Retail Banking Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Retail Banking
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in contract job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail Banking over the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 37 71
Rank change year-on-year -1 +34 +27
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 26 33 17
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 4.35% 5.01% 1.81%
As % of the General category 5.95% 6.86% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 1
10th Percentile £474 £458 -
25th Percentile - £461 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -2.17% +9.00%
75th Percentile - £650 £588
90th Percentile £523 - -
Scotland median daily rate £500 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -20.00% +19.05% -

All General Skills
Edinburgh

Retail Banking 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 437 481 702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 73.08% 72.99% 74.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 249 434
10th Percentile £175 £179 £180
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £540 £538 £551
90th Percentile £599 £632 £626
Scotland median daily rate £455 £450 £485
% change year-on-year +1.11% -7.12% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 11
10th Percentile £16.07 £14.18 £13.28
25th Percentile - £20.34 £17.72
Median hourly rate £17.87 £24.00 £22.87
Median % change year-on-year -25.54% +4.94% +15.21%
75th Percentile £31.50 £24.18 £56.85
90th Percentile £66.75 £26.70 £61.50
Scotland median hourly rate £19.23 £20.94 £19.18
% change year-on-year -8.17% +9.18% +13.26%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Retail Banking job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Retail Banking
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Retail Banking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Retail Banking

Retail Banking
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 4 (15.38%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Chatbot
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.85%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 12 (46.15%) AWS
2 7 (26.92%) Azure
3 6 (23.08%) GCP
4 3 (11.54%) OCI
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Control Tower
5 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.69%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Metadata
1 2 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.85%) MySQL
2 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) JIRA
2 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.85%) Git
3 1 (3.85%) git-flow
General
1 26 (100.00%) Banking
2 13 (50.00%) Finance
3 6 (23.08%) Retail
4 4 (15.38%) Legal
4 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
5 3 (11.54%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (11.54%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (11.54%) Investment Banking
6 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (7.69%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Project Manager
2 5 (19.23%) Analyst
2 5 (19.23%) Senior
3 4 (15.38%) Implementation Manager
3 4 (15.38%) Implementation Project Manager
3 4 (15.38%) Project Implementation Manager
4 3 (11.54%) Data Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Implementation Specialist
4 3 (11.54%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (7.69%) IT Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) IT Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Lead
5 2 (7.69%) PMO Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Technical Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) FastAPI
1 2 (7.69%) React
1 2 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (3.85%) Spring
2 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.85%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.85%) PKI
3 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) Agile
2 10 (38.46%) Migration
3 7 (26.92%) Decision-Making
3 7 (26.92%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (19.23%) CI/CD
4 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (15.38%) AI
5 4 (15.38%) Data Architecture
5 4 (15.38%) Data Integration
5 4 (15.38%) Incident Management
5 4 (15.38%) Incident Response
5 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (15.38%) Wealth Management
6 3 (11.54%) Data Analysis
6 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (11.54%) Runbook
6 3 (11.54%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 3 (11.54%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) Python
2 4 (15.38%) SQL
3 2 (7.69%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.85%) Groovy
4 1 (3.85%) Java
4 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) COBIT
1 3 (11.54%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.69%) PMO
3 1 (3.85%) NCSC
3 1 (3.85%) NIST
3 1 (3.85%) NIST 800
3 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Ansible
1 6 (23.08%) Terraform
2 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Oracle
2 3 (11.54%) CheckPoint
2 3 (11.54%) Dell
2 3 (11.54%) Dynatrace
2 3 (11.54%) F5
2 3 (11.54%) HP
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.85%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.85%) IBM
4 1 (3.85%) IBM Sterling
4 1 (3.85%) Planview
4 1 (3.85%) Qualys
4 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.85%) Thales
4 1 (3.85%) Workday
4 1 (3.85%) WorldPay