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 13 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 66 88
Rank change year-on-year +8 +22 +27
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 8 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.28% 0.42% 0.31%
As % of the General category 1.71% 0.59% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £540 £199 £530
25th Percentile £563 £249 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £335 £575
Median % change year-on-year +71.64% -41.74% +21.05%
75th Percentile £588 £419 £613
90th Percentile £648 £468 £620
Scotland median daily rate £563 £350 £538
% change year-on-year +60.71% -34.88% +13.16%

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 469 508 727
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 74.80% 70.56% 74.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 256 461
10th Percentile £209 £170 £164
25th Percentile £406 £340 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -1.25%
75th Percentile £538 £531 £550
90th Percentile £600 £600 £613
Scotland median daily rate £455 £450 £479
% change year-on-year +1.11% -6.05% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 10
10th Percentile £15.94 £13.38 £13.12
25th Percentile - £16.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £17.87 £24.18 £20.30
Median % change year-on-year -26.10% +19.14% +7.81%
75th Percentile £30.38 - £49.03
90th Percentile £60.63 £26.70 £61.60
Scotland median hourly rate £19.23 £19.59 £19.34
% change year-on-year -1.84% +1.29% +9.14%

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 (25.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) GCP
1 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) Liquibase
General
1 8 (100.00%) Finance
2 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
3 4 (50.00%) Banking
4 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (25.00%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
5 2 (25.00%) Retail
5 2 (25.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Officer
3 1 (12.50%) Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Service Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) FastAPI
2 2 (25.00%) React
3 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 3 (37.50%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) User Experience
2 3 (37.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 3 (37.50%) UX Design
3 2 (25.00%) AI
3 2 (25.00%) Conversational UI
3 2 (25.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (25.00%) Wealth Management
4 1 (12.50%) Change Management
4 1 (12.50%) Cryptography
4 1 (12.50%) Data Security
4 1 (12.50%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (12.50%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Splunk