Derivative Jobs

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 337 434 452
Rank change year-on-year +97 +18 -2
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 415 544 699
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.80% 0.55% 0.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.30% 1.55% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 394 501 553
10th Percentile £85,000 £65,000 £63,750
25th Percentile £93,563 £85,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -6.67%
75th Percentile £147,500 £143,750 £127,500
90th Percentile £152,500 £165,000 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,250 £47,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.89% -34.48% +7.41%

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 18,032 35,027 45,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.57% 35.62% 43.58%
Number of salaries quoted 9,839 23,030 23,975
10th Percentile £31,500 £28,000 £35,271
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Derivative as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Derivative in the UK

Derivative
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Derivative.

Salary trend for Derivative in the UK

Derivative
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Derivative over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Derivative in the UK

Derivative
Top 9 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 30 April 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 +90 413 £115,000 - 201
London +37 402 £115,000 - 185
Work from Home +111 303 £115,000 - 84
UK excluding London +184 11 £51,250 +7.89% 30
North of England +89 7 £50,000 - 9
North West +36 5 - - 7
South East - 3 - - 1
North East - 2 £50,000 - 1
South West +95 1 £52,500 -

Derivative
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 109 (26.27%) Apache
2 105 (25.30%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.96%) GemFire
5 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.24%) Stata
Business Applications
1 50 (12.05%) Aladdin
2 28 (6.75%) thinkFolio
3 5 (1.20%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.48%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.24%) Eikon
5 1 (0.24%) Endur
5 1 (0.24%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 108 (26.02%) AWS
2 105 (25.30%) dbt
2 105 (25.30%) Snowflake
3 35 (8.43%) Amazon EC2
3 35 (8.43%) Amazon EKS
4 34 (8.19%) Amazon ECS
4 34 (8.19%) Dagster
4 34 (8.19%) GCP
5 6 (1.45%) Azure
5 6 (1.45%) SaaS
6 4 (0.96%) Azure AKS
6 4 (0.96%) Entra ID
6 4 (0.96%) OpenShift
7 2 (0.48%) PaaS
8 1 (0.24%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 1 (0.24%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.24%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.24%) CloudFront
8 1 (0.24%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.41%) Multicast
2 6 (1.45%) DNS
2 6 (1.45%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.20%) DHCP
3 5 (1.20%) Firewall
3 5 (1.20%) FIX Connectivity
4 2 (0.48%) HTTP
4 2 (0.48%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (44.58%) Data Lake
2 105 (25.30%) Amazon Athena
2 105 (25.30%) Apache Arrow
2 105 (25.30%) Apache Iceberg
2 105 (25.30%) Dremio
3 77 (18.55%) Apache Ignite
4 10 (2.41%) MongoDB
5 9 (2.17%) SQL Server
6 7 (1.69%) Redis
7 6 (1.45%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.45%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.96%) InterSystems Cache
8 4 (0.96%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.72%) KDB
9 3 (0.72%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.48%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.48%) MySQL
11 1 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.24%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 10 (2.41%) Git
1 10 (2.41%) JIRA
2 5 (1.20%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.72%) MSTest
3 3 (0.72%) NUnit
3 3 (0.72%) SpecFlow
3 3 (0.72%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.24%) JetBrains Rider
4 1 (0.24%) JUnit
4 1 (0.24%) Maven
4 1 (0.24%) Mockito
4 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 390 (93.98%) Finance
2 340 (81.93%) Front Office
3 149 (35.90%) Banking
4 118 (28.43%) Investment Banking
5 38 (9.16%) Social Skills
6 13 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.17%) Back Office
8 7 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.69%) Law
9 6 (1.45%) Legal
10 5 (1.20%) Advertising
11 4 (0.96%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.96%) Spanish Language
12 3 (0.72%) Marketing
12 3 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.72%) Prime Brokerage
13 2 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.48%) Retail
14 1 (0.24%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 119 (28.67%) Analyst
1 119 (28.67%) Software Engineer
2 105 (25.30%) AWS Engineer
2 105 (25.30%) AWS Software Engineer
3 88 (21.20%) Business Analyst
4 84 (20.24%) Java Engineer
5 83 (20.00%) Senior
6 80 (19.28%) Java Software Engineer
7 73 (17.59%) Python Engineer
7 73 (17.59%) Python Software Engineer
8 71 (17.11%) Senior Software Engineer
9 69 (16.63%) Business Manager
10 60 (14.46%) Developer
11 53 (12.77%) Senior Java Engineer
11 53 (12.77%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 41 (9.88%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
12 41 (9.88%) Lead
13 40 (9.64%) Product Manager
14 36 (8.67%) Governance Manager
14 36 (8.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (18.07%) gRPC
2 73 (17.59%) NumPy
2 73 (17.59%) Pandas
2 73 (17.59%) Protocol Buffers
2 73 (17.59%) SciPy
3 66 (15.90%) PySpark
4 22 (5.30%) FIX Protocol
5 13 (3.13%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 12 (2.89%) .NET
7 10 (2.41%) pytest
7 10 (2.41%) Spring
8 7 (1.69%) Kafka
9 6 (1.45%) JSON
9 6 (1.45%) Spring Boot
10 5 (1.20%) HTML
10 5 (1.20%) HTML5
10 5 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (1.20%) React
11 4 (0.96%) AngularJS
11 4 (0.96%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 325 (78.31%) Fixed Income
2 304 (73.25%) Hedge funds
3 273 (65.78%) Equities
4 269 (64.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 62 (14.94%) Product Ownership
6 42 (10.12%) Onboarding
7 39 (9.40%) Pricing Data
8 18 (4.34%) Algorithms
9 11 (2.65%) Credit Derivative
9 11 (2.65%) Equity Derivative
10 9 (2.17%) Reference Data
11 8 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.69%) OTC Derivatives
13 6 (1.45%) Cloud Native
13 6 (1.45%) Market Risk
14 5 (1.20%) Bitcoin
14 5 (1.20%) Data Structures
14 5 (1.20%) Eurex
15 4 (0.96%) Data Centre
15 4 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (7.71%) Linux
2 28 (6.75%) Apple iOS
3 17 (4.10%) Unix
4 12 (2.89%) Windows
5 7 (1.69%) CentOS
5 7 (1.69%) Rocky
6 5 (1.20%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.48%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.24%) Debian
8 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (79.04%) Agile
2 235 (56.63%) Investment Management
3 190 (45.78%) Asset Management
4 147 (35.42%) Migration
5 143 (34.46%) Roadmaps
6 127 (30.60%) Software Engineering
7 114 (27.47%) Data Management
8 112 (26.99%) Data Governance
8 112 (26.99%) Regulatory Compliance
9 75 (18.07%) Portfolio Management
10 63 (15.18%) Analytics
11 51 (12.29%) Business Intelligence
12 50 (12.05%) Business Analysis
13 34 (8.19%) Data Mapping
14 29 (6.99%) Machine Learning
14 29 (6.99%) Order Management
14 29 (6.99%) Risk Analytics
15 28 (6.75%) Artificial Intelligence
15 28 (6.75%) Front End Development
15 28 (6.75%) Quantitative Analysis
Programming Languages
1 214 (51.57%) Python
2 141 (33.98%) Java
3 111 (26.75%) SQL
4 78 (18.80%) JavaScript
4 78 (18.80%) TypeScript
5 30 (7.23%) C++
6 19 (4.58%) C#
7 11 (2.65%) PowerShell
8 7 (1.69%) Bash
9 5 (1.20%) Perl
10 2 (0.48%) Rust
10 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.24%) C
11 1 (0.24%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.24%) R
11 1 (0.24%) Scala
11 1 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 58 (13.98%) Degree
2 6 (1.45%) Master's Degree
3 3 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.48%) CFA
4 2 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (13.25%) MiFID
2 13 (3.13%) QA
3 10 (2.41%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (1.20%) Active Directory
1 5 (1.20%) Docker
2 4 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (1.69%) Grafana
2 5 (1.20%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.24%) Nagios
3 1 (0.24%) SCCM
3 1 (0.24%) WSUS
Vendors
1 49 (11.81%) BISAM
2 34 (8.19%) Charles River
3 28 (6.75%) Calypso
3 28 (6.75%) SimCorp
4 17 (4.10%) Oracle
5 9 (2.17%) Bloomberg
6 7 (1.69%) Atlassian
6 7 (1.69%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.45%) ION Trading
7 6 (1.45%) Reuters
8 5 (1.20%) CQG
8 5 (1.20%) Patsystems
8 5 (1.20%) Solace
8 5 (1.20%) Trayport
9 4 (0.96%) Cisco
9 4 (0.96%) Citrix
9 4 (0.96%) Microsoft
9 4 (0.96%) TIBCO
9 4 (0.96%) VMware
10 3 (0.72%) Sophis