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 29 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 100 107
Rank change year-on-year -22 +7 +33
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 15 16 8
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.66% 1.00% 0.43%
As % of the General category 1.05% 1.44% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 7
10th Percentile £400 £297 £306
25th Percentile £403 £409 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £510 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.94% +7.37% -13.64%
75th Percentile £473 £587 £484
90th Percentile £538 £623 £496
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £591
% change year-on-year - +1.48% -1.46%

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 general skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,424 1,109 1,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 62.18% 69.27% 63.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 776 633 695
10th Percentile £238 £220 £164
25th Percentile £363 £363 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £463 £445
Median % change year-on-year -0.27% +3.93% -6.32%
75th Percentile £558 £538 £538
90th Percentile £650 £589 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 49 47
10th Percentile £13.13 £16.02 £12.30
25th Percentile £13.45 £16.63 £14.07
Median hourly rate £16.86 £19.23 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.32% +13.12% -4.06%
75th Percentile £40.48 £24.66 £22.55
90th Percentile £60.00 £48.14 £38.32
UK median hourly rate £31.13 £25.15 £37.04
% change year-on-year +23.77% -32.10% +34.69%

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 29 August 2026.

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 29 August 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
Edinburgh -1 8 £420 -33.47% 34
Glasgow -14 7 £417 -14.02% 26
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 (6.67%) Apache
1 1 (6.67%) Confluence
1 1 (6.67%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Aladdin
1 2 (13.33%) MultiFonds
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) GCP
2 4 (26.67%) AWS
3 3 (20.00%) Azure
4 2 (13.33%) Apigee
4 2 (13.33%) Azure AKS
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Run
4 2 (13.33%) Snowflake
4 2 (13.33%) Vertex AI
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Figma
5 1 (6.67%) GitHub
5 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (6.67%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (6.67%) Vyond
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (13.33%) BigQuery
2 2 (13.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (6.67%) Flink
3 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 15 (100.00%) Finance
2 8 (53.33%) Banking
3 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Private Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Billing
5 1 (6.67%) Front Office
5 1 (6.67%) Games
5 1 (6.67%) International Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Data Architect
3 2 (13.33%) DBA
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) GCP Architect
3 2 (13.33%) GCP Data Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
4 1 (6.67%) Java Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Middle Office Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) PMO Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Python Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Release Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) LangGraph
2 2 (13.33%) JSON
2 2 (13.33%) LangChain
2 2 (13.33%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) XML
3 1 (6.67%) ADO
3 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.67%) Apache Beam
3 1 (6.67%) CSS
3 1 (6.67%) CSS3
3 1 (6.67%) HTML
3 1 (6.67%) HTML5
3 1 (6.67%) Kafka
3 1 (6.67%) Middleware
3 1 (6.67%) OAuth
3 1 (6.67%) OAuth2
3 1 (6.67%) RESTful
3 1 (6.67%) Sass
3 1 (6.67%) Spring
3 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (13.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (13.33%) Equities
2 2 (13.33%) Fixed Income
2 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
2 2 (13.33%) Replication
3 1 (6.67%) AI Agents
3 1 (6.67%) Derivative
3 1 (6.67%) Educational Technology
3 1 (6.67%) e-Learning
3 1 (6.67%) IVR
3 1 (6.67%) Learning Management System
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) SCORM
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Migration
2 7 (46.67%) Agile
3 5 (33.33%) AI
4 3 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 3 (20.00%) ETL
4 3 (20.00%) Generative AI
4 3 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 3 (20.00%) Microservices
4 3 (20.00%) Portfolio Management
4 3 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 3 (20.00%) Scrum
4 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (20.00%) Wealth Management
5 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
5 2 (13.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (13.33%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (13.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) PMO
2 1 (6.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) Istio
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Google
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) Avaloq
3 2 (13.33%) Charles River
3 2 (13.33%) Greenplum
3 2 (13.33%) Informatica
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 2 (13.33%) SimCorp
3 2 (13.33%) Talend
3 2 (13.33%) Temenos
4 1 (6.67%) Adobe
4 1 (6.67%) Atlassian
4 1 (6.67%) Checkmarx
4 1 (6.67%) IBM
4 1 (6.67%) Okta
4 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.67%) Synthesia