Banking Contracts in Scotland

Banking
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Banking 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 9 28 26
Rank change year-on-year +19 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing Banking 248 135 223
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 15.26% 6.09% 7.79%
As % of the General category 21.18% 9.36% 11.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 75 110
10th Percentile £308 £361 £406
25th Percentile £408 £445 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £575 £513
Median % change year-on-year -16.70% +12.20% -2.38%
75th Percentile £580 £637 £650
90th Percentile £624 £739 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £618 £650
% change year-on-year -2.95% -4.88% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - £62.84
25th Percentile - - £63.83
Median hourly rate £24.66 £12.30 £66.56
Median % change year-on-year +100.49% -81.52% +47.92%
75th Percentile - - £68.20
90th Percentile - - £68.53
UK median hourly rate £22.27 £19.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +14.21% -7.14% -18.30%

All General Skills
Scotland

Banking 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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,171 1,442 1,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 72.06% 65.04% 65.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 713 864 1,390
10th Percentile £240 £182 £236
25th Percentile £375 £363 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% - +3.83%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £570
90th Percentile £612 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 73 28
10th Percentile £16.02 £12.30 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.52 £16.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £22.44 £19.17 £19.88
Median % change year-on-year +17.04% -3.57% -23.54%
75th Percentile £28.22 £60.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £55.74 £69.00 £66.84
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +15 147 £450 -19.64% 28
Edinburgh +12 93 £525 -8.70% 41
East Lothian - 1 - -
Lanarkshire - 1 - - 3
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 8 (3.23%) Confluence
2 5 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.61%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.21%) CICS
4 3 (1.21%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.81%) Camunda
5 2 (0.81%) JBoss
5 2 (0.81%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.40%) SAS
6 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 16 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.82%) MS Visio
4 6 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (1.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.21%) Finacle
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.40%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 22 (8.87%) Azure
2 18 (7.26%) AWS
3 11 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
4 10 (4.03%) GitHub
4 10 (4.03%) Power Platform
5 7 (2.82%) IaaS
6 6 (2.42%) GCP
7 5 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.02%) Snowflake
8 4 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (1.61%) Apigee
8 4 (1.61%) Serverless
9 3 (1.21%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (0.81%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (0.81%) Miro
10 2 (0.81%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.02%) DNS
2 4 (1.61%) DHCP
3 3 (1.21%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.81%) Firewall
5 1 (0.40%) ATM
5 1 (0.40%) BGP
5 1 (0.40%) HTTP
5 1 (0.40%) LAN
5 1 (0.40%) Network Security
5 1 (0.40%) OSPF
5 1 (0.40%) SAN
5 1 (0.40%) SNA
5 1 (0.40%) SSL
5 1 (0.40%) VPN
5 1 (0.40%) WAN
5 1 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.65%) DB2
1 14 (5.65%) MongoDB
2 13 (5.24%) Relational Database
3 11 (4.44%) KDB
3 11 (4.44%) Kdb+
4 10 (4.03%) Power BI
5 7 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (2.82%) Tableau
6 5 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.21%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.81%) Apache Hive
8 2 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.81%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.81%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.40%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.40%) MS Access
9 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (11.69%) JIRA
2 14 (5.65%) JUnit
3 9 (3.63%) Git
3 9 (3.63%) GitLab
4 6 (2.42%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.02%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.61%) Selenium
7 2 (0.81%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.81%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.81%) Mockito
8 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.40%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.40%) JMeter
8 1 (0.40%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.40%) Postman
8 1 (0.40%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.40%) Zephyr
General
1 158 (63.71%) Finance
2 98 (39.52%) Social Skills
3 76 (30.65%) Investment Banking
4 45 (18.15%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (10.08%) Retail Banking
6 24 (9.68%) Front Office
7 10 (4.03%) Financial Institution
8 9 (3.63%) Retail
9 5 (2.02%) Back Office
9 5 (2.02%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.21%) Legal
10 3 (1.21%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.81%) Military
