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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 63 76
Rank change year-on-year +9 +13 +27
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 10 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.73% 0.17% 0.33%
As % of the General category 2.45% 0.23% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile £548 - £530
25th Percentile £563 £165 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £170 £575
Median % change year-on-year +238.24% -70.43% +5.75%
75th Percentile £675 £175 £613
90th Percentile £680 - £620
Scotland median daily rate £575 £350 £675
% change year-on-year +64.29% -48.15% +24.14%

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 general skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 408 435 689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 70.47% 74.74% 76.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 235 420
10th Percentile £170 £192 £181
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £550 £535 £569
90th Percentile £625 £628 £638
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 20 16
10th Percentile £16.85 £19.29 £14.77
25th Percentile - £21.03 £21.58
Median hourly rate £17.87 £24.09 £49.35
Median % change year-on-year -25.82% -51.19% +170.63%
75th Percentile £45.75 £24.30 £64.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £37.86 £70.00
Scotland median hourly rate £17.87 £24.00 £30.75
% change year-on-year -25.54% -21.95% +81.58%

Financial Institution
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Financial Institution relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Financial Institution job vacancy trend 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
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 & 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:

Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
1 3 (30.00%) GCP
2 2 (20.00%) AWS KMS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) Liquibase
General
1 10 (100.00%) Finance
2 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (60.00%) Banking
4 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (20.00%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (20.00%) Investment Banking
5 2 (20.00%) Retail
5 2 (20.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Officer
3 1 (10.00%) Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Service Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) REST
2 2 (20.00%) FastAPI
2 2 (20.00%) React
3 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (10.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (20.00%) PKI
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 2 (20.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Customer Experience
3 3 (30.00%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) Cryptography
3 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) User Experience
3 3 (30.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 3 (30.00%) UX Design
4 2 (20.00%) AI
4 2 (20.00%) Conversational UI
4 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (20.00%) Scrum
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (20.00%) Use Case
4 2 (20.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Bash
2 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (10.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) FFIEC
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Firmware
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Ansible
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (10.00%) Grafana
3 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Thales
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk