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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 57 94
Rank change year-on-year -25 +37 +22
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 29 68 39
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 1.78% 3.98% 1.68%
As % of the General category 2.86% 5.59% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 13
10th Percentile £375 £413 £400
25th Percentile £419 £414 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £619
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -27.30% +1.06%
75th Percentile £656 £522 £637
90th Percentile £735 £546 £716
UK median daily rate £625 £678 £700
% change year-on-year -7.82% -3.14% -3.45%

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 1,015 1,216 1,547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 62.42% 71.19% 66.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 566 744 932
10th Percentile £200 £201 £188
25th Percentile £358 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £574 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £625 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 30 68
10th Percentile £12.60 £18.27 £12.29
25th Percentile £13.00 £20.96 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.23 £23.50 £22.26
Median % change year-on-year -26.68% +5.59% +28.44%
75th Percentile £50.00 £26.98 £60.75
90th Percentile £65.40 £44.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £30.00 £25.71
% change year-on-year -20.00% +16.69% -17.06%

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 6 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 6 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 -30 19 £500 +11.11% 6
Edinburgh +3 10 - -
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 (3.45%) Apache
1 1 (3.45%) Confluence
1 1 (3.45%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Chatbot
2 1 (3.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.24%) AWS
1 5 (17.24%) Snowflake
2 2 (6.90%) Azure
2 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.45%) Figma
3 1 (3.45%) IaaS
3 1 (3.45%) SaaS
3 1 (3.45%) Serverless
3 1 (3.45%) Vyond
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (27.59%) Relational Database
2 4 (13.79%) DB2
2 4 (13.79%) MongoDB
3 3 (10.34%) Data Vault
3 3 (10.34%) Metadata
3 3 (10.34%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (6.90%) Big Data
4 2 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.90%) Power BI
4 2 (6.90%) Tableau
5 1 (3.45%) Apache Ignite
5 1 (3.45%) Flink
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) JUnit
2 3 (10.34%) GitLab
3 2 (6.90%) JIRA
4 1 (3.45%) Git
General
1 29 (100.00%) Banking
2 21 (72.41%) Finance
3 8 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (27.59%) Corporate Banking
3 8 (27.59%) Retail
3 8 (27.59%) Retail Banking
4 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
5 5 (17.24%) Front Office
6 3 (10.34%) Aviation
6 3 (10.34%) Financial Institution
7 2 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (3.45%) 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 7 (24.14%) Data Analyst
4 6 (20.69%) Java Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Data Modeller
5 4 (13.79%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 4 (13.79%) SQL Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Sybase Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Finance Modeller
7 2 (6.90%) Python Developer
8 1 (3.45%) Data Migration Analyst
8 1 (3.45%) Database Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Financial Analyst
8 1 (3.45%) PMO Analyst
8 1 (3.45%) Product Analyst
8 1 (3.45%) Project Analyst
8 1 (3.45%) SAS Analyst
8 1 (3.45%) SAS Data Analyst
8 1 (3.45%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) Kafka
2 5 (17.24%) Spring
3 4 (13.79%) JMS
4 3 (10.34%) FastAPI
5 2 (6.90%) React
5 2 (6.90%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Cloud Native
1 4 (13.79%) CMDB
1 4 (13.79%) Data Structures
1 4 (13.79%) Equities
1 4 (13.79%) Product Ownership
1 4 (13.79%) Self-Motivation
1 4 (13.79%) Virtual Team
2 2 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.45%) Derivative
3 1 (3.45%) Educational Technology
3 1 (3.45%) e-Learning
3 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Learning Management System
3 1 (3.45%) SCORM
3 1 (3.45%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (55.17%) Agile
3 10 (34.48%) Analytics
4 9 (31.03%) Wealth Management
5 8 (27.59%) Data Modelling
6 6 (20.69%) AI
6 6 (20.69%) Critical Thinking
7 5 (17.24%) Business Analysis
7 5 (17.24%) Data Architecture
7 5 (17.24%) Data Lineage
7 5 (17.24%) Decision-Making
7 5 (17.24%) Machine Learning
7 5 (17.24%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (17.24%) Scrum
7 5 (17.24%) SDLC
7 5 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (17.24%) Waterfall
8 4 (13.79%) Change Control
8 4 (13.79%) Data Visualisation
8 4 (13.79%) Database Tuning
Programming Languages
1 14 (48.28%) SQL
2 12 (41.38%) Python
3 7 (24.14%) Java
4 5 (17.24%) Shell Script
5 3 (10.34%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) 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%) PMO
4 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.45%) Basel III
4 1 (3