Investment Banking Contracts in Scotland

Investment Banking
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Investment Banking 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 47 106 107
Rank change year-on-year +59 +1 +21
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 76 23 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.68% 1.04% 1.99%
As % of the General category 6.49% 1.60% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 9 32
10th Percentile £386 £400 £419
25th Percentile £413 £525 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £619 £600
Median % change year-on-year -27.30% +3.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £695 £717
90th Percentile £576 £722 £750
UK median daily rate £725 £725 £700
% change year-on-year - +3.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £62.84
25th Percentile - - £63.83
Median hourly rate - - £66.56
75th Percentile - - £68.20
90th Percentile - - £68.53
UK median hourly rate £100.00 £19.50 £64.38
% change year-on-year +412.82% -69.71% +20.33%

All General Skills
Scotland

Investment 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 1,171 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%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Investment Banking in Scotland

Investment Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Investment Banking in Scotland

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Investment Banking in Scotland

Investment Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Investment Banking in Scotland

Investment 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 Investment Banking 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 +39 70 £450 -27.30% 6
Edinburgh +8 6 £513 - 1
Investment Banking
UK

Investment 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 4 (5.26%) Jupyter
2 2 (2.63%) Confluence
3 1 (1.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 8 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.26%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.32%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (13.16%) Cloud Computing
2 7 (9.21%) GitHub
3 5 (6.58%) AWS
4 4 (5.26%) Azure
4 4 (5.26%) IaaS
5 2 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.63%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.32%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.32%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.32%) Serverless
6 1 (1.32%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.26%) DHCP
1 4 (5.26%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.11%) Relational Database
2 11 (14.47%) DB2
2 11 (14.47%) KDB
2 11 (14.47%) Kdb+
2 11 (14.47%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.95%) Tableau
4 1 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.32%) MS Access
4 1 (1.32%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.32%) Power BI
4 1 (1.32%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 14 (18.42%) JIRA
2 11 (14.47%) JUnit
3 4 (5.26%) Bitbucket
4 3 (3.95%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.63%) Git
6 1 (1.32%) GitLab
General
1 76 (100.00%) Banking
2 52 (68.42%) Finance
3 46 (60.53%) Social Skills
4 20 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (15.79%) Front Office
6 5 (6.58%) Corporate Banking
6 5 (6.58%) Retail
6 5 (6.58%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.63%) Legal
7 2 (2.63%) Military
8 1 (1.32%) Back Office
8 1 (1.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 42 (55.26%) Developer
2 27 (35.53%) Python Developer
3 15 (19.74%) Java Developer
4 12 (15.79%) Linux Developer
5 11 (14.47%) C++ Developer
5 11 (14.47%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
5 11 (14.47%) Senior
5 11 (14.47%) Senior C++ Developer
5 11 (14.47%) Senior Developer
5 11 (14.47%) Senior Python Developer
6 9 (11.84%) Analyst
7 8 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 8 (10.53%) Investment Banking Java Developer
7 8 (10.53%) JavaScript Engineer
7 8 (10.53%) Python Engineer
8 7 (9.21%) SQL Developer
8 7 (9.21%) Sybase Developer
9 5 (6.58%) Architect
10 4 (5.26%) Business Analyst
10 4 (5.26%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (19.74%) Spring
2 11 (14.47%) JMS
3 10 (13.16%) Kafka
4 3 (3.95%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.63%) Loki
5 2 (2.63%) Middleware
6 1 (1.32%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.05%) Enterprise Software
2 12 (15.79%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (14.47%) Data Structures
4 10 (13.16%) Equities
5 9 (11.84%) Management Information System
6 5 (6.58%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (5.26%) Data Centre
7 4 (5.26%) Product Ownership
8 3 (3.95%) CMDB
9 2 (2.63%) Cloud Native
9 2 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (2.63%) Social Media
9 2 (2.63%) Virtual Team
10 1 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (1.32%) Derivative
10 1 (1.32%) Equity Derivative
10 1 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 40 (52.63%) Linux
2 18 (23.68%) Windows
3 6 (7.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (40.79%) Agile
3 29 (38.16%) SDLC
4 25 (32.89%) Wealth Management
5 23 (30.26%) Data Science
6 20 (26.32%) Investment Management
7 15 (19.74%) Containerisation
8 14 (18.42%) Multithreading
9 12 (15.79%) Open Source
10 11 (14.47%) Data Security
10 11 (14.47%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 11 (14.47%) Decision-Making
11 10 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (13.16%) Critical Thinking
11 10 (13.16%) Database Tuning
11 10 (13.16%) Performance Tuning
12 9 (11.84%) Community of Practice
12 9 (11.84%) DevOps
12 9 (11.84%) Risk Management
13 8 (10.53%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (65.79%) Python
2 26 (34.21%) Java
3 14 (18.42%) SQL
4 12 (15.79%) Shell Script
5 11 (14.47%) C++
6 10 (13.16%) TypeScript
7 9 (11.84%) JavaScript
8 4 (5.26%) Perl
8 4 (5.26%) R
9 2 (2.63%) C#
10 1 (1.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (3.95%) Degree
2 2 (2.63%) AWS Certification
2 2 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (2.63%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.26%) QA
2 2 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.32%) Basel III
System Software
1 16 (21.05%) Docker
2 4 (5.26%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (2.63%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (2.63%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 26 (34.21%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.89%) Terraform
3 5 (6.58%) Ansible
4 3 (3.95%) Grafana
4 3 (3.95%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.32%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 12 (15.79%) Sybase
2 5 (6.58%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.58%) ServiceNow
3 3 (3.95%) Splunk
4 2 (2.63%) Sun
4 2 (2.63%) Veritas
4 2 (2.63%) VMware
5 1 (1.32%) Adobe
5 1 (1.32%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.32%) Google
5 1 (1.32%) Netskope
5 1 (1.32%) Oracle
5 1 (1.32%) Planview
5 1 (1.32%) Proofpoint
5 1 (1.32%) Symantec