Derivative Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Derivatives
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Derivative in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Derivative over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 271 356
Rank change year-on-year +119 +85 +156
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 304 387 358
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.03% 1.14% 0.84%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.20% 3.22% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 290 378 298
10th Percentile £85,000 £66,750 £63,750
25th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £115,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year - +21.05% -20.83%
75th Percentile £147,500 £146,250 £115,000
90th Percentile £152,500 £165,000 £150,000
UK median annual salary £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -6.67%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,843 12,025 16,498
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.07% 35.54% 38.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3,833 9,250 11,895
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,750 £59,300 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.19% -8.77% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £101,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Derivative
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Derivative as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Derivative trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Derivative
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Derivative.

Derivative salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Derivative
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Derivative over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Derivative salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Derivative
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 92 (30.26%) Apache
2 89 (29.28%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.99%) GemFire
Business Applications
1 49 (16.12%) Aladdin
2 28 (9.21%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 89 (29.28%) AWS
1 89 (29.28%) dbt
1 89 (29.28%) Snowflake
2 34 (11.18%) Amazon EC2
2 34 (11.18%) Amazon ECS
2 34 (11.18%) Amazon EKS
2 34 (11.18%) Dagster
2 34 (11.18%) GCP
3 6 (1.97%) SaaS
4 4 (1.32%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.99%) Multicast
2 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (60.86%) Data Lake
2 89 (29.28%) Amazon Athena
2 89 (29.28%) Apache Arrow
2 89 (29.28%) Apache Iceberg
2 89 (29.28%) Dremio
3 76 (25.00%) Apache Ignite
4 6 (1.97%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.99%) InterSystems Cache
5 3 (0.99%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.99%) Oracle Database
5 3 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.99%) RDBMS
5 3 (0.99%) Redis
5 3 (0.99%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (1.64%) Jenkins
2 3 (0.99%) JIRA
2 3 (0.99%) MSTest
2 3 (0.99%) NUnit
2 3 (0.99%) SpecFlow
2 3 (0.99%) TeamCity
3 2 (0.66%) Git
4 1 (0.33%) JUnit
4 1 (0.33%) Maven
4 1 (0.33%) Mockito
General
1 294 (96.71%) Finance
2 287 (94.41%) Front Office
3 104 (34.21%) Banking
4 94 (30.92%) Investment Banking
5 19 (6.25%) Social Skills
6 7 (2.30%) Law
7 6 (1.97%) Back Office
8 4 (1.32%) Advertising
9 3 (0.99%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (0.99%) Legal
9 3 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (0.99%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (0.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 92 (30.26%) Software Engineer
2 89 (29.28%) AWS Engineer
2 89 (29.28%) AWS Software Engineer
3 73 (24.01%) Java Engineer
4 71 (23.36%) Analyst
5 70 (23.03%) Java Software Engineer
6 67 (22.04%) Senior
7 60 (19.74%) Senior Software Engineer
8 58 (19.08%) Python Engineer
8 58 (19.08%) Python Software Engineer
9 51 (16.78%) Business Analyst
9 51 (16.78%) Senior Java Engineer
9 51 (16.78%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 41 (13.49%) Business Manager
10 41 (13.49%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
11 39 (12.83%) Lead
12 36 (11.84%) Data Governance Analyst
12 36 (11.84%) Data Governance Manager
12 36 (11.84%) Governance Manager
13 32 (10.53%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (24.01%) gRPC
1 73 (24.01%) NumPy
1 73 (24.01%) Pandas
1 73 (24.01%) Protocol Buffers
1 73 (24.01%) SciPy
2 50 (16.45%) PySpark
3 9 (2.96%) .NET
4 6 (1.97%) FIX Protocol
4 6 (1.97%) JSON
5 4 (1.32%) HTML
5 4 (1.32%) HTML5
5 4 (1.32%) Kafka
5 4 (1.32%) Spring
6 3 (0.99%) AngularJS
6 3 (0.99%) CSS
6 3 (0.99%) LESS
6 3 (0.99%) Middleware
6 3 (0.99%) pytest
6 3 (0.99%) React
6 3 (0.99%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 265 (87.17%) Fixed Income
2 256 (84.21%) Hedge funds
3 218 (71.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 207 (68.09%) Equities
5 39 (12.83%) Pricing Data
6 37 (12.17%) Onboarding
7 34 (11.18%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.97%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.97%) Credit Derivative
9 5 (1.64%) Reference Data
10 4 (1.32%) Equity Derivative
10 4 (1.32%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.99%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.99%) Credit Risk
11 3 (0.99%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.66%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.66%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.62%) Linux
2 8 (2.63%) Unix
3 4 (1.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (87.50%) Agile
2 206 (67.76%) Investment Management
3 147 (48.36%) Migration
4 144 (47.37%) Asset Management
5 112 (36.84%) Data Governance
5 112 (36.84%) Regulatory Compliance
5 112 (36.84%) Roadmaps
6 99 (32.57%) Software Engineering
7 96 (31.58%) Data Management
8 51 (16.78%) Business Intelligence
9 45 (14.80%) Portfolio Management
10 41 (13.49%) Business Analysis
11 34 (11.18%) Data Mapping
12 26 (8.55%) Analytics
13 14 (4.61%) Performance Analysis
14 13 (4.28%) User Acceptance Testing
15 10 (3.29%) OOP
16 9 (2.96%) Stakeholder Management
17 8 (2.63%) People Management
18 7 (2.30%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 163 (53.62%) Python
2 111 (36.51%) Java
3 79 (25.99%) SQL
4 77 (25.33%) JavaScript
4 77 (25.33%) TypeScript
5 14 (4.61%) C#
6 12 (3.95%) C++
7 3 (0.99%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.33%) C
Qualifications
1 12 (3.95%) Degree
2 5 (1.64%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.66%) PhD
4 1 (0.33%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (18.09%) MiFID
2 10 (3.29%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.99%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 49 (16.12%) BISAM
2 34 (11.18%) Charles River
3 28 (9.21%) Calypso
3 28 (9.21%) SimCorp
4 9 (2.96%) Oracle
5 4 (1.32%) Solace
6 3 (0.99%) Sophis
6 3 (0.99%) TIBCO
7 2 (0.66%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.33%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.33%) FactSet