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 30 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 8 17
Rank change year-on-year -15 +9 +2
Contract jobs citing Banking 61 96 69
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 8.06% 15.38% 8.69%
As % of the General category 12.45% 19.96% 12.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 37 15
10th Percentile £400 £446 £463
25th Percentile £413 £494 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £576
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -8.77% +15.68%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £644
90th Percentile - - £734
Scotland median daily rate £465 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £15.81 - -
75th Percentile £19.33 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 £19.97 £12.30
% change year-on-year -20.83% +62.36% -35.87%

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 490 481 556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 64.73% 77.08% 70.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 229 289
10th Percentile £250 £269 £156
25th Percentile £400 £413 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +7.95% -7.37%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £538
90th Percentile £649 £597 £628
Scotland median daily rate £460 £463 £445
% change year-on-year -0.54% +3.93% -6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 20
10th Percentile £15.81 £16.68 £13.09
25th Percentile £17.02 £17.87 £14.66
Median hourly rate £37.88 £18.62 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +103.44% +3.43% +1.58%
75th Percentile £61.50 £49.35 £21.74
90th Percentile £75.00 £60.00 £55.25
Scotland median hourly rate £16.86 £19.23 £17.00
% change year-on-year -12.32% +13.12% -4.06%

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 30 August 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 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.64%) CICS
2 1 (1.64%) Confluence
2 1 (1.64%) Ethereum
2 1 (1.64%) SAS
2 1 (1.64%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.64%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (11.48%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (9.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (9.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.64%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (1.64%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (1.64%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.64%) SAP GRC
1 1 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (21.31%) AWS
2 8 (13.11%) Azure
3 7 (11.48%) GCP
4 6 (9.84%) Apigee
4 6 (9.84%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (6.56%) Snowflake
6 3 (4.92%) Azure AKS
6 3 (4.92%) Cloud Run
6 3 (4.92%) Vertex AI
7 2 (3.28%) ChatGPT
7 2 (3.28%) Figma
8 1 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.64%) Cloud Composer
8 1 (1.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.64%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.64%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.64%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.64%) Serverless
8 1 (1.64%) Vyond
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.56%) SSL
2 2 (3.28%) Firewall
2 2 (3.28%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (1.64%) HTTP
3 1 (1.64%) Network Security
3 1 (1.64%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.92%) BigQuery
2 2 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.64%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.64%) DataStage
3 1 (1.64%) Looker
3 1 (1.64%) Power BI
3 1 (1.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Git
2 2 (3.28%) GitLab
2 2 (3.28%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.64%) Gatling
3 1 (1.64%) JIRA
3 1 (1.64%) JMeter
3 1 (1.64%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.64%) Selenium
General
1 28 (45.90%) Finance
2 17 (27.87%) Social Skills
3 11 (18.03%) Retail Banking
4 9 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (14.75%) Retail
5 7 (11.48%) Investment Banking
6 6 (9.84%) Corporate Banking
7 4 (6.56%) Legal
8 3 (4.92%) Financial Institution
9 2 (3.28%) Private Banking
10 1 (1.64%) Games
10 1 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (24.59%) Analyst
2 13 (21.31%) Developer
3 6 (9.84%) Architect
3 6 (9.84%) IT Analyst
3 6 (9.84%) Pega Developer
3 6 (9.84%) Service Analyst
4 5 (8.20%) IT Support
4 5 (8.20%) IT Support Analyst
4 5 (8.20%) Service Desk Analyst
4 5 (8.20%) Service Desk Support
4 5 (8.20%) Service Desk Support Analyst
4 5 (8.20%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (8.20%) Support Analyst
5 4 (6.56%) Administrator
5 4 (6.56%) Data Analyst
5 4 (6.56%) Senior
6 3 (4.92%) Consultant
6 3 (4.92%) Data Architect
6 3 (4.92%) Lead
6 3 (4.92%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.20%) REST
2 4 (6.56%) ISPF
2 4 (6.56%) Middleware
2 4 (6.56%) Model Context Protocol
3 3 (4.92%) LangChain
3 3 (4.92%) LangGraph
3 3 (4.92%) Terraform
4 2 (3.28%) A2A Protocol
4 2 (3.28%) FastAPI
4 2 (3.28%) Node.js
4 2 (3.28%) RESTful
5 1 (1.64%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.64%) Kafka
5 1 (1.64%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.64%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (1.64%) Smart Contracts
5 1 (1.64%) SOAP
5 1 (1.64%) Spring
5 1 (1.64%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.48%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.84%) Mainframe
3 4 (6.56%) Clustering
3 4 (6.56%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.92%) CMDB
5 2 (3.28%) Chip and PIN
5 2 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.28%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.28%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.28%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.64%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.64%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.64%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.64%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.64%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.64%) Learning Management System
6 1 (1.64%) Online Banking
6 1 (1.64%) SCORM
6 1 (1.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.84%) Windows
2 5 (8.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (21.31%) Agile
1 13 (21.31%) AI
2 11 (18.03%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (14.75%) Microservices
4 9 (14.75%) Migration
4 9 (14.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (14.75%) Use Case
5 8 (13.11%) Wealth Management
6 7 (11.48%) CI/CD
6 7 (11.48%) Customer Experience
6 7 (11.48%) Customer Service
6 7 (11.48%) ITIL
7 6 (9.84%) Analytics
7 6 (9.84%) Decision-Making
7 6 (9.84%) Integration Patterns
7 6 (9.84%) Performance Optimisation
7 6 (9.84%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (8.20%) Data Architecture
8 5 (8.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.03%) Python
2 8 (13.11%) Java
3 5 (8.20%) SQL
4 2 (3.28%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.64%) Bash
5 1 (1.64%) DAML
5 1 (1.64%) Go
5 1 (1.64%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 1 (1.64%) CISA
1 1 (1.64%) CRISC
1 1 (1.64%) Degree
1 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
1 1 (1.64%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
1 1 (1.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (1.64%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.48%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.64%) COBIT
2 1 (1.64%) GRC
2 1 (1.64%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.64%) ITGC
2 1 (1.64%) NIST
2 1 (1.64%) NIST 800
2 1 (1.64%) QA
2 1 (1.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (8.20%) Active Directory
1 5 (8.20%) RACF
2 2 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.64%) Docker
3 1 (1.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (9.84%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.56%) OMEGAMON
3 3 (4.92%) Istio
4 1 (1.64%) Ansible
4 1 (1.64%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (14.75%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.84%) Pega
3 5 (8.20%) IBM
4 4 (6.56%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.92%) Google
5 3 (4.92%) Splunk
6 2 (3.28%) Avaloq
6 2 (3.28%) Citrix
6 2 (3.28%) Dell
6 2 (3.28%) Oracle
6 2 (3.28%) VMware
7 1 (1.64%) Adobe
7 1 (1.64%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.64%) Cisco
7 1 (1.64%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.64%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.64%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.64%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.64%) SAP
7 1 (1.64%) Synthesia