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 23 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 664 387 257
Rank change year-on-year -277 -130 +85
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 143 316 802
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.65% 1.06%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.46% 1.57% 3.31%
Number of salaries quoted 96 211 734
10th Percentile £66,250 £87,500 £77,500
25th Percentile £72,188 £96,250 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £113,125 £135,000 £148,750
90th Percentile £130,000 £150,000 £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 30,817 20,183 24,254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.41% 41.21% 32.16%
Number of salaries quoted 19,118 10,123 12,507
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,182 £36,925 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,350 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -263 140 £100,000 -13.04% 330
London -159 134 £100,000 -13.04% 309
Work from Home -172 43 £100,000 -15.97% 101
UK excluding London -161 9 £57,500 -14.81% 60
North of England -66 6 £57,500 - 6
North West -30 5 £57,500 - 6
Scotland +3 2 £50,000 - 12
North East -71 1 - -
Northern Ireland -84 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
1 2 (1.40%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.70%) Apache
2 1 (0.70%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (4.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.80%) 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 9 (6.29%) GitHub
2 8 (5.59%) AWS
2 8 (5.59%) Azure
2 8 (5.59%) Snowflake
3 6 (4.20%) GCP
4 3 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (2.10%) Power Platform
4 3 (2.10%) SaaS
5 1 (0.70%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (0.70%) Azure AKS
5 1 (0.70%) ChatGPT
5 1 (0.70%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (0.70%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.79%) Multicast
2 3 (2.10%) DHCP
2 3 (2.10%) DNS
2 3 (2.10%) 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 8 (5.59%) Git
3 3 (2.10%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.40%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.70%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.70%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.70%) Postman
5 1 (0.70%) Selenium
5 1 (0.70%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.70%) TeamCity
General
1 111 (77.62%) Finance
2 56 (39.16%) Banking
3 43 (30.07%) Social Skills
4 35 (24.48%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (24.48%) Front Office
5 26 (18.18%) Investment Banking
6 20 (13.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (7.69%) Financial Institution
8 10 (6.99%) Law
9 6 (4.20%) Retail
10 5 (3.50%) Manufacturing
10 5 (3.50%) Marketing
11 4 (2.80%) Back Office
11 4 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (2.10%) General Ledger
12 3 (2.10%) Prime Brokerage
13 2 (1.40%) Advertising
13 2 (1.40%) Legal
14 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.70%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 46 (32.17%) Senior
2 37 (25.87%) Analyst
3 32 (22.38%) Business Analyst
4 21 (14.69%) Developer
5 18 (12.59%) Software Engineer
6 14 (9.79%) Python Engineer
6 14 (9.79%) Python Software Engineer
7 13 (9.09%) Senior Developer
7 13 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
8 12 (8.39%) C++ Software Engineer
8 12 (8.39%) Lead
9 10 (6.99%) Derivatives Business Analyst
9 10 (6.99%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
10 9 (6.29%) Qualitative Analyst
10 9 (6.29%) Quantitative Analyst
10 9 (6.29%) Senior Analyst
10 9 (6.29%) Senior Business Analyst
11 8 (5.59%) Commodities Business Analyst
11 8 (5.59%) Risk Analyst
12 7 (4.90%) Market Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (14.69%) FIX Protocol
2 12 (8.39%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 12 (8.39%) pytest
3 8 (5.59%) .NET
4 7 (4.90%) 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%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.70%) Flask
9 1 (0.70%) FpML
9 1 (0.70%) PySpark
9 1 (0.70%) React
Miscellaneous
1 54 (37.76%) Fixed Income
2 49 (34.27%) Equities
3 24 (16.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 14 (9.79%) Equity Derivative
5 13 (9.09%) Algorithms
5 13 (9.09%) Market Risk
6 10 (6.99%) Hedge funds
7 7 (4.90%) Credit Risk
7 7 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (4.90%) Onboarding
8 6 (4.20%) OTC Derivatives
9 5 (3.50%) Virtual Team
10 4 (2.80%) Credit Derivative
10 4 (2.80%) Distributed Applications
10 4 (2.80%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (2.10%) Data Structures
11 3 (2.10%) Exotic Derivative
11 3 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (1.40%) DTCC
12 2 (1.40%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.49%) Linux
2 4 (2.80%) Windows
3 3 (2.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (26.57%) Agile
2 35 (24.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 32 (22.38%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (16.08%) Software Engineering
5 22 (15.38%) Business Analysis
5 22 (15.38%) Mathematics
5 22 (15.38%) SDLC
6 21 (14.69%) Computer Science
6 21 (14.69%) Low Latency
6 21 (14.69%) Technical Leadership
7 20 (13.99%) Mentoring
8 19 (13.29%) Process Improvement
9 18 (12.59%) Analytics
10 17 (11.89%) AI
10 17 (11.89%) Continuous Integration
10 17 (11.89%) Workflow
11 16 (11.19%) Change Management
11 16 (11.19%) Decision-Making
12 15 (10.49%) Risk Management
13 13 (9.09%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 51 (35.66%) Python
2 37 (25.87%) SQL
3 30 (20.98%) C++
4 15 (10.49%) Java
4 15 (10.49%) R
5 9 (6.29%) C#
6 7 (4.90%) VBA
7 4 (2.80%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.40%) Bash
8 2 (1.40%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.70%) C
9 1 (0.70%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.70%) Perl
9 1 (0.70%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (9.09%) Degree
2 6 (4.20%) 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 14 (9.79%) QA
2 7 (4.90%) Basel III
2 7 (4.90%) EMIR
2 7 (4.90%) MiFID
3 5 (3.50%) SLA
4 3 (2.10%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.40%) GAAP
5 2 (1.40%) IFRS
5 2 (1.40%) PMO
6 1 (0.70%) FINREP
6 1 (0.70%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 5 (3.50%) Docker
2 3 (2.10%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (4.20%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.10%) SCCM
3 2 (1.40%) Control-M
4 1 (0.70%) Ansible
4 1 (0.70%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (8.39%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.29%) Bloomberg
3 6 (4.20%) Oracle
4 3 (2.10%) Alteryx
5 2 (1.40%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.40%) Databricks
5 2 (1.40%) Reuters
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