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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 658 370 266
Rank change year-on-year -288 -104 +74
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 140 346 856
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.69% 1.05%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.49% 1.69% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 94 238 793
10th Percentile £65,750 £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 £110,938 £135,000 £148,750
90th Percentile £130,000 £149,125 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -14.81% +8.00% -13.79%

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 28,467 20,534 26,419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.91% 41.07% 32.45%
Number of salaries quoted 17,879 10,414 14,734
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -7.77% -6.36%

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 1 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 1 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 -277 137 £100,000 -13.04% 353
London -161 131 £100,000 -13.04% 347
Work from Home -171 37 £100,000 -13.04% 88
UK excluding London -131 9 £57,500 -14.81% 49
North of England -55 6 £57,500 - 5
North West -20 5 £57,500 - 4
Scotland -10 2 £50,000 - 11
North East -62 1 - -
Northern Ireland -80 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 3 (2.14%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.43%) Confluence
3 1 (0.71%) Apache
3 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.71%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.14%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.71%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.71%) Eikon
2 1 (0.71%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 8 (5.71%) Snowflake
2 6 (4.29%) AWS
2 6 (4.29%) GitHub
3 5 (3.57%) Azure
4 4 (2.86%) GCP
4 4 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.14%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.43%) SaaS
7 1 (0.71%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.00%) Multicast
2 4 (2.86%) DHCP
2 4 (2.86%) DNS
2 4 (2.86%) VLAN
3 1 (0.71%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.29%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.14%) Power BI
3 3 (2.14%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.43%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.71%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (12.86%) JIRA
2 7 (5.00%) Git
3 3 (2.14%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.71%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.71%) Postman
4 1 (0.71%) Selenium
4 1 (0.71%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio
General
1 109 (77.86%) Finance
2 58 (41.43%) Banking
3 40 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 34 (24.29%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (23.57%) Front Office
6 31 (22.14%) Investment Banking
7 21 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (8.57%) Law
9 11 (7.86%) Financial Institution
10 7 (5.00%) Retail
11 6 (4.29%) Marketing
12 5 (3.57%) Manufacturing
13 4 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (2.14%) Back Office
14 3 (2.14%) Prime Brokerage
15 2 (1.43%) Advertising
15 2 (1.43%) General Ledger
15 2 (1.43%) Legal
16 1 (0.71%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
16 1 (0.71%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 48 (34.29%) Senior
2 34 (24.29%) Analyst
3 30 (21.43%) Business Analyst
4 22 (15.71%) Developer
5 16 (11.43%) Senior Developer
5 16 (11.43%) Software Engineer
6 14 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
7 12 (8.57%) C++ Software Engineer
7 12 (8.57%) Lead
7 12 (8.57%) Python Engineer
7 12 (8.57%) Python Software Engineer
8 11 (7.86%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
9 10 (7.14%) Derivatives Business Analyst
10 9 (6.43%) Qualitative Analyst
10 9 (6.43%) Quantitative Analyst
11 8 (5.71%) Data Analyst
11 8 (5.71%) Risk Analyst
12 7 (5.00%) Market Risk Analyst
12 7 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
12 7 (5.00%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (16.43%) FIX Protocol
2 12 (8.57%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 12 (8.57%) pytest
3 8 (5.71%) .NET
4 6 (4.29%) Kafka
5 5 (3.57%) RESTful
6 4 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (2.14%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.14%) NumPy
7 3 (2.14%) Pandas
7 3 (2.14%) React
7 3 (2.14%) XML
7 3 (2.14%) XSLT
8 2 (1.43%) FpML
8 2 (1.43%) JSON
8 2 (1.43%) REST
9 1 (0.71%) CSS
9 1 (0.71%) Django
9 1 (0.71%) Node.js
9 1 (0.71%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 53 (37.86%) Fixed Income
2 49 (35.00%) Equities
3 28 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 13 (9.29%) Algorithms
4 13 (9.29%) Equity Derivative
5 12 (8.57%) Market Risk
6 7 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (5.00%) Hedge funds
6 7 (5.00%) Onboarding
7 6 (4.29%) Credit Risk
7 6 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (4.29%) OTC Derivatives
8 4 (2.86%) Distributed Applications
8 4 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.86%) Virtual Team
9 3 (2.14%) Data Structures
9 3 (2.14%) Wiki
10 2 (1.43%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.43%) Reference Data
10 2 (1.43%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.71%) Linux
2 5 (3.57%) Windows
3 3 (2.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (26.43%) Agile
2 36 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (22.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 24 (17.14%) Low Latency
5 23 (16.43%) Computer Science
6 22 (15.71%) Mathematics
6 22 (15.71%) Process Improvement
6 22 (15.71%) Software Engineering
6 22 (15.71%) Technical Leadership
7 21 (15.00%) Business Analysis
7 21 (15.00%) SDLC
8 20 (14.29%) Mentoring
9 17 (12.14%) Analytics
9 17 (12.14%) Continuous Integration
10 16 (11.43%) AI
10 16 (11.43%) Workflow
11 15 (10.71%) Change Management
12 14 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (10.00%) Risk Management
13 13 (9.29%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 47 (33.57%) Python
2 38 (27.14%) SQL
3 31 (22.14%) C++
4 16 (11.43%) Java
5 13 (9.29%) R
6 10 (7.14%) C#
7 7 (5.00%) VBA
8 4 (2.86%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.14%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.43%) Bash
10 2 (1.43%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.71%) C
11 1 (0.71%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.71%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (10.71%) Degree
2 8 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.43%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.71%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.00%) QA
2 9 (6.43%) MiFID
3 7 (5.00%) Basel III
3 7 (5.00%) EMIR
4 4 (2.86%) SLA
5 3 (2.14%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.14%) PMO
6 2 (1.43%) GAAP
6 2 (1.43%) IFRS
6 2 (1.43%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.71%) FINREP
System Software
1 5 (3.57%) Docker
2 4 (2.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (3.57%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.86%) SCCM
3 1 (0.71%) Ansible
3 1 (0.71%) Control-M
3 1 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.71%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (9.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.71%) Bloomberg
3 5 (3.57%) Oracle
4 3 (2.14%) Alteryx
4 3 (2.14%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.43%) Databricks
5 2 (1.43%) Reuters
6 1 (0.71%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.71%) Duck Creek
6 1 (0.71%) FXall
6 1 (0.71%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.71%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.71%) MarketAxess
6 1 (0.71%) Moogsoft
6 1 (0.71%) Murex
6 1 (0.71%) SAP
6 1 (0.71%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.71%) Splunk
6 1 (0.71%) Tradeweb