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 12 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 6 16
Rank change year-on-year -19 +10 +1
Contract jobs citing Banking 51 94 75
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 7.59% 15.26% 9.24%
As % of the General category 11.46% 20.43% 13.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 40 14
10th Percentile £401 £456 £454
25th Percentile £411 £494 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile - £550 £631
90th Percentile £645 £608 £743
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -22.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £15.81 - -
75th Percentile £19.33 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.03 £19.97 £18.23
% change year-on-year -14.72% +9.57% -4.98%

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 445 460 572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 66.22% 74.68% 70.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 221 293
10th Percentile £213 £225 £163
25th Percentile £375 £413 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £566 £538 £531
90th Percentile £650 £599 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £471 £438
% change year-on-year -1.81% +7.67% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 15 16
10th Percentile £15.81 £17.08 £12.61
25th Percentile £16.25 - £13.60
Median hourly rate £19.33 £17.87 £18.65
Median % change year-on-year +8.17% -4.18% +5.25%
75th Percentile £61.50 £37.90 £24.18
90th Percentile - £60.75 £56.25
Scotland median hourly rate £16.11 £18.37 £16.71
% change year-on-year -12.30% +9.93% -9.43%

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 12 October 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 1 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.96%) CICS
1 1 (1.96%) Confluence
1 1 (1.96%) Ethereum
1 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.96%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (9.80%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (9.80%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (9.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.96%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (1.96%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.96%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.96%) SAP GRC
1 1 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (29.41%) AWS
2 8 (15.69%) Azure
2 8 (15.69%) GCP
3 6 (11.76%) Apigee
3 6 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (7.84%) Snowflake
5 3 (5.88%) Azure AKS
5 3 (5.88%) Cloud Run
5 3 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.88%) Vertex AI
6 2 (3.92%) GitHub
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.96%) Apple Pay
7 1 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.96%) IaaS
7 1 (1.96%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.84%) SSL
2 3 (5.88%) Firewall
3 2 (3.92%) Network Security
3 2 (3.92%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (1.96%) BIG-IP
4 1 (1.96%) DNS
4 1 (1.96%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (1.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (1.96%) HTTP
4 1 (1.96%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.96%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.88%) BigQuery
1 3 (5.88%) Power BI
2 1 (1.96%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.96%) Data Mining
2 1 (1.96%) DataStage
2 1 (1.96%) Looker
2 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.96%) MySQL
2 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Git
1 4 (7.84%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.92%) JIRA
3 1 (1.96%) Gatling
3 1 (1.96%) GitLab
3 1 (1.96%) JMeter
3 1 (1.96%) JUnit
3 1 (1.96%) Mockito
3 1 (1.96%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.96%) Selenium
General
1 30 (58.82%) Finance
2 19 (37.25%) Social Skills
3 11 (21.57%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (17.65%) Retail Banking
5 6 (11.76%) Retail
6 4 (7.84%) Corporate Banking
6 4 (7.84%) Investment Banking
6 4 (7.84%) Legal
7 2 (3.92%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.96%) German Language
8 1 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.96%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (31.37%) Analyst
2 6 (11.76%) Architect
2 6 (11.76%) IT Analyst
3 5 (9.80%) IT Support
3 5 (9.80%) IT Support Analyst
3 5 (9.80%) Service Analyst
3 5 (9.80%) Service Desk Analyst
3 5 (9.80%) Service Desk Support
3 5 (9.80%) Service Desk Support Analyst
3 5 (9.80%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (9.80%) Support Analyst
4 4 (7.84%) Administrator
4 4 (7.84%) Business Analyst
4 4 (7.84%) Developer
4 4 (7.84%) Lead
4 4 (7.84%) Senior
5 3 (5.88%) Data Analyst
5 3 (5.88%) Data Architect
5 3 (5.88%) Software Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Content Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.76%) REST
2 4 (7.84%) ISPF
2 4 (7.84%) Middleware
3 3 (5.88%) LangChain
3 3 (5.88%) LangGraph
3 3 (5.88%) Node.js
3 3 (5.88%) Terraform
4 2 (3.92%) A2A Protocol
4 2 (3.92%) Kafka
4 2 (3.92%) Model Context Protocol
4 2 (3.92%) Spring
4 2 (3.92%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.96%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.96%) Hibernate
5 1 (1.96%) Jest
5 1 (1.96%) JPA
5 1 (1.96%) JWT
5 1 (1.96%) Playwright
5 1 (1.96%) React
5 1 (1.96%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.69%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.76%) Mainframe
3 5 (9.80%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (7.84%) Clustering
5 3 (5.88%) CMDB
5 3 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (5.88%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.92%) Chip and PIN
6 2 (3.92%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.96%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.96%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.96%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.96%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.96%) IVR
7 1 (1.96%) Mobile Wallet
7 1 (1.96%) Online Banking
7 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.76%) Windows
2 5 (9.80%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (25.49%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (23.53%) Agile
3 11 (21.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (19.61%) CI/CD
5 9 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (17.65%) Microservices
5 9 (17.65%) Migration
6 8 (15.69%) AI
6 8 (15.69%) Analytics
6 8 (15.69%) Customer Experience
6 8 (15.69%) Customer Service
7 7 (13.73%) ITIL
7 7 (13.73%) Performance Optimisation
8 6 (11.76%) Decision-Making
8 6 (11.76%) Event-Driven
8 6 (11.76%) Integration Patterns
8 6 (11.76%) Risk Management
8 6 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (9.80%) Data Science
9 5 (9.80%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 12 (23.53%) Python
2 9 (17.65%) Java
3 4 (7.84%) SQL
4 1 (1.96%) ActionScript
4 1 (1.96%) Bash
4 1 (1.96%) DAML
4 1 (1.96%) Go
4 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.96%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (1.96%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (1.96%) CISA
1 1 (1.96%) CRISC
1 1 (1.96%) Degree
1 1 (1.96%) DV Cleared
1 1 (1.96%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
1 1 (1.96%) PgMP
1 1 (1.96%) PMI Certification
1 1 (1.96%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.96%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.73%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.96%) COBIT
2 1 (1.96%) GRC
2 1 (1.96%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.96%) ITGC
2 1 (1.96%) NIST
2 1 (1.96%) NIST 800
System Software
1 5 (9.80%) Active Directory
1 5 (9.80%) RACF
2 2 (3.92%) Docker
2 2 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (13.73%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.84%) OMEGAMON
3 3 (5.88%) Istio
4 1 (1.96%) Ansible
4 1 (1.96%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (13.73%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.80%) IBM
3 4 (7.84%) Google
3 4 (7.84%) ServiceNow
3 4 (7.84%) Splunk
4 2 (3.92%) Citrix
4 2 (3.92%) Dell
4 2 (3.92%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.92%) VMware
5 1 (1.96%) Adobe
5 1 (1.96%) Apple
5 1 (1.96%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.96%) Cisco
5 1 (1.96%) F5
5 1 (1.96%) Oracle
5 1 (1.96%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.96%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.96%) Remedy
5 1 (1.96%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.96%) SAP