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 13 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 566 327 481
Rank change year-on-year -239 +154 -13
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 119 395 384
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.90% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.52% 2.32% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 98 347 359
10th Percentile £72,625 £85,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £88,750 £93,125 £81,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £140,000 £148,750 £142,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £152,500 £153,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £51,250 £47,500
% change year-on-year +36.59% +7.89% -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 22,782 17,043 30,387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.90% 39.03% 36.20%
Number of salaries quoted 11,575 8,794 21,623
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -226 117 £102,500 -10.87% 43
London -157 112 £103,750 -9.78% 42
Work from Home -163 27 £130,000 +13.04% 19
UK excluding London -41 4 £70,000 +36.59% 12
North of England -44 2 £65,000 +30.00% 2
West Midlands -9 1 £70,000 -
North West -20 1 - - 1
South West -21 1 £90,000 +71.43%
North East -23 1 £65,000 +30.00% 1
Midlands -25 1 £70,000 -

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 6 (5.04%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.20%) Apache
3 4 (3.36%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.84%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (7.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.84%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.68%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (22.69%) AWS
2 20 (16.81%) Azure
3 17 (14.29%) GCP
4 15 (12.61%) GitHub
5 9 (7.56%) Snowflake
6 8 (6.72%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.20%) dbt
8 2 (1.68%) Azure Batch
8 2 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.68%) SaaS
9 1 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.84%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.84%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 26 (21.85%) Multicast
2 2 (1.68%) VLAN
3 1 (0.84%) DHCP
3 1 (0.84%) DNS
3 1 (0.84%) Firewall
3 1 (0.84%) Modbus
3 1 (0.84%) RS-485
3 1 (0.84%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (9.24%) Relational Database
3 9 (7.56%) SQL Server
4 8 (6.72%) Power BI
5 5 (4.20%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (4.20%) Apache Arrow
5 5 (4.20%) Apache Iceberg
5 5 (4.20%) Apache Ignite
5 5 (4.20%) Data Lake
5 5 (4.20%) Dremio
6 3 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.52%) Tableau
7 2 (1.68%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.84%) KDB
8 1 (0.84%) Metadata
8 1 (0.84%) MySQL
8 1 (0.84%) Parquet
8 1 (0.84%) Redis
8 1 (0.84%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 18 (15.13%) Git
1 18 (15.13%) JIRA
2 4 (3.36%) Selenium
3 2 (1.68%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.84%) GitLab
4 1 (0.84%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.84%) Postman
4 1 (0.84%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.84%) Visual Studio
General
1 95 (79.83%) Finance
2 63 (52.94%) Front Office
3 45 (37.82%) Banking
4 20 (16.81%) Investment Banking
4 20 (16.81%) Social Skills
5 16 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.88%) Marketing
7 5 (4.20%) Back Office
8 4 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.52%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.68%) Law
10 2 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.68%) Retail
11 1 (0.84%) Brand Awareness
11 1 (0.84%) Electronics
11 1 (0.84%) French Language
11 1 (0.84%) Legal
11 1 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (42.86%) Developer
2 35 (29.41%) Software Engineer
3 27 (22.69%) Python Engineer
4 24 (20.17%) Senior
5 23 (19.33%) Python Software Engineer
6 22 (18.49%) Lead
7 21 (17.65%) Analyst
8 19 (15.97%) Lead Developer
9 17 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
10 15 (12.61%) C++ Developer
11 14 (11.76%) C++ Software Engineer
12 13 (10.92%) Lead Software Developer
12 13 (10.92%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
13 12 (10.08%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 12 (10.08%) Lead Software Engineer
14 10 (8.40%) Business Analyst
14 10 (8.40%) Java Engineer
15 9 (7.56%) C# Developer
15 9 (7.56%) React Developer
16 8 (6.72%) Lead Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (32.77%) FIX Protocol
2 25 (21.01%) React
3 17 (14.29%) Node.js
4 16 (13.45%) Redux
5 15 (12.61%) pytest
6 14 (11.76%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 9 (7.56%) .NET
8 7 (5.88%) Pandas
9 6 (5.04%) Kafka
10 5 (4.20%) gRPC
10 5 (4.20%) Java Concurrency
10 5 (4.20%) NumPy
10 5 (4.20%) Protocol Buffers
10 5 (4.20%) SciPy
11 4 (3.36%) CSS
11 4 (3.36%) HTML
11 4 (3.36%) Playwright
12 3 (2.52%) REST
13 2 (1.68%) AngularJS
13 2 (1.68%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 57 (47.90%) Fixed Income
2 56 (47.06%) Equities
3 26 (21.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 20 (16.81%) Algorithms
5 12 (10.08%) OTC Derivatives
6 6 (5.04%) Hedge funds
7 5 (4.20%) Cloud Native
7 5 (4.20%) Pricing Data
8 4 (3.36%) Credit Risk
8 4 (3.36%) Equity Derivative
8 4 (3.36%) Virtual Team
8 4 (3.36%) Wiki
9 3 (2.52%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (2.52%) Interest Rate Derivative
9 3 (2.52%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.68%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.68%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 40 (33.61%) Linux
2 12 (10.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (8.40%) Windows
4 1 (0.84%) Debian
4 1 (0.84%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (41.18%) Agile
2 46 (38.66%) Software Engineering
3 36 (30.25%) Low Latency
4 28 (23.53%) Mathematics
5 26 (21.85%) Fintech
6 25 (21.01%) Asset Management
6 25 (21.01%) Computer Science
7 23 (19.33%) Investment Management
8 22 (18.49%) Analytics
9 19 (15.97%) Mentoring
10 18 (15.13%) OOP
11 17 (14.29%) Workflow
12 16 (13.45%) Line Management
12 16 (13.45%) Portfolio Management
12 16 (13.45%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (13.45%) Process Improvement
12 16 (13.45%) SDLC
13 15 (12.61%) Continuous Integration
13 15 (12.61%) Technical Leadership
14 14 (11.76%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 64 (53.78%) Python
2 33 (27.73%) C++
3 30 (25.21%) TypeScript
4 29 (24.37%) JavaScript
5 28 (23.53%) Java
6 22 (18.49%) SQL
7 14 (11.76%) C#
8 3 (2.52%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.68%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.68%) VBA
10 1 (0.84%) Bash
10 1 (0.84%) R
10 1 (0.84%) Rust
Qualifications
1 22 (18.49%) Degree
2 7 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.36%) ISEB
3 4 (3.36%) ISTQB
3 4 (3.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 3 (2.52%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.68%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (1.68%) PhD
6 1 (0.84%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (21.01%) QA
2 10 (8.40%) MiFID
3 4 (3.36%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (3.36%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.36%) PMO
4 2 (1.68%) COREP
4 2 (1.68%) EMIR
5 1 (0.84%) Basel III
5 1 (0.84%) FINRA
5 1 (0.84%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 3 (2.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.84%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.84%) iptables
Systems Management
1 2 (1.68%) Ansible
2 1 (0.84%) Grafana
2 1 (0.84%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.84%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.84%) SCCM
2 1 (0.84%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (10.08%) Red Hat
2 11 (9.24%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.36%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.68%) Databricks
4 2 (1.68%) Google
4 2 (1.68%) Murex
5 1 (0.84%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.84%) Charles River
5 1 (0.84%) Cisco
5 1 (0.84%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.84%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.84%) MikroTik
5 1 (0.84%) Salesforce