Banking Contracts 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 19 21
Rank change year-on-year +10 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Banking 93 71 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 14.24% 8.13% 9.51%
As % of the General category 18.16% 11.54% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 24 42
10th Percentile £429 £457 £401
25th Percentile £475 £509 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £498
Median % change year-on-year -10.68% +18.14% -9.55%
75th Percentile £550 £654 £548
90th Percentile £721 £750 £613
Scotland median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £17.72
Scotland median hourly rate £19.97 £12.30 £41.78
% change year-on-year +62.36% -70.56% +0.07%

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 common skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 512 615 871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 78.41% 70.45% 73.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 333 602
10th Percentile £205 £156 £232
25th Percentile £400 £340 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £534 £550 £545
90th Percentile £600 £653 £600
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.22% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 33 5
10th Percentile £16.55 £13.22 -
25th Percentile £19.77 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.27 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year +20.42% -14.06% -30.30%
75th Percentile £31.34 £60.75 £21.67
90th Percentile £45.80 - £33.27
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £18.00 £18.84
% change year-on-year +11.11% -4.46% -47.98%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Banking in Edinburgh

Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Banking in Edinburgh

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in Edinburgh

Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Banking in Edinburgh

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 7 (7.53%) Confluence
2 3 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (2.15%) Camunda
3 2 (2.15%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (3.23%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 12 (12.90%) AWS
2 8 (8.60%) GCP
3 7 (7.53%) Azure
4 4 (4.30%) Apigee
5 3 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (3.23%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.23%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.23%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.15%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.08%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.08%) Cloud Run
7 1 (1.08%) GitHub
7 1 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.08%) Google Compute Engine
7 1 (1.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.08%) IaaS
7 1 (1.08%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.08%) ATM
1 1 (1.08%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (1.08%) SMS
1 1 (1.08%) SNA
1 1 (1.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.23%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.23%) Power BI
4 2 (2.15%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.15%) SAS Data Integration Studio
4 2 (2.15%) Tableau
5 1 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.08%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.08%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.08%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.08%) Metadata
5 1 (1.08%) MS Access
5 1 (1.08%) MySQL
5 1 (1.08%) PowerCenter
5 1 (1.08%) QlikView
5 1 (1.08%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (10.75%) JIRA
2 6 (6.45%) Git
2 6 (6.45%) GitLab
3 3 (3.23%) Cypress.io
3 3 (3.23%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.23%) Selenium
4 2 (2.15%) Artifactory
4 2 (2.15%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.15%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (2.15%) JUnit
5 1 (1.08%) git-flow
5 1 (1.08%) HP UFT
5 1 (1.08%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.08%) Postman
5 1 (1.08%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.08%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.08%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.08%) webpack
5 1 (1.08%) Zephyr
General
1 58 (62.37%) Finance
2 26 (27.96%) Social Skills
3 22 (23.66%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (21.51%) Retail Banking
5 11 (11.83%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (6.45%) Investment Banking
7 5 (5.38%) Retail
8 4 (4.30%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (3.23%) Financial Institution
9 3 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.08%) Legal
11 1 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (33.33%) Analyst
2 11 (11.83%) Business Analyst
3 9 (9.68%) Technical Analyst
4 7 (7.53%) Architect
4 7 (7.53%) Lead
5 6 (6.45%) Developer
5 6 (6.45%) Fraud Analyst
6 5 (5.38%) Data Analyst
6 5 (5.38%) Data Engineer
6 5 (5.38%) Delivery Manager
6 5 (5.38%) Senior
6 5 (5.38%) Technical Business Analyst
7 4 (4.30%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.30%) Technical Manager
8 3 (3.23%) Business Data Analyst
8 3 (3.23%) Cloud Technical Analyst
8 3 (3.23%) Designer
8 3 (3.23%) Programme Manager
8 3 (3.23%) Security Specialist
8 3 (3.23%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.53%) Spring Boot
2 6 (6.45%) Spring
3 5 (5.38%) RESTful
4 3 (3.23%) Swagger
5 2 (2.15%) LDAP
5 2 (2.15%) Middleware
5 2 (2.15%) OpenAPI
5 2 (2.15%) Playwright
5 2 (2.15%) Spring Security
5 2 (2.15%) XML
6 1 (1.08%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.08%) CSS
6 1 (1.08%) HTML
6 1 (1.08%) Jest
6 1 (1.08%) JSON
6 1 (1.08%) Kafka
6 1 (1.08%) OAuth
6 1 (1.08%) OpenID
6 1 (1.08%) REST
6 1 (1.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.38%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (4.30%) CMDB
2 4 (4.30%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.23%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.23%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.15%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (2.15%) FMCG
4 2 (2.15%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (2.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.08%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.08%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.08%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.08%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.08%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.30%) Windows
2 3 (3.23%) Linux
2 3 (3.23%) Unix
3 2 (2.15%) AIX
3 2 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.15%) zOS
4 1 (1.08%) HPUX
4 1 (1.08%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (1.08%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (24.73%) Agile
1 23 (24.73%) Migration
2 19 (20.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (13.98%) CI/CD
4 13 (13.98%) Digital Banking
4 13 (13.98%) Regulatory Compliance
5 12 (12.90%) DevOps
5 12 (12.90%) Due Diligence
5 12 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (12.90%) Risk Management
6 11 (11.83%) Case Management
6 11 (11.83%) Fintech
6 11 (11.83%) Scenario Testing
7 8 (8.60%) Business Analysis
7 8 (8.60%) Containerisation
8 7 (7.53%) Data Modelling
8 7 (7.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 7 (7.53%) Test Automation
8 7 (7.53%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 11 (11.83%) SQL
2 7 (7.53%) Java
3 6 (6.45%) Python
4 3 (3.23%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.08%) Bash
5 1 (1.08%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.08%) JCL
5 1 (1.08%) Perl
5 1 (1.08%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.08%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.08%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.08%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.08%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (2.15%) CEH
1 2 (2.15%) CISSP
1 2 (2.15%) CRISC
1 2 (2.15%) Degree
1 2 (2.15%) GCIH
1 2 (2.15%) OSCP
2 1 (1.08%) ACCA
2 1 (1.08%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.08%) CISA
2 1 (1.08%) GCFA
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.08%) PMI Certification
2 1 (1.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.30%) QA
1 4 (4.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (2.15%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.08%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.08%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.08%) GDPR
3 1 (1.08%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.08%) PMO
3 1 (1.08%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (5.38%) Docker
2 1 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (4.30%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.15%) Ansible
2 2 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.15%) Terraform
3 1 (1.08%) Grafana
3 1 (1.08%) Podman
3 1 (1.08%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.08%) Puppet
3 1 (1.08%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 12 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.45%) IBM
2 6 (6.45%) Splunk
3 5 (5.38%) Oracle
4 3 (3.23%) Cisco
4 3 (3.23%) Google
4 3 (3.23%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.15%) Adobe
5 2 (2.15%) Informatica
5 2 (2.15%) StreamSets
6 1 (1.08%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.08%) Databricks
6 1 (1.08%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.08%) Fiserv
6 1 (1.08%) HP
6 1 (1.08%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.08%) Sun
6 1 (1.08%) Teradata
6 1 (1.08%) Unisys