Derivative Contracts in Belfast

Derivatives
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Derivative in contract job vacancies in Belfast. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Derivative over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 - 22
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Contract jobs citing Derivative 19 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 12.93% - 1.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 25.68% - 3.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 0 2
10th Percentile £263 - -
25th Percentile £318 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +85.48%
75th Percentile £418 - £588
90th Percentile £445 - -
County Antrim median daily rate £325 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +85.48%

All Generic Skills
Belfast

Derivative falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 74 24 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 50.34% 19.35% 31.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 10 31
10th Percentile £148 £181 £200
25th Percentile £267 £270 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £328 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -34.50% +25.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £500 - £456
90th Percentile £575 £531 £623
County Antrim median daily rate £328 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -34.50% +25.00% +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 2
10th Percentile £22.50 - £13.33
25th Percentile £24.18 - £13.46
Median hourly rate £26.59 £12.25 £13.84
Median % change year-on-year +117.06% -11.50% -
75th Percentile £67.94 £12.44 £14.15
90th Percentile £80.05 £12.77 £14.22
County Antrim median hourly rate £26.59 £12.62 £13.84
% change year-on-year +110.70% -8.83% -27.14%

Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Job postings citing Derivative as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Job vacancy trend for Derivative in Belfast

Derivative
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Derivative in Belfast.

Daily rate trend for Derivative in Belfast

Derivative
Daily Rate Histogram in Belfast

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Derivative in Belfast over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Derivative in Belfast

Derivative
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) OpenShift
2 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.26%) DB2
2 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) Power BI
2 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (52.63%) Git
2 4 (21.05%) Ant
2 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 4 (21.05%) Maven
2 4 (21.05%) Subversion
3 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 19 (100.00%) Finance
2 9 (47.37%) Front Office
3 7 (36.84%) Banking
4 6 (31.58%) Wholesale Banking
5 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
6 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (10.53%) Financial Institution
7 1 (5.26%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (73.68%) Developer
2 8 (42.11%) Developer/Software Engineer
2 8 (42.11%) Software Engineer
3 7 (36.84%) Java Developer
4 6 (31.58%) Java Software Developer
5 4 (21.05%) .NET Developer
5 4 (21.05%) .NET Software Developer
5 4 (21.05%) .NET Software Engineer
5 4 (21.05%) C# .NET Developer
5 4 (21.05%) C# Developer
5 4 (21.05%) C# Software Developer
5 4 (21.05%) C# Software Engineer
5 4 (21.05%) Java Engineer
5 4 (21.05%) Java Software Engineer
6 3 (15.79%) Analyst
6 3 (15.79%) Software Developer
7 2 (10.53%) Applications Developer
7 2 (10.53%) Business Analyst
7 2 (10.53%) Junior
7 2 (10.53%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) AngularJS
1 6 (31.58%) Apache Avro
1 6 (31.58%) JSON
1 6 (31.58%) React
1 6 (31.58%) RESTful
1 6 (31.58%) Web Services
1 6 (31.58%) XML
2 4 (21.05%) .NET
2 4 (21.05%) Spring Boot
3 2 (10.53%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (68.42%) Equities
1 13 (68.42%) Equity Derivative
2 8 (42.11%) Product Ownership
3 3 (15.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (10.53%) Fixed Income
5 1 (5.26%) Algorithms
5 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
5 1 (5.26%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (5.26%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Linux
1 4 (21.05%) Unix
1 4 (21.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (47.37%) Clean Code
2 9 (47.37%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (42.11%) Software Engineering
3 8 (42.11%) User Experience
4 7 (36.84%) Agile
4 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
4 7 (36.84%) Continuous Delivery
4 7 (36.84%) DevOps
5 6 (31.58%) Code Quality
6 4 (21.05%) Concurrent Programming
6 4 (21.05%) Design Patterns
6 4 (21.05%) High Availability
6 4 (21.05%) OO
6 4 (21.05%) OOA/OOD
6 4 (21.05%) SDLC
7 2 (10.53%) Data Analysis
7 2 (10.53%) Data Governance
7 2 (10.53%) Project Management
7 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) SQL
2 7 (36.84%) Java
3 4 (21.05%) C#
4 2 (10.53%) Kotlin
4 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
4 2 (10.53%) Scala
5 1 (5.26%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) PMO
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Sybase
2 1 (5.26%) TIBCO