Finance Contracts in Glasgow

Financial
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Glasgow. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance 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 1 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 275 169 220
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 34.46% 19.27% 24.07%
As % of the General category 49.82% 34.77% 35.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 110 173
10th Percentile £325 £285 £386
25th Percentile £406 £389 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £484 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.98% -7.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £650
90th Percentile £600 £750 £750
Scotland median daily rate £490 £484 £500
% change year-on-year +1.29% -3.25% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £66.82 - -
25th Percentile £69.55 - £56.25
Median hourly rate £74.10 - £60.94
75th Percentile £78.65 - £67.11
90th Percentile £81.38 - £68.09
Scotland median hourly rate £23.00 £19.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +17.95% -66.09% +142.11%

All General Skills
Glasgow

Finance 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%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Glasgow

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

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

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Glasgow

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Glasgow

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in Glasgow

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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 8 (2.91%) Confluence
2 7 (2.55%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.18%) SAS
4 3 (1.09%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.73%) JBoss
5 2 (0.73%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (0.73%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.36%) Camunda
6 1 (0.36%) CICS
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (6.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (3.27%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (2.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.45%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.45%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.36%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Finacle
1 3 (1.09%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.36%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 32 (11.64%) Azure
2 21 (7.64%) AWS
3 19 (6.91%) Cloud Computing
4 13 (4.73%) SaaS
5 10 (3.64%) Power Platform
6 9 (3.27%) IaaS
7 6 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.18%) GitHub
8 5 (1.82%) OpenShift
8 5 (1.82%) PowerApps
9 4 (1.45%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.45%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.09%) PaaS
10 3 (1.09%) Serverless
11 2 (0.73%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.73%) GCP
11 2 (0.73%) Miro
11 2 (0.73%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.82%) DHCP
1 5 (1.82%) DNS
2 4 (1.45%) Network Security
2 4 (1.45%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.45%) WAN
3 3 (1.09%) BGP
3 3 (1.09%) Firewall
3 3 (1.09%) LAN
3 3 (1.09%) OSPF
3 3 (1.09%) VPN
3 3 (1.09%) Wireless
4 2 (0.73%) SAN
4 2 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.36%) 4G
5 1 (0.36%) NAS
5 1 (0.36%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (10.55%) Relational Database
2 23 (8.36%) DB2
2 23 (8.36%) MongoDB
3 7 (2.55%) Power BI
4 5 (1.82%) RDBMS
5 3 (1.09%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.73%) KDB
6 2 (0.73%) Kdb+
6 2 (0.73%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.73%) MySQL
7 1 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.36%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.36%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 34 (12.36%) JIRA
2 26 (9.45%) JUnit
3 11 (4.00%) Git
4 7 (2.55%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.45%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.09%) Xcode
7 2 (0.73%) GitLab
7 2 (0.73%) Selenium
8 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.36%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.36%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.36%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.36%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.36%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.36%) Subversion
8 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 116 (42.18%) Social Skills
2 96 (34.91%) Banking
3 61 (22.18%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (17.45%) Investment Banking
5 21 (7.64%) Front Office
6 18 (6.55%) Financial Institution
7 16 (5.82%) Public Sector
8 10 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.82%) Legal
9 5 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.45%) Back Office
11 3 (1.09%) Private Banking
11 3 (1.09%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.73%) Local Government
12 2 (0.73%) Military
12 2 (0.73%) Retail
12 2 (0.73%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 76 (27.64%) Developer
2 43 (15.64%) Java Developer
3 42 (15.27%) Analyst
4 29 (10.55%) Project Manager
