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 21 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 109 160
Rank change year-on-year +9 +51 -38
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 14 34 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.75% 1.38% 0.65%
As % of the General category 1.18% 2.05% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 13
10th Percentile £315 £394 -
25th Percentile £321 £488 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £618 £475
Median % change year-on-year -44.94% +30.00% -3.65%
75th Percentile £401 £650 £565
90th Percentile £460 £682 £658
UK median daily rate £750 £675 £725
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.90% +11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £62.84 -
25th Percentile - £63.83 £40.25
Median hourly rate £44.04 £66.56 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.84% +64.35% -3.57%
75th Percentile - £68.20 £40.75
90th Percentile - £68.53 -
UK median hourly rate £44.04 £64.38 £33.25
% change year-on-year -31.59% +93.61% -20.83%

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 1,191 1,656 2,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 63.96% 67.37% 70.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 711 1,078 1,718
10th Percentile £168 £208 £237
25th Percentile £322 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +6.74%
75th Percentile £538 £568 £560
90th Percentile £630 £650 £647
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 39 49
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.93 £13.16
25th Percentile £13.64 £12.51 £15.68
Median hourly rate £16.92 £30.00 £18.90
Median % change year-on-year -43.60% +58.73% +19.17%
75th Percentile £24.18 £58.89 £37.43
90th Percentile £43.42 £74.60 £48.50
UK median hourly rate £35.36 £27.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year +28.58% +12.24% +28.95%

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 21 September 2024.

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 21 September 2024. 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 -3 11 £340 -45.27% 1
Edinburgh +22 3 - -
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 (28.57%) Apache Spark
2 3 (21.43%) SAS
3 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) AWS
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) OpenShift
3 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (14.29%) iSCSI
1 2 (14.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Apache Hive
1 4 (28.57%) Big Data
1 4 (28.57%) Impala
1 4 (28.57%) MySQL
1 4 (28.57%) Spark SQL
2 2 (14.29%) DB2
2 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 2 (14.29%) RDBMS
2 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
3 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 14 (100.00%) Banking
2 11 (78.57%) Finance
3 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
4 3 (21.43%) Corporate Banking
4 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
4 3 (21.43%) Retail
4 3 (21.43%) Retail Banking
5 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (7.14%) Legal
6 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Database Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Auditor
4 2 (14.29%) Banking Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Business Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) IT Auditor
4 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Project Manager
4 2 (14.29%) Python Developer
4 2 (14.29%) SOX Auditor
4 2 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Credit Risk Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) MySQL Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) SQL Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Flash
1 2 (14.29%) POSIX
1 2 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Virtual Team
2 2 (14.29%) Client/Server
2 2 (14.29%) NVMe
3 1 (7.14%) Credit Risk
3 1 (7.14%) Mainframe
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Unix
2 2 (14.29%) Data ONTAP
2 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Wealth Management
2 4 (28.57%) Investment Management
2 4 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (21.43%) Agile
4 2 (14.29%) Capacity Management
4 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 2 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (14.29%) Functional Testing
4 2 (14.29%) High Availability
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (14.29%) Observability
4 2 (14.29%) OO
4 2 (14.29%) Preventative Maintenance
4 2 (14.29%) Problem Management
4 2 (14.29%) Project Management
4 2 (14.29%) SDLC
4 2 (14.29%) Storage Management
4 2 (14.29%) Storage Virtualisation
4 2 (14.29%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) Shell Script
3 2 (14.29%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) Perl
3 2 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (7.14%) COBIT
2 1 (7.14%) COSO
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
1 2 (14.29%) GPFS
1 2 (14.29%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 2 (14.29%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Google
2 4 (28.57%) Oracle
3 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
4 2 (14.29%) Brocade
4 2 (14.29%) EMC
4 2 (14.29%) IBM
4 2 (14.29%) NetApp
4 2 (14.29%) Sybase
4 2 (14.29%) Veritas