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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 673 376 258
Rank change year-on-year -297 -118 +81
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 134 323 825
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.66% 1.06%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.45% 1.60% 3.31%
Number of salaries quoted 90 220 760
10th Percentile £67,250 £87,250 £77,500
25th Percentile £71,563 £95,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £113,750 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.09% -1.09% +9.52%
75th Percentile £110,000 £135,000 £148,750
90th Percentile £130,000 £150,000 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -14.81% +17.39% -20.69%

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 29,683 20,216 24,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.06% 41.14% 32.16%
Number of salaries quoted 18,536 10,087 13,167
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,010 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.68% -10.46% -4.55%

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 September 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 15 September 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 -264 131 £100,000 -13.04% 503
London -158 125 £100,000 -13.04% 482
Work from Home -174 36 £100,000 -15.97% 139
UK excluding London -130 9 £57,500 -14.81% 76
North of England -62 6 £57,500 - 6
North West -19 5 £57,500 - 4
Scotland -4 2 £50,000 - 17
North East -63 1 - - 1
Northern Ireland -78 1 - - 27

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 2 (1.49%) Confluence
1 2 (1.49%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.75%) Apache
2 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.75%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (5.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.24%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.75%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.75%) Eikon
2 1 (0.75%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 8 (5.97%) Snowflake
2 7 (5.22%) AWS
3 6 (4.48%) Azure
3 6 (4.48%) GitHub
4 5 (3.73%) GCP
5 3 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.24%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.49%) SaaS
7 1 (0.75%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.70%) Multicast
2 3 (2.24%) DHCP
2 3 (2.24%) DNS
2 3 (2.24%) VLAN
3 1 (0.75%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.48%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.24%) Power BI
3 3 (2.24%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.49%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.75%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (11.94%) JIRA
2 7 (5.22%) Git
3 3 (2.24%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.75%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.75%) Postman
4 1 (0.75%) Selenium
4 1 (0.75%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 104 (77.61%) Finance
2 52 (38.81%) Banking
3 39 (29.10%) Social Skills
4 33 (24.63%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (23.13%) Front Office
6 26 (19.40%) Investment Banking
7 20 (14.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (8.21%) Financial Institution
8 11 (8.21%) Law
9 6 (4.48%) Retail
10 5 (3.73%) Manufacturing
10 5 (3.73%) Marketing
11 4 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (2.24%) Back Office
12 3 (2.24%) Prime Brokerage
13 2 (1.49%) Advertising
13 2 (1.49%) General Ledger
13 2 (1.49%) Legal
14 1 (0.75%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
14 1 (0.75%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (33.58%) Senior
2 34 (25.37%) Analyst
3 29 (21.64%) Business Analyst
4 20 (14.93%) Developer
5 15 (11.19%) Software Engineer
6 14 (10.45%) Senior Developer
7 13 (9.70%) Senior Software Engineer
8 12 (8.96%) Python Engineer
8 12 (8.96%) Python Software Engineer
9 11 (8.21%) C++ Software Engineer
9 11 (8.21%) Lead
10 10 (7.46%) Derivatives Business Analyst
10 10 (7.46%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 9 (6.72%) Qualitative Analyst
11 9 (6.72%) Quantitative Analyst
12 8 (5.97%) Risk Analyst
13 7 (5.22%) Data Analyst
13 7 (5.22%) Market Risk Analyst
13 7 (5.22%) Senior Analyst
13 7 (5.22%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (15.67%) FIX Protocol
2 11 (8.21%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 11 (8.21%) pytest
3 7 (5.22%) .NET
4 6 (4.48%) Kafka
5 5 (3.73%) RESTful
6 4 (2.99%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (2.24%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.24%) NumPy
7 3 (2.24%) Pandas
7 3 (2.24%) XML
7 3 (2.24%) XSLT
8 2 (1.49%) JSON
8 2 (1.49%) REST
9 1 (0.75%) CSS
9 1 (0.75%) Django
9 1 (0.75%) FpML
9 1 (0.75%) HTML
9 1 (0.75%) SciPy
9 1 (0.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 52 (38.81%) Fixed Income
2 47 (35.07%) Equities
3 24 (17.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 13 (9.70%) Equity Derivative
5 12 (8.96%) Algorithms
5 12 (8.96%) Market Risk
6 8 (5.97%) Hedge funds
7 7 (5.22%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (5.22%) Onboarding
8 6 (4.48%) Credit Risk
8 6 (4.48%) OTC Derivatives
9 4 (2.99%) Distributed Applications
9 4 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (2.24%) Data Structures
10 3 (2.24%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.49%) DTCC
11 2 (1.49%) Exotic Derivative
11 2 (1.49%) Reference Data
11 2 (1.49%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.45%) Linux
2 4 (2.99%) Windows
3 3 (2.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (26.12%) Agile
2 34 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (23.13%) Stakeholder Management
4 21 (15.67%) Computer Science
4 21 (15.67%) Low Latency
4 21 (15.67%) Mathematics
5 20 (14.93%) SDLC
5 20 (14.93%) Technical Leadership
6 19 (14.18%) Business Analysis
6 19 (14.18%) Mentoring
6 19 (14.18%) Process Improvement
6 19 (14.18%) Software Engineering
7 16 (11.94%) Analytics
7 16 (11.94%) Continuous Integration
7 16 (11.94%) Workflow
8 15 (11.19%) AI
9 14 (10.45%) Change Management
9 14 (10.45%) Regulatory Compliance
9 14 (10.45%) Risk Management
10 13 (9.70%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 47 (35.07%) Python
2 36 (26.87%) SQL
3 29 (21.64%) C++
4 14 (10.45%) Java
4 14 (10.45%) R
5 8 (5.97%) C#
6 7 (5.22%) VBA
7 3 (2.24%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.49%) Bash
8 2 (1.49%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.75%) C
9 1 (0.75%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.75%) Perl
9 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (9.70%) Degree
2 7 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.49%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.75%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.70%) QA
2 8 (5.97%) EMIR
2 8 (5.97%) MiFID
3 7 (5.22%) Basel III
4 4 (2.99%) SLA
5 2 (1.49%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.49%) GAAP
5 2 (1.49%) IFRS
5 2 (1.49%) PMO
6 1 (0.75%) FINREP
6 1 (0.75%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 5 (3.73%) Docker
2 3 (2.24%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (3.73%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.24%) SCCM
3 1 (0.75%) Ansible
3 1 (0.75%) Control-M
3 1 (0.75%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (8.21%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.97%) Bloomberg
3 5 (3.73%) Oracle
4 3 (2.24%) Alteryx
5 2 (1.49%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.49%) Databricks
5 2 (1.49%) Reuters
6 1 (0.75%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.75%) Duck Creek
6 1 (0.75%) FXall
6 1 (0.75%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.75%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.75%) MarketAxess
6 1 (0.75%) Moogsoft
6 1 (0.75%) Murex
6 1 (0.75%) SAP
6 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.75%) Splunk
6 1 (0.75%) Tradeweb