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 10 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 439 282 373
Rank change year-on-year -157 +91 -2
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 226 647 421
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.96% 0.79%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.17% 2.95% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 148 579 395
10th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -
75th Percentile £135,000 £147,500 £137,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £162,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -11.54% +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 19,252 21,932 20,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.56% 32.57% 38.76%
Number of salaries quoted 10,543 10,552 15,536
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £35,854 £45,500 £45,726
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,459 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.90% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £106,289
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 10 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Derivative in the UK

Derivative
Top 12 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 10 November 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 -163 212 £115,000 - 355
London -114 203 £115,000 - 251
Work from Home -158 100 £119,000 +3.48% 157
UK excluding London +74 16 £68,750 +19.57% 230
Scotland +12 8 - - 16
North of England +23 4 - - 6
North West +23 3 - - 1
Northern Ireland -3 2 £67,500 -1.82% 1
Midlands +46 1 £70,000 -
West Midlands +31 1 £70,000 -
South West +26 1 £90,000 +73.91% 5
North East - 1 - - 3

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 62 (27.43%) Apache Airflow
2 61 (26.99%) Apache
3 5 (2.21%) Jupyter
4 4 (1.77%) Cloud Foundry
4 4 (1.77%) Confluence
5 3 (1.33%) SAS
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.33%) Stata
3 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.44%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (3.10%) Aladdin
2 3 (1.33%) thinkFolio
3 1 (0.44%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.44%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 90 (39.82%) AWS
2 65 (28.76%) Snowflake
3 61 (26.99%) dbt
4 9 (3.98%) Azure
5 8 (3.54%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.21%) GitHub
7 4 (1.77%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.33%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (0.88%) Azure Batch
9 2 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.44%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.44%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.44%) GCP
10 1 (0.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.64%) Multicast
2 3 (1.33%) SSL
3 1 (0.44%) DNS
3 1 (0.44%) Firewall
3 1 (0.44%) Modbus
3 1 (0.44%) RS-485
3 1 (0.44%) VLAN
3 1 (0.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (28.76%) Amazon Athena
2 61 (26.99%) Apache Arrow
2 61 (26.99%) Apache Iceberg
2 61 (26.99%) Apache Ignite
2 61 (26.99%) Data Lake
2 61 (26.99%) Dremio
3 16 (7.08%) KDB
4 12 (5.31%) Kdb+
5 10 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (3.98%) NoSQL
6 9 (3.98%) SQL Server
7 8 (3.54%) Big Data
7 8 (3.54%) Power BI
7 8 (3.54%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.77%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.77%) Tableau
9 3 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.88%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.88%) SAP BW
11 1 (0.44%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 15 (6.64%) JIRA
2 12 (5.31%) Git
3 6 (2.65%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.77%) Maven
4 4 (1.77%) Vite
5 2 (0.88%) Selenium
5 2 (0.88%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.44%) GitLab
6 1 (0.44%) Postman
6 1 (0.44%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 191 (84.51%) Finance
2 147 (65.04%) Banking
3 135 (59.73%) Front Office
4 92 (40.71%) Investment Banking
5 58 (25.66%) Social Skills
6 42 (18.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 41 (18.14%) Law
8 16 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (3.98%) Marketing
10 7 (3.10%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.21%) Legal
12 4 (1.77%) Back Office
13 3 (1.33%) Advertising
14 2 (0.88%) Prime Brokerage
15 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.44%) Electronics
15 1 (0.44%) French Language
15 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 113 (50.00%) Senior
2 107 (47.35%) Software Engineer
3 89 (39.38%) Senior Software Engineer
4 86 (38.05%) Java Engineer
4 86 (38.05%) Python Engineer
4 86 (38.05%) Python Software Engineer
5 80 (35.40%) Java Software Engineer
6 71 (31.42%) Senior Java Engineer
7 69 (30.53%) AWS Engineer
7 69 (30.53%) AWS Software Engineer
8 67 (29.65%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 41 (18.14%) Lead
10 37 (16.37%) Developer
11 30 (13.27%) Analyst
12 24 (10.62%) Business Analyst
12 24 (10.62%) Lead Software Engineer
13 14 (6.19%) Business Manager
14 13 (5.75%) Lead Java Engineer
15 12 (5.31%) C++ Developer
16 11 (4.87%) Project Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (30.97%) Pandas
2 61 (26.99%) gRPC
2 61 (26.99%) NumPy
2 61 (26.99%) Protocol Buffers
2 61 (26.99%) SciPy
3 31 (13.72%) FIX Protocol
4 16 (7.08%) React
5 15 (6.64%) Spring
6 13 (5.75%) .NET
7 10 (4.42%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 10 (4.42%) pytest
7 10 (4.42%) Web Services
8 7 (3.10%) Kafka
9 6 (2.65%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.77%) Django
10 4 (1.77%) Jest
10 4 (1.77%) Middleware
11 3 (1.33%) Java Concurrency
11 3 (1.33%) Lambda Expressions
11 3 (1.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 110 (48.67%) Equities
2 99 (43.81%) Fixed Income
3 86 (38.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 77 (34.07%) Hedge funds
5 63 (27.88%) Pricing Data
6 24 (10.62%) Algorithms
7 19 (8.41%) Equity Derivative
8 16 (7.08%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (5.75%) Cloud Native
10 6 (2.65%) Credit Risk
11 4 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.77%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.77%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.77%) Market Risk
11 4 (1.77%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (1.33%) Grid Computing
13 2 (0.88%) OTC Derivatives
14 1 (0.44%) Renewable Energy
14 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (15.93%) Linux
2 6 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.21%) Windows
4 1 (0.44%) Debian
4 1 (0.44%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (63.72%) Agile
2 119 (52.65%) Software Engineering
3 69 (30.53%) Investment Management
4 67 (29.65%) Asset Management
5 43 (19.03%) Mathematics
6 42 (18.58%) Computer Science
7 41 (18.14%) SDLC
8 37 (16.37%) Operational Stability
9 33 (14.60%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (14.16%) Low Latency
11 29 (12.83%) CI/CD
12 25 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (9.73%) Analytics
14 21 (9.29%) Community of Practice
15 20 (8.85%) OO
16 19 (8.41%) AI
17 18 (7.96%) Continuous Integration
17 18 (7.96%) Quantitative Research
18 17 (7.52%) Decision-Making
18 17 (7.52%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 141 (62.39%) Python
2 118 (52.21%) Java
3 72 (31.86%) TypeScript
4 65 (28.76%) JavaScript
5 46 (20.35%) SQL
6 30 (13.27%) C++
7 24 (10.62%) C#
8 12 (5.31%) Scala
9 8 (3.54%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.77%) F#
10 4 (1.77%) Haskell
10 4 (1.77%) OCaml
10 4 (1.77%) R
10 4 (1.77%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.33%) MATLAB
11 3 (1.33%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.33%) VBA
12 2 (0.88%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.44%) Bash
13 1 (0.44%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 40 (17.70%) Degree
2 17 (7.52%) Master's Degree
3 11 (4.87%) PhD
4 4 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.33%) CFA
6 2 (0.88%) ISEB
6 2 (0.88%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (0.88%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.44%) ACCA
7 1 (0.44%) CIMA
7 1 (0.44%) CISM
7 1 (0.44%) CISSP
7 1 (0.44%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.52%) QA
2 2 (0.88%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.88%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.88%) ITGC
3 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.44%) Basel III
3 1 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.44%) FINRA
3 1 (0.44%) GDPR
3 1 (0.44%) IFRS
3 1 (0.44%) ISO 22301
3 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.44%) NIST
3 1 (0.44%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (5.75%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) iptables
2 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (7.96%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.42%) Terraform
3 2 (0.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (3.98%) Oracle
2 6 (2.65%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.65%) Red Hat
3 4 (1.77%) Bloomberg
3 4 (1.77%) Calypso
3 4 (1.77%) Charles River
3 4 (1.77%) Vertica
4 3 (1.33%) BISAM
4 3 (1.33%) Databricks
4 3 (1.33%) SimCorp
5 2 (0.88%) Alteryx
5 2 (0.88%) Murex
5 2 (0.88%) SAP
6 1 (0.44%) Cisco
6 1 (0.44%) FactSet
6 1 (0.44%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.44%) Google
6 1 (0.44%) MikroTik
6 1 (0.44%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.44%) Solace