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 25 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 110 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing Derivative 20 9 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.88% 0.56% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.35% 1.43% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 0
10th Percentile £321 £356 -
25th Percentile £339 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.60% - -
75th Percentile £475 £575 -
90th Percentile £484 - -
UK median daily rate £725 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +14.29%

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 852 631 640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 37.50% 39.27% 34.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 311 392
10th Percentile £228 £190 £200
25th Percentile £363 £358 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £453
Median % change year-on-year - -0.66% -8.30%
75th Percentile £540 £538 £588
90th Percentile £645 £588 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 22 24
10th Percentile £14.30 £16.03 £12.30
25th Percentile £16.17 £17.30 £14.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £18.67 £18.20
Median % change year-on-year +60.73% +2.55% +2.71%
75th Percentile £43.96 £24.66 £21.74
90th Percentile £55.83 £57.50 £53.46
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £30.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% -33.33% +2.66%

Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Derivative job vacancy trend 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 25 August 2026.

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 25 August 2026. 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
Glasgow +5 18 £348 -33.81% 9
Edinburgh -9 2 £475 +11.76%
Derivative
UK

Derivative
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Apache
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Aladdin
1 1 (5.00%) MultiFonds
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) ChatGPT
2 9 (45.00%) Anthropic Claude
3 8 (40.00%) GitHub
3 8 (40.00%) GitHub Copilot
4 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (5.00%) AWS
5 1 (5.00%) Azure
5 1 (5.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (55.00%) Metadata
1 11 (55.00%) Relational Database
2 10 (50.00%) Db2
3 8 (40.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (10.00%) RDBMS
General
1 18 (90.00%) Finance
2 13 (65.00%) Front Office
3 11 (55.00%) Banking
4 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
5 9 (45.00%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (45.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
6 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Developer
2 6 (30.00%) Python Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Java Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Analyst
4 4 (20.00%) Business Analyst
5 3 (15.00%) Senior
5 3 (15.00%) Software Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) DB2 Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Gen AI Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Perl Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Business Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) Sybase Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking Java Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Junior
7 1 (5.00%) Kafka Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Workflow Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) RESTful
2 1 (5.00%) Kafka
2 1 (5.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 11 (55.00%) Equity Derivative
2 3 (15.00%) Equities
2 3 (15.00%) Fixed Income
3 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (10.00%) OTC Derivatives
4 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) CI/CD
1 11 (55.00%) Data Lineage
1 11 (55.00%) LLM
2 10 (50.00%) AI
2 10 (50.00%) BDD
2 10 (50.00%) TDD
3 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (40.00%) Data Governance
4 8 (40.00%) Metadata Management
4 8 (40.00%) Test Automation
5 7 (35.00%) Actionable Insight
5 7 (35.00%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (35.00%) Machine Learning
5 7 (35.00%) Risk Management
6 6 (30.00%) Data Analysis
7 4 (20.00%) Data Architecture
8 3 (15.00%) Business Analysis
8 3 (15.00%) Event-Driven
8 3 (15.00%) Low Latency
8 3 (15.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) Java
1 13 (65.00%) SQL
2 12 (60.00%) Python
3 8 (40.00%) C++
4 3 (15.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (45.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) Dodd-Frank
2 1 (5.00%) EMIR
2 1 (5.00%) ISO 20022
2 1 (5.00%) MiFID
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Sybase
2 7 (35.00%) IBM
3 2 (10.00%) Calypso
4 1 (5.00%) Avaloq
4 1 (5.00%) Charles River
4 1 (5.00%) SimCorp
4 1 (5.00%) Temenos