Derivative Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Derivatives
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Derivative in contract job vacancies in Hertfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Derivative over the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Derivative 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.45% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.36% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £681 - -
East of England median daily rate £681 - -

All Generic Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 221 169 237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 32.84% 44.59% 35.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 76 119
10th Percentile £351 £297 £283
25th Percentile £413 £396 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.60% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £681 £600 £647
90th Percentile £800 £669 £815
East of England median daily rate £475 £483 £500
% change year-on-year -1.55% -3.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 36 61
10th Percentile £17.41 £35.00 £42.25
25th Percentile £41.25 £51.63 £42.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 -
90th Percentile £82.85 £95.00 £70.00
East of England median hourly rate £45.00 £66.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -31.82% +5.60% +19.05%

Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Derivative job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Derivative
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Derivative

Derivative
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Derivative within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 23 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Stevenage - 3 £681 -
Derivative
East of England

Derivative
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
General
1 3 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Automation Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Hardware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Acoustics
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Debian
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 3 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) NVIDIA
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat