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 4 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 8 18
Rank change year-on-year -2 +10 -2
Contract jobs citing Banking 82 83 73
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 13.62% 13.86% 8.08%
As % of the General category 20.76% 18.32% 10.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 23 24
10th Percentile £461 £248 £463
25th Percentile £500 £469 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +3.60%
75th Percentile £664 £616 £641
90th Percentile £725 £724 £750
Scotland median daily rate £475 £488 £618
% change year-on-year -2.56% -21.05% +13.56%
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 395 453 689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 65.61% 75.63% 76.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 255 407
10th Percentile £150 £190 £213
25th Percentile £325 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £555 £538 £575
90th Percentile £663 £635 £650
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £485
% change year-on-year - -7.22% +2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 29
10th Percentile £17.06 £20.02 £15.66
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.02 £22.87
Median hourly rate £30.50 £24.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.08% -60.00% +220.00%
75th Percentile £76.56 £24.42 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £41.43 £70.00
Scotland median hourly rate £17.87 £24.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -25.54% -7.69% +53.53%

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 4 February 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 7 (8.54%) Confluence
2 3 (3.66%) SAS
3 2 (2.44%) Apache
3 2 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.22%) CICS
4 1 (1.22%) CMS
4 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (7.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.10%) Adobe XD
2 5 (6.10%) InVision
2 5 (6.10%) Sketch
3 3 (3.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (2.44%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 26 (31.71%) AWS
2 14 (17.07%) Azure
3 12 (14.63%) GCP
4 11 (13.41%) Figma
5 7 (8.54%) Snowflake
6 4 (4.88%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.88%) OCI
7 3 (3.66%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (3.66%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.44%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (2.44%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (2.44%) AWS KMS
8 2 (2.44%) SaaS
9 1 (1.22%) Apigee
9 1 (1.22%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.22%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.22%) Route 53
9 1 (1.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.88%) Firewall
2 1 (1.22%) DHCP
2 1 (1.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.88%) Tableau
2 3 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.66%) Power BI
3 2 (2.44%) Data Mart
3 2 (2.44%) Metadata
3 2 (2.44%) MS Access
3 2 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.22%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.22%) MySQL
4 1 (1.22%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (10.98%) JIRA
2 7 (8.54%) GitLab
3 5 (6.10%) Axure RP
4 4 (4.88%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.44%) Git
6 1 (1.22%) git-flow
6 1 (1.22%) Liquibase
General
1 54 (65.85%) Finance
2 29 (35.37%) Retail Banking
3 19 (23.17%) Social Skills
4 11 (13.41%) Retail
5 9 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (8.54%) Investment Banking
7 6 (7.32%) Corporate Banking
7 6 (7.32%) Financial Institution
8 5 (6.10%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (4.88%) Legal
10 1 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (21.95%) Analyst
2 12 (14.63%) Designer
3 11 (13.41%) Senior
4 8 (9.76%) Data Analyst
4 8 (9.76%) Developer
5 7 (8.54%) Project Manager
6 5 (6.10%) Software Engineer
6 5 (6.10%) UX Designer
7 4 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (4.88%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.88%) Implementation Specialist
7 4 (4.88%) IT Manager
7 4 (4.88%) Python Engineer
7 4 (4.88%) Senior Manager
7 4 (4.88%) Visual Designer
8 3 (3.66%) Implementation Manager
8 3 (3.66%) Implementation Project Manager
8 3 (3.66%) Java Developer
8 3 (3.66%) Junior Analyst
8 3 (3.66%) Project Implementation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.32%) FastAPI
2 4 (4.88%) Spring
2 4 (4.88%) Spring Boot
3 3 (3.66%) Model Context Protocol
3 3 (3.66%) PySpark
3 3 (3.66%) React
3 3 (3.66%) REST
4 2 (2.44%) RESTful
5 1 (1.22%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.22%) JMS
5 1 (1.22%) JSON
5 1 (1.22%) Kafka
5 1 (1.22%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.22%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.98%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.10%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (4.88%) Digital Wallet
3 4 (4.88%) Mobile App
3 4 (4.88%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.66%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.66%) Clustering
4 3 (3.66%) PKI
4 3 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.44%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.22%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.22%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.22%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.22%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.22%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.10%) Windows
2 3 (3.66%) Linux
3 2 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.44%) Unix
4 1 (1.22%) Android
4 1 (1.22%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (39.02%) Agile
2 20 (24.39%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (19.51%) Decision-Making
4 16 (19.51%) Migration
5 14 (17.07%) CI/CD
6 12 (14.63%) AI
7 9 (10.98%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (10.98%) Prototyping
7 9 (10.98%) Software Engineering
7 9 (10.98%) User Experience
8 8 (9.76%) Digital Banking
8 8 (9.76%) Interaction Design
8 8 (9.76%) Wealth Management
9 7 (8.54%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (8.54%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (8.54%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (8.54%) ITIL
9 7 (8.54%) Project Management
9 7 (8.54%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 20 (24.39%) Python
2 10 (12.20%) SQL
3 6 (7.32%) TypeScript
4 5 (6.10%) Bash
4 5 (6.10%) Java
5 4 (4.88%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.44%) Korn
6 2 (2.44%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.44%) VBA
7 1 (1.22%) Go
7 1 (1.22%) Groovy
7 1 (1.22%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.22%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 2 (2.44%) Degree
1 2 (2.44%) FFIEC
2 1 (1.22%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.22%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.98%) Data Quality
2 8 (9.76%) QA
3 7 (8.54%) Accessibility
4 4 (4.88%) COBIT
5 3 (3.66%) PMO
6 2 (2.44%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.22%) COREP
7 1 (1.22%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (1.22%) IFRS
7 1 (1.22%) IFRS 9
7 1 (1.22%) NCSC
7 1 (1.22%) NIST
7 1 (1.22%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (3.66%) Docker
2 2 (2.44%) Firmware
3 1 (1.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (13.41%) Terraform
2 10 (12.20%) Ansible
3 5 (6.10%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.44%) Grafana
4 2 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.22%) Argo
5 1 (1.22%) Karpenter
5 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (1.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (9.76%) Adobe
2 5 (6.10%) Oracle
3 4 (4.88%) CheckPoint
3 4 (4.88%) Dell
3 4 (4.88%) Dynatrace
3 4 (4.88%) F5
3 4 (4.88%) HP
3 4 (4.88%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.66%) Thales
5 2 (2.44%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.44%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.44%) Splunk
6 1 (1.22%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.22%) Google
6 1 (1.22%) IBM
6 1 (1.22%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (1.22%) Qualys
6 1 (1.22%) WorldPay