apache Arrow
2 108 (27.48%) Apache Iceberg
2 108 (27.48%) Dremio
3 94 (23.92%) Data Lake
4 80 (20.36%) Apache Ignite
5 16 (4.07%) KDB
6 13 (3.31%) NoSQL
7 12 (3.05%) Kdb+
8 10 (2.54%) Relational Database
8 10 (2.54%) SQL Server
9 9 (2.29%) MongoDB
10 8 (2.04%) Big Data
10 8 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (2.04%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.53%) Redis
12 4 (1.02%) InterSystems Cache
12 4 (1.02%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.02%) SAP BW
13 3 (0.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (4.58%) JIRA
2 15 (3.82%) Git
3 9 (2.29%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.27%) Maven
5 4 (1.02%) Vite
6 3 (0.76%) MSTest
6 3 (0.76%) NUnit
6 3 (0.76%) SpecFlow
6 3 (0.76%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.51%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.25%) JetBrains Rider
8 1 (0.25%) JUnit
8 1 (0.25%) Mockito
General
1 361 (91.86%) Finance
2 264 (67.18%) Front Office
3 203 (51.65%) Banking
4 140 (35.62%) Investment Banking
5 100 (25.45%) Social Skills
6 71 (18.07%) Law
7 41 (10.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 36 (9.16%) Legal
9 30 (7.63%) Financial Institution
10 26 (6.62%) Prime Brokerage
11 20 (5.09%) Analytical Skills
12 7 (1.78%) Marketing
13 6 (1.53%) Back Office
13 6 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.02%) Advertising
14 4 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.02%) Spanish Language
15 2 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.25%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 160 (40.71%) Software Engineer
2 128 (32.57%) Senior
3 121 (30.79%) Java Engineer
4 116 (29.52%) AWS Engineer
4 116 (29.52%) AWS Software Engineer
5 113 (28.75%) Java Software Engineer
6 108 (27.48%) Senior Software Engineer
7 106 (26.97%) Python Engineer
7 106 (26.97%) Python Software Engineer
8 90 (22.90%) Analyst
9 85 (21.63%) Senior Java Engineer
10 81 (20.61%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 73 (18.58%) Business Analyst
12 62 (15.78%) Developer
13 61 (15.52%) Business Manager
14 52 (13.23%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
15 48 (12.21%) Lead
16 40 (10.18%) Software Developer
17 39 (9.92%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 32 (8.14%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (21.37%) Pandas
2 78 (19.85%) gRPC
3 76 (19.34%) NumPy
3 76 (19.34%) Protocol Buffers
3 76 (19.34%) SciPy
4 43 (10.94%) PySpark
5 29 (7.38%) FIX Protocol
6 20 (5.09%) Spring
7 17 (4.33%) React
8 16 (4.07%) .NET
9 14 (3.56%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 12 (3.05%) pytest
11 11 (2.80%) Kafka
12 9 (2.29%) Web Services
13 8 (2.04%) AngularJS
13 8 (2.04%) Middleware
14 6 (1.53%) Django
15 5 (1.27%) HTML5
15 5 (1.27%) RabbitMQ
15 5 (1.27%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 222 (56.49%) Fixed Income
2 214 (54.45%) Hedge funds
3 178 (45.29%) Equities
4 165 (41.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 65 (16.54%) Pricing Data
6 51 (12.98%) Onboarding
7 27 (6.87%) Algorithms
7 27 (6.87%) Blockchain
8 20 (5.09%) Equity Derivative
9 14 (3.56%) Cloud Native
9 14 (3.56%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.78%) Market Risk
10 7 (1.78%) Reference Data
11 6 (1.53%) Credit Derivative
11 6 (1.53%) OTC Derivatives
12 5 (1.27%) Bitcoin
12 5 (1.27%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.27%) Eurex
12 5 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (9.16%) Linux
2 14 (3.56%) Unix
3 7 (1.78%) CentOS
3 7 (1.78%) Rocky
4 4 (1.02%) Windows
5 2 (0.51%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.25%) Debian
6 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (66.92%) Agile
2 175 (44.53%) Software Engineering
3 163 (41.48%) Asset Management
4 140 (35.62%) Investment Management
5 63 (16.03%) Business Analysis
6 57 (14.50%) Portfolio Management
7 52 (13.23%) Data Management
8 50 (12.72%) Business Intelligence
9 45 (11.45%) Data Mapping
9 45 (11.45%) Risk Management
10 43 (10.94%) Computer Science
11 42 (10.69%) Mathematics
12 40 (10.18%) SDLC
13 37 (9.41%) Operational Stability
14 36 (9.16%) Problem-Solving
15 32 (8.14%) Analytics
15 32 (8.14%) CI/CD
15 32 (8.14%) Low Latency
16 31 (7.89%) Migration
17 27 (6.87%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 245 (62.34%) Python
2 185 (47.07%) Java
3 131 (33.33%) SQL
4 88 (22.39%) TypeScript
5 80 (20.36%) JavaScript
6 35 (8.91%) C++
7 30 (7.63%) C#
8 11 (2.80%) Scala
9 8 (2.04%) Kotlin
10 7 (1.78%) Bash
11 6 (1.53%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.27%) Perl
13 4 (1.02%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.76%) F#
14 3 (0.76%) Haskell
14 3 (0.76%) OCaml
15 2 (0.51%) R
15 2 (0.51%) Rust
16 1 (0.25%) MATLAB
16 1 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 50 (12.72%) Degree
2 19 (4.83%) Master's Degree
3 13 (3.31%) PhD
4 3 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.51%) ACCA
5 2 (0.51%) CFA
5 2 (0.51%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 25 (6.36%) GDPR
2 14 (3.56%) Accessibility
2 14 (3.56%) QA
3 6 (1.53%) Actionable Recommendations
3 6 (1.53%) MiFID
4 2 (0.51%) IFRS
4 2 (0.51%) ITGC
5 1 (0.25%) Basel III
5 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (2.80%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (4.33%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.04%) Terraform
3 7 (1.78%) Grafana
4 1 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.25%) Nagios
Vendors
1 47 (11.96%) BISAM
2 45 (11.45%) Charles River
3 39 (9.92%) Calypso
3 39 (9.92%) SimCorp
4 24 (6.11%) Oracle
5 12 (3.05%) Bloomberg
6 9 (2.29%) Microsoft
7 7 (1.78%) Atlassian
7 7 (1.78%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.53%) ION Trading
8 6 (1.53%) Reuters
8 6 (1.53%) Solace
9 5 (1.27%) CQG
9 5 (1.27%) Patsystems
9 5 (1.27%) Trayport
10 4 (1.02%) SAP
10 4 (1.02%) TIBCO
10 4 (1.02%) Vertica
11 2 (0.51%) Murex
11 2 (0.51%) Salesforce