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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 8 19
Rank change year-on-year 0 +11 -5
Contract jobs citing Banking 96 81 86
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 15.53% 11.54% 8.82%
As % of the General category 20.78% 16.36% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 17 26
10th Percentile £456 £430 £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 £638 £575
90th Percentile £675 £683 £638
Scotland median daily rate £500 £500 £618
% change year-on-year - -19.03% +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 462 495 735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 74.76% 70.51% 75.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 248 459
10th Percentile £191 £179 £169
25th Percentile £400 £363 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.78% -5.26% -0.84%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £600 £621 £615
Scotland median daily rate £455 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +1.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 11
10th Percentile £16.07 £14.18 £13.28
25th Percentile - £18.82 £17.72
Median hourly rate £17.87 £24.18 £22.87
Median % change year-on-year -26.10% +5.73% +21.01%
75th Percentile £31.50 - £56.85
90th Percentile £66.75 £26.70 £61.50
Scotland median hourly rate £19.60 £19.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year +0.05% +0.46% +10.73%

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 21 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 (7.29%) Confluence
2 3 (3.13%) SAS
3 2 (2.08%) Apache
3 2 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.04%) CICS
4 1 (1.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.08%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 22 (22.92%) AWS
2 14 (14.58%) GCP
3 12 (12.50%) Azure
4 4 (4.17%) OCI
4 4 (4.17%) Snowflake
5 3 (3.13%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.13%) Figma
5 3 (3.13%) Serverless
6 2 (2.08%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (2.08%) AWS Control Tower
6 2 (2.08%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.04%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (1.04%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.04%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.04%) npm
7 1 (1.04%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.21%) Firewall
2 1 (1.04%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (1.04%) Network Security
2 1 (1.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.13%) NoSQL
1 3 (3.13%) Tableau
2 2 (2.08%) Data Mart
2 2 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.08%) MS Access
2 2 (2.08%) MySQL
2 2 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.08%) Power BI
2 2 (2.08%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.04%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.04%) Metadata
3 1 (1.04%) SAS Data Integration Studio
3 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (10.42%) JIRA
2 7 (7.29%) GitLab
3 5 (5.21%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.13%) Git
4 3 (3.13%) Liquibase
5 2 (2.08%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.08%) git-flow
6 1 (1.04%) JUnit
6 1 (1.04%) Selenium
6 1 (1.04%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.04%) webpack
General
1 70 (72.92%) Finance
2 29 (30.21%) Documentation Skills
3 28 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (25.00%) Retail Banking
5 23 (23.96%) Social Skills
6 9 (9.38%) Retail
7 7 (7.29%) Investment Banking
8 6 (6.25%) Legal
9 4 (4.17%) Corporate Banking
9 4 (4.17%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (40.63%) Analyst
2 13 (13.54%) Fraud Analyst
3 9 (9.38%) Software Engineer
4 7 (7.29%) Data Analyst
4 7 (7.29%) Developer
4 7 (7.29%) Project Manager
4 7 (7.29%) Senior
5 5 (5.21%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (5.21%) Business Analyst
5 5 (5.21%) Python Engineer
6 4 (4.17%) Consultant
6 4 (4.17%) Designer
6 4 (4.17%) Implementation Manager
6 4 (4.17%) Implementation Project Manager
6 4 (4.17%) Implementation Specialist
6 4 (4.17%) Lead
6 4 (4.17%) Project Implementation Manager
7 3 (3.13%) Architect
7 3 (3.13%) Data Engineer
7 3 (3.13%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.29%) Spring Boot
2 6 (6.25%) REST
2 6 (6.25%) Spring
3 5 (5.21%) FastAPI
3 5 (5.21%) RESTful
4 4 (4.17%) React
5 3 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (3.13%) JSON
5 3 (3.13%) PySpark
6 1 (1.04%) CSS
6 1 (1.04%) HTML
6 1 (1.04%) Jest
6 1 (1.04%) JMS
6 1 (1.04%) Kafka
6 1 (1.04%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.04%) Playwright
6 1 (1.04%) Swagger
6 1 (1.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.21%) Cloud Native
1 5 (5.21%) Data Protection Act
1 5 (5.21%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (4.17%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.04%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.04%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.04%) PKI
5 1 (1.04%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.04%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.21%) Windows
2 4 (4.17%) Linux
3 1 (1.04%) Android
3 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.04%) Unix
3 1 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (38.54%) Migration
2 32 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 31 (32.29%) Agile
4 24 (25.00%) Digital Banking
4 24 (25.00%) Due Diligence
5 23 (23.96%) Case Management
5 23 (23.96%) Fintech
5 23 (23.96%) Regulatory Compliance
5 23 (23.96%) Scenario Testing
6 17 (17.71%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (16.67%) CI/CD
8 15 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (14.58%) Decision-Making
10 13 (13.54%) Fraud Detection
10 13 (13.54%) Software Engineering
11 11 (11.46%) AI
11 11 (11.46%) DevOps
12 10 (10.42%) Anti-Money Laundering
13 8 (8.33%) Microservices
14 7 (7.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 18 (18.75%) Python
2 10 (10.42%) Java
3 9 (9.38%) SQL
4 7 (7.29%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.13%) Go
6 2 (2.08%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.08%) VBA
7 1 (1.04%) Bash
7 1 (1.04%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 5 (5.21%) Degree
2 4 (4.17%) AWS Certification
3 3 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.13%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.13%) MCP
4 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.04%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.04%) CISSP
4 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.29%) QA
2 5 (5.21%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.17%) COBIT
4 3 (3.13%) PMO
5 1 (1.04%) COREP
5 1 (1.04%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.04%) IFRS
5 1 (1.04%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.04%) NCSC
5 1 (1.04%) NIST
5 1 (1.04%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (2.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (10.42%) Terraform
2 9 (9.38%) Ansible
3 4 (4.17%) Grafana
3 4 (4.17%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.13%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.04%) Argo
5 1 (1.04%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 9 (9.38%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.25%) Oracle
3 4 (4.17%) CheckPoint
3 4 (4.17%) Dell
3 4 (4.17%) Dynatrace
3 4 (4.17%) F5
3 4 (4.17%) HP
3 4 (4.17%) Splunk
4 3 (3.13%) Google
5 2 (2.08%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.04%) Cisco
6 1 (1.04%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.04%) Planview
6 1 (1.04%) Qualys
6 1 (1.04%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.04%) Thales
6 1 (1.04%) Workday
6 1 (1.04%) WorldPay