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 have cited Derivative over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 399 361 466
Rank change year-on-year -38 +105 -191
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 372 1,136 846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.70% 0.92% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.91% 2.15% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 343 905 719
10th Percentile £66,500 £65,000 £67,400
25th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £105,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £141,250 £132,500 £130,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £143,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £48,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +35.42% -28.89% +3.85%

All Generic Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 19,511 52,884 56,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.83% 43.05% 44.00%
Number of salaries quoted 14,245 29,698 33,809
10th Percentile £33,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.47% +7.92% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £106,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

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 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Derivative in the UK

Derivative
Top 8 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 7 December 2023. 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 0 362 £110,000 +4.76% 181
London +12 360 £110,000 +4.76% 164
Work from Home +24 159 £105,000 +5.00% 65
UK excluding London +97 4 £65,000 +35.42% 22
Northern Ireland -41 2 £70,000 +7.69% 1
Midlands +113 1 £57,500 +51.32% 2
East Midlands - 1 £57,500 -
Scotland - 1 £65,000 - 1

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 38 (10.22%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (8.87%) Apache
3 10 (2.69%) Confluence
4 1 (0.27%) Gunicorn
4 1 (0.27%) nginx
4 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.27%) uWSGI
4 1 (0.27%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Endur
1 1 (0.27%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.27%) Oracle FAH
1 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (0.27%) Salerio
1 1 (0.27%) Softmar
Cloud Services
1 176 (47.31%) AWS
2 138 (37.10%) Azure
3 132 (35.48%) GCP
4 26 (6.99%) OpenShift
5 10 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (2.42%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (1.61%) GitHub
8 4 (1.08%) Cloudflare
9 3 (0.81%) AWS KMS
9 3 (0.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (0.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (0.54%) dbt
10 2 (0.54%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.54%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.54%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.54%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.27%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.27%) SaaS
11 1 (0.27%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 1 (0.27%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.08%) Wireshark
2 3 (0.81%) Network Security
3 2 (0.54%) Firewall
4 1 (0.27%) BGP
4 1 (0.27%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.27%) DHCP
4 1 (0.27%) DNS
4 1 (0.27%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.27%) FTP
4 1 (0.27%) Internet
4 1 (0.27%) IOS XR
4 1 (0.27%) OSPF
4 1 (0.27%) PBX
4 1 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.27%) VoIP
4 1 (0.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.91%) Apache Ignite
2 21 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (3.76%) Amazon Athena
4 12 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (2.96%) SQL Server
6 10 (2.69%) Relational Database
7 9 (2.42%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.54%) Apache Arrow
9 2 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.54%) Dremio
9 2 (0.54%) MySQL
9 2 (0.54%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.27%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.27%) Big Data
10 1 (0.27%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.27%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.27%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 26 (6.99%) Artifactory
1 26 (6.99%) Bitbucket
2 25 (6.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 13 (3.49%) JIRA
4 8 (2.15%) Cypress.io
5 5 (1.34%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (1.08%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.81%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.27%) GitLab
8 1 (0.27%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.27%) webpack
General
1 312 (83.87%) Finance
2 255 (68.55%) Front Office
3 82 (22.04%) Banking
4 51 (13.71%) Social Skills
5 29 (7.80%) Back Office
6 27 (7.26%) Financial Institution
7 18 (4.84%) Investment Banking
8 12 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (2.96%) Legal
10 8 (2.15%) Retail
11 4 (1.08%) Advertising
12 3 (0.81%) Prime Brokerage