5 26 (9.45%) Senior
6 24 (8.73%) Architect
7 23 (8.36%) Python Developer
8 18 (6.55%) Business Analyst
9 15 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (4.73%) Python Engineer
11 9 (3.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 9 (3.27%) Lead
11 9 (3.27%) Scrum Master
12 8 (2.91%) Data Architect
12 8 (2.91%) JavaScript Engineer
12 8 (2.91%) SQL Developer
13 7 (2.55%) Designer
13 7 (2.55%) Investment Banking Java Developer
13 7 (2.55%) Senior Analyst
13 7 (2.55%) Sybase Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (17.09%) Spring
2 26 (9.45%) Kafka
3 22 (8.00%) JMS
4 19 (6.91%) Spring Boot
5 8 (2.91%) Middleware
6 5 (1.82%) REST
6 5 (1.82%) SOAP
7 3 (1.09%) Loki
7 3 (1.09%) SwiftUI
7 3 (1.09%) UIKit
7 3 (1.09%) Web Services
8 2 (0.73%) JSON
8 2 (0.73%) MSMQ
8 2 (0.73%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (0.73%) PySpark
8 2 (0.73%) SPFx
8 2 (0.73%) XML
9 1 (0.36%) IBM Integration Bus
9 1 (0.36%) Java EE
9 1 (0.36%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 22 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (7.27%) Equities
4 14 (5.09%) Management Information System
5 13 (4.73%) Data Protection Act
5 13 (4.73%) Public Cloud
6 10 (3.64%) Virtual Team
7 9 (3.27%) Data Centre
8 8 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.91%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.55%) Cloud Native
9 7 (2.55%) CMDB
10 6 (2.18%) Credit Risk
10 6 (2.18%) Derivative
10 6 (2.18%) PMI
11 4 (1.45%) Equity Derivative
11 4 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.09%) iPad
12 3 (1.09%) iPhone
12 3 (1.09%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 51 (18.55%) Linux
2 14 (5.09%) Windows
3 13 (4.73%) Unix
4 6 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.09%) Android
5 3 (1.09%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.73%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.36%) AIX
7 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.36%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (36.73%) Agile
2 91 (33.09%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (18.18%) SDLC
4 42 (15.27%) Project Management
5 32 (11.64%) Project Delivery
6 29 (10.55%) Cybersecurity
6 29 (10.55%) Risk Management
7 27 (9.82%) Decision-Making
8 25 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (9.09%) Open Source
8 25 (9.09%) Software Engineering
8 25 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
9 24 (8.73%) DevOps
9 24 (8.73%) Multithreading
10 23 (8.36%) Data Security
10 23 (8.36%) Wealth Management
11 22 (8.00%) Data Protection
11 22 (8.00%) ITIL
11 22 (8.00%) Process Improvement
11 22 (8.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 82 (29.82%) Python
2 67 (24.36%) Java
3 34 (12.36%) SQL
4 23 (8.36%) Shell Script
5 15 (5.45%) JavaScript
6 13 (4.73%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.82%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.09%) Objective-C
8 3 (1.09%) R
8 3 (1.09%) Swift
8 3 (1.09%) VBA
9 2 (0.73%) Bash
9 2 (0.73%) C#
9 2 (0.73%) C++
9 2 (0.73%) Groovy
9 2 (0.73%) Perl
10 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.36%) Go
10 1 (0.36%) ProC
10 1 (0.36%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 18 (6.55%) Degree
2 8 (2.91%) AWS Certification
3 7 (2.55%) Azure Certification
3 7 (2.55%) ITIL Certification
3 7 (2.55%) PMI Certification
3 7 (2.55%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.45%) CISM
6 3 (1.09%) CRISC
6 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.09%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (0.73%) CCNP
7 2 (0.73%) CISSP
7 2 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (0.73%) PMP
7 2 (0.73%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.00%) QA
2 9 (3.27%) PMO
3 6 (2.18%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.82%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (1.45%) NIST
6 2 (0.73%) Basel III
6 2 (0.73%) FINREP
6 2 (0.73%) SLA
7 1 (0.36%) COREP
7 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (2.91%) Docker
2 5 (1.82%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (1.45%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.09%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (0.73%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.73%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.73%) RACF
6 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (6.91%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.73%) Terraform
3 7 (2.55%) Ansible
4 4 (1.45%) Grafana
4 4 (1.45%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.73%) Data Guard
5 2 (0.73%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.73%) NetBackup
5 2 (0.73%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.36%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.36%) SCCM
Vendors
1 28 (10.18%) ServiceNow
2 24 (8.73%) Microsoft
3 23 (8.36%) Sybase
4 10 (3.64%) Oracle
5 9 (3.27%) VMware
6 5 (1.82%) Pega
6 5 (1.82%) Veritas
7 4 (1.45%) CyberArk
7 4 (1.45%) Splunk
8 3 (1.09%) Alteryx
8 3 (1.09%) Avaloq
8 3 (1.09%) Cisco
8 3 (1.09%) Juniper
8 3 (1.09%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.09%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.09%) Temenos
9 2 (0.73%) BT
9 2 (0.73%) IBM
9 2 (0.73%) Sage
9 2 (0.73%) Sun