Derivative Contract Job Trends 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 16 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 77 -
Rank change year-on-year +8 - -
Contract jobs citing Derivative 8 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.11% 0.49% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.10% 1.28% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £335 -
25th Percentile £460 £361 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £404 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.34% - -
75th Percentile £480 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £470 £404 -
% change year-on-year +16.34% - -

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 258 313 293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 35.68% 38.50% 31.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 161 171
10th Percentile £313 £313 £288
25th Percentile £400 £406 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.56% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £548
90th Percentile £652 £589 £700
Scotland median daily rate £470 £453 £475
% change year-on-year +3.81% -4.63% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 12
10th Percentile £16.15 £16.24 £15.42
25th Percentile £16.17 £19.75 £15.86
Median hourly rate £16.25 £20.75 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.69% +15.28% +69.33%
75th Percentile £29.16 £27.75 £28.06
90th Percentile £38.00 £61.02 £57.13
Scotland median hourly rate £29.05 £23.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year +26.28% +17.95% +62.50%

Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Derivative job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Derivative
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Derivative

Derivative
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) ChatGPT
2 6 (75.00%) Anthropic Claude
3 5 (62.50%) GitHub
3 5 (62.50%) GitHub Copilot
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) Metadata
1 7 (87.50%) Relational Database
2 6 (75.00%) DB2
3 5 (62.50%) MongoDB
4 1 (12.50%) Power BI
4 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 8 (100.00%) Finance
2 6 (75.00%) Banking
2 6 (75.00%) Front Office
2 6 (75.00%) Investment Banking
3 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Java Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Python Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) DB2 Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Gen AI Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Perl Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Sybase Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Equity Derivative
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Data Lineage
1 7 (87.50%) LLM
2 6 (75.00%) AI
2 6 (75.00%) BDD
2 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) Data Governance
2 6 (75.00%) TDD
2 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (62.50%) Metadata Management
3 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (62.50%) Risk Management
4 4 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (50.00%) Machine Learning
5 3 (37.50%) Data Analysis
5 3 (37.50%) Data Architecture
6 2 (25.00%) Data Flow Diagram
6 2 (25.00%) Generative AI
6 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 1 (12.50%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
1 7 (87.50%) Python
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) C++
3 2 (25.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) Basel III
2 1 (12.50%) PMO
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Sybase
2 4 (50.00%) IBM
3 1 (12.50%) Alteryx
3 1 (12.50%) CA Agile Central