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 19 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 52 100
Rank change year-on-year -28 +48 +20
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 29 68 36
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 1.78% 4.07% 1.57%
As % of the General category 2.90% 5.69% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 15 13
10th Percentile £375 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £416 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £619
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -27.30% -8.30%
75th Percentile £688 £525 £637
90th Percentile £730 £545 £716
UK median daily rate £625 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -10.71% - -2.10%

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 1,001 1,196 1,520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 61.56% 71.66% 66.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 549 732 906
10th Percentile £200 £205 £183
25th Percentile £358 £363 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £570 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £612 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 29 70
10th Percentile £12.60 £16.00 £12.48
25th Percentile £13.00 £20.94 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.25 £23.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.35% +17.95% +18.18%
75th Percentile £50.00 £27.75 £60.56
90th Percentile £65.00 £46.78 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £25.75
% change year-on-year -16.67% +16.50% -24.06%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -21 20 £525 +16.67% 3
Edinburgh +2 9 - - 1
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 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.45%) Apache
2 1 (3.45%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.24%) AWS
1 5 (17.24%) Snowflake
2 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
3 2 (6.90%) Azure
3 2 (6.90%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (6.90%) Figma
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.90%) Power Automate
3 2 (6.90%) PowerApps
3 2 (6.90%) Vyond
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.45%) IaaS
4 1 (3.45%) SaaS
4 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) Relational Database
2 4 (13.79%) Data Vault
2 4 (13.79%) Metadata
2 4 (13.79%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (10.34%) DB2
3 3 (10.34%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.90%) Big Data
4 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.45%) Apache Ignite
5 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.45%) Flink
5 1 (3.45%) Power BI
5 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) GitLab
1 3 (10.34%) JIRA
1 3 (10.34%) JUnit
2 1 (3.45%) Git
General
1 29 (100.00%) Banking
2 20 (68.97%) Finance
3 7 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (20.69%) Corporate Banking
4 6 (20.69%) Retail
4 6 (20.69%) Retail Banking
5 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
6 4 (13.79%) Aviation
6 4 (13.79%) Front Office
7 2 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (6.90%) Financial Institution
7 2 (6.90%) Games
8 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (3.45%) Prime Brokerage
8 1 (3.45%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 12 (41.38%) Developer
2 10 (34.48%) Analyst
3 6 (20.69%) Data Analyst
4 5 (17.24%) Data Modeller
4 5 (17.24%) Java Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 3 (10.34%) SQL Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Sybase Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Business Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Digital Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Finance Modeller
6 2 (6.90%) Power Platform Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Python Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior
7 1 (3.45%) Applications Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Database Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Financial Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) PMO Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) SAS Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) Kafka
2 4 (13.79%) Spring
3 3 (10.34%) JMS
4 2 (6.90%) REST
5 1 (3.45%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.34%) CMDB
2 3 (10.34%) Data Structures
2 3 (10.34%) Equities
2 3 (10.34%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.34%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (10.34%) Virtual Team
3 2 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.90%) Educational Technology
3 2 (6.90%) e-Learning
3 2 (6.90%) Learning Management System
3 2 (6.90%) SCORM
4 1 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.45%) Derivative
4 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) Agile
1 14 (48.28%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (34.48%) Analytics
3 8 (27.59%) Data Modelling
4 7 (24.14%) Wealth Management
5 6 (20.69%) Critical Thinking
6 5 (17.24%) AI
6 5 (17.24%) Decision-Making
6 5 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (17.24%) Waterfall
7 4 (13.79%) Asset Management
7 4 (13.79%) Business Analysis
7 4 (13.79%) Data Architecture
7 4 (13.79%) Data Lineage
7 4 (13.79%) Dimensional Modelling
7 4 (13.79%) Logical Data Model
7 4 (13.79%) Migration
7 4 (13.79%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (13.79%) Project Management
7 4 (13.79%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) SQL
2 9 (31.03%) Python
3 8 (27.59%) Java
4 4 (13.79%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (3.45%) Degree
2 1 (3.45%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) QA
2 3 (10.34%) Data Quality
3 2 (6.90%) Accessibility
3 2 (6.90%) PMO
3 2 (6.90%) WCAG
4 1 (3.45%) Basel III
4 1 (3.45%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.45%) Ansible
2 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle
2 3 (10.34%) ServiceNow
2 3 (10.34%) Sybase
3 2 (6.90%) Adobe
3 2 (6.90%) Synthesia
4 1 (3.45%) Alteryx
4 1 (3.45%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (3.45%) Greenplum