Derivative Job Trends in the West Midlands

Derivatives
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Derivative in permanent job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Derivative over the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 212 188
Rank change year-on-year +42 -24 +92
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 5 4 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.15% 0.069% 0.027%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.39% 0.23% 0.073%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
75th Percentile £72,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,275 1,745 1,367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 39.01% 30.30% 37.22%
Number of salaries quoted 733 704 1,035
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,376 £39,744
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +2.80% +9.18%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -5.51% +1.60%

Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Derivative relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Derivative job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Derivative
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Derivative.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Derivative

Derivative
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Derivative within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 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
Coventry - 2 £70,000 - 2
Birmingham +20 1 - -
Wolverhampton - 1 - -
Staffordshire - 1 - -
Derivative
England

Derivative
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (20.00%) TimescaleDB
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 4 (80.00%) Financial Institution
2 4 (80.00%) Law
2 4 (80.00%) Legal
2 4 (80.00%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Risk Manager
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Operations Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Blockchain
1 4 (80.00%) Hedge funds
2 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Data Privacy
1 4 (80.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 4 (80.00%) Rehypothecation
1 4 (80.00%) Risk Management
1 4 (80.00%) Stress Testing
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (20.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 4 (80.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google