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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 436 279 387
Rank change year-on-year -157 +108 -19
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 229 642 391
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.96% 0.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.18% 2.90% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 153 575 364
10th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £80,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £135,000 £147,500 £137,500
90th Percentile £147,000 £160,500 £145,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +21.74% -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 19,376 22,133 19,969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.51% 32.94% 38.57%
Number of salaries quoted 10,739 10,682 14,883
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,770 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £101,500 £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 20 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 20 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 -138 216 £115,000 - 147
London -115 207 £115,000 - 137
Work from Home -136 96 £119,000 +3.48% 63
UK excluding London +59 15 £70,000 +21.74% 17
Scotland +10 8 - -
North of England +43 4 - - 2
North West +38 3 - - 2
Midlands +59 1 £70,000 -
West Midlands +41 1 £70,000 -
South West +25 1 £90,000 +73.91% 3
Northern Ireland +2 1 £67,500 -3.57% 2
North East - 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 62 (27.07%) Apache Airflow
2 61 (26.64%) Apache
3 5 (2.18%) Jupyter
4 4 (1.75%) Cloud Foundry
4 4 (1.75%) Confluence
5 3 (1.31%) SAS
6 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.31%) Stata
4 1 (0.44%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.62%) Aladdin
2 3 (1.31%) thinkFolio
3 2 (0.87%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.44%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 90 (39.30%) AWS
2 65 (28.38%) Snowflake
3 61 (26.64%) dbt
4 9 (3.93%) Azure
4 9 (3.93%) Power Platform
5 6 (2.62%) GitHub
6 4 (1.75%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (1.31%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (0.87%) Azure Batch
8 2 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.44%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.44%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.44%) GCP
9 1 (0.44%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.42%) Multicast
2 3 (1.31%) 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 (28.38%) Amazon Athena
2 61 (26.64%) Apache Arrow
2 61 (26.64%) Apache Iceberg
2 61 (26.64%) Apache Ignite
2 61 (26.64%) Data Lake
2 61 (26.64%) Dremio
3 16 (6.99%) KDB
4 12 (5.24%) Kdb+
5 11 (4.80%) Relational Database
6 10 (4.37%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (4.37%) SQL Server
7 9 (3.93%) NoSQL
7 9 (3.93%) Power BI
8 8 (3.49%) Big Data
9 4 (1.75%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.75%) Tableau
10 3 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.87%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.87%) SAP BW
12 1 (0.44%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (7.86%) JIRA
2 13 (5.68%) Git
3 6 (2.62%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.75%) Maven
4 4 (1.75%) Selenium
4 4 (1.75%) Vite
5 2 (0.87%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.87%) 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
1 195 (85.15%) Finance
2 149 (65.07%) Banking
3 134 (58.52%) Front Office
4 93 (40.61%) Investment Banking
5 57 (24.89%) Social Skills
6 42 (18.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 41 (17.90%) Law
8 18 (7.86%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (3.93%) Marketing
10 6 (2.62%) Back Office
10 6 (2.62%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.18%) Legal
12 2 (0.87%) Advertising
12 2 (0.87%) Prime Brokerage
13 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.44%) Electronics
13 1 (0.44%) French Language
13 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.44%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 113 (49.34%) Senior
2 108 (47.16%) Software Engineer
3 90 (39.30%) Senior Software Engineer
4 87 (37.99%) Python Engineer
4 87 (37.99%) Python Software Engineer
5 86 (37.55%) Java Engineer
6 80 (34.93%) Java Software Engineer
7 71 (31.00%) Senior Java Engineer
8 69 (30.13%) AWS Engineer
8 69 (30.13%) AWS Software Engineer
9 67 (29.26%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 38 (16.59%) Developer
10 38 (16.59%) Lead
11 33 (14.41%) Analyst
12 24 (10.48%) Business Analyst
12 24 (10.48%) Lead Software Engineer
13 14 (6.11%) Business Manager
14 13 (5.68%) C++ Developer
14 13 (5.68%) Lead Java Engineer
14 13 (5.68%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (31.00%) Pandas
2 61 (26.64%) gRPC
2 61 (26.64%) NumPy
2 61 (26.64%) Protocol Buffers
2 61 (26.64%) SciPy
3 36 (15.72%) FIX Protocol
4 18 (7.86%) React
5 15 (6.55%) Spring
6 14 (6.11%) .NET
7 11 (4.80%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 11 (4.80%) pytest
8 10 (4.37%) Web Services
9 8 (3.49%) Kafka
10 6 (2.62%) AngularJS
11 4 (1.75%) CSS
11 4 (1.75%) Django
11 4 (1.75%) HTML
11 4 (1.75%) Java Concurrency
11 4 (1.75%) Middleware
11 4 (1.75%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 116 (50.66%) Equities
2 103 (44.98%) Fixed Income
3 87 (37.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 77 (33.62%) Hedge funds
5 63 (27.51%) Pricing Data
6 26 (11.35%) Algorithms
7 19 (8.30%) Equity Derivative
8 16 (6.99%) Distributed Systems
9 14 (6.11%) Cloud Native
10 6 (2.62%) Credit Risk
11 5 (2.18%) OTC Derivatives
12 4 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.75%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.75%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.75%) Onboarding
13 3 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (1.31%) Grid Computing
13 3 (1.31%) Market Risk
13 3 (1.31%) Virtual Team
14 2 (0.87%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 41 (17.90%) Linux
2 8 (3.49%) Windows
3 7 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.44%) Debian
4 1 (0.44%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (62.45%) Agile
2 119 (51.97%) Software Engineering
3 69 (30.13%) Investment Management
4 68 (29.69%) Asset Management
5 44 (19.21%) Mathematics
6 43 (18.78%) Computer Science
7 42 (18.34%) SDLC
8 37 (16.16%) Operational Stability
9 35 (15.28%) Low Latency
10 32 (13.97%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (12.23%) CI/CD
12 27 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (9.17%) Analytics
13 21 (9.17%) Community of Practice
14 20 (8.73%) OO
15 19 (8.30%) AI
15 19 (8.30%) Continuous Integration
15 19 (8.30%) Quantitative Research
16 18 (7.86%) Workflow
17 16 (6.99%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 144 (62.88%) Python
2 118 (51.53%) Java
3 74 (32.31%) TypeScript
4 67 (29.26%) JavaScript
5 51 (22.27%) SQL
6 31 (13.54%) C++
7 22 (9.61%) C#
8 12 (5.24%) Scala
9 8 (3.49%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.75%) F#
10 4 (1.75%) Haskell
10 4 (1.75%) OCaml
10 4 (1.75%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.31%) MATLAB
11 3 (1.31%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.31%) R
11 3 (1.31%) VBA
12 2 (0.87%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.44%) Bash
13 1 (0.44%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 39 (17.03%) Degree
2 16 (6.99%) Master's Degree
3 10 (4.37%) PhD
4 5 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.75%) ISEB
5 4 (1.75%) ISTQB
5 4 (1.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (1.31%) CFA
7 2 (0.87%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.44%) ACCA
8 1 (0.44%) CIMA
8 1 (0.44%) CISM
8 1 (0.44%) CISSP
8 1 (0.44%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.73%) QA
2 3 (1.31%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.31%) PMO
3 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.87%) ITGC
3 2 (0.87%) MiFID
4 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.44%) COREP
4 1 (0.44%) FINRA
4 1 (0.44%) GDPR
4 1 (0.44%) IFRS
4 1 (0.44%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.44%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (5.68%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) iptables
2 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (7.86%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.37%) Terraform
3 2 (0.87%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (3.93%) Microsoft
1 9 (3.93%) Oracle
2 7 (3.06%) Red Hat
3 4 (1.75%) Bloomberg
3 4 (1.75%) Calypso
3 4 (1.75%) Charles River
3 4 (1.75%) Databricks
3 4 (1.75%) Vertica
4 3 (1.31%) BISAM
4 3 (1.31%) SimCorp
5 2 (0.87%) Alteryx
5 2 (0.87%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.87%) Murex
5 2 (0.87%) SAP
6 1 (0.44%) Cisco
6 1 (0.44%) FactSet
6 1 (0.44%) MikroTik
6 1 (0.44%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.44%) Solace
6 1 (0.44%) Wallstreet Suite