Derivative Contracts in Glasgow

Derivatives
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Derivative in contract job vacancies in Glasgow. 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 73 - 78
Rank change year-on-year - - +3
Contract jobs citing Derivative 6 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.75% - 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.95% - 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £343 - -
25th Percentile £382 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.00%
75th Percentile £447 - -
90th Percentile £524 - -
Scotland median daily rate £404 - £700
% change year-on-year - - +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £47.73
Scotland median hourly rate - - £47.73

All Generic Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 307 277 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 38.47% 31.58% 40.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 163 238
10th Percentile £313 £214 £267
25th Percentile £407 £356 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £440 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.57% -9.74% +8.33%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £613
90th Percentile £589 £675 £750
Scotland median daily rate £467 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -1.68% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 12 16
10th Percentile £15.65 £15.42 -
25th Percentile £18.28 £15.86 -
Median hourly rate £20.29 £18.00 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +12.72% +69.33% -51.68%
75th Percentile £36.64 £28.06 £22.81
90th Percentile £64.58 £57.13 £41.37
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £18.14 £12.30
% change year-on-year +21.31% +47.44% -71.40%

Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Derivative in Glasgow

Derivative
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Derivative in Glasgow

Derivative
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

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

Daily rate histogram for Derivative in Glasgow

Derivative
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Finacle
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) DB2
1 3 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JUnit
2 2 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 5 (83.33%) Front Office
3 4 (66.67%) Banking
3 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
4 3 (50.00%) Private Banking
5 2 (33.33%) Back Office
6 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Kafka
1 3 (50.00%) Spring
2 2 (33.33%) MSMQ
3 1 (16.67%) J2EE
3 1 (16.67%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 3 (50.00%) Equities
1 3 (50.00%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) Wealth Management
4 3 (50.00%) Database Tuning
4 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (50.00%) Multithreading
4 3 (50.00%) Open Source
4 3 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
4 3 (50.00%) SDLC
4 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (50.00%) System Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Customer Experience
5 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
5 2 (33.33%) Scrum
5 2 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (16.67%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Avaloq
1 3 (50.00%) Sybase
1 3 (50.00%) Temenos
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle