Banking Contract Job Trends 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 18 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 17 22
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 +3
Contract jobs citing Banking 183 175 204
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 11.98% 10.39% 8.60%
As % of the General category 18.26% 15.39% 12.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 68 110
10th Percentile £356 £350 £462
25th Percentile £425 £413 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £618
Median % change year-on-year - -19.13% +17.76%
75th Percentile £550 £606 £700
90th Percentile £610 £627 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £610
% change year-on-year -8.33% -1.64% -6.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Median hourly rate - £24.18 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year - +26.07% -
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £24.17 £18.93
% change year-on-year +4.08% +27.65% -9.86%

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 1,002 1,137 1,600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 65.62% 67.48% 67.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 681 987
10th Percentile £200 £190 £197
25th Percentile £361 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +0.56% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £540 £538 £588
90th Percentile £606 £625 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 29 43
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.56 £12.13
25th Percentile £13.82 £19.59 £15.42
Median hourly rate £19.05 £23.00 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year -17.17% +19.92% +13.26%
75th Percentile £25.90 £24.18 £55.70
90th Percentile £56.25 £36.10 £62.30
UK median hourly rate £23.58 £27.50 £32.75
% change year-on-year -14.27% -16.03% +31.00%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Banking job vacancy trend in Scotland

Banking
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Banking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Banking

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in Scotland

Banking
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Banking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Banking

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 18 December 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
Edinburgh +1 98 £525 -4.55% 23
Glasgow -1 81 £473 +5.06% 9
Fife - 4 £475 -
Banking
UK

Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 10 (5.46%) Confluence
2 5 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.19%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.64%) SAS
5 2 (1.09%) Apache
5 2 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.55%) CICS
6 1 (0.55%) CMS
Applications
1 13 (7.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.73%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.09%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.55%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.55%) InVision
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.55%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (2.19%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.55%) Infor M3
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 51 (27.87%) AWS
2 32 (17.49%) Azure
3 14 (7.65%) GCP
4 13 (7.10%) Serverless
5 11 (6.01%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (5.46%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (4.92%) Snowflake
8 7 (3.83%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (3.83%) Amazon S3
8 7 (3.83%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (3.28%) Amazon MSK
9 6 (3.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (2.19%) Amazon SageMaker
10 4 (2.19%) Apigee
10 4 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.19%) Figma
10 4 (2.19%) GitHub
10 4 (2.19%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.01%) Firewall
2 4 (2.19%) DHCP
2 4 (2.19%) DNS
3 3 (1.64%) HTTP
3 3 (1.64%) SSL
3 3 (1.64%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.55%) Network Security
4 1 (0.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.66%) Relational Database
2 13 (7.10%) DB2
3 12 (6.56%) MongoDB
4 9 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.83%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (3.83%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.83%) Power BI
6 6 (3.28%) Tableau
7 4 (2.19%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.64%) MSDE
8 3 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.09%) Big Data
9 2 (1.09%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.09%) Data Mart
9 2 (1.09%) Metadata
9 2 (1.09%) MS Access
9 2 (1.09%) MySQL
10 1 (0.55%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (13.11%) Jenkins
1 24 (13.11%) JIRA
2 19 (10.38%) JUnit
3 17 (9.29%) GitLab
4 12 (6.56%) Git
5 9 (4.92%) Bitbucket
6 6 (3.28%) Cypress.io
6 6 (3.28%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.64%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.64%) Liquibase
7 3 (1.64%) MLflow
7 3 (1.64%) PyCharm
7 3 (1.64%) Visual Studio
7 3 (1.64%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (1.09%) git-flow
8 2 (1.09%) Gradle
8 2 (1.09%) Selenium
8 2 (1.09%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.55%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
General
1 145 (79.23%) Finance
2 51 (27.87%) Social Skills
3 43 (23.50%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (22.40%) Investment Banking
5 32 (17.49%) Retail Banking
6 24 (13.11%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (8.20%) Front Office
8 9 (4.92%) Retail
9 7 (3.83%) Corporate Banking
10 6 (3.28%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.73%) Legal
12 2 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (28.42%) Analyst
2 32 (17.49%) Developer
3 22 (12.02%) Java Developer
3 22 (12.02%) Senior
4 18 (9.84%) Data Analyst
5 12 (6.56%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 12 (6.56%) Software Engineer
5 12 (6.56%) SQL Developer
5 12 (6.56%) Sybase Developer
6 11 (6.01%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (6.01%) Project Manager
7 10 (5.46%) AWS Engineer
7 10 (5.46%) Business Analyst
8 9 (4.92%) Fraud Analyst
9 8 (4.37%) Data Engineer
9 8 (4.37%) Python Engineer
10 7 (3.83%) Lead
11 6 (3.28%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (3.28%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (3.28%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.66%) Spring
2 14 (7.65%) JMS
2 14 (7.65%) Kafka
3 13 (7.10%) Spring Boot
4 12 (6.56%) RESTful
5 9 (4.92%) REST
6 8 (4.37%) AngularJS
6 8 (4.37%) React
7 7 (3.83%) PySpark
8 6 (3.28%) Node.js
9 5 (2.73%) FastAPI
9 5 (2.73%) Jest
10 4 (2.19%) NumPy
10 4 (2.19%) Pandas
10 4 (2.19%) SOAP
11 3 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (1.64%) JSON
11 3 (1.64%) scikit-learn
11 3 (1.64%) TensorFlow
12 2 (1.09%) Torch
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.10%) Data Structures
2 12 (6.56%) Equities
3 10 (5.46%) CMDB
3 10 (5.46%) Onboarding
3 10 (5.46%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (4.37%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.83%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.83%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.83%) Virtual Team
6 6 (3.28%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.73%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.64%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.64%) Clustering
8 3 (1.64%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.64%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (1.09%) Wiki
10 1 (0.55%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 31 (16.94%) Linux
2 9 (4.92%) Windows
3 7 (3.83%) Unix
4 2 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.09%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.55%) Android
5 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (40.44%) Agile
2 48 (26.23%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (22.40%) Migration
4 40 (21.86%) CI/CD
5 32 (17.49%) Stakeholder Management
6 30 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 28 (15.30%) DevOps
8 26 (14.21%) Containerisation
9 24 (13.11%) Performance Tuning
9 24 (13.11%) Software Engineering
10 22 (12.02%) Fintech
11 20 (10.93%) Analytics
12 19 (10.38%) Microservices
12 19 (10.38%) Regulatory Compliance
13 18 (9.84%) Digital Banking
14 17 (9.29%) Decision-Making
14 17 (9.29%) Infrastructure as Code
14 17 (9.29%) SDLC
15 16 (8.74%) Due Diligence
15 16 (8.74%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 61 (33.33%) Python
2 44 (24.04%) Java
3 39 (21.31%) SQL
4 15 (8.20%) Shell Script
5 11 (6.01%) TypeScript
6 10 (5.46%) Perl
7 8 (4.37%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.28%) Bash
8 6 (3.28%) Ruby
9 5 (2.73%) JavaScript
10 4 (2.19%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.64%) C#
11 3 (1.64%) Go
12 2 (1.09%) Korn
12 2 (1.09%) Rust
12 2 (1.09%) VBA
13 1 (0.55%) Groovy
13 1 (0.55%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 18 (9.84%) Degree
2 10 (5.46%) AWS Certification
3 8 (4.37%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (2.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (2.19%) ACCA
5 4 (2.19%) CIMA
5 4 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.19%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (1.64%) MCP
7 2 (1.09%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.55%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.55%) CBAP
8 1 (0.55%) CISSP
8 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.55%) PMP
8 1 (0.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.65%) QA
2 9 (4.92%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.28%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.28%) PMO
4 4 (2.19%) COBIT
5 2 (1.09%) MiFID
6 1 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.55%) Basel III
6 1 (0.55%) COREP
6 1 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.55%) IFRS
6 1 (0.55%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.55%) NCSC
6 1 (0.55%) NIST
6 1 (0.55%) NIST 800
System Software
1 23 (12.57%) Docker
2 4 (2.19%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.55%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 26 (14.21%) Terraform
2 23 (12.57%) Ansible
3 21 (11.48%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.19%) Grafana
5 3 (1.64%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.55%) Argo
6 1 (0.55%) Karpenter
6 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 15 (8.20%) ServiceNow
2 13 (7.10%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.10%) Sybase
3 11 (6.01%) Oracle
4 7 (3.83%) F5
5 5 (2.73%) Splunk
6 4 (2.19%) CheckPoint
6 4 (2.19%) Dell
6 4 (2.19%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.19%) HP
6 4 (2.19%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.64%) Databricks
7 3 (1.64%) Google
7 3 (1.64%) IBM
7 3 (1.64%) Infoblox
8 2 (1.09%) Avaloq
8 2 (1.09%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.09%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.55%) Adobe
9 1 (0.55%) Teradata