Finance Contract Job Trends in Perthshire

Financial
Scotland > Perthshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Perthshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 6 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 1 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in Perthshire 33.33% 16.00% 20.00%
As % of the General category 100.00% 44.44% 35.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £353 £440
25th Percentile - £356 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £375 £550
Median % change year-on-year +113.33% -31.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile - £388 £569
90th Percentile - - £580
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -

All General Skills
Perthshire

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 Perthshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1 9 14
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Perthshire 33.33% 36.00% 56.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 12
10th Percentile - £358 £409
25th Percentile - £363 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year +56.10% - -3.30%
75th Percentile - £594 £588
90th Percentile - £600 -
Scotland median daily rate £461 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +2.50% -7.69% +2.63%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Perthshire

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

Finance job vacancy trend in Perthshire

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in Perthshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Perthshire citing Finance

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Perthshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Automated Trading
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Market Making
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Statistical Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Systematic Trading
1 1 (100.00%) Time Series Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL