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 30 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 48 113
Rank change year-on-year -25 +65 0
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 47 73 12
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.42% 4.54% 0.57%
As % of the General category 4.10% 6.20% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 17 9
10th Percentile £461 £326 £316
25th Percentile £463 £420 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £345
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +30.43% -42.50%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £575
90th Percentile £718 £577 £604
UK median daily rate £600 £725 £750
% change year-on-year -17.24% -3.33% +7.14%

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 1,147 1,177 1,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 58.97% 73.24% 64.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 692 829
10th Percentile £250 £241 £178
25th Percentile £363 £368 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.51% +2.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £573
90th Percentile £675 £600 £647
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 40 78
10th Percentile £12.60 £15.98 £12.21
25th Percentile £13.45 £16.21 £14.56
Median hourly rate £16.25 £19.97 £18.07
Median % change year-on-year -18.63% +10.55% -9.13%
75th Percentile £50.00 £25.48 £47.25
90th Percentile £64.65 £60.50 £66.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.85 £30.00
% change year-on-year +7.72% -7.17% -7.69%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -23 36 £525 +16.67%
Edinburgh 0 10 - -
Aberdeenshire - 1 £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 3 (6.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.13%) Apache
2 1 (2.13%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (29.79%) Snowflake
2 12 (25.53%) Power Platform
3 8 (17.02%) Anthropic Claude
3 8 (17.02%) ChatGPT
3 8 (17.02%) GitHub
3 8 (17.02%) GitHub Copilot
4 4 (8.51%) AWS
5 2 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (4.26%) Figma
5 2 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.26%) Power Automate
5 2 (4.26%) PowerApps
5 2 (4.26%) Vyond
6 1 (2.13%) Apigee
6 1 (2.13%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) Internet
1 1 (2.13%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (36.17%) Metadata
2 12 (25.53%) Relational Database
2 12 (25.53%) Snowflake Schema
3 10 (21.28%) Power BI
4 9 (19.15%) Data Vault
5 7 (14.89%) DB2
5 7 (14.89%) MongoDB
6 6 (12.77%) Tableau
7 4 (8.51%) Big Data
8 2 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (2.13%) Apache Ignite
9 1 (2.13%) Flink
9 1 (2.13%) MySQL
9 1 (2.13%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Git
2 4 (8.51%) JIRA
3 3 (6.38%) GitLab
4 1 (2.13%) ER Studio
4 1 (2.13%) ERwin
General
1 47 (100.00%) Banking
2 29 (61.70%) Finance
3 16 (34.04%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (21.28%) Front Office
4 10 (21.28%) Social Skills
5 8 (17.02%) Aviation
5 8 (17.02%) Corporate Banking
5 8 (17.02%) Retail
5 8 (17.02%) Retail Banking
6 6 (12.77%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.26%) Financial Institution
7 2 (4.26%) Games
8 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.13%) Prime Brokerage
8 1 (2.13%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 13 (27.66%) Developer
2 9 (19.15%) Data Modeller
2 9 (19.15%) Senior
3 8 (17.02%) Analyst
3 8 (17.02%) Python Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Data Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Data Integration Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Integration Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Java Developer
4 5 (10.64%) Python Developer
5 4 (8.51%) Business Analyst
5 4 (8.51%) Data Analyst
5 4 (8.51%) Kafka Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Power BI Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Snowflake Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Software Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) UX Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Site Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.02%) Kafka
2 3 (6.38%) REST
3 1 (2.13%) A2A Protocol
3 1 (2.13%) Celery
3 1 (2.13%) FastAPI
3 1 (2.13%) Model Context Protocol
3 1 (2.13%) Node.js
3 1 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.13%) React
3 1 (2.13%) Redux
3 1 (2.13%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.28%) Cloud Native
2 9 (19.15%) Derivative
3 8 (17.02%) Equity Derivative
4 4 (8.51%) Data Structures
5 3 (6.38%) Management Information System
5 3 (6.38%) Product Ownership
6 2 (4.26%) Educational Technology
6 2 (4.26%) e-Learning
6 2 (4.26%) Learning Management System
6 2 (4.26%) SCORM
7 1 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.13%) Equities
7 1 (2.13%) Fixed Income
7 1 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.13%) Linux
1 1 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (44.68%) AI
2 16 (34.04%) Analytics
3 15 (31.91%) LLM
4 14 (29.79%) Agile
4 14 (29.79%) Data Pipeline
5 13 (27.66%) CI/CD
5 13 (27.66%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (21.28%) Data Governance
6 10 (21.28%) Data Modelling
6 10 (21.28%) Risk Management
7 9 (19.15%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (19.15%) Data Transformation
7 9 (19.15%) TDD
8 8 (17.02%) Data Lineage
8 8 (17.02%) Dimensional Modelling
8 8 (17.02%) Logical Data Model
8 8 (17.02%) Machine Learning
8 8 (17.02%) Physical Data Model
8 8 (17.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (17.02%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (46.81%) SQL
2 21 (44.68%) Python
3 14 (29.79%) Java
4 7 (14.89%) C++
5 1 (2.13%) C#
5 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (2.13%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (21.28%) Data Quality
2 8 (17.02%) QA
3 2 (4.26%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.26%) WCAG
4 1 (2.13%) Basel III
4 1 (2.13%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (2.13%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.51%) Grafana
2 2 (4.26%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (14.89%) IBM
1 7 (14.89%) Sybase
2 6 (12.77%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.64%) Databricks
4 4 (8.51%) Oracle
5 2 (4.26%) Adobe
5 2 (4.26%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.26%) Synthesia
6 1 (2.13%) Alteryx
6 1 (2.13%) CA Agile Central