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 23 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 62 92
Rank change year-on-year -10 +30 +30
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 34 54 48
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.29% 3.36% 2.07%
As % of the General category 3.46% 4.90% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 17
10th Percentile £375 - £438
25th Percentile £469 £413 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £636
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -29.25% -4.00%
75th Percentile £575 £519 £650
90th Percentile £588 £549 £722
UK median daily rate £625 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £44.04 -
UK median hourly rate £32.87 £60.77 £18.50
% change year-on-year -45.92% +228.49% -32.68%

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 984 1,103 1,558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 66.35% 68.55% 67.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 561 654 936
10th Percentile £201 £193 £200
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £484
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.93% +1.79%
75th Percentile £555 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £623 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 32 65
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.34 £11.92
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.94 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.87 £24.08 £22.87
Median % change year-on-year -25.77% +5.27% +35.05%
75th Percentile £29.37 £29.86 £60.75
90th Percentile £61.05 £62.90 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £22.85 £27.50 £26.72
% change year-on-year -16.91% +2.92% +6.88%

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 23 January 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 23 January 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 -7 28 £550 +22.22%
Edinburgh -6 6 - - 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 1 (2.94%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.94%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (23.53%) AWS
2 6 (17.65%) Azure
3 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (8.82%) GitHub
3 3 (8.82%) Snowflake
4 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.94%) Apigee
5 1 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.94%) IaaS
5 1 (2.94%) SaaS
5 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) DHCP
1 1 (2.94%) DNS
1 1 (2.94%) HTTP
1 1 (2.94%) SSL
1 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (41.18%) Relational Database
2 8 (23.53%) DB2
2 8 (23.53%) MongoDB
3 3 (8.82%) MSDE
4 2 (5.88%) Big Data
4 2 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.88%) Power BI
5 1 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) JUnit
2 5 (14.71%) Jenkins
3 4 (11.76%) JIRA
4 3 (8.82%) Bitbucket
4 3 (8.82%) Git
4 3 (8.82%) IntelliJ
4 3 (8.82%) PyCharm
4 3 (8.82%) Visual Studio
4 3 (8.82%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (5.88%) GitLab
General
1 34 (100.00%) Banking
2 29 (85.29%) Finance
3 15 (44.12%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (38.24%) Social Skills
5 10 (29.41%) Front Office
6 5 (14.71%) Corporate Banking
6 5 (14.71%) Retail
6 5 (14.71%) Retail Banking
7 4 (11.76%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 18 (52.94%) Developer
2 11 (32.35%) Analyst
3 9 (26.47%) Java Developer
4 8 (23.53%) Investment Banking Java Developer
4 8 (23.53%) SQL Developer
4 8 (23.53%) Sybase Developer
5 7 (20.59%) Data Analyst
6 6 (17.65%) Python Developer
7 4 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (2.94%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 1 (2.94%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 1 (2.94%) Big Data Analyst
8 1 (2.94%) Big Data Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Data Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Finance Business Analyst
8 1 (2.94%) Financial Control Business Analyst
8 1 (2.94%) Product Business Analyst
8 1 (2.94%) Product Control Business Analyst
8 1 (2.94%) Python Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (23.53%) JMS
1 8 (23.53%) Kafka
1 8 (23.53%) Spring
2 3 (8.82%) FastAPI
2 3 (8.82%) REST
3 2 (5.88%) React
4 1 (2.94%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.94%) RESTful
4 1 (2.94%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (23.53%) Data Structures
1 8 (23.53%) Equities
2 6 (17.65%) CMDB
2 6 (17.65%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (17.65%) Virtual Team
3 5 (14.71%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (11.76%) Product Ownership
5 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (5.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.94%) Derivative
6 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.94%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 12 (35.29%) Linux
2 3 (8.82%) Windows
3 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (67.65%) Agile
2 21 (61.76%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (35.29%) SDLC
4 11 (32.35%) Wealth Management
5 9 (26.47%) Performance Tuning
6 8 (23.53%) Analytics
6 8 (23.53%) Database Tuning
6 8 (23.53%) Multithreading
6 8 (23.53%) Open Source
7 7 (20.59%) Data Lineage
7 7 (20.59%) Data Modelling
7 7 (20.59%) Waterfall
8 6 (17.65%) AI
8 6 (17.65%) CI/CD
8 6 (17.65%) Configuration Management
8 6 (17.65%) Data Management
8 6 (17.65%) ITIL
8 6 (17.65%) ITSM
8 6 (17.65%) Programme Management
8 6 (17.65%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (61.76%) Python
2 17 (50.00%) SQL
3 13 (38.24%) Java
4 9 (26.47%) Shell Script
5 6 (17.65%) TypeScript
6 3 (8.82%) C#
7 2 (5.88%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.94%) Bash
8 1 (2.94%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (17.65%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (8.82%) Degree
3 1 (2.94%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) QA
2 2 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.88%) MiFID
2 2 (5.88%) PMO
3 1 (2.94%) Basel III
3 1 (2.94%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (8.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 5 (14.71%) Ansible
3 4 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) Sybase
2 6 (17.65%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.88%) Avaloq
4 1 (2.94%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.94%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (2.94%) F5
4 1 (2.94%) Greenplum
4 1 (2.94%) Infoblox
4 1 (2.94%) MobileIron
4 1 (2.94%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.94%) Splunk