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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 7 22
Rank change year-on-year -4 +15 -6
Contract jobs citing Banking 74 93 66
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 12.01% 14.67% 7.57%
As % of the General category 19.02% 19.06% 9.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 24 25
10th Percentile £478 £269 £478
25th Percentile £500 £472 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £601 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.32% -4.35% +6.98%
75th Percentile £658 £611 £650
90th Percentile £681 £723 £750
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £616
% change year-on-year - -22.92% +17.38%
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 389 488 668
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 63.15% 76.97% 76.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 277 397
10th Percentile £150 £191 £224
25th Percentile £325 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £555 £538 £575
90th Percentile £663 £638 £653
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 18 29
10th Percentile £17.23 £21.00 £13.27
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.34 £17.72
Median hourly rate £50.00 £24.09 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.56% -59.85% +179.52%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.54 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £30.15 £70.00
Scotland median hourly rate £17.87 £24.00 £24.44
% change year-on-year -25.54% -1.78% +41.02%

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 25 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 6 (8.11%) Confluence
2 3 (4.05%) SAS
3 2 (2.70%) Apache
3 2 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.35%) CICS
4 1 (1.35%) CMS
4 1 (1.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (6.76%) Adobe XD
1 5 (6.76%) InVision
1 5 (6.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (6.76%) Sketch
2 4 (5.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (2.70%) Chatbot
4 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (29.73%) AWS
2 12 (16.22%) Azure
2 12 (16.22%) Figma
3 10 (13.51%) GCP
4 7 (9.46%) Snowflake
5 4 (5.41%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.05%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (4.05%) OCI
6 3 (4.05%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.70%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (2.70%) AWS KMS
7 2 (2.70%) SaaS
8 1 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.35%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (1.35%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.35%) Route 53
8 1 (1.35%) Vyond
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.05%) Firewall
2 1 (1.35%) DHCP
2 1 (1.35%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (4.05%) Power BI
1 3 (4.05%) Tableau
2 2 (2.70%) Data Mart
2 2 (2.70%) Metadata
3 1 (1.35%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.35%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.35%) MS Access
3 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (9.46%) JIRA
2 6 (8.11%) GitLab
3 5 (6.76%) Axure RP
4 3 (4.05%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.35%) Git
5 1 (1.35%) Liquibase
General
1 49 (66.22%) Finance
2 25 (33.78%) Retail Banking
3 18 (24.32%) Social Skills
4 10 (13.51%) Retail
5 8 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (10.81%) Investment Banking
6 7 (9.46%) Financial Institution
7 6 (8.11%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (4.05%) Legal
10 2 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.35%) Games
11 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (20.27%) Analyst
2 12 (16.22%) Designer
3 10 (13.51%) Senior
4 7 (9.46%) Developer
5 6 (8.11%) Data Analyst
5 6 (8.11%) Project Manager
6 5 (6.76%) Software Engineer
6 5 (6.76%) UX Designer
7 4 (5.41%) IT Manager
7 4 (5.41%) Python Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Visual Designer
8 3 (4.05%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (4.05%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (4.05%) Implementation Manager
8 3 (4.05%) Implementation Project Manager
8 3 (4.05%) Implementation Specialist
8 3 (4.05%) Project Implementation Manager
8 3 (4.05%) Senior Manager
8 3 (4.05%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 3 (4.05%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.11%) FastAPI
2 3 (4.05%) Model Context Protocol
2 3 (4.05%) PySpark
2 3 (4.05%) REST
3 2 (2.70%) React
3 2 (2.70%) RESTful
3 2 (2.70%) Spring
3 2 (2.70%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.35%) JMS
4 1 (1.35%) Kafka
4 1 (1.35%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.35%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.51%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.41%) Digital Wallet
2 4 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (5.41%) Mobile App
2 4 (5.41%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.05%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.05%) Clustering
3 3 (4.05%) PKI
3 3 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.70%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.35%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.35%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.35%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.35%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.35%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.41%) Windows
2 3 (4.05%) Linux
3 2 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.70%) Unix
4 1 (1.35%) Android
4 1 (1.35%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (39.19%) Agile
2 18 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (24.32%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (18.92%) Decision-Making
4 13 (17.57%) AI
4 13 (17.57%) Migration
5 12 (16.22%) CI/CD
6 9 (12.16%) Prototyping
6 9 (12.16%) User Experience
7 8 (10.81%) Digital Banking
7 8 (10.81%) Interaction Design
7 8 (10.81%) Software Engineering
8 7 (9.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (9.46%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (9.46%) Service Design
8 7 (9.46%) UX Design
8 7 (9.46%) Wealth Management
9 6 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (8.11%) ITIL
9 6 (8.11%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (24.32%) Python
2 7 (9.46%) SQL
3 6 (8.11%) TypeScript
4 5 (6.76%) Bash
5 4 (5.41%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.05%) Java
7 2 (2.70%) Korn
7 2 (2.70%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.35%) Go
8 1 (1.35%) Groovy
8 1 (1.35%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.35%) SAS Macro
8 1 (1.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (2.70%) Degree
1 2 (2.70%) FFIEC
2 1 (1.35%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.81%) Accessibility
1 8 (10.81%) Data Quality
2 7 (9.46%) QA
3 3 (4.05%) COBIT
3 3 (4.05%) PMO
4 2 (2.70%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.35%) COREP
5 1 (1.35%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.35%) IFRS
5 1 (1.35%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.35%) NCSC
5 1 (1.35%) NIST
5 1 (1.35%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (4.05%) Docker
2 2 (2.70%) Firmware
3 1 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (12.16%) Terraform
2 8 (10.81%) Ansible
3 5 (6.76%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.70%) Grafana
4 2 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.35%) Argo
5 1 (1.35%) Karpenter
5 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (1.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (12.16%) Adobe
2 4 (5.41%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.41%) Oracle
3 3 (4.05%) CheckPoint
3 3 (4.05%) Dell
3 3 (4.05%) Dynatrace
3 3 (4.05%) F5
3 3 (4.05%) HP
3 3 (4.05%) ServiceNow
3 3 (4.05%) Thales
4 2 (2.70%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.70%) Splunk
5 1 (1.35%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.35%) Google
5 1 (1.35%) IBM
5 1 (1.35%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (1.35%) Qualys
5 1 (1.35%) Synthesia
5 1 (1.35%) WorldPay