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 7 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 13 22
Rank change year-on-year +6 +9 -8
Contract jobs citing Banking 101 74 88
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 16.24% 9.99% 8.87%
As % of the General category 21.58% 14.23% 11.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 13 26
10th Percentile £456 £449 £418
25th Percentile £500 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £503
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +9.34% -4.19%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £575
90th Percentile £673 £638 £638
Scotland median daily rate £500 £475 £618
% change year-on-year +5.26% -23.08% +23.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £24.18 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - +36.46% -
Scotland median hourly rate £19.97 £24.18 £19.18
% change year-on-year -17.41% +26.07% -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 468 520 739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 75.24% 70.18% 74.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 264 459
10th Percentile £213 £163 £170
25th Percentile £406 £340 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £550
90th Percentile £600 £598 £613
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 10
10th Percentile £15.94 £13.38 £13.12
25th Percentile - £16.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £17.87 £24.18 £20.30
Median % change year-on-year -26.10% +19.14% +7.38%
75th Percentile £30.38 - £49.03
90th Percentile £60.63 £44.17 £61.60
Scotland median hourly rate £19.05 £19.30 £21.19
% change year-on-year -1.27% -8.92% +16.98%

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 7 November 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 (6.93%) Confluence
2 4 (3.96%) SAS
3 2 (1.98%) Apache
3 2 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.99%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.99%) CICS
4 1 (0.99%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.98%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 24 (23.76%) AWS
2 14 (13.86%) GCP
3 12 (11.88%) Azure
4 5 (4.95%) Snowflake
5 4 (3.96%) Amazon S3
5 4 (3.96%) OCI
6 3 (2.97%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (2.97%) Figma
6 3 (2.97%) Serverless
7 2 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.98%) AWS Control Tower
7 2 (1.98%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.99%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.99%) Apigee
8 1 (0.99%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.99%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.99%) Route 53
8 1 (0.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.95%) Firewall
2 1 (0.99%) ATM
2 1 (0.99%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (0.99%) Network Security
2 1 (0.99%) SMS
2 1 (0.99%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.97%) NoSQL
1 3 (2.97%) Tableau
2 2 (1.98%) Data Mart
2 2 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.98%) MS Access
2 2 (1.98%) MySQL
2 2 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.98%) Power BI
2 2 (1.98%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.98%) SAS Data Integration Studio
3 1 (0.99%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (0.99%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.99%) Metadata
3 1 (0.99%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.99%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (10.89%) JIRA
2 8 (7.92%) GitLab
3 6 (5.94%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.97%) Git
4 3 (2.97%) Liquibase
5 2 (1.98%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.98%) git-flow
6 1 (0.99%) JUnit
6 1 (0.99%) Selenium
6 1 (0.99%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.99%) webpack
General
1 72 (71.29%) Finance
2 29 (28.71%) Analytical Skills
2 29 (28.71%) Documentation Skills
3 26 (25.74%) Retail Banking
3 26 (25.74%) Social Skills
4 10 (9.90%) Retail
5 8 (7.92%) Investment Banking
6 6 (5.94%) Legal
7 5 (4.95%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (3.96%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (39.60%) Analyst
2 13 (12.87%) Fraud Analyst
3 9 (8.91%) Software Engineer
4 7 (6.93%) Business Analyst
4 7 (6.93%) Data Analyst
4 7 (6.93%) Developer
4 7 (6.93%) Project Manager
4 7 (6.93%) Senior
5 6 (5.94%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (4.95%) Python Engineer
7 4 (3.96%) Consultant
7 4 (3.96%) Data Engineer
7 4 (3.96%) Designer
7 4 (3.96%) Implementation Manager
7 4 (3.96%) Implementation Project Manager
7 4 (3.96%) Implementation Specialist
7 4 (3.96%) Lead
7 4 (3.96%) Project Implementation Manager
8 3 (2.97%) Architect
8 3 (2.97%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.93%) Spring Boot
2 6 (5.94%) REST
2 6 (5.94%) Spring
3 5 (4.95%) FastAPI
3 5 (4.95%) RESTful
4 4 (3.96%) React
5 3 (2.97%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (2.97%) JSON
5 3 (2.97%) PySpark
6 2 (1.98%) Kafka
7 1 (0.99%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.99%) CSS
7 1 (0.99%) HTML
7 1 (0.99%) Jest
7 1 (0.99%) JMS
7 1 (0.99%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.99%) Playwright
7 1 (0.99%) Swagger
7 1 (0.99%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.95%) Cloud Native
1 5 (4.95%) Data Protection Act
1 5 (4.95%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (3.96%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (3.96%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.97%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.99%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.99%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.99%) PKI
5 1 (0.99%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.99%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (0.99%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.95%) Windows
2 4 (3.96%) Linux
3 1 (0.99%) Android
3 1 (0.99%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.99%) Unix
3 1 (0.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (36.63%) Migration
2 34 (33.66%) Agile
3 32 (31.68%) Continuous Improvement
4 24 (23.76%) Digital Banking
4 24 (23.76%) Due Diligence
5 23 (22.77%) Case Management
5 23 (22.77%) Fintech
5 23 (22.77%) Regulatory Compliance
5 23 (22.77%) Scenario Testing
6 19 (18.81%) Stakeholder Management
7 17 (16.83%) CI/CD
8 16 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (13.86%) Decision-Making
10 13 (12.87%) Fraud Detection
10 13 (12.87%) Software Engineering
11 12 (11.88%) DevOps
12 11 (10.89%) AI
13 10 (9.90%) Anti-Money Laundering
14 8 (7.92%) Infrastructure as Code
14 8 (7.92%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 19 (18.81%) Python
2 10 (9.90%) Java
3 9 (8.91%) SQL
4 7 (6.93%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.97%) Go
6 2 (1.98%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.98%) VBA
7 1 (0.99%) Bash
7 1 (0.99%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 5 (4.95%) Degree
2 4 (3.96%) AWS Certification
3 3 (2.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.97%) Master's Degree
3 3 (2.97%) MCP
4 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.99%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.99%) CISSP
4 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.93%) QA
2 5 (4.95%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.96%) COBIT
4 3 (2.97%) PMO
5 1 (0.99%) COREP
5 1 (0.99%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.99%) IFRS
5 1 (0.99%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.99%) NCSC
5 1 (0.99%) NIST
5 1 (0.99%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (2.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (10.89%) Terraform
2 9 (8.91%) Ansible
3 4 (3.96%) Grafana
3 4 (3.96%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.97%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.99%) Argo
5 1 (0.99%) Karpenter
5 1 (0.99%) Podman
Vendors
1 10 (9.90%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.94%) Oracle
3 4 (3.96%) CheckPoint
3 4 (3.96%) Dell
3 4 (3.96%) Dynatrace
3 4 (3.96%) F5
3 4 (3.96%) HP
3 4 (3.96%) Splunk
4 3 (2.97%) Google
5 2 (1.98%) Cisco
5 2 (1.98%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.98%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.99%) Adobe
6 1 (0.99%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.99%) IBM
6 1 (0.99%) Planview
6 1 (0.99%) Qualys
6 1 (0.99%) Thales
6 1 (0.99%) Workday
6 1 (0.99%) WorldPay