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 2 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 8 20
Rank change year-on-year -8 +12 +1
Contract jobs citing Banking 67 93 64
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 9.28% 14.74% 7.85%
As % of the General category 15.91% 19.21% 10.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 22 24
10th Percentile £400 £227 £457
25th Percentile £413 £466 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £654
90th Percentile £653 £724 £750
Scotland median daily rate £475 £479 £575
% change year-on-year -0.84% -16.70% +12.20%

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 421 484 610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 58.31% 76.70% 74.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 267 346
10th Percentile £188 £199 £182
25th Percentile £386 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% - -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £575
90th Percentile £650 £633 £675
Scotland median daily rate £463 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -0.11% -2.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 16 35
10th Percentile £17.23 £19.77 £14.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £21.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £61.00 £23.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +159.57% -32.86% +64.63%
75th Percentile £75.00 £29.86 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £52.90 £66.30
Scotland median hourly rate £16.97 £22.44 £18.27
% change year-on-year -24.37% +22.81% -1.24%

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 2 May 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 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.99%) CICS
1 2 (2.99%) Confluence
1 2 (2.99%) SAS
2 1 (1.49%) CMS
2 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.49%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (7.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 5 (7.46%) Adobe XD
1 5 (7.46%) InVision
1 5 (7.46%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (7.46%) Sketch
2 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (25.37%) AWS
2 10 (14.93%) Figma
3 8 (11.94%) Azure
3 8 (11.94%) Snowflake
4 6 (8.96%) GCP
5 3 (4.48%) ChatGPT
5 3 (4.48%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.99%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.99%) AWS KMS
6 2 (2.99%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (2.99%) SaaS
6 2 (2.99%) Vyond
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.49%) Apigee
7 1 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.49%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (1.49%) Route 53
7 1 (1.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.49%) DHCP
1 1 (1.49%) DNS
1 1 (1.49%) HTTP
1 1 (1.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.48%) Power BI
3 2 (2.99%) Metadata
3 2 (2.99%) Tableau
4 1 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.49%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.49%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (7.46%) Axure RP
2 4 (5.97%) GitLab
3 2 (2.99%) Git
3 2 (2.99%) JIRA
4 1 (1.49%) Jenkins
General
1 33 (49.25%) Finance
2 22 (32.84%) Retail Banking
3 11 (16.42%) Social Skills
4 9 (13.43%) Investment Banking
4 9 (13.43%) Retail
5 7 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (10.45%) Corporate Banking
6 4 (5.97%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.99%) Games
7 2 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.99%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (23.88%) Analyst
2 15 (22.39%) Developer
3 9 (13.43%) Designer
4 8 (11.94%) Data Analyst
4 8 (11.94%) Senior
5 6 (8.96%) Pega Developer
6 5 (7.46%) UX Designer
7 4 (5.97%) Project Manager
7 4 (5.97%) Python Developer
8 3 (4.48%) Architect
8 3 (4.48%) IT Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) IT Manager
8 3 (4.48%) Junior
8 3 (4.48%) Junior Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.48%) Systems Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Visual Designer
9 2 (2.99%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) Digital Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.97%) FastAPI
1 4 (5.97%) RESTful
2 3 (4.48%) Kafka
2 3 (4.48%) Model Context Protocol
3 1 (1.49%) J2EE
3 1 (1.49%) JMS
3 1 (1.49%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.49%) REST
3 1 (1.49%) Spring
3 1 (1.49%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.49%) Swagger
3 1 (1.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.46%) Onboarding
1 5 (7.46%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.97%) Digital Wallet
3 3 (4.48%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.48%) Clustering
3 3 (4.48%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.99%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.99%) Educational Technology
4 2 (2.99%) e-Learning
4 2 (2.99%) Learning Management System
4 2 (2.99%) PKI
4 2 (2.99%) SCORM
4 2 (2.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (2.99%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.49%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.49%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.99%) Linux
1 2 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (2.99%) Unix
2 1 (1.49%) Windows
2 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.49%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (22.39%) Agile
2 10 (14.93%) AI
2 10 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (13.43%) Wealth Management
4 8 (11.94%) Interaction Design
4 8 (11.94%) Prototyping
4 8 (11.94%) Use Case
5 7 (10.45%) Decision-Making
5 7 (10.45%) Digital Banking
5 7 (10.45%) Migration
5 7 (10.45%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (10.45%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (8.96%) Microservices
6 6 (8.96%) Project Management
7 5 (7.46%) CI/CD
7 5 (7.46%) High Availability
7 5 (7.46%) Infographics
7 5 (7.46%) Qualitative Research
7 5 (7.46%) User Experience
7 5 (7.46%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 12 (17.91%) Python
2 11 (16.42%) SQL
3 5 (7.46%) Bash
4 4 (5.97%) Java
4 4 (5.97%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.99%) Korn
5 2 (2.99%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.99%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.49%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (2.99%) FFIEC
2 1 (1.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.43%) Accessibility
2 7 (10.45%) Data Quality
3 5 (7.46%) QA
4 2 (2.99%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.99%) WCAG
5 1 (1.49%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (2.99%) Docker
1 2 (2.99%) Firmware
2 1 (1.49%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.49%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.49%) RACF
Systems Management
1 4 (5.97%) Kubernetes
1 4 (5.97%) Terraform
2 3 (4.48%) Ansible
3 2 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.49%) Argo
4 1 (1.49%) Grafana
4 1 (1.49%) Karpenter
4 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 10 (14.93%) Adobe
2 6 (8.96%) Pega
3 4 (5.97%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.97%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.48%) Oracle
5 2 (2.99%) Avaloq
5 2 (2.99%) IBM
5 2 (2.99%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.99%) Synthesia
5 2 (2.99%) Thales
6 1 (1.49%) Google
6 1 (1.49%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (1.49%) Splunk
6 1 (1.49%) WorldPay