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 28 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 7 20
Rank change year-on-year 0 +13 -5
Contract jobs citing Banking 94 85 87
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 15.46% 12.34% 9.26%
As % of the General category 20.84% 17.45% 12.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 18 25
10th Percentile £456 £432 £434
25th Percentile £503 £480 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £506
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +8.70% -3.62%
75th Percentile £550 £622 £575
90th Percentile £659 £638 £638
Scotland median daily rate £500 £488 £625
% change year-on-year +2.56% -22.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £24.18 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - +36.46% -
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 common skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 451 487 704
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 74.18% 70.68% 74.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 242 430
10th Percentile £182 £175 £172
25th Percentile £400 £363 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £540 £538 £550
90th Percentile £600 £636 £625
Scotland median daily rate £455 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +1.11% -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 16 11
10th Percentile £16.07 £14.32 £13.28
25th Percentile - £20.69 £17.72
Median hourly rate £17.87 £24.09 £22.87
Median % change year-on-year -25.82% +5.33% +15.21%
75th Percentile £31.50 £24.18 £56.85
90th Percentile £66.75 £26.28 £61.50
Scotland median hourly rate £19.23 £20.29 £19.50
% change year-on-year -5.20% +4.03% +15.15%

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 28 November 2025.

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 (7.45%) Confluence
2 3 (3.19%) SAS
3 2 (2.13%) Apache
3 2 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.06%) CICS
4 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.13%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 24 (25.53%) AWS
2 13 (13.83%) GCP
3 11 (11.70%) Azure
4 5 (5.32%) Snowflake
5 4 (4.26%) Amazon S3
5 4 (4.26%) OCI
6 3 (3.19%) Figma
6 3 (3.19%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.19%) Serverless
7 2 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.13%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (2.13%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.06%) Apigee
8 1 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.06%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (1.06%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.32%) Firewall
2 1 (1.06%) Network Security
2 1 (1.06%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.19%) NoSQL
1 3 (3.19%) Power BI
1 3 (3.19%) Tableau
2 2 (2.13%) Data Mart
2 2 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.13%) Metadata
2 2 (2.13%) MS Access
2 2 (2.13%) MySQL
2 2 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.13%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.06%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.06%) SAS Data Integration Studio
3 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (10.64%) JIRA
2 7 (7.45%) GitLab
3 6 (6.38%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.19%) Liquibase
5 2 (2.13%) Git
5 2 (2.13%) git-flow
6 1 (1.06%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.06%) JUnit
6 1 (1.06%) Selenium
General
1 67 (71.28%) Finance
2 26 (27.66%) Documentation Skills
2 26 (27.66%) Retail Banking
3 25 (26.60%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (23.40%) Social Skills
5 8 (8.51%) Retail
6 6 (6.38%) Investment Banking
6 6 (6.38%) Legal
7 4 (4.26%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.19%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (40.43%) Analyst
2 11 (11.70%) Fraud Analyst
3 10 (10.64%) Senior
4 8 (8.51%) Data Analyst
4 8 (8.51%) Software Engineer
5 7 (7.45%) Developer
5 7 (7.45%) Project Manager
6 5 (5.32%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (5.32%) Business Analyst
6 5 (5.32%) Python Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) Consultant
7 4 (4.26%) Designer
7 4 (4.26%) Implementation Manager
7 4 (4.26%) Implementation Project Manager
7 4 (4.26%) Implementation Specialist
7 4 (4.26%) Project Implementation Manager
8 3 (3.19%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.19%) IT Manager
8 3 (3.19%) Java Developer
8 3 (3.19%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.32%) FastAPI
1 5 (5.32%) REST
1 5 (5.32%) Spring
1 5 (5.32%) Spring Boot
2 4 (4.26%) RESTful
3 3 (3.19%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (3.19%) JSON
3 3 (3.19%) PySpark
3 3 (3.19%) React
4 1 (1.06%) JMS
4 1 (1.06%) Kafka
4 1 (1.06%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.06%) Playwright
4 1 (1.06%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.32%) Data Protection Act
1 5 (5.32%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (5.32%) Onboarding
1 5 (5.32%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.26%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.19%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.06%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.06%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.06%) PKI
4 1 (1.06%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.06%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.32%) Windows
2 4 (4.26%) Linux
3 1 (1.06%) Android
3 1 (1.06%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.06%) Unix
3 1 (1.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (38.30%) Migration
2 29 (30.85%) Agile
3 28 (29.79%) Continuous Improvement
4 21 (22.34%) Digital Banking
4 21 (22.34%) Due Diligence
4 21 (22.34%) Fintech
5 20 (21.28%) Case Management
5 20 (21.28%) Regulatory Compliance
5 20 (21.28%) Scenario Testing
6 17 (18.09%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (17.02%) CI/CD
8 14 (14.89%) Decision-Making
8 14 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (12.77%) Software Engineering
10 11 (11.70%) AI
10 11 (11.70%) Fraud Detection
11 9 (9.57%) Anti-Money Laundering
11 9 (9.57%) DevOps
12 7 (7.45%) Infrastructure as Code
12 7 (7.45%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 19 (20.21%) Python
2 9 (9.57%) SQL
3 8 (8.51%) Java
4 6 (6.38%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.19%) Go
6 2 (2.13%) VBA
7 1 (1.06%) Bash
7 1 (1.06%) Groovy
7 1 (1.06%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.06%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.06%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 5 (5.32%) Degree
2 4 (4.26%) AWS Certification
3 3 (3.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.19%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.19%) MCP
4 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.06%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.06%) CISSP
4 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.45%) QA
2 6 (6.38%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.26%) COBIT
3 4 (4.26%) PMO
4 1 (1.06%) COREP
4 1 (1.06%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.06%) IFRS
4 1 (1.06%) IFRS 9
4 1 (1.06%) NCSC
4 1 (1.06%) NIST
4 1 (1.06%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (3.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (11.70%) Terraform
2 10 (10.64%) Ansible
3 5 (5.32%) Kubernetes
4 4 (4.26%) Grafana
5 3 (3.19%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.06%) Argo
6 1 (1.06%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 7 (7.45%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.38%) Oracle
3 4 (4.26%) CheckPoint
3 4 (4.26%) Dell
3 4 (4.26%) Dynatrace
3 4 (4.26%) F5
3 4 (4.26%) HP
3 4 (4.26%) Splunk
4 3 (3.19%) Google
5 2 (2.13%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.06%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.06%) IBM
6 1 (1.06%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (1.06%) Planview
6 1 (1.06%) Qualys
6 1 (1.06%) Thales
6 1 (1.06%) Workday
6 1 (1.06%) WorldPay