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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 16 17
Rank change year-on-year +8 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Banking 96 70 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 15.02% 8.50% 10.10%
As % of the General category 19.75% 12.09% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 14 35
10th Percentile £451 £500 £417
25th Percentile £494 £516 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £499
Median % change year-on-year -10.68% +17.90% -8.53%
75th Percentile £550 £647 £550
90th Percentile £560 £747 £598
Scotland median daily rate £500 £495 £575
% change year-on-year +1.01% -13.91% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £17.72
Scotland median hourly rate £19.97 £18.23 £19.18
% change year-on-year +9.57% -4.98% -52.64%

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 common skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 486 579 794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 76.06% 70.27% 75.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 298 511
10th Percentile £263 £157 £205
25th Percentile £413 £320 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -1.76%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £538
90th Percentile £600 £619 £600
Scotland median daily rate £471 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.56% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 18 5
10th Percentile £17.08 £12.85 £14.08
25th Percentile - £13.98 -
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.20 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +2.71% -5.87%
75th Percentile £52.90 £23.92 £41.00
90th Percentile £60.75 £55.75 £48.62
Scotland median hourly rate £19.23 £17.46 £24.59
% change year-on-year +10.14% -29.00% +26.92%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Banking 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 18 September 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 and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (7.29%) Confluence
2 3 (3.13%) SAS
3 2 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.08%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.04%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.08%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.04%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 18 (18.75%) AWS
2 11 (11.46%) GCP
3 9 (9.38%) Azure
4 4 (4.17%) Serverless
5 3 (3.13%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.13%) Figma
5 3 (3.13%) OCI
5 3 (3.13%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.08%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (2.08%) AWS Control Tower
6 2 (2.08%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.04%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.04%) npm
7 1 (1.04%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.17%) Firewall
2 1 (1.04%) ATM
2 1 (1.04%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (1.04%) Network Security
2 1 (1.04%) SMS
2 1 (1.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.13%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.13%) Power BI
3 2 (2.08%) MySQL
3 2 (2.08%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.08%) SAS Data Integration Studio
3 2 (2.08%) Tableau
4 1 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.04%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.04%) Data Mart
4 1 (1.04%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.04%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.04%) MS Access
4 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (12.50%) JIRA
2 7 (7.29%) GitLab
3 6 (6.25%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.13%) Git
4 3 (3.13%) Liquibase
5 2 (2.08%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.08%) git-flow
5 2 (2.08%) Selenium
6 1 (1.04%) JUnit
6 1 (1.04%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.04%) webpack
6 1 (1.04%) Zephyr
General
1 68 (70.83%) Finance
2 32 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (32.29%) Social Skills
4 27 (28.13%) Documentation Skills
5 21 (21.88%) Retail Banking
6 8 (8.33%) Retail
7 7 (7.29%) Investment Banking
8 5 (5.21%) Corporate Banking
8 5 (5.21%) Legal
9 3 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.08%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (42.71%) Analyst
2 13 (13.54%) Fraud Analyst
3 8 (8.33%) Business Analyst
4 7 (7.29%) Data Analyst
4 7 (7.29%) Project Manager
4 7 (7.29%) Software Engineer
5 6 (6.25%) Senior
6 5 (5.21%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (5.21%) Developer
7 4 (4.17%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (3.13%) Architect
8 3 (3.13%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
8 3 (3.13%) Designer
8 3 (3.13%) Implementation Manager
8 3 (3.13%) Implementation Project Manager
8 3 (3.13%) Implementation Specialist
8 3 (3.13%) Lead
8 3 (3.13%) Project Implementation Manager
8 3 (3.13%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.25%) Spring Boot
2 5 (5.21%) REST
2 5 (5.21%) Spring
3 4 (4.17%) RESTful
4 3 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (3.13%) JSON
4 3 (3.13%) React
5 2 (2.08%) FastAPI
5 2 (2.08%) PySpark
6 1 (1.04%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.04%) CSS
6 1 (1.04%) HTML
6 1 (1.04%) Jest
6 1 (1.04%) Kafka
6 1 (1.04%) Playwright
6 1 (1.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.21%) Data Protection Act
1 5 (5.21%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (5.21%) Public Cloud
2 4 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.13%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.08%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.04%) CMDB
5 1 (1.04%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.04%) FMCG
5 1 (1.04%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.04%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.04%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.04%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.04%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.25%) Windows
2 5 (5.21%) Linux
3 2 (2.08%) Unix
4 1 (1.04%) Android
4 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.04%) HPUX
4 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.04%) Solaris
4 1 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (36.46%) Migration
2 33 (34.38%) Continuous Improvement
3 26 (27.08%) Agile
4 24 (25.00%) Due Diligence
5 23 (23.96%) Case Management
5 23 (23.96%) Digital Banking
5 23 (23.96%) Fintech
5 23 (23.96%) Regulatory Compliance
5 23 (23.96%) Scenario Testing
6 18 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (13.54%) DevOps
8 13 (13.54%) Fraud Detection
9 12 (12.50%) CI/CD
10 10 (10.42%) Anti-Money Laundering
10 10 (10.42%) Software Engineering
11 9 (9.38%) Decision-Making
12 7 (7.29%) Infrastructure as Code
12 7 (7.29%) Microservices
12 7 (7.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 12 (12.50%) Python
2 10 (10.42%) SQL
3 8 (8.33%) Java
4 3 (3.13%) Go
4 3 (3.13%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.08%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.04%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.04%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.04%) SAS Macro
6 1 (1.04%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (6.25%) Degree
2 4 (4.17%) AWS Certification
3 3 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (3.13%) CISSP
3 3 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.13%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.08%) CEH
4 2 (2.08%) GCIH
4 2 (2.08%) OSCP
5 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.04%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.04%) GCFA
5 1 (1.04%) MCP
5 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.04%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.04%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.25%) QA
2 3 (3.13%) COBIT
2 3 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.08%) PMO
4 1 (1.04%) COREP
4 1 (1.04%) IFRS
4 1 (1.04%) IFRS 9
4 1 (1.04%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (9.38%) Terraform
2 8 (8.33%) Ansible
3 4 (4.17%) Grafana
4 3 (3.13%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.13%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.04%) Podman
Vendors
1 14 (14.58%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.29%) Oracle
3 4 (4.17%) HP
4 3 (3.13%) CheckPoint
4 3 (3.13%) Cisco
4 3 (3.13%) Dell
4 3 (3.13%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.13%) F5
4 3 (3.13%) IBM
4 3 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.13%) Splunk
5 2 (2.08%) Google
5 2 (2.08%) StreamSets
6 1 (1.04%) Adobe
6 1 (1.04%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.04%) Informatica
6 1 (1.04%) Planview
6 1 (1.04%) Qualys
6 1 (1.04%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.04%) Unisys