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 27 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 416 260 371
Rank change year-on-year -156 +111 +5
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 267 690 439
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.01% 0.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.39% 3.12% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 163 615 415
10th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £98,750 £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 £147,500 £135,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £165,000 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £57,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +17.39% -14.81% +40.63%

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 19,274 22,126 21,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 39.04% 32.49% 39.15%
Number of salaries quoted 10,274 10,827 16,197
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,750 £34,234
25th Percentile £35,750 £45,500 £45,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -1.82% +1.85%

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 27 October 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 27 October 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 -163 251 £115,000 - 138
London -92 224 £115,000 - 110
Work from Home -167 123 £119,000 +3.48% 48
UK excluding London +55 36 £67,500 +17.39% 71
North of England +25 11 - - 3
Scotland -1 10 - -
Midlands +41 8 £70,000 -
West Midlands +53 5 £70,000 -
Yorkshire +13 5 - - 2
North West +11 4 - - 1
South East +35 3 - - 65
East Midlands - 3 - -
South West +46 2 - - 1
Northern Ireland +4 2 £67,500 -1.82% 1
North East - 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 70 (26.22%) Apache Airflow
2 69 (25.84%) Apache
3 5 (1.87%) Jupyter
4 4 (1.50%) Cloud Foundry
4 4 (1.50%) Confluence
5 3 (1.12%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.12%) Stata
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 15 (5.62%) Aladdin
2 11 (4.12%) thinkFolio
3 2 (0.75%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.37%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 97 (36.33%) AWS
2 72 (26.97%) Snowflake
3 69 (25.84%) dbt
4 8 (3.00%) Azure
5 7 (2.62%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.50%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (1.12%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (0.75%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.75%) GitHub
9 1 (0.37%) Azure Batch
9 1 (0.37%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.37%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.37%) GCP
9 1 (0.37%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.37%) SaaS
9 1 (0.37%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.12%) Multicast
2 3 (1.12%) SSL
3 1 (0.37%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (27.34%) Amazon Athena
2 69 (25.84%) Apache Arrow
2 69 (25.84%) Apache Iceberg
2 69 (25.84%) Apache Ignite
2 69 (25.84%) Data Lake
2 69 (25.84%) Dremio
3 16 (5.99%) KDB
4 12 (4.49%) Kdb+
5 10 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (3.37%) NoSQL
7 8 (3.00%) Big Data
7 8 (3.00%) Relational Database
7 8 (3.00%) SQL Server
8 7 (2.62%) Power BI
9 4 (1.50%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.50%) SAP BW
10 3 (1.12%) Tableau
11 2 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.75%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.37%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (4.87%) JIRA
2 9 (3.37%) Git
3 6 (2.25%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.50%) Maven
4 4 (1.50%) Vite
5 2 (0.75%) Selenium
5 2 (0.75%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.37%) GitLab
6 1 (0.37%) Postman
6 1 (0.37%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 233 (87.27%) Finance
2 154 (57.68%) Front Office
3 153 (57.30%) Banking
4 100 (37.45%) Investment Banking
5 85 (31.84%) Social Skills
6 65 (24.34%) Law
7 41 (15.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 32 (11.99%) Legal
9 31 (11.61%) Financial Institution
10 26 (9.74%) Prime Brokerage
11 17 (6.37%) Analytical Skills
12 9 (3.37%) Marketing
13 5 (1.87%) Back Office
14 3 (1.12%) Advertising
15 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.37%) French Language
15 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.37%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 120 (44.94%) Senior
2 113 (42.32%) Software Engineer
3 95 (35.58%) Senior Software Engineer
4 93 (34.83%) Java Engineer
