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 26 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 105 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing Derivative 15 10 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.71% 0.61% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.04% 1.52% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 0
10th Percentile £347 £352 -
25th Percentile £397 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £404 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.86% - -
75th Percentile £485 £575 -
90th Percentile £494 - -
UK median daily rate £725 £725 £800
% change year-on-year - -9.38% +10.34%

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 735 658 667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 34.80% 40.44% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 325 404
10th Percentile £275 £200 £211
25th Percentile £400 £362 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £460
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -2.17% -7.07%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £600 £669
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 30 33
10th Percentile £15.10 - £12.49
25th Percentile £16.09 £17.30 £15.22
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £18.27
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +20.42% +19.84%
75th Percentile £43.96 £27.16 £35.00
90th Percentile £70.20 £57.75 £60.10
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £31.00 £36.27
% change year-on-year +40.32% -14.54% +61.59%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 +2 13 £392 -3.09% 1
Edinburgh -3 2 £475 -
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 2 (13.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
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%) Power Platform
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%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 14 (93.33%) Finance
2 11 (73.33%) Front Office
3 10 (66.67%) Banking
3 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
4 9 (60.00%) Investment Banking
5 8 (53.33%) Analytical Skills
6 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%) Analyst
4 3 (20.00%) Business Analyst
4 3 (20.00%) Senior
4 3 (20.00%) Software 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%) Data Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (73.33%) Equity Derivative
2 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (13.33%) OTC Derivatives
3 1 (6.67%) Equities
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Data Lineage
2 11 (73.33%) LLM
3 10 (66.67%) AI
3 10 (66.67%) BDD
3 10 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 10 (66.67%) TDD
4 9 (60.00%) Data Governance
4 9 (60.00%) Test Automation
5 8 (53.33%) Metadata Management
5 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (53.33%) Risk Management
6 7 (46.67%) Actionable Insight
6 7 (46.67%) Data Pipeline
6 7 (46.67%) Machine Learning
7 5 (33.33%) Data Analysis
8 4 (26.67%) Data Architecture
9 3 (20.00%) Data Flow Diagram
9 3 (20.00%) Generative AI
9 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
9 3 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) SQL
2 11 (73.33%) Java
2 11 (73.33%) Python
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%) Basel III
2 1 (6.67%) ISO 20022
2 1 (6.67%) PMO
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