Fintech Contracts in Scotland

Financial Technology (FinTech)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Fintech skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Fintech over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 158 154
Rank change year-on-year +30 -4 -17
Contract jobs citing Fintech 2 10 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.090% 0.35% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.38% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 11
10th Percentile £430 £352 £438
25th Percentile £438 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £458 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.71% -12.76% +25.00%
75th Percentile £513 £506 £656
90th Percentile £520 £650 £800
UK median daily rate £650 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Fintech is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,967 2,642 3,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.76% 92.64% 92.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,900 2,313
10th Percentile £225 £263 £241
25th Percentile £400 £408 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £557 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £624
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 56 46
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £12.04 £18.35
Median hourly rate £18.79 £17.47 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.59% -56.33% -0.01%
75th Percentile £40.94 £53.75 £49.34
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.78 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £36.42 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.53% +45.69% -

Fintech
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Fintech in Scotland

Fintech
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Fintech in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Fintech in Scotland

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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 Fintech within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. 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 +36 2 £475 -26.92% 18
Fintech
UK

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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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Figma
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Designer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Product Designer
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace