Derivative Jobs

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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 302 386 431
Rank change year-on-year +84 +45 -57
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 808 668 1,466
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.89% 0.83% 0.84%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.69% 2.01% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 752 572 1,043
10th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £105,000 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £148,750 £130,000 £132,500
90th Percentile £165,000 £143,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -31.03% +20.83% -

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 30,081 33,205 84,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.28% 41.15% 48.18%
Number of salaries quoted 18,138 20,787 36,075
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,416 £34,500
25th Percentile £40,013 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% +2.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Derivative as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Derivative in the UK

Derivative
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Derivative.

Salary trend for Derivative in the UK

Derivative
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Derivative over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Derivative in the UK

Derivative
Top 13 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 26 July 2024. 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 +80 795 £115,000 +9.52% 46
London +65 758 £115,000 +9.52% 43
Work from Home +147 628 £132,500 +27.40% 23
UK excluding London -14 46 £50,000 -31.03% 29
South West - 24 - - 1
North of England +8 6 £50,000 -
Scotland -41 5 - -
East of England - 5 £45,000 - 1
Northern Ireland +9 4 £68,750 -1.79% 8
North West - 4 £50,000 -
Yorkshire +53 2 - -
West Midlands -3 2 - - 2
Midlands -20 2 - - 2

Derivative
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 513 (63.49%) Apache
2 494 (61.14%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.25%) SAS
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 22 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 39 (4.83%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.62%) Markit EDM
3 4 (0.50%) Eagle PACE
4 1 (0.12%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 663 (82.05%) AWS
2 522 (64.60%) dbt
3 464 (57.43%) Snowflake
4 306 (37.87%) GCP
5 92 (11.39%) Azure
6 76 (9.41%) Amazon ECS
7 72 (8.91%) Amazon EC2
7 72 (8.91%) Amazon EKS
8 36 (4.46%) Power Platform
9 11 (1.36%) Amazon SQS
9 11 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (1.36%) AWS Step Functions
9 11 (1.36%) Serverless
10 7 (0.87%) Amazon S3
11 6 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (0.50%) Power Automate
13 2 (0.25%) Azure AKS
13 2 (0.25%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (0.25%) Entra ID
14 1 (0.12%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 522 (64.60%) Apache Arrow
1 522 (64.60%) Dremio
2 495 (61.26%) Data Lake
3 486 (60.15%) Amazon Athena
4 477 (59.03%) Apache Ignite
5 36 (4.46%) Power BI
5 36 (4.46%) Tableau
6 29 (3.59%) Big Data
7 7 (0.87%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.50%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.37%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.37%) Redis
9 3 (0.37%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.25%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 20 (2.48%) JIRA
2 7 (0.87%) Git
3 2 (0.25%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.12%) GDB
4 1 (0.12%) JUnit
4 1 (0.12%) Maven
4 1 (0.12%) Mockito
4 1 (0.12%) Selenium
4 1 (0.12%) TestComplete
General
1 755 (93.44%) Finance
2 707 (87.50%) Front Office
3 605 (74.88%) Banking
4 584 (72.28%) Investment Banking
5 60 (7.43%) Social Skills
6 50 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
7 44 (5.45%) Back Office
8 34 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 34 (4.21%) Law
9 26 (3.22%) Legal
10 12 (1.49%) Advertising
11 7 (0.87%) Prime Brokerage
12 6 (0.74%) Marketing
12 6 (0.74%) Publishing
13 3 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.25%) Dutch Language
