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 12 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Derivative 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 3.00% - 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.89% - 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £325 - -
25th Percentile £404 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £575
75th Percentile £538 - £588
90th Percentile £560 - -
County Antrim median daily rate £500 - £575

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 76 29 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 38.00% 23.77% 29.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 10 25
10th Percentile £286 £145 £135
25th Percentile £362 £186 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £331 £400
Median % change year-on-year +50.94% -17.19% -20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £455 -
90th Percentile £606 £488 £563
County Antrim median daily rate £500 £331 £400
% change year-on-year +50.94% -17.19% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.31 £12.25 -
Median hourly rate £15.05 £17.41 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% - -
75th Percentile £15.33 £23.94 -
90th Percentile £15.33 - -
County Antrim median hourly rate £15.05 £22.56 -
% change year-on-year -33.29% - -

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 12 August 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) DB2
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Financial Institution
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Wholesale Banking
4 1 (16.67%) Front Office
4 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Business Data Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Java Software Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Core Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Avro
1 2 (33.33%) JSON
1 2 (33.33%) React
1 2 (33.33%) RESTful
1 2 (33.33%) Spring
1 2 (33.33%) Web Services
1 2 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Equities
2 3 (50.00%) Fixed Income
3 2 (33.33%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
4 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
4 1 (16.67%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (16.67%) Database Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) SOA
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Kotlin
2 2 (33.33%) Scala
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
2 2 (33.33%) Basel III
2 2 (33.33%) MiFID
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Sybase