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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 637 370 273
Rank change year-on-year -267 -97 +53
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 149 370 848
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.74% 1.02%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.53% 1.80% 3.12%
Number of salaries quoted 104 259 789
10th Percentile £68,250 £87,000 £77,500
25th Percentile £74,375 £94,375 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £125,625 £135,000 £148,750
90th Percentile £140,000 £148,750 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £58,750
% change year-on-year -14.81% +14.89% -18.97%

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 28,057 20,565 27,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.10% 41.21% 32.74%
Number of salaries quoted 17,559 10,355 15,844
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,750 £30,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £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 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,850
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -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 20 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 20 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 -267 146 £100,000 -13.04% 244
London -167 140 £100,000 -13.04% 238
Work from Home -172 41 £100,000 -13.04% 63
UK excluding London -129 9 £57,500 -14.81% 28
North of England -45 6 £57,500 - 5
North West -19 5 £57,500 - 2
Scotland -9 2 £50,000 - 4
North East -60 1 - -
Northern Ireland -81 1 - - 8

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 (2.68%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.34%) Confluence
3 1 (0.67%) Apache
3 1 (0.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.67%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (6.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.01%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.67%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.67%) Eikon
2 1 (0.67%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 14 (9.40%) AWS
2 13 (8.72%) Azure
3 11 (7.38%) GCP
4 8 (5.37%) Snowflake
5 7 (4.70%) GitHub
6 4 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.01%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.34%) SaaS
9 1 (0.67%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.07%) Multicast
2 4 (2.68%) DHCP
2 4 (2.68%) DNS
2 4 (2.68%) VLAN
3 1 (0.67%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.03%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.68%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.01%) Power BI
6 2 (1.34%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.67%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.67%) Redis
7 1 (0.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (13.42%) JIRA
2 9 (6.04%) Git
3 3 (2.01%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.67%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.67%) Postman
4 1 (0.67%) Selenium
4 1 (0.67%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 118 (79.19%) Finance
2 57 (38.26%) Banking
3 40 (26.85%) Front Office
4 39 (26.17%) Social Skills
5 34 (22.82%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (20.13%) Investment Banking
7 20 (13.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (7.38%) Financial Institution
8 11 (7.38%) Law
9 6 (4.03%) Marketing
9 6 (4.03%) Retail
10 5 (3.36%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (2.01%) Back Office
12 3 (2.01%) Prime Brokerage
13 2 (1.34%) Advertising
13 2 (1.34%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.67%) Legal
14 1 (0.67%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
14 1 (0.67%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (32.89%) Senior
2 32 (21.48%) Analyst
2 32 (21.48%) Developer
3 28 (18.79%) Business Analyst
4 23 (15.44%) Software Engineer
5 20 (13.42%) Lead
6 17 (11.41%) Python Engineer
7 16 (10.74%) Senior Developer
8 15 (10.07%) Python Software Engineer
8 15 (10.07%) Senior Software Engineer
9 13 (8.72%) C++ Software Engineer
10 12 (8.05%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 9 (6.04%) Derivatives Business Analyst
11 9 (6.04%) Lead Developer
11 9 (6.04%) Qualitative Analyst
11 9 (6.04%) Quantitative Analyst
12 8 (5.37%) Data Analyst
12 8 (5.37%) Python Developer
12 8 (5.37%) Risk Analyst
13 7 (4.70%) Market Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (15.44%) FIX Protocol
2 13 (8.72%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 13 (8.72%) pytest
3 12 (8.05%) React
4 9 (6.04%) Node.js
5 8 (5.37%) Redux
6 7 (4.70%) .NET
7 6 (4.03%) Kafka
8 5 (3.36%) RESTful
9 3 (2.01%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.01%) NumPy
9 3 (2.01%) Pandas
9 3 (2.01%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.34%) FpML
10 2 (1.34%) JSON
10 2 (1.34%) REST
10 2 (1.34%) XML
10 2 (1.34%) XSLT
11 1 (0.67%) HTML
11 1 (0.67%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 60 (40.27%) Fixed Income
2 57 (38.26%) Equities
3 26 (17.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 14 (9.40%) Algorithms
5 12 (8.05%) Equity Derivative
5 12 (8.05%) Market Risk
6 8 (5.37%) Hedge funds
7 7 (4.70%) Onboarding
8 6 (4.03%) Credit Risk
8 6 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (4.03%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (4.03%) OTC Derivatives
9 5 (3.36%) Virtual Team
10 4 (2.68%) Wiki
11 3 (2.01%) Data Structures
11 3 (2.01%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (1.34%) Product Ownership
12 2 (1.34%) Reinsurance
12 2 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.74%) Linux
2 5 (3.36%) Windows
3 3 (2.01%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (30.20%) Agile
2 34 (22.82%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (20.81%) Software Engineering
4 30 (20.13%) Stakeholder Management
5 28 (18.79%) Mentoring
6 25 (16.78%) Low Latency
7 24 (16.11%) Computer Science
7 24 (16.11%) Mathematics
8 23 (15.44%) Process Improvement
8 23 (15.44%) SDLC
8 23 (15.44%) Technical Leadership
9 21 (14.09%) Business Analysis
10 18 (12.08%) Analytics
11 17 (11.41%) Continuous Integration
11 17 (11.41%) Workflow
12 16 (10.74%) AI
12 16 (10.74%) Change Management
13 15 (10.07%) Asset Management
13 15 (10.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (10.07%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (39.60%) Python
2 38 (25.50%) SQL
3 32 (21.48%) C++
4 15 (10.07%) Java
5 13 (8.72%) R
6 12 (8.05%) TypeScript
7 11 (7.38%) C#
8 10 (6.71%) JavaScript
9 8 (5.37%) VBA
10 4 (2.68%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.34%) Bash
11 2 (1.34%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.67%) C
12 1 (0.67%) Perl
12 1 (0.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 15 (10.07%) Degree
2 8 (5.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.34%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.74%) QA
2 10 (6.71%) MiFID
3 7 (4.70%) Basel III
4 6 (4.03%) EMIR
5 4 (2.68%) PMO
5 4 (2.68%) SLA
6 3 (2.01%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.34%) GAAP
7 2 (1.34%) IFRS
7 2 (1.34%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.67%) FINREP
System Software
1 4 (2.68%) Active Directory
1 4 (2.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.68%) Kubernetes
1 4 (2.68%) SCCM
2 2 (1.34%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.67%) Ansible
3 1 (0.67%) Control-M
3 1 (0.67%) Grafana
3 1 (0.67%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 14 (9.40%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.37%) Bloomberg
3 4 (2.68%) Atlassian
3 4 (2.68%) Oracle
4 3 (2.01%) Alteryx
5 2 (1.34%) Databricks
5 2 (1.34%) Reuters
6 1 (0.67%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.67%) Duck Creek
6 1 (0.67%) FXall
6 1 (0.67%) Google
6 1 (0.67%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.67%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.67%) MarketAxess
6 1 (0.67%) Moogsoft
6 1 (0.67%) Murex
6 1 (0.67%) SAP
6 1 (0.67%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.67%) Splunk
6 1 (0.67%) Tradeweb