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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 427 447 452
Rank change year-on-year +20 +5 -84
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 582 683 1,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.68% 0.79%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.66% 1.58% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 536 545 974
10th Percentile £66,250 £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 £145,313 £127,500 £136,250
90th Percentile £165,000 £150,000 £162,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -31.03% +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 35,065 43,146 75,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.34% 42.71% 47.68%
Number of salaries quoted 23,057 23,446 33,908
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,014 £34,513
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 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £108,000 £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 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Derivative in the UK

Derivative
Top 12 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 10 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 +38 570 £115,000 +9.52% 150
London +65 542 £115,000 +9.52% 141
Work from Home +82 421 £115,000 +15.00% 49
UK excluding London -30 36 £50,000 -31.03% 13
South West +1 22 - -
Scotland -56 7 - - 3
East of England +15 3 £45,000 - 5
North of England +43 2 £50,000 - 2
North West - 2 £50,000 - 1
Northern Ireland +10 1 £67,500 - 1
West Midlands -7 1 £32,000 - 1
Midlands -23 1 £32,000 - 1

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
1 219 (37.63%) Apache Airflow
2 198 (34.02%) Apache
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.34%) SAS
3 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (3.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (2.58%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.34%) ION Anvil
2 2 (0.34%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.17%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 399 (68.56%) AWS
2 238 (40.89%) GCP
3 207 (35.57%) dbt
4 185 (31.79%) Snowflake
5 155 (26.63%) Azure
6 5 (0.86%) Amazon S3
6 5 (0.86%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (0.86%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (0.86%) AWS Step Functions
6 5 (0.86%) Serverless
7 4 (0.69%) GitHub
7 4 (0.69%) Power Automate
8 3 (0.52%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.17%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.17%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.17%) OCI
9 1 (0.17%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 207 (35.57%) Amazon Athena
1 207 (35.57%) Apache Arrow
1 207 (35.57%) Dremio
2 198 (34.02%) Apache Ignite
3 184 (31.62%) Data Lake
4 5 (0.86%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.52%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.34%) SQLPlus
7 1 (0.17%) Big Data
7 1 (0.17%) MySQL
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.17%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (2.06%) JIRA
2 5 (0.86%) Git
3 2 (0.34%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.17%) GDB
4 1 (0.17%) GitLab
4 1 (0.17%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.17%) Selenium
4 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.17%) TestComplete
General
1 533 (91.58%) Finance
2 499 (85.74%) Front Office
3 322 (55.33%) Banking
4 252 (43.30%) Investment Banking
5 107 (18.38%) Back Office
6 37 (6.36%) Law
7 36 (6.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 35 (6.01%) Analytical Skills
9 31 (5.33%) Social Skills
10 15 (2.58%) Legal
11 9 (1.55%) Advertising
11 9 (1.55%) Marketing
12 7 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.20%) Prime Brokerage
13 3 (0.52%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.17%) Billing
15 1 (0.17%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.17%) International Banking
15 1 (0.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 216 (37.11%) Software Engineer
2 214 (36.77%) Developer
3 177 (30.41%) Senior
4 145 (24.91%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 120 (20.62%) Senior Software Engineer
6 117 (20.10%) Analyst
7 109 (18.73%) Lead
8 97 (16.67%) Finance Manager
9 85 (14.60%) Python Engineer
10 84 (14.43%) .NET Developer
10 84 (14.43%) Python Software Engineer
11 83 (14.26%) .NET Software Developer
11 83 (14.26%) .NET Software Engineer
12 81 (13.92%) Python Developer
13 72 (12.37%) Financial Analyst
14 69 (11.86%) Java Engineer
14 69 (11.86%) Java Software Engineer
15 68 (11.68%) Senior Developer
16 67 (11.51%) Business Analyst
17 64 (11.00%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (37.29%) gRPC
1 217 (37.29%) Protocol Buffers
2 213 (36.60%) Pandas
3 198 (34.02%) NumPy
4 196 (33.68%) SciPy
5 121 (20.79%) React
6 112 (19.24%) .NET
7 101 (17.35%) AngularJS
8 95 (16.32%) Redux
8 95 (16.32%) Vue
9 54 (9.28%) .NET Core
10 49 (8.42%) ASP.NET
11 47 (8.08%) ASP.NET Core
12 12 (2.06%) Material-UI
13 8 (1.37%) .NET Framework
13 8 (1.37%) REST
14 7 (1.20%) FIX Protocol
15 5 (0.86%) Unity DI Container
15 5 (0.86%) XML
16 4 (0.69%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 462 (79.38%) Hedge funds
2 419 (71.99%) Fixed Income
3 412 (70.79%) Equities
4 381 (65.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 57 (9.79%) Product Ownership
6 24 (4.12%) Pricing Data
7 18 (3.09%) Credit Derivative
7 18 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (2.58%) Credit Risk
9 11 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (1.72%) Equity Derivative
11 8 (1.37%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.37%) Reference Data
12 7 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.20%) Interest Rate Derivative
13 5 (0.86%) Blog
13 5 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
13 5 (0.86%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.86%) N-Tier
13 5 (0.86%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.37%) Apple iOS
1 8 (1.37%) Windows
2 4 (0.69%) Linux
3 1 (0.17%) CentOS
3 1 (0.17%) Debian
3 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.17%) Scientific Linux
3 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.17%) Unix
3 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 460 (79.04%) Asset Management
2 434 (74.57%) Agile
3 416 (71.48%) Investment Management
4 364 (62.54%) Software Engineering
5 82 (14.09%) Line Management
6 80 (13.75%) Greeks
7 79 (13.57%) Mentoring
8 77 (13.23%) Analytics
9 74 (12.71%) Fintech
10 65 (11.17%) TDD
11 52 (8.93%) Artificial Intelligence
11 52 (8.93%) Machine Learning
12 51 (8.76%) DevOps
13 46 (7.90%) Full Stack Development
14 45 (7.73%) Quantitative Research
15 40 (6.87%) Product Management
16 36 (6.19%) Roadmaps
17 35 (6.01%) Problem-Solving
18 25 (4.30%) Project Management
19 24 (4.12%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 432 (74.23%) Python
2 315 (54.12%) JavaScript
3 309 (53.09%) TypeScript
4 222 (38.14%) Java
5 169 (29.04%) C#
6 165 (28.35%) SQL
7 42 (7.22%) R
8 13 (2.23%) Ruby
9 12 (2.06%) Scala
10 11 (1.89%) C++
11 7 (1.20%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.86%) VBA
13 3 (0.52%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.17%) C
14 1 (0.17%) Go
14 1 (0.17%) Perl
14 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.17%) VBScript
14 1 (0.17%) XPath
Qualifications
1 32 (5.50%) Degree
2 4 (0.69%) ACCA
2 4 (0.69%) CIMA
3 3 (0.52%) CCAB
3 3 (0.52%) CISA
3 3 (0.52%) CISM
3 3 (0.52%) CISSP
3 3 (0.52%) QiCA
4 1 (0.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.17%) IIBA
4 1 (0.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (13.75%) Data Quality
2 55 (9.45%) QA
3 3 (0.52%) COBIT
3 3 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.52%) ITGC
4 2 (0.34%) EMIR
4 2 (0.34%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.34%) MiFID
4 2 (0.34%) PMO
5 1 (0.17%) COREP
5 1 (0.17%) IFRS
5 1 (0.17%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.17%) SOC 1
5 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 4 (0.69%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (1.20%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.52%) Control-M
2 3 (0.52%) Terraform
3 2 (0.34%) Kibana
4 1 (0.17%) Ansible
4 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 62 (10.65%) Bloomberg
2 14 (2.41%) BISAM
3 13 (2.23%) Oracle
4 8 (1.37%) Microsoft
5 5 (0.86%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.52%) Cadence
6 3 (0.52%) SAP
6 3 (0.52%) Trayport
7 2 (0.34%) Calypso
7 2 (0.34%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.17%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.17%) FactSet
8 1 (0.17%) IBM
8 1 (0.17%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.17%) Sophis
8 1 (0.17%) Sun