Banking Contracts in Scotland

Banking
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Banking over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 25 25
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 -5
Contract jobs citing Banking 133 219 241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 6.03% 7.67% 6.84%
As % of the General category 9.29% 11.66% 9.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 108 117
10th Percentile £361 £405 £379
25th Percentile £445 £441 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -2.91% +16.71%
75th Percentile £637 £652 £600
90th Percentile £739 £750 £669
UK median daily rate £618 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - £62.84 £42.85
25th Percentile - £63.83 £43.38
Median hourly rate £12.30 £66.56 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -81.52% +47.92% +282.00%
75th Percentile - £68.20 £46.88
90th Percentile - £68.53 £47.55
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £21.00 £25.71
% change year-on-year -7.14% -18.30% +62.07%

All General Skills
Scotland

Banking is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,432 1,878 2,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 64.88% 65.80% 71.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 860 1,386 1,835
10th Percentile £181 £232 £219
25th Percentile £362 £405 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £588 £570 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 29 41
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.00 £17.25
Median hourly rate £19.17 £21.26 £25.82
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% -17.64% -9.42%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £69.00 £67.50 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -17.14% +62.79% -4.44%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Banking in Scotland

Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Banking in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Banking in Scotland

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in Scotland

Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Banking in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Banking in Scotland

Banking
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -4 69 £560 +1.82% 9
Edinburgh +1 59 £575 +15.00% 34
Renfrewshire - 5 £120 - 1
Banking
UK

