Derivative Jobs

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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 400 437
Rank change year-on-year +41 +37 +34
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 399 645 701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.72% 0.62% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.94% 1.81% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 323 599 564
10th Percentile £85,000 £66,250 £63,750
25th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £136,250 £146,250 £130,000
90th Percentile £152,500 £165,000 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £50,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +35.00% -44.44% +33.33%

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 20,604 35,638 42,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.19% 34.51% 43.55%
Number of salaries quoted 9,493 23,121 22,633
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,084 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +3 388 £115,000 - 579
London +9 359 £115,000 - 175
Work from Home -2 277 £115,000 - 92
UK excluding London +194 36 £67,500 +35.00% 530
North of England +64 14 - - 89
Midlands +92 7 - - 77
North West +14 7 - - 38
South East - 6 - - 220
Scotland +116 5 - - 21
Yorkshire - 5 - - 39
West Midlands +61 4 - - 42
East Midlands - 3 - - 30
South West +85 2 - - 48
Northern Ireland +44 2 £67,500 - 18
North East - 2 - - 12

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 87 (21.80%) Apache
2 83 (20.80%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.00%) GemFire
5 2 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.50%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.25%) Stata
Business Applications
1 60 (15.04%) Aladdin
2 39 (9.77%) thinkFolio
3 5 (1.25%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.50%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.50%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.25%) Eikon
5 1 (0.25%) Endur
5 1 (0.25%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 96 (24.06%) AWS
2 83 (20.80%) dbt
2 83 (20.80%) Snowflake
3 13 (3.26%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (2.76%) Amazon ECS
4 11 (2.76%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (2.76%) Dagster
4 11 (2.76%) GCP
5 7 (1.75%) SaaS
6 5 (1.25%) Azure
7 4 (1.00%) OpenShift
8 3 (0.75%) Azure AKS
8 3 (0.75%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.50%) Amazon MSK
10 1 (0.25%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.25%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.51%) Multicast
2 6 (1.50%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.25%) DHCP
3 5 (1.25%) DNS
3 5 (1.25%) Firewall
3 5 (1.25%) FIX Connectivity
4 2 (0.50%) HTTP
4 2 (0.50%) SSL
4 2 (0.50%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 84 (21.05%) Amazon Athena
3 83 (20.80%) Apache Arrow
3 83 (20.80%) Apache Iceberg
3 83 (20.80%) Dremio
4 55 (13.78%) Apache Ignite
5 11 (2.76%) MongoDB
6 9 (2.26%) NoSQL
6 9 (2.26%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.01%) KDB
7 8 (2.01%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.50%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.50%) Redis
9 5 (1.25%) Kdb+
9 5 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (1.00%) Big Data
10 4 (1.00%) InterSystems Cache
10 4 (1.00%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.00%) SAP BW
11 2 (0.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (3.01%) Git
2 10 (2.51%) JIRA
3 7 (1.75%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.75%) Maven
4 3 (0.75%) MSTest
4 3 (0.75%) NUnit
4 3 (0.75%) SpecFlow
4 3 (0.75%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.50%) Vite
6 1 (0.25%) JetBrains Rider
6 1 (0.25%) JUnit
6 1 (0.25%) Mockito
General
1 373 (93.48%) Finance
2 292 (73.18%) Front Office
3 148 (37.09%) Banking
4 104 (26.07%) Investment Banking
5 83 (20.80%) Social Skills
6 51 (12.78%) Law
7 35 (8.77%) Legal
8 29 (7.27%) Financial Institution
9 24 (6.02%) Prime Brokerage
10 21 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
12 8 (2.01%) Back Office
13 7 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.25%) Marketing
15 4 (1.00%) Advertising
15 4 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (1.00%) Spanish Language
16 2 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
17 1 (0.25%) Influencing Skills
17 1 (0.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 115 (28.82%) Software Engineer
2 96 (24.06%) Analyst
3 87 (21.80%) AWS Engineer
3 87 (21.80%) AWS Software Engineer
4 85 (21.30%) Java Engineer
5 83 (20.80%) Senior
6 79 (19.80%) Java Software Engineer
7 72 (18.05%) Senior Software Engineer
8 70 (17.54%) Python Engineer
8 70 (17.54%) Python Software Engineer
9 67 (16.79%) Business Analyst
10 58 (14.54%) Lead
11 56 (14.04%) Developer
12 55 (13.78%) Business Manager
12 55 (13.78%) Senior Java Engineer
13 53 (13.28%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 52 (13.03%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
15 38 (9.52%) Software Developer
16 37 (9.27%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 32 (8.02%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (13.78%) Pandas
2 53 (13.28%) gRPC
3 51 (12.78%) NumPy
3 51 (12.78%) Protocol Buffers
3 51 (12.78%) SciPy
4 43 (10.78%) PySpark
5 26 (6.52%) FIX Protocol
6 14 (3.51%) .NET
6 14 (3.51%) Spring
7 12 (3.01%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 11 (2.76%) React
9 10 (2.51%) pytest
10 9 (2.26%) Kafka
11 6 (1.50%) AngularJS
11 6 (1.50%) Middleware
12 5 (1.25%) HTML
12 5 (1.25%) HTML5
12 5 (1.25%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (1.25%) Web Services
12 5 (1.25%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 262 (65.66%) Fixed Income
2 257 (64.41%) Hedge funds
3 200 (50.13%) Equities
4 197 (49.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 52 (13.03%) Onboarding
6 40 (10.03%) Pricing Data
7 26 (6.52%) Blockchain
8 20 (5.01%) Algorithms
9 16 (4.01%) Equity Derivative
10 9 (2.26%) Cloud Native
10 9 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.75%) Credit Derivative
11 7 (1.75%) Market Risk
11 7 (1.75%) OTC Derivatives
11 7 (1.75%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.50%) Reference Data
13 5 (1.25%) Bitcoin
13 5 (1.25%) Eurex
13 5 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (7.77%) Linux
2 16 (4.01%) Unix
3 8 (2.01%) Windows
4 7 (1.75%) CentOS
4 7 (1.75%) Rocky
5 3 (0.75%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.50%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.25%) Debian
7 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (70.93%) Agile
2 188 (47.12%) Investment Management
3 149 (37.34%) Asset Management
4 127 (31.83%) Software Engineering
5 111 (27.82%) Data Management
6 95 (23.81%) Migration
7 85 (21.30%) Roadmaps
8 84 (21.05%) Regulatory Compliance
9 82 (20.55%) Data Governance
10 62 (15.54%) Business Analysis
11 61 (15.29%) Business Intelligence
12 58 (14.54%) Portfolio Management
13 45 (11.28%) Data Mapping
14 43 (10.78%) Risk Management
15 40 (10.03%) Analytics
16 28 (7.02%) Computer Science
17 27 (6.77%) Mathematics
18 26 (6.52%) Problem-Solving
19 25 (6.27%) Low Latency
19 25 (6.27%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 214 (53.63%) Python
2 141 (35.34%) Java
3 128 (32.08%) SQL
4 59 (14.79%) TypeScript
5 55 (13.78%) JavaScript
6 31 (7.77%) C++
7 27 (6.77%) C#
8 8 (2.01%) PowerShell
9 7 (1.75%) Bash
10 5 (1.25%) Perl
11 4 (1.00%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.00%) Scala
11 4 (1.00%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.50%) R
12 2 (0.50%) Rust
13 1 (0.25%) C
13 1 (0.25%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.25%) Smalltalk
13 1 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (10.03%) Degree
2 13 (3.26%) Master's Degree
3 8 (2.01%) PhD
4 2 (0.50%) ACCA
4 2 (0.50%) CFA
4 2 (0.50%) CIMA
4 2 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (9.27%) MiFID
2 24 (6.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 24 (6.02%) GDPR
3 15 (3.76%) Accessibility
4 12 (3.01%) QA
5 7 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.50%) IFRS
7 1 (0.25%) Basel III
7 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (2.51%) Docker
2 3 (0.75%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (2.76%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.75%) Grafana
3 4 (1.00%) Terraform
4 1 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.25%) Nagios
Vendors
1 58 (14.54%) BISAM
2 45 (11.28%) Charles River
3 39 (9.77%) Calypso
3 39 (9.77%) SimCorp
4 21 (5.26%) Oracle
5 10 (2.51%) Bloomberg
6 8 (2.01%) Microsoft
7 7 (1.75%) Atlassian
7 7 (1.75%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.50%) ION Trading
8 6 (1.50%) Reuters
9 5 (1.25%) CQG
9 5 (1.25%) Patsystems
9 5 (1.25%) Solace
9 5 (1.25%) Trayport
10 4 (1.00%) SAP
10 4 (1.00%) TIBCO
11 3 (0.75%) Cisco
11 3 (0.75%) Citrix
11 3 (0.75%) VMware