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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 9 24
Rank change year-on-year -7 +15 -1
Contract jobs citing Banking 63 90 62
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 8.24% 14.11% 7.21%
As % of the General category 14.19% 18.07% 9.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 21 24
10th Percentile £400 £425 £457
25th Percentile £413 £463 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £588
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -12.77% +17.68%
75th Percentile £618 £588 £703
90th Percentile £653 £725 £750
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £544
% change year-on-year - -12.72% +8.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £19.33 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £27.17 £19.97 £12.30
% change year-on-year +36.03% +62.36% -81.52%

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 444 498 622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 58.04% 78.06% 72.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 269 352
10th Percentile £250 £211 £162
25th Percentile £406 £400 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.06% -1.05% -
75th Percentile £556 £538 £558
90th Percentile £650 £613 £663
Scotland median daily rate £470 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +1.51% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 12 36
10th Percentile £17.65 £18.79 £13.38
25th Percentile £50.00 £21.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £61.00 £23.77 £25.09
Median % change year-on-year +156.65% -5.27% +18.02%
75th Percentile £75.00 £37.17 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £58.58 £65.38
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £19.97 £18.00
% change year-on-year -18.63% +10.94% -9.46%

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 31 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 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (3.17%) SAS
2 1 (1.59%) CICS
2 1 (1.59%) CMS
2 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.59%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (7.94%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 5 (7.94%) Adobe XD
1 5 (7.94%) InVision
1 5 (7.94%) Sketch
2 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.59%) SAP GRC
1 1 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (20.63%) AWS
2 10 (15.87%) Figma
3 6 (9.52%) Azure
3 6 (9.52%) Snowflake
4 5 (7.94%) GCP
5 3 (4.76%) ChatGPT
6 2 (3.17%) Apigee
6 2 (3.17%) AWS KMS
6 2 (3.17%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (3.17%) Vyond
7 1 (1.59%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.59%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.59%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.59%) Cloud Run
7 1 (1.59%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.59%) SaaS
7 1 (1.59%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.59%) DHCP
1 1 (1.59%) DNS
1 1 (1.59%) HTTP
1 1 (1.59%) SSL
1 1 (1.59%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.17%) Tableau
3 1 (1.59%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.59%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.59%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.59%) Power BI
3 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (7.94%) Axure RP
2 3 (4.76%) Git
2 3 (4.76%) GitLab
3 1 (1.59%) Gatling
3 1 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.59%) JMeter
General
1 33 (52.38%) Finance
2 15 (23.81%) Retail Banking
3 13 (20.63%) Social Skills
4 11 (17.46%) Retail
5 10 (15.87%) Investment Banking
6 8 (12.70%) Corporate Banking
7 6 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (7.94%) Financial Institution
9 2 (3.17%) Games
9 2 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (3.17%) Private Banking
10 1 (1.59%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (23.81%) Developer
2 13 (20.63%) Analyst
3 9 (14.29%) Designer
4 6 (9.52%) Data Analyst
4 6 (9.52%) Pega Developer
5 5 (7.94%) Architect
5 5 (7.94%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (7.94%) UX Designer
6 4 (6.35%) Python Developer
6 4 (6.35%) Senior
7 3 (4.76%) Administrator
7 3 (4.76%) Business Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.76%) Visual Designer
8 2 (3.17%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Cloud Technical Analyst
8 2 (3.17%) Communications Analyst
8 2 (3.17%) Data Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Digital Developer
8 2 (3.17%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.35%) FastAPI
1 4 (6.35%) Model Context Protocol
2 3 (4.76%) RESTful
3 2 (3.17%) Kafka
3 2 (3.17%) REST
4 1 (1.59%) A2A Protocol
4 1 (1.59%) ISPF
4 1 (1.59%) J2EE
4 1 (1.59%) LangChain
4 1 (1.59%) LangGraph
4 1 (1.59%) Middleware
4 1 (1.59%) Node.js
4 1 (1.59%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.94%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.35%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.35%) Clustering
2 4 (6.35%) Digital Wallet
3 3 (4.76%) Mainframe
3 3 (4.76%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.17%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.17%) CMDB
4 2 (3.17%) Educational Technology
4 2 (3.17%) e-Learning
4 2 (3.17%) Learning Management System
4 2 (3.17%) PKI
4 2 (3.17%) SCORM
4 2 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (3.17%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.59%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.17%) Linux
1 2 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (3.17%) Unix
1 2 (3.17%) zOS
2 1 (1.59%) Windows
2 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (22.22%) Agile
2 12 (19.05%) AI
3 11 (17.46%) Use Case
4 10 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (15.87%) Wealth Management
5 9 (14.29%) Prototyping
6 8 (12.70%) Interaction Design
7 7 (11.11%) Digital Banking
7 7 (11.11%) Microservices
7 7 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (9.52%) Decision-Making
8 6 (9.52%) ITIL
8 6 (9.52%) Mentoring
8 6 (9.52%) Migration
9 5 (7.94%) Analytics
9 5 (7.94%) Infographics
9 5 (7.94%) Qualitative Research
9 5 (7.94%) Quantitative Research
9 5 (7.94%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (17.46%) Python
2 9 (14.29%) SQL
3 4 (6.35%) Bash
3 4 (6.35%) Java
4 3 (4.76%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.17%) Korn
5 2 (3.17%) PL/SQL
5 2 (3.17%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.59%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 2 (3.17%) FFIEC
2 1 (1.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 5 (7.94%) Data Quality
3 4 (6.35%) QA
4 2 (3.17%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.17%) WCAG
5 1 (1.59%) GRC
5 1 (1.59%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 2 (3.17%) Firmware
1 2 (3.17%) RACF
2 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.59%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (6.35%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.76%) Terraform
3 2 (3.17%) Ansible
3 2 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.59%) Istio
4 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (1.59%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 10 (15.87%) Adobe
2 6 (9.52%) Pega
3 5 (7.94%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.35%) Oracle
5 2 (3.17%) Avaloq
5 2 (3.17%) IBM
5 2 (3.17%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.17%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.17%) Splunk
5 2 (3.17%) Synthesia
5 2 (3.17%) Thales
6 1 (1.59%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.59%) Google
6 1 (1.59%) SAP