Finance Contracts in Scotland

Financial
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance 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 2 4 4
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 490 382 536
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 30.15% 17.23% 18.73%
As % of the General category 41.84% 26.49% 28.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 204 370
10th Percentile £310 £300 £363
25th Percentile £408 £400 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £484 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% -3.25% +2.56%
75th Percentile £567 £588 £600
90th Percentile £623 £738 £726
UK median daily rate £572 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -0.52% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 7
10th Percentile £20.11 £12.30 £14.51
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.72 £16.60
Median hourly rate £23.00 £19.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.95% -66.09% +142.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £19.75 £62.66
90th Percentile £75.92 £20.37 £67.44
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year +33.33% -11.48% -12.86%

All General Skills
Scotland

Finance 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%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Scotland

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in Scotland

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Scotland

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Scotland

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in Scotland

Finance
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 Finance 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 +2 275 £465 -3.98% 136
Edinburgh +3 190 £525 +5.00% 168
Perthshire +4 5 £375 -28.57% 1
Argyll and Bute -1 2 £205 +2.50% 1
Dundee +1 1 £220 - 14
Highlands -1 1 - - 3
Perth and Kinross -3 1 - - 2
Fife -5 1 - - 11
Scottish Borders - 1 - -
Finance
UK

Finance
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 21 (4.29%) Confluence
1 21 (4.29%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.43%) SAS
3 5 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.61%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.41%) JBoss
5 2 (0.41%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (0.41%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.20%) Camunda
6 1 (0.20%) CICS
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.20%) nginx
6 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 36 (7.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (4.49%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (2.24%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (2.04%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.82%) Oracle Smart View
6 4 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.20%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 8 (1.63%) Oracle ERP
1 8 (1.63%) Oracle Payables
2 7 (1.43%) iTrent
3 4 (0.82%) Oracle Cash Management
3 4 (0.82%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.61%) Finacle
4 3 (0.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.20%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 63 (12.86%) Azure
2 47 (9.59%) AWS
3 26 (5.31%) Power Platform
4 23 (4.69%) SaaS
5 21 (4.29%) Cloud Computing
6 14 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (2.45%) IaaS
8 11 (2.24%) OCI
9 10 (2.04%) Amazon S3
9 10 (2.04%) GCP
9 10 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (1.84%) GitHub
10 9 (1.84%) Serverless
11 8 (1.63%) Snowflake
12 7 (1.43%) PowerApps
13 6 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (1.02%) OpenShift
14 5 (1.02%) PaaS
15 4 (0.82%) Apigee
15 4 (0.82%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.43%) DNS
1 7 (1.43%) Network Security
1 7 (1.43%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.22%) DHCP
2 6 (1.22%) WAN
3 4 (0.82%) Firewall
4 3 (0.61%) 4G
4 3 (0.61%) BGP
4 3 (0.61%) LAN
4 3 (0.61%) OSPF
4 3 (0.61%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.61%) VPN
4 3 (0.61%) Wireless
5 2 (0.41%) SAN
5 2 (0.41%) SNA
5 2 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.20%) HTTP
6 1 (0.20%) Internet
6 1 (0.20%) Intranet
6 1 (0.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (6.94%) Relational Database
2 27 (5.51%) MongoDB
3 24 (4.90%) DB2
4 22 (4.49%) Power BI
5 8 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (1.63%) Oracle Reports
5 8 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (1.63%) Tableau
6 7 (1.43%) RDBMS
6 7 (1.43%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.02%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (1.02%) MySQL
8 4 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.82%) Hadoop
8 4 (0.82%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (0.82%) Power Query
9 3 (0.61%) Apache Hive
9 3 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.61%) IBM InfoSphere
9 3 (0.61%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 58 (11.84%) JIRA
2 27 (5.51%) JUnit
3 13 (2.65%) Git
4 8 (1.63%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.63%) GitLab
5 6 (1.22%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.22%) Selenium
6 3 (0.61%) Xcode
7 2 (0.41%) Ant
7 2 (0.41%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.41%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.41%) Postman
7 2 (0.41%) webpack
8 1 (0.20%) GCC
8 1 (0.20%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.20%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.20%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.20%) Zephyr
General
1 181 (36.94%) Social Skills
2 158 (32.24%) Banking
3 92 (18.78%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (10.82%) Public Sector
5 52 (10.61%) Investment Banking
6 24 (4.90%) Front Office
7 23 (4.69%) Financial Institution
8 13 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (2.45%) Retail Banking
10 10 (2.04%) Marketing
11 9 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.63%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.22%) Games
13 6 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.22%) Retail
13 6 (1.22%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.02%) Electronics
14 5 (1.02%) Legal
15 4 (0.82%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 87 (17.76%) Developer
2 73 (14.90%) Analyst
3 49 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 45 (9.18%) Java Developer
5 43 (8.78%) Architect
6 38 (7.76%) Senior
7 25 (5.10%) Business Analyst
8 24 (4.90%) Solutions Architect
9 23 (4.69%) Lead
9 23 (4.69%) Python Developer
10 14 (2.86%) Administrator
10 14 (2.86%) Designer
11 13 (2.65%) Python Engineer
12 12 (2.45%) Programme Manager
13 11 (2.24%) Data Analyst
14 10 (2.04%) Scrum Master
14 10 (2.04%) Senior Manager
14 10 (2.04%) Technical Analyst
15 9 (1.84%) Data Architect
15 9 (1.84%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (10.41%) Spring
2 28 (5.71%) Kafka
3 24 (4.90%) Spring Boot
4 22 (4.49%) JMS
5 14 (2.86%) Oracle Fusion
6 13 (2.65%) Middleware
7 9 (1.84%) RESTful
8 8 (1.63%) REST
8 8 (1.63%) SOAP
9 5 (1.02%) JSON
9 5 (1.02%) Web Services
10 4 (0.82%) .NET
10 4 (0.82%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.82%) ASP.NET
10 4 (0.82%) Node.js
10 4 (0.82%) OpenAPI
10 4 (0.82%) PySpark
10 4 (0.82%) Swagger
10 4 (0.82%) XML
11 3 (0.61%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.51%) Management Information System
2 26 (5.31%) Data Structures
3 24 (4.90%) Data Protection Act
4 23 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (4.08%) Equities
5 20 (4.08%) Product Ownership
6 16 (3.27%) Data Centre
7 14 (2.86%) Public Cloud
8 12 (2.45%) Cloud Native
9 11 (2.24%) Virtual Team
10 10 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (2.04%) Mainframe
10 10 (2.04%) Onboarding
11 9 (1.84%) CMDB
11 9 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.43%) Derivative
13 6 (1.22%) Credit Risk
13 6 (1.22%) Mobile App
13 6 (1.22%) PMI
13 6 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 61 (12.45%) Linux
2 28 (5.71%) Windows
3 18 (3.67%) Unix
4 10 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.63%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.82%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.82%) Solaris
7 3 (0.61%) AIX
7 3 (0.61%) Android
7 3 (0.61%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.61%) HPUX
7 3 (0.61%) zOS
8 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (30.61%) Agile
2 121 (24.69%) Problem-Solving
3 62 (12.65%) Project Management
4 60 (12.24%) SDLC
5 55 (11.22%) Project Delivery
6 54 (11.02%) Stakeholder Management
7 48 (9.80%) DevOps
8 41 (8.37%) Decision-Making
9 39 (7.96%) CI/CD
10 38 (7.76%) Risk Management
11 37 (7.55%) ITIL
12 36 (7.35%) Software Engineering
13 34 (6.94%) Data Protection
13 34 (6.94%) Migration
14 33 (6.73%) Cybersecurity
15 29 (5.92%) Continuous Improvement
16 27 (5.51%) Wealth Management
17 26 (5.31%) Business Intelligence
17 26 (5.31%) Data Analysis
17 26 (5.31%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 98 (20.00%) Python
2 75 (15.31%) Java
3 57 (11.63%) SQL
4 24 (4.90%) Shell Script
5 21 (4.29%) TypeScript
6 17 (3.47%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.63%) PowerShell
7 8 (1.63%) VBA
8 6 (1.22%) C#
9 5 (1.02%) Bash
9 5 (1.02%) ProC
10 4 (0.82%) Perl
10 4 (0.82%) R
11 3 (0.61%) Groovy
11 3 (0.61%) Objective-C
11 3 (0.61%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.61%) Swift
11 3 (0.61%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.41%) C++
12 2 (0.41%) JCL
Qualifications
1 26 (5.31%) Degree
2 13 (2.65%) Security Cleared
3 11 (2.24%) Azure Certification
4 10 (2.04%) AWS Certification
5 8 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
6 7 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (1.43%) PMI Certification
7 6 (1.22%) SC Cleared
8 5 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.02%) CIMA
9 4 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.82%) CISM
9 4 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.61%) ACCA
10 3 (0.61%) CISSP
10 3 (0.61%) CRISC
10 3 (0.61%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.29%) Disclosure Scotland
2 20 (4.08%) QA
3 17 (3.47%) PMO
4 11 (2.24%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.02%) NIST
5 5 (1.02%) SLA
6 3 (0.61%) Basel III
6 3 (0.61%) GDPR
6 3 (0.61%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.41%) FINREP
7 2 (0.41%) PERC
7 2 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.20%) COREP
8 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.20%) IFRS
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (2.45%) Docker
2 7 (1.43%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.02%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.61%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.61%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 2 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.41%) RACF
6 2 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (5.51%) Kubernetes
2 16 (3.27%) Terraform
3 10 (2.04%) Ansible
4 5 (1.02%) Grafana
5 4 (0.82%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.61%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.41%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.41%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.41%) NetBackup
7 2 (0.41%) SCCM
7 2 (0.41%) Tivoli NetView
8 1 (0.20%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.20%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.20%) linkerd
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 50 (10.20%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.33%) ServiceNow
3 30 (6.12%) Oracle
4 23 (4.69%) Sybase
5 16 (3.27%) IBM
6 15 (3.06%) VMware
7 9 (1.84%) Informatica
7 9 (1.84%) Splunk
8 8 (1.63%) CyberArk
8 8 (1.63%) Pega
8 8 (1.63%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.22%) Google
10 5 (1.02%) SAP
10 5 (1.02%) Sun
10 5 (1.02%) Veritas
11 4 (0.82%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.82%) BT
11 4 (0.82%) Cisco
11 4 (0.82%) Juniper
12 3 (0.61%) ForgeRock