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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 9 17
Rank change year-on-year -16 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing Banking 56 92 69
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 7.04% 14.15% 8.03%
As % of the General category 11.94% 18.11% 11.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 24 24
10th Percentile £400 £427 £457
25th Percentile £413 £481 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -12.50% +20.48%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £664
90th Percentile £636 £723 £750
Scotland median daily rate £473 £485 £483
% change year-on-year -2.58% +0.52% -3.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £16.16 - -
25th Percentile £16.69 - -
Median hourly rate £17.57 - -
75th Percentile £18.45 - -
90th Percentile £18.98 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £19.33 £19.97 £12.30
% change year-on-year -3.20% +62.36% -70.56%

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 469 508 600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 58.99% 78.15% 69.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 257 326
10th Percentile £307 £204 £156
25th Percentile £406 £400 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -5.26%
75th Percentile £552 £531 £556
90th Percentile £650 £600 £659
Scotland median daily rate £465 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +0.54% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 11 33
10th Percentile £17.65 £16.55 £13.22
25th Percentile £50.00 £19.77 £16.25
Median hourly rate £61.00 £22.00 £18.27
Median % change year-on-year +177.27% +20.42% -14.06%
75th Percentile £75.00 £31.34 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £45.80 -
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £20.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -18.75% +11.11% -6.15%

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 June 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 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.79%) CICS
2 1 (1.79%) SAS
2 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.79%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (3.57%) Adobe XD
3 2 (3.57%) InVision
3 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.57%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.79%) SAP GRC
1 1 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (23.21%) AWS
2 7 (12.50%) GCP
3 5 (8.93%) Apigee
3 5 (8.93%) Figma
3 5 (8.93%) Snowflake
4 4 (7.14%) Azure
5 3 (5.36%) Azure AKS
5 3 (5.36%) ChatGPT
5 3 (5.36%) Cloud Run
5 3 (5.36%) Vertex AI
6 2 (3.57%) Vyond
7 1 (1.79%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.79%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.79%) AWS KMS
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.79%) Cloud Composer
7 1 (1.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.36%) SSL
2 1 (1.79%) HTTP
2 1 (1.79%) Network Security
2 1 (1.79%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.36%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.79%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.79%) DataStage
3 1 (1.79%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.79%) Looker
3 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Git
2 2 (3.57%) Axure RP
2 2 (3.57%) GitLab
3 1 (1.79%) Gatling
3 1 (1.79%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.79%) JMeter
3 1 (1.79%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.79%) Selenium
General
1 27 (48.21%) Finance
2 13 (23.21%) Retail Banking
2 13 (23.21%) Social Skills
3 11 (19.64%) Retail
4 10 (17.86%) Investment Banking
5 8 (14.29%) Corporate Banking
6 5 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (8.93%) Financial Institution
7 3 (5.36%) Legal
8 2 (3.57%) Games
8 2 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (3.57%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (26.79%) Developer
2 13 (23.21%) Analyst
3 6 (10.71%) Architect
3 6 (10.71%) Pega Developer
4 5 (8.93%) Data Analyst
4 5 (8.93%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (7.14%) Designer
5 4 (7.14%) Python Developer
5 4 (7.14%) Senior
6 3 (5.36%) Administrator
6 3 (5.36%) Data Architect
6 3 (5.36%) Project Manager
7 2 (3.57%) Business Analyst
7 2 (3.57%) Consultant
7 2 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Service Analyst
7 2 (3.57%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (3.57%) Technical Business Analyst
7 2 (3.57%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.93%) Model Context Protocol
2 4 (7.14%) FastAPI
2 4 (7.14%) REST
3 3 (5.36%) ISPF
3 3 (5.36%) LangChain
3 3 (5.36%) LangGraph
3 3 (5.36%) Middleware
3 3 (5.36%) RESTful
4 2 (3.57%) A2A Protocol
4 2 (3.57%) Kafka
4 2 (3.57%) Node.js
5 1 (1.79%) J2EE
5 1 (1.79%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (1.79%) SOAP
5 1 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.93%) Mainframe
3 3 (5.36%) Clustering
3 3 (5.36%) CMDB
3 3 (5.36%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.36%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.57%) Digital Wallet
4 2 (3.57%) Educational Technology
4 2 (3.57%) e-Learning
4 2 (3.57%) Learning Management System
4 2 (3.57%) SCORM
4 2 (3.57%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.79%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.79%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.79%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.79%) Online Banking
5 1 (1.79%) PKI
5 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.14%) zOS
2 1 (1.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (25.00%) Agile
1 14 (25.00%) AI
2 10 (17.86%) Use Case
2 10 (17.86%) Wealth Management
3 8 (14.29%) Microservices
4 7 (12.50%) Migration
4 7 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (10.71%) Decision-Making
5 6 (10.71%) Integration Patterns
5 6 (10.71%) ITIL
5 6 (10.71%) Mentoring
5 6 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (8.93%) Analytics
6 5 (8.93%) CI/CD
6 5 (8.93%) Data Science
6 5 (8.93%) Event-Driven
6 5 (8.93%) LLM
6 5 (8.93%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (8.93%) Prototyping
6 5 (8.93%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (19.64%) Python
2 7 (12.50%) SQL
3 6 (10.71%) Java
4 2 (3.57%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.79%) Bash
5 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.79%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 1 (1.79%) FFIEC
1 1 (1.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) Accessibility
1 5 (8.93%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.36%) QA
3 2 (3.57%) WCAG
4 1 (1.79%) GRC
4 1 (1.79%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.79%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (7.14%) RACF
2 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.36%) Istio
2 3 (5.36%) OMEGAMON
2 3 (5.36%) Terraform
3 1 (1.79%) Ansible
3 1 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (10.71%) Pega
2 5 (8.93%) Adobe
2 5 (8.93%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.14%) IBM
3 4 (7.14%) Oracle
4 3 (5.36%) Google
4 3 (5.36%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.57%) Avaloq
5 2 (3.57%) Splunk
5 2 (3.57%) Synthesia
6 1 (1.79%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.79%) SAP
6 1 (1.79%) Thales