Derivative Jobs

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 have cited Derivative over the 3 months to 25 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Derivatives UK
Location	3 months to 25 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	327	384	325
Rank change year-on-year	+57	-59
Permanent jobs citing Derivative	823	758	1087
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.93%	0.78%	0.98%
As % of the Miscellaneous category	2.22%	1.89%	2.40%
Number of salaries quoted	399	572	911
Median salary	£80,000	£70,000	£67,500
Median salary % change year-on-year	+14.28%	+3.70%
90% offered a salary of more than	£52,500	£47,750	£50,000
10% offered a salary of more than	£110,000	£105,000	£95,000
UK excluding London median salary	£75,000	£45,000	£52,500
% change year-on-year	+66.66%	-14.28%

Derivative is in the generic IT skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Generic IT Skills UK
Permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills	37011	40133	45320
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	42.02%	41.34%	40.94%
Number of salaries quoted	28923	32860	36156
Median salary	£50,000	£50,000	£47,500
Median salary % change year-on-year	-	+5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than	£30,000	£29,500	£28,000
10% offered a salary of more than	£80,000	£75,000	£77,500
UK excluding London median salary	£42,500	£42,500	£40,000
% change year-on-year	-	+6.25%

Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing Derivative as a proportion of all permanent or contract IT jobs with a match in the Miscellaneous category.

Job vacancy trend for Derivative in the UK

Derivative
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Derivative.

Derivative
Salary Histogram

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing Derivative over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Salary histogram for Derivative in the UK

Derivative
Top 23 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 3 months to 25 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Last 3 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+59	791	£77,500	+10.71%	91
London	+22	769	£80,000	+10.34%	87
City of London	-22	88	£75,500	+7.85%	20
Belfast	-	27	£100,000	-
County Antrim	-	27	£100,000	-
Northern Ireland	-	27	£100,000	-
South West	+13	10	-	-
Wiltshire	+9	5	-	-
Dorset	-	5	-	-
Bournemouth	-	5	-	-
Swindon	-	5	-	-
South East	+41	4	£45,000	-	3
West Midlands	+13	4	£50,000	-25.92%
Birmingham	+8	4	£50,000	-25.92%
Scotland	-36	4	-	-	5
North West	-	4	£60,000	-
Cheshire	-	4	£60,000	-
Surrey	+26	3	£45,000	-5.26%
Glasgow	-28	3	-	-	5
Canary Wharf	-	3	£63,000	-
Chester	-	2	-	-
West Sussex	+7	1	£40,000	+11.11%
Edinburgh	-8	1	-	-

Derivative
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 June 2017, IT jobs citing Derivative also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads with a requirement for Derivative.

1	950 (72.74%)	Finance
2	678 (51.91%)	Banking
3	545 (41.73%)	Investment Banking
4	469 (35.91%)	Java
5	458 (35.07%)	Front Office
6	418 (32.01%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
7	386 (29.56%)	Fixed Income
8	371 (28.41%)	Asset Management
9	365 (27.95%)	SQL
10	362 (27.72%)	Equities
11	349 (26.72%)	Agile Software Development
12	288 (22.05%)	Degree
13	285 (21.82%)	C#
14	284 (21.75%)	Wealth Management
15	281 (21.52%)	Retail

16	276 (21.13%)	Retail Banking
17	264 (20.21%)	Equity Derivative
18	227 (17.38%)	Python
19	224 (17.15%)	C++
20	217 (16.62%)	Unix
21	204 (15.62%)	Multithreading
22	192 (14.70%)	Linux
23	189 (14.47%)	Risk Management
24	183 (14.01%)	Analytics
25	171 (13.09%)	SDLC
26	167 (12.79%)	Analytical Skills
27	159 (12.17%)	OTC Derivatives
28	147 (11.26%)	Low Latency
29	136 (10.41%)	SQL Server
30	126 (9.65%)	Project Management

Derivative
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	23 (1.76%)	Apache Spark
2	18 (1.38%)	Confluence
3	14 (1.07%)	Apache
4	12 (0.92%)	SharePoint
5	4 (0.31%)	DataSynapse
6	3 (0.23%)	CMS
6	3 (0.23%)	IIS
6	3 (0.23%)	WebLogic
6	3 (0.23%)	WebSphere
7	2 (0.15%)	Adobe Experience Manager
7	2 (0.15%)	JBoss
7	2 (0.15%)	MQSeries
7	2 (0.15%)	MS Exchange
7	2 (0.15%)	OpenStack
7	2 (0.15%)	Oracle Coherence
7	2 (0.15%)	Oracle Workflow
7	2 (0.15%)	Skype for Business
7	2 (0.15%)	Tomcat
8	1 (0.077%)	Mule ESB
8	1 (0.077%)	Oracle SOA Suite

