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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 4 4
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 258 144 173
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 34.17% 21.02% 20.07%
As % of the General category 50.49% 36.64% 31.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 110 123
10th Percentile £308 £275 £363
25th Percentile £368 £333 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £431 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.14% -13.75% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £594
90th Percentile £579 £630 £670
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £499
% change year-on-year +11.11% -9.73% -0.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile - £19.84 -
25th Percentile - £24.21 £56.25
Median hourly rate £26.21 £33.00 £60.94
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% -45.85% +62.80%
75th Percentile £34.03 £39.27 £67.11
90th Percentile £48.11 £42.13 £68.09
Scotland median hourly rate £26.21 £18.20 £37.61
% change year-on-year +44.01% -51.61% +0.48%

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 511 393 551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 67.68% 57.37% 63.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 282 394
10th Percentile £287 £207 £325
25th Percentile £363 £329 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.22% -10.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £588
90th Percentile £588 £630 £688
Scotland median daily rate £470 £440 £475
% change year-on-year +6.82% -7.37% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 14
10th Percentile £14.97 £15.34 £12.13
25th Percentile £16.94 £17.32 £12.38
Median hourly rate £19.97 £19.59 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +22.44% -57.25%
75th Percentile £26.21 £32.17 £58.75
90th Percentile £29.34 £46.14 £64.76
Scotland median hourly rate £19.23 £17.00 £19.18
% change year-on-year +13.12% -11.37% -10.79%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 16 (6.20%) Confluence
2 6 (2.33%) SAS
3 5 (1.94%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.94%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.55%) Apache
4 4 (1.55%) JBoss
4 4 (1.55%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.16%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.16%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.78%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.39%) CICS
Applications
1 24 (9.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (6.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (3.88%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (2.71%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (2.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.39%) Finacle
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.39%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 37 (14.34%) AWS
2 31 (12.02%) Azure
3 17 (6.59%) Power Platform
4 15 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (5.04%) GitHub
6 10 (3.88%) SaaS
7 9 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (3.10%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (2.33%) Snowflake
10 4 (1.55%) Apigee
10 4 (1.55%) IaaS
10 4 (1.55%) PaaS
10 4 (1.55%) Serverless
11 3 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.16%) Datadog
11 3 (1.16%) GCP
11 3 (1.16%) OCI
12 2 (0.78%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (0.78%) Miro
12 2 (0.78%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.71%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.94%) Firewall
2 5 (1.94%) HTTP
3 4 (1.55%) DHCP
3 4 (1.55%) DNS
3 4 (1.55%) Kerberos
3 4 (1.55%) Network Security
3 4 (1.55%) SSL
4 3 (1.16%) BGP
4 3 (1.16%) LAN
4 3 (1.16%) OSPF
4 3 (1.16%) VPN
4 3 (1.16%) WAN
4 3 (1.16%) Wireless
5 1 (0.39%) NAS
5 1 (0.39%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (12.02%) Relational Database
2 29 (11.24%) DB2
3 26 (10.08%) MongoDB
4 15 (5.81%) Power BI
5 8 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (3.10%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.33%) RDBMS
7 5 (1.94%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.94%) Tableau
8 4 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.55%) Big Data
8 4 (1.55%) NewSQL
8 4 (1.55%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.55%) OLTP
9 3 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (1.16%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.16%) MSDE
10 2 (0.78%) CockroachDB
10 2 (0.78%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 38 (14.73%) JIRA
2 32 (12.40%) JUnit
3 23 (8.91%) Git
3 23 (8.91%) Jenkins
4 19 (7.36%) Bitbucket
5 13 (5.04%) IntelliJ
5 13 (5.04%) Visual Studio Code
6 12 (4.65%) PyCharm
6 12 (4.65%) Visual Studio
7 6 (2.33%) Xcode
8 2 (0.78%) Maven
8 2 (0.78%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.39%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.39%) Mockito
9 1 (0.39%) Selenium
9 1 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 116 (44.96%) Social Skills
2 87 (33.72%) Banking
3 64 (24.81%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (16.28%) Investment Banking
5 23 (8.91%) Front Office
6 18 (6.98%) Public Sector
7 11 (4.26%) Financial Institution
8 9 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.94%) Corporate Banking
10 5 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.78%) Legal
