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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 7 16
Rank change year-on-year -18 +9 +4
Contract jobs citing Banking 57 100 74
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 6.96% 15.15% 8.38%
As % of the General category 11.75% 19.42% 11.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 31 25
10th Percentile £400 £431 £463
25th Percentile £413 £491 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £576
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -8.77% +15.68%
75th Percentile £572 £550 £654
90th Percentile £623 £719 £750
Scotland median daily rate £470 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -6.00% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £15.81 - -
75th Percentile £16.69 - -
90th Percentile £18.27 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 £19.97 £12.30
% change year-on-year -20.83% +62.36% -35.87%

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 485 515 620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 59.22% 78.03% 70.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 265 334
10th Percentile £309 £210 £162
25th Percentile £406 £400 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £471 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% +4.68% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £534 £550
90th Percentile £650 £600 £656
Scotland median daily rate £460 £465 £450
% change year-on-year -0.97% +3.22% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 6 30
10th Percentile £15.85 £17.55 £13.25
25th Percentile £50.00 £19.16 £16.31
Median hourly rate £55.00 £24.68 £18.20
Median % change year-on-year +122.90% +35.58% -14.39%
75th Percentile £69.00 £41.44 £59.94
90th Percentile £81.24 £52.90 £60.75
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £19.97 £17.00
% change year-on-year -18.63% +17.47% -9.77%

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 12 July 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 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.75%) CICS
2 1 (1.75%) SAS
2 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.75%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (7.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.75%) SAP GRC
1 1 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (22.81%) AWS
2 6 (10.53%) Apigee
2 6 (10.53%) GCP
3 5 (8.77%) Azure
3 5 (8.77%) Snowflake
4 3 (5.26%) Azure AKS
4 3 (5.26%) ChatGPT
4 3 (5.26%) Cloud Run
4 3 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (5.26%) Vertex AI
5 2 (3.51%) Figma
5 2 (3.51%) Vyond
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.75%) Cloud Composer
6 1 (1.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (1.75%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.02%) SSL
2 1 (1.75%) HTTP
2 1 (1.75%) Network Security
2 1 (1.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.26%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.75%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.75%) DataStage
3 1 (1.75%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.75%) Looker
3 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Git
2 2 (3.51%) GitLab
3 1 (1.75%) Gatling
3 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.75%) JMeter
3 1 (1.75%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.75%) Selenium
General
1 25 (43.86%) Finance
2 13 (22.81%) Retail Banking
3 11 (19.30%) Retail
3 11 (19.30%) Social Skills
4 10 (17.54%) Investment Banking
5 8 (14.04%) Corporate Banking
6 7 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (7.02%) Financial Institution
7 4 (7.02%) Legal
8 2 (3.51%) Games
8 2 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (3.51%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (26.32%) Analyst
1 15 (26.32%) Developer
2 6 (10.53%) Architect
2 6 (10.53%) Pega Developer
3 5 (8.77%) Data Analyst
3 5 (8.77%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (7.02%) Administrator
4 4 (7.02%) IT Analyst
4 4 (7.02%) Python Developer
4 4 (7.02%) Senior
4 4 (7.02%) Service Analyst
5 3 (5.26%) Business Analyst
5 3 (5.26%) Data Architect
5 3 (5.26%) IT Support
5 3 (5.26%) IT Support Analyst
5 3 (5.26%) Project Manager
5 3 (5.26%) Service Desk Analyst
5 3 (5.26%) Service Desk Support
5 3 (5.26%) Service Desk Support Analyst
5 3 (5.26%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.77%) Model Context Protocol
2 4 (7.02%) FastAPI
2 4 (7.02%) ISPF
2 4 (7.02%) Middleware
2 4 (7.02%) REST
3 3 (5.26%) LangChain
3 3 (5.26%) LangGraph
3 3 (5.26%) RESTful
4 2 (3.51%) A2A Protocol
4 2 (3.51%) Kafka
4 2 (3.51%) Node.js
5 1 (1.75%) J2EE
5 1 (1.75%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.75%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (1.75%) SOAP
5 1 (1.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.53%) Cloud Native
1 6 (10.53%) Mainframe
2 4 (7.02%) Clustering
2 4 (7.02%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.26%) CMDB
4 2 (3.51%) Educational Technology
4 2 (3.51%) e-Learning
4 2 (3.51%) Learning Management System
4 2 (3.51%) SCORM
4 2 (3.51%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.75%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.75%) Online Banking
5 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.77%) zOS
2 3 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (24.56%) AI
2 13 (22.81%) Agile
3 10 (17.54%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (17.54%) Wealth Management
4 9 (15.79%) Microservices
4 9 (15.79%) Use Case
5 8 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (12.28%) Decision-Making
6 7 (12.28%) ITIL
6 7 (12.28%) Migration
6 7 (12.28%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (10.53%) CI/CD
7 6 (10.53%) Integration Patterns
8 5 (8.77%) Customer Experience
8 5 (8.77%) Data Science
8 5 (8.77%) Event-Driven
8 5 (8.77%) LLM
8 5 (8.77%) Observability
8 5 (8.77%) Risk Management
8 5 (8.77%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (19.30%) Python
2 7 (12.28%) Java
2 7 (12.28%) SQL
3 2 (3.51%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.75%) Bash
4 1 (1.75%) Go
4 1 (1.75%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 1 (1.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.26%) QA
3 2 (3.51%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.51%) WCAG
4 1 (1.75%) GRC
4 1 (1.75%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 5 (8.77%) RACF
2 3 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (8.77%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.02%) OMEGAMON
3 3 (5.26%) Istio
3 3 (5.26%) Terraform
4 1 (1.75%) Ansible
4 1 (1.75%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (12.28%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.53%) Pega
3 5 (8.77%) IBM
4 4 (7.02%) Oracle
5 3 (5.26%) Google
5 3 (5.26%) ServiceNow
5 3 (5.26%) Splunk
6 2 (3.51%) Adobe
6 2 (3.51%) Avaloq
6 2 (3.51%) Synthesia
6 2 (3.51%) VMware
7 1 (1.75%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.75%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.75%) SAP