11 2 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.81%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Publishing
12 1 (0.40%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 66 (26.61%) Developer
2 39 (15.73%) Analyst
3 29 (11.69%) Java Developer
4 27 (10.89%) Python Developer
5 26 (10.48%) Architect
5 26 (10.48%) Senior
6 18 (7.26%) Business Analyst
6 18 (7.26%) Project Manager
7 15 (6.05%) Solutions Architect
8 14 (5.65%) Senior Developer
9 12 (4.84%) Linux Developer
10 11 (4.44%) C++ Developer
10 11 (4.44%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
10 11 (4.44%) Senior C++ Developer
10 11 (4.44%) Senior Python Developer
11 10 (4.03%) Lead
11 10 (4.03%) Technical Analyst
12 8 (3.23%) Investment Banking Java Developer
12 8 (3.23%) Python Engineer
12 8 (3.23%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (10.08%) Spring
2 14 (5.65%) Spring Boot
3 12 (4.84%) Kafka
3 12 (4.84%) Middleware
4 11 (4.44%) JMS
5 5 (2.02%) RESTful
6 3 (1.21%) J2EE
6 3 (1.21%) Swagger
7 2 (0.81%) Hibernate
7 2 (0.81%) IBM Integration Bus
7 2 (0.81%) LDAP
7 2 (0.81%) Loki
7 2 (0.81%) OpenAPI
7 2 (0.81%) Spring Cloud
7 2 (0.81%) Spring Security
7 2 (0.81%) XML
8 1 (0.40%) Lambda Expressions
8 1 (0.40%) Playwright
8 1 (0.40%) PySpark
8 1 (0.40%) React
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
2 13 (5.24%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (4.84%) Data Centre
3 12 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.44%) Data Structures
5 10 (4.03%) Equities
5 10 (4.03%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.23%) CMDB
6 8 (3.23%) Mainframe
7 6 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.42%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.02%) Clustering
8 5 (2.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 4 (1.61%) Derivative
10 3 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.21%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.81%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.81%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.81%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 49 (19.76%) Linux
2 30 (12.10%) Windows
3 13 (5.24%) Unix
4 6 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.21%) AIX
6 2 (0.81%) Solaris
6 2 (0.81%) zOS
7 1 (0.40%) HPUX
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (29.03%) Agile
2 69 (27.82%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (13.31%) SDLC
4 29 (11.69%) Risk Management
4 29 (11.69%) Wealth Management
5 28 (11.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 26 (10.48%) Data Science
7 25 (10.08%) Migration
8 22 (8.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (8.87%) Decision-Making
8 22 (8.87%) DevOps
8 22 (8.87%) Project Delivery
8 22 (8.87%) Project Management
9 21 (8.47%) Containerisation
10 20 (8.06%) CI/CD
10 20 (8.06%) Investment Management
11 18 (7.26%) Cybersecurity
12 17 (6.85%) Data Analysis
12 17 (6.85%) Test Automation
13 16 (6.45%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 58 (23.39%) Python
2 49 (19.76%) Java
3 34 (13.71%) SQL
4 14 (5.65%) Shell Script
5 11 (4.44%) C++
6 10 (4.03%) JavaScript
6 10 (4.03%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.42%) PL/SQL
8 5 (2.02%) Perl
9 4 (1.61%) R
10 2 (0.81%) C#
11 1 (0.40%) Bash
11 1 (0.40%) Groovy
11 1 (0.40%) JCL
11 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (4.44%) Degree
2 7 (2.82%) Azure Certification
3 5 (2.02%) CISSP
3 5 (2.02%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (1.21%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (1.21%) CEH
4 3 (1.21%) OSCP
5 2 (0.81%) ACCA
5 2 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (0.81%) CISM
5 2 (0.81%) CRISC
5 2 (0.81%) GCIH
5 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.81%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.40%) CCNP
6 1 (0.40%) CCSP
6 1 (0.40%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.63%) QA
2 4 (1.61%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (0.81%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (0.81%) ISO 20022
3 2 (0.81%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.81%) SLA
4 1 (0.40%) Basel III
4 1 (0.40%) COBIT
4 1 (0.40%) GDPR
4 1 (0.40%) NIST
4 1 (0.40%) PMO
System Software
1 20 (8.06%) Docker
2 4 (1.61%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.81%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.81%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.81%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (12.10%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.84%) Terraform
3 8 (3.23%) Ansible
4 4 (1.61%) Grafana
5 3 (1.21%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.81%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.40%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.40%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.40%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.40%) Puppet
7 1 (0.40%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 19 (7.66%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.45%) ServiceNow
3 12 (4.84%) Sybase
4 11 (4.44%) Splunk
5 10 (4.03%) Oracle
6 9 (3.63%) IBM
7 6 (2.42%) VMware
8 5 (2.02%) Google
9 4 (1.61%) Avaloq
9 4 (1.61%) Informatica
9 4 (1.61%) Pega
10 3 (1.21%) Databricks
10 3 (1.21%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.21%) Sun
10 3 (1.21%) Temenos
10 3 (1.21%) Workday
11 2 (0.81%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.81%) StreamSets
11 2 (0.81%) Teradata
11 2 (0.81%) Veritas