Applications
1	82 (6.28%)	Microsoft Excel
2	17 (1.30%)	Stata
3	15 (1.15%)	Spreadsheet
4	9 (0.69%)	EViews
5	8 (0.61%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
6	4 (0.31%)	Microsoft Office
6	4 (0.31%)	MS Visio
7	2 (0.15%)	Microsoft Project
8	1 (0.077%)	Photoshop
8	1 (0.077%)	UserZoom

Business Applications
1	19 (1.45%)	thinkFolio
2	16 (1.23%)	Markit EDM
3	14 (1.07%)	Pega PRPC
4	11 (0.84%)	LatentZero
5	7 (0.54%)	Eagle PACE
5	7 (0.54%)	Minerva
5	7 (0.54%)	Oracle Cash Management
6	6 (0.46%)	Endur
6	6 (0.46%)	IntelliMatch
7	5 (0.38%)	Oracle Assets
8	4 (0.31%)	SAP CO
8	4 (0.31%)	SAP FI
8	4 (0.31%)	SAP FI/CO
9	2 (0.15%)	RMDS
9	2 (0.15%)	Sentinel
10	1 (0.077%)	Oracle Payables
10	1 (0.077%)	Oracle Receivables
10	1 (0.077%)	SimCorp Dimension
10	1 (0.077%)	Summit
10	1 (0.077%)	Temenos T24

Cloud Services
1	5 (0.38%)	Amazon AWS
2	3 (0.23%)	GitHub
2	3 (0.23%)	SaaS
3	2 (0.15%)	Akamai
3	2 (0.15%)	Amazon EC2
3	2 (0.15%)	Amazon S3
3	2 (0.15%)	Microsoft Azure
3	2 (0.15%)	OneDrive
4	1 (0.077%)	DigitalOcean
4	1 (0.077%)	PaaS

Communications & Networking
1	14 (1.07%)	DHCP
1	14 (1.07%)	DNS
1	14 (1.07%)	LDAP
1	14 (1.07%)	SAN
2	13 (1.00%)	SMTP
3	12 (0.92%)	NAS
4	11 (0.84%)	Fibre Channel
4	11 (0.84%)	iSCSI
4	11 (0.84%)	Multicast
4	11 (0.84%)	Unicast
5	7 (0.54%)	Firewall
6	6 (0.46%)	PuTTY
7	3 (0.23%)	HTTP
7	3 (0.23%)	LAN
7	3 (0.23%)	TCP/IP
7	3 (0.23%)	WAN
8	2 (0.15%)	FIX Connectivity
8	2 (0.15%)	OpenLDAP
8	2 (0.15%)	VPN
9	1 (0.077%)	AMQP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	136 (10.41%)	SQL Server
2	89 (6.81%)	Relational Database
3	50 (3.83%)	Big Data
4	38 (2.91%)	RDBMS
5	33 (2.53%)	SQL Server 2012
6	29 (2.22%)	NoSQL
7	25 (1.91%)	Oracle Database
8	21 (1.61%)	Apache Cassandra
9	20 (1.53%)	Hadoop
10	17 (1.30%)	Data Warehouse
11	15 (1.15%)	DB2
12	14 (1.07%)	SQL Server 2014
13	12 (0.92%)	KDB
14	11 (0.84%)	Blockchain
14	11 (0.84%)	Data Mart
14	11 (0.84%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
15	10 (0.77%)	SQL Server 2008
16	9 (0.69%)	Kdb+
17	7 (0.54%)	MySQL
18	6 (0.46%)	Data Mining

Development Applications
1	63 (4.82%)	JIRA
2	44 (3.37%)	Visual Studio
3	31 (2.37%)	Selenium
4	22 (1.68%)	HP UFT
5	20 (1.53%)	SpecFlow
5	20 (1.53%)	Subversion
6	19 (1.45%)	Git (software)
7	18 (1.38%)	FitNesse
8	17 (1.30%)	Cucumber
9	16 (1.23%)	MSTest
9	16 (1.23%)	Team Foundation Server
10	14 (1.07%)	GoogleTest
10	14 (1.07%)	Jenkins
11	13 (1.00%)	Maven
11	13 (1.00%)	NUnit
12	11 (0.84%)	Gradle
12	11 (0.84%)	TeamCity
13	10 (0.77%)	Ant
13	10 (0.77%)	Hudson
14	9 (0.69%)	ReSharper

General
1	950 (72.74%)	Finance
2	678 (51.91%)	Banking
3	545 (41.73%)	Investment Banking
4	458 (35.07%)	Front Office
5	281 (21.52%)	Retail
6	276 (21.13%)	Retail Banking
7	82 (6.28%)	Back Office
8	40 (3.06%)	Financial Institution
9	26 (1.99%)	Legal
10	21 (1.61%)	Corporate Banking
11	13 (1.00%)	Telecoms
12	12 (0.92%)	Advertising
12	12 (0.92%)	French Language
12	12 (0.92%)	Law
13	7 (0.54%)	Marketing
14	4 (0.31%)	German Language
15	2 (0.15%)	Electronics
15	2 (0.15%)	General Ledger
16	1 (0.077%)	Billing
16	1 (0.077%)	Private Banking

Job Titles
1	539 (41.27%)	Developer
2	369 (28.25%)	Analyst
3	221 (16.92%)	Java Developer
4	209 (16.00%)	Business Analyst
5	106 (8.12%)	C# Developer
6	97 (7.43%)	Senior Developer
7	88 (6.74%)	C++ Developer
8	78 (5.97%)	Consultant
9	67 (5.13%)	Banking Analyst
9	67 (5.13%)	Project Manager
10	66 (5.05%)	Investment Banking Business Analyst
11	63 (4.82%)	Quantitative Developer
12	55 (4.21%)	Software Engineer
13	53 (4.06%)	Senior Java Developer
14	52 (3.98%)	Financial Analyst
15	48 (3.68%)	Business Consultant
16	44 (3.37%)	Support Analyst
17	42 (3.22%)	Front Office Developer
18	36 (2.76%)	.NET Developer
19	35 (2.68%)	Senior Analyst

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	90 (6.89%)	.NET
2	81 (6.20%)	Spring
3	77 (5.90%)	FIX Protocol
4	65 (4.98%)	AngularJS
4	65 (4.98%)	XML
5	61 (4.67%)	Middleware
6	52 (3.98%)	HTML
7	42 (3.22%)	HTML5
8	40 (3.06%)	ASP.NET
8	40 (3.06%)	WPF
9	32 (2.45%)	STL
10	31 (2.37%)	WCF
11	30 (2.30%)	JMS
12	28 (2.14%)	FpML
13	27 (2.07%)	Murex MxML
14	26 (1.99%)	Web Services
15	23 (1.76%)	Boost C++ Libraries
15	23 (1.76%)	JSON
16	22 (1.68%)	Hibernate
16	22 (1.68%)	NumPy

Miscellaneous
1	418 (32.01%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
2	386 (29.56%)	Fixed Income
3	362 (27.72%)	Equities
4	264 (20.21%)	Equity Derivative
5	167 (12.79%)	Analytical Skills
6	159 (12.17%)	OTC Derivatives
7	114 (8.73%)	Computer Science
8	92 (7.04%)	Credit Derivative
9	65 (4.98%)	Credit Risk
10	63 (4.82%)	Hedge funds
11	45 (3.45%)	Algorithms
11	45 (3.45%)	Market Risk
12	39 (2.99%)	Interest Rate Derivative
13	36 (2.76%)	Data Structures
14	35 (2.68%)	Greenfield Project
15	32 (2.45%)	Fintech
16	29 (2.22%)	Exotic Derivative
17	22 (1.68%)	Management Information System
17	22 (1.68%)	PMI
18	20 (1.53%)	Data Centre

Operating Systems
1	217 (16.62%)	Unix
2	192 (14.70%)	Linux
3	60 (4.59%)	Windows
4	29 (2.22%)	Solaris
5	24 (1.84%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6	11 (0.84%)	Data ONTAP
7	5 (0.38%)	Android
8	4 (0.31%)	Apple iOS
8	4 (0.31%)	Ubuntu
9	3 (0.23%)	Windows Server
10	2 (0.15%)	Windows Server 2008
10	2 (0.15%)	Windows Server 2012
11	1 (0.077%)	AIX
11	1 (0.077%)	CentOS
11	1 (0.077%)	Debian
11	1 (0.077%)	SUSE

Processes & Methodologies
1	371 (28.41%)	Asset Management
2	349 (26.72%)	Agile Software Development
3	284 (21.75%)	Wealth Management
4	204 (15.62%)	Multithreading
5	189 (14.47%)	Risk Management
6	183 (14.01%)	Analytics
7	171 (13.09%)	SDLC
8	147 (11.26%)	Low Latency
9	126 (9.65%)	Project Management
10	125 (9.57%)	Mathematics
11	122 (9.34%)	Business Analysis
12	120 (9.19%)	OO
13	102 (7.81%)	Software Engineering
14	101 (7.73%)	Stakeholder Management
15	90 (6.89%)	Scrum
16	78 (5.97%)	Electronic Trading
17	76 (5.82%)	TDD
18	73 (5.59%)	Test Automation
19	64 (4.90%)	GAP Analysis
20	61 (4.67%)	Market Making

Programming Languages
1	469 (35.91%)	Java
2	365 (27.95%)	SQL
3	285 (21.82%)	C#
4	227 (17.38%)	Python
5	224 (17.15%)	C++
6	72 (5.51%)	Perl
7	71 (5.44%)	Shell Script
8	69 (5.28%)	JavaScript
9	50 (3.83%)	VBA
10	48 (3.68%)	C
11	45 (3.45%)	Scala
12	32 (2.45%)	R
13	22 (1.68%)	MATLAB
14	19 (1.45%)	Ruby
15	17 (1.30%)	Clojure
16	14 (1.07%)	COBOL
16	14 (1.07%)	PL/SQL
17	11 (0.84%)	Tcl
18	8 (0.61%)	T-SQL
19	7 (0.54%)	VB

Qualifications
1	288 (22.05%)	Degree
2	47 (3.60%)	Computer Science Degree
3	42 (3.22%)	PhD
4	32 (2.45%)	Numerate Degree
5	28 (2.14%)	Master's Degree
6	23 (1.76%)	ISEB
6	23 (1.76%)	PMI Certification
7	14 (1.07%)	ISTQB
8	13 (1.00%)	Microsoft Certification
9	10 (0.77%)	CFA
10	7 (0.54%)	CISSP
11	5 (0.38%)	PMP
12	4 (0.31%)	CISA
12	4 (0.31%)	ITIL Certification
13	3 (0.23%)	ACCA
13	3 (0.23%)	CISM
13	3 (0.23%)	MBA
13	3 (0.23%)	Postgraduate
14	2 (0.15%)	MCSA
14	2 (0.15%)	MCSE

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	114 (8.73%)	MiFID
2	91 (6.97%)	QA
3	36 (2.76%)	EMIR
4	28 (2.14%)	Dodd-Frank
5	21 (1.61%)	Basel III
6	17 (1.30%)	Data Quality
7	14 (1.07%)	FATCA
8	12 (0.92%)	Solvency II
9	11 (0.84%)	UCITS
10	10 (0.77%)	PMO
11	9 (0.69%)	AIFMD
12	7 (0.54%)	ISO/IEC 27001
13	6 (0.46%)	GDPR
14	3 (0.23%)	SLA
15	1 (0.077%)	GAAP

System Software
1	16 (1.23%)	Hyper-V
1	16 (1.23%)	VMware Infrastructure
2	14 (1.07%)	Active Directory
3	11 (0.84%)	NFS
4	5 (0.38%)	HDFS
5	4 (0.31%)	Docker
6	3 (0.23%)	Virtual Machines
7	2 (0.15%)	Apache Flume
7	2 (0.15%)	VMware ESXi
7	2 (0.15%)	vSphere
7	2 (0.15%)	XenApp
7	2 (0.15%)	XenDesktop
8	1 (0.077%)	Apache ZooKeeper

Systems Management
1	14 (1.07%)	Ansible
1	14 (1.07%)	Opscode Chef
1	14 (1.07%)	Puppet
1	14 (1.07%)	Salt
2	13 (1.00%)	HP Quality Center
3	11 (0.84%)	vCenter Server
4	5 (0.38%)	ITRS Geneos
5	4 (0.31%)	Control-M
5	4 (0.31%)	Graphite
6	2 (0.15%)	Backup Exec
6	2 (0.15%)	EMC VPLEX
6	2 (0.15%)	IBM BigFix
6	2 (0.15%)	Icinga
6	2 (0.15%)	Nagios
6	2 (0.15%)	Nexpose
6	2 (0.15%)	QRadar
6	2 (0.15%)	SCCM
6	2 (0.15%)	SCOM
6	2 (0.15%)	Tivoli Endpoint Manager
6	2 (0.15%)	WSUS

Vendors
1	114 (8.73%)	Oracle
2	81 (6.20%)	Murex
3	66 (5.05%)	Microsoft
4	45 (3.45%)	Sybase
5	35 (2.68%)	Calypso
5	35 (2.68%)	TIBCO
6	23 (1.76%)	Sun
7	20 (1.53%)	Bloomberg
7	20 (1.53%)	IBM
8	18 (1.38%)	Cisco
8	18 (1.38%)	Google
9	17 (1.30%)	ION Trading
9	17 (1.30%)	VMware
10	16 (1.23%)	Citrix
11	15 (1.15%)	Charles River
12	14 (1.07%)	Fidessa
12	14 (1.07%)	Pega
13	13 (1.00%)	HP
13	13 (1.00%)	NetApp
14	12 (0.92%)	Sophis