Financial Institution Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Financial Institution
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Financial Institution in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Financial Institution over the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 111 137
Rank change year-on-year +8 +26 +27
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 12 9 7
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.76% 0.49% 0.30%
As % of the General category 1.12% 0.75% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 4
10th Percentile £328 £295 £460
25th Percentile £463 - £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £350 £538
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -34.88% +7.50%
75th Percentile £581 £419 £588
90th Percentile £628 £483 £610
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +6.67%

All General Skills
Scotland

Financial Institution falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,068 1,198 1,575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 67.64% 64.97% 67.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 693 1,005
10th Percentile £200 £170 £191
25th Percentile £360 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £440 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.11% -7.37% -
75th Percentile £538 £531 £575
90th Percentile £600 £619 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 39 35
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.48 £11.79
25th Percentile £16.02 £14.62 £12.19
Median hourly rate £17.87 £16.92 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year +5.61% -11.78% +3.68%
75th Percentile £23.58 £24.17 £55.70
90th Percentile £53.99 £42.81 £76.30
UK median hourly rate £24.34 £31.50 £29.25
% change year-on-year -22.73% +7.69% +17.00%

Financial Institution
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Financial Institution job vacancy trend in Scotland

Financial Institution
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Financial Institution.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Financial Institution

Financial Institution
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Financial Institution in Scotland over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Financial Institution in Scotland

Financial Institution
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Financial Institution.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Financial Institution

Financial Institution
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 Financial Institution within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 October 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
Edinburgh +17 6 £575 +71.64% 11
Glasgow -17 5 £485 +38.57% 7
Financial Institution
UK

Financial Institution
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 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub
2 1 (8.33%) Serverless
2 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DHCP
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) DB2
1 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) IntelliJ
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Liquibase
2 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (100.00%) Finance
2 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 7 (58.33%) Banking
4 5 (41.67%) Investment Banking
5 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (16.67%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (16.67%) Front Office
6 2 (16.67%) Retail
6 2 (16.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Change Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Officer
3 1 (8.33%) Designer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Designer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Service Designer
3 1 (8.33%) Operational Change Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Python Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) REST
2 2 (16.67%) FastAPI
2 2 (16.67%) React
3 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (8.33%) Kafka
3 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 2 (16.67%) Public Cloud
1 2 (16.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 3 (25.00%) Scrum
2 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) AI
3 2 (16.67%) Change Management
3 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 2 (16.67%) Conversational UI
3 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 2 (16.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Economics
3 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (16.67%) High Availability
3 2 (16.67%) Machine Learning
3 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (16.67%) Process Improvement
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (8.33%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) Go
3 1 (8.33%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) Perl
3 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
1 2 (16.67%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Ansible
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Avaloq
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco
2 1 (8.33%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) Greenplum
2 1 (8.33%) Juniper
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk