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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 7 21
Rank change year-on-year -5 +14 -5
Contract jobs citing Banking 76 89 71
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 12.46% 14.66% 8.07%
As % of the General category 19.29% 19.22% 10.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 23 25
10th Percentile £461 £248 £463
25th Percentile £500 £469 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +2.22%
75th Percentile £652 £616 £638
90th Percentile £679 £724 £750
Scotland median daily rate £475 £494 £615
% change year-on-year -3.85% -19.67% +15.76%
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 394 463 668
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 64.59% 76.28% 75.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 258 394
10th Percentile £150 £190 £219
25th Percentile £344 £361 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £482
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -6.54% +1.37%
75th Percentile £555 £538 £575
90th Percentile £658 £633 £650
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £480
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 19 29
10th Percentile £16.90 £20.02 £13.27
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.02 £17.72
Median hourly rate £31.00 £24.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.17% -60.00% +220.00%
75th Percentile £78.12 £24.42 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £41.43 £70.00
Scotland median hourly rate £17.87 £24.00 £24.44
% change year-on-year -25.54% -1.78% +44.29%

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 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 (7.89%) Confluence
2 3 (3.95%) SAS
3 2 (2.63%) Apache
3 2 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.32%) CICS
4 1 (1.32%) CMS
4 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (6.58%) Adobe XD
1 5 (6.58%) InVision
1 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (6.58%) Sketch
2 3 (3.95%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (2.63%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 23 (30.26%) AWS
2 13 (17.11%) Azure
3 11 (14.47%) Figma
3 11 (14.47%) GCP
4 7 (9.21%) Snowflake
5 4 (5.26%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.95%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (3.95%) OCI
6 3 (3.95%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.63%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (2.63%) AWS KMS
7 2 (2.63%) SaaS
8 1 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.32%) Apigee
8 1 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.32%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (1.32%) Route 53
8 1 (1.32%) Serverless
8 1 (1.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.95%) Firewall
2 1 (1.32%) DHCP
2 1 (1.32%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.26%) Tableau
2 3 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.95%) Power BI
3 2 (2.63%) Data Mart
3 2 (2.63%) Metadata
3 2 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.32%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.32%) MS Access
4 1 (1.32%) MySQL
4 1 (1.32%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (9.21%) JIRA
2 6 (7.89%) GitLab
3 5 (6.58%) Axure RP
4 3 (3.95%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.63%) Git
6 1 (1.32%) git-flow
6 1 (1.32%) Liquibase
General
1 49 (64.47%) Finance
2 27 (35.53%) Retail Banking
3 18 (23.68%) Social Skills
4 10 (13.16%) Retail
5 9 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (9.21%) Investment Banking
7 6 (7.89%) Corporate Banking
7 6 (7.89%) Financial Institution
8 4 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (3.95%) Legal
10 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (22.37%) Analyst
2 12 (15.79%) Designer
3 11 (14.47%) Senior
4 7 (9.21%) Data Analyst
4 7 (9.21%) Developer
5 6 (7.89%) Project Manager
6 5 (6.58%) Software Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) UX Designer
7 4 (5.26%) Business Analyst
7 4 (5.26%) IT Manager
7 4 (5.26%) Python Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Senior Manager
7 4 (5.26%) Visual Designer
8 3 (3.95%) Architect
8 3 (3.95%) Implementation Manager
8 3 (3.95%) Implementation Project Manager
8 3 (3.95%) Implementation Specialist
8 3 (3.95%) Junior
8 3 (3.95%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.89%) FastAPI
2 3 (3.95%) Model Context Protocol
2 3 (3.95%) PySpark
2 3 (3.95%) React
2 3 (3.95%) REST
2 3 (3.95%) Spring
2 3 (3.95%) Spring Boot
3 2 (2.63%) RESTful
4 1 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.32%) JMS
4 1 (1.32%) Kafka
4 1 (1.32%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.32%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.84%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (5.26%) Digital Wallet
2 4 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (5.26%) Mobile App
2 4 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.95%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.95%) Clustering
3 3 (3.95%) PKI
3 3 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.63%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.32%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.32%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.26%) Windows
2 3 (3.95%) Linux
3 2 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.63%) Unix
4 1 (1.32%) Android
4 1 (1.32%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (38.16%) Agile
2 18 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (23.68%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (19.74%) Migration
4 14 (18.42%) Decision-Making
5 13 (17.11%) CI/CD
6 12 (15.79%) AI
7 9 (11.84%) Prototyping
7 9 (11.84%) Software Engineering
7 9 (11.84%) User Experience
8 8 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (10.53%) Digital Banking
8 8 (10.53%) Interaction Design
8 8 (10.53%) Wealth Management
9 7 (9.21%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (9.21%) Project Management
9 7 (9.21%) Service Design
9 7 (9.21%) UX Design
10 6 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (7.89%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 19 (25.00%) Python
2 9 (11.84%) SQL
3 6 (7.89%) TypeScript
4 5 (6.58%) Bash
5 4 (5.26%) Java
5 4 (5.26%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.63%) Korn
6 2 (2.63%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.32%) Go
7 1 (1.32%) Groovy
7 1 (1.32%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.32%) SAS Macro
7 1 (1.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (2.63%) Degree
1 2 (2.63%) FFIEC
2 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.53%) Data Quality
1 8 (10.53%) QA
2 7 (9.21%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.95%) COBIT
3 3 (3.95%) PMO
4 2 (2.63%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.32%) COREP
5 1 (1.32%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.32%) IFRS
5 1 (1.32%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.32%) NCSC
5 1 (1.32%) NIST
5 1 (1.32%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (3.95%) Docker
2 2 (2.63%) Firmware
3 1 (1.32%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.32%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (11.84%) Terraform
2 8 (10.53%) Ansible
3 5 (6.58%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.63%) Grafana
4 2 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.32%) Argo
5 1 (1.32%) Karpenter
5 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (1.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (10.53%) Adobe
2 4 (5.26%) Oracle
3 3 (3.95%) CheckPoint
3 3 (3.95%) Dell
3 3 (3.95%) Dynatrace
3 3 (3.95%) F5
3 3 (3.95%) HP
3 3 (3.95%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.95%) Thales
4 2 (2.63%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.63%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.63%) Splunk
5 1 (1.32%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.32%) Google
5 1 (1.32%) IBM
5 1 (1.32%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (1.32%) Qualys
5 1 (1.32%) WorldPay