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 11 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 10 21
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 -8
Contract jobs citing Banking 94 75 74
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 16.23% 12.89% 8.21%
As % of the General category 23.04% 17.24% 10.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 18 24
10th Percentile £456 £432 £454
25th Percentile £500 £475 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.92%
75th Percentile £650 £597 £625
90th Percentile £678 £629 £646
Scotland median daily rate £500 £488 £625
% change year-on-year +2.56% -22.00% +16.82%
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 408 435 689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 70.47% 74.74% 76.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 235 420
10th Percentile £170 £192 £181
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £550 £535 £569
90th Percentile £625 £628 £638
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 20 16
10th Percentile £16.85 £19.29 £14.77
25th Percentile - £21.03 £21.58
Median hourly rate £17.87 £24.09 £49.35
Median % change year-on-year -25.82% -51.19% +170.63%
75th Percentile £45.75 £24.30 £64.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £37.86 £70.00
Scotland median hourly rate £17.87 £24.00 £30.75
% change year-on-year -25.54% -21.95% +81.58%

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 11 January 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 (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%) CMS
4 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (7.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.32%) Adobe XD
2 5 (5.32%) InVision
2 5 (5.32%) Sketch
3 3 (3.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (2.13%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 28 (29.79%) AWS
2 15 (15.96%) Azure
3 14 (14.89%) GCP
4 11 (11.70%) Figma
5 6 (6.38%) Snowflake
6 4 (4.26%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.26%) OCI
6 4 (4.26%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.19%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (3.19%) Serverless
8 2 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.13%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (2.13%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (2.13%) AWS KMS
8 2 (2.13%) SaaS
9 1 (1.06%) Apigee
9 1 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.06%) Route 53
9 1 (1.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.32%) Firewall
2 1 (1.06%) DHCP
2 1 (1.06%) DNS
2 1 (1.06%) Network Security
2 1 (1.06%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.26%) Power BI
1 4 (4.26%) Tableau
2 3 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.19%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.13%) Data Mart
3 2 (2.13%) Metadata
3 2 (2.13%) MS Access
4 1 (1.06%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.06%) MySQL
4 1 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.06%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (9.57%) JIRA
2 8 (8.51%) GitLab
3 6 (6.38%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.32%) Axure RP
5 3 (3.19%) Liquibase
6 1 (1.06%) Git
6 1 (1.06%) git-flow
General
1 65 (69.15%) Finance
2 27 (28.72%) Retail Banking
3 24 (25.53%) Social Skills
4 16 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (14.89%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (8.51%) Retail
7 6 (6.38%) Financial Institution
8 4 (4.26%) Investment Banking
8 4 (4.26%) Legal
9 3 (3.19%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (28.72%) Analyst
2 12 (12.77%) Designer
2 12 (12.77%) Senior
3 9 (9.57%) Data Analyst
4 7 (7.45%) Developer
4 7 (7.45%) Project Manager
4 7 (7.45%) Software Engineer
5 5 (5.32%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (5.32%) Business Analyst
5 5 (5.32%) Python Engineer
5 5 (5.32%) UX Designer
6 4 (4.26%) Architect
6 4 (4.26%) Consultant
6 4 (4.26%) Fraud Analyst
6 4 (4.26%) Implementation Specialist
6 4 (4.26%) Visual Designer
7 3 (3.19%) Java Developer
7 3 (3.19%) Senior Manager
7 3 (3.19%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 3 (3.19%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.32%) FastAPI
1 5 (5.32%) REST
2 4 (4.26%) RESTful
2 4 (4.26%) Spring
2 4 (4.26%) Spring Boot
3 3 (3.19%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (3.19%) PySpark
3 3 (3.19%) React
4 2 (2.13%) JSON
5 1 (1.06%) JMS
5 1 (1.06%) Kafka
5 1 (1.06%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.06%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.57%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.32%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.32%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (4.26%) Digital Wallet
3 4 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.26%) Mobile App
3 4 (4.26%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.19%) Clustering
4 3 (3.19%) PKI
4 3 (3.19%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.13%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.06%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.06%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.06%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.38%) Linux
1 6 (6.38%) Windows
2 3 (3.19%) Unix
3 2 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.13%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.06%) Android
4 1 (1.06%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (35.11%) Agile
2 26 (27.66%) Migration
3 20 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (20.21%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (17.02%) Continuous Improvement
5 16 (17.02%) Digital Banking
6 15 (15.96%) CI/CD
6 15 (15.96%) Decision-Making
7 13 (13.83%) AI
8 11 (11.70%) Software Engineering
9 10 (10.64%) User Experience
10 9 (9.57%) Fintech
10 9 (9.57%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (9.57%) Prototyping
11 8 (8.51%) Case Management
11 8 (8.51%) DevOps
11 8 (8.51%) Due Diligence
11 8 (8.51%) Interaction Design
11 8 (8.51%) Regulatory Compliance
11 8 (8.51%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (22.34%) Python
2 10 (10.64%) SQL
3 7 (7.45%) Java
4 6 (6.38%) TypeScript
5 5 (5.32%) Bash
6 4 (4.26%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.19%) Go
8 2 (2.13%) Korn
8 2 (2.13%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.13%) VBA
9 1 (1.06%) Groovy
9 1 (1.06%) JavaScript
9 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 2 (2.13%) FFIEC
5 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.06%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.06%) CISSP
5 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.51%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.45%) Accessibility
2 7 (7.45%) QA
3 4 (4.26%) COBIT
4 3 (3.19%) PMO
5 2 (2.13%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.06%) COREP
6 1 (1.06%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (1.06%) IFRS
6 1 (1.06%) IFRS 9
6 1 (1.06%) NCSC
6 1 (1.06%) NIST
6 1 (1.06%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (3.19%) Docker
2 2 (2.13%) Firmware
3 1 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.06%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (13.83%) Terraform
2 12 (12.77%) Ansible
3 7 (7.45%) Kubernetes
4 4 (4.26%) Grafana
5 3 (3.19%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.06%) Argo
7 1 (1.06%) Karpenter
7 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 8 (8.51%) Adobe
2 7 (7.45%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.32%) Oracle
4 4 (4.26%) CheckPoint
4 4 (4.26%) Dell
4 4 (4.26%) Dynatrace
4 4 (4.26%) F5
4 4 (4.26%) HP
4 4 (4.26%) Splunk
5 3 (3.19%) Google
5 3 (3.19%) Thales
6 2 (2.13%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.13%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.06%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.06%) IBM
7 1 (1.06%) IBM Sterling
7 1 (1.06%) Qualys
7 1 (1.06%) WorldPay