Investment Banking Contracts in Scotland

Investment Banking
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Investment Banking over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 109 128
Rank change year-on-year +1 +19 +4
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 23 57 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.04% 1.99% 1.22%
As % of the General category 1.61% 3.03% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 32 8
10th Percentile £400 £419 £391
25th Percentile £525 £434 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +9.09% +32.53%
75th Percentile £695 £717 £638
90th Percentile £722 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £725 £700 £700
% change year-on-year +3.57% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £62.84 -
25th Percentile - £63.83 £46.00
Median hourly rate - £66.56 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year - +41.62% -
75th Percentile - £68.20 £48.00
90th Percentile - £68.53 -
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £64.38 £53.50
% change year-on-year -69.71% +20.33% +137.78%

All General Skills
Scotland

Investment Banking is in the General Skills 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 common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,432 1,884 2,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 64.88% 65.90% 71.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 860 1,387 1,831
10th Percentile £181 £234 £215
25th Percentile £362 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
75th Percentile £588 £570 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 28 40
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.75 £12.91
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.00 £16.84
Median hourly rate £19.17 £19.88 £25.91
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -23.27% -3.15%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £47.97
90th Percentile £69.00 £66.84 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% +62.79% -4.44%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Investment Banking in Scotland

Investment Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Investment Banking in Scotland

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Banking in Scotland

Investment Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Investment Banking in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Investment Banking in Scotland

Investment Banking
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 Investment Banking within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Glasgow -23 20 £619 +0.24% 4
Edinburgh +31 3 - -
Investment Banking
UK

Investment Banking
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 3 (13.04%) SAS
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (26.09%) AWS
1 6 (26.09%) Azure
2 5 (21.74%) IaaS
2 5 (21.74%) OpenShift
3 2 (8.70%) GCP
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (26.09%) DNS
2 5 (21.74%) DHCP
2 5 (21.74%) SAN
3 4 (17.39%) Fibre Channel
3 4 (17.39%) iSCSI
4 2 (8.70%) NAS
4 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) DB2
2 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Git
2 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.70%) JIRA
General
1 23 (100.00%) Banking
2 14 (60.87%) Finance
3 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Retail
4 2 (8.70%) Retail Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Linux Engineer
1 6 (26.09%) Python Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Developer
2 4 (17.39%) Hardware Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Storage Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Change Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Python Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Change Portfolio Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) Portfolio Project Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Risk Project Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Strategy Manager
5 1 (4.35%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) Flash
1 3 (13.04%) POSIX
2 2 (8.70%) REST
3 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.35%) FastAPI
3 1 (4.35%) Hibernate
3 1 (4.35%) HTML
3 1 (4.35%) HTML5
3 1 (4.35%) Kafka
3 1 (4.35%) Middleware
3 1 (4.35%) RESTful
3 1 (4.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Client/Server
1 4 (17.39%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (13.04%) NVMe
3 2 (8.70%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.35%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (56.52%) Linux
2 8 (34.78%) Unix
3 6 (26.09%) Windows
3 6 (26.09%) Windows Server
4 3 (13.04%) Data ONTAP
4 3 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Wealth Management
2 13 (56.52%) Investment Management
3 8 (34.78%) Agile
3 8 (34.78%) High Availability
4 5 (21.74%) Open Source
4 5 (21.74%) SDLC
5 4 (17.39%) DevOps
5 4 (17.39%) Observability
6 3 (13.04%) Capacity Management
6 3 (13.04%) Computer Science
6 3 (13.04%) Customer Requirements
6 3 (13.04%) Data Protection
6 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (13.04%) OO
6 3 (13.04%) Preventative Maintenance
6 3 (13.04%) Problem Management
6 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (13.04%) Storage Management
7 2 (8.70%) Biometrics
7 2 (8.70%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (60.87%) Python
2 10 (43.48%) Perl
3 5 (21.74%) Java
3 5 (21.74%) SQL
4 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.35%) Kotlin
4 1 (4.35%) Scala
4 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Docker
1 4 (17.39%) Firmware
2 3 (13.04%) GPFS
2 3 (13.04%) NFS
3 2 (8.70%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.04%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 2 (8.70%) NetBackup
3 2 (8.70%) Terraform
4 1 (4.35%) Ansible
4 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Veritas
2 4 (17.39%) Google
3 3 (13.04%) Brocade
3 3 (13.04%) EMC
3 3 (13.04%) IBM
3 3 (13.04%) NetApp
3 3 (13.04%) Sybase
4 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.70%) VMware