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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 8 20
Rank change year-on-year -8 +12 +2
Contract jobs citing Banking 65 93 63
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 8.75% 14.74% 7.63%
As % of the General category 15.15% 18.86% 10.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 22 25
10th Percentile £400 £426 £463
25th Percentile £413 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £507 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.22% -15.58% +20.00%
75th Percentile £618 £580 £688
90th Percentile £653 £724 £750
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +4.76%

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 429 493 601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 57.74% 78.13% 72.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 268 347
10th Percentile £244 £211 £178
25th Percentile £406 £400 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -2.53% -
75th Percentile £556 £535 £567
90th Percentile £650 £602 £663
Scotland median daily rate £465 £460 £463
% change year-on-year +1.09% -0.54% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 12 34
10th Percentile £17.23 £18.79 £13.33
25th Percentile £50.00 £21.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £61.00 £23.77 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +156.65% -22.07% +43.46%
75th Percentile £72.00 £37.17 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £58.58 £67.23
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £20.46 £18.27
% change year-on-year -20.56% +11.96% -8.10%

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 24 May 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 2 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (3.08%) SAS
2 1 (1.54%) CICS
2 1 (1.54%) CMS
2 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.54%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 5 (7.69%) Adobe XD
1 5 (7.69%) InVision
1 5 (7.69%) Sketch
2 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.54%) SAP GRC
1 1 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (23.08%) AWS
2 10 (15.38%) Figma
3 7 (10.77%) Azure
3 7 (10.77%) Snowflake
4 5 (7.69%) GCP
5 3 (4.62%) ChatGPT
6 2 (3.08%) AWS KMS
6 2 (3.08%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (3.08%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.08%) SaaS
6 2 (3.08%) Vyond
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.54%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) DHCP
1 1 (1.54%) DNS
1 1 (1.54%) HTTP
1 1 (1.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.08%) Power BI
2 2 (3.08%) Tableau
3 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.54%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.54%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.54%) Metadata
3 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Axure RP
2 3 (4.62%) Git
2 3 (4.62%) GitLab
3 2 (3.08%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.54%) Gatling
4 1 (1.54%) JMeter
General
1 33 (50.77%) Finance
2 19 (29.23%) Retail Banking
3 12 (18.46%) Social Skills
4 11 (16.92%) Retail
5 10 (15.38%) Investment Banking
6 8 (12.31%) Corporate Banking
7 7 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (6.15%) Financial Institution
9 2 (3.08%) Games
9 2 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (3.08%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (23.08%) Developer
2 14 (21.54%) Analyst
3 9 (13.85%) Designer
4 8 (12.31%) Senior
5 7 (10.77%) Data Analyst
6 6 (9.23%) Pega Developer
7 5 (7.69%) UX Designer
8 4 (6.15%) Architect
8 4 (6.15%) Python Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.62%) Junior
9 3 (4.62%) Junior Analyst
9 3 (4.62%) Project Manager
9 3 (4.62%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) Systems Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) Visual Designer
10 2 (3.08%) Communications Analyst
10 2 (3.08%) Data Engineer
10 2 (3.08%) Sourcing Manager
10 2 (3.08%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.15%) FastAPI
1 4 (6.15%) Model Context Protocol
2 3 (4.62%) RESTful
3 2 (3.08%) Kafka
3 2 (3.08%) REST
4 1 (1.54%) A2A Protocol
4 1 (1.54%) J2EE
4 1 (1.54%) Node.js
4 1 (1.54%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.69%) Onboarding
1 5 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.15%) Digital Wallet
3 3 (4.62%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.62%) Clustering
3 3 (4.62%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.08%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.08%) Educational Technology
4 2 (3.08%) e-Learning
4 2 (3.08%) Learning Management System
4 2 (3.08%) Mainframe
4 2 (3.08%) PKI
4 2 (3.08%) SCORM
4 2 (3.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (3.08%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.54%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.54%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.54%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.08%) Linux
1 2 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (3.08%) Unix
2 1 (1.54%) Windows
2 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.54%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (21.54%) Agile
2 11 (16.92%) AI
3 10 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (15.38%) Use Case
3 10 (15.38%) Wealth Management
4 8 (12.31%) Interaction Design
4 8 (12.31%) Prototyping
5 7 (10.77%) Digital Banking
5 7 (10.77%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (10.77%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (9.23%) Decision-Making
6 6 (9.23%) Mentoring
6 6 (9.23%) Microservices
6 6 (9.23%) Migration
7 5 (7.69%) Analytics
7 5 (7.69%) High Availability
7 5 (7.69%) Infographics
7 5 (7.69%) Qualitative Research
7 5 (7.69%) Quantitative Research
7 5 (7.69%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (18.46%) Python
2 10 (15.38%) SQL
3 4 (6.15%) Bash
3 4 (6.15%) Java
3 4 (6.15%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.08%) Korn
4 2 (3.08%) PL/SQL
4 2 (3.08%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.54%) Groovy
5 1 (1.54%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 2 (3.08%) FFIEC
2 1 (1.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.85%) Accessibility
2 6 (9.23%) Data Quality
3 4 (6.15%) QA
4 2 (3.08%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.08%) WCAG
5 1 (1.54%) GRC
5 1 (1.54%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.54%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (3.08%) Firmware
2 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.54%) Docker
2 1 (1.54%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.54%) RACF
Systems Management
1 4 (6.15%) Kubernetes
1 4 (6.15%) Terraform
2 3 (4.62%) Ansible
3 2 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 10 (15.38%) Adobe
2 6 (9.23%) Pega
3 4 (6.15%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.15%) Oracle
4 2 (3.08%) Avaloq
4 2 (3.08%) IBM
4 2 (3.08%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.08%) Splunk
4 2 (3.08%) Synthesia
4 2 (3.08%) Thales
5 1 (1.54%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.54%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (1.54%) SAP