Derivative Job Trends in Scotland

Derivatives
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Derivative in permanent job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Derivative over the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 146 159
Rank change year-on-year +5 +13 -
Permanent jobs citing Derivative 10 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.37% 0.062% 0.042%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.21% 0.23% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £65,000
75th Percentile - - £67,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -

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 permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 829 864 813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 30.30% 26.62% 34.19%
Number of salaries quoted 307 398 649
10th Percentile £25,000 £36,175 £31,250
25th Percentile £30,125 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -7.60% +3.52%
75th Percentile £68,800 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,170 £89,125 £87,435
UK median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.83% -4.00% -

Derivative
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Derivative job vacancy trend in Scotland

Derivative
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Derivative.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Derivative

Derivative
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Derivative within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow - 8 - -
Edinburgh +3 1 - -
Aberdeen - 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (40.00%) KDB
1 4 (40.00%) Kdb+
1 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 10 (100.00%) Finance
1 10 (100.00%) Law
2 8 (80.00%) Banking
2 8 (80.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (40.00%) Front Office
4 4 (40.00%) Investment Banking
4 4 (40.00%) Marketing
5 2 (20.00%) Financial Institution
5 2 (20.00%) Legal
5 2 (20.00%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Python Engineer
1 8 (80.00%) Python Software Engineer
1 8 (80.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Java Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Lead
2 4 (40.00%) Lead Software Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (40.00%) Django
1 4 (40.00%) Kafka
1 4 (40.00%) Pandas
1 4 (40.00%) React
1 4 (40.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (40.00%) Fixed Income
2 2 (20.00%) Blockchain
2 2 (20.00%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Operational Stability
1 8 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Clean Code
2 4 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
2 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 4 (40.00%) Creative Thinking
2 4 (40.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 4 (40.00%) Functional Programming
2 4 (40.00%) Mathematics
2 4 (40.00%) OO
2 4 (40.00%) OOD
2 4 (40.00%) OOP
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Product Management
2 4 (40.00%) Quantitative Research
2 4 (40.00%) SDLC
3 2 (20.00%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Python
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (20.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle