Fintech Contracts in Edinburgh

Financial Technology (FinTech)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Fintech skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fintech over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 70 108
Rank change year-on-year +10 +38 +5
Contract jobs citing Fintech 7 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.12% 0.25% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 0.28% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile - £430 £295
25th Percentile £475 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -26.92% +23.81%
75th Percentile £525 £513 -
90th Percentile - £520 -
Scotland median daily rate £500 £475 £458
% change year-on-year +5.26% +3.71% -12.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Fintech falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Fintech
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Fintech in Edinburgh

Fintech
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Fintech in Edinburgh

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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 1 (14.29%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) CloudFront
1 4 (57.14%) Serverless
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (42.86%) Route 53
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Pipelines
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) Yarn
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (42.86%) MySQL
1 3 (42.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Ant
1 2 (28.57%) webpack
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Angular Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Support
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Support Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Developer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Support Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) JSON
1 3 (42.86%) JSON Schema
1 3 (42.86%) Node.js
1 3 (42.86%) OAuth
1 3 (42.86%) RESTful
2 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) TypeORM
3 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (14.29%) OpenAPI
3 1 (14.29%) React
3 1 (14.29%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) API Development
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Balanced Scorecard
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) Coaching
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Data Extraction
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
4 1 (14.29%) Natural Language Processing
4 1 (14.29%) Network Load Balancing
4 1 (14.29%) Release Management
4 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) SIEM
4 1 (14.29%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) TypeScript
2 4 (57.14%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) Bash
4 1 (14.29%) C#
4 1 (14.29%) Go
4 1 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) HAProxy
2 1 (14.29%) linkerd
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
1 1 (14.29%) ForgeRock