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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 108 113
Rank change year-on-year -15 +5 +40
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 13 16 8
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.58% 0.95% 0.42%
As % of the General category 0.97% 1.34% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 7
10th Percentile - £373 £351
25th Percentile £400 £415 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% -13.64%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £497
90th Percentile £573 £623 £600
UK median daily rate £600 £595 £600
% change year-on-year +0.84% -0.83% -

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 1,338 1,193 1,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 60.05% 70.97% 63.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 711 696 736
10th Percentile £250 £242 £171
25th Percentile £363 £368 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £470 £445
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +5.74% -6.42%
75th Percentile £570 £538 £538
90th Percentile £650 £599 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 44 49
10th Percentile £12.94 £15.72 £12.30
25th Percentile £13.45 £16.19 £13.50
Median hourly rate £16.25 £19.48 £16.92
Median % change year-on-year -16.57% +15.12% -11.78%
75th Percentile £43.96 £25.05 £20.93
90th Percentile £60.90 £44.72 £31.35
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +29.22% -32.93% +25.00%

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 1 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 1 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 +2 7 - - 11
Glasgow -12 6 £475 - 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 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) Confluence
1 1 (7.69%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) GCP
2 4 (30.77%) AWS
3 3 (23.08%) Azure
4 2 (15.38%) Apigee
4 2 (15.38%) Azure AKS
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Run
4 2 (15.38%) Figma
4 2 (15.38%) Snowflake
4 2 (15.38%) Vertex AI
4 2 (15.38%) Vyond
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (15.38%) BigQuery
2 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
2 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (7.69%) Flink
3 1 (7.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 13 (100.00%) Finance
2 7 (53.85%) Banking
3 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Games
4 2 (15.38%) Investment Banking
5 1 (7.69%) International Banking
5 1 (7.69%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Architect
1 3 (23.08%) Data Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) DBA
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Digital Developer
2 2 (15.38%) GCP Architect
2 2 (15.38%) GCP Data Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) JIRA Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Middle Office Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Pensions Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Release Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Release Train Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) JSON
1 2 (15.38%) Kafka
1 2 (15.38%) LangChain
1 2 (15.38%) LangGraph
1 2 (15.38%) XML
2 1 (7.69%) ADO
2 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Beam
2 1 (7.69%) CSS
2 1 (7.69%) CSS3
2 1 (7.69%) HTML
2 1 (7.69%) HTML5
2 1 (7.69%) Middleware
2 1 (7.69%) OAuth
2 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
2 1 (7.69%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) Sass
2 1 (7.69%) Spring
2 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (15.38%) Data Structures
1 2 (15.38%) Educational Technology
1 2 (15.38%) e-Learning
1 2 (15.38%) Learning Management System
1 2 (15.38%) Replication
1 2 (15.38%) SCORM
2 1 (7.69%) IVR
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Migration
2 5 (38.46%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) AI
3 3 (23.08%) Design Patterns
3 3 (23.08%) ETL
3 3 (23.08%) Generative AI
3 3 (23.08%) Microservices
3 3 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (15.38%) AI Transformation
4 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 2 (15.38%) Data Governance
4 2 (15.38%) Data Science
4 2 (15.38%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (15.38%) LLM
4 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning
4 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (15.38%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Python
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
1 2 (15.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Ansible
2 2 (15.38%) Istio
3 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Google
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) Oracle
3 2 (15.38%) Adobe
3 2 (15.38%) Greenplum
3 2 (15.38%) Informatica
3 2 (15.38%) Synthesia
3 2 (15.38%) Talend
4 1 (7.69%) Atlassian
4 1 (7.69%) Checkmarx
4 1 (7.69%) Confluent
4 1 (7.69%) Okta
4 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow