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

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 317 372
Rank change year-on-year -179 +55 +20
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 149 493 382
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.89% 0.74%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.72% 2.41% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 123 429 347
10th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £69,500
25th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £115,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £135,000 £147,500 £138,750
90th Percentile £142,500 £152,500 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +27.27% -4.35% +19.79%

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 20,761 20,487 19,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.81% 36.87% 37.37%
Number of salaries quoted 10,424 9,854 14,115
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,214 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £54,125 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.01% -1.59% -

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 28 December 2025.

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 28 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 -170 147 £110,000 -4.35% 185
London -120 140 £110,000 -4.35% 111
Work from Home -117 59 £115,000 - 76
UK excluding London +27 5 £70,000 +27.27% 87
North of England +17 3 £65,000 +30.00% 10
North East +16 2 £65,000 +30.00%
West Midlands +27 1 £70,000 - 5
North West +19 1 - - 7
Midlands +17 1 £70,000 - 10
South West +6 1 £90,000 +73.91% 7

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 38 (25.50%) Apache Airflow
2 37 (24.83%) Apache
3 3 (2.01%) SAS
4 2 (1.34%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.67%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (5.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.01%) Stata
4 1 (0.67%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.01%) Aladdin
1 3 (2.01%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 43 (28.86%) AWS
2 41 (27.52%) Snowflake
3 37 (24.83%) dbt
4 8 (5.37%) GitHub
4 8 (5.37%) Power Platform
5 7 (4.70%) Azure
6 4 (2.68%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.34%) Azure Batch
7 2 (1.34%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.34%) SaaS
8 1 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.67%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.67%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.67%) GCP
8 1 (0.67%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 25 (16.78%) Multicast
2 1 (0.67%) DNS
2 1 (0.67%) Firewall
2 1 (0.67%) Modbus
2 1 (0.67%) RS-485
2 1 (0.67%) VLAN
2 1 (0.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (24.83%) Amazon Athena
1 37 (24.83%) Apache Arrow
1 37 (24.83%) Apache Iceberg
1 37 (24.83%) Apache Ignite
1 37 (24.83%) Data Lake
1 37 (24.83%) Dremio
2 12 (8.05%) SQL Server
3 11 (7.38%) Relational Database
4 8 (5.37%) Power BI
5 4 (2.68%) KDB
5 4 (2.68%) Tableau
6 3 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.34%) Data Mining
7 2 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.67%) Metadata
8 1 (0.67%) MySQL
8 1 (0.67%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.67%) Parquet
8 1 (0.67%) Tick Data
8 1 (0.67%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 15 (10.07%) JIRA
2 12 (8.05%) Git
3 4 (2.68%) Selenium
4 2 (1.34%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.34%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.67%) GitLab
5 1 (0.67%) Postman
5 1 (0.67%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 119 (79.87%) Finance
2 85 (57.05%) Front Office
3 80 (53.69%) Banking
4 51 (34.23%) Investment Banking
5 26 (17.45%) Social Skills
6 12 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (6.04%) Marketing
8 7 (4.70%) Financial Institution
9 6 (4.03%) Back Office
10 2 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.34%) Legal
10 2 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Advertising
11 1 (0.67%) Brand Awareness
11 1 (0.67%) Electronics
11 1 (0.67%) French Language
11 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.67%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (44.30%) Senior
2 54 (36.24%) Software Engineer
3 50 (33.56%) Python Engineer
3 50 (33.56%) Python Software Engineer
4 49 (32.89%) Senior Software Engineer
5 41 (27.52%) Java Engineer
6 39 (26.17%) Java Software Engineer
7 38 (25.50%) Developer
8 37 (24.83%) AWS Engineer
8 37 (24.83%) AWS Software Engineer
9 35 (23.49%) Senior Java Engineer
9 35 (23.49%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 19 (12.75%) Analyst
11 17 (11.41%) C++ Developer
12 13 (8.72%) C++ Software Engineer
12 13 (8.72%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
13 11 (7.38%) Quantitative Developer
14 10 (6.71%) Business Analyst
14 10 (6.71%) C# Developer
15 7 (4.70%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (26.17%) FIX Protocol
1 39 (26.17%) Pandas
2 37 (24.83%) gRPC
2 37 (24.83%) NumPy
2 37 (24.83%) Protocol Buffers
2 37 (24.83%) SciPy
3 14 (9.40%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 14 (9.40%) pytest
4 10 (6.71%) .NET
5 6 (4.03%) Java Concurrency
5 6 (4.03%) Kafka
5 6 (4.03%) React
6 4 (2.68%) CSS
6 4 (2.68%) HTML
6 4 (2.68%) Playwright
7 3 (2.01%) REST
8 2 (1.34%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.34%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.34%) GraphQL
8 2 (1.34%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 77 (51.68%) Equities
2 67 (44.97%) Fixed Income
3 54 (36.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 43 (28.86%) Hedge funds
5 39 (26.17%) Pricing Data
6 24 (16.11%) Algorithms
7 8 (5.37%) Credit Risk
7 8 (5.37%) Equity Derivative
8 7 (4.70%) Cloud Native
9 6 (4.03%) OTC Derivatives
10 4 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (2.68%) Data Structures
11 3 (2.01%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (2.01%) Grid Computing
11 3 (2.01%) Interest Rate Derivative
12 2 (1.34%) ASIC
12 2 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (1.34%) Market Risk
12 2 (1.34%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 45 (30.20%) Linux
2 12 (8.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (6.04%) Windows
4 1 (0.67%) Debian
4 1 (0.67%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (46.98%) Agile
2 60 (40.27%) Software Engineering
3 41 (27.52%) Asset Management
4 40 (26.85%) Investment Management
5 38 (25.50%) Low Latency
6 31 (20.81%) Mathematics
7 29 (19.46%) Computer Science
8 18 (12.08%) Analytics
9 16 (10.74%) OOP
9 16 (10.74%) Workflow
10 15 (10.07%) SDLC
10 15 (10.07%) Unit Testing
11 14 (9.40%) Data Analysis
11 14 (9.40%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (9.40%) Process Improvement
11 14 (9.40%) Technical Leadership
12 13 (8.72%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (8.05%) Concurrent Programming
13 12 (8.05%) SOA
13 12 (8.05%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 90 (60.40%) Python
2 63 (42.28%) Java
3 44 (29.53%) JavaScript
4 43 (28.86%) TypeScript
5 37 (24.83%) C++
6 27 (18.12%) SQL
7 18 (12.08%) C#
8 4 (2.68%) F#
8 4 (2.68%) Haskell
8 4 (2.68%) OCaml
8 4 (2.68%) Scala
9 3 (2.01%) MATLAB
9 3 (2.01%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.01%) R
9 3 (2.01%) VBA
10 2 (1.34%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 26 (17.45%) Degree
2 10 (6.71%) Master's Degree
3 6 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.36%) PhD
5 4 (2.68%) CFA
5 4 (2.68%) ISEB
5 4 (2.68%) ISTQB
5 4 (2.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.34%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.67%) CISM
7 1 (0.67%) CISSP
7 1 (0.67%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (15.44%) QA
2 4 (2.68%) MiFID
3 3 (2.01%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.01%) PMO
4 2 (1.34%) COREP
4 2 (1.34%) EMIR
5 1 (0.67%) FINRA
5 1 (0.67%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.67%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (2.01%) Docker
2 1 (0.67%) iptables
2 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (3.36%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.34%) Ansible
2 2 (1.34%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (8.05%) Red Hat
2 9 (6.04%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.68%) Databricks
4 2 (1.34%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.34%) Murex
5 1 (0.67%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.67%) Calypso
5 1 (0.67%) Charles River
5 1 (0.67%) Cisco
5 1 (0.67%) FactSet
5 1 (0.67%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.67%) Google
5 1 (0.67%) MikroTik
5 1 (0.67%) ServiceNow