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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 8 18
Rank change year-on-year -16 +10 -1
Contract jobs citing Banking 54 95 69
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 7.63% 14.94% 8.35%
As % of the General category 11.84% 19.83% 11.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 39 14
10th Percentile £385 £451 £500
25th Percentile £456 £494 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £588
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -10.68% +17.90%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £647
90th Percentile £635 £560 £747
Scotland median daily rate £465 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -7.00% +1.01% -13.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £15.81 - -
75th Percentile £19.33 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 £19.97 £18.23
% change year-on-year -20.83% +9.57% -4.98%

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 456 479 582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 64.41% 75.31% 70.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 232 302
10th Percentile £217 £263 £158
25th Percentile £383 £413 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £555 £538 £538
90th Percentile £650 £600 £618
Scotland median daily rate £465 £473 £450
% change year-on-year -1.59% +5.00% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 16 18
10th Percentile £15.81 £17.21 £12.85
25th Percentile £16.25 - £13.98
Median hourly rate £19.33 £17.87 £18.20
Median % change year-on-year +8.17% -1.81% +2.71%
75th Percentile £61.50 £49.35 £23.92
90th Percentile £69.60 £60.63 £55.75
Scotland median hourly rate £16.11 £19.23 £18.00
% change year-on-year -16.22% +6.83% -26.80%

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 September 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 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.85%) CICS
2 1 (1.85%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) Ethereum
2 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.85%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.85%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (1.85%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.85%) SAP GRC
1 1 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (25.93%) AWS
2 8 (14.81%) Azure
3 7 (12.96%) GCP
4 6 (11.11%) Apigee
4 6 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (5.56%) Azure AKS
5 3 (5.56%) Cloud Run
5 3 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.56%) Snowflake
5 3 (5.56%) Vertex AI
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.85%) Apple Pay
6 1 (1.85%) Cloud Composer
6 1 (1.85%) Figma
6 1 (1.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (1.85%) Google Pay
6 1 (1.85%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.85%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.41%) SSL
2 3 (5.56%) Firewall
3 2 (3.70%) Network Security
3 2 (3.70%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (1.85%) BIG-IP
4 1 (1.85%) DNS
4 1 (1.85%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (1.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (1.85%) HTTP
4 1 (1.85%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.56%) BigQuery
1 3 (5.56%) Power BI
2 1 (1.85%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.85%) Data Mining
2 1 (1.85%) DataStage
2 1 (1.85%) Looker
2 1 (1.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Git
1 3 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.70%) JIRA
3 1 (1.85%) Gatling
3 1 (1.85%) GitLab
3 1 (1.85%) JMeter
3 1 (1.85%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.85%) Selenium
General
1 27 (50.00%) Finance
2 18 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 10 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (16.67%) Retail Banking
5 6 (11.11%) Retail
6 5 (9.26%) Corporate Banking
6 5 (9.26%) Investment Banking
7 4 (7.41%) Legal
8 2 (3.70%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (29.63%) Analyst
2 6 (11.11%) Architect
2 6 (11.11%) Developer
2 6 (11.11%) IT Analyst
2 6 (11.11%) Service Analyst
3 5 (9.26%) IT Support
3 5 (9.26%) IT Support Analyst
3 5 (9.26%) Service Desk Analyst
3 5 (9.26%) Service Desk Support
3 5 (9.26%) Service Desk Support Analyst
3 5 (9.26%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (9.26%) Support Analyst
4 4 (7.41%) Administrator
4 4 (7.41%) Business Analyst
4 4 (7.41%) Pega Developer
4 4 (7.41%) Senior
5 3 (5.56%) Data Analyst
5 3 (5.56%) Data Architect
5 3 (5.56%) Lead
5 3 (5.56%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.26%) REST
2 4 (7.41%) ISPF
2 4 (7.41%) Middleware
3 3 (5.56%) LangChain
3 3 (5.56%) LangGraph
3 3 (5.56%) Terraform
4 2 (3.70%) A2A Protocol
4 2 (3.70%) Model Context Protocol
4 2 (3.70%) Node.js
5 1 (1.85%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.85%) Kafka
5 1 (1.85%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.85%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (1.85%) Smart Contracts
5 1 (1.85%) SOAP
5 1 (1.85%) Spring
5 1 (1.85%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.96%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.11%) Mainframe
3 4 (7.41%) Clustering
3 4 (7.41%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.56%) CMDB
4 3 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.70%) Chip and PIN
5 2 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.70%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.70%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.85%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.85%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.85%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.85%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.85%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.85%) Mobile Wallet
6 1 (1.85%) Online Banking
6 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.11%) Windows
2 5 (9.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (24.07%) Agile
2 11 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (18.52%) AI
3 10 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (16.67%) Migration
4 9 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (14.81%) CI/CD
6 7 (12.96%) Customer Experience
6 7 (12.96%) Customer Service
6 7 (12.96%) ITIL
6 7 (12.96%) Microservices
6 7 (12.96%) Performance Optimisation
6 7 (12.96%) Use Case
7 6 (11.11%) Analytics
7 6 (11.11%) Data Science
7 6 (11.11%) Integration Patterns
7 6 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (9.26%) Decision-Making
8 5 (9.26%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 11 (20.37%) Python
2 8 (14.81%) Java
3 3 (5.56%) SQL
4 1 (1.85%) ActionScript
4 1 (1.85%) Bash
4 1 (1.85%) DAML
4 1 (1.85%) Go
4 1 (1.85%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 1 (1.85%) CISA
1 1 (1.85%) CRISC
1 1 (1.85%) Degree
1 1 (1.85%) DV Cleared
1 1 (1.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
1 1 (1.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (1.85%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.96%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.85%) COBIT
2 1 (1.85%) GRC
2 1 (1.85%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.85%) ITGC
2 1 (1.85%) NIST
2 1 (1.85%) NIST 800
System Software
1 5 (9.26%) Active Directory
1 5 (9.26%) RACF
2 2 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.85%) Docker
3 1 (1.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.41%) OMEGAMON
3 3 (5.56%) Istio
4 1 (1.85%) Ansible
4 1 (1.85%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.26%) IBM
3 4 (7.41%) Google
3 4 (7.41%) Pega
3 4 (7.41%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.56%) Splunk
5 2 (3.70%) Citrix
5 2 (3.70%) Dell
5 2 (3.70%) VMware
6 1 (1.85%) Apple
6 1 (1.85%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.85%) Cisco
6 1 (1.85%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.85%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.85%) F5
6 1 (1.85%) Oracle
6 1 (1.85%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.85%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.85%) SAP