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (3.76%) IBM HTTP Server
1 5 (3.76%) SAS
1 5 (3.76%) WebSphere
1 5 (3.76%) WebSphere Application Server
1 5 (3.76%) WebSphere Portal
2 4 (3.01%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.50%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.75%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 8 (6.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.26%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.75%) Markit EDM
1 1 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 18 (13.53%) AWS
2 16 (12.03%) Azure
3 10 (7.52%) OpenShift
4 7 (5.26%) GCP
5 6 (4.51%) IaaS
6 4 (3.01%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.26%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.26%) Serverless
8 2 (1.50%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (1.50%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.50%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.75%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.75%) Apigee
9 1 (0.75%) Cloud Run
9 1 (0.75%) Figma
9 1 (0.75%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.02%) DNS
1 8 (6.02%) HTTP
1 8 (6.02%) SAN
2 7 (5.26%) DHCP
3 6 (4.51%) Fibre Channel
3 6 (4.51%) iSCSI
4 5 (3.76%) ATM
4 5 (3.76%) NAS
4 5 (3.76%) SSL
4 5 (3.76%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.26%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (2.26%) Firewall
5 3 (2.26%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.51%) DB2
2 2 (1.50%) Big Data
2 2 (1.50%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.50%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (0.75%) Apache Hive
3 1 (0.75%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.75%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.75%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.75%) MySQL
3 1 (0.75%) Power BI
3 1 (0.75%) Spark SQL
3 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (9.02%) Git
2 10 (7.52%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.02%) JIRA
4 5 (3.76%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (1.50%) Gradle
5 2 (1.50%) JMeter
5 2 (1.50%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.50%) Selenium
6 1 (0.75%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.75%) GitLab
6 1 (0.75%) JUnit
6 1 (0.75%) Maven
6 1 (0.75%) Xcode
General
1 69 (51.88%) Finance
2 40 (30.08%) Social Skills
3 23 (17.29%) Investment Banking
4 10 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.02%) Billing
6 6 (4.51%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.76%) Retail Banking
8 4 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.26%) Retail
9 3 (2.26%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.50%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.50%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.75%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (16.54%) Analyst
2 18 (13.53%) Developer
3 13 (9.77%) Senior
4 12 (9.02%) Python Engineer
5 11 (8.27%) Architect
5 11 (8.27%) Java Developer
6 10 (7.52%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (6.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (6.02%) Linux Engineer
7 8 (6.02%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (5.26%) Business Analyst
8 7 (5.26%) Python Developer
9 6 (4.51%) Hardware Engineer
10 5 (3.76%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 5 (3.76%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.76%) Middleware Engineer
10 5 (3.76%) Security Analyst
10 5 (3.76%) Senior Middleware Engineer
10 5 (3.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 4 (3.01%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.02%) Middleware
2 7 (5.26%) Kafka
3 6 (4.51%) RESTful
3 6 (4.51%) Spring
4 5 (3.76%) Flash
4 5 (3.76%) J2EE
4 5 (3.76%) POSIX
4 5 (3.76%) REST
5 4 (3.01%) SailPoint
6 3 (2.26%) Hibernate
6 3 (2.26%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.50%) Android Jetpack
7 2 (1.50%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.50%) Jetpack Compose
7 2 (1.50%) JSON
7 2 (1.50%) Lambda Expressions
7 2 (1.50%) XML
8 1 (0.75%) COM+
8 1 (0.75%) HTML5
8 1 (0.75%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.52%) Public Cloud
2 6 (4.51%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 5 (3.76%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.01%) Client/Server
4 4 (3.01%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (3.01%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.26%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.26%) NVMe
6 2 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.50%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.50%) Equities
6 2 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.75%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.75%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.75%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (17.29%) Linux
2 17 (12.78%) Unix
3 10 (7.52%) Windows
4 8 (6.02%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.76%) Android
5 5 (3.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.26%) Apple iOS
6 3 (2.26%) Data ONTAP
7 2 (1.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (24.81%) Agile
2 19 (14.29%) DevOps
3 14 (10.53%) Investment Management
3 14 (10.53%) Microservices
3 14 (10.53%) SDLC
3 14 (10.53%) Wealth Management
4 13 (9.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (8.27%) Computer Science
5 11 (8.27%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (8.27%) Project Delivery
6 10 (7.52%) CI/CD
6 10 (7.52%) High Availability
7 9 (6.77%) Decision-Making
8 8 (6.02%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (6.02%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (6.02%) Data Protection
8 8 (6.02%) Observability
8 8 (6.02%) Test Automation
8 8 (6.02%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (6.02%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 36 (27.07%) Python
2 23 (17.29%) Java
3 18 (13.53%) Perl
4 15 (11.28%) SQL
5 5 (3.76%) Kotlin
6 4 (3.01%) Bash
6 4 (3.01%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.26%) Scala
8 2 (1.50%) C#
8 2 (1.50%) Go
8 2 (1.50%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.75%) Elixir
9 1 (0.75%) Groovy
9 1 (0.75%) Ruby
9 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (8.27%) Degree
2 6 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.26%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.50%) ISEB
4 2 (1.50%) ISEB Practitioner
4 2 (1.50%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.50%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.75%) CCSA
5 1 (0.75%) CCSE
5 1 (0.75%) CISA
5 1 (0.75%) CISSP
5 1 (0.75%) FFIEC
5 1 (0.75%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.52%) PMO
2 4 (3.01%) QA
3 3 (2.26%) SLA
4 2 (1.50%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.75%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.75%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.75%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (6.77%) Docker
2 8 (6.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.76%) NFS
3 5 (3.76%) VMware NSX
3 5 (3.76%) vSphere
4 4 (3.01%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.01%) Firmware
5 3 (2.26%) GPFS
5 3 (2.26%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.50%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (11.28%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.02%) Terraform
3 5 (3.76%) Ansible
3 5 (3.76%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.01%) Grafana
5 3 (2.26%) NetBackup
5 3 (2.26%) Veritas Storage Foundation
6 2 (1.50%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.75%) Istio
7 1 (0.75%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.75%) Puppet
7 1 (0.75%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 17 (12.78%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.27%) IBM
3 8 (6.02%) Google
3 8 (6.02%) VMware
4 6 (4.51%) Cisco
4 6 (4.51%) Veritas
5 5 (3.76%) Dell
6 4 (3.01%) CyberArk
7 3 (2.26%) Brocade
7 3 (2.26%) EMC
7 3 (2.26%) F5
7 3 (2.26%) NetApp
7 3 (2.26%) Splunk
7 3 (2.26%) Sybase
8 2 (1.50%) Confluent
8 2 (1.50%) Oracle
8 2 (1.50%) Sage
9 1 (0.75%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.75%) StreamSets