14 2 (0.25%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.25%) Retail
15 1 (0.12%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 351 (43.44%) Software Engineer
2 233 (28.84%) Senior
3 215 (26.61%) Lead
4 204 (25.25%) Developer
5 193 (23.89%) AWS Engineer
5 193 (23.89%) AWS Software Engineer
6 191 (23.64%) Senior Software Engineer
7 188 (23.27%) Python Engineer
8 187 (23.14%) Python Software Engineer
9 179 (22.15%) Java Engineer
9 179 (22.15%) Java Software Engineer
10 177 (21.91%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 122 (15.10%) Analyst
12 113 (13.99%) Team Leader
13 111 (13.74%) Software Developer
14 109 (13.49%) Architect
14 109 (13.49%) Solutions Architect
15 107 (13.24%) Lead Developer
15 107 (13.24%) Software Team Leader
16 106 (13.12%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 492 (60.89%) gRPC
1 492 (60.89%) Protocol Buffers
2 484 (59.90%) Pandas
3 475 (58.79%) NumPy
3 475 (58.79%) SciPy
4 89 (11.01%) React
5 87 (10.77%) .NET
6 72 (8.91%) PySpark
7 68 (8.42%) AngularJS
8 61 (7.55%) Redux
9 60 (7.43%) Vue
10 50 (6.19%) .NET Core
11 26 (3.22%) ASP.NET
12 22 (2.72%) ASP.NET Core
13 14 (1.73%) FIX Protocol
14 12 (1.49%) .NET Framework
15 9 (1.11%) REST
16 8 (0.99%) Material-UI
17 7 (0.87%) Unity DI Container
18 6 (0.74%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 673 (83.29%) Equities
2 669 (82.80%) Fixed Income
3 664 (82.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 664 (82.18%) Hedge funds
4 98 (12.13%) Product Ownership
5 72 (8.91%) Pricing Data
6 17 (2.10%) Credit Risk
6 17 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (1.73%) Equity Derivative
8 11 (1.36%) Legacy Applications
9 10 (1.24%) Credit Derivative
9 10 (1.24%) OTC Derivatives
10 8 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (0.99%) Reference Data
11 7 (0.87%) Blog
11 7 (0.87%) N-Tier
11 7 (0.87%) Onboarding
11 7 (0.87%) Private Cloud
12 4 (0.50%) Cloud Native
12 4 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.73%) Windows
2 10 (1.24%) Linux
3 7 (0.87%) Unix
4 2 (0.25%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 691 (85.52%) Agile
2 666 (82.43%) Asset Management
3 572 (70.79%) Software Engineering
4 492 (60.89%) Investment Management
5 205 (25.37%) Line Management
6 175 (21.66%) Greeks
7 102 (12.62%) Analytics
8 77 (9.53%) Fintech
9 74 (9.16%) Migration
10 64 (7.92%) Business Analysis
11 61 (7.55%) Machine Learning
12 59 (7.30%) Artificial Intelligence
13 53 (6.56%) Roadmaps
14 48 (5.94%) TDD
15 45 (5.57%) DevOps
16 38 (4.70%) Problem-Solving
17 36 (4.46%) Full Stack Development
18 35 (4.33%) Business Intelligence
19 34 (4.21%) Mentoring
19 34 (4.21%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 661 (81.81%) Python
2 571 (70.67%) JavaScript
3 565 (69.93%) TypeScript
4 501 (62.00%) Java
5 233 (28.84%) SQL
6 93 (11.51%) C#
7 13 (1.61%) PowerShell
8 12 (1.49%) Ruby
8 12 (1.49%) Scala
9 9 (1.11%) R
10 7 (0.87%) VBA
11 4 (0.50%) C++
12 3 (0.37%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.12%) Go
Qualifications
1 29 (3.59%) Degree
2 5 (0.62%) ACCA
2 5 (0.62%) CIMA
3 3 (0.37%) ISEB
3 3 (0.37%) ISTQB
3 3 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (0.25%) CCAB
4 2 (0.25%) CISA
4 2 (0.25%) CISM
4 2 (0.25%) CISSP
4 2 (0.25%) IIBA
4 2 (0.25%) QiCA
5 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (22.40%) Data Quality
2 47 (5.82%) QA
3 13 (1.61%) MiFID
4 4 (0.50%) EMIR
5 2 (0.25%) COBIT
5 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.25%) ITGC
5 2 (0.25%) PMO
6 1 (0.12%) SOC 1
6 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (0.74%) Docker
2 2 (0.25%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (0.99%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.37%) Control-M
3 2 (0.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 121 (14.98%) Bloomberg
2 64 (7.92%) Reuters
3 35 (4.33%) BISAM
4 10 (1.24%) Oracle
5 5 (0.62%) Microsoft
5 5 (0.62%) Sophis
6 3 (0.37%) Cadence
6 3 (0.37%) Trayport
7 2 (0.25%) Cisco
7 2 (0.25%) Citrix
7 2 (0.25%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.25%) VMware
8 1 (0.12%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.12%) Solace
8 1 (0.12%) Sun
8 1 (0.12%) Tradeweb