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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 6 18
Rank change year-on-year -11 +12 +4
Contract jobs citing Banking 65 95 66
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 8.92% 15.20% 8.14%
As % of the General category 15.33% 19.67% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 23 25
10th Percentile £400 £249 £463
25th Percentile £413 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £625 £616 £656
90th Percentile £653 £724 £750
Scotland median daily rate £475 £479 £575
% change year-on-year -0.84% -16.70% +9.52%

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 424 483 604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 58.16% 77.28% 74.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 266 340
10th Percentile £189 £199 £179
25th Percentile £400 £400 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £467 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -1.79% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £575
90th Percentile £650 £628 £676
Scotland median daily rate £463 £463 £475
% change year-on-year - -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 16 34
10th Percentile £17.23 £19.77 £14.33
25th Percentile £50.00 £21.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £61.00 £23.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +159.57% -22.95% +43.46%
75th Percentile £75.00 £29.86 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £52.90 £67.23
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £22.00 £18.20
% change year-on-year -26.14% +20.88% -1.62%

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 7 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 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (3.08%) SAS
2 1 (1.54%) CICS
2 1 (1.54%) CMS
2 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.54%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 5 (7.69%) Adobe XD
1 5 (7.69%) InVision
1 5 (7.69%) Sketch
2 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.54%) SAP GRC
1 1 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (24.62%) AWS
2 10 (15.38%) Figma
3 8 (12.31%) Azure
4 7 (10.77%) Snowflake
5 6 (9.23%) GCP
6 3 (4.62%) ChatGPT
7 2 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.08%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.08%) AWS KMS
7 2 (3.08%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (3.08%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.08%) SaaS
7 2 (3.08%) Vyond
8 1 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.54%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.54%) Apigee
8 1 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.54%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (1.54%) Route 53
8 1 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) DHCP
1 1 (1.54%) DNS
1 1 (1.54%) HTTP
1 1 (1.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.08%) Power BI
2 2 (3.08%) Tableau
3 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.54%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.54%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.54%) Metadata
3 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Axure RP
2 4 (6.15%) GitLab
3 3 (4.62%) Git
4 2 (3.08%) Jenkins
General
1 34 (52.31%) Finance
2 19 (29.23%) Retail Banking
3 12 (18.46%) Social Skills
4 9 (13.85%) Investment Banking
4 9 (13.85%) Retail
5 7 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (10.77%) Corporate Banking
6 4 (6.15%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.08%) Games
7 2 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.08%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (24.62%) Developer
2 14 (21.54%) Analyst
3 9 (13.85%) Designer
4 8 (12.31%) Senior
5 7 (10.77%) Data Analyst
6 6 (9.23%) Pega Developer
7 5 (7.69%) UX Designer
8 4 (6.15%) Architect
8 4 (6.15%) Python Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.62%) Junior
9 3 (4.62%) Junior Analyst
9 3 (4.62%) Project Manager
9 3 (4.62%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) Systems Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) Visual Designer
10 2 (3.08%) AWS Engineer
10 2 (3.08%) Communications Analyst
10 2 (3.08%) Sourcing Manager
10 2 (3.08%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.15%) FastAPI
1 4 (6.15%) RESTful
2 3 (4.62%) Kafka
2 3 (4.62%) Model Context Protocol
3 1 (1.54%) J2EE
3 1 (1.54%) JMS
3 1 (1.54%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.54%) REST
3 1 (1.54%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.54%) Spring
3 1 (1.54%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.69%) Onboarding
1 5 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.15%) Digital Wallet
3 3 (4.62%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.62%) Clustering
3 3 (4.62%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.08%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.08%) Educational Technology
4 2 (3.08%) e-Learning
4 2 (3.08%) Learning Management System
4 2 (3.08%) PKI
4 2 (3.08%) SCORM
4 2 (3.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (3.08%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.54%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.54%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.54%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.54%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.08%) Linux
1 2 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (3.08%) Unix
2 1 (1.54%) Windows
2 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.54%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (21.54%) Agile
2 11 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (15.38%) AI
4 9 (13.85%) Use Case
4 9 (13.85%) Wealth Management
5 8 (12.31%) Interaction Design
5 8 (12.31%) Performance Tuning
5 8 (12.31%) Prototyping
6 7 (10.77%) Digital Banking
6 7 (10.77%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (9.23%) CI/CD
7 6 (9.23%) Decision-Making
7 6 (9.23%) Microservices
7 6 (9.23%) Migration
8 5 (7.69%) High Availability
8 5 (7.69%) Infographics
8 5 (7.69%) Qualitative Research
8 5 (7.69%) Quantitative Research
8 5 (7.69%) User Experience
8 5 (7.69%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 12 (18.46%) Python
2 10 (15.38%) SQL
3 5 (7.69%) Bash
4 4 (6.15%) Java
4 4 (6.15%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.08%) Korn
5 2 (3.08%) PL/SQL
5 2 (3.08%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.54%) Groovy
6 1 (1.54%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 2 (3.08%) FFIEC
2 1 (1.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.85%) Accessibility
2 6 (9.23%) Data Quality
3 5 (7.69%) QA
4 2 (3.08%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.08%) WCAG
5 1 (1.54%) GRC
5 1 (1.54%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.54%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (3.08%) Docker
1 2 (3.08%) Firmware
2 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.54%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.54%) RACF
Systems Management
1 4 (6.15%) Kubernetes
1 4 (6.15%) Terraform
2 3 (4.62%) Ansible
3 2 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.54%) Argo
4 1 (1.54%) Grafana
4 1 (1.54%) Karpenter
4 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 10 (15.38%) Adobe
2 6 (9.23%) Pega
3 4 (6.15%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.15%) Oracle
4 2 (3.08%) Avaloq
4 2 (3.08%) IBM
4 2 (3.08%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.08%) Splunk
4 2 (3.08%) Synthesia
4 2 (3.08%) Thales
5 1 (1.54%) Google
5 1 (1.54%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (1.54%) SAP