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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 563 331 492
Rank change year-on-year -232 +161 -23
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 115 395 378
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.90% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.51% 2.31% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 95 347 351
10th Percentile £71,500 £85,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £80,625
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 £51,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +37.25% +7.37% -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 22,564 17,106 30,258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.91% 39.01% 36.15%
Number of salaries quoted 11,413 8,826 21,600
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,790 £83,750 £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 11 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 11 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 -238 113 £102,500 -10.87% 48
London -153 108 £102,500 -10.87% 28
Work from Home -162 26 £132,500 +15.22% 15
UK excluding London -35 4 £70,000 +37.25% 10
North of England -36 2 £65,000 +30.00% 1
West Midlands -8 1 £70,000 -
North West -13 1 - -
North East -17 1 £65,000 +30.00% 1
Midlands -18 1 £70,000 -
South West -19 1 £90,000 +73.91%

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 (5.22%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.35%) Apache
3 4 (3.48%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.87%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (7.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.87%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 3 (2.61%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.74%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (23.48%) AWS
2 20 (17.39%) Azure
3 17 (14.78%) GCP
4 14 (12.17%) GitHub
5 9 (7.83%) Snowflake
6 8 (6.96%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.35%) dbt
8 2 (1.74%) Azure Batch
8 2 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.74%) SaaS
9 1 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.87%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.87%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 24 (20.87%) Multicast
2 2 (1.74%) VLAN
3 1 (0.87%) DHCP
3 1 (0.87%) DNS
3 1 (0.87%) Firewall
3 1 (0.87%) Modbus
3 1 (0.87%) RS-485
3 1 (0.87%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (14.78%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (9.57%) Relational Database
3 9 (7.83%) SQL Server
4 8 (6.96%) Power BI
5 5 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (4.35%) Apache Arrow
5 5 (4.35%) Apache Iceberg
5 5 (4.35%) Apache Ignite
5 5 (4.35%) Data Lake
5 5 (4.35%) Dremio
6 3 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.61%) Tableau
7 2 (1.74%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.87%) KDB
8 1 (0.87%) Metadata
8 1 (0.87%) MySQL
8 1 (0.87%) Parquet
8 1 (0.87%) Redis
8 1 (0.87%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 17 (14.78%) Git
2 16 (13.91%) JIRA
3 4 (3.48%) Selenium
4 2 (1.74%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.87%) GitLab
5 1 (0.87%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.87%) Postman
5 1 (0.87%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.87%) Visual Studio
General
1 91 (79.13%) Finance
2 62 (53.91%) Front Office
3 42 (36.52%) Banking
4 19 (16.52%) Investment Banking
4 19 (16.52%) Social Skills
5 16 (13.91%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (6.09%) Marketing
7 5 (4.35%) Back Office
8 4 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.61%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.74%) Law
10 2 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.74%) Retail
11 1 (0.87%) Brand Awareness
11 1 (0.87%) Electronics
11 1 (0.87%) French Language
11 1 (0.87%) Legal
11 1 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (43.48%) Developer
2 33 (28.70%) Software Engineer
3 25 (21.74%) Python Engineer
4 22 (19.13%) Senior
5 21 (18.26%) Lead
5 21 (18.26%) Python Software Engineer
6 20 (17.39%) Analyst
7 19 (16.52%) Lead Developer
8 16 (13.91%) Senior Software Engineer
9 15 (13.04%) C++ Developer
10 13 (11.30%) Lead Software Developer
11 12 (10.43%) C++ Software Engineer
11 12 (10.43%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 12 (10.43%) Lead Software Engineer
11 12 (10.43%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
12 10 (8.70%) Java Engineer
13 9 (7.83%) Business Analyst
13 9 (7.83%) C# Developer
13 9 (7.83%) React Developer
14 8 (6.96%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (31.30%) FIX Protocol
2 25 (21.74%) React
3 17 (14.78%) Node.js
4 16 (13.91%) Redux
5 13 (11.30%) pytest
6 12 (10.43%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 9 (7.83%) .NET
8 7 (6.09%) Pandas
9 6 (5.22%) Kafka
10 5 (4.35%) gRPC
10 5 (4.35%) Java Concurrency
10 5 (4.35%) NumPy
10 5 (4.35%) Protocol Buffers
10 5 (4.35%) SciPy
11 4 (3.48%) CSS
11 4 (3.48%) HTML
11 4 (3.48%) Playwright
12 3 (2.61%) REST
13 2 (1.74%) AngularJS
13 2 (1.74%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 55 (47.83%) Fixed Income
2 53 (46.09%) Equities
3 25 (21.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 18 (15.65%) Algorithms
5 12 (10.43%) OTC Derivatives
6 6 (5.22%) Hedge funds
7 5 (4.35%) Cloud Native
7 5 (4.35%) Pricing Data
8 4 (3.48%) Credit Risk
8 4 (3.48%) Equity Derivative
8 4 (3.48%) Virtual Team
8 4 (3.48%) Wiki
9 3 (2.61%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (2.61%) Interest Rate Derivative
9 3 (2.61%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.74%) Credit Derivative
10 2 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.74%) Market Risk
10 2 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (33.04%) Linux
2 12 (10.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (8.70%) Windows
4 1 (0.87%) Debian
4 1 (0.87%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (40.00%) Agile
2 44 (38.26%) Software Engineering
3 33 (28.70%) Low Latency
4 26 (22.61%) Fintech
5 25 (21.74%) Asset Management
5 25 (21.74%) Mathematics
6 23 (20.00%) Investment Management
7 22 (19.13%) Analytics
7 22 (19.13%) Computer Science
8 18 (15.65%) Mentoring
9 16 (13.91%) Line Management
9 16 (13.91%) OOP
9 16 (13.91%) Portfolio Management
10 15 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (13.04%) Workflow
11 14 (12.17%) Data Analysis
11 14 (12.17%) Process Improvement
11 14 (12.17%) SDLC
11 14 (12.17%) Unit Testing
12 13 (11.30%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 62 (53.91%) Python
2 31 (26.96%) C++
3 30 (26.09%) TypeScript
4 29 (25.22%) JavaScript
5 27 (23.48%) Java
6 21 (18.26%) SQL
7 14 (12.17%) C#
8 3 (2.61%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.74%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.74%) VBA
10 1 (0.87%) Bash
10 1 (0.87%) R
10 1 (0.87%) Rust
Qualifications
1 21 (18.26%) Degree
2 6 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.48%) ISEB
3 4 (3.48%) ISTQB
3 4 (3.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 3 (2.61%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.74%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (1.74%) PhD
6 1 (0.87%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (20.00%) QA
2 10 (8.70%) MiFID
3 4 (3.48%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (3.48%) PMO
4 3 (2.61%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.74%) COREP
5 2 (1.74%) EMIR
6 1 (0.87%) Basel III
6 1 (0.87%) FINRA
System Software
1 3 (2.61%) Docker
2 1 (0.87%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.87%) iptables
Systems Management
1 2 (1.74%) Ansible
2 1 (0.87%) Grafana
2 1 (0.87%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.87%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.87%) SCCM
2 1 (0.87%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (10.43%) Red Hat
2 11 (9.57%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.48%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.74%) Databricks
4 2 (1.74%) Google
4 2 (1.74%) Murex
5 1 (0.87%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.87%) Charles River
5 1 (0.87%) Cisco
5 1 (0.87%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.87%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.87%) MikroTik
5 1 (0.87%) Salesforce