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 2 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 458 284 375
Rank change year-on-year -174 +91 -17
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 187 636 384
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 1.00% 0.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.00% 2.87% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 136 569 356
10th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £83,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £135,000 £147,500 £138,750
90th Percentile £148,750 £152,500 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +45.45% -15.38% +35.42%

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 18,704 22,197 19,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.47% 34.73% 38.18%
Number of salaries quoted 10,508 10,874 14,559
10th Percentile £27,707 £33,750 £33,426
25th Percentile £36,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,218 £84,056
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £106,531
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -1.82% -

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 2 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Derivative in the UK

Derivative
Top 11 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 2 December 2025. 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 -172 180 £115,000 - 61
London -130 172 £115,000 - 56
Work from Home -145 75 £130,000 +13.04% 32
UK excluding London +72 9 £80,000 +45.45% 28
Scotland +13 4 - -
North of England +40 3 - - 3
North West +47 2 - - 2
West Midlands +45 1 £70,000 -
Midlands +42 1 £70,000 -
South West +19 1 £90,000 +73.91% 1
North East +12 1 - - 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 54 (28.88%) Apache Airflow
2 53 (28.34%) Apache
3 3 (1.60%) Confluence
3 3 (1.60%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.60%) SAS
4 2 (1.07%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (1.07%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.60%) Stata
4 1 (0.53%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Aladdin
1 3 (1.60%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 70 (37.43%) AWS
2 57 (30.48%) Snowflake
3 53 (28.34%) dbt
4 8 (4.28%) Azure
4 8 (4.28%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.67%) GitHub
6 4 (2.14%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.07%) Azure Batch
7 2 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon MSK
8 1 (0.53%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.53%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.53%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.53%) GCP
8 1 (0.53%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.23%) Multicast
2 1 (0.53%) DNS
2 1 (0.53%) Firewall
2 1 (0.53%) Modbus
2 1 (0.53%) RS-485
2 1 (0.53%) SSL
2 1 (0.53%) VLAN
2 1 (0.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (29.41%) Amazon Athena
2 53 (28.34%) Apache Arrow
2 53 (28.34%) Apache Iceberg
2 53 (28.34%) Apache Ignite
2 53 (28.34%) Data Lake
2 53 (28.34%) Dremio
3 11 (5.88%) Relational Database
4 10 (5.35%) KDB
4 10 (5.35%) SQL Server
5 8 (4.28%) Power BI
6 6 (3.21%) Kdb+
6 6 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.67%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.14%) Big Data
8 4 (2.14%) Tableau
9 3 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.07%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.53%) MySQL
11 1 (0.53%) Tick Data
11 1 (0.53%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 17 (9.09%) JIRA
2 11 (5.88%) Git
3 4 (2.14%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.14%) Selenium
4 2 (1.07%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.07%) Maven
4 2 (1.07%) Vite
5 1 (0.53%) GitLab
5 1 (0.53%) Postman
5 1 (0.53%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 158 (84.49%) Finance
2 114 (60.96%) Banking
3 111 (59.36%) Front Office
4 77 (41.18%) Investment Banking
5 41 (21.93%) Social Skills
6 21 (11.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (10.70%) Law
8 15 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (3.74%) Marketing
10 6 (3.21%) Back Office
10 6 (3.21%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.60%) Legal
12 2 (1.07%) Prime Brokerage
13 1 (0.53%) Advertising
13 1 (0.53%) Electronics
13 1 (0.53%) French Language
13 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.53%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 87 (46.52%) Senior
2 81 (43.32%) Software Engineer
3 71 (37.97%) Python Engineer
3 71 (37.97%) Python Software Engineer
4 70 (37.43%) Senior Software Engineer
5 66 (35.29%) Java Engineer
6 62 (33.16%) Java Software Engineer
7 57 (30.48%) AWS Engineer
7 57 (30.48%) AWS Software Engineer
8 56 (29.95%) Senior Java Engineer
9 54 (28.88%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 39 (20.86%) Developer
11 24 (12.83%) Analyst
12 21 (11.23%) Lead
13 17 (9.09%) C++ Developer
14 16 (8.56%) Business Analyst
15 11 (5.88%) Lead Software Engineer
16 10 (5.35%) C++ Software Engineer
16 10 (5.35%) Project Manager
16 10 (5.35%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (31.55%) Pandas
2 53 (28.34%) gRPC
2 53 (28.34%) NumPy
2 53 (28.34%) Protocol Buffers
2 53 (28.34%) SciPy
3 36 (19.25%) FIX Protocol
4 11 (5.88%) .NET
4 11 (5.88%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 11 (5.88%) pytest
4 11 (5.88%) React
5 7 (3.74%) Spring
6 6 (3.21%) Kafka
6 6 (3.21%) Web Services
7 4 (2.14%) AngularJS
7 4 (2.14%) CSS
7 4 (2.14%) HTML
7 4 (2.14%) Java Concurrency
7 4 (2.14%) Playwright
8 3 (1.60%) REST
9 2 (1.07%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 100 (53.48%) Equities
2 86 (45.99%) Fixed Income
3 74 (39.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 64 (34.22%) Hedge funds
5 55 (29.41%) Pricing Data
6 24 (12.83%) Algorithms
7 13 (6.95%) Equity Derivative
8 9 (4.81%) Cloud Native
8 9 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (3.21%) Credit Risk
10 4 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (2.14%) Data Structures
10 4 (2.14%) Management Information System
10 4 (2.14%) OTC Derivatives
11 3 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.60%) Grid Computing
11 3 (1.60%) Interest Rate Derivative
12 2 (1.07%) Market Risk
12 2 (1.07%) Virtual Team
12 2 (1.07%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 44 (23.53%) Linux
2 11 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (4.81%) Windows
4 1 (0.53%) Debian
4 1 (0.53%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (56.68%) Agile
2 88 (47.06%) Software Engineering
3 57 (30.48%) Asset Management
3 57 (30.48%) Investment Management
4 36 (19.25%) Low Latency
5 35 (18.72%) Mathematics
6 33 (17.65%) Computer Science
7 27 (14.44%) SDLC
8 22 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (9.63%) Analytics
9 18 (9.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (9.63%) Operational Stability
10 16 (8.56%) Workflow
11 15 (8.02%) CI/CD
11 15 (8.02%) Data Analysis
12 14 (7.49%) Continuous Integration
12 14 (7.49%) Unit Testing
13 13 (6.95%) OOP
14 12 (6.42%) AI
14 12 (6.42%) OO
Programming Languages
1 117 (62.57%) Python
2 91 (48.66%) Java
3 62 (33.16%) TypeScript
4 59 (31.55%) JavaScript
5 39 (20.86%) SQL
6 35 (18.72%) C++
7 17 (9.09%) C#
8 8 (4.28%) Scala
9 4 (2.14%) F#
9 4 (2.14%) Haskell
9 4 (2.14%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.14%) OCaml
10 3 (1.60%) MATLAB
10 3 (1.60%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.60%) R
10 3 (1.60%) VBA
11 2 (1.07%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.07%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.53%) Bash
Qualifications
1 30 (16.04%) Degree
2 13 (6.95%) Master's Degree
3 7 (3.74%) PhD
4 5 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.14%) ISEB
5 4 (2.14%) ISTQB
5 4 (2.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (1.60%) CFA
7 2 (1.07%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.53%) CISM
8 1 (0.53%) CISSP
8 1 (0.53%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.70%) QA
2 3 (1.60%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.60%) PMO
3 2 (1.07%) COREP
3 2 (1.07%) ITGC
3 2 (1.07%) MiFID
4 1 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.53%) FINRA
4 1 (0.53%) GDPR
4 1 (0.53%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.53%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (3.74%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) iptables
2 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.21%) Terraform
3 2 (1.07%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (5.88%) Red Hat
2 8 (4.28%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.14%) Databricks
3 4 (2.14%) Oracle
4 2 (1.07%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.07%) Bloomberg
4 2 (1.07%) Murex
4 2 (1.07%) Vertica
5 1 (0.53%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.53%) Calypso
5 1 (0.53%) Charles River
5 1 (0.53%) Cisco
5 1 (0.53%) FactSet
5 1 (0.53%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.53%) Google
5 1 (0.53%) MikroTik
5 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.53%) Solace