Finance Contracts in Edinburgh

Financial
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 157 257 513
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 19.41% 19.92% 26.39%
As % of the General category 25.95% 27.55% 35.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 165 396
10th Percentile £312 £300 £313
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £499 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.30% -0.30% +17.65%
75th Percentile £623 £575 £575
90th Percentile £739 £645 £675
Scotland median daily rate £488 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -2.50% +2.56% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £17.83 - £18.64
25th Percentile £18.00 - £20.02
Median hourly rate £18.27 - £21.50
75th Percentile £20.57 - £25.44
90th Percentile £21.95 - £33.25
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -66.09% +167.44% -61.65%

All General Skills
Edinburgh

Finance is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 605 933 1,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 74.78% 72.33% 75.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 682 1,063
10th Percentile £183 £250 £230
25th Percentile £400 £409 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £675 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £463
% change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 8 16
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.55 £16.03
25th Percentile £16.50 £17.72 £19.21
Median hourly rate £35.00 £21.47 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.06% -34.95% -35.85%
75th Percentile £60.75 £47.63 £50.00
90th Percentile £67.23 £67.50 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £19.17 £21.26 £25.82
% change year-on-year -9.83% -17.64% -9.42%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Edinburgh

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Finance in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Finance in Edinburgh

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Edinburgh

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (4.46%) Confluence
2 2 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.64%) Apache
3 1 (0.64%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (8.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.27%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (5.10%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (4.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (2.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (2.55%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (1.27%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (1.27%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.64%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.64%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 20 (12.74%) Azure
2 16 (10.19%) OCI
3 14 (8.92%) Power Platform
4 12 (7.64%) AWS
5 6 (3.82%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (3.82%) SaaS
6 4 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (2.55%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (2.55%) GCP
6 4 (2.55%) Serverless
7 3 (1.91%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.27%) Figma
8 2 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.27%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.64%) Cloud Run
9 1 (0.64%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.55%) LAN
1 4 (2.55%) WAN
2 2 (1.27%) Firewall
3 1 (0.64%) ATM
3 1 (0.64%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.64%) Wireless
3 1 (0.64%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.64%) Power BI
2 11 (7.01%) Oracle Reports
3 6 (3.82%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 6 (3.82%) Tableau
4 5 (3.18%) Star Schema
5 4 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.91%) Big Data
7 2 (1.27%) Data Mining
7 2 (1.27%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.64%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.64%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.64%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.64%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.64%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.64%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.64%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (7.01%) JIRA
2 5 (3.18%) ER Studio
2 5 (3.18%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (1.27%) ERwin
3 2 (1.27%) Gradle
4 1 (0.64%) Android Studio
4 1 (0.64%) Git
4 1 (0.64%) GitLab
4 1 (0.64%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.64%) JMeter
4 1 (0.64%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.64%) Selenium
4 1 (0.64%) SilkCentral
4 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 46 (29.30%) Social Skills
2 45 (28.66%) Public Sector
3 27 (17.20%) Banking
4 26 (16.56%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.10%) Billing
6 6 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (3.82%) Retail
7 4 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.91%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.27%) Legal
10 1 (0.64%) Automotive
10 1 (0.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (24.84%) Analyst
2 23 (14.65%) Project Manager
3 18 (11.46%) Architect
4 13 (8.28%) Business Analyst
5 10 (6.37%) Data Analyst
5 10 (6.37%) Lead
5 10 (6.37%) Senior
6 8 (5.10%) Consultant
6 8 (5.10%) Developer
6 8 (5.10%) Finance Manager
7 7 (4.46%) Data Architect
7 7 (4.46%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (3.82%) Programme Manager
8 6 (3.82%) UAT Analyst
9 5 (3.18%) Oracle Developer
9 5 (3.18%) Project Officer
9 5 (3.18%) Project Support Officer
9 5 (3.18%) Support Officer
9 5 (3.18%) Technical Architect
10 4 (2.55%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.92%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (2.55%) Kafka
2 4 (2.55%) Middleware
3 3 (1.91%) React
4 2 (1.27%) .NET
4 2 (1.27%) AWS CDK
4 2 (1.27%) Node.js
5 1 (0.64%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.64%) CSS
5 1 (0.64%) HTML
5 1 (0.64%) Java EE
5 1 (0.64%) PySpark
5 1 (0.64%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.64%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.19%) Data Protection Act
2 11 (7.01%) Management Information System
3 9 (5.73%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.91%) Credit Risk
4 3 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.91%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.91%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.91%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.27%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.64%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.64%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.64%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.64%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.64%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.64%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.46%) Windows
2 4 (2.55%) Linux
3 2 (1.27%) Android
4 1 (0.64%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.64%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.64%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (17.83%) Agile
2 22 (14.01%) Stakeholder Management
3 21 (13.38%) ERP
3 21 (13.38%) Project Management
4 19 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (10.19%) Data Protection
6 15 (9.55%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (9.55%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (9.55%) Data Modelling
7 14 (8.92%) User Acceptance Testing
8 13 (8.28%) Business Case
8 13 (8.28%) Migration
9 12 (7.64%) Analytics
10 11 (7.01%) Business Analysis
11 10 (6.37%) Business Strategy
11 10 (6.37%) Data Analysis
11 10 (6.37%) Test Strategy
12 9 (5.73%) DevOps
12 9 (5.73%) Project Delivery
12 9 (5.73%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 18 (11.46%) SQL
2 9 (5.73%) Python
3 5 (3.18%) Java
3 5 (3.18%) PL/SQL
4 4 (2.55%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.91%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.27%) Bash
6 2 (1.27%) C#
7 1 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.64%) Go
7 1 (0.64%) Groovy
7 1 (0.64%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.64%) Scala
7 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (5.10%) Degree
2 2 (1.27%) APMP
2 2 (1.27%) ISTQB
3 1 (0.64%) APMG
3 1 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.64%) CISA
3 1 (0.64%) CISSP
3 1 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.64%) PMI Certification
3 1 (0.64%) PMP
3 1 (0.64%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.64%) Disclosure Scotland
2 10 (6.37%) PMO
2 10 (6.37%) QA
3 5 (3.18%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.55%) SLA
5 2 (1.27%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.64%) IFRS
6 1 (0.64%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.64%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 5 (3.18%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (3.18%) VMware NSX
1 5 (3.18%) vSphere
2 4 (2.55%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.27%) Terraform
2 1 (0.64%) Istio
2 1 (0.64%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.64%) Puppet
Vendors
1 39 (24.84%) Oracle
2 24 (15.29%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.37%) Databricks
4 7 (4.46%) Informatica
5 5 (3.18%) Cisco
5 5 (3.18%) Dell
5 5 (3.18%) IDERA
5 5 (3.18%) VMware
6 4 (2.55%) IBM
7 3 (1.91%) Google
7 3 (1.91%) Splunk
8 2 (1.27%) Blue Prism
8 2 (1.27%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.27%) Confluent
8 2 (1.27%) Pega
8 2 (1.27%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.27%) Teradata
9 1 (0.64%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.64%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.64%) StreamSets