5 92 (34.46%) Python Engineer
5 92 (34.46%) Python Software Engineer
6 88 (32.96%) Java Software Engineer
7 79 (29.59%) Senior Java Engineer
8 77 (28.84%) AWS Engineer
8 77 (28.84%) AWS Software Engineer
9 75 (28.09%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 42 (15.73%) Lead
11 41 (15.36%) Analyst
12 36 (13.48%) Developer
13 32 (11.99%) Business Analyst
14 29 (10.86%) Risk Manager
15 24 (8.99%) Lead Software Engineer
16 22 (8.24%) Business Manager
17 12 (4.49%) Lead Java Engineer
17 12 (4.49%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (29.21%) Pandas
2 69 (25.84%) gRPC
2 69 (25.84%) NumPy
2 69 (25.84%) Protocol Buffers
2 69 (25.84%) SciPy
3 27 (10.11%) FIX Protocol
4 16 (5.99%) React
5 15 (5.62%) Spring
6 12 (4.49%) .NET
7 10 (3.75%) Web Services
8 8 (3.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 8 (3.00%) pytest
9 7 (2.62%) Kafka
10 5 (1.87%) AngularJS
11 4 (1.50%) Django
11 4 (1.50%) Jest
11 4 (1.50%) Middleware
12 3 (1.12%) .NET Core
12 3 (1.12%) Lambda Expressions
12 3 (1.12%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 117 (43.82%) Hedge funds
2 115 (43.07%) Equities
3 114 (42.70%) Fixed Income
4 96 (35.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 71 (26.59%) Pricing Data
6 25 (9.36%) Blockchain
7 22 (8.24%) Algorithms
8 20 (7.49%) Equity Derivative
9 16 (5.99%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (4.87%) Cloud Native
11 12 (4.49%) Onboarding
12 6 (2.25%) Credit Risk
13 5 (1.87%) Market Risk
14 4 (1.50%) Data Structures
14 4 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (1.50%) Management Information System
15 3 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
15 3 (1.12%) Grid Computing
16 2 (0.75%) Interest Rate Derivative
16 2 (0.75%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 30 (11.24%) Linux
2 4 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (1.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (59.18%) Agile
2 124 (46.44%) Software Engineering
3 86 (32.21%) Investment Management
4 83 (31.09%) Asset Management
5 43 (16.10%) Mathematics
5 43 (16.10%) Risk Management
6 40 (14.98%) Computer Science
7 39 (14.61%) SDLC
8 37 (13.86%) Operational Stability
9 32 (11.99%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (10.86%) CI/CD
10 29 (10.86%) Low Latency
11 26 (9.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (9.74%) Stress Testing
12 25 (9.36%) Analytics
12 25 (9.36%) Data Privacy
12 25 (9.36%) Proactive Monitoring
12 25 (9.36%) Rehypothecation
13 21 (7.87%) Community of Practice
14 20 (7.49%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 156 (58.43%) Python
2 130 (48.69%) Java
3 80 (29.96%) TypeScript
4 72 (26.97%) JavaScript
5 53 (19.85%) SQL
6 29 (10.86%) C++
7 25 (9.36%) C#
8 12 (4.49%) Scala
9 8 (3.00%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.50%) F#
10 4 (1.50%) Haskell
10 4 (1.50%) OCaml
10 4 (1.50%) R
10 4 (1.50%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.12%) MATLAB
11 3 (1.12%) VBA
12 2 (0.75%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.37%) Bash
13 1 (0.37%) Smalltalk
13 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (15.73%) Degree
2 20 (7.49%) Master's Degree
3 13 (4.87%) PhD
4 4 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.12%) CFA
6 2 (0.75%) ACCA
6 2 (0.75%) CIMA
6 2 (0.75%) ISEB
6 2 (0.75%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (0.75%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.37%) CISM
7 1 (0.37%) CISSP
7 1 (0.37%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 25 (9.36%) GDPR
2 13 (4.87%) QA
3 5 (1.87%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.75%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.75%) IFRS
4 2 (0.75%) ITGC
5 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.37%) Basel III
5 1 (0.37%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.37%) NIST
5 1 (0.37%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (4.49%) Docker
2 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (6.74%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.75%) Terraform
3 1 (0.37%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (4.49%) Calypso
1 12 (4.49%) Charles River
2 11 (4.12%) BISAM
2 11 (4.12%) SimCorp
3 10 (3.75%) Oracle
4 6 (2.25%) Microsoft
5 4 (1.50%) Bloomberg
5 4 (1.50%) Red Hat
5 4 (1.50%) SAP
5 4 (1.50%) Vertica
6 3 (1.12%) Databricks
6 3 (1.12%) Murex
7 2 (0.75%) Alteryx
7 2 (0.75%) Wallstreet Suite
8 1 (0.37%) FactSet
8 1 (0.37%) Google
8 1 (0.37%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.37%) Solace