Derivative Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Derivatives
UK > Northern Ireland

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

6 months to
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 30 29
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +5
Contract jobs citing Derivative 6 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.48% 1.13% 1.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.59% 5.00% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £349 - £416
25th Percentile £404 - £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £488
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.14%
75th Percentile £538 - £541
90th Percentile £560 - £569
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £700
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -

All Generic Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 79 40 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 32.64% 22.60% 31.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 12 29
10th Percentile £332 £126 £135
25th Percentile £407 £178 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £238 £400
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% -40.63% -20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £452 -
90th Percentile £609 £484 £538
UK median daily rate £519 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.64% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 0
10th Percentile - £14.93 -
25th Percentile £12.31 £18.95 -
Median hourly rate £15.05 £22.56 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.29% - -
75th Percentile £15.33 £23.94 -
90th Percentile £16.23 - -
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £47.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -36.84% +11.76% +60.38%

Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Derivative in Northern Ireland

Derivative
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Derivative.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Derivative

Derivative
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Derivative in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 6 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Derivative in Northern Ireland

Derivative
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Derivative within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 6 September 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
County Antrim -2 6 £500 - 5
Derivative
UK

Derivative
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (16.67%) DB2
2 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Financial Institution
3 2 (33.33%) Front Office
4 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
4 1 (16.67%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Analyst
1 4 (66.67%) Data Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Business Data Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Core Java Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Java Software Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Avro
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) React
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
1 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Equities
1 3 (50.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (16.67%) Equity Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 3 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (16.67%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (16.67%) OO
3 1 (16.67%) OOP
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) SOA
3 1 (16.67%) Statistical Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Kotlin
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Basel III
1 2 (33.33%) MiFID
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Sybase