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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 339 466
Rank change year-on-year -218 +127 -14
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 116 388 364
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.82% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.52% 2.15% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 96 344 335
10th Percentile £74,375 £80,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £93,438 £88,750 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £109,500 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.78% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £140,625 £148,750 £139,375
90th Percentile £150,000 £152,500 £153,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +33.33% +10.53% -20.83%

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 22,269 18,060 27,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.04% 38.09% 36.56%
Number of salaries quoted 11,295 8,638 19,864
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £39,759
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.65% +13.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,979 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.73% +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 25 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 25 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 -195 114 £110,000 -4.35% 40
London -153 108 £112,500 -2.17% 40
Work from Home -145 28 £132,500 +15.22% 13
UK excluding London -5 5 £70,000 +33.33% 13
North of England -23 3 £65,000 +30.00%
North East -9 2 £65,000 +30.00%
West Midlands +9 1 £70,000 -
North West 0 1 - -
Midlands -10 1 £70,000 -
South West -16 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 9 (7.76%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (6.90%) Apache
3 2 (1.72%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.86%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
3 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 27 (23.28%) AWS
2 17 (14.66%) Azure
3 13 (11.21%) GCP
3 13 (11.21%) GitHub
4 12 (10.34%) Snowflake
5 8 (6.90%) dbt
5 8 (6.90%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.72%) Azure Batch
6 2 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (1.72%) SaaS
7 1 (0.86%) Azure Data Factory
7 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 13 (11.21%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (8.62%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.90%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (6.90%) Apache Arrow
3 8 (6.90%) Apache Iceberg
3 8 (6.90%) Apache Ignite
3 8 (6.90%) Data Lake
3 8 (6.90%) Dremio
3 8 (6.90%) Power BI
3 8 (6.90%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.45%) Tableau
5 3 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.72%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.72%) KDB
7 1 (0.86%) Metadata
7 1 (0.86%) MySQL
7 1 (0.86%) Parquet
7 1 (0.86%) Redis
7 1 (0.86%) Tick Data
7 1 (0.86%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 16 (13.79%) Git
2 14 (12.07%) JIRA
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 90 (77.59%) Finance
2 64 (55.17%) Front Office
3 46 (39.66%) Banking
4 21 (18.10%) Investment Banking
4 21 (18.10%) Social Skills
5 15 (12.93%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.17%) Marketing
7 5 (4.31%) Back Office
8 4 (3.45%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.72%) Legal
10 2 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.86%) Brand Awareness
11 1 (0.86%) Electronics
11 1 (0.86%) French Language
11 1 (0.86%) Law
11 1 (0.86%) Retail
11 1 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (41.38%) Developer
2 33 (28.45%) Software Engineer
3 28 (24.14%) Senior
4 26 (22.41%) Python Engineer
5 23 (19.83%) Python Software Engineer
6 20 (17.24%) Analyst
7 19 (16.38%) Senior Software Engineer
8 17 (14.66%) Lead
9 16 (13.79%) C++ Developer
10 15 (12.93%) Lead Developer
11 12 (10.34%) C++ Software Engineer
11 12 (10.34%) Java Engineer
11 12 (10.34%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
12 10 (8.62%) C# Developer
12 10 (8.62%) Java Software Engineer
12 10 (8.62%) Lead Software Developer
12 10 (8.62%) Quantitative Developer
13 9 (7.76%) Business Analyst
13 9 (7.76%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 9 (7.76%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (31.90%) FIX Protocol
2 20 (17.24%) React
3 13 (11.21%) pytest
4 12 (10.34%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 12 (10.34%) Node.js
4 12 (10.34%) Redux
5 10 (8.62%) Pandas
6 8 (6.90%) .NET
6 8 (6.90%) gRPC
6 8 (6.90%) NumPy
6 8 (6.90%) Protocol Buffers
6 8 (6.90%) SciPy
7 7 (6.03%) Kafka
8 6 (5.17%) Java Concurrency
9 4 (3.45%) CSS
9 4 (3.45%) HTML
9 4 (3.45%) Playwright
10 3 (2.59%) REST
11 2 (1.72%) AngularJS
11 2 (1.72%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 53 (45.69%) Equities
2 52 (44.83%) Fixed Income
3 27 (23.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 20 (17.24%) Algorithms
5 10 (8.62%) Hedge funds
5 10 (8.62%) OTC Derivatives
5 10 (8.62%) Pricing Data
6 6 (5.17%) Cloud Native
6 6 (5.17%) Equity Derivative
7 4 (3.45%) Credit Risk
7 4 (3.45%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.59%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.59%) Grid Computing
8 3 (2.59%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 3 (2.59%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.59%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.72%) ASIC
9 2 (1.72%) Credit Derivative
9 2 (1.72%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 39 (33.62%) 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 45 (38.79%) Agile
2 42 (36.21%) Software Engineering
3 35 (30.17%) Low Latency
4 26 (22.41%) Mathematics
5 24 (20.69%) Analytics
5 24 (20.69%) Asset Management
5 24 (20.69%) Computer Science
6 23 (19.83%) Investment Management
7 22 (18.97%) Fintech
8 15 (12.93%) OOP
8 15 (12.93%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (12.93%) Unit Testing
8 15 (12.93%) Workflow
9 14 (12.07%) Mentoring
9 14 (12.07%) Process Improvement
10 13 (11.21%) Continuous Integration
10 13 (11.21%) Data Analysis
10 13 (11.21%) Portfolio Management
11 12 (10.34%) SOA
11 12 (10.34%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 66 (56.90%) Python
2 34 (29.31%) C++
3 32 (27.59%) Java
4 28 (24.14%) JavaScript
4 28 (24.14%) TypeScript
5 21 (18.10%) SQL
6 16 (13.79%) C#
7 2 (1.72%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.72%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.86%) Bash
8 1 (0.86%) R
8 1 (0.86%) Rust
8 1 (0.86%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (22.41%) Degree
2 7 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.45%) ISEB
3 4 (3.45%) ISTQB
3 4 (3.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 4 (3.45%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.72%) Numerate Degree
4 2 (1.72%) PhD
5 1 (0.86%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (19.83%) QA
2 8 (6.90%) MiFID
3 4 (3.45%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (2.59%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.72%) COREP
5 2 (1.72%) EMIR
5 2 (1.72%) PMO
6 1 (0.86%) Basel III
6 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%) Grafana
2 1 (0.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.86%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (10.34%) Red Hat
2 8 (6.90%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.72%) Atlassian
3 2 (1.72%) Databricks
3 2 (1.72%) Google
3 2 (1.72%) Murex
4 1 (0.86%) Bloomberg
4 1 (0.86%) Charles River
4 1 (0.86%) Cisco
4 1 (0.86%) FactSet
4 1 (0.86%) Fortinet
4 1 (0.86%) HubSpot
4 1 (0.86%) MikroTik
4 1 (0.86%) Salesforce