Equity Derivative Contracts in Scotland

Equity Derivatives
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equity Derivative in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Equity Derivative over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 - 157
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
Contract jobs citing Equity Derivative 6 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.37% - 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.97% - 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - £574
25th Percentile - - £610
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 - £691
75th Percentile £492 - £721
90th Percentile £542 - £727
UK median daily rate £425 £700 £750
% change year-on-year -39.29% -6.67% +15.38%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Equity 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 618 732 1,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.03% 33.02% 36.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 426 712
10th Percentile £221 £203 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £560
90th Percentile £600 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 36 23
10th Percentile - £13.75 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £10.63
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.14 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year +21.31% +47.44% -71.40%
75th Percentile £24.66 £38.25 £28.81
90th Percentile £42.00 £60.38 £52.55
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Equity Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Equity Derivative in Scotland

Equity Derivative
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Equity Derivative in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Equity Derivative in Scotland

Equity Derivative
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Equity Derivative in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Equity Derivative in Scotland

Equity 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 Equity Derivative within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Glasgow - 6 £408 - 5
Equity Derivative
UK

Equity 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) DB2
1 6 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 6 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (50.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) JUnit
General
1 6 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (83.33%) Front Office
2 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (66.67%) Finance
4 1 (16.67%) Banking
4 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) MongoDB Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Kafka
1 6 (100.00%) Spring
2 3 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (33.33%) MSMQ
4 1 (16.67%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 3 (50.00%) Derivative
1 3 (50.00%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 6 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) SDLC
2 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Concurrent Programming
3 3 (50.00%) Database Tuning
3 3 (50.00%) Event-Driven
3 3 (50.00%) Open Source
3 3 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Investment Management
5 1 (16.67%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) Python
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Sybase
2 3 (50.00%) IBM