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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 444 274 376
Rank change year-on-year -170 +102 -17
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 212 646 397
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.96% 0.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.11% 2.85% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 147 580 370
10th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £96,250 £85,000 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -
75th Percentile £135,000 £147,500 £138,750
90th Percentile £148,500 £152,500 £146,625
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 19,055 22,662 19,814
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.71% 33.72% 38.47%
Number of salaries quoted 10,686 11,062 14,835
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,750 £33,714
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,285 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.53% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
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 25 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 25 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 -155 202 £115,000 - 60
London -125 193 £115,000 - 53
Work from Home -130 88 £119,000 +3.48% 28
UK excluding London +77 13 £70,000 +21.74% 25
Scotland +14 6 - - 1
North of England +43 4 - - 1
North West +53 3 - - 1
Midlands +51 1 £70,000 -
West Midlands +48 1 £70,000 -
South West +33 1 £90,000 +73.91% 3
Northern Ireland -1 1 £67,500 -3.57% 3
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 58 (27.36%) Apache Airflow
2 57 (26.89%) Apache
3 4 (1.89%) Confluence
3 4 (1.89%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.42%) Cloud Foundry
4 3 (1.42%) SAS
5 2 (0.94%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.42%) Stata
4 1 (0.47%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.42%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.94%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.47%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 80 (37.74%) AWS
2 61 (28.77%) Snowflake
3 57 (26.89%) dbt
4 9 (4.25%) Azure
4 9 (4.25%) Power Platform
5 6 (2.83%) GitHub
6 4 (1.89%) OpenShift
7 2 (0.94%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (0.94%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (0.94%) Azure Batch
7 2 (0.94%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.47%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.47%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.47%) GCP
8 1 (0.47%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (9.43%) Multicast
2 2 (0.94%) SSL
3 1 (0.47%) DNS
3 1 (0.47%) Firewall
3 1 (0.47%) Modbus
3 1 (0.47%) RS-485
3 1 (0.47%) VLAN
3 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (28.30%) Amazon Athena
2 57 (26.89%) Apache Arrow
2 57 (26.89%) Apache Iceberg
2 57 (26.89%) Apache Ignite
2 57 (26.89%) Data Lake
2 57 (26.89%) Dremio
3 13 (6.13%) KDB
4 11 (5.19%) Relational Database
4 11 (5.19%) SQL Server
5 9 (4.25%) Kdb+
5 9 (4.25%) Power BI
6 8 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (3.30%) NoSQL
8 6 (2.83%) Big Data
9 4 (1.89%) Tableau
10 3 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.42%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.94%) SAP BW
12 1 (0.47%) MySQL
12 1 (0.47%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 18 (8.49%) JIRA
2 12 (5.66%) Git
3 5 (2.36%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.89%) Selenium
5 3 (1.42%) Maven
5 3 (1.42%) Vite
6 2 (0.94%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.94%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.47%) GitLab
7 1 (0.47%) Postman
7 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 178 (83.96%) Finance
2 134 (63.21%) Banking
3 124 (58.49%) Front Office
4 85 (40.09%) Investment Banking
5 51 (24.06%) Social Skills
6 31 (14.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 30 (14.15%) Law
8 17 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (3.77%) Marketing
10 6 (2.83%) Back Office
10 6 (2.83%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.36%) Legal
12 2 (0.94%) Advertising
12 2 (0.94%) Prime Brokerage
13 1 (0.47%) Electronics
13 1 (0.47%) French Language
13 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.47%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 101 (47.64%) Senior
2 94 (44.34%) Software Engineer
3 79 (37.26%) Python Engineer
3 79 (37.26%) Python Software Engineer
3 79 (37.26%) Senior Software Engineer
4 76 (35.85%) Java Engineer
5 71 (33.49%) Java Software Engineer
6 63 (29.72%) AWS Engineer
6 63 (29.72%) AWS Software Engineer
