Derivative Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Derivatives
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Derivative in contract job vacancies in Leeds. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Derivative over the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Derivative 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.30% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.79% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £525 - -

All Generic Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 254 156 291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 38.08% 22.94% 26.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 109 187
10th Percentile £375 £207 £350
25th Percentile £450 £455 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £625 £700 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £506 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.20% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 5
10th Percentile - £16.53 -
25th Percentile - £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +17.32% +0.28%
75th Percentile - £28.75 -
90th Percentile - £45.25 £21.87
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.30 £27.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -22.55% +44.74% -4.28%

Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Derivative job vacancy trend in Leeds

Derivative
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Calypso Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Client Onboarding
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Calypso