Derivative Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Derivatives
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Derivative in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Derivative over the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 - 139
Rank change year-on-year - - +35
Contract jobs citing Derivative 8 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.50% - 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.23% - 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £439 - -
25th Percentile £478 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £700
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £47.73
UK median hourly rate £87.50 - £47.73
% change year-on-year - - +47.31%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 650 654 906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.75% 34.92% 37.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 395 577
10th Percentile £185 £207 £212
25th Percentile £358 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £574
90th Percentile £609 £700 £653
UK median daily rate £515 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.63% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 29 20
10th Percentile £15.85 £12.30 £11.64
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £16.92
Median hourly rate £21.86 £18.38 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year +18.97% -4.20% -44.58%
75th Percentile £28.49 £23.89 £54.06
90th Percentile £60.75 £28.15 £60.68
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +12.36% +71.15%

Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Derivative in Scotland

Derivative
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Derivative

Derivative
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Derivative in Scotland over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Derivative in Scotland

Derivative
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Derivative.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Derivative

Derivative
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Derivative within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 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
Edinburgh - 5 £425 -
Glasgow - 3 £550 -
Derivative
UK

Derivative
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (25.00%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) DB2
2 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (12.50%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JUnit
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Front Office
4 2 (25.00%) Banking
4 2 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Analyst
2 4 (50.00%) Business Analyst
3 3 (37.50%) Developer
3 3 (37.50%) Java Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Data Business Analyst
4 2 (25.00%) Product Analyst
4 2 (25.00%) Product Business Analyst
4 2 (25.00%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) JMS
1 3 (37.50%) Spring
2 2 (25.00%) Kafka
3 1 (12.50%) J2SE
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Equities
1 4 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (37.50%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (25.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (25.00%) Fixed Income
3 2 (25.00%) OTC Derivatives
3 2 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) SDLC
3 3 (37.50%) Data Analysis
3 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
3 3 (37.50%) Database Tuning
3 3 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 2 (25.00%) BDD
4 2 (25.00%) Business Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Data Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (25.00%) Data Security
4 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Multithreading
4 2 (25.00%) Open Source
4 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (12.50%) Perl
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Sybase
2 2 (25.00%) Bloomberg
2 2 (25.00%) Reuters