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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 420 444 468
Rank change year-on-year +24 +24 -108
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 608 689 1,253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.69% 0.78%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.73% 1.63% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 562 551 974
10th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £65,000
25th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £105,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £145,000 £127,500 £136,250
90th Percentile £165,000 £150,000 £162,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £90,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -44.44% +33.33% +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 35,145 42,330 76,975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.18% 42.69% 47.89%
Number of salaries quoted 23,044 23,098 33,984
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,427 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,719
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 £109,865 £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 18 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 18 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 +44 596 £115,000 +9.52% 166
London +70 568 £115,000 +9.52% 157
Work from Home +91 449 £115,000 +15.00% 58
UK excluding London -49 36 £50,000 -44.44% 26
South West - 22 - -
Scotland -60 7 - - 3
East of England +1 3 £45,000 - 1
North of England +47 2 £50,000 - 5
North West - 2 £50,000 - 4
Northern Ireland +9 1 £67,500 - 2
West Midlands +5 1 £32,000 - 1
Midlands -17 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
1 245 (40.30%) Apache Airflow
2 228 (37.50%) Apache
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.33%) SAS
3 2 (0.33%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (3.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (2.47%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.33%) ION Anvil
2 2 (0.33%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.16%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 427 (70.23%) AWS
2 243 (39.97%) GCP
3 237 (38.98%) dbt
4 211 (34.70%) Snowflake
5 152 (25.00%) Azure
6 6 (0.99%) Amazon S3
6 6 (0.99%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (0.99%) AWS Step Functions
6 6 (0.99%) Serverless
7 4 (0.66%) Power Automate
7 4 (0.66%) Power Platform
8 3 (0.49%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.49%) GitHub
9 1 (0.16%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.16%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.16%) OCI
9 1 (0.16%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 237 (38.98%) Apache Arrow
1 237 (38.98%) Dremio
2 233 (38.32%) Amazon Athena
3 224 (36.84%) Apache Ignite
4 214 (35.20%) Data Lake
5 6 (0.99%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.82%) Big Data
7 4 (0.66%) Power BI
7 4 (0.66%) Tableau
8 3 (0.49%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.33%) SQLPlus
10 1 (0.16%) MySQL
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.16%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (1.81%) JIRA
2 6 (0.99%) Git
3 2 (0.33%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.16%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.16%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.16%) GDB
4 1 (0.16%) GitLab
4 1 (0.16%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.16%) Selenium
4 1 (0.16%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.16%) TestComplete
General
1 561 (92.27%) Finance
2 526 (86.51%) Front Office
3 353 (58.06%) Banking
4 282 (46.38%) Investment Banking
5 107 (17.60%) Back Office
6 38 (6.25%) Law
7 37 (6.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 36 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
9 31 (5.10%) Social Skills
10 15 (2.47%) Legal
11 10 (1.64%) Advertising
12 9 (1.48%) Marketing
13 7 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.15%) Prime Brokerage
14 3 (0.49%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
16 1 (0.16%) Billing
16 1 (0.16%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.16%) International Banking
16 1 (0.16%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 231 (37.99%) Software Engineer
2 213 (35.03%) Developer
3 188 (30.92%) Senior
4 148 (24.34%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 131 (21.55%) Senior Software Engineer
6 120 (19.74%) Analyst
7 117 (19.24%) Lead
