FFIEC Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for FFIEC qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 - 137
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing FFIEC 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.067% - 0.042%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.28% - 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
UK median daily rate £675 £325 £750
% change year-on-year +107.69% -56.67% +15.38%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

FFIEC falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Scotland.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 362 376 719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 24.26% 22.79% 30.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 223 411
10th Percentile £181 £200 £193
25th Percentile £358 £363 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £560 £550 £600
90th Percentile £660 £667 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 20 32
10th Percentile £19.23 £16.75 £22.31
25th Percentile - £20.62 £46.88
Median hourly rate £19.38 £23.00 £59.52
Median % change year-on-year -15.74% -61.35% +139.55%
75th Percentile £25.15 £29.91 £61.75
90th Percentile £29.16 £70.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £52.21
% change year-on-year -37.13% -23.38% +16.01%

FFIEC
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

FFIEC job vacancy trend in Scotland

FFIEC
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 FFIEC within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 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 £675 - 1
FFIEC
UK

FFIEC
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
1 1 (100.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Thales