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 have cited Derivative over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 443 453 444
Rank change year-on-year +10 -9 -80
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 536 707 1,203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.67% 0.78%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.54% 1.57% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 495 553 946
10th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £62,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £105,000 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -6.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £143,750 £127,500 £136,250
90th Percentile £165,000 £150,000 £162,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £66,250 £67,500
% change year-on-year -28.30% -1.85% +12.50%

All Generic Skills
UK

Derivative is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,794 45,109 72,553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.44% 42.89% 47.14%
Number of salaries quoted 22,980 24,192 33,986
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Derivative.

Salary trend for Derivative in the UK

Derivative
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Derivative over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Derivative in the UK

Derivative
Top 11 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 25 April 2024. 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 +43 525 £115,000 +9.52% 142
London +58 498 £115,000 +9.52% 135
Work from Home +87 374 £115,000 +21.05% 39
UK excluding London -23 33 £47,500 -28.30% 11
South West -1 20 - - 1
Scotland -57 7 - - 2
East of England +25 3 £45,000 - 4
North of England +36 2 £50,000 - 2
North West - 2 £50,000 - 1
West Midlands +10 1 £32,000 - 1
Midlands -2 1 £32,000 - 1

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
1 171 (31.90%) Apache Airflow
2 147 (27.43%) Apache
3 2 (0.37%) SAS
4 1 (0.19%) Gunicorn
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.19%) nginx
4 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.19%) uWSGI
4 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 18 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (2.61%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.37%) ION Anvil
2 2 (0.37%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.19%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 344 (64.18%) AWS
2 231 (43.10%) GCP
3 168 (31.34%) Azure
4 155 (28.92%) dbt
5 132 (24.63%) Snowflake
6 6 (1.12%) GitHub
7 5 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (0.93%) Power Automate
8 4 (0.75%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.19%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.19%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.19%) OCI
9 1 (0.19%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.19%) BGP
1 1 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (0.19%) DHCP
1 1 (0.19%) DNS
1 1 (0.19%) Firewall
1 1 (0.19%) FIX Connectivity
1 1 (0.19%) Internet
1 1 (0.19%) IOS XR
1 1 (0.19%) Network Security
1 1 (0.19%) OSPF
1 1 (0.19%) VPN
1 1 (0.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (28.92%) Amazon Athena
1 155 (28.92%) Apache Arrow
1 155 (28.92%) Dremio
2 146 (27.24%) Apache Ignite
3 132 (24.63%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.56%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.37%) Big Data
5 2 (0.37%) SQLPlus
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.19%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (2.05%) JIRA
2 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.19%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.19%) GDB
3 1 (0.19%) GitLab
3 1 (0.19%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 490 (91.42%) Finance
2 445 (83.02%) Front Office
3 267 (49.81%) Banking
4 198 (36.94%) Investment Banking
5 106 (19.78%) Back Office
6 38 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
7 34 (6.34%) Social Skills
8 31 (5.78%) Law
9 29 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (2.99%) Legal
11 10 (1.87%) Advertising
12 9 (1.68%) Marketing
12 9 (1.68%) Prime Brokerage
13 7 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.93%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
16 1 (0.19%) Billing
16 1 (0.19%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.19%) International Banking
16 1 (0.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 219 (40.86%) Developer
2 192 (35.82%) Software Engineer
3 154 (28.73%) Senior
4 144 (26.87%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 116 (21.64%) Analyst
