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 31 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 605 319 393
Rank change year-on-year -286 +74 +22
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 123 397 655
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.91% 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.49% 2.11% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 94 320 609
10th Percentile £68,250 £85,000 £66,250
25th Percentile £88,125 £91,250 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £101,250 £115,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.96% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £130,000 £136,250 £146,250
90th Percentile £150,000 £152,500 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.81% +35.00% -44.44%

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 25,180 18,780 35,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.04% 42.93% 34.75%
Number of salaries quoted 14,416 8,856 23,112
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £38,066
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% +8.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,001 £51,058 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.07% +2.12% -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 31 May 2026.

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 31 May 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 -261 121 £102,500 -10.87% 69
London -186 119 £102,500 -10.87% 66
Work from Home -186 28 £100,000 -13.04% 18
UK excluding London -90 4 £57,500 -14.81% 15
North of England -52 2 £61,250 - 5
Scotland 0 1 £50,000 - 1
North West -9 1 £57,500 - 4
Northern Ireland -39 1 - - 5
North East -47 1 £65,000 -

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 4 (3.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.81%) Apache
2 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.81%) Jupyter
Applications
1 12 (9.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (15.45%) AWS
2 18 (14.63%) Azure
3 16 (13.01%) GCP
4 13 (10.57%) GitHub
5 4 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (3.25%) SaaS
6 3 (2.44%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.81%) Smartsheet
7 1 (0.81%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 19 (15.45%) Multicast
2 4 (3.25%) DHCP
2 4 (3.25%) DNS
2 4 (3.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.01%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.88%) Relational Database
3 5 (4.07%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.44%) Power BI
5 2 (1.63%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.81%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.81%) KDB
6 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.81%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (17.07%) JIRA
2 15 (12.20%) Git
3 1 (0.81%) Postman
3 1 (0.81%) SoapUI
General
1 101 (82.11%) Finance
2 47 (38.21%) Banking
3 45 (36.59%) Front Office
4 27 (21.95%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (17.89%) Social Skills
6 21 (17.07%) Investment Banking
7 15 (12.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (8.94%) Financial Institution
9 7 (5.69%) Law
9 7 (5.69%) Marketing
9 7 (5.69%) Retail
10 4 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.63%) Advertising
11 2 (1.63%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.63%) Legal
11 2 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.63%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.81%) Back Office
12 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (33.33%) Developer
1 41 (33.33%) Senior
2 34 (27.64%) Software Engineer
3 27 (21.95%) Lead
4 25 (20.33%) Python Engineer
5 21 (17.07%) Python Software Engineer
6 19 (15.45%) Analyst
7 18 (14.63%) Lead Developer
7 18 (14.63%) Senior Software Engineer
8 17 (13.82%) C++ Software Engineer
9 16 (13.01%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
10 12 (9.76%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 12 (9.76%) Lead Software Developer
10 12 (9.76%) Lead Software Engineer
11 11 (8.94%) Senior Developer
12 10 (8.13%) Python Developer
13 9 (7.32%) Business Analyst
13 9 (7.32%) React Developer
14 8 (6.50%) Market Risk Analyst
14 8 (6.50%) Quantitative Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (20.33%) FIX Protocol
2 21 (17.07%) React
3 17 (13.82%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 17 (13.82%) Node.js
3 17 (13.82%) pytest
4 16 (13.01%) Redux
5 4 (3.25%) Kafka
6 3 (2.44%) .NET
7 2 (1.63%) FpML
7 2 (1.63%) Java Concurrency
7 2 (1.63%) JSON
7 2 (1.63%) NumPy
7 2 (1.63%) Pandas
7 2 (1.63%) REST
7 2 (1.63%) RESTful
8 1 (0.81%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.81%) Django
8 1 (0.81%) Flask
8 1 (0.81%) Loki
8 1 (0.81%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 60 (48.78%) Fixed Income
2 56 (45.53%) Equities
3 27 (21.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 19 (15.45%) Algorithms
5 11 (8.94%) OTC Derivatives
6 10 (8.13%) Market Risk
7 7 (5.69%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (4.88%) Equity Derivative
9 5 (4.07%) Onboarding
10 4 (3.25%) Virtual Team
10 4 (3.25%) Wiki
11 3 (2.44%) Cloud Native
11 3 (2.44%) Data Structures
11 3 (2.44%) Reference Data
12 2 (1.63%) ASIC
12 2 (1.63%) Credit Risk
12 2 (1.63%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (1.63%) Product Ownership
13 1 (0.81%) Hedge funds
13 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 23 (18.70%) Linux
2 5 (4.07%) Windows
3 2 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (39.02%) Agile
2 45 (36.59%) Software Engineering
3 30 (24.39%) Mentoring
4 29 (23.58%) Computer Science
4 29 (23.58%) Low Latency
5 28 (22.76%) Mathematics
6 27 (21.95%) Process Improvement
7 26 (21.14%) Fintech
7 26 (21.14%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (18.70%) Technical Leadership
9 21 (17.07%) OOP
10 20 (16.26%) Analytics
10 20 (16.26%) SDLC
11 19 (15.45%) Continuous Integration
11 19 (15.45%) Workflow
12 18 (14.63%) Asset Management
12 18 (14.63%) Investment Management
13 17 (13.82%) Line Management
14 16 (13.01%) Decision-Making
14 16 (13.01%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (47.97%) Python
2 33 (26.83%) C++
3 21 (17.07%) TypeScript
4 18 (14.63%) JavaScript
5 16 (13.01%) SQL
6 14 (11.38%) Java
7 12 (9.76%) C#
8 8 (6.50%) R
9 4 (3.25%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.63%) VBA
11 1 (0.81%) Bash
11 1 (0.81%) Rust
11 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (15.45%) Degree
2 9 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.81%) CFA
3 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.81%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (16.26%) QA
2 16 (13.01%) MiFID
3 8 (6.50%) Basel III
3 8 (6.50%) EMIR
4 4 (3.25%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (3.25%) PMO
5 3 (2.44%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.63%) GAAP
6 2 (1.63%) IFRS
6 2 (1.63%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 4 (3.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.25%) SCCM
2 1 (0.81%) Grafana
2 1 (0.81%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (9.76%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.07%) Bloomberg
3 4 (3.25%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.63%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.81%) Databricks
5 1 (0.81%) Google
5 1 (0.81%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.81%) Oracle
5 1 (0.81%) Reuters
5 1 (0.81%) Salesforce