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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 24 25
Rank change year-on-year +15 +1 +7
Contract jobs citing Banking 145 62 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 19.03% 7.61% 8.37%
As % of the General category 26.70% 13.78% 12.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 49 49
10th Percentile £308 £284 £409
25th Percentile £400 £356 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £453 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.66% -17.64% +18.92%
75th Percentile £539 £594 £650
90th Percentile £589 £623 £732
Scotland median daily rate £475 £544 £500
% change year-on-year -12.72% +8.85% -4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £62.84
25th Percentile - - £63.83
Median hourly rate £19.97 - £66.56
75th Percentile - - £68.20
90th Percentile - - £68.53
Scotland median hourly rate £19.97 £12.30 £66.56
% change year-on-year +62.36% -81.52% +59.43%

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 543 450 602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 71.26% 55.21% 67.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 309 447
10th Percentile £300 £213 £329
25th Percentile £387 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.78% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £579 £600
90th Percentile £600 £628 £706
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 17 14
10th Percentile £14.73 £11.50 £12.86
25th Percentile £18.47 £12.38 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.90 £18.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.56% -48.57% -6.49%
75th Percentile £31.23 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £70.46 £75.00 £64.76
Scotland median hourly rate £19.97 £18.00 £19.88
% change year-on-year +10.94% -9.46% -46.89%

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 31 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 3 (2.07%) CICS
2 2 (1.38%) Confluence
2 2 (1.38%) JBoss
2 2 (1.38%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.38%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.69%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.69%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.69%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 9 (6.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (3.45%) MS Visio
3 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.07%) Finacle
2 1 (0.69%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 12 (8.28%) Cloud Computing
2 11 (7.59%) Azure
3 7 (4.83%) AWS
3 7 (4.83%) GitHub
4 5 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (3.45%) IaaS
5 4 (2.76%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (1.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (1.38%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (1.38%) Miro
6 2 (1.38%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.38%) Serverless
6 2 (1.38%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.69%) GCP
7 1 (0.69%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.69%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.76%) DHCP
1 4 (2.76%) DNS
2 3 (2.07%) Firewall
3 1 (0.69%) BGP
3 1 (0.69%) LAN
3 1 (0.69%) OSPF
3 1 (0.69%) SAN
3 1 (0.69%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.69%) VPN
3 1 (0.69%) WAN
3 1 (0.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.03%) DB2
1 16 (11.03%) Relational Database
2 14 (9.66%) MongoDB
3 13 (8.97%) KDB
3 13 (8.97%) Kdb+
4 4 (2.76%) Power BI
5 2 (1.38%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.69%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (11.03%) JIRA
1 16 (11.03%) JUnit
2 6 (4.14%) Git
3 3 (2.07%) Bitbucket
3 3 (2.07%) Mockito
4 2 (1.38%) GitLab
4 2 (1.38%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.69%) Maven
5 1 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 94 (64.83%) Finance
2 83 (57.24%) Social Skills
3 66 (45.52%) Investment Banking
4 33 (22.76%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (15.17%) Front Office
6 6 (4.14%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.45%) Back Office
7 5 (3.45%) Retail Banking
8 3 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.07%) Legal
8 3 (2.07%) Private Banking
9 2 (1.38%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.38%) Military
9 2 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.38%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 51 (35.17%) Developer
2 25 (17.24%) Java Developer
2 25 (17.24%) Python Developer
3 24 (16.55%) Senior
4 19 (13.10%) Analyst
5 14 (9.66%) Linux Developer
5 14 (9.66%) Senior Developer
6 13 (8.97%) C++ Developer
6 13 (8.97%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
6 13 (8.97%) Senior C++ Developer
6 13 (8.97%) Senior Python Developer
7 10 (6.90%) Architect
7 10 (6.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 10 (6.90%) Business Analyst
7 10 (6.90%) Investment Banking Java Developer
7 10 (6.90%) JavaScript Engineer
7 10 (6.90%) Python Engineer
8 9 (6.21%) Project Manager
8 9 (6.21%) SQL Developer
8 9 (6.21%) Sybase Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.79%) Spring
2 13 (8.97%) JMS
2 13 (8.97%) Kafka
3 7 (4.83%) Middleware
4 6 (4.14%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.38%) Hibernate
5 2 (1.38%) IBM Integration Bus
5 2 (1.38%) J2EE
5 2 (1.38%) Loki
5 2 (1.38%) React
5 2 (1.38%) RESTful
5 2 (1.38%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (0.69%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.69%) JAX-RS
6 1 (0.69%) JAX-WS
6 1 (0.69%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.03%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (9.66%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (8.97%) Data Structures
4 12 (8.28%) Equities
4 12 (8.28%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.14%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (4.14%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.76%) Derivative
7 3 (2.07%) CMDB
7 3 (2.07%) Mainframe
7 3 (2.07%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.07%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.38%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.38%) Clustering
8 2 (1.38%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.38%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.38%) Social Media
8 2 (1.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.69%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 42 (28.97%) Linux
2 21 (14.48%) Windows
3 4 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.76%) Unix
4 1 (0.69%) AIX
4 1 (0.69%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (35.17%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (33.10%) Agile
3 32 (22.07%) SDLC
4 25 (17.24%) Data Science
5 19 (13.10%) Wealth Management
6 18 (12.41%) Risk Management
7 17 (11.72%) Cybersecurity
8 16 (11.03%) Data Security
8 16 (11.03%) Decision-Making
8 16 (11.03%) Investment Management
9 15 (10.34%) Containerisation
9 15 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (10.34%) DevOps
10 14 (9.66%) Artificial Intelligence
10 14 (9.66%) Open Source
10 14 (9.66%) Performance Tuning
10 14 (9.66%) Project Management
11 13 (8.97%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 13 (8.97%) Scrum
11 13 (8.97%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (35.86%) Python
2 41 (28.28%) Java
3 20 (13.79%) SQL
4 15 (10.34%) Shell Script
5 13 (8.97%) C++
6 12 (8.28%) JavaScript
7 11 (7.59%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.38%) Perl
8 2 (1.38%) R
9 1 (0.69%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (4.83%) Degree
2 4 (2.76%) AWS Certification
2 4 (2.76%) Azure Certification
2 4 (2.76%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (2.07%) CISSP
4 2 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (1.38%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.69%) ACCA
5 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.69%) CCNP
5 1 (0.69%) CIMA
5 1 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.69%) CISM
5 1 (0.69%) ICAEW
5 1 (0.69%) ISEB
5 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.76%) QA
2 3 (2.07%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.69%) GDPR
3 1 (0.69%) GRC
System Software
1 17 (11.72%) Docker
2 4 (2.76%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.38%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (0.69%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 24 (16.55%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.83%) Terraform
3 3 (2.07%) Ansible
4 2 (1.38%) Grafana
4 2 (1.38%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.69%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.69%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.69%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 14 (9.66%) Sybase
2 12 (8.28%) ServiceNow
3 9 (6.21%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.14%) Oracle
5 3 (2.07%) Avaloq
5 3 (2.07%) Databricks
5 3 (2.07%) IBM
5 3 (2.07%) Pega
5 3 (2.07%) Splunk
5 3 (2.07%) Temenos
5 3 (2.07%) VMware
6 2 (1.38%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.38%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.38%) Google
6 2 (1.38%) Sun
6 2 (1.38%) Veritas
6 2 (1.38%) Workday
7 1 (0.69%) Juniper
7 1 (0.69%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.69%) Symantec