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 26 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 5 20
Rank change year-on-year -6 +15 +1
Contract jobs citing Banking 75 103 65
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 11.50% 17.00% 7.79%
As % of the General category 18.38% 22.01% 10.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 27 24
10th Percentile £403 £334 £474
25th Percentile £434 £469 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £588
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -8.51% +11.90%
75th Percentile £644 £603 £652
90th Percentile £675 £721 £750
Scotland median daily rate £475 £494 £613
% change year-on-year -3.85% -19.35% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £24.18 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £24.18 -

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 408 468 626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 62.58% 77.23% 75.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 264 363
10th Percentile £166 £192 £178
25th Percentile £373 £388 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £483
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.76% +1.68%
75th Percentile £540 £538 £575
90th Percentile £639 £635 £663
Scotland median daily rate £450 £456 £475
% change year-on-year -1.21% -4.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 17 34
10th Percentile £16.38 £21.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £27.34 £22.22 £16.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £24.18 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +106.78% -39.55% +88.15%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.66 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £30.74 £67.75
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £24.09 £19.50
% change year-on-year -32.54% +23.54% +13.97%

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 26 March 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 4 (5.33%) Confluence
2 3 (4.00%) SAS
3 1 (1.33%) Apache
3 1 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.33%) CICS
3 1 (1.33%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 5 (6.67%) Adobe XD
2 5 (6.67%) InVision
2 5 (6.67%) Sketch
3 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (24.00%) AWS
2 10 (13.33%) Azure
2 10 (13.33%) Figma
3 8 (10.67%) Snowflake
4 7 (9.33%) GCP
5 3 (4.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (4.00%) ChatGPT
5 3 (4.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.67%) AWS KMS
6 2 (2.67%) SaaS
6 2 (2.67%) Vyond
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (1.33%) Apigee
7 1 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.33%) OCI
7 1 (1.33%) Route 53
7 1 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.33%) DHCP
1 1 (1.33%) DNS
1 1 (1.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.00%) Power BI
2 3 (4.00%) Tableau
3 2 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.67%) Metadata
4 1 (1.33%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.33%) Data Mart
4 1 (1.33%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.33%) MS Access
4 1 (1.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (6.67%) Axure RP
1 5 (6.67%) GitLab
2 4 (5.33%) JIRA
3 1 (1.33%) Git
3 1 (1.33%) Jenkins
General
1 40 (53.33%) Finance
2 25 (33.33%) Retail Banking
3 14 (18.67%) Social Skills
4 11 (14.67%) Retail
5 10 (13.33%) Investment Banking
6 8 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (9.33%) Corporate Banking
8 5 (6.67%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.67%) Games
9 2 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.67%) Private Banking
10 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.33%) Legal
10 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (22.67%) Analyst
2 13 (17.33%) Developer
3 10 (13.33%) Senior
4 9 (12.00%) Designer
5 8 (10.67%) Data Analyst
6 5 (6.67%) Project Manager
6 5 (6.67%) UX Designer
7 4 (5.33%) Consultant
7 4 (5.33%) Python Developer
8 3 (4.00%) Architect
8 3 (4.00%) IT Analyst
8 3 (4.00%) IT Manager
8 3 (4.00%) Junior
8 3 (4.00%) Junior Analyst
8 3 (4.00%) Pega Developer
8 3 (4.00%) Python Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Senior Manager
8 3 (4.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Systems Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Visual Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.00%) FastAPI
2 5 (6.67%) Model Context Protocol
3 4 (5.33%) RESTful
4 2 (2.67%) Kafka
5 1 (1.33%) J2EE
5 1 (1.33%) JMS
5 1 (1.33%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.33%) PySpark
5 1 (1.33%) Spring
5 1 (1.33%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.33%) Digital Wallet
4 3 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.00%) Clustering
4 3 (4.00%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.00%) PKI
4 3 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.67%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.67%) Educational Technology
5 2 (2.67%) e-Learning
5 2 (2.67%) Learning Management System
5 2 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.67%) SCORM
5 2 (2.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (2.67%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.33%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.33%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.67%) Linux
1 2 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (2.67%) Unix
1 2 (2.67%) Windows
2 1 (1.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (30.67%) Agile
2 15 (20.00%) AI
2 15 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (18.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (16.00%) Migration
5 10 (13.33%) Decision-Making
5 10 (13.33%) Wealth Management
6 8 (10.67%) CI/CD
6 8 (10.67%) Digital Banking
6 8 (10.67%) Interaction Design
6 8 (10.67%) Prototyping
7 7 (9.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (9.33%) Project Management
8 6 (8.00%) Data Modelling
8 6 (8.00%) Microservices
8 6 (8.00%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (8.00%) User Experience
9 5 (6.67%) Infographics
9 5 (6.67%) ITIL
9 5 (6.67%) Qualitative Research
Programming Languages
1 15 (20.00%) Python
2 12 (16.00%) SQL
3 5 (6.67%) Bash
4 4 (5.33%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.00%) Java
5 3 (4.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.67%) Korn
6 2 (2.67%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.67%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.33%) Groovy
7 1 (1.33%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (2.67%) FFIEC
2 1 (1.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.00%) Accessibility
2 7 (9.33%) Data Quality
2 7 (9.33%) QA
3 3 (4.00%) PMO
4 2 (2.67%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.67%) WCAG
5 1 (1.33%) COBIT
5 1 (1.33%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.33%) NCSC
5 1 (1.33%) NIST
5 1 (1.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (2.67%) Docker
1 2 (2.67%) Firmware
2 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (6.67%) Terraform
2 4 (5.33%) Ansible
2 4 (5.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.33%) Argo
4 1 (1.33%) Grafana
4 1 (1.33%) Karpenter
4 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 10 (13.33%) Adobe
2 6 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.33%) Oracle
3 4 (5.33%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.00%) Pega
4 3 (4.00%) Thales
5 2 (2.67%) Avaloq
5 2 (2.67%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.67%) Synthesia
6 1 (1.33%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.33%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.33%) Dell
6 1 (1.33%) F5
6 1 (1.33%) Google
6 1 (1.33%) HP
6 1 (1.33%) IBM
6 1 (1.33%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (1.33%) Qualys
6 1 (1.33%) Splunk
6 1 (1.33%) WorldPay