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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 63 73
Rank change year-on-year -4 +10 +21
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 6 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.84% 0.79% 0.36%
As % of the General category 1.30% 1.04% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £543 £199
25th Percentile £410 £570 £249
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £631 £335
Median % change year-on-year -33.47% +88.43% -44.17%
75th Percentile £430 £683 £419
90th Percentile - £704 £468
Scotland median daily rate £419 £510 £400
% change year-on-year -17.94% +27.50% -26.54%

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 461 480 587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 64.66% 75.47% 70.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 234 305
10th Percentile £222 £263 £159
25th Percentile £388 £413 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £538
90th Percentile £650 £600 £619
Scotland median daily rate £463 £471 £450
% change year-on-year -1.81% +4.68% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 15 18
10th Percentile £15.81 £17.08 £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 £52.90 £23.92
90th Percentile £69.60 £60.75 £55.75
Scotland median hourly rate £16.11 £19.23 £18.00
% change year-on-year -16.22% +6.83% -26.80%

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Apigee
1 2 (33.33%) Azure AKS
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Run
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
1 2 (33.33%) Vertex AI
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Banking
4 1 (16.67%) Billing
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Data Architect
1 2 (33.33%) GCP Architect
1 2 (33.33%) GCP Data Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) PMO Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Python Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Release Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Release Train Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Senior PMO
2 1 (16.67%) Senior PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) LangGraph
2 2 (33.33%) LangChain
3 1 (16.67%) ADO
3 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) AI Agents
2 1 (16.67%) IVR
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) AI
2 3 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 2 (33.33%) Data Science
3 2 (33.33%) Data Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (33.33%) Dependency Management
3 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 2 (33.33%) Rapid Prototyping
3 2 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) PMO
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Atlassian
2 1 (16.67%) IBM