Banking Contracts 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 22 22
Rank change year-on-year +15 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Banking 92 62 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 14.56% 7.36% 8.84%
As % of the General category 18.62% 10.11% 12.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 25 44
10th Percentile £426 £463 £402
25th Percentile £466 £513 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £499
Median % change year-on-year -14.54% +20.18% -9.23%
75th Percentile £580 £688 £563
90th Percentile £724 £750 £764
Scotland median daily rate £475 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -4.76%

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 494 613 874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 78.16% 72.80% 73.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 351 623
10th Percentile £209 £178 £233
25th Percentile £400 £340 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% - -
75th Percentile £538 £564 £548
90th Percentile £607 £663 £601
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% +0.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 36 5
10th Percentile £18.79 £13.38 £13.39
25th Percentile £21.00 £16.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.77 £25.09 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -5.27% +18.02% -18.23%
75th Percentile £37.17 £60.75 £21.67
90th Percentile £58.58 £65.38 £33.27
Scotland median hourly rate £20.38 £18.20 £19.88
% change year-on-year +11.99% -8.45% -38.15%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Banking in Edinburgh

Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Banking in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Banking in Edinburgh

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in Edinburgh

Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Banking in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Banking in Edinburgh

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (7.61%) Confluence
2 3 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.26%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (2.17%) Camunda
3 2 (2.17%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (3.26%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 12 (13.04%) AWS
2 8 (8.70%) Azure
3 7 (7.61%) GCP
4 4 (4.35%) Apigee
4 4 (4.35%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.35%) Snowflake
5 3 (3.26%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (3.26%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.17%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (2.17%) IaaS
7 1 (1.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.09%) Cloud Run
7 1 (1.09%) Datadog
7 1 (1.09%) Google Compute Engine
7 1 (1.09%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.09%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.17%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.09%) ATM
2 1 (1.09%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (1.09%) DNS
2 1 (1.09%) HTTP
2 1 (1.09%) Network Security
2 1 (1.09%) SMS
2 1 (1.09%) SNA
2 1 (1.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.61%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.35%) Power BI
2 4 (4.35%) Tableau
3 3 (3.26%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.09%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.09%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.09%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.09%) Metadata
5 1 (1.09%) MS Access
5 1 (1.09%) PowerCenter
5 1 (1.09%) QlikView
5 1 (1.09%) SAS Data Integration Studio
5 1 (1.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (11.96%) JIRA
2 6 (6.52%) GitLab
3 5 (5.43%) Git
4 3 (3.26%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.17%) Artifactory
5 2 (2.17%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.17%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (2.17%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.17%) Selenium
6 1 (1.09%) HP UFT
6 1 (1.09%) JUnit
6 1 (1.09%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.09%) Postman
6 1 (1.09%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.09%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.09%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.09%) webpack
6 1 (1.09%) Zephyr
General
1 52 (56.52%) Finance
2 27 (29.35%) Social Skills
3 21 (22.83%) Retail Banking
4 20 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (9.78%) Retail
6 7 (7.61%) Investment Banking
7 6 (6.52%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.26%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (26.09%) Analyst
2 11 (11.96%) Business Analyst
3 9 (9.78%) Architect
3 9 (9.78%) Lead
3 9 (9.78%) Technical Analyst
4 7 (7.61%) Developer
5 6 (6.52%) Project Manager
6 5 (5.43%) Data Engineer
6 5 (5.43%) Delivery Manager
6 5 (5.43%) Senior
6 5 (5.43%) Technical Business Analyst
6 5 (5.43%) Technical Manager
7 4 (4.35%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.26%) Business Data Analyst
8 3 (3.26%) Cloud Technical Analyst
8 3 (3.26%) Designer
8 3 (3.26%) ETL Analyst
8 3 (3.26%) Infrastructure Architect
8 3 (3.26%) Security Specialist
8 3 (3.26%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.52%) Spring Boot
2 5 (5.43%) RESTful
2 5 (5.43%) Spring
3 3 (3.26%) Swagger
4 2 (2.17%) LDAP
4 2 (2.17%) Middleware
4 2 (2.17%) OpenAPI
4 2 (2.17%) Spring Security
4 2 (2.17%) XML
5 1 (1.09%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.09%) CSS
5 1 (1.09%) HTML
5 1 (1.09%) Jest
5 1 (1.09%) Kafka
5 1 (1.09%) OAuth
5 1 (1.09%) OpenID
5 1 (1.09%) Playwright
5 1 (1.09%) React
5 1 (1.09%) REST
5 1 (1.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.43%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (4.35%) CMDB
2 4 (4.35%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.26%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (2.17%) FMCG
4 2 (2.17%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (2.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.09%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.09%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.09%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.09%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.09%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.35%) Windows
2 3 (3.26%) Linux
2 3 (3.26%) Unix
3 2 (2.17%) AIX
3 2 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.17%) zOS
4 1 (1.09%) HPUX
4 1 (1.09%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (1.09%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (31.52%) Agile
2 22 (23.91%) Migration
3 17 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (15.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (14.13%) Risk Management
6 12 (13.04%) CI/CD
7 11 (11.96%) DevOps
8 10 (10.87%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (8.70%) Business Analysis
9 8 (8.70%) Data Modelling
9 8 (8.70%) Test Automation
10 7 (7.61%) Analytics
10 7 (7.61%) Containerisation
10 7 (7.61%) Data Analysis
10 7 (7.61%) Use Case
10 7 (7.61%) User Stories
11 6 (6.52%) Data Integration
11 6 (6.52%) Data Migration
11 6 (6.52%) Decision-Making
11 6 (6.52%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (14.13%) SQL
2 7 (7.61%) Python
3 6 (6.52%) Java
4 4 (4.35%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.09%) Bash
5 1 (1.09%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.09%) JCL
5 1 (1.09%) Perl
5 1 (1.09%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.09%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.09%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.09%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.09%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (3.26%) Azure Certification
1 3 (3.26%) CISSP
1 3 (3.26%) Degree
2 2 (2.17%) CEH
2 2 (2.17%) CRISC
2 2 (2.17%) GCIH
2 2 (2.17%) OSCP
3 1 (1.09%) ACCA
3 1 (1.09%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.09%) CISA
3 1 (1.09%) GCFA
3 1 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.09%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.09%) PMP
3 1 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (3.26%) QA
3 2 (2.17%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.09%) Basel III
4 1 (1.09%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.09%) GDPR
4 1 (1.09%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.09%) PMO
4 1 (1.09%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (5.43%) Docker
2 2 (2.17%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.26%) Ansible
2 3 (3.26%) Terraform
3 2 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.09%) Grafana
4 1 (1.09%) Podman
4 1 (1.09%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.09%) Puppet
4 1 (1.09%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 13 (14.13%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.52%) IBM
2 6 (6.52%) Splunk
3 4 (4.35%) Oracle
4 3 (3.26%) Cisco
4 3 (3.26%) Google
4 3 (3.26%) Informatica
4 3 (3.26%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.17%) Adobe
5 2 (2.17%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.17%) StreamSets
5 2 (2.17%) Teradata
5 2 (2.17%) VMware
6 1 (1.09%) Fiserv
6 1 (1.09%) HP
6 1 (1.09%) Pega
6 1 (1.09%) Planview
6 1 (1.09%) Qualys
6 1 (1.09%) Sun
6 1 (1.09%) Unisys