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 8 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 102 127
Rank change year-on-year +6 +25 +24
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 13 10 11
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.88% 0.63% 0.48%
As % of the General category 1.32% 0.93% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 8
10th Percentile £453 £313 £490
25th Percentile £563 - £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £350 £675
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -48.15% +24.14%
75th Percentile £675 £394 £750
90th Percentile £678 £400 -
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £573
% change year-on-year - +4.71% -4.50%

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 984 1,076 1,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 66.35% 67.59% 67.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 641 943
10th Percentile £204 £192 £209
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £588
90th Percentile £638 £625 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.23% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 32 47
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.34 £12.87
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.62 £16.50
Median hourly rate £17.87 £23.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.96% -11.32% +56.48%
75th Percentile £26.64 £27.91 £60.00
90th Percentile £60.29 £43.89 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £23.50 £27.39 £32.50
% change year-on-year -14.19% -15.74% +30.00%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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 +11 10 £575 +238.24% 3
Glasgow -2 3 £378 +3.70%
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 (7.69%) Camunda
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Chatbot
2 1 (7.69%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) GCP
2 2 (15.38%) AWS KMS
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
1 1 (7.69%) Liquibase
General
1 13 (100.00%) Finance
2 10 (76.92%) Social Skills
3 8 (61.54%) Banking
4 6 (46.15%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (30.77%) Investment Banking
6 2 (15.38%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (15.38%) Front Office
6 2 (15.38%) Retail
6 2 (15.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Analyst
1 3 (23.08%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Security Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Officer
3 1 (7.69%) Designer
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Designer
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Service Designer
3 1 (7.69%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) REST
2 2 (15.38%) FastAPI
2 2 (15.38%) React
3 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (7.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (15.38%) Algorithms
3 2 (15.38%) PKI
3 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (30.77%) Customer Experience
3 3 (23.08%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (23.08%) Agile
3 3 (23.08%) Cryptography
3 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
3 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) User Experience
3 3 (23.08%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 3 (23.08%) UX Design
4 2 (15.38%) AI
4 2 (15.38%) Economics
4 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
4 2 (15.38%) Scrum
4 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (15.38%) Use Case
4 2 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Bash
2 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
3 1 (7.69%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) FFIEC
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) MiFID
1 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Firmware
2 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Ansible
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (7.69%) Grafana
3 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Avaloq
1 2 (15.38%) Thales
2 1 (7.69%) Splunk