13 2 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.27%) Aviation
14 1 (0.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.27%) Law
14 1 (0.27%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.27%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 215 (57.80%) Developer
2 136 (36.56%) Software Engineer
3 132 (35.48%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 91 (24.46%) .NET Developer
5 78 (20.97%) .NET Software Engineer
6 77 (20.70%) .NET Software Developer
6 77 (20.70%) Analyst
7 58 (15.59%) Finance Manager
8 54 (14.52%) Business Analyst
9 53 (14.25%) Python Developer
10 52 (13.98%) Senior
11 49 (13.17%) Java Developer
12 42 (11.29%) Python Engineer
13 40 (10.75%) Software Asset Manager
13 40 (10.75%) Software Manager
14 38 (10.22%) Full Stack Developer
15 37 (9.95%) Python Software Engineer
16 36 (9.68%) Senior Developer
17 35 (9.41%) React Developer
18 34 (9.14%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (39.25%) React
2 101 (27.15%) .NET
3 98 (26.34%) Redux
4 96 (25.81%) AngularJS
5 84 (22.58%) Vue
6 82 (22.04%) ASP.NET
7 79 (21.24%) ASP.NET Core
8 33 (8.87%) Kafka
9 28 (7.53%) OpenFin
10 26 (6.99%) gRPC
10 26 (6.99%) Protocol Buffers
11 20 (5.38%) J2SE
12 18 (4.84%) Material-UI
13 14 (3.76%) .NET Core
14 12 (3.23%) Node.js
15 11 (2.96%) Pandas
16 10 (2.69%) Middleware
17 9 (2.42%) FIX Protocol
18 5 (1.34%) .NET Framework
18 5 (1.34%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 180 (48.39%) Fixed Income
2 171 (45.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 163 (43.82%) Hedge funds
4 158 (42.47%) Equities
5 39 (10.48%) Product Ownership
6 23 (6.18%) Management Information System
7 16 (4.30%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (3.76%) Equity Derivative
9 13 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (2.96%) Market Risk
11 9 (2.42%) Credit Derivative
11 9 (2.42%) Onboarding
11 9 (2.42%) Reference Data
12 8 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.61%) Algorithms
14 5 (1.34%) Interest Rate Derivative
15 4 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
15 4 (1.08%) Data Structures
16 3 (0.81%) Data Centre
16 3 (0.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.45%) Apple iOS
2 18 (4.84%) Linux
3 8 (2.15%) Windows
4 3 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.81%) Unix
4 3 (0.81%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.54%) Android
5 2 (0.54%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.27%) CentOS
6 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (57.53%) Agile
2 213 (57.26%) Asset Management
3 177 (47.58%) Software Engineering
4 152 (40.86%) Investment Management
5 119 (31.99%) DevOps
6 95 (25.54%) TDD
7 94 (25.27%) Fintech
8 93 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
9 57 (15.32%) Analytics
10 46 (12.37%) Microservices
11 39 (10.48%) Artificial Intelligence
11 39 (10.48%) Machine Learning
12 38 (10.22%) Mathematics
13 37 (9.95%) Roadmaps
14 36 (9.68%) Order Management
15 28 (7.53%) Portfolio Management
16 25 (6.72%) Mentoring
17 24 (6.45%) Market Making
18 23 (6.18%) Risk Management
19 17 (4.57%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 142 (38.17%) TypeScript
2 121 (32.53%) C#
3 110 (29.57%) Python
4 93 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 74 (19.89%) Java
6 65 (17.47%) SQL
7 26 (6.99%) C++
8 11 (2.96%) R
9 7 (1.88%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.08%) VBA
11 3 (0.81%) Bash
11 3 (0.81%) Ruby
12 1 (0.27%) C
12 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.27%) VC++
12 1 (0.27%) XPath
Qualifications
1 22 (5.91%) Degree
2 5 (1.34%) Master's Degree
3 3 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.54%) PhD
5 1 (0.27%) CCNA
5 1 (0.27%) CFA
5 1 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (21.51%) QA
2 4 (1.08%) PMO
2 4 (1.08%) SLA
3 3 (0.81%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.81%) EMIR
3 3 (0.81%) MiFID
4 2 (0.54%) Dodd-Frank
4 2 (0.54%) GDPR
4 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.54%) NIST
5 1 (0.27%) COREP
5 1 (0.27%) IFRS
5 1 (0.27%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.27%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 23 (6.18%) Docker
2 2 (0.54%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (8.06%) Kubernetes
1 30 (8.06%) Terraform
2 27 (7.26%) Ansible
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.27%) Nagios
3 1 (0.27%) Opsgenie
3 1 (0.27%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (6.45%) Finsemble
2 17 (4.57%) Oracle
3 13 (3.49%) Bloomberg
4 8 (2.15%) Google
5 6 (1.61%) Calypso
6 5 (1.34%) Confluent
6 5 (1.34%) Microsoft
6 5 (1.34%) Splunk
7 4 (1.08%) Murex
8 3 (0.81%) VMware
9 2 (0.54%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.54%) IBM
9 2 (0.54%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.54%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.27%) FXall
10 1 (0.27%) ION Trading
10 1 (0.27%) Mitel
10 1 (0.27%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.27%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.27%) Trayport