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 28 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 9 21
Rank change year-on-year +3 +12 -8
Contract jobs citing Banking 100 80 74
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 17.21% 12.80% 8.10%
As % of the General category 23.87% 17.17% 10.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 19 23
10th Percentile £456 £434 £453
25th Percentile £500 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £603 £606
90th Percentile £675 £628 £638
Scotland median daily rate £500 £500 £625
% change year-on-year - -20.00% +19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £24.18 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £24.18 £19.18
% change year-on-year - +26.07% -

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 419 466 694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 72.12% 74.56% 75.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 250 426
10th Percentile £170 £192 £171
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.33% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £559
90th Percentile £605 £631 £633
Scotland median daily rate £461 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +2.50% -7.69% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 17 14
10th Percentile £16.47 £14.45 £14.17
25th Percentile - £21.05 £19.01
Median hourly rate £17.87 £24.00 £49.35
Median % change year-on-year -25.54% -51.37% +170.63%
75th Percentile £31.50 £24.18 £62.25
90th Percentile £66.75 £45.03 £70.00
Scotland median hourly rate £17.87 £23.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -22.30% +17.95% +15.15%

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 28 December 2025.

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 (7.00%) Confluence
2 3 (3.00%) SAS
3 2 (2.00%) Apache
3 2 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.00%) CICS
4 1 (1.00%) CMS
4 1 (1.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (7.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.00%) Adobe XD
2 3 (3.00%) InVision
2 3 (3.00%) Sketch
3 2 (2.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (2.00%) Chatbot
4 1 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 28 (28.00%) AWS
2 15 (15.00%) Azure
3 14 (14.00%) GCP
4 8 (8.00%) Figma
5 6 (6.00%) Snowflake
6 4 (4.00%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.00%) OCI
6 4 (4.00%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.00%) Serverless
8 2 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.00%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (2.00%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (2.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (2.00%) SaaS
9 1 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.00%) AWS KMS
9 1 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.00%) Route 53
9 1 (1.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.00%) Firewall
2 1 (1.00%) DHCP
2 1 (1.00%) DNS
2 1 (1.00%) Network Security
2 1 (1.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.00%) Power BI
1 4 (4.00%) Tableau
2 3 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.00%) Data Mart
3 2 (2.00%) Metadata
3 2 (2.00%) MS Access
3 2 (2.00%) MySQL
3 2 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.00%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (10.00%) JIRA
2 8 (8.00%) GitLab
3 6 (6.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.00%) Axure RP
4 3 (3.00%) Liquibase
5 2 (2.00%) Git
5 2 (2.00%) git-flow
General
1 71 (71.00%) Finance
2 29 (29.00%) Retail Banking
3 22 (22.00%) Social Skills
4 21 (21.00%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (9.00%) Retail
7 6 (6.00%) Investment Banking
8 5 (5.00%) Financial Institution
8 5 (5.00%) Legal
9 4 (4.00%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (34.00%) Analyst
2 12 (12.00%) Senior
3 10 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 9 (9.00%) Designer
5 8 (8.00%) Fraud Analyst
5 8 (8.00%) Project Manager
5 8 (8.00%) Software Engineer
6 7 (7.00%) Developer
7 5 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (5.00%) Business Analyst
7 5 (5.00%) Python Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Architect
8 4 (4.00%) Consultant
8 4 (4.00%) Implementation Manager
8 4 (4.00%) Implementation Project Manager
8 4 (4.00%) Implementation Specialist
8 4 (4.00%) Project Implementation Manager
9 3 (3.00%) IT Manager
9 3 (3.00%) Java Developer
9 3 (3.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.00%) FastAPI
1 5 (5.00%) REST
1 5 (5.00%) Spring
1 5 (5.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (4.00%) RESTful
3 3 (3.00%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (3.00%) JSON
3 3 (3.00%) PySpark
3 3 (3.00%) React
4 1 (1.00%) JMS
4 1 (1.00%) Kafka
4 1 (1.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.00%) Clustering
4 3 (3.00%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.00%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.00%) Digital Wallet
5 2 (2.00%) PKI
6 1 (1.00%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.00%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.00%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.00%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.00%) Linux
1 6 (6.00%) Windows
2 3 (3.00%) Unix
3 2 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.00%) Android
4 1 (1.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (32.00%) Agile
1 32 (32.00%) Migration
2 23 (23.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 20 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (19.00%) Digital Banking
4 19 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (16.00%) CI/CD
6 15 (15.00%) Decision-Making
6 15 (15.00%) Fintech
7 14 (14.00%) Case Management
7 14 (14.00%) Due Diligence
7 14 (14.00%) Regulatory Compliance
7 14 (14.00%) Scenario Testing
8 12 (12.00%) AI
8 12 (12.00%) Software Engineering
9 9 (9.00%) DevOps
10 8 (8.00%) Fraud Detection
10 8 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (8.00%) Microservices
10 8 (8.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 20 (20.00%) Python
2 12 (12.00%) SQL
3 8 (8.00%) Java
4 6 (6.00%) TypeScript
5 4 (4.00%) Bash
6 3 (3.00%) Go
6 3 (3.00%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.00%) Korn
7 2 (2.00%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.00%) VBA
8 1 (1.00%) Groovy
8 1 (1.00%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.00%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 5 (5.00%) Degree
2 4 (4.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (3.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.00%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.00%) MCP
4 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.00%) CISSP
4 1 (1.00%) FFIEC
4 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.00%) Data Quality
1 8 (8.00%) QA
2 4 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.00%) COBIT
2 4 (4.00%) PMO
3 1 (1.00%) COREP
3 1 (1.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.00%) IFRS
3 1 (1.00%) IFRS 9
3 1 (1.00%) NCSC
3 1 (1.00%) NIST
3 1 (1.00%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (3.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.00%) Firmware
2 1 (1.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (12.00%) Terraform
2 11 (11.00%) Ansible
3 6 (6.00%) Kubernetes
4 4 (4.00%) Grafana
5 3 (3.00%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.00%) Argo
6 1 (1.00%) Karpenter
6 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (7.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.00%) Oracle
3 5 (5.00%) Adobe
4 4 (4.00%) CheckPoint
4 4 (4.00%) Dell
4 4 (4.00%) Dynatrace
4 4 (4.00%) F5
4 4 (4.00%) HP
4 4 (4.00%) Splunk
5 3 (3.00%) Google
6 2 (2.00%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.00%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.00%) Thales
7 1 (1.00%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.00%) IBM
7 1 (1.00%) IBM Sterling
7 1 (1.00%) Planview
7 1 (1.00%) Qualys
7 1 (1.00%) Workday
7 1 (1.00%) WorldPay