6 63 (29.72%) Senior Java Engineer
7 60 (28.30%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 40 (18.87%) Developer
9 30 (14.15%) Lead
10 28 (13.21%) Analyst
11 19 (8.96%) Business Analyst
12 17 (8.02%) Lead Software Engineer
13 16 (7.55%) C++ Developer
14 12 (5.66%) Project Manager
15 10 (4.72%) Project Analyst
15 10 (4.72%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (30.66%) Pandas
2 57 (26.89%) gRPC
2 57 (26.89%) NumPy
2 57 (26.89%) Protocol Buffers
2 57 (26.89%) SciPy
3 37 (17.45%) FIX Protocol
4 15 (7.08%) React
5 14 (6.60%) .NET
6 11 (5.19%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 11 (5.19%) pytest
6 11 (5.19%) Spring
7 8 (3.77%) Web Services
8 7 (3.30%) Kafka
9 5 (2.36%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.89%) CSS
10 4 (1.89%) HTML
10 4 (1.89%) Java Concurrency
10 4 (1.89%) Playwright
11 3 (1.42%) Django
11 3 (1.42%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 109 (51.42%) Equities
2 94 (44.34%) Fixed Income
3 82 (38.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 69 (32.55%) Hedge funds
5 59 (27.83%) Pricing Data
6 25 (11.79%) Algorithms
7 17 (8.02%) Equity Derivative
8 12 (5.66%) Cloud Native
8 12 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (2.83%) Credit Risk
10 4 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.89%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.89%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.89%) OTC Derivatives
11 3 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.42%) Grid Computing
11 3 (1.42%) Interest Rate Derivative
11 3 (1.42%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.94%) Market Risk
12 2 (0.94%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 43 (20.28%) Linux
2 10 (4.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (3.77%) Windows
4 1 (0.47%) Debian
4 1 (0.47%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (58.96%) Agile
2 104 (49.06%) Software Engineering
3 62 (29.25%) Investment Management
4 61 (28.77%) Asset Management
5 39 (18.40%) Mathematics
6 38 (17.92%) Computer Science
7 37 (17.45%) Low Latency
8 34 (16.04%) SDLC
9 28 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (12.74%) Operational Stability
11 22 (10.38%) CI/CD
11 22 (10.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (8.96%) Analytics
13 17 (8.02%) Workflow
14 16 (7.55%) AI
14 16 (7.55%) Continuous Integration
15 15 (7.08%) Data Analysis
15 15 (7.08%) OO
15 15 (7.08%) Quantitative Research
15 15 (7.08%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 129 (60.85%) Python
2 106 (50.00%) Java
3 68 (32.08%) TypeScript
4 63 (29.72%) JavaScript
5 43 (20.28%) SQL
6 34 (16.04%) C++
7 22 (10.38%) C#
8 10 (4.72%) Scala
9 6 (2.83%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.89%) F#
10 4 (1.89%) Haskell
10 4 (1.89%) OCaml
11 3 (1.42%) MATLAB
11 3 (1.42%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.42%) R
11 3 (1.42%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.42%) VBA
12 2 (0.94%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.47%) Bash
Qualifications
1 35 (16.51%) Degree
2 14 (6.60%) Master's Degree
3 8 (3.77%) PhD
4 5 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.89%) ISEB
5 4 (1.89%) ISTQB
5 4 (1.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (1.42%) CFA
7 2 (0.94%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.47%) ACCA
8 1 (0.47%) CIMA
8 1 (0.47%) CISM
8 1 (0.47%) CISSP
8 1 (0.47%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.43%) QA
2 3 (1.42%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.42%) PMO
3 2 (0.94%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.94%) COREP
3 2 (0.94%) ITGC
3 2 (0.94%) MiFID
4 1 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.47%) FINRA
4 1 (0.47%) GDPR
4 1 (0.47%) IFRS
4 1 (0.47%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.47%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (4.72%) Docker
2 1 (0.47%) iptables
2 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (7.08%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.77%) Terraform
3 2 (0.94%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (4.72%) Microsoft
1 10 (4.72%) Red Hat
2 7 (3.30%) Oracle
3 4 (1.89%) Bloomberg
3 4 (1.89%) Databricks
4 3 (1.42%) Vertica
5 2 (0.94%) Alteryx
5 2 (0.94%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.94%) Murex
5 2 (0.94%) SAP
6 1 (0.47%) Calypso
6 1 (0.47%) Charles River
6 1 (0.47%) Cisco
6 1 (0.47%) FactSet
6 1 (0.47%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.47%) Google
6 1 (0.47%) MikroTik
6 1 (0.47%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.47%) Solace
6 1 (0.47%) Wallstreet Suite