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 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 28 27
Rank change year-on-year +18 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing Banking 235 124 192
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 14.43% 5.84% 7.16%
As % of the General category 19.62% 9.21% 10.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 66 91
10th Percentile £308 £287 £400
25th Percentile £404 £369 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +1.50% -1.96%
75th Percentile £553 £617 £624
90th Percentile £606 £672 £725
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile - - £27.78
25th Percentile - - £40.68
Median hourly rate £19.97 £12.30 £64.38
Median % change year-on-year +62.36% -80.89% +54.19%
75th Percentile £22.32 - £67.66
90th Percentile £23.72 - £68.31
UK median hourly rate £22.27 £19.05 £52.50
% change year-on-year +16.90% -63.71% +90.91%

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 1,198 1,347 1,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 73.59% 63.45% 66.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 669 807 1,276
10th Percentile £237 £178 £223
25th Percentile £370 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.22% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £561 £554
90th Percentile £600 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 78 29
10th Percentile £16.02 £12.21 £12.66
25th Percentile £16.44 £14.56 £14.50
Median hourly rate £20.00 £18.07 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -5.81% -48.76%
75th Percentile £27.08 £47.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £59.50 £66.50 £67.00
UK median hourly rate £27.97 £30.12 £32.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% -5.88% +42.22%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 +15 139 £450 +2.27% 35
Edinburgh +11 90 £513 -14.58% 44
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 9 (3.83%) Confluence
2 3 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.28%) CICS
2 3 (1.28%) SAS
2 3 (1.28%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.85%) Camunda
3 2 (0.85%) JBoss
3 2 (0.85%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.43%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 10 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.40%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Finacle
2 1 (0.43%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 19 (8.09%) Azure
2 18 (7.66%) AWS
3 13 (5.53%) Cloud Computing
4 8 (3.40%) GCP
4 8 (3.40%) Power Platform
5 7 (2.98%) IaaS
6 6 (2.55%) Snowflake
7 5 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.13%) GitHub
8 4 (1.70%) Apigee
9 3 (1.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.28%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.28%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.28%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.28%) Serverless
10 2 (0.85%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (0.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (0.85%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (0.85%) Miro
11 1 (0.43%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.13%) DNS
2 4 (1.70%) DHCP
3 3 (1.28%) Firewall
3 3 (1.28%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.43%) ATM
4 1 (0.43%) BGP
4 1 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.43%) HTTP
4 1 (0.43%) LAN
4 1 (0.43%) Network Security
4 1 (0.43%) OSPF
4 1 (0.43%) SAN
4 1 (0.43%) SMS
4 1 (0.43%) SNA
4 1 (0.43%) SSL
4 1 (0.43%) VPN
4 1 (0.43%) WAN
4 1 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.66%) MongoDB
2 17 (7.23%) DB2
2 17 (7.23%) Relational Database
3 13 (5.53%) KDB
3 13 (5.53%) Kdb+
4 8 (3.40%) Power BI
5 7 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.70%) Tableau
8 3 (1.28%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.85%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.85%) SAS Data Integration Studio
10 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.43%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.43%) Metadata
10 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 24 (10.21%) JIRA
2 18 (7.66%) JUnit
3 11 (4.68%) Git
4 8 (3.40%) GitLab
5 4 (1.70%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.70%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.28%) Mockito
7 2 (0.85%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.85%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.85%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.85%) Selenium
7 2 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.43%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.43%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.43%) Maven
8 1 (0.43%) Postman
8 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.43%) webpack
8 1 (0.43%) Zephyr
General
1 147 (62.55%) Finance
2 114 (48.51%) Social Skills
3 69 (29.36%) Investment Banking
4 53 (22.55%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (11.06%) Retail Banking
6 22 (9.36%) Front Office
7 9 (3.83%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.40%) Corporate Banking
9 7 (2.98%) Retail
10 6 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (2.13%) Back Office
12 4 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.28%) Legal
13 3 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.28%) Private Banking
14 2 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.85%) Military
14 2 (0.85%) Public Sector
15 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 54 (22.98%) Developer
2 41 (17.45%) Analyst
3 29 (12.34%) Senior
4 25 (10.64%) Java Developer
5 20 (8.51%) Architect
5 20 (8.51%) Business Analyst
5 20 (8.51%) Python Developer
6 16 (6.81%) Senior Developer
7 15 (6.38%) Project Manager
8 14 (5.96%) Linux Developer
9 13 (5.53%) C++ Developer
9 13 (5.53%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
9 13 (5.53%) Senior C++ Developer
9 13 (5.53%) Senior Python Developer
10 12 (5.11%) Lead
11 11 (4.68%) Investment Banking Java Developer
12 10 (4.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 10 (4.26%) JavaScript Engineer
12 10 (4.26%) Sybase Developer
12 10 (4.26%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (11.49%) Spring
2 15 (6.38%) Kafka
3 14 (5.96%) JMS
4 12 (5.11%) Spring Boot
5 10 (4.26%) Middleware
6 8 (3.40%) RESTful
7 3 (1.28%) Hibernate
7 3 (1.28%) React
7 3 (1.28%) Swagger
7 3 (1.28%) XML
8 2 (0.85%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.85%) IBM Integration Bus
8 2 (0.85%) J2EE
8 2 (0.85%) LDAP
8 2 (0.85%) Loki
8 2 (0.85%) OAuth
8 2 (0.85%) OpenAPI
8 2 (0.85%) Spring Cloud
8 2 (0.85%) Spring Security
9 1 (0.43%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.38%) Data Structures
1 15 (6.38%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (5.96%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.53%) Equities
3 13 (5.53%) Management Information System
4 10 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (3.40%) CMDB
6 7 (2.98%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.98%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.55%) Mainframe
8 5 (2.13%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.70%) Derivative
9 4 (1.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (1.28%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.28%) Clustering
10 3 (1.28%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 45 (19.15%) Linux
2 24 (10.21%) Windows
3 8 (3.40%) Unix
4 6 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.28%) AIX
6 2 (0.85%) Solaris
6 2 (0.85%) zOS
7 1 (0.43%) HPUX
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (32.77%) Agile
2 71 (30.21%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (14.04%) SDLC
4 31 (13.19%) Risk Management
5 27 (11.49%) Migration
5 27 (11.49%) Stakeholder Management
6 25 (10.64%) Data Science
6 25 (10.64%) DevOps
7 24 (10.21%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (10.21%) Wealth Management
8 23 (9.79%) CI/CD
9 21 (8.94%) Containerisation
9 21 (8.94%) Decision-Making
10 20 (8.51%) Performance Tuning
11 18 (7.66%) Project Management
12 17 (7.23%) Cybersecurity
13 16 (6.81%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 15 (6.38%) Open Source
14 15 (6.38%) Project Delivery
14 15 (6.38%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 55 (23.40%) Python
2 47 (20.00%) Java
3 33 (14.04%) SQL
4 17 (7.23%) Shell Script
5 13 (5.53%) C++
5 13 (5.53%) JavaScript
6 11 (4.68%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.70%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.85%) Perl
9 1 (0.43%) Bash
9 1 (0.43%) JCL
9 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.43%) R
9 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (4.26%) Degree
2 7 (2.98%) Azure Certification
3 6 (2.55%) CISSP
4 5 (2.13%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.85%) ACCA
6 2 (0.85%) CEH
6 2 (0.85%) CRISC
6 2 (0.85%) GCIH
6 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.85%) OSCP
6 2 (0.85%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.43%) CIMA
7 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.43%) GCFA
7 1 (0.43%) ICAEW
7 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.55%) QA
2 4 (1.70%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (0.85%) GDPR
3 2 (0.85%) ISO 20022
3 2 (0.85%) SLA
4 1 (0.43%) Basel III
4 1 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.43%) GRC
4 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.43%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (8.94%) Docker
2 4 (1.70%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.85%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.85%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.85%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (10.21%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.83%) Terraform
3 5 (2.13%) Ansible
4 3 (1.28%) Grafana
5 2 (0.85%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.43%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.43%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.43%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.43%) Podman
6 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.43%) Puppet
6 1 (0.43%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 20 (8.51%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.81%) Sybase
3 15 (6.38%) ServiceNow
4 10 (4.26%) Oracle
5 9 (3.83%) IBM
5 9 (3.83%) Splunk
6 5 (2.13%) Google
6 5 (2.13%) VMware
7 4 (1.70%) Cisco
7 4 (1.70%) Databricks
7 4 (1.70%) Pega
8 3 (1.28%) Avaloq
8 3 (1.28%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.28%) Informatica
8 3 (1.28%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.28%) Sun
8 3 (1.28%) Temenos
8 3 (1.28%) Teradata
8 3 (1.28%) Workday
9 2 (0.85%) Veritas