Finance Contract Job Trends 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 16 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 2 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 302 244 144
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 26.12% 33.33% 21.30%
As % of the General category 39.74% 50.00% 36.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 165 106
10th Percentile £302 £313 £295
25th Percentile £388 £399 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £470 £442
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +6.33% -11.60%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £575
90th Percentile £588 £580 £640
Scotland median daily rate £465 £489 £450
% change year-on-year -4.91% +8.67% -9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 3
10th Percentile £18.05 - £19.84
25th Percentile - - £24.21
Median hourly rate £43.96 £26.21 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.72% -20.58% -45.85%
75th Percentile - £34.03 £39.27
90th Percentile - £48.11 £42.13
Scotland median hourly rate £43.96 £26.81 £18.27
% change year-on-year +64.00% +46.72% -68.23%

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 general skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 760 488 399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 65.74% 66.67% 59.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 321 285
10th Percentile £255 £275 £205
25th Percentile £339 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% +2.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £549 £538 £553
90th Percentile £638 £600 £645
Scotland median daily rate £463 £470 £450
% change year-on-year -1.60% +4.44% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 11 10
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.93 £16.47
25th Percentile £13.50 £15.55 £18.77
Median hourly rate £32.34 £19.97 £21.87
Median % change year-on-year +61.92% -8.69% +66.19%
75th Percentile £43.96 £26.21 £32.17
90th Percentile - - £46.14
Scotland median hourly rate £16.11 £19.23 £17.46
% change year-on-year -16.22% +10.14% -29.00%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Finance job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Glasgow over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Glasgow

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in Glasgow over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in Glasgow

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 11 (3.64%) Confluence
2 9 (2.98%) Apache
3 6 (1.99%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.99%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.66%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.33%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.33%) Camunda
7 1 (0.33%) CMS
7 1 (0.33%) IIS
7 1 (0.33%) JBoss
7 1 (0.33%) Mule
7 1 (0.33%) Mule ESB
7 1 (0.33%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.66%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.66%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 4 (1.32%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (1.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (1.32%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.66%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.66%) MultiFonds
3 2 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.33%) Actimize
4 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.33%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.33%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.33%) Sonata
4 1 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 45 (14.90%) AWS
2 35 (11.59%) Azure
3 25 (8.28%) GCP
4 24 (7.95%) GitHub
5 22 (7.28%) Power Platform
6 17 (5.63%) Snowflake
7 16 (5.30%) ChatGPT
8 15 (4.97%) Anthropic Claude
9 13 (4.30%) GitHub Copilot
10 11 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (3.64%) Kong
11 10 (3.31%) OCI
11 10 (3.31%) OpenShift
12 9 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (2.65%) Amazon MSK
14 6 (1.99%) Apigee
14 6 (1.99%) Dynamics 365
15 5 (1.66%) Amazon S3
15 5 (1.66%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.65%) HTTP
2 5 (1.66%) HTTPS
2 5 (1.66%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.99%) NAS
3 3 (0.99%) SAN
4 2 (0.66%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.33%) DNS
5 1 (0.33%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.33%) Internet
5 1 (0.33%) Intranet
5 1 (0.33%) ISDN
5 1 (0.33%) MGCP
5 1 (0.33%) WAN
5 1 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (8.94%) Metadata
1 27 (8.94%) Relational Database
2 15 (4.97%) MongoDB
2 15 (4.97%) Power BI
3 14 (4.64%) Db2
4 13 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (3.97%) Tableau
6 10 (3.31%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.65%) Data Vault
7 8 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (2.65%) Oracle Database
8 7 (2.32%) MySQL
8 7 (2.32%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (2.32%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (1.99%) NoSQL
10 5 (1.66%) Big Data
10 5 (1.66%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.32%) Flink
11 4 (1.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 4 (1.32%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 38 (12.58%) Git
2 19 (6.29%) JIRA
3 10 (3.31%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.32%) Claude Code
5 4 (1.32%) ER Studio
5 4 (1.32%) ERwin
6 3 (0.99%) GitLab
6 3 (0.99%) Maven
6 3 (0.99%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.99%) Subversion
7 2 (0.66%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.66%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.66%) PVCS
8 1 (0.33%) Ant
8 1 (0.33%) Gradle
8 1 (0.33%) JUnit
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.33%) Selenium
8 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 102 (33.77%) Banking
2 99 (32.78%) Social Skills
3 40 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (11.26%) Investment Banking
5 18 (5.96%) Organisational Skills
6 14 (4.64%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (4.64%) Front Office
6 14 (4.64%) Legal
7 12 (3.97%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.32%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.66%) Aviation
10 5 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.32%) Billing
11 4 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.99%) Law
12 3 (0.99%) Private Banking
12 3 (0.99%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.66%) Retail
13 2 (0.66%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 64 (21.19%) Developer
2 45 (14.90%) Analyst
3 30 (9.93%) Business Analyst
4 29 (9.60%) Senior
5 27 (8.94%) Project Manager
6 23 (7.62%) Python Developer
7 22 (7.28%) Java Developer
8 21 (6.95%) Lead
9 18 (5.96%) Architect
10 15 (4.97%) Senior Developer
11 12 (3.97%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (3.97%) Data Modeller
12 11 (3.64%) Data Engineer
12 11 (3.64%) Lead Architect
12 11 (3.64%) Platform Engineer
13 10 (3.31%) GCP Engineer
13 10 (3.31%) Platform Architect
13 10 (3.31%) Power Platform Architect
13 10 (3.31%) Python Engineer
13 10 (3.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (11.59%) Terraform
2 25 (8.28%) Kafka
3 20 (6.62%) RESTful
4 19 (6.29%) REST
5 16 (5.30%) Spring
6 13 (4.30%) Spring Boot
7 12 (3.97%) Swagger
8 11 (3.64%) OpenAPI
9 10 (3.31%) JSON
10 9 (2.98%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (2.65%) React
12 7 (2.32%) Celery
12 7 (2.32%) OAuth
12 7 (2.32%) OAuth2
12 7 (2.32%) Oracle Fusion
13 6 (1.99%) OpenID
14 5 (1.66%) JWT
15 4 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
15 4 (1.32%) FastAPI
15 4 (1.32%) pydantic
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.94%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.63%) Derivative
3 15 (4.97%) Equity Derivative
4 14 (4.64%) Linux Command Line
4 14 (4.64%) Virtual Team
5 13 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (4.30%) Enterprise Cloud
6 12 (3.97%) Product Ownership
7 11 (3.64%) Onboarding
8 10 (3.31%) Data Structures
8 10 (3.31%) Podcast
8 10 (3.31%) Web Conferencing
9 8 (2.65%) Private Cloud
10 7 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (2.32%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.99%) Equities
12 5 (1.66%) Credit Risk
12 5 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.66%) Legacy Code
13 4 (1.32%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 31 (10.26%) Linux
2 23 (7.62%) Unix
3 11 (3.64%) Windows
4 3 (0.99%) Android
4 3 (0.99%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (25.17%) CI/CD
2 61 (20.20%) Agile
3 57 (18.87%) Stakeholder Management
4 51 (16.89%) AI
5 48 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (15.89%) Risk Management
6 42 (13.91%) DevOps
7 37 (12.25%) Data Modelling
8 32 (10.60%) Migration
9 30 (9.93%) Platform Engineering
9 30 (9.93%) Validation
10 28 (9.27%) Infrastructure as Code
10 28 (9.27%) User Acceptance Testing
11 27 (8.94%) Test Automation
12 26 (8.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 25 (8.28%) Data Analysis
13 25 (8.28%) Data Governance
13 25 (8.28%) Machine Learning
14 23 (7.62%) Observability
15 22 (7.28%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 92 (30.46%) Python
2 66 (21.85%) SQL
3 56 (18.54%) Java
4 14 (4.64%) Go
5 13 (4.30%) C++
5 13 (4.30%) Perl
6 12 (3.97%) Shell Script
7 11 (3.64%) Bash
8 7 (2.32%) Lua
9 6 (1.99%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.32%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.99%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.66%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.66%) Scala
13 1 (0.33%) C#
13 1 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.33%) Groovy
13 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (5.30%) Security Cleared
2 14 (4.64%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (1.99%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.32%) Degree
4 4 (1.32%) PMI Certification
4 4 (1.32%) PMP
5 3 (0.99%) AWS Certification
5 3 (0.99%) Azure Certification
5 3 (0.99%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.33%) APMG
6 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.33%) CCNP
6 1 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.33%) IIBA
6 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.94%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.63%) QA
3 4 (1.32%) GDPR
3 4 (1.32%) PMO
4 3 (0.99%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.99%) GRC
5 2 (0.66%) COBIT
5 2 (0.66%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.66%) ISO 31000
5 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 2 (0.66%) MiFID
5 2 (0.66%) SLA
6 1 (0.33%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.33%) EMIR
6 1 (0.33%) NCSC
6 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.33%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (5.30%) Docker
2 4 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.99%) zsh
4 2 (0.66%) GPFS
4 2 (0.66%) NFS
4 2 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 49 (16.23%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.98%) Ansible
2 9 (2.98%) Grafana
3 5 (1.66%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.66%) Argo
5 2 (0.66%) logstash
5 2 (0.66%) NetBackup
5 2 (0.66%) Puppet
6 1 (0.33%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.33%) Cisco UCCX
6 1 (0.33%) Istio
6 1 (0.33%) Kibana
6 1 (0.33%) Podman
6 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 47 (15.56%) Oracle
2 34 (11.26%) Microsoft
3 20 (6.62%) Google
4 14 (4.64%) MuleSoft
4 14 (4.64%) Sybase
5 13 (4.30%) IBM
6 8 (2.65%) SAP
7 7 (2.32%) Databricks
8 5 (1.66%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.66%) Splunk
9 4 (1.32%) Avaloq
9 4 (1.32%) Informatica
9 4 (1.32%) VMware
10 3 (0.99%) Charles River
10 3 (0.99%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.99%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.99%) SaltStack
10 3 (0.99%) Talend
10 3 (0.99%) Veritas
10 3 (0.99%) Workday