6 100 (18.66%) Senior Software Engineer
7 95 (17.72%) Lead
8 94 (17.54%) Finance Manager
9 89 (16.60%) .NET Developer
9 89 (16.60%) .NET Software Engineer
10 88 (16.42%) .NET Software Developer
11 81 (15.11%) Python Developer
12 71 (13.25%) Senior Developer
13 66 (12.31%) Financial Analyst
13 66 (12.31%) Python Engineer
13 66 (12.31%) Python Software Engineer
14 62 (11.57%) Senior Software Developer
15 60 (11.19%) Business Analyst
16 55 (10.26%) Lead Developer
17 48 (8.96%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (31.53%) gRPC
1 169 (31.53%) Protocol Buffers
2 164 (30.60%) Pandas
3 146 (27.24%) NumPy
4 144 (26.87%) SciPy
5 122 (22.76%) React
6 112 (20.90%) .NET
6 112 (20.90%) AngularJS
7 104 (19.40%) Vue
8 100 (18.66%) Redux
9 52 (9.70%) ASP.NET
9 52 (9.70%) ASP.NET Core
10 48 (8.96%) .NET Core
11 16 (2.99%) Material-UI
12 6 (1.12%) FIX Protocol
12 6 (1.12%) XML
13 4 (0.75%) J2SE
13 4 (0.75%) JSON
13 4 (0.75%) REST
14 3 (0.56%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 408 (76.12%) Hedge funds
2 374 (69.78%) Fixed Income
3 364 (67.91%) Equities
4 338 (63.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 54 (10.07%) Product Ownership
6 21 (3.92%) Credit Derivative
7 16 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (2.80%) Credit Risk
9 12 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (2.24%) Pricing Data
10 9 (1.68%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.49%) Equity Derivative
11 8 (1.49%) Reference Data
12 7 (1.31%) Interest Rate Derivative
12 7 (1.31%) Management Information System
13 6 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
14 5 (0.93%) OTC Derivatives
15 4 (0.75%) Algorithms
16 3 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.49%) Apple iOS
2 7 (1.31%) Windows
3 5 (0.93%) Linux
4 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.19%) CentOS
5 1 (0.19%) Debian
5 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.19%) Scientific Linux
5 1 (0.19%) Unix
5 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 408 (76.12%) Asset Management
2 375 (69.96%) Agile
3 374 (69.78%) Investment Management
4 318 (59.33%) Software Engineering
5 85 (15.86%) Mentoring
6 79 (14.74%) Fintech
7 74 (13.81%) Analytics
8 69 (12.87%) TDD
9 66 (12.31%) Line Management
10 57 (10.63%) DevOps
11 56 (10.45%) Greeks
12 50 (9.33%) Full Stack Development
13 46 (8.58%) Artificial Intelligence
13 46 (8.58%) Machine Learning
13 46 (8.58%) Quantitative Research
14 35 (6.53%) Product Management
15 34 (6.34%) Problem-Solving
16 33 (6.16%) Roadmaps
17 24 (4.48%) Project Management
18 21 (3.92%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 376 (70.15%) Python
2 262 (48.88%) JavaScript
3 260 (48.51%) TypeScript
4 173 (32.28%) C#
5 168 (31.34%) Java
6 154 (28.73%) SQL
7 43 (8.02%) R
8 19 (3.54%) C++
9 13 (2.43%) Ruby
10 12 (2.24%) Scala
11 6 (1.12%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.12%) VBA
12 3 (0.56%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.19%) C
13 1 (0.19%) Go
13 1 (0.19%) Perl
13 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.19%) VBScript
13 1 (0.19%) VC++
13 1 (0.19%) XPath
Qualifications
1 33 (6.16%) Degree
2 3 (0.56%) CCAB
2 3 (0.56%) CISA
2 3 (0.56%) CISM
2 3 (0.56%) CISSP
2 3 (0.56%) QiCA
3 2 (0.37%) ACCA
3 2 (0.37%) CIMA
4 1 (0.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.19%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (10.45%) Data Quality
2 54 (10.07%) QA
3 3 (0.56%) COBIT
3 3 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.56%) ITGC
4 2 (0.37%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.19%) COREP
5 1 (0.19%) IFRS
5 1 (0.19%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.19%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.19%) PMO
5 1 (0.19%) SLA
5 1 (0.19%) SOC 1
System Software
1 4 (0.75%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (1.49%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.56%) Control-M
2 3 (0.56%) Terraform
3 2 (0.37%) Kibana
4 1 (0.19%) Ansible
4 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 56 (10.45%) Bloomberg
2 14 (2.61%) Oracle
3 13 (2.43%) BISAM
4 6 (1.12%) Microsoft
5 5 (0.93%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.56%) Cadence
6 3 (0.56%) SAP
6 3 (0.56%) Trayport
7 2 (0.37%) Calypso
7 2 (0.37%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.19%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.19%) Cisco
8 1 (0.19%) FactSet
8 1 (0.19%) IBM
8 1 (0.19%) Juniper
8 1 (0.19%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.19%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.19%) Sun
8 1 (0.19%) VMware