Banking Contracts in Glasgow

Banking
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies in Glasgow. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Banking 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 9 24 20
Rank change year-on-year +15 -4 +6
Contract jobs citing Banking 147 69 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 18.42% 7.87% 9.41%
As % of the General category 26.63% 14.20% 13.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 50 56
10th Percentile £308 £360 £412
25th Percentile £404 £418 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £560 £563
Median % change year-on-year -19.64% -0.44% +18.42%
75th Percentile £559 £628 £712
90th Percentile £606 £722 £750
Scotland median daily rate £479 £575 £513
% change year-on-year -16.70% +12.20% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £62.84
25th Percentile - - £63.83
Median hourly rate - - £66.56
75th Percentile - - £68.20
90th Percentile - - £68.53
Scotland median hourly rate £24.66 £12.30 £66.56
% change year-on-year +100.49% -81.52% +47.92%

All General Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 552 486 616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 69.17% 55.42% 67.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 328 471
10th Percentile £313 £225 £325
25th Percentile £399 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £479
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% -0.84% +6.44%
75th Percentile £550 £591 £600
90th Percentile £606 £696 £723
Scotland median daily rate £465 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.21% - +3.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 20 11
10th Percentile £16.75 £11.50 £13.13
25th Percentile £19.63 £15.42 £26.63
Median hourly rate £23.17 £18.00 £47.73
Median % change year-on-year +28.69% -62.29% +88.84%
75th Percentile £55.69 £41.56 £59.65
90th Percentile £74.10 £75.00 £66.56
Scotland median hourly rate £22.44 £19.17 £19.88
% change year-on-year +17.04% -3.57% -23.54%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Banking in Glasgow

Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Banking in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Banking in Glasgow

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in Glasgow

Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Banking in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for Banking in Glasgow