8 99 (16.28%) Finance Manager
9 96 (15.79%) Python Engineer
10 95 (15.63%) Python Software Engineer
11 83 (13.65%) .NET Developer
12 82 (13.49%) .NET Software Developer
12 82 (13.49%) .NET Software Engineer
13 80 (13.16%) Java Engineer
13 80 (13.16%) Java Software Engineer
13 80 (13.16%) Python Developer
14 76 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
14 76 (12.50%) AWS Software Engineer
15 74 (12.17%) Financial Analyst
16 69 (11.35%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (39.97%) gRPC
1 243 (39.97%) Protocol Buffers
2 238 (39.14%) Pandas
3 223 (36.68%) NumPy
4 222 (36.51%) SciPy
5 121 (19.90%) React
6 112 (18.42%) .NET
7 100 (16.45%) AngularJS
8 94 (15.46%) Redux
8 94 (15.46%) Vue
9 55 (9.05%) .NET Core
10 48 (7.89%) ASP.NET
11 46 (7.57%) ASP.NET Core
12 12 (1.97%) Material-UI
13 9 (1.48%) .NET Framework
14 8 (1.32%) REST
15 7 (1.15%) FIX Protocol
16 6 (0.99%) Unity DI Container
17 5 (0.82%) XML
18 4 (0.66%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 488 (80.26%) Hedge funds
2 445 (73.19%) Fixed Income
3 441 (72.53%) Equities
4 408 (67.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 61 (10.03%) Product Ownership
6 30 (4.93%) Pricing Data
7 18 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
8 16 (2.63%) Credit Derivative
9 14 (2.30%) Credit Risk
10 10 (1.64%) Equity Derivative
11 8 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.32%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.32%) Reference Data
12 7 (1.15%) Interest Rate Derivative
13 6 (0.99%) Blog
13 6 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
13 6 (0.99%) N-Tier
13 6 (0.99%) Private Cloud
14 5 (0.82%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.32%) Apple iOS
1 8 (1.32%) Windows
2 4 (0.66%) Linux
3 1 (0.16%) CentOS
3 1 (0.16%) Debian
3 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.16%) Scientific Linux
3 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.16%) Unix
3 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 488 (80.26%) Asset Management
2 463 (76.15%) Agile
3 436 (71.71%) Investment Management
4 387 (63.65%) Software Engineering
5 92 (15.13%) Greeks
6 90 (14.80%) Line Management
7 79 (12.99%) Analytics
8 78 (12.83%) Mentoring
9 74 (12.17%) Fintech
10 65 (10.69%) TDD
11 52 (8.55%) Artificial Intelligence
11 52 (8.55%) Machine Learning
12 50 (8.22%) DevOps
13 45 (7.40%) Full Stack Development
14 42 (6.91%) Quantitative Research
15 40 (6.58%) Product Management
16 36 (5.92%) Roadmaps
17 35 (5.76%) Problem-Solving
18 28 (4.61%) Business Analysis
19 26 (4.28%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 458 (75.33%) Python
2 341 (56.09%) JavaScript
3 335 (55.10%) TypeScript
4 248 (40.79%) Java
5 171 (28.13%) SQL
6 170 (27.96%) C#
7 40 (6.58%) R
8 13 (2.14%) Ruby
9 12 (1.97%) Scala
10 8 (1.32%) C++
11 7 (1.15%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.82%) VBA
13 3 (0.49%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.16%) Go
14 1 (0.16%) Perl
14 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.16%) VBScript
14 1 (0.16%) XPath
Qualifications
1 32 (5.26%) Degree
2 5 (0.82%) ACCA
2 5 (0.82%) CIMA
3 3 (0.49%) CCAB
3 3 (0.49%) CISA
3 3 (0.49%) CISM
3 3 (0.49%) CISSP
3 3 (0.49%) QiCA
4 1 (0.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.16%) IIBA
4 1 (0.16%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (15.13%) Data Quality
2 55 (9.05%) QA
3 3 (0.49%) COBIT
3 3 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.49%) ITGC
4 2 (0.33%) EMIR
4 2 (0.33%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.33%) MiFID
4 2 (0.33%) PMO
5 1 (0.16%) COREP
5 1 (0.16%) IFRS
5 1 (0.16%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.16%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.16%) SOC 1
5 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 4 (0.66%) Docker
2 1 (0.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (0.99%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.49%) Control-M
2 3 (0.49%) Terraform
3 2 (0.33%) Kibana
4 1 (0.16%) Ansible
4 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 63 (10.36%) Bloomberg
2 14 (2.30%) BISAM
3 13 (2.14%) Oracle
4 8 (1.32%) Microsoft
5 5 (0.82%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.49%) Cadence
6 3 (0.49%) SAP
6 3 (0.49%) Trayport
7 2 (0.33%) Calypso
7 2 (0.33%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.16%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.16%) FactSet
8 1 (0.16%) IBM
8 1 (0.16%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.16%) Sophis
8 1 (0.16%) Sun