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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 437 456 452
Rank change year-on-year +19 -4 -91
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 555 689 1,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.66% 0.79%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.59% 1.55% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 512 546 967
10th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £65,000
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 £144,063 £127,500 £136,250
90th Percentile £165,000 £150,000 £162,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -34.48% +7.41% +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 34,988 44,314 74,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 42.70% 47.35%
Number of salaries quoted 23,043 23,940 34,254
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
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 £84,056
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 3 May 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 3 May 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 +33 544 £115,000 +9.52% 156
London +62 516 £115,000 +9.52% 148
Work from Home +101 395 £115,000 +17.95% 45
UK excluding London -8 35 £47,500 -34.48% 11
South West -1 22 - -
Scotland -61 7 - - 1
East of England +13 3 £45,000 - 4
North of England +46 2 £50,000 - 2
North West - 2 £50,000 - 1
West Midlands +9 1 £32,000 - 2
Midlands +5 1 £32,000 - 2

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
1 193 (34.77%) Apache Airflow
2 173 (31.17%) Apache
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.36%) SAS
3 2 (0.36%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.18%) Gunicorn
4 1 (0.18%) nginx
4 1 (0.18%) uWSGI
4 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (3.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (2.70%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.36%) ION Anvil
2 2 (0.36%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.18%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.18%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 369 (66.49%) AWS
2 231 (41.62%) GCP
3 181 (32.61%) dbt
4 158 (28.47%) Snowflake
5 157 (28.29%) Azure
6 5 (0.90%) GitHub
7 4 (0.72%) Power Automate
8 3 (0.54%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.36%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.36%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (0.36%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.36%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (0.36%) Serverless
10 1 (0.18%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.18%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.18%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.18%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.18%) OCI
10 1 (0.18%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.18%) BGP
1 1 (0.18%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (0.18%) DHCP
1 1 (0.18%) DNS
1 1 (0.18%) Firewall
1 1 (0.18%) Internet
1 1 (0.18%) IOS XR
1 1 (0.18%) Network Security
1 1 (0.18%) OSPF
1 1 (0.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (32.61%) Amazon Athena
1 181 (32.61%) Apache Arrow
1 181 (32.61%) Dremio
2 172 (30.99%) Apache Ignite
3 158 (28.47%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.54%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.36%) Big Data
5 2 (0.36%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.36%) SQLPlus
6 1 (0.18%) MySQL
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.18%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (2.16%) JIRA
2 2 (0.36%) Cypress.io
2 2 (0.36%) Git
3 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.18%) GDB
3 1 (0.18%) GitLab
3 1 (0.18%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.18%) Selenium
3 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.18%) TestComplete
General
1 509 (91.71%) Finance
2 470 (84.68%) Front Office
3 295 (53.15%) Banking
4 226 (40.72%) Investment Banking
5 106 (19.10%) Back Office
6 37 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
7 35 (6.31%) Law
8 33 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 32 (5.77%) Social Skills
10 16 (2.88%) Legal
11 9 (1.62%) Advertising
11 9 (1.62%) Marketing
12 8 (1.44%) Prime Brokerage
13 7 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.72%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
16 1 (0.18%) Billing
16 1 (0.18%) International Banking
16 1 (0.18%) Public Sector
16 1 (0.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 213 (38.38%) Developer
2 200 (36.04%) Software Engineer
3 164 (29.55%) Senior
4 141 (25.41%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 116 (20.90%) Analyst
6 108 (19.46%) Senior Software Engineer
7 101 (18.20%) Lead
8 95 (17.12%) Finance Manager
9 85 (15.32%) .NET Developer
10 84 (15.14%) .NET Software Developer
10 84 (15.14%) .NET Software Engineer
11 79 (14.23%) Python Developer
12 74 (13.33%) Python Engineer
13 73 (13.15%) Python Software Engineer
14 70 (12.61%) Financial Analyst
15 68 (12.25%) Senior Developer
16 64 (11.53%) Business Analyst
17 59 (10.63%) Senior Software Developer
18 58 (10.45%) Java Engineer
18 58 (10.45%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (34.41%) gRPC
1 191 (34.41%) Protocol Buffers
2 186 (33.51%) Pandas
3 172 (30.99%) NumPy
4 170 (30.63%) SciPy
5 117 (21.08%) React
6 109 (19.64%) .NET
7 102 (18.38%) AngularJS
8 96 (17.30%) Redux
8 96 (17.30%) Vue
9 51 (9.19%) .NET Core
10 49 (8.83%) ASP.NET
11 48 (8.65%) ASP.NET Core
12 12 (2.16%) Material-UI
13 6 (1.08%) FIX Protocol
13 6 (1.08%) REST
13 6 (1.08%) XML
14 4 (0.72%) JSON
15 3 (0.54%) Jest
15 3 (0.54%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 433 (78.02%) Hedge funds
2 394 (70.99%) Fixed Income
3 385 (69.37%) Equities
4 355 (63.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 56 (10.09%) Product Ownership
6 19 (3.42%) Credit Derivative
7 18 (3.24%) Pricing Data
7 18 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (2.70%) Credit Risk
9 12 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.62%) Equity Derivative
11 8 (1.44%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.44%) Reference Data
12 7 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.26%) Interest Rate Derivative
13 6 (1.08%) Management Information System
14 5 (0.90%) OTC Derivatives
15 4 (0.72%) Algorithms
15 4 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
16 3 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.44%) Apple iOS
1 8 (1.44%) Windows
2 5 (0.90%) Linux
3 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.36%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.18%) CentOS
4 1 (0.18%) Debian
4 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.18%) Scientific Linux
4 1 (0.18%) Unix
4 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (77.66%) Asset Management
2 403 (72.61%) Agile
3 394 (70.99%) Investment Management
4 336 (60.54%) Software Engineering
5 81 (14.59%) Mentoring
6 76 (13.69%) Fintech
7 74 (13.33%) Line Management
8 73 (13.15%) Analytics
9 68 (12.25%) Greeks
10 64 (11.53%) TDD
11 52 (9.37%) DevOps
12 50 (9.01%) Artificial Intelligence
12 50 (9.01%) Machine Learning
13 46 (8.29%) Full Stack Development
13 46 (8.29%) Quantitative Research
14 38 (6.85%) Product Management
15 35 (6.31%) Problem-Solving
15 35 (6.31%) Roadmaps
16 25 (4.50%) Project Management
17 22 (3.96%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 404 (72.79%) Python
2 285 (51.35%) JavaScript
3 280 (50.45%) TypeScript
4 195 (35.14%) Java
5 169 (30.45%) C#
6 160 (28.83%) SQL
7 42 (7.57%) R
8 14 (2.52%) C++
9 13 (2.34%) Ruby
10 12 (2.16%) Scala
11 6 (1.08%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.08%) VBA
12 3 (0.54%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.18%) C
13 1 (0.18%) Go
13 1 (0.18%) Perl
13 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.18%) VBScript
13 1 (0.18%) VC++
13 1 (0.18%) XPath
Qualifications
1 34 (6.13%) Degree
2 3 (0.54%) ACCA
2 3 (0.54%) CCAB
2 3 (0.54%) CIMA
2 3 (0.54%) CISA
2 3 (0.54%) CISM
2 3 (0.54%) CISSP
2 3 (0.54%) QiCA
3 1 (0.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.18%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (12.25%) Data Quality
2 53 (9.55%) QA
3 3 (0.54%) COBIT
3 3 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.54%) ITGC
4 2 (0.36%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.18%) COREP
5 1 (0.18%) EMIR
5 1 (0.18%) IFRS
5 1 (0.18%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.18%) MiFID
5 1 (0.18%) PMO
5 1 (0.18%) SOC 1
5 1 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 4 (0.72%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (1.26%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.54%) Control-M
2 3 (0.54%) Terraform
3 2 (0.36%) Kibana
4 1 (0.18%) Ansible
4 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 59 (10.63%) Bloomberg
2 14 (2.52%) BISAM
2 14 (2.52%) Oracle
3 8 (1.44%) Microsoft
4 5 (0.90%) Salesforce
5 3 (0.54%) Cadence
5 3 (0.54%) SAP
5 3 (0.54%) Trayport
6 2 (0.36%) Calypso
6 2 (0.36%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.18%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.18%) Cisco
7 1 (0.18%) FactSet
7 1 (0.18%) IBM
7 1 (0.18%) Juniper
7 1 (0.18%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.18%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.18%) Sun
7 1 (0.18%) VMware