Equity Derivative Contract Job Trends 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 19 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 110 -
Rank change year-on-year +6 - -
Contract jobs citing Equity Derivative 8 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.46% 0.30% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.39% 0.80% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £460 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £408 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.20% - -
75th Percentile £480 £492 -
90th Percentile - £542 -
UK median daily rate £819 £425 £700
% change year-on-year +92.65% -39.29% -6.67%

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 576 625 721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.33% 37.99% 32.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 324 416
10th Percentile £250 £200 £200
25th Percentile £381 £399 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £458 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.71% -3.58% -1.04%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £600 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 31 37
10th Percentile £16.11 £17.30 £14.85
25th Percentile £16.17 £20.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £23.00 £18.27
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% +25.89% +59.35%
75th Percentile £44.38 £26.21 £52.50
90th Percentile £73.80 £34.29 £60.75
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +38.46% +16.07% +24.53%

Equity Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Equity Derivative job vacancy trend in Scotland

Equity Derivative
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

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 19 April 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 +13 8 £470 +15.20% 1
Equity Derivative
UK

Equity 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) ChatGPT
2 7 (87.50%) Anthropic Claude
3 6 (75.00%) GitHub
3 6 (75.00%) GitHub Copilot
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) Metadata
2 7 (87.50%) DB2
2 7 (87.50%) Relational Database
3 6 (75.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
General
1 8 (100.00%) Finance
2 7 (87.50%) Front Office
3 6 (75.00%) Banking
3 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (62.50%) Investment Banking
5 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Java Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Python Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) DB2 Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Gen AI Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Perl Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Sybase Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) LLM
2 7 (87.50%) AI
2 7 (87.50%) BDD
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 7 (87.50%) Data Lineage
2 7 (87.50%) TDD
3 6 (75.00%) Data Governance
3 6 (75.00%) Metadata Management
3 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
4 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (50.00%) Data Analysis
5 4 (50.00%) Data Architecture
5 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (50.00%) Machine Learning
5 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
6 3 (37.50%) Generative AI
7 2 (25.00%) Data Flow Diagram
7 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 1 (12.50%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
1 8 (100.00%) Python
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (75.00%) C++
3 3 (37.50%) Perl
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Sybase
2 4 (50.00%) IBM