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 4 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 96 112
Rank change year-on-year -16 +16 +39
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 17 22 11
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.78% 1.32% 0.53%
As % of the General category 1.31% 1.82% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 17 10
10th Percentile £389 £394 £475
25th Percentile - £425 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £485 £625
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% -22.40% +13.64%
75th Percentile £488 £623 £750
90th Percentile £525 £719 -
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £600

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 1,299 1,208 1,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 59.81% 72.38% 63.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 676 699 791
10th Percentile £250 £228 £175
25th Percentile £362 £364 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.43% +3.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £600 £638
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.73% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 45 75
10th Percentile £12.60 £16.02 £12.12
25th Percentile £13.45 £16.55 £13.38
Median hourly rate £16.11 £20.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.45% +11.11% -2.70%
75th Percentile £43.96 £26.21 £34.38
90th Percentile £61.50 £44.37 £60.75
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £27.22 £31.80
% change year-on-year +17.56% -14.40% +4.13%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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
Glasgow -15 10 £400 -15.79% 2
Edinburgh -2 7 - - 6
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 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
1 4 (23.53%) GCP
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) Apigee
3 2 (11.76%) Azure AKS
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Run
3 2 (11.76%) Figma
3 2 (11.76%) Snowflake
3 2 (11.76%) Vertex AI
3 2 (11.76%) Vyond
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.76%) BigQuery
2 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
2 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 17 (100.00%) Finance
2 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
3 6 (35.29%) Banking
4 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (11.76%) Games
5 2 (11.76%) Investment Banking
6 1 (5.88%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Business Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Data Architect
3 2 (11.76%) DBA
3 2 (11.76%) Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Digital Developer
3 2 (11.76%) GCP Architect
3 2 (11.76%) GCP Data Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Middle Office Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Pensions Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) JSON
1 2 (11.76%) LangChain
1 2 (11.76%) LangGraph
1 2 (11.76%) XML
2 1 (5.88%) ADO
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) Spring
2 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) CMDB
1 3 (17.65%) Data Centre
1 3 (17.65%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (17.65%) Virtual Team
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (11.76%) Data Structures
2 2 (11.76%) Educational Technology
2 2 (11.76%) e-Learning
2 2 (11.76%) Learning Management System
2 2 (11.76%) Replication
2 2 (11.76%) SCORM
3 1 (5.88%) IVR
3 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Decision-Making
2 5 (29.41%) AI
2 5 (29.41%) Data Architecture
2 5 (29.41%) Migration
2 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (23.53%) Agile
3 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (17.65%) Data Analysis
4 3 (17.65%) Data Lineage
4 3 (17.65%) Generative AI
4 3 (17.65%) ITIL
4 3 (17.65%) ITSM
4 3 (17.65%) Microservices
4 3 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (17.65%) Time Management
5 2 (11.76%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (11.76%) Design Patterns
5 2 (11.76%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (11.76%) LLM
5 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) SQL
2 3 (17.65%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Accessibility
1 2 (11.76%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Ansible
2 2 (11.76%) Istio
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Google
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
1 4 (23.53%) ServiceNow
2 2 (11.76%) Adobe
2 2 (11.76%) Greenplum
2 2 (11.76%) Informatica
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle
2 2 (11.76%) Synthesia
2 2 (11.76%) Talend
3 1 (5.88%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.88%) Confluent