Fintech Contracts in Scotland

Financial Technology (FinTech)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Fintech skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fintech over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 112 134
Rank change year-on-year +31 +22 +41
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Fintech 37 6 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.28% 0.32% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.50% 0.37% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 6 14
10th Percentile £457 - £336
25th Percentile £484 £375 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £444
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -4.17% -27.59%
75th Percentile £550 £475 £534
90th Percentile - £488 £588
UK median daily rate £573 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.58% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Fintech falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,479 1,605 2,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 91.07% 86.62% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 993 1,552
10th Percentile £263 £205 £248
25th Percentile £368 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £589 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 48 56
10th Percentile £16.84 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £13.60 £13.03
Median hourly rate £20.00 £18.69 £19.06
Median % change year-on-year +7.02% -1.93% -4.01%
75th Percentile £25.15 £27.50 £58.75
90th Percentile £29.60 £57.50 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.90% -4.71% +54.55%

Fintech
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Fintech in Scotland

Fintech
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Fintech

Fintech
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fintech in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fintech in Scotland

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DemandTrendContract 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 Fintech within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +27 28 £525 +23.53% 1
Glasgow - 8 £450 - 4
Fintech
UK

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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 1 (2.70%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.62%) Azure
2 6 (16.22%) AWS
3 3 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (8.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.41%) Serverless
5 1 (2.70%) Apigee
5 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.70%) CloudFront
5 1 (2.70%) GitHub
5 1 (2.70%) SaaS
5 1 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) DHCP
1 1 (2.70%) DNS
1 1 (2.70%) Firewall
1 1 (2.70%) HTTP
1 1 (2.70%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (2.70%) Kerberos
1 1 (2.70%) SSL
1 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.70%) CockroachDB
2 1 (2.70%) NewSQL
2 1 (2.70%) OLTP
2 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Cypress.io
1 2 (5.41%) JUnit
2 1 (2.70%) Git
2 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.70%) Postman
General
1 32 (86.49%) Finance
2 25 (67.57%) Banking
3 24 (64.86%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (64.86%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (24.32%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (64.86%) Analyst
2 13 (35.14%) Fraud Analyst
3 6 (16.22%) Developer
3 6 (16.22%) Java Developer
4 5 (13.51%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (13.51%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 3 (8.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (5.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 1 (2.70%) Database Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Designer
7 1 (2.70%) Java Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Java Software Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Security Manager
7 1 (2.70%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Solutions Designer
7 1 (2.70%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.92%) AngularJS
2 6 (16.22%) Spring
2 6 (16.22%) Spring Boot
3 4 (10.81%) Kafka
4 3 (8.11%) Middleware
5 2 (5.41%) Jest
5 2 (5.41%) React
5 2 (5.41%) RESTful
6 1 (2.70%) OAuth
6 1 (2.70%) OpenAPI
6 1 (2.70%) OpenID
6 1 (2.70%) REST
6 1 (2.70%) SAML
6 1 (2.70%) SOAP
6 1 (2.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Distributed Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.70%) PropTech
3 1 (2.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Linux
2 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (64.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 23 (62.16%) Case Management
2 23 (62.16%) Digital Banking
2 23 (62.16%) Due Diligence
2 23 (62.16%) Migration
2 23 (62.16%) Regulatory Compliance
2 23 (62.16%) Scenario Testing
3 13 (35.14%) Fraud Detection
4 10 (27.03%) Anti-Money Laundering
4 10 (27.03%) DevOps
5 9 (24.32%) CI/CD
6 6 (16.22%) Agile
6 6 (16.22%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (13.51%) Containerisation
7 5 (13.51%) Microservices
7 5 (13.51%) Test Automation
8 4 (10.81%) Observability
9 3 (8.11%) DevSecOps
9 3 (8.11%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.92%) Java
2 3 (8.11%) Python
3 2 (5.41%) Bash
4 1 (2.70%) ANSI SQL
4 1 (2.70%) Go
4 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.70%) Perl
4 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) AWS Certification
1 3 (8.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 3 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (8.11%) Degree
2 1 (2.70%) CISM
2 1 (2.70%) CISSP
2 1 (2.70%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) Accessibility
1 2 (5.41%) QA
System Software
1 5 (13.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Ansible
1 5 (13.51%) Terraform
2 4 (10.81%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.70%) HAProxy
3 1 (2.70%) linkerd
Vendors
1 2 (5.41%) Dynatrace
1 2 (5.41%) ForgeRock
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.70%) F5
2 1 (2.70%) Infoblox
2 1 (2.70%) MuleSoft