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 15 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 342 462
Rank change year-on-year -198 +120 -17
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 120 393 379
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.79% 0.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.55% 2.09% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 99 347 352
10th Percentile £71,500 £80,000 £66,250
25th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £83,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £140,000 £148,125 £142,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £152,500 £153,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +33.33% +10.53% -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 21,791 18,815 27,027
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.41% 37.93% 36.15%
Number of salaries quoted 11,013 8,755 19,775
10th Percentile £28,000 £34,000 £29,014
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,440
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +12.73% -14.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,100 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.73% +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 15 February 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 15 February 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 -159 118 £105,000 -8.70% 31
London -153 112 £110,000 -4.35% 25
Work from Home -151 30 £130,000 +13.04% 11
UK excluding London +5 5 £70,000 +33.33% 13
North of England 0 3 £65,000 +30.00%
North East -3 2 £65,000 +30.00%
West Midlands +15 1 £70,000 -
North West +11 1 - -
Midlands +4 1 £70,000 -
South West -5 1 £90,000 +73.91% 2

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 11 (9.17%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (8.33%) Apache
3 2 (1.67%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.83%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.83%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (5.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.83%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.83%) Stata
Business Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.67%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (20.00%) AWS
2 14 (11.67%) Snowflake
3 13 (10.83%) Azure
3 13 (10.83%) GitHub
4 10 (8.33%) dbt
5 9 (7.50%) GCP
5 9 (7.50%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.67%) Azure Batch
6 2 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (1.67%) SaaS
7 1 (0.83%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 25 (20.83%) Multicast
2 1 (0.83%) Firewall
2 1 (0.83%) Modbus
2 1 (0.83%) RS-485
2 1 (0.83%) VLAN
2 1 (0.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
1 10 (8.33%) Apache Arrow
1 10 (8.33%) Apache Iceberg
1 10 (8.33%) Apache Ignite
1 10 (8.33%) Data Lake
1 10 (8.33%) Dremio
1 10 (8.33%) Relational Database
1 10 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (7.50%) Power BI
3 4 (3.33%) Tableau
4 3 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.50%) KDB
5 2 (1.67%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.83%) Metadata
6 1 (0.83%) MySQL
6 1 (0.83%) Parquet
6 1 (0.83%) Tick Data
6 1 (0.83%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 15 (12.50%) Git
1 15 (12.50%) JIRA
2 4 (3.33%) Selenium
3 2 (1.67%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.83%) GitLab
4 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.83%) Postman
4 1 (0.83%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio
General
1 92 (76.67%) Finance
2 63 (52.50%) Front Office
3 51 (42.50%) Banking
4 23 (19.17%) Investment Banking
5 22 (18.33%) Social Skills
6 17 (14.17%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (6.67%) Marketing
8 5 (4.17%) Back Office
8 5 (4.17%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.67%) Legal
10 2 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.83%) Advertising
11 1 (0.83%) Brand Awareness
11 1 (0.83%) Electronics
11 1 (0.83%) French Language
11 1 (0.83%) Law
11 1 (0.83%) Retail
11 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (37.50%) Developer
2 33 (27.50%) Software Engineer
3 32 (26.67%) Senior
4 27 (22.50%) Python Engineer
5 25 (20.83%) Python Software Engineer
6 22 (18.33%) Senior Software Engineer
7 20 (16.67%) Analyst
8 16 (13.33%) C++ Developer
9 14 (11.67%) Java Engineer
9 14 (11.67%) Lead
10 13 (10.83%) C++ Software Engineer
10 13 (10.83%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 12 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
11 12 (10.00%) Lead Developer
12 11 (9.17%) Quantitative Developer
13 10 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
13 10 (8.33%) AWS Software Engineer
13 10 (8.33%) C# Developer
14 9 (7.50%) Business Analyst
15 8 (6.67%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (31.67%) FIX Protocol
2 15 (12.50%) React
3 14 (11.67%) pytest
4 13 (10.83%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 12 (10.00%) Pandas
6 10 (8.33%) gRPC
6 10 (8.33%) NumPy
6 10 (8.33%) Protocol Buffers
6 10 (8.33%) SciPy
7 9 (7.50%) .NET
8 8 (6.67%) Node.js
8 8 (6.67%) Redux
9 6 (5.00%) Java Concurrency
9 6 (5.00%) Kafka
10 4 (3.33%) CSS
10 4 (3.33%) HTML
10 4 (3.33%) Playwright
11 3 (2.50%) REST
12 2 (1.67%) .NET Core
12 2 (1.67%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 53 (44.17%) Equities
2 51 (42.50%) Fixed Income
3 30 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 22 (18.33%) Algorithms
5 12 (10.00%) Hedge funds
5 12 (10.00%) Pricing Data
6 10 (8.33%) OTC Derivatives
7 8 (6.67%) Equity Derivative
8 6 (5.00%) Cloud Native
8 6 (5.00%) Credit Risk
9 4 (3.33%) Data Structures
10 3 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (2.50%) Grid Computing
10 3 (2.50%) Interest Rate Derivative
10 3 (2.50%) Management Information System
10 3 (2.50%) Market Risk
10 3 (2.50%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.67%) ASIC
11 2 (1.67%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 41 (34.17%) Linux
2 12 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (7.50%) Windows
4 1 (0.83%) Debian
4 1 (0.83%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (39.17%) Agile
2 41 (34.17%) Software Engineering
3 36 (30.00%) Low Latency
4 28 (23.33%) Mathematics
5 26 (21.67%) Computer Science
6 25 (20.83%) Analytics
7 22 (18.33%) Asset Management
8 21 (17.50%) Investment Management
9 18 (15.00%) Fintech
10 16 (13.33%) Data Analysis
10 16 (13.33%) OOP
10 16 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (13.33%) Unit Testing
10 16 (13.33%) Workflow
11 15 (12.50%) Process Improvement
12 14 (11.67%) Continuous Integration
13 13 (10.83%) SDLC
13 13 (10.83%) Technical Leadership
14 12 (10.00%) Concurrent Programming
14 12 (10.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 69 (57.50%) Python
2 36 (30.00%) C++
3 35 (29.17%) Java
4 25 (20.83%) JavaScript
4 25 (20.83%) TypeScript
5 22 (18.33%) SQL
6 18 (15.00%) C#
7 2 (1.67%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.67%) R
7 2 (1.67%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.67%) VBA
8 1 (0.83%) Bash
8 1 (0.83%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 27 (22.50%) Degree
2 7 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.17%) Master's Degree
4 4 (3.33%) ISEB
4 4 (3.33%) ISTQB
4 4 (3.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (1.67%) CFA
5 2 (1.67%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (1.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (19.17%) QA
2 8 (6.67%) MiFID
3 4 (3.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (2.50%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.67%) COREP
5 2 (1.67%) EMIR
5 2 (1.67%) PMO
6 1 (0.83%) Basel III
6 1 (0.83%) FINRA
System Software
1 3 (2.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) iptables
Systems Management
1 2 (1.67%) Ansible
2 1 (0.83%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.83%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (10.00%) Red Hat
2 8 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.50%) Databricks
4 2 (1.67%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.67%) Murex
5 1 (0.83%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.83%) Charles River
5 1 (0.83%) Cisco
5 1 (0.83%) FactSet
5 1 (0.83%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.83%) Google
5 1 (0.83%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.83%) MikroTik
5 1 (0.83%) Salesforce