Derivative Jobs with Work from Home 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 161 329 402
Rank change year-on-year +168 +73 +102
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 480 202 493
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.10% 0.83% 0.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.70% 2.14% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 473 195 447
10th Percentile £85,000 £61,250 £65,000
25th Percentile £95,000 £70,000 £83,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £95,000 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -11.63% -4.44%
75th Percentile £148,750 £115,000 £140,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £136,500 £152,500
UK median annual salary £115,000 £105,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% - +5.00%

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 8,415 9,420 26,969
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.90% 38.52% 43.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,973 7,101 16,095
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,250 £38,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,177 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.27% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £84,056 £85,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £101,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -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 31 October 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
1 413 (86.04%) Apache
2 377 (78.54%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.42%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (1.25%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.83%) Eagle PACE
2 4 (0.83%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 444 (92.50%) AWS
2 413 (86.04%) dbt
3 377 (78.54%) Snowflake
4 167 (34.79%) GCP
5 112 (23.33%) Amazon ECS
6 92 (19.17%) Amazon EC2
6 92 (19.17%) Amazon EKS
7 36 (7.50%) Power Platform
8 20 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
8 20 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (4.17%) AWS Step Functions
8 20 (4.17%) Serverless
9 12 (2.50%) Azure
10 8 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.42%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (0.42%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 413 (86.04%) Apache Arrow
1 413 (86.04%) Dremio
2 409 (85.21%) Data Lake
3 377 (78.54%) Amazon Athena
3 377 (78.54%) Apache Ignite
4 36 (7.50%) Power BI
4 36 (7.50%) Tableau
5 28 (5.83%) Big Data
6 5 (1.04%) Redis
7 4 (0.83%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (0.63%) JIRA
2 2 (0.42%) Bitbucket
2 2 (0.42%) Git
2 2 (0.42%) GitLab
3 1 (0.21%) JUnit
3 1 (0.21%) Maven
3 1 (0.21%) Mockito
3 1 (0.21%) Rational Performance Tester
General
1 467 (97.29%) Finance
2 452 (94.17%) Front Office
3 435 (90.63%) Banking
4 434 (90.42%) Investment Banking
5 14 (2.92%) Advertising
6 13 (2.71%) Back Office
7 7 (1.46%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.04%) Prime Brokerage
8 5 (1.04%) Social Skills
9 1 (0.21%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.21%) Legal
Job Titles
1 283 (58.96%) Software Engineer
2 207 (43.13%) AWS Engineer
2 207 (43.13%) AWS Software Engineer
3 189 (39.38%) Java Engineer
3 189 (39.38%) Java Software Engineer
4 188 (39.17%) Python Engineer
4 188 (39.17%) Python Software Engineer
5 183 (38.13%) Senior
6 175 (36.46%) Senior Software Engineer
7 131 (27.29%) Senior Java Engineer
7 131 (27.29%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 130 (27.08%) Lead
9 98 (20.42%) Developer
10 93 (19.38%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 72 (15.00%) Software Developer
12 70 (14.58%) Team Leader
13 67 (13.96%) Lead Software Engineer
13 67 (13.96%) Software Team Leader
14 66 (13.75%) Architect
14 66 (13.75%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 377 (78.54%) gRPC
1 377 (78.54%) NumPy
1 377 (78.54%) Pandas
1 377 (78.54%) Protocol Buffers
1 377 (78.54%) SciPy
2 92 (19.17%) PySpark
3 20 (4.17%) AngularJS
3 20 (4.17%) Lambda Expressions
4 14 (2.92%) React
5 13 (2.71%) .NET
6 12 (2.50%) FIX Protocol
7 8 (1.67%) ASP.NET
7 8 (1.67%) ASP.NET MVC
7 8 (1.67%) HTML
7 8 (1.67%) KnockoutJS
7 8 (1.67%) QuickFIX
7 8 (1.67%) REST
7 8 (1.67%) WCF
7 8 (1.67%) Web Services
7 8 (1.67%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 447 (93.13%) Fixed Income
2 446 (92.92%) Hedge funds
3 444 (92.50%) Equities
3 444 (92.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 102 (21.25%) Pricing Data
5 44 (9.17%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.67%) Cloud Native
7 7 (1.46%) Reference Data
8 4 (0.83%) Credit Risk
8 4 (0.83%) Equity Derivative
8 4 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (0.83%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.42%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.21%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.21%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.50%) Windows
2 6 (1.25%) Linux
2 6 (1.25%) Unix
3 2 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 449 (93.54%) Agile
2 446 (92.92%) Asset Management
3 409 (85.21%) Software Engineering
4 271 (56.46%) Investment Management
5 132 (27.50%) Line Management
6 111 (23.13%) Greeks
7 92 (19.17%) Migration
8 40 (8.33%) Analytics
9 37 (7.71%) Business Analysis
10 32 (6.67%) Mentoring
11 31 (6.46%) DevOps
12 25 (5.21%) Full-Stack Development
13 10 (2.08%) Client Onboarding
14 9 (1.88%) CI/CD
14 9 (1.88%) Risk Management
14 9 (1.88%) Software Testing
15 8 (1.67%) Architectural Patterns
15 8 (1.67%) Artificial Intelligence
15 8 (1.67%) MVC
15 8 (1.67%) OO
Programming Languages
1 452 (94.17%) Python
2 410 (85.42%) JavaScript
3 402 (83.75%) TypeScript
4 398 (82.92%) Java
5 171 (35.63%) SQL
6 13 (2.71%) C#
7 12 (2.50%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (0.42%) RHCSA
1 2 (0.42%) SC Cleared
1 2 (0.42%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.21%) Degree
2 1 (0.21%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (23.13%) Data Quality
2 3 (0.63%) EMIR
2 3 (0.63%) MiFID
2 3 (0.63%) QA
3 1 (0.21%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (1.04%) Docker
2 2 (0.42%) Firmware
2 2 (0.42%) NFS
2 2 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (0.42%) Ansible
1 2 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 67 (13.96%) Bloomberg
2 64 (13.33%) Reuters
3 8 (1.67%) Microsoft
4 6 (1.25%) Sophis
5 4 (0.83%) Oracle
6 2 (0.42%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.42%) BISAM
6 2 (0.42%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.42%) VMware
7 1 (0.21%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.21%) Solace
7 1 (0.21%) Tradeweb