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 2 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 6 22
Rank change year-on-year -8 +16 +2
Contract jobs citing Banking 69 98 61
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 10.49% 16.01% 7.43%
As % of the General category 17.08% 20.90% 9.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 25 23
10th Percentile £401 £291 £470
25th Percentile £425 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -10.42% +20.00%
75th Percentile £647 £606 £655
90th Percentile £675 £723 £750
Scotland median daily rate £475 £479 £613
% change year-on-year -0.84% -21.80% +22.50%
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 404 469 618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 61.40% 76.63% 75.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 261 358
10th Percentile £166 £193 £177
25th Percentile £365 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £484
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.86% +1.79%
75th Percentile £540 £538 £575
90th Percentile £639 £631 £663
Scotland median daily rate £450 £460 £475
% change year-on-year -2.17% -3.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 19 34
10th Percentile £16.38 £20.51 £16.25
25th Percentile £45.13 £21.61 £16.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £24.18 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +106.78% -39.55% +88.15%
75th Percentile £75.00 £26.52 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £39.43 £67.75
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £24.09 £19.50
% change year-on-year -32.54% +23.54% +10.05%

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 2 April 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 3 (4.35%) Confluence
1 3 (4.35%) SAS
2 1 (1.45%) CICS
2 1 (1.45%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (7.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 5 (7.25%) Adobe XD
2 5 (7.25%) InVision
2 5 (7.25%) Sketch
3 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (21.74%) AWS
2 10 (14.49%) Figma
3 8 (11.59%) Azure
4 7 (10.14%) Snowflake
5 6 (8.70%) GCP
6 3 (4.35%) ChatGPT
6 3 (4.35%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.90%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.90%) AWS KMS
7 2 (2.90%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (2.90%) SaaS
7 2 (2.90%) Vyond
8 1 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.45%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.45%) Apigee
8 1 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.45%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (1.45%) Route 53
8 1 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.45%) DHCP
1 1 (1.45%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.35%) Power BI
2 3 (4.35%) Tableau
3 2 (2.90%) Metadata
4 1 (1.45%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.45%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.45%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.45%) MS Access
4 1 (1.45%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (7.25%) Axure RP
2 4 (5.80%) GitLab
3 3 (4.35%) JIRA
4 1 (1.45%) Git
4 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
General
1 35 (50.72%) Finance
2 23 (33.33%) Retail Banking
3 12 (17.39%) Social Skills
4 10 (14.49%) Retail
5 9 (13.04%) Investment Banking
6 7 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (10.14%) Corporate Banking
7 5 (7.25%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.90%) Games
8 2 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.90%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (23.19%) Analyst
2 13 (18.84%) Developer
3 9 (13.04%) Designer
3 9 (13.04%) Senior
4 8 (11.59%) Data Analyst
5 5 (7.25%) UX Designer
6 4 (5.80%) Pega Developer
6 4 (5.80%) Project Manager
6 4 (5.80%) Python Developer
7 3 (4.35%) Consultant
7 3 (4.35%) IT Analyst
7 3 (4.35%) IT Manager
7 3 (4.35%) Junior
7 3 (4.35%) Junior Analyst
7 3 (4.35%) Senior Manager
7 3 (4.35%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Visual Designer
8 2 (2.90%) Communications Analyst
8 2 (2.90%) Sourcing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.25%) FastAPI
2 4 (5.80%) Model Context Protocol
2 4 (5.80%) RESTful
3 2 (2.90%) Kafka
4 1 (1.45%) J2EE
4 1 (1.45%) JMS
4 1 (1.45%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.45%) Spring
4 1 (1.45%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.45%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.70%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.25%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.80%) Digital Wallet
4 3 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.35%) Clustering
4 3 (4.35%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.90%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.90%) Educational Technology
5 2 (2.90%) e-Learning
5 2 (2.90%) Learning Management System
5 2 (2.90%) PKI
5 2 (2.90%) SCORM
5 2 (2.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (2.90%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.45%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.45%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.45%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.90%) Linux
1 2 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (2.90%) Unix
2 1 (1.45%) Windows
2 1 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (27.54%) Agile
2 13 (18.84%) AI
3 12 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (14.49%) Wealth Management
5 9 (13.04%) Migration
6 8 (11.59%) Digital Banking
6 8 (11.59%) Interaction Design
6 8 (11.59%) Prototyping
7 7 (10.14%) Decision-Making
7 7 (10.14%) Project Management
8 6 (8.70%) Microservices
8 6 (8.70%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (8.70%) Use Case
9 5 (7.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (7.25%) High Availability
9 5 (7.25%) Qualitative Research
9 5 (7.25%) Quantitative Research
9 5 (7.25%) User Experience
9 5 (7.25%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 12 (17.39%) Python
1 12 (17.39%) SQL
2 5 (7.25%) Bash
3 4 (5.80%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.90%) Java
4 2 (2.90%) Korn
4 2 (2.90%) PL/SQL
4 2 (2.90%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.45%) Groovy
5 1 (1.45%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (2.90%) FFIEC
2 1 (1.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.04%) Accessibility
2 6 (8.70%) Data Quality
3 5 (7.25%) QA
4 3 (4.35%) PMO
5 2 (2.90%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.90%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (2.90%) Docker
1 2 (2.90%) Firmware
2 1 (1.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (5.80%) Kubernetes
1 4 (5.80%) Terraform
2 3 (4.35%) Ansible
3 2 (2.90%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.45%) Argo
4 1 (1.45%) Grafana
4 1 (1.45%) Karpenter
4 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 10 (14.49%) Adobe
2 5 (7.25%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.80%) Pega
3 4 (5.80%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.35%) Oracle
5 2 (2.90%) Avaloq
5 2 (2.90%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.90%) Synthesia
5 2 (2.90%) Thales
6 1 (1.45%) Google
6 1 (1.45%) IBM
6 1 (1.45%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (1.45%) Splunk
6 1 (1.45%) WorldPay