Financial Institution Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Financial Institution
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Financial Institution in contract job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Financial Institution over the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 70 92
Rank change year-on-year +7 +22 +35
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 4 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.64% 0.37% 0.56%
As % of the General category 0.84% 0.52% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £543 £199 £535
25th Percentile £570 £249 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £631 £335 £600
Median % change year-on-year +88.43% -44.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £683 £419 £613
90th Percentile £704 £468 £620
Scotland median daily rate £510 £438 £550
% change year-on-year +16.57% -20.45% +10.00%

All General Skills
Edinburgh

Financial Institution 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 478 574 811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 76.24% 70.43% 75.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 295 521
10th Percentile £263 £157 £208
25th Percentile £413 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -2.06%
75th Percentile £541 £538 £538
90th Percentile £600 £619 £600
Scotland median daily rate £470 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 18 5
10th Percentile £16.95 £12.85 £14.08
25th Percentile - £13.98 -
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.20 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +2.71% -5.49%
75th Percentile £41.85 £23.92 £41.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £55.75 £48.62
Scotland median hourly rate £19.23 £17.46 £19.18
% change year-on-year +10.14% -8.97% -1.01%

Financial Institution
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Financial Institution in Edinburgh

Financial Institution
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Financial Institution.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Financial Institution

Financial Institution
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Financial Institution in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Financial Institution in Edinburgh

Financial Institution
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Financial Institution.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Financial Institution

Financial Institution
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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) Liquibase
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Retail
3 1 (25.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Officer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Migration Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Wealth Management
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Cryptography
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Data Security
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk