Derivative Job Trends

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 18 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 328 393
Rank change year-on-year -192 +65 +1
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 130 437 400
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.82% 0.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.63% 2.21% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 106 389 369
10th Percentile £74,375 £77,500 £66,250
25th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £115,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £135,000 £147,500 £138,750
90th Percentile £143,750 £152,500 £150,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £52,500 £44,750
% change year-on-year +33.33% +17.32% -6.77%

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 20,690 19,812 21,671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.91% 37.17% 36.49%
Number of salaries quoted 10,375 9,263 15,809
10th Percentile £27,840 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -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 18 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Derivative in the UK

Derivative
Top 10 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 18 January 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 -179 128 £110,000 -4.35% 34
London -127 121 £110,000 -4.35% 23
Work from Home -119 42 £130,000 +13.04% 13
UK excluding London +47 5 £70,000 +33.33% 15
North of England +16 3 £65,000 +30.00% 2
North East +3 2 £65,000 +30.00%
Midlands +25 1 £70,000 -
West Midlands +24 1 £70,000 -
North West +14 1 - - 2
South West +6 1 £90,000 +73.91% 1

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 25 (19.23%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (18.46%) Apache
3 3 (2.31%) SAS
4 2 (1.54%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.77%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (6.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.31%) Stata
3 1 (0.77%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 3 (2.31%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.54%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (23.08%) AWS
2 28 (21.54%) Snowflake
3 24 (18.46%) dbt
4 10 (7.69%) GitHub
5 8 (6.15%) Power Platform
6 6 (4.62%) Azure
7 2 (1.54%) Azure Batch
7 2 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.54%) SaaS
8 1 (0.77%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.77%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.77%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.77%) GCP
8 1 (0.77%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.77%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.77%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 25 (19.23%) Multicast
2 1 (0.77%) DNS
2 1 (0.77%) Firewall
2 1 (0.77%) Modbus
2 1 (0.77%) RS-485
2 1 (0.77%) VLAN
2 1 (0.77%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (18.46%) Amazon Athena
1 24 (18.46%) Apache Arrow
1 24 (18.46%) Apache Iceberg
1 24 (18.46%) Apache Ignite
1 24 (18.46%) Data Lake
1 24 (18.46%) Dremio
2 11 (8.46%) Relational Database
2 11 (8.46%) SQL Server
3 8 (6.15%) Power BI
4 4 (3.08%) KDB
4 4 (3.08%) Tableau
5 3 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.54%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.77%) Metadata
7 1 (0.77%) MySQL
7 1 (0.77%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.77%) Parquet
7 1 (0.77%) Tick Data
7 1 (0.77%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 15 (11.54%) JIRA
2 13 (10.00%) Git
3 4 (3.08%) Selenium
4 2 (1.54%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.54%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.77%) GitLab
5 1 (0.77%) Postman
5 1 (0.77%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.77%) Visual Studio
General
1 101 (77.69%) Finance
2 69 (53.08%) Front Office
3 66 (50.77%) Banking
4 38 (29.23%) Investment Banking
5 24 (18.46%) Social Skills
6 14 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (6.92%) Marketing
8 8 (6.15%) Financial Institution
9 5 (3.85%) Back Office
10 3 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.54%) Legal
11 2 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.77%) Advertising
12 1 (0.77%) Brand Awareness
12 1 (0.77%) Electronics
12 1 (0.77%) French Language
12 1 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (36.92%) Senior
2 41 (31.54%) Software Engineer
3 39 (30.00%) Developer
4 37 (28.46%) Python Engineer
4 37 (28.46%) Python Software Engineer
5 36 (27.69%) Senior Software Engineer
6 28 (21.54%) Java Engineer
7 26 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
8 24 (18.46%) AWS Engineer
8 24 (18.46%) AWS Software Engineer
9 22 (16.92%) Senior Java Engineer
9 22 (16.92%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 17 (13.08%) Analyst
10 17 (13.08%) C++ Developer
11 13 (10.00%) C++ Software Engineer
11 13 (10.00%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
12 12 (9.23%) Quantitative Developer
13 11 (8.46%) C# Developer
14 7 (5.38%) Business Analyst
14 7 (5.38%) C# Quant Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (29.23%) FIX Protocol
2 26 (20.00%) Pandas
3 24 (18.46%) gRPC
3 24 (18.46%) NumPy
3 24 (18.46%) Protocol Buffers
3 24 (18.46%) SciPy
4 14 (10.77%) pytest
5 13 (10.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 10 (7.69%) .NET
7 6 (4.62%) Java Concurrency
7 6 (4.62%) Kafka
7 6 (4.62%) React
8 4 (3.08%) CSS
8 4 (3.08%) HTML
8 4 (3.08%) Playwright
9 3 (2.31%) REST
10 2 (1.54%) .NET Core
10 2 (1.54%) GraphQL
10 2 (1.54%) PySpark
10 2 (1.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 62 (47.69%) Equities
2 54 (41.54%) Fixed Income
3 43 (33.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 27 (20.77%) Hedge funds
5 26 (20.00%) Pricing Data
6 24 (18.46%) Algorithms
7 8 (6.15%) Credit Risk
7 8 (6.15%) Equity Derivative
8 7 (5.38%) Cloud Native
8 7 (5.38%) OTC Derivatives
9 4 (3.08%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (3.08%) Data Structures
10 3 (2.31%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (2.31%) Grid Computing
10 3 (2.31%) Interest Rate Derivative
10 3 (2.31%) Market Risk
11 2 (1.54%) ASIC
11 2 (1.54%) Credit Derivative
11 2 (1.54%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 43 (33.08%) Linux
2 12 (9.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (7.69%) Windows
4 1 (0.77%) Debian
4 1 (0.77%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (41.54%) Agile
2 47 (36.15%) Software Engineering
3 37 (28.46%) Low Latency
4 30 (23.08%) Mathematics
5 29 (22.31%) Computer Science
6 28 (21.54%) Asset Management
7 26 (20.00%) Investment Management
8 21 (16.15%) Analytics
9 16 (12.31%) OOP
9 16 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (12.31%) Unit Testing
9 16 (12.31%) Workflow
10 15 (11.54%) SDLC
11 14 (10.77%) Continuous Integration
11 14 (10.77%) Data Analysis
11 14 (10.77%) Process Improvement
11 14 (10.77%) Technical Leadership
12 12 (9.23%) Concurrent Programming
12 12 (9.23%) SOA
12 12 (9.23%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 78 (60.00%) Python
2 49 (37.69%) Java
3 38 (29.23%) C++
4 31 (23.85%) JavaScript
5 30 (23.08%) TypeScript
6 22 (16.92%) SQL
7 18 (13.85%) C#
8 4 (3.08%) R
8 4 (3.08%) VBA
9 3 (2.31%) MATLAB
9 3 (2.31%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.54%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.77%) Bash
11 1 (0.77%) F#
11 1 (0.77%) Haskell
11 1 (0.77%) OCaml
11 1 (0.77%) Scala
Qualifications
1 26 (20.00%) Degree
2 8 (6.15%) Master's Degree
3 7 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.08%) CFA
4 4 (3.08%) ISEB
4 4 (3.08%) ISTQB
4 4 (3.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (2.31%) PhD
6 2 (1.54%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.77%) CISM
7 1 (0.77%) CISSP
7 1 (0.77%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (17.69%) QA
2 5 (3.85%) MiFID
3 3 (2.31%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.54%) COREP
4 2 (1.54%) EMIR
4 2 (1.54%) PMO
5 1 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.77%) Basel III
5 1 (0.77%) FINRA
5 1 (0.77%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.77%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (2.31%) Docker
2 1 (0.77%) iptables
2 1 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (1.54%) Ansible
1 2 (1.54%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (9.23%) Red Hat
2 8 (6.15%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.31%) Databricks
4 2 (1.54%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.54%) Murex
5 1 (0.77%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.77%) Charles River
5 1 (0.77%) Cisco
5 1 (0.77%) FactSet
5 1 (0.77%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.77%) Google
5 1 (0.77%) MikroTik
5 1 (0.77%) ServiceNow