12 2 (0.78%) Local Government
12 2 (0.78%) Military
12 2 (0.78%) Retail
12 2 (0.78%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.39%) Marketing
13 1 (0.39%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 62 (24.03%) Developer
2 46 (17.83%) Java Developer
3 36 (13.95%) Analyst
4 20 (7.75%) Project Manager
4 20 (7.75%) Senior
5 19 (7.36%) Python Engineer
6 17 (6.59%) Business Analyst
7 15 (5.81%) Architect
7 15 (5.81%) Investment Banking Java Developer
7 15 (5.81%) SQL Developer
7 15 (5.81%) Sybase Developer
8 12 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (4.26%) Data Architect
10 10 (3.88%) Consultant
10 10 (3.88%) Data Analyst
10 10 (3.88%) Python Developer
11 7 (2.71%) Scrum Master
12 6 (2.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 6 (2.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 6 (2.33%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (17.44%) Spring
2 30 (11.63%) Kafka
3 24 (9.30%) JMS
4 17 (6.59%) Spring Boot
5 14 (5.43%) REST
6 11 (4.26%) AngularJS
7 10 (3.88%) RESTful
7 10 (3.88%) SOAP
8 9 (3.49%) OAuth
9 8 (3.10%) OpenID
9 8 (3.10%) SAML
10 6 (2.33%) SwiftUI
10 6 (2.33%) UIKit
11 5 (1.94%) React
12 4 (1.55%) Middleware
12 4 (1.55%) OAuth2
12 4 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
12 4 (1.55%) Web Services
13 3 (1.16%) CSS
13 3 (1.16%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.08%) Data Structures
2 21 (8.14%) Equities
3 17 (6.59%) Virtual Team
4 16 (6.20%) Management Information System
5 11 (4.26%) Cloud Native
5 11 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (4.26%) Public Cloud
6 9 (3.49%) Product Ownership
7 8 (3.10%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (3.10%) CMDB
8 7 (2.71%) Credit Risk
8 7 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.33%) iPad
9 6 (2.33%) iPhone
9 6 (2.33%) Mobile App
9 6 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.94%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.94%) PMI
11 4 (1.55%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 59 (22.87%) Linux
2 20 (7.75%) Windows
3 12 (4.65%) Unix
4 6 (2.33%) Android
4 6 (2.33%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.39%) AIX
6 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.39%) Solaris
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (48.45%) Agile
2 77 (29.84%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (20.16%) SDLC
4 42 (16.28%) CI/CD
5 34 (13.18%) Cybersecurity
6 32 (12.40%) DevOps
7 30 (11.63%) Decision-Making
7 30 (11.63%) Software Engineering
8 29 (11.24%) Performance Tuning
9 26 (10.08%) Open Source
9 26 (10.08%) Project Management
9 26 (10.08%) Stakeholder Management
10 25 (9.69%) Project Delivery
10 25 (9.69%) Test Automation
11 24 (9.30%) Multithreading
12 23 (8.91%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (8.91%) Database Tuning
12 23 (8.91%) ITIL
12 23 (8.91%) Scrum
12 23 (8.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 79 (30.62%) Java
2 78 (30.23%) Python
3 53 (20.54%) SQL
4 25 (9.69%) Shell Script
5 21 (8.14%) TypeScript
6 14 (5.43%) C#
7 13 (5.04%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.71%) Groovy
9 6 (2.33%) Go
9 6 (2.33%) Objective-C
9 6 (2.33%) Swift
10 5 (1.94%) Bash
10 5 (1.94%) Perl
11 4 (1.55%) ANSI SQL
12 3 (1.16%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.39%) ProC
14 1 (0.39%) R
14 1 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (8.14%) Degree
2 9 (3.49%) ITIL Certification
3 8 (3.10%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.94%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.16%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.16%) CISM
8 2 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.78%) CCNP
8 2 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.78%) CRISC
8 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.78%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.39%) ACCA
9 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.39%) CIMA
9 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.88%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.10%) PMO
3 7 (2.71%) QA
4 5 (1.94%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (1.55%) GDPR
6 3 (1.16%) NIST
7 2 (0.78%) Basel III
7 2 (0.78%) COREP
7 2 (0.78%) FINREP
8 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.39%) MiFID
8 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (1.55%) Docker
2 2 (0.78%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (11.24%) Terraform
2 27 (10.47%) Kubernetes
3 15 (5.81%) Ansible
4 4 (1.55%) Grafana
5 2 (0.78%) Argo
5 2 (0.78%) Data Guard
5 2 (0.78%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.78%) Istio
5 2 (0.78%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.39%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.39%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (9.69%) Sybase
2 24 (9.30%) Microsoft
3 22 (8.53%) ServiceNow
4 19 (7.36%) Oracle
5 5 (1.94%) Splunk
6 4 (1.55%) Databricks
6 4 (1.55%) F5
6 4 (1.55%) Infoblox
6 4 (1.55%) MuleSoft
6 4 (1.55%) Pega
7 3 (1.16%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.16%) Cisco
7 3 (1.16%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.16%) IBM
7 3 (1.16%) Juniper
7 3 (1.16%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.16%) Workday
8 2 (0.78%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.78%) Sun
8 2 (0.78%) Veritas