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

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 262 339
Rank change year-on-year -117 +77 +51
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 325 823 551
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 1.06% 0.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.61% 3.28% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 221 758 519
10th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -
75th Percentile £135,000 £148,750 £132,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £165,000 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £57,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +17.39% -20.69% +56.76%

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 20,227 25,063 24,980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 40.98% 32.19% 40.95%
Number of salaries quoted 10,155 13,055 17,979
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,925 £43,116 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £103,750 £108,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +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

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 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Derivative in the UK

Derivative
Top 15 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 17 September 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 -130 310 £115,000 - 105
London -81 284 £115,000 - 96
Work from Home -133 183 £119,000 +3.48% 42
UK excluding London +90 36 £67,500 +17.39% 54
North of England +46 12 - -
Scotland +68 10 - -
Midlands +56 7 - -
Yorkshire +20 5 - -
West Midlands +51 4 - -
North West +17 4 - -
South East - 3 - - 46
North East - 3 - -
East Midlands - 3 - -
South West +48 2 - -
Northern Ireland +14 2 £67,500 -1.82% 8

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 89 (27.38%) Apache
1 89 (27.38%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.23%) Cloud Foundry
2 4 (1.23%) Confluence
2 4 (1.23%) Jupyter
3 3 (0.92%) SAS
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.92%) Stata
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 36 (11.08%) Aladdin
2 33 (10.15%) thinkFolio
3 2 (0.62%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.62%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.31%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 115 (35.38%) AWS
2 89 (27.38%) dbt
2 89 (27.38%) Snowflake
3 6 (1.85%) Azure
4 4 (1.23%) OpenShift
4 4 (1.23%) Power Platform
4 4 (1.23%) SaaS
5 3 (0.92%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (0.92%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (0.62%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.31%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.31%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.31%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.31%) GitHub
7 1 (0.31%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.46%) Multicast
2 3 (0.92%) SSL
3 2 (0.62%) DNS
3 2 (0.62%) HTTP
3 2 (0.62%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.31%) DHCP
4 1 (0.31%) Firewall
4 1 (0.31%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (28.62%) Amazon Athena
2 89 (27.38%) Apache Arrow
2 89 (27.38%) Apache Iceberg
2 89 (27.38%) Apache Ignite
2 89 (27.38%) Data Lake
2 89 (27.38%) Dremio
3 17 (5.23%) KDB
4 12 (3.69%) Kdb+
5 9 (2.77%) NoSQL
5 9 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (2.46%) Big Data
6 8 (2.46%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.54%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.23%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.23%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.23%) Power BI
8 4 (1.23%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.23%) SAP BW
9 2 (0.62%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.62%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (4.31%) JIRA
2 8 (2.46%) Git
3 6 (1.85%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.23%) Maven
4 4 (1.23%) Vite
5 1 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio
General
1 293 (90.15%) Finance
2 204 (62.77%) Front Office
3 176 (54.15%) Banking
4 119 (36.62%) Investment Banking
5 97 (29.85%) Social Skills
6 65 (20.00%) Law
7 41 (12.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 35 (10.77%) Legal
9 33 (10.15%) Financial Institution
10 26 (8.00%) Prime Brokerage
11 18 (5.54%) Analytical Skills
12 8 (2.46%) Marketing
13 5 (1.54%) Back Office
14 4 (1.23%) Advertising
14 4 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.31%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 146 (44.92%) Senior
