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 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 7 20
Rank change year-on-year 0 +13 -6
Contract jobs citing Banking 98 86 73
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 16.72% 13.44% 8.11%
As % of the General category 23.06% 17.99% 10.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 20 24
10th Percentile £456 £436 £454
25th Percentile £500 £475 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £588
90th Percentile £666 £638 £634
Scotland median daily rate £500 £500 £618
% change year-on-year - -19.13% +17.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £24.18 -
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 425 478 683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 72.53% 74.69% 75.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 253 418
10th Percentile £172 £192 £171
25th Percentile £388 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £540 £538 £555
90th Percentile £600 £630 £628
Scotland median daily rate £455 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +1.11% -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 10
10th Percentile £16.60 £14.18 £13.12
25th Percentile - £20.34 £16.62
Median hourly rate £17.87 £24.00 £28.94
Median % change year-on-year -25.54% -17.06% +58.68%
75th Percentile £38.63 £24.18 £58.43
90th Percentile £68.13 £26.70 £61.60
Scotland median hourly rate £19.05 £23.00 £19.18
% change year-on-year -17.17% +19.92% +13.26%

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 19 December 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 (7.14%) Confluence
2 3 (3.06%) SAS
3 2 (2.04%) Apache
3 2 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.02%) CICS
4 1 (1.02%) CMS
4 1 (1.02%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.04%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.02%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.02%) InVision
3 1 (1.02%) Sketch
3 1 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 27 (27.55%) AWS
2 14 (14.29%) Azure
3 13 (13.27%) GCP
4 6 (6.12%) Snowflake
5 4 (4.08%) Amazon S3
5 4 (4.08%) Figma
5 4 (4.08%) OCI
5 4 (4.08%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.06%) Serverless
7 2 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.04%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (2.04%) AWS Control Tower
7 2 (2.04%) SaaS
8 1 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.02%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (1.02%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.02%) Route 53
8 1 (1.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.10%) Firewall
2 1 (1.02%) DHCP
2 1 (1.02%) DNS
2 1 (1.02%) Network Security
2 1 (1.02%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.08%) Power BI
1 4 (4.08%) Tableau
2 3 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.06%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.04%) Data Mart
3 2 (2.04%) Metadata
3 2 (2.04%) MS Access
3 2 (2.04%) MySQL
3 2 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.04%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.02%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.02%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.02%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (10.20%) JIRA
2 8 (8.16%) GitLab
3 6 (6.12%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.06%) Liquibase
5 2 (2.04%) Git
5 2 (2.04%) git-flow
6 1 (1.02%) Axure RP
6 1 (1.02%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.02%) JUnit
6 1 (1.02%) Selenium
General
1 68 (69.39%) Finance
2 30 (30.61%) Retail Banking
3 22 (22.45%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (22.45%) Documentation Skills
4 19 (19.39%) Social Skills
5 9 (9.18%) Retail
6 6 (6.12%) Investment Banking
7 5 (5.10%) Legal
8 4 (4.08%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (4.08%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (35.71%) Analyst
2 12 (12.24%) Senior
3 10 (10.20%) Data Analyst
4 9 (9.18%) Fraud Analyst
5 8 (8.16%) Project Manager
5 8 (8.16%) Software Engineer
6 7 (7.14%) Developer
7 5 (5.10%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (5.10%) Business Analyst
7 5 (5.10%) Designer
7 5 (5.10%) Python Engineer
8 4 (4.08%) Architect
8 4 (4.08%) Consultant
8 4 (4.08%) Implementation Manager
8 4 (4.08%) Implementation Project Manager
8 4 (4.08%) Implementation Specialist
8 4 (4.08%) Project Implementation Manager
9 3 (3.06%) Java Developer
9 3 (3.06%) Senior Manager
9 3 (3.06%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.10%) FastAPI
1 5 (5.10%) REST
1 5 (5.10%) Spring
1 5 (5.10%) Spring Boot
2 4 (4.08%) RESTful
3 3 (3.06%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (3.06%) JSON
3 3 (3.06%) PySpark
3 3 (3.06%) React
4 1 (1.02%) JMS
4 1 (1.02%) Kafka
4 1 (1.02%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.02%) Playwright
4 1 (1.02%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.10%) Cloud Native
1 5 (5.10%) Data Protection Act
1 5 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (5.10%) Onboarding
1 5 (5.10%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.06%) Clustering
3 3 (3.06%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.02%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.02%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.02%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.02%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.02%) PKI
4 1 (1.02%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.02%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.12%) Linux
1 6 (6.12%) Windows
2 3 (3.06%) Unix
3 2 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.04%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.02%) Android
4 1 (1.02%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (34.69%) Migration
2 30 (30.61%) Agile
3 25 (25.51%) Continuous Improvement
4 20 (20.41%) Stakeholder Management
5 18 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (17.35%) Digital Banking
6 17 (17.35%) Fintech
7 16 (16.33%) Case Management
7 16 (16.33%) CI/CD
7 16 (16.33%) Due Diligence
7 16 (16.33%) Regulatory Compliance
7 16 (16.33%) Scenario Testing
8 15 (15.31%) Decision-Making
9 12 (12.24%) Software Engineering
10 11 (11.22%) AI
11 9 (9.18%) DevOps
11 9 (9.18%) Fraud Detection
12 8 (8.16%) Microservices
13 7 (7.14%) Anti-Money Laundering
13 7 (7.14%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 19 (19.39%) Python
2 12 (12.24%) SQL
3 8 (8.16%) Java
4 6 (6.12%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.06%) Bash
5 3 (3.06%) Go
6 2 (2.04%) Korn
6 2 (2.04%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.04%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.04%) VBA
7 1 (1.02%) Groovy
7 1 (1.02%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.02%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 5 (5.10%) Degree
2 4 (4.08%) AWS Certification
3 3 (3.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.06%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.06%) MCP
4 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.02%) CISSP
4 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.16%) Data Quality
1 8 (8.16%) QA
2 4 (4.08%) COBIT
2 4 (4.08%) PMO
3 1 (1.02%) COREP
3 1 (1.02%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.02%) IFRS
3 1 (1.02%) IFRS 9
3 1 (1.02%) NCSC
3 1 (1.02%) NIST
3 1 (1.02%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (3.06%) Docker
2 1 (1.02%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.02%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (11.22%) Terraform
2 10 (10.20%) Ansible
3 5 (5.10%) Kubernetes
4 4 (4.08%) Grafana
5 3 (3.06%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.02%) Argo
6 1 (1.02%) Karpenter
6 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 8 (8.16%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.12%) Oracle
3 4 (4.08%) CheckPoint
3 4 (4.08%) Dell
3 4 (4.08%) Dynatrace
3 4 (4.08%) F5
3 4 (4.08%) HP
3 4 (4.08%) Splunk
4 3 (3.06%) Google
5 2 (2.04%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.04%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.02%) Adobe
6 1 (1.02%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.02%) IBM
6 1 (1.02%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (1.02%) Planview
6 1 (1.02%) Qualys
6 1 (1.02%) Thales
6 1 (1.02%) Workday
6 1 (1.02%) WorldPay