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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 670 404 254
Rank change year-on-year -266 -150 +88
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 143 296 776
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.60% 1.05%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.46% 1.46% 3.26%
Number of salaries quoted 91 193 709
10th Percentile £68,750 £85,000 £77,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £97,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £112,500 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £113,750 £135,000 £147,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £149,750 £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 31,418 20,334 23,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.60% 40.95% 32.07%
Number of salaries quoted 19,323 10,203 11,964
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,613 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,865 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.25% -14.29% -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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -237 141 £100,000 -13.04% 445
London -158 135 £100,000 -13.04% 422
Work from Home -150 46 £100,000 -14.53% 107
UK excluding London -161 8 £57,500 -14.81% 71
North of England -58 6 £57,500 - 7
North West -32 5 £57,500 - 6
Scotland -7 1 - - 22
North East -63 1 - - 1
Northern Ireland -82 1 - - 19

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 (1.40%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.40%) Confluence
2 1 (0.70%) Apache
2 1 (0.70%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (4.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.10%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.70%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.70%) Eikon
2 1 (0.70%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.70%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.70%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.70%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 14 (9.79%) GitHub
2 8 (5.59%) Azure
2 8 (5.59%) Snowflake
3 7 (4.90%) AWS
4 6 (4.20%) GCP
5 5 (3.50%) Anthropic Claude
5 5 (3.50%) ChatGPT
5 5 (3.50%) GitHub Copilot
5 5 (3.50%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (2.10%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.10%) SaaS
7 2 (1.40%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.70%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.70%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.49%) Multicast
2 2 (1.40%) DHCP
2 2 (1.40%) DNS
2 2 (1.40%) VLAN
3 1 (0.70%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.90%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.10%) Power BI
3 3 (2.10%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.40%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.40%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.70%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.70%) HBase
5 1 (0.70%) Redis
5 1 (0.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (12.59%) JIRA
2 9 (6.29%) Git
3 5 (3.50%) Claude Code
4 3 (2.10%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.40%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.70%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.70%) Postman
6 1 (0.70%) Selenium
6 1 (0.70%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.70%) TeamCity
General
1 109 (76.22%) Finance
2 59 (41.26%) Banking
3 43 (30.07%) Social Skills
4 40 (27.97%) Front Office
5 35 (24.48%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (16.78%) Investment Banking
7 20 (13.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (7.69%) Financial Institution
9 10 (6.99%) Law
10 6 (4.20%) Retail
11 5 (3.50%) Manufacturing
11 5 (3.50%) Marketing
12 4 (2.80%) Back Office
13 3 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (2.10%) General Ledger
13 3 (2.10%) Legal
13 3 (2.10%) Prime Brokerage
14 2 (1.40%) Advertising
15 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.70%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 43 (30.07%) Senior
2 35 (24.48%) Analyst
3 29 (20.28%) Business Analyst
4 24 (16.78%) Developer
5 22 (15.38%) Software Engineer
6 15 (10.49%) Python Engineer
6 15 (10.49%) Python Software Engineer
7 13 (9.09%) C++ Software Engineer
8 12 (8.39%) Senior Developer
9 11 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
10 10 (6.99%) Derivatives Business Analyst
11 9 (6.29%) Lead
11 9 (6.29%) Qualitative Analyst
11 9 (6.29%) Quantitative Analyst
11 9 (6.29%) Senior Analyst
11 9 (6.29%) Senior Business Analyst
11 9 (6.29%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
12 8 (5.59%) Commodities Business Analyst
12 8 (5.59%) Risk Analyst
13 7 (4.90%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (14.69%) FIX Protocol
2 13 (9.09%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 13 (9.09%) pytest
3 8 (5.59%) .NET
4 6 (4.20%) Kafka
5 5 (3.50%) RESTful
6 4 (2.80%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (2.10%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.10%) NumPy
7 3 (2.10%) Pandas
7 3 (2.10%) XML
7 3 (2.10%) XSLT
8 2 (1.40%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.40%) JSON
8 2 (1.40%) REST
9 1 (0.70%) Django
9 1 (0.70%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.70%) Flask
9 1 (0.70%) PySpark
9 1 (0.70%) React
Miscellaneous
1 57 (39.86%) Fixed Income
2 49 (34.27%) Equities
3 24 (16.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 17 (11.89%) Equity Derivative
5 14 (9.79%) Algorithms
5 14 (9.79%) Hedge funds
6 13 (9.09%) Market Risk
7 7 (4.90%) Credit Risk
7 7 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (4.20%) Onboarding
8 6 (4.20%) OTC Derivatives
9 5 (3.50%) Credit Derivative
9 5 (3.50%) Exotic Derivative
9 5 (3.50%) Virtual Team
10 4 (2.80%) Distributed Applications
10 4 (2.80%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (2.10%) Data Structures
11 3 (2.10%) DTCC
12 2 (1.40%) Cloud Native
12 2 (1.40%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.19%) Linux
2 3 (2.10%) Unix
2 3 (2.10%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (26.57%) Agile
2 37 (25.87%) Stakeholder Management
3 31 (21.68%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (18.88%) Software Engineering
5 24 (16.78%) Mathematics
6 23 (16.08%) SDLC
7 22 (15.38%) Analytics
7 22 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
8 21 (14.69%) Low Latency
9 20 (13.99%) Business Analysis
9 20 (13.99%) Computer Science
9 20 (13.99%) Mentoring
10 19 (13.29%) AI
10 19 (13.29%) Process Improvement
10 19 (13.29%) Workflow
11 18 (12.59%) Continuous Integration
11 18 (12.59%) Decision-Making
12 17 (11.89%) Quantitative Research
13 15 (10.49%) Change Management
13 15 (10.49%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (39.16%) Python
2 34 (23.78%) SQL
3 31 (21.68%) C++
4 18 (12.59%) Java
5 15 (10.49%) R
6 9 (6.29%) C#
7 7 (4.90%) VBA
8 3 (2.10%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.40%) Bash
9 2 (1.40%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.70%) C
10 1 (0.70%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.70%) Perl
10 1 (0.70%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (8.39%) Degree
2 5 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.40%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.70%) CCAB
4 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.49%) QA
2 7 (4.90%) Basel III
3 6 (4.20%) EMIR
3 6 (4.20%) SLA
4 4 (2.80%) MiFID
5 2 (1.40%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.40%) GAAP
5 2 (1.40%) IFRS
6 1 (0.70%) FINREP
6 1 (0.70%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (3.50%) Docker
2 2 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (4.20%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.40%) Control-M
2 2 (1.40%) SCCM
3 1 (0.70%) Ansible
3 1 (0.70%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (6.99%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.59%) Bloomberg
3 6 (4.20%) Oracle
4 3 (2.10%) Alteryx
5 2 (1.40%) Databricks
5 2 (1.40%) Reuters
6 1 (0.70%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.70%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.70%) Duck Creek
6 1 (0.70%) FXall
6 1 (0.70%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.70%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.70%) MarketAxess
6 1 (0.70%) Moogsoft
6 1 (0.70%) Murex
6 1 (0.70%) SAP
6 1 (0.70%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.70%) Splunk
6 1 (0.70%) Tradeweb