2 138 (42.46%) Software Engineer
3 122 (37.54%) Senior Software Engineer
4 114 (35.08%) Java Engineer
5 113 (34.77%) Python Engineer
5 113 (34.77%) Python Software Engineer
6 110 (33.85%) Java Software Engineer
7 103 (31.69%) Senior Java Engineer
8 99 (30.46%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 97 (29.85%) AWS Engineer
9 97 (29.85%) AWS Software Engineer
10 62 (19.08%) Analyst
11 54 (16.62%) Business Analyst
12 44 (13.54%) Business Manager
13 41 (12.62%) Lead
14 33 (10.15%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
15 31 (9.54%) Developer
16 29 (8.92%) Risk Manager
17 24 (7.38%) Lead Software Engineer
18 14 (4.31%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (29.85%) Pandas
2 91 (28.00%) gRPC
3 89 (27.38%) NumPy
3 89 (27.38%) Protocol Buffers
3 89 (27.38%) SciPy
4 20 (6.15%) FIX Protocol
5 15 (4.62%) React
5 15 (4.62%) Spring
6 14 (4.31%) .NET
7 9 (2.77%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 9 (2.77%) Web Services
8 8 (2.46%) pytest
9 6 (1.85%) Django
9 6 (1.85%) Kafka
10 4 (1.23%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.23%) Jest
10 4 (1.23%) Middleware
11 3 (0.92%) .NET Core
11 3 (0.92%) Lambda Expressions
11 3 (0.92%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 160 (49.23%) Hedge funds
2 152 (46.77%) Fixed Income
3 134 (41.23%) Equities
4 123 (37.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 91 (28.00%) Pricing Data
6 36 (11.08%) Onboarding
7 27 (8.31%) Blockchain
8 21 (6.46%) Algorithms
8 21 (6.46%) Equity Derivative
9 15 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (4.00%) Cloud Native
11 8 (2.46%) Credit Risk
12 6 (1.85%) Market Risk
13 5 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
14 3 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (0.92%) Management Information System
14 3 (0.92%) OTC Derivatives
14 3 (0.92%) Reference Data
15 2 (0.62%) Grid Computing
15 2 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.08%) Linux
2 3 (0.92%) Unix
3 2 (0.62%) Windows
4 1 (0.31%) CentOS
4 1 (0.31%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (63.38%) Agile
2 154 (47.38%) Software Engineering
3 127 (39.08%) Investment Management
4 124 (38.15%) Asset Management
5 45 (13.85%) Risk Management
6 42 (12.92%) Mathematics
7 41 (12.62%) Business Analysis
8 40 (12.31%) SDLC
9 39 (12.00%) Computer Science
9 39 (12.00%) Portfolio Management
10 37 (11.38%) Operational Stability
11 35 (10.77%) Business Intelligence
12 33 (10.15%) Data Mapping
13 32 (9.85%) Problem-Solving
14 28 (8.62%) CI/CD
15 26 (8.00%) Stress Testing
16 25 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
16 25 (7.69%) Low Latency
16 25 (7.69%) Proactive Monitoring
16 25 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 198 (60.92%) Python
2 161 (49.54%) Java
3 98 (30.15%) TypeScript
4 90 (27.69%) JavaScript
5 73 (22.46%) SQL
6 31 (9.54%) C#
7 29 (8.92%) C++
8 12 (3.69%) Scala
9 8 (2.46%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.54%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.23%) F#
11 4 (1.23%) Haskell
11 4 (1.23%) OCaml
11 4 (1.23%) R
12 3 (0.92%) MATLAB
12 3 (0.92%) VBA
13 2 (0.62%) Rust
14 1 (0.31%) Bash
14 1 (0.31%) Perl
14 1 (0.31%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 44 (13.54%) Degree
2 21 (6.46%) Master's Degree
3 14 (4.31%) PhD
4 4 (1.23%) CFA
5 2 (0.62%) ACCA
5 2 (0.62%) CIMA
5 2 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.31%) CISM
6 1 (0.31%) CISSP
6 1 (0.31%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 25 (7.69%) GDPR
2 9 (2.77%) QA
3 6 (1.85%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.62%) IFRS
5 2 (0.62%) ITGC
6 1 (0.31%) Basel III
6 1 (0.31%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.31%) NIST
6 1 (0.31%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (3.08%) Docker
2 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (5.23%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.77%) Terraform
3 1 (0.31%) Grafana
Vendors
1 34 (10.46%) Calypso
2 33 (10.15%) BISAM
2 33 (10.15%) Charles River
2 33 (10.15%) SimCorp
3 15 (4.62%) Oracle
4 8 (2.46%) Bloomberg
5 5 (1.54%) Microsoft
6 4 (1.23%) SAP
6 4 (1.23%) Vertica
7 2 (0.62%) Alteryx
7 2 (0.62%) Databricks
7 2 (0.62%) FactSet
7 2 (0.62%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.62%) Wallstreet Suite
8 1 (0.31%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.31%) Capita
8 1 (0.31%) Patsystems
8 1 (0.31%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.31%) Reuters
8 1 (0.31%) Trayport