Banking Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Banking
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 8 20
Rank change year-on-year -19 +12 +1
Contract jobs citing Banking 54 95 71
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 6.78% 14.59% 8.13%
As % of the General category 11.44% 18.63% 11.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 27 24
10th Percentile £400 £429 £457
25th Percentile £413 £475 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £588
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -10.68% +18.14%
75th Percentile £572 £550 £654
90th Percentile £623 £721 £750
Scotland median daily rate £468 £500 £508
% change year-on-year -6.50% -1.48% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £15.81 - -
75th Percentile £17.57 - -
90th Percentile £18.63 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.57 £19.97 £12.30
% change year-on-year -12.02% +62.36% -70.56%

All General Skills
Edinburgh

Banking 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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 472 510 613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 59.30% 78.34% 70.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 260 331
10th Percentile £310 £205 £156
25th Percentile £406 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £532 £550
90th Percentile £650 £600 £650
Scotland median daily rate £463 £464 £450
% change year-on-year -0.27% +3.06% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 9 31
10th Percentile £16.34 £16.46 £13.21
25th Percentile £50.00 £18.54 £16.25
Median hourly rate £58.00 £22.00 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year +163.64% +21.35% -14.72%
75th Percentile £70.50 £28.38 £59.13
90th Percentile £81.24 £48.64 £60.75
Scotland median hourly rate £16.11 £19.97 £17.50
% change year-on-year -19.33% +14.11% -3.37%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Banking relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Banking job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Banking
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Banking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Banking

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 5 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in Edinburgh

Banking
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Banking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Banking

Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.85%) CICS
2 1 (1.85%) SAS
2 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.85%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (9.26%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.85%) SAP GRC
1 1 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (22.22%) AWS
2 6 (11.11%) GCP
3 5 (9.26%) Apigee
3 5 (9.26%) Snowflake
4 4 (7.41%) Azure
5 3 (5.56%) Azure AKS
5 3 (5.56%) ChatGPT
5 3 (5.56%) Cloud Run
5 3 (5.56%) Vertex AI
6 2 (3.70%) Figma
6 2 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.70%) Vyond
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.85%) Cloud Composer
7 1 (1.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.41%) SSL
2 1 (1.85%) HTTP
2 1 (1.85%) Network Security
2 1 (1.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.56%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.85%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.85%) DataStage
3 1 (1.85%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.85%) Looker
3 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Git
2 2 (3.70%) GitLab
3 1 (1.85%) Gatling
3 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.85%) JMeter
3 1 (1.85%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.85%) Selenium
General
1 23 (42.59%) Finance
2 13 (24.07%) Retail Banking
3 11 (20.37%) Retail
4 10 (18.52%) Investment Banking
4 10 (18.52%) Social Skills
5 8 (14.81%) Corporate Banking
6 6 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (7.41%) Financial Institution
7 4 (7.41%) Legal
8 2 (3.70%) Games
8 2 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (3.70%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (27.78%) Developer
2 14 (25.93%) Analyst
3 6 (11.11%) Architect
3 6 (11.11%) Pega Developer
4 5 (9.26%) Data Analyst
4 5 (9.26%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (7.41%) Administrator
5 4 (7.41%) Python Developer
5 4 (7.41%) Senior
6 3 (5.56%) Business Analyst
6 3 (5.56%) Data Architect
6 3 (5.56%) IT Analyst
6 3 (5.56%) Project Manager
6 3 (5.56%) Service Analyst
7 2 (3.70%) Cloud Technical Analyst
7 2 (3.70%) Data Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Digital Developer
7 2 (3.70%) IT Support
7 2 (3.70%) Service Desk Support
7 2 (3.70%) Service Desk Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.26%) Model Context Protocol
2 4 (7.41%) FastAPI
2 4 (7.41%) ISPF
2 4 (7.41%) Middleware
2 4 (7.41%) REST
3 3 (5.56%) LangChain
3 3 (5.56%) LangGraph
3 3 (5.56%) RESTful
4 2 (3.70%) A2A Protocol
4 2 (3.70%) Kafka
4 2 (3.70%) Node.js
5 1 (1.85%) J2EE
5 1 (1.85%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (1.85%) SOAP
5 1 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 6 (11.11%) Mainframe
2 4 (7.41%) Clustering
3 3 (5.56%) CMDB
3 3 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.70%) Educational Technology
4 2 (3.70%) e-Learning
4 2 (3.70%) Learning Management System
4 2 (3.70%) SCORM
4 2 (3.70%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.85%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.85%) Online Banking
5 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.26%) zOS
2 2 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (25.93%) AI
2 13 (24.07%) Agile
3 10 (18.52%) Wealth Management
4 9 (16.67%) Use Case
5 8 (14.81%) Microservices
6 7 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (12.96%) Decision-Making
6 7 (12.96%) ITIL
6 7 (12.96%) Migration
6 7 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (12.96%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (11.11%) Integration Patterns
8 5 (9.26%) CI/CD
8 5 (9.26%) Data Architecture
8 5 (9.26%) Data Science
8 5 (9.26%) Event-Driven
8 5 (9.26%) LLM
8 5 (9.26%) Machine Learning
8 5 (9.26%) Risk Management
8 5 (9.26%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.52%) Python
2 7 (12.96%) SQL
3 6 (11.11%) Java
4 2 (3.70%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.85%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 1 (1.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.56%) QA
3 2 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.70%) WCAG
4 1 (1.85%) GRC
4 1 (1.85%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 5 (9.26%) RACF
2 2 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (9.26%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.41%) OMEGAMON
3 3 (5.56%) Istio
4 2 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 6 (11.11%) Pega
2 5 (9.26%) IBM
3 4 (7.41%) Oracle
4 3 (5.56%) Google
4 3 (5.56%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.70%) Adobe
5 2 (3.70%) Avaloq
5 2 (3.70%) Splunk
5 2 (3.70%) Synthesia
6 1 (1.85%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.85%) SAP