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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 541 344 456
Rank change year-on-year -197 +112 -33
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 116 414 386
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.80% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.55% 2.15% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 94 366 357
10th Percentile £72,875 £77,500 £66,250
25th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £83,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,000 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% +9.52% +3.70%
75th Percentile £135,000 £147,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £144,250 £152,500 £153,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £52,500 £44,750
% change year-on-year +33.33% +17.32% -25.42%

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 21,047 19,277 25,718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.98% 37.17% 36.23%
Number of salaries quoted 10,570 8,899 18,968
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +6.09% -11.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -9.09%

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 February 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 1 February 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 -181 114 £109,500 -4.78% 50
London -140 107 £110,000 -4.35% 49
Work from Home -145 32 £130,000 +13.04% 22
UK excluding London +4 5 £70,000 +33.33% 7
North of England -1 3 £65,000 +30.00% 2
North East 0 2 £65,000 +30.00%
West Midlands +28 1 £70,000 -
North West +26 1 - - 2
Midlands +11 1 £70,000 -
South West +2 1 £90,000 +73.91%

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 16 (13.79%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (12.93%) Apache
3 2 (1.72%) SAS
3 2 (1.72%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.86%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (6.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.72%) Stata
4 1 (0.86%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 3 (2.59%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.72%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (18.10%) AWS
2 19 (16.38%) Snowflake
3 15 (12.93%) dbt
4 11 (9.48%) GitHub
5 8 (6.90%) Power Platform
6 5 (4.31%) Azure
7 2 (1.72%) Azure Batch
7 2 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.72%) SaaS
8 1 (0.86%) GCP
8 1 (0.86%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 24 (20.69%) Multicast
2 1 (0.86%) Firewall
2 1 (0.86%) Modbus
2 1 (0.86%) RS-485
2 1 (0.86%) VLAN
2 1 (0.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.93%) Amazon Athena
1 15 (12.93%) Apache Arrow
1 15 (12.93%) Apache Iceberg
1 15 (12.93%) Apache Ignite
1 15 (12.93%) Data Lake
1 15 (12.93%) Dremio
2 10 (8.62%) Relational Database
2 10 (8.62%) SQL Server
3 8 (6.90%) Power BI
4 4 (3.45%) Tableau
5 3 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.59%) KDB
6 2 (1.72%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.86%) Metadata
7 1 (0.86%) MySQL
7 1 (0.86%) Parquet
7 1 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.86%) Tick Data
7 1 (0.86%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 14 (12.07%) JIRA
2 13 (11.21%) Git
3 4 (3.45%) Selenium
4 2 (1.72%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.86%) GitLab
5 1 (0.86%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.86%) Postman
5 1 (0.86%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.86%) Visual Studio
General
1 89 (76.72%) Finance
2 60 (51.72%) Front Office
3 56 (48.28%) Banking
4 29 (25.00%) Investment Banking
5 24 (20.69%) Social Skills
6 15 (12.93%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (6.90%) Marketing
8 6 (5.17%) Financial Institution
9 5 (4.31%) Back Office
10 3 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.72%) Legal
11 2 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.86%) Advertising
12 1 (0.86%) Brand Awareness
12 1 (0.86%) Electronics
12 1 (0.86%) French Language
12 1 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (31.90%) Developer
1 37 (31.90%) Senior
2 31 (26.72%) Software Engineer
3 27 (23.28%) Python Engineer
3 27 (23.28%) Python Software Engineer
4 26 (22.41%) Senior Software Engineer
5 19 (16.38%) Java Engineer
6 18 (15.52%) Analyst
7 17 (14.66%) C++ Developer
7 17 (14.66%) Java Software Engineer
8 15 (12.93%) AWS Engineer
8 15 (12.93%) AWS Software Engineer
9 13 (11.21%) Senior Java Engineer
9 13 (11.21%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 12 (10.34%) C++ Software Engineer
10 12 (10.34%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 11 (9.48%) Quantitative Developer
12 10 (8.62%) C# Developer
13 8 (6.90%) Business Analyst
14 7 (6.03%) C# Quant Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (31.90%) FIX Protocol
2 17 (14.66%) Pandas
3 15 (12.93%) gRPC
3 15 (12.93%) NumPy
3 15 (12.93%) Protocol Buffers
3 15 (12.93%) SciPy
4 13 (11.21%) pytest
5 12 (10.34%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 9 (7.76%) .NET
7 7 (6.03%) React
8 6 (5.17%) Java Concurrency
8 6 (5.17%) Kafka
9 4 (3.45%) CSS
9 4 (3.45%) HTML
9 4 (3.45%) Playwright
10 3 (2.59%) REST
11 2 (1.72%) .NET Core
11 2 (1.72%) AngularJS
11 2 (1.72%) GraphQL
11 2 (1.72%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 49 (42.24%) Equities
2 45 (38.79%) Fixed Income
3 34 (29.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 22 (18.97%) Algorithms
5 17 (14.66%) Hedge funds
5 17 (14.66%) Pricing Data
6 9 (7.76%) OTC Derivatives
7 7 (6.03%) Credit Risk
7 7 (6.03%) Equity Derivative
8 6 (5.17%) Cloud Native
9 4 (3.45%) Data Structures
10 3 (2.59%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (2.59%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (2.59%) Grid Computing
10 3 (2.59%) Interest Rate Derivative
10 3 (2.59%) Market Risk
11 2 (1.72%) ASIC
11 2 (1.72%) Credit Derivative
11 2 (1.72%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 40 (34.48%) Linux
2 12 (10.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (7.76%) Windows
4 1 (0.86%) Debian
4 1 (0.86%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (37.07%) Agile
2 38 (32.76%) Software Engineering
3 35 (30.17%) Low Latency
4 28 (24.14%) Mathematics
5 26 (22.41%) Computer Science
6 23 (19.83%) Analytics
7 19 (16.38%) Asset Management
8 18 (15.52%) Investment Management
9 16 (13.79%) Unit Testing
10 15 (12.93%) OOP
10 15 (12.93%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (12.93%) Workflow
11 14 (12.07%) Data Analysis
12 13 (11.21%) Continuous Integration
12 13 (11.21%) Process Improvement
12 13 (11.21%) SDLC
12 13 (11.21%) Technical Leadership
13 12 (10.34%) Concurrent Programming
13 12 (10.34%) SOA
13 12 (10.34%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 67 (57.76%) Python
2 39 (33.62%) Java
3 36 (31.03%) C++
4 22 (18.97%) JavaScript
4 22 (18.97%) TypeScript
5 21 (18.10%) SQL
6 18 (15.52%) C#
7 3 (2.59%) R
7 3 (2.59%) VBA
8 2 (1.72%) MATLAB
8 2 (1.72%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.72%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.86%) Bash
Qualifications
1 26 (22.41%) Degree
2 7 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (5.17%) Master's Degree
4 4 (3.45%) ISEB
4 4 (3.45%) ISTQB
4 4 (3.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (2.59%) CFA
6 2 (1.72%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (1.72%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (18.97%) QA
2 7 (6.03%) MiFID
3 3 (2.59%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (2.59%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.72%) COREP
4 2 (1.72%) EMIR
4 2 (1.72%) PMO
5 1 (0.86%) Basel III
5 1 (0.86%) FINRA
System Software
1 3 (2.59%) Docker
2 1 (0.86%) iptables
Systems Management
1 2 (1.72%) Ansible
2 1 (0.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (10.34%) Red Hat
2 8 (6.90%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.59%) Databricks
4 2 (1.72%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.72%) Murex
5 1 (0.86%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.86%) Charles River
5 1 (0.86%) Cisco
5 1 (0.86%) FactSet
5 1 (0.86%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.86%) Google
5 1 (0.86%) MikroTik
5 1 (0.86%) ServiceNow