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 6 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 10 20
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 -7
Contract jobs citing Banking 98 79 77
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 16.64% 13.37% 8.56%
As % of the General category 23.44% 18.12% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 18 24
10th Percentile £457 £432 £454
25th Percentile £500 £475 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.92%
75th Percentile £625 £597 £625
90th Percentile £675 £629 £646
Scotland median daily rate £500 £494 £625
% change year-on-year +1.21% -20.96% +19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £24.18 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £24.18 £19.18
% change year-on-year - +26.07% -

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 418 436 694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 70.97% 73.77% 77.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 234 422
10th Percentile £171 £192 £180
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £478
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.76% +0.53%
75th Percentile £550 £536 £569
90th Percentile £625 £635 £637
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 16
10th Percentile £16.85 £20.46 £14.77
25th Percentile - £22.22 £21.58
Median hourly rate £17.87 £24.18 £49.35
Median % change year-on-year -26.10% -51.00% +170.63%
75th Percentile £45.75 - £64.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £48.57 £70.00
Scotland median hourly rate £17.87 £24.08 £24.69
% change year-on-year -25.77% -2.47% +45.76%

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 6 January 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 7 (7.14%) Confluence
2 3 (3.06%) SAS
3 2 (2.04%) Apache
3 2 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.02%) CICS
4 1 (1.02%) CMS
4 1 (1.02%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.10%) Adobe XD
2 5 (5.10%) InVision
2 5 (5.10%) Sketch
3 3 (3.06%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (2.04%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 28 (28.57%) AWS
2 15 (15.31%) Azure
3 14 (14.29%) GCP
4 11 (11.22%) Figma
5 6 (6.12%) Snowflake
6 4 (4.08%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.08%) OCI
6 4 (4.08%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.06%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (3.06%) Serverless
8 2 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.04%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (2.04%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (2.04%) AWS KMS
8 2 (2.04%) SaaS
9 1 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.02%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.02%) Route 53
9 1 (1.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.10%) Firewall
2 1 (1.02%) DHCP
2 1 (1.02%) DNS
2 1 (1.02%) Network Security
2 1 (1.02%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.08%) Power BI
1 4 (4.08%) Tableau
2 3 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.06%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.04%) Data Mart
3 2 (2.04%) Metadata
3 2 (2.04%) MS Access
4 1 (1.02%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.02%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.02%) MySQL
4 1 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.02%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.02%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (9.18%) JIRA
2 8 (8.16%) GitLab
3 6 (6.12%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.10%) Axure RP
5 3 (3.06%) Liquibase
6 1 (1.02%) Git
6 1 (1.02%) git-flow
General
1 69 (70.41%) Finance
2 27 (27.55%) Retail Banking
3 25 (25.51%) Social Skills
4 19 (19.39%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (17.35%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (8.16%) Retail
7 6 (6.12%) Financial Institution
8 4 (4.08%) Investment Banking
8 4 (4.08%) Legal
9 3 (3.06%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (31.63%) Analyst
2 12 (12.24%) Designer
2 12 (12.24%) Senior
3 9 (9.18%) Data Analyst
4 7 (7.14%) Developer
4 7 (7.14%) Project Manager
4 7 (7.14%) Software Engineer
5 6 (6.12%) Fraud Analyst
6 5 (5.10%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) Business Analyst
6 5 (5.10%) Python Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) UX Designer
7 4 (4.08%) Architect
7 4 (4.08%) Consultant
7 4 (4.08%) Implementation Specialist
7 4 (4.08%) Visual Designer
8 3 (3.06%) Implementation Manager
8 3 (3.06%) Implementation Project Manager
8 3 (3.06%) Java Developer
8 3 (3.06%) Project Implementation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.10%) FastAPI
1 5 (5.10%) REST
2 4 (4.08%) RESTful
2 4 (4.08%) Spring
2 4 (4.08%) Spring Boot
3 3 (3.06%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (3.06%) PySpark
3 3 (3.06%) React
4 2 (2.04%) JSON
5 1 (1.02%) JMS
5 1 (1.02%) Kafka
5 1 (1.02%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.02%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.18%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.10%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (5.10%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (4.08%) Digital Wallet
3 4 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.08%) Mobile App
3 4 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.06%) Clustering
4 3 (3.06%) PKI
4 3 (3.06%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.04%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.02%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.02%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.02%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.02%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.12%) Linux
1 6 (6.12%) Windows
2 3 (3.06%) Unix
3 2 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.04%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.02%) Android
4 1 (1.02%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (33.67%) Agile
2 29 (29.59%) Migration
3 20 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (19.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 19 (19.39%) Digital Banking
4 19 (19.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (15.31%) CI/CD
5 15 (15.31%) Decision-Making
6 13 (13.27%) AI
7 12 (12.24%) Fintech
8 11 (11.22%) Case Management
8 11 (11.22%) Due Diligence
8 11 (11.22%) Regulatory Compliance
8 11 (11.22%) Scenario Testing
8 11 (11.22%) Software Engineering
9 10 (10.20%) User Experience
10 9 (9.18%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (9.18%) Prototyping
11 8 (8.16%) DevOps
11 8 (8.16%) Interaction Design
Programming Languages
1 21 (21.43%) Python
2 10 (10.20%) SQL
3 7 (7.14%) Java
4 6 (6.12%) TypeScript
5 5 (5.10%) Bash
6 4 (4.08%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.06%) Go
8 2 (2.04%) Korn
8 2 (2.04%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.04%) VBA
9 1 (1.02%) Groovy
9 1 (1.02%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.02%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 5 (5.10%) Degree
2 4 (4.08%) AWS Certification
3 3 (3.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.06%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.06%) MCP
4 2 (2.04%) FFIEC
5 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.02%) CISSP
5 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.16%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 7 (7.14%) QA
3 4 (4.08%) COBIT
3 4 (4.08%) PMO
4 2 (2.04%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.02%) COREP
5 1 (1.02%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.02%) IFRS
5 1 (1.02%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.02%) NCSC
5 1 (1.02%) NIST
5 1 (1.02%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (3.06%) Docker
2 2 (2.04%) Firmware
3 1 (1.02%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.02%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (13.27%) Terraform
2 12 (12.24%) Ansible
3 7 (7.14%) Kubernetes
4 4 (4.08%) Grafana
5 3 (3.06%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.02%) Argo
7 1 (1.02%) Karpenter
7 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 8 (8.16%) Adobe
2 7 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.10%) Oracle
4 4 (4.08%) CheckPoint
4 4 (4.08%) Dell
4 4 (4.08%) Dynatrace
4 4 (4.08%) F5
4 4 (4.08%) HP
4 4 (4.08%) Splunk
5 3 (3.06%) Google
5 3 (3.06%) Thales
6 2 (2.04%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.04%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.02%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.02%) IBM
7 1 (1.02%) IBM Sterling
7 1 (1.02%) Qualys
7 1 (1.02%) WorldPay