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 4 (2.72%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.04%) CICS
3 2 (1.36%) JBoss
3 2 (1.36%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.68%) Confluence
4 1 (0.68%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.68%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 11 (7.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.72%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.72%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.04%) Finacle
2 1 (0.68%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 13 (8.84%) Azure
2 10 (6.80%) Cloud Computing
3 9 (6.12%) GitHub
4 6 (4.08%) AWS
5 5 (3.40%) IaaS
6 4 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.04%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.04%) Serverless
8 2 (1.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (1.36%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.36%) Miro
8 2 (1.36%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.68%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.72%) DHCP
1 4 (2.72%) DNS
2 2 (1.36%) Firewall
3 1 (0.68%) BGP
3 1 (0.68%) LAN
3 1 (0.68%) OSPF
3 1 (0.68%) SAN
3 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.68%) VPN
3 1 (0.68%) WAN
3 1 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.52%) DB2
2 13 (8.84%) Relational Database
3 11 (7.48%) KDB
3 11 (7.48%) Kdb+
3 11 (7.48%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.04%) Power BI
5 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (12.24%) JIRA
2 13 (8.84%) JUnit
3 5 (3.40%) Git
4 4 (2.72%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.04%) GitLab
5 3 (2.04%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.36%) Mockito
General
1 96 (65.31%) Finance
2 71 (48.30%) Social Skills
3 70 (47.62%) Investment Banking
4 29 (19.73%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (15.65%) Front Office
6 7 (4.76%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.40%) Back Office
8 3 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.04%) Legal
8 3 (2.04%) Private Banking
8 3 (2.04%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.36%) Military
9 2 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.36%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Publishing
10 1 (0.68%) Retail
10 1 (0.68%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 58 (39.46%) Developer
2 29 (19.73%) Java Developer
3 27 (18.37%) Python Developer
4 21 (14.29%) Senior
5 18 (12.24%) Analyst
6 12 (8.16%) Architect
6 12 (8.16%) Linux Developer
6 12 (8.16%) Project Manager
6 12 (8.16%) Senior Developer
7 11 (7.48%) C++ Developer
7 11 (7.48%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
7 11 (7.48%) Senior C++ Developer
7 11 (7.48%) Senior Python Developer
8 9 (6.12%) Business Analyst
9 8 (5.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 8 (5.44%) Investment Banking Java Developer
9 8 (5.44%) JavaScript Engineer
9 8 (5.44%) Python Engineer
9 8 (5.44%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (4.76%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (14.29%) Spring
2 11 (7.48%) JMS
2 11 (7.48%) Kafka
3 10 (6.80%) Spring Boot
4 8 (5.44%) Middleware
5 3 (2.04%) J2EE
6 2 (1.36%) Hibernate
6 2 (1.36%) IBM Integration Bus
6 2 (1.36%) Loki
6 2 (1.36%) Spring Cloud
7 1 (0.68%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (0.68%) React
7 1 (0.68%) REST
7 1 (0.68%) RESTful
7 1 (0.68%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.88%) Enterprise Software
2 12 (8.16%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (7.48%) Data Structures
4 10 (6.80%) Equities
5 9 (6.12%) Management Information System
6 7 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (4.08%) Data Centre
8 5 (3.40%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.72%) Derivative
10 3 (2.04%) CMDB
10 3 (2.04%) Mainframe
10 3 (2.04%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.36%) Cloud Native
11 2 (1.36%) Clustering
11 2 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.36%) Social Media
11 2 (1.36%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Storage
12 1 (0.68%) IBM Mainframe
12 1 (0.68%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 45 (30.61%) Linux
2 23 (15.65%) Windows
3 7 (4.76%) Unix
4 4 (2.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.68%) AIX
5 1 (0.68%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (31.97%) Agile
3 31 (21.09%) SDLC
4 23 (15.65%) Data Science
4 23 (15.65%) Wealth Management
5 20 (13.61%) Investment Management
6 18 (12.24%) Project Management
7 17 (11.56%) Risk Management
8 16 (10.88%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (10.20%) Containerisation
9 15 (10.20%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (10.20%) Project Delivery
9 15 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (9.52%) Data Security
10 14 (9.52%) Multithreading
11 13 (8.84%) DevOps
12 12 (8.16%) ITIL
12 12 (8.16%) Open Source
13 11 (7.48%) Scrum
13 11 (7.48%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 50 (34.01%) Python
2 45 (30.61%) Java
3 17 (11.56%) SQL
4 13 (8.84%) Shell Script
5 11 (7.48%) C++
6 10 (6.80%) JavaScript
6 10 (6.80%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.72%) Perl
7 4 (2.72%) R
8 2 (1.36%) C#
9 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (4.76%) Degree
2 4 (2.72%) Azure Certification
2 4 (2.72%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (1.36%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (1.36%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.68%) ACCA
4 1 (0.68%) CCNP
4 1 (0.68%) CIMA
4 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.68%) CISM
4 1 (0.68%) CISSP
4 1 (0.68%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.68%) ICAEW
4 1 (0.68%) ISEB
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.68%) PMP
4 1 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.08%) QA
2 3 (2.04%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (10.88%) Docker
2 4 (2.72%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.36%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (17.69%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.80%) Terraform
3 5 (3.40%) Ansible
4 3 (2.04%) Grafana
4 3 (2.04%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.68%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.68%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (8.84%) ServiceNow
2 12 (8.16%) Sybase
3 9 (6.12%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.40%) Oracle
5 4 (2.72%) VMware
6 3 (2.04%) Avaloq
6 3 (2.04%) IBM
6 3 (2.04%) Pega
6 3 (2.04%) Splunk
6 3 (2.04%) Temenos
7 2 (1.36%) Databricks
7 2 (1.36%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.36%) Sun
7 2 (1.36%) Veritas
7 2 (1.36%) Workday
8 1 (0.68%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.68%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.68%) DocuSign
8 1 (0.68%) Netskope
8 1 (0.68%) Palo Alto