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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 662 375 256
Rank change year-on-year -287 -119 +76
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 139 337 848
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.69% 1.07%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.49% 1.67% 3.31%
Number of salaries quoted 93 234 785
10th Percentile £65,500 £85,000 £77,500
25th Percentile £71,250 £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 £111,250 £135,000 £148,750
90th Percentile £130,000 £148,750 £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 28,589 20,212 25,631
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.92% 41.20% 32.24%
Number of salaries quoted 17,954 10,150 14,125
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,749 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £58,701
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -6.30% -6.08%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £107,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £46,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +14.13% -12.38% -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 4 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 4 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 -247 136 £100,000 -13.04% 352
London -166 130 £100,000 -13.04% 343
Work from Home -189 35 £100,000 -13.04% 83
UK excluding London -136 9 £57,500 -14.81% 56
North of England -63 6 £57,500 - 5
North West -17 5 £57,500 - 4
Scotland -1 2 £50,000 - 13
North East -64 1 - -
Northern Ireland -85 1 - - 12

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 (1.44%) Confluence
1 2 (1.44%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.72%) Apache
2 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.72%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (5.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.16%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.72%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.72%) Eikon
2 1 (0.72%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 8 (5.76%) Snowflake
2 6 (4.32%) AWS
2 6 (4.32%) GitHub
3 5 (3.60%) Azure
4 4 (2.88%) GCP
4 4 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.16%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.44%) SaaS
7 1 (0.72%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.07%) Multicast
2 4 (2.88%) DHCP
2 4 (2.88%) DNS
2 4 (2.88%) VLAN
3 1 (0.72%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.32%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.16%) Power BI
3 3 (2.16%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.44%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.72%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.72%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (12.23%) JIRA
2 7 (5.04%) Git
3 3 (2.16%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.72%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.72%) Postman
4 1 (0.72%) Selenium
4 1 (0.72%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 108 (77.70%) Finance
2 57 (41.01%) Banking
3 40 (28.78%) Social Skills
4 34 (24.46%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (23.02%) Front Office
6 31 (22.30%) Investment Banking
7 21 (15.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (8.63%) Law
9 11 (7.91%) Financial Institution
10 7 (5.04%) Retail
11 5 (3.60%) Manufacturing
11 5 (3.60%) Marketing
12 4 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (2.16%) Back Office
13 3 (2.16%) Prime Brokerage
14 2 (1.44%) Advertising
14 2 (1.44%) General Ledger
14 2 (1.44%) Legal
15 1 (0.72%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
15 1 (0.72%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 48 (34.53%) Senior
2 34 (24.46%) Analyst
3 30 (21.58%) Business Analyst
4 22 (15.83%) Developer
5 16 (11.51%) Senior Developer
6 15 (10.79%) Software Engineer
7 14 (10.07%) Senior Software Engineer
8 12 (8.63%) C++ Software Engineer
8 12 (8.63%) Lead
8 12 (8.63%) Python Engineer
8 12 (8.63%) Python Software Engineer
9 11 (7.91%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
10 10 (7.19%) Derivatives Business Analyst
11 9 (6.47%) Qualitative Analyst
11 9 (6.47%) Quantitative Analyst
12 8 (5.76%) Data Analyst
12 8 (5.76%) Risk Analyst
13 7 (5.04%) Market Risk Analyst
13 7 (5.04%) Senior Analyst
13 7 (5.04%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (16.55%) FIX Protocol
2 12 (8.63%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 12 (8.63%) pytest
3 8 (5.76%) .NET
4 6 (4.32%) Kafka
5 5 (3.60%) RESTful
6 4 (2.88%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (2.16%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.16%) NumPy
7 3 (2.16%) Pandas
7 3 (2.16%) XML
7 3 (2.16%) XSLT
8 2 (1.44%) FpML
8 2 (1.44%) JSON
8 2 (1.44%) React
8 2 (1.44%) REST
9 1 (0.72%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.72%) Django
9 1 (0.72%) PySpark
9 1 (0.72%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 54 (38.85%) Fixed Income
2 49 (35.25%) Equities
3 28 (20.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 13 (9.35%) Algorithms
4 13 (9.35%) Equity Derivative
5 12 (8.63%) Market Risk
6 7 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (5.04%) Hedge funds
6 7 (5.04%) Onboarding
7 6 (4.32%) Credit Risk
7 6 (4.32%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (3.60%) OTC Derivatives
9 4 (2.88%) Distributed Applications
9 4 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (2.16%) Data Structures
10 3 (2.16%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.44%) Product Ownership
11 2 (1.44%) Reference Data
11 2 (1.44%) Reinsurance
11 2 (1.44%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.79%) Linux
2 5 (3.60%) Windows
3 3 (2.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (25.90%) Agile
1 36 (25.90%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (23.02%) Stakeholder Management
3 24 (17.27%) Low Latency
4 23 (16.55%) Computer Science
4 23 (16.55%) Mathematics
5 22 (15.83%) Process Improvement
5 22 (15.83%) Technical Leadership
6 21 (15.11%) SDLC
6 21 (15.11%) Software Engineering
7 20 (14.39%) Business Analysis
7 20 (14.39%) Mentoring
8 17 (12.23%) Analytics
8 17 (12.23%) Continuous Integration
9 16 (11.51%) AI
9 16 (11.51%) Workflow
10 14 (10.07%) Change Management
10 14 (10.07%) Risk Management
11 13 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (9.35%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 47 (33.81%) Python
2 38 (27.34%) SQL
3 31 (22.30%) C++
4 15 (10.79%) Java
5 13 (9.35%) R
6 10 (7.19%) C#
7 7 (5.04%) VBA
8 4 (2.88%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.44%) Bash
9 2 (1.44%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.44%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.72%) C
10 1 (0.72%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.72%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (10.79%) Degree
2 8 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.44%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.72%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.07%) QA
2 8 (5.76%) MiFID
3 7 (5.04%) Basel III
3 7 (5.04%) EMIR
4 4 (2.88%) SLA
5 3 (2.16%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.44%) GAAP
6 2 (1.44%) IFRS
6 2 (1.44%) ISO 20022
6 2 (1.44%) PMO
7 1 (0.72%) FINREP
System Software
1 5 (3.60%) Docker
2 4 (2.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (3.60%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.88%) SCCM
3 1 (0.72%) Ansible
3 1 (0.72%) Control-M
3 1 (0.72%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (8.63%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.76%) Bloomberg
3 5 (3.60%) Oracle
4 3 (2.16%) Alteryx
5 2 (1.44%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.44%) Databricks
5 2 (1.44%) Reuters
6 1 (0.72%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.72%) Duck Creek
6 1 (0.72%) FXall
6 1 (0.72%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.72%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.72%) MarketAxess
6 1 (0.72%) Moogsoft
6 1 (0.72%) Murex
6 1 (0.72%) SAP
6 1 (0.72%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.72%) Splunk
6 1 (0.72%) Tradeweb