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

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 35 80
Rank change year-on-year -8 +45 +18
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 23 39 15
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.73% 5.29% 1.52%
As % of the General category 4.97% 7.51% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 2
10th Percentile £474 £263 £551
25th Percentile - £387 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £556 £563
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% -1.11% +6.64%
75th Percentile - £650 £578
90th Percentile £523 - £584
Scotland median daily rate £500 £475 £538
% change year-on-year +5.26% -11.63% +2.38%

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 463 519 737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 75.04% 70.42% 74.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 264 458
10th Percentile £213 £159 £170
25th Percentile £406 £331 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -1.45%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £545
90th Percentile £600 £592 £610
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 16 7
10th Percentile £15.82 £13.42 £12.63
25th Percentile - £17.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £17.87 £23.14 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% +30.56% -6.24%
75th Percentile £23.94 £24.18 £57.60
90th Percentile £60.75 £40.84 £61.90
Scotland median hourly rate £18.87 £19.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -0.68% -2.56% +10.05%

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 3 (13.04%) Confluence
2 2 (8.70%) SAS
3 1 (4.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Chatbot
2 1 (4.35%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) AWS
2 5 (21.74%) Azure
3 4 (17.39%) GCP
4 3 (13.04%) OCI
5 2 (8.70%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) SAS Data Integration Studio
2 1 (4.35%) MySQL
2 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) JIRA
2 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.35%) Git
3 1 (4.35%) git-flow
3 1 (4.35%) GitLab
General
1 23 (100.00%) Banking
2 12 (52.17%) Finance
3 8 (34.78%) Retail
4 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
5 5 (21.74%) Corporate Banking
5 5 (21.74%) Investment Banking
6 4 (17.39%) Legal
7 3 (13.04%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (8.70%) Financial Institution
9 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Project Manager
2 4 (17.39%) Implementation Manager
2 4 (17.39%) Implementation Project Manager
2 4 (17.39%) Project Implementation Manager
3 3 (13.04%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Implementation Specialist
4 2 (8.70%) Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Lead
4 2 (8.70%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) PMO Manager
4 2 (8.70%) SAS Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Project Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Migration Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Payments Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) FastAPI
1 2 (8.70%) React
1 2 (8.70%) REST
2 1 (4.35%) AWS CDK
2 1 (4.35%) Spring
2 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.35%) PKI
3 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.35%) Taxonomies
3 1 (4.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Agile
2 7 (30.43%) Migration
2 7 (30.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (26.09%) Wealth Management
4 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
4 5 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (21.74%) Decision-Making
5 4 (17.39%) AI
5 4 (17.39%) Analytics
5 4 (17.39%) DevOps
5 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (13.04%) Data Integration
6 3 (13.04%) Data Migration
6 3 (13.04%) Dependency Management
6 3 (13.04%) Incident Management
6 3 (13.04%) ITIL
6 3 (13.04%) Machine Learning
6 3 (13.04%) Risk Assessment
6 3 (13.04%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) Python
2 3 (13.04%) SQL
3 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.35%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) COBIT
2 2 (8.70%) PMO
3 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.35%) NCSC
3 1 (4.35%) NIST
3 1 (4.35%) NIST 800
3 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Terraform
2 5 (21.74%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle
2 3 (13.04%) CheckPoint
2 3 (13.04%) Dell
2 3 (13.04%) Dynatrace
2 3 (13.04%) F5
2 3 (13.04%) HP
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Adobe
3 1 (4.35%) CyberArk
3 1 (4.35%) Planview
3 1 (4.35%) Qualys
3 1 (4.35%) Thales
3 1 (4.35%) Workday