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 4 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 6 21
Rank change year-on-year -7 +15 -3
Contract jobs citing Banking 72 95 70
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 11.48% 14.87% 7.95%
As % of the General category 18.37% 19.59% 10.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 25 26
10th Percentile £448 £291 £456
25th Percentile £481 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £651 £606 £647
90th Percentile £678 £723 £750
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £615
% change year-on-year - -22.76% +21.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £24.18 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £24.18 -

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 392 485 669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 62.52% 75.90% 76.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 278 390
10th Percentile £150 £191 £191
25th Percentile £331 £370 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £453 £487
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% -7.13% +2.58%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £575
90th Percentile £663 £638 £656
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 18 29
10th Percentile £17.23 £21.00 £15.66
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.34 £17.72
Median hourly rate £50.00 £24.09 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.56% -59.85% +179.52%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.54 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £30.15 £70.00
Scotland median hourly rate £17.23 £23.50 £22.26
% change year-on-year -26.68% +5.59% +28.44%

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 4 March 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 6 (8.33%) Confluence
2 2 (2.78%) Apache
2 2 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.78%) SAS
3 1 (1.39%) CICS
3 1 (1.39%) CMS
3 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (6.94%) Adobe XD
1 5 (6.94%) InVision
1 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (6.94%) Sketch
2 4 (5.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (2.78%) Chatbot
4 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (27.78%) AWS
2 12 (16.67%) Azure
3 10 (13.89%) Figma
4 9 (12.50%) GCP
5 7 (9.72%) Snowflake
6 4 (5.56%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (4.17%) OCI
7 3 (4.17%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.78%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (2.78%) AWS KMS
8 2 (2.78%) ChatGPT
8 2 (2.78%) SaaS
9 1 (1.39%) Apigee
9 1 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.39%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.39%) Route 53
9 1 (1.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.17%) Firewall
2 1 (1.39%) DHCP
2 1 (1.39%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (4.17%) Power BI
2 2 (2.78%) Data Mart
2 2 (2.78%) Metadata
2 2 (2.78%) Tableau
3 1 (1.39%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.39%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.39%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.39%) MS Access
3 1 (1.39%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (8.33%) JIRA
2 5 (6.94%) Axure RP
2 5 (6.94%) GitLab
3 1 (1.39%) Git
3 1 (1.39%) Jenkins
General
1 45 (62.50%) Finance
2 24 (33.33%) Retail Banking
3 15 (20.83%) Social Skills
4 10 (13.89%) Retail
5 8 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (11.11%) Investment Banking
6 6 (8.33%) Corporate Banking
6 6 (8.33%) Financial Institution
7 4 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (4.17%) Legal
9 2 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.39%) Games
10 1 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (20.83%) Analyst
2 11 (15.28%) Senior
3 10 (13.89%) Designer
4 8 (11.11%) Developer
5 6 (8.33%) Data Analyst
5 6 (8.33%) Project Manager
6 5 (6.94%) Software Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) UX Designer
7 4 (5.56%) IT Manager
7 4 (5.56%) Python Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Visual Designer
8 3 (4.17%) Architect
8 3 (4.17%) AWS Data Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Business Analyst
8 3 (4.17%) Implementation Manager
8 3 (4.17%) Junior
8 3 (4.17%) Project Implementation Manager
8 3 (4.17%) Senior Manager
8 3 (4.17%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.11%) FastAPI
2 5 (6.94%) Model Context Protocol
3 3 (4.17%) RESTful
4 2 (2.78%) Kafka
4 2 (2.78%) PySpark
4 2 (2.78%) React
4 2 (2.78%) REST
4 2 (2.78%) Spring
4 2 (2.78%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.39%) J2EE
5 1 (1.39%) JMS
5 1 (1.39%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.39%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.56%) Digital Wallet
2 4 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (5.56%) Mobile App
2 4 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.17%) Clustering
3 3 (4.17%) PKI
3 3 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.78%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.39%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.39%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.39%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.39%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.39%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.39%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.56%) Windows
2 2 (2.78%) Linux
2 2 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (2.78%) Unix
3 1 (1.39%) Android
3 1 (1.39%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (37.50%) Agile
2 18 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 16 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (20.83%) AI
5 13 (18.06%) Migration
6 12 (16.67%) Decision-Making
7 10 (13.89%) CI/CD
8 9 (12.50%) Prototyping
9 8 (11.11%) Digital Banking
9 8 (11.11%) Interaction Design
10 7 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (9.72%) Full-Stack Development
10 7 (9.72%) Software Engineering
10 7 (9.72%) User Experience
10 7 (9.72%) Wealth Management
11 6 (8.33%) ITIL
11 6 (8.33%) Project Management
12 5 (6.94%) Cybersecurity
12 5 (6.94%) Data Modelling
12 5 (6.94%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 17 (23.61%) Python
2 8 (11.11%) SQL
3 6 (8.33%) TypeScript
4 5 (6.94%) Bash
5 4 (5.56%) Java
5 4 (5.56%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.78%) Korn
6 2 (2.78%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.39%) Groovy
7 1 (1.39%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (2.78%) FFIEC
2 1 (1.39%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 7 (9.72%) Data Quality
2 7 (9.72%) QA
3 3 (4.17%) COBIT
3 3 (4.17%) PMO
4 2 (2.78%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.39%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.39%) NCSC
5 1 (1.39%) NIST
5 1 (1.39%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (2.78%) Docker
1 2 (2.78%) Firmware
2 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.39%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (9.72%) Terraform
2 6 (8.33%) Ansible
3 4 (5.56%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.39%) Argo
5 1 (1.39%) Grafana
5 1 (1.39%) Karpenter
5 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 9 (12.50%) Adobe
2 5 (6.94%) Oracle
3 4 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.17%) CheckPoint
4 3 (4.17%) Dell
4 3 (4.17%) Dynatrace
4 3 (4.17%) F5
4 3 (4.17%) HP
4 3 (4.17%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.17%) Thales
5 2 (2.78%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.39%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.39%) Google
6 1 (1.39%) IBM
6 1 (1.39%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (1.39%) Qualys
6 1 (1.39%) Splunk
6 1 (1.39%) Synthesia
6 1 (1.39%) WorldPay