Derivative Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH 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 12 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 235 206 312
Rank change year-on-year -29 +106 +224
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 271 561 382
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.41% 1.58% 1.01%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.36% 4.54% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 250 556 326
10th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £62,750
25th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £70,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £115,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year - +17.95% -15.22%
75th Percentile £136,250 £148,750 £115,000
90th Percentile £152,500 £165,000 £150,000
UK median annual salary £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -4.55%

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 8,066 12,365 14,626
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 41.83% 34.89% 38.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,667 9,333 10,948
10th Percentile £31,599 £32,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,000 £49,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £105,000 £109,865
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Derivative
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Derivative as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Derivative trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Derivative
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Derivative over the 6 months to 12 June 2025.

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 78 (28.78%) Apache
2 75 (27.68%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.11%) GemFire
Applications
1 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 55 (20.30%) Aladdin
2 39 (14.39%) thinkFolio
3 2 (0.74%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 75 (27.68%) AWS
1 75 (27.68%) dbt
1 75 (27.68%) Snowflake
2 11 (4.06%) Amazon EC2
2 11 (4.06%) Amazon ECS
2 11 (4.06%) Amazon EKS
2 11 (4.06%) Dagster
2 11 (4.06%) GCP
3 7 (2.58%) SaaS
4 3 (1.11%) OpenShift
5 1 (0.37%) Azure
5 1 (0.37%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.37%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.11%) Multicast
2 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (47.23%) Data Lake
2 75 (27.68%) Amazon Athena
2 75 (27.68%) Apache Arrow
2 75 (27.68%) Apache Iceberg
2 75 (27.68%) Dremio
3 62 (22.88%) Apache Ignite
4 7 (2.58%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.48%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.48%) SAP BW
6 3 (1.11%) InterSystems Cache
6 3 (1.11%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.11%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.11%) Redis
6 3 (1.11%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (1.85%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.11%) JIRA
2 3 (1.11%) MSTest
2 3 (1.11%) NUnit
2 3 (1.11%) SpecFlow
2 3 (1.11%) TeamCity
3 2 (0.74%) Git
4 1 (0.37%) JUnit
4 1 (0.37%) Maven
4 1 (0.37%) Mockito
4 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 255 (94.10%) Finance
2 250 (92.25%) Front Office
3 96 (35.42%) Banking
4 80 (29.52%) Investment Banking
5 30 (11.07%) Social Skills
6 8 (2.95%) Legal
7 6 (2.21%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (2.21%) Back Office
7 6 (2.21%) Law
8 4 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.37%) Advertising
9 1 (0.37%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 78 (28.78%) Software Engineer
2 75 (27.68%) AWS Engineer
2 75 (27.68%) AWS Software Engineer
3 70 (25.83%) Analyst
3 70 (25.83%) Java Engineer
4 67 (24.72%) Java Software Engineer
5 66 (24.35%) Senior
6 57 (21.03%) Senior Software Engineer
7 56 (20.66%) Python Engineer
7 56 (20.66%) Python Software Engineer
8 54 (19.93%) Senior Java Engineer
8 54 (19.93%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 53 (19.56%) Business Analyst
10 52 (19.19%) Business Manager
10 52 (19.19%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
11 37 (13.65%) Lead
12 28 (10.33%) Head of Finance
13 24 (8.86%) Developer
14 20 (7.38%) Finance Manager
14 20 (7.38%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (21.77%) gRPC
1 59 (21.77%) NumPy
1 59 (21.77%) Pandas
1 59 (21.77%) Protocol Buffers
1 59 (21.77%) SciPy
2 27 (9.96%) PySpark
3 13 (4.80%) .NET
4 5 (1.85%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (1.48%) HTML
5 4 (1.48%) HTML5
5 4 (1.48%) Kafka
5 4 (1.48%) React
5 4 (1.48%) Spring
5 4 (1.48%) WPF
6 3 (1.11%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.11%) CSS3
6 3 (1.11%) Highcharts JS
6 3 (1.11%) LESS
6 3 (1.11%) Reactive Extensions
6 3 (1.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 221 (81.55%) Fixed Income
2 205 (75.65%) Hedge funds
3 167 (61.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 155 (57.20%) Equities
5 48 (17.71%) Pricing Data
6 47 (17.34%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.21%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.21%) Credit Derivative
8 5 (1.85%) Equity Derivative
9 4 (1.48%) Market Risk
9 4 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.48%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.11%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.11%) Credit Risk
10 3 (1.11%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.74%) Reference Data
12 1 (0.37%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.69%) Linux
2 7 (2.58%) Unix
3 3 (1.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (81.55%) Agile
2 180 (66.42%) Investment Management
3 136 (50.18%) Asset Management
4 87 (32.10%) Software Engineering
5 85 (31.37%) Data Management
6 80 (29.52%) Migration
7 70 (25.83%) Regulatory Compliance
8 69 (25.46%) Data Governance
8 69 (25.46%) Roadmaps
9 58 (21.40%) Business Intelligence
10 55 (20.30%) Portfolio Management
11 52 (19.19%) Business Analysis
12 45 (16.61%) Data Mapping
13 24 (8.86%) Analytics
14 18 (6.64%) People Management
15 16 (5.90%) Stakeholder Management
16 15 (5.54%) User Acceptance Testing
17 13 (4.80%) Business Strategy
18 12 (4.43%) Risk Management
18 12 (4.43%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 157 (57.93%) Python
2 110 (40.59%) Java
3 87 (32.10%) SQL
4 63 (23.25%) JavaScript
4 63 (23.25%) TypeScript
5 22 (8.12%) C#
6 14 (5.17%) C++
7 2 (0.74%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.37%) C
Qualifications
1 17 (6.27%) Degree
2 8 (2.95%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.48%) PhD
4 2 (0.74%) ACCA
4 2 (0.74%) CIMA
5 1 (0.37%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.96%) MiFID
2 14 (5.17%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.11%) QA
4 2 (0.74%) IFRS
System Software
1 1 (0.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.37%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 55 (20.30%) BISAM
2 45 (16.61%) Charles River
3 39 (14.39%) Calypso
3 39 (14.39%) SimCorp
4 10 (3.69%) Oracle
5 6 (2.21%) Microsoft
6 4 (1.48%) SAP
6 4 (1.48%) Solace
7 3 (1.11%) TIBCO
8 2 (0.74%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.74%) Sophis
8 2 (0.74%) Wallstreet Suite
9 1 (0.37%) FactSet
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