Derivative Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Derivatives
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Derivative in contract job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Derivative over the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 66 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing Derivative 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.40% 0.48% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.06% 1.24% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £434 - -
25th Percentile £448 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile £495 - -
Scotland median daily rate £470 £404 -
% change year-on-year +16.34% - -

All Generic Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 284 241 277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 37.62% 38.19% 33.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 118 159
10th Percentile £309 £208 £268
25th Percentile £413 £413 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% +1.77%
75th Percentile £593 £538 £598
90th Percentile £686 £638 £660
Scotland median daily rate £475 £464 £453
% change year-on-year +2.43% +2.37% -7.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 16 17
10th Percentile £17.23 - £12.75
25th Percentile £41.12 £17.30 £16.25
Median hourly rate £69.00 £22.00 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year +213.64% +21.35% -16.34%
75th Percentile £75.00 £25.59 £35.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £47.15 £60.75
Scotland median hourly rate £19.33 £22.00 £18.13
% change year-on-year -12.14% +21.35% +42.42%

Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Derivative relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Derivative job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Derivative
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Derivative.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Derivative

Derivative
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Front Office
2 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Business Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CDK
1 1 (33.33%) PostGIS
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (66.67%) OTC Derivatives
2 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Extraction
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Calypso