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 27 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 109 -
Rank change year-on-year +6 - -
Contract jobs citing Derivative 15 9 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.78% 0.56% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.23% 1.48% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 0
10th Percentile £436 £352 -
25th Percentile £451 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £404 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.34% - -
75th Percentile £485 £575 -
90th Percentile £494 - -
UK median daily rate £725 £725 £750
% change year-on-year - -3.33% +3.45%

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 672 609 684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 34.96% 38.11% 32.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 304 418
10th Percentile £265 £216 £204
25th Percentile £401 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £464 £453
Median % change year-on-year +2.43% +2.37% -7.55%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £561
90th Percentile £675 £597 £647
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 27 33
10th Percentile £16.03 - £12.49
25th Percentile £16.17 £17.30 £16.25
Median hourly rate £19.33 £22.00 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year -12.14% +21.35% +42.42%
75th Percentile £38.75 £24.66 £35.00
90th Percentile £72.60 £44.57 £60.10
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £31.76 £34.11
% change year-on-year +29.09% -6.88% +55.02%

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
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 27 May 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 +7 12 £470 +16.34%
Edinburgh -3 3 £470 - 1
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:

Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) ChatGPT
2 9 (60.00%) Anthropic Claude
3 8 (53.33%) GitHub
3 8 (53.33%) GitHub Copilot
4 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.67%) AWS
5 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
5 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (73.33%) Metadata
1 11 (73.33%) Relational Database
2 10 (66.67%) DB2
3 8 (53.33%) MongoDB
4 2 (13.33%) RDBMS
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 14 (93.33%) Finance
2 10 (66.67%) Front Office
2 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 9 (60.00%) Banking
3 9 (60.00%) Investment Banking
4 8 (53.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Developer
2 6 (40.00%) Python Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Java Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Senior
4 3 (20.00%) Software Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Business Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) DB2 Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Gen AI Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Perl Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Sybase Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) AWS CDK
1 1 (6.67%) PostGIS
1 1 (6.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (73.33%) Equity Derivative
2 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (13.33%) OTC Derivatives
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Data Lineage
2 11 (73.33%) AI
2 11 (73.33%) CI/CD
2 11 (73.33%) LLM
2 11 (73.33%) TDD
3 10 (66.67%) BDD
3 10 (66.67%) Data Governance
3 10 (66.67%) Test Automation
4 8 (53.33%) Metadata Management
4 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (53.33%) Risk Management
5 7 (46.67%) Actionable Insight
5 7 (46.67%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (46.67%) Machine Learning
6 4 (26.67%) Data Analysis
6 4 (26.67%) Data Architecture
7 3 (20.00%) Data Flow Diagram
7 3 (20.00%) Data Transformation
7 3 (20.00%) Generative AI
7 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) Python
1 12 (80.00%) SQL
2 11 (73.33%) Java
3 8 (53.33%) C++
4 3 (20.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (53.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) Basel III
2 1 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (6.67%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Sybase
2 7 (46.67%) IBM
3 2 (13.33%) Calypso
4 1 (6.67%) Alteryx
4 1 (6.67%) CA Agile Central