Derivative Jobs with Work from Home Options

Derivatives
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Derivative in permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Derivative over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 262 346 500
Rank change year-on-year +84 +154 -74
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 402 364 379
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.19% 0.86% 0.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.34% 2.23% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 394 304 346
10th Percentile £69,375 £63,750 £58,750
25th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £100,000 £120,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -16.67% +35.21%
75th Percentile £146,250 £115,000 £144,688
90th Percentile £165,000 £150,000 £187,500
UK median annual salary £115,000 £105,000 £112,500
% change year-on-year +9.52% -6.67% +25.00%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,031 16,342 31,704
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.53% 38.56% 46.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,255 11,849 16,959
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,750 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £101,250 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Derivative
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Derivative as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Derivative trend for jobs with a WFH option

Derivative
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Derivative over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

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
1 199 (49.50%) Apache Airflow
2 179 (44.53%) Apache
3 1 (0.25%) Gunicorn
3 1 (0.25%) nginx
3 1 (0.25%) uWSGI
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.25%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 312 (77.61%) AWS
2 197 (49.00%) GCP
3 187 (46.52%) dbt
4 166 (41.29%) Snowflake
5 113 (28.11%) Azure
6 4 (1.00%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.25%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.25%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.25%) BGP
1 1 (0.25%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (0.25%) DHCP
1 1 (0.25%) DNS
1 1 (0.25%) Firewall
1 1 (0.25%) Internet
1 1 (0.25%) IOS XR
1 1 (0.25%) Network Security
1 1 (0.25%) OSPF
1 1 (0.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (46.52%) Amazon Athena
1 187 (46.52%) Apache Arrow
1 187 (46.52%) Dremio
2 178 (44.28%) Apache Ignite
3 166 (41.29%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.50%) SQLPlus
General
1 385 (95.77%) Finance
2 374 (93.03%) Front Office
3 245 (60.95%) Banking
4 182 (45.27%) Investment Banking
5 99 (24.63%) Back Office
6 8 (1.99%) Advertising
6 8 (1.99%) Social Skills
7 7 (1.74%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (1.74%) Prime Brokerage
8 3 (0.75%) Financial Institution
8 3 (0.75%) Law
9 2 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.25%) Aviation
10 1 (0.25%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.25%) Legal
10 1 (0.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 160 (39.80%) Developer
1 160 (39.80%) Software Engineer
2 137 (34.08%) Senior
3 106 (26.37%) Senior Software Engineer
4 103 (25.62%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 85 (21.14%) Lead
6 81 (20.15%) Python Developer
7 75 (18.66%) Python Engineer
7 75 (18.66%) Python Software Engineer
8 64 (15.92%) Senior Developer
9 63 (15.67%) Finance Manager
10 60 (14.93%) Java Engineer
10 60 (14.93%) Java Software Engineer
11 59 (14.68%) Senior Software Developer
12 57 (14.18%) Analyst
13 53 (13.18%) Financial Analyst
14 52 (12.94%) AWS Engineer
14 52 (12.94%) AWS Software Engineer
15 48 (11.94%) Architect
15 48 (11.94%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (49.50%) gRPC
1 199 (49.50%) Protocol Buffers
2 194 (48.26%) Pandas
3 180 (44.78%) NumPy
4 178 (44.28%) SciPy
5 66 (16.42%) React
6 57 (14.18%) .NET
7 56 (13.93%) AngularJS
8 54 (13.43%) Vue
9 51 (12.69%) Redux
10 37 (9.20%) ASP.NET
11 36 (8.96%) ASP.NET Core
12 15 (3.73%) .NET Core
13 12 (2.99%) Material-UI
14 3 (0.75%) J2SE
14 3 (0.75%) REST
15 2 (0.50%) Web Services
16 1 (0.25%) .NET Framework
16 1 (0.25%) HTML
16 1 (0.25%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 358 (89.05%) Hedge funds
2 316 (78.61%) Fixed Income
3 315 (78.36%) Equities
4 266 (66.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 26 (6.47%) Product Ownership
6 18 (4.48%) Pricing Data
7 6 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.00%) Credit Derivative
8 4 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.75%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.50%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.50%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.25%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.25%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.25%) Equity Derivative
11 1 (0.25%) OTC Derivatives
11 1 (0.25%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.49%) Windows
2 1 (0.25%) Linux
2 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (91.29%) Asset Management
2 321 (79.85%) Investment Management
3 308 (76.62%) Agile
4 292 (72.64%) Software Engineering
5 81 (20.15%) Line Management
6 68 (16.92%) Greeks
7 67 (16.67%) Mentoring
8 56 (13.93%) Analytics
9 42 (10.45%) Quantitative Research
10 38 (9.45%) Product Management
11 26 (6.47%) Artificial Intelligence
11 26 (6.47%) Machine Learning
12 12 (2.99%) Data Architecture
13 11 (2.74%) TDD
14 9 (2.24%) Roadmaps
15 8 (1.99%) Project Management
16 7 (1.74%) Client Onboarding
16 7 (1.74%) PRINCE2
17 6 (1.49%) Fintech
17 6 (1.49%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 371 (92.29%) Python
2 244 (60.70%) JavaScript
3 241 (59.95%) TypeScript
4 186 (46.27%) Java
5 130 (32.34%) SQL
6 115 (28.61%) C#
7 42 (10.45%) R
8 12 (2.99%) Ruby
8 12 (2.99%) Scala
9 5 (1.24%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.75%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (0.50%) Degree
2 1 (0.25%) ACCA
2 1 (0.25%) CIMA
2 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (16.92%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.25%) EMIR
2 1 (0.25%) MiFID
2 1 (0.25%) SOC 1
System Software
1 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (9.70%) Bloomberg
2 3 (0.75%) Trayport
3 2 (0.50%) Calypso
4 1 (0.25%) Cisco
4 1 (0.25%) FactSet
4 1 (0.25%) Juniper
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.25%) Palo Alto
4 1 (0.25%) Refinitiv
4 1 (0.25%) VMware