Investment Banking Contract Job Trends 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 24 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 58 102
Rank change year-on-year -33 +44 +16
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 50 60 14
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.09% 3.75% 0.75%
As % of the General category 3.33% 5.45% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 23 8
10th Percentile £390 £224 £315
25th Percentile £444 £456 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £525 £340
Median % change year-on-year -8.81% +54.41% -45.27%
75th Percentile £578 £575 £401
90th Percentile £623 £586 £460
UK median daily rate £650 £700 £750
% change year-on-year -7.14% -6.67% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £44.04
UK median hourly rate £95.00 £78.75 £44.04
% change year-on-year +20.63% +78.81% -31.59%

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 general skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,501 1,100 1,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 62.67% 68.75% 63.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 807 630 711
10th Percentile £221 £220 £165
25th Percentile £363 £375 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £474 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.43% +5.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £564 £538 £538
90th Percentile £652 £600 £626
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 52 45
10th Percentile - £16.02 £12.30
25th Percentile £13.45 £16.96 £13.64
Median hourly rate £16.11 £19.23 £16.92
Median % change year-on-year -16.22% +13.65% -43.60%
75th Percentile £40.05 £24.78 £24.18
90th Percentile £57.50 £56.33 £43.42
UK median hourly rate £29.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +17.30% -28.14% +27.27%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Investment Banking job vacancy trend in Scotland

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Investment Banking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Investment Banking

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking in Scotland over the 6 months to 24 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Banking in Scotland

Investment Banking
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Investment Banking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Investment Banking

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 24 September 2026. 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 -26 43 £475 -9.52% 13
Edinburgh -8 5 - - 3
Aberdeenshire - 2 £875 -
Investment Banking
UK

Investment Banking
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.00%) Apache
1 1 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.00%) GitHub
1 9 (18.00%) Power Platform
1 9 (18.00%) Snowflake
2 8 (16.00%) AWS
3 7 (14.00%) Anthropic Claude
3 7 (14.00%) ChatGPT
3 7 (14.00%) GitHub Copilot
4 6 (12.00%) GCP
5 4 (8.00%) Azure
6 2 (4.00%) Apigee
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.00%) Lucidchart
7 1 (2.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (34.00%) Metadata
2 12 (24.00%) Relational Database
3 9 (18.00%) Power BI
3 9 (18.00%) Snowflake Schema
4 8 (16.00%) Data Vault
5 6 (12.00%) Db2
5 6 (12.00%) MongoDB
6 5 (10.00%) Big Data
7 4 (8.00%) Tableau
8 2 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
9 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (2.00%) MySQL
9 1 (2.00%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (2.00%) Trino
Development Applications
1 10 (20.00%) Git
2 3 (6.00%) ER Studio
2 3 (6.00%) ERwin
3 2 (4.00%) Claude Code
3 2 (4.00%) GitLab
3 2 (4.00%) JIRA
4 1 (2.00%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.00%) Selenium
4 1 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.00%) tSQLt
General
1 50 (100.00%) Banking
2 35 (70.00%) Finance
3 17 (34.00%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (24.00%) Social Skills
5 11 (22.00%) Front Office
6 5 (10.00%) Aviation
6 5 (10.00%) Corporate Banking
6 5 (10.00%) Retail
6 5 (10.00%) Retail Banking
7 4 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Prime Brokerage
8 1 (2.00%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 10 (20.00%) Developer
1 10 (20.00%) Python Engineer
1 10 (20.00%) Senior
2 8 (16.00%) Data Modeller
3 6 (12.00%) Data Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Data Integration Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Integration Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 5 (10.00%) Python Developer
4 5 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Analyst
5 4 (8.00%) Business Analyst
5 4 (8.00%) Databricks Data Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Databricks Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Kafka Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Power BI Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Snowflake Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.00%) Kafka
1 8 (16.00%) Terraform
2 4 (8.00%) REST
3 2 (4.00%) A2A Protocol
3 2 (4.00%) FastAPI
3 2 (4.00%) JSON
3 2 (4.00%) Model Context Protocol
3 2 (4.00%) Node.js
3 2 (4.00%) pydantic
3 2 (4.00%) React
3 2 (4.00%) Redux
3 2 (4.00%) YAML
4 1 (2.00%) Celery
4 1 (2.00%) Playwright
4 1 (2.00%) PySpark
4 1 (2.00%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.00%) Cloud Native
2 8 (16.00%) Derivative
3 7 (14.00%) Equity Derivative
4 6 (12.00%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (8.00%) Data Structures
5 4 (8.00%) Onboarding
5 4 (8.00%) Private Cloud
6 3 (6.00%) Equities
6 3 (6.00%) Fixed Income
6 3 (6.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (6.00%) Management Information System
7 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (4.00%) Product Ownership
7 2 (4.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (4.00%) Virtual Team
8 1 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (2.00%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.00%) Linux
2 6 (12.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (46.00%) AI
1 23 (46.00%) CI/CD
2 14 (28.00%) Data Pipeline
3 13 (26.00%) LLM
4 12 (24.00%) Agile
4 12 (24.00%) Data Modelling
5 11 (22.00%) Analytics
5 11 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (20.00%) Data Governance
6 10 (20.00%) Observability
7 9 (18.00%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (18.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (18.00%) Risk Management
8 8 (16.00%) Data Lineage
8 8 (16.00%) Platform Engineering
8 8 (16.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 8 (16.00%) Test Automation
8 8 (16.00%) Wealth Management
9 7 (14.00%) Containerisation
9 7 (14.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 32 (64.00%) Python
2 24 (48.00%) SQL
3 18 (36.00%) Java
4 6 (12.00%) C++
5 3 (6.00%) Bash
6 2 (4.00%) C#
6 2 (4.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.00%) Scala
6 2 (4.00%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (22.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (12.00%) QA
3 2 (4.00%) ISO 20022
4 1 (2.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (4.00%) Docker
1 2 (4.00%) zsh
Systems Management
1 13 (26.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (16.00%) Grafana
3 4 (8.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (12.00%) IBM
1 6 (12.00%) Sybase
2 5 (10.00%) Databricks
2 5 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.00%) Google
4 1 (2.00%) Calypso
4 1 (2.00%) Murex
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle
4 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow