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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 64 84
Rank change year-on-year +23 +20 +45
Contract jobs citing Fintech 28 6 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 4.27% 0.74% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.54% 0.87% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 6 8
10th Percentile £475 - £289
25th Percentile £509 £375 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £396
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% +7.26% -36.60%
75th Percentile £550 £475 £450
90th Percentile - £488 £506
Scotland median daily rate £525 £425 £444
% change year-on-year +23.53% -4.17% -29.04%

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 617 688 1,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.05% 85.04% 91.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 378 676
10th Percentile £307 £206 £219
25th Percentile £413 £350 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -1.45%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £538
90th Percentile £599 £640 £600
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 20 5
10th Percentile £17.15 £13.09 £24.40
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.78 £41.25
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.19 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% -65.36% +187.91%
75th Percentile £37.09 £24.18 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £55.25 £59.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £19.06
% change year-on-year +2.09% +2.81% -9.26%

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 (3.57%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.71%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (10.71%) AWS
1 3 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (7.14%) Azure
2 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (7.14%) Serverless
3 1 (3.57%) CloudFront
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Firewall
1 1 (3.57%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 27 (96.43%) Finance
2 24 (85.71%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (82.14%) Banking
3 23 (82.14%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (85.71%) Analyst
2 13 (46.43%) Fraud Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Security Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (3.57%) PropTech
1 1 (3.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (85.71%) Continuous Improvement
2 23 (82.14%) Case Management
2 23 (82.14%) Digital Banking
2 23 (82.14%) Due Diligence
2 23 (82.14%) Migration
2 23 (82.14%) Regulatory Compliance
2 23 (82.14%) Scenario Testing
3 13 (46.43%) Fraud Detection
4 10 (35.71%) Anti-Money Laundering
5 3 (10.71%) Containerisation
5 3 (10.71%) DevOps
5 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (7.14%) CI/CD
7 1 (3.57%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (3.57%) Data Encryption
7 1 (3.57%) DevSecOps
7 1 (3.57%) Incident Response
7 1 (3.57%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (3.57%) SDLC
7 1 (3.57%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.57%) Bash
1 1 (3.57%) Go
1 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
1 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) AWS Certification
1 3 (10.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (3.57%) CISM
2 1 (3.57%) CISSP
2 1 (3.57%) CRISC
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Ansible
1 3 (10.71%) Kubernetes
1 3 (10.71%) Terraform
2 1 (3.57%) HAProxy
2 1 (3.57%) linkerd
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Dynatrace
1 2 (7.14%) ForgeRock