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 15 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 105 142
Rank change year-on-year -2 +37 +28
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 14 11 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.89% 0.59% 0.36%
As % of the General category 1.29% 0.93% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 5
10th Percentile £343 £332 £513
25th Percentile £428 £350 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £438 £550
Median % change year-on-year +16.57% -20.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £611 £475 £600
90th Percentile £632 £494 £615
UK median daily rate £600 £565 £600
% change year-on-year +6.19% -5.83% +9.09%

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 1,089 1,188 1,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 68.92% 63.70% 67.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 706 1,114
10th Percentile £223 £168 £211
25th Percentile £368 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £570
90th Percentile £600 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 44 39
10th Percentile £16.02 £12.30 £11.93
25th Percentile £17.08 £14.28 £12.28
Median hourly rate £19.23 £17.46 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year +10.14% -8.97% -1.01%
75th Percentile £24.66 £24.16 £58.89
90th Percentile £48.14 £41.18 £74.60
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.28 £27.50
% change year-on-year -32.54% +35.56% +12.43%

Financial Institution
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Financial Institution as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Financial Institution 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 15 September 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 15 September 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
Glasgow -14 9 £485 +10.86% 6
Edinburgh +7 4 £631 +88.43% 3
Financial Institution
UK

Financial Institution
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub
2 1 (7.14%) IaaS
2 1 (7.14%) Serverless
2 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DHCP
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
1 1 (7.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) DB2
1 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) IntelliJ
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Liquibase
2 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 14 (100.00%) Finance
2 10 (71.43%) Social Skills
3 8 (57.14%) Banking
4 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (28.57%) Investment Banking
5 2 (14.29%) Front Office
6 1 (7.14%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (7.14%) Retail
6 1 (7.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Developer
1 3 (21.43%) Programme Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Change Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Officer
3 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Migration Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Operational Change Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Scrum Master
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.14%) FastAPI
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) React
2 1 (7.14%) RESTful
2 1 (7.14%) Spring
2 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
1 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
1 2 (14.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Unix
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
3 3 (21.43%) Data Security
3 3 (21.43%) Process Improvement
3 3 (21.43%) Scrum
3 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (14.29%) Application Security
4 2 (14.29%) Change Management
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 2 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) Economics
4 2 (14.29%) High Availability
4 2 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
3 1 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) Go
3 1 (7.14%) Perl
3 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) GDPR
1 2 (14.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) Ansible
2 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Grafana
3 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Avaloq
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco
2 1 (7.14%) Databricks
2 1 (7.14%) Greenplum
2 1 (7.14%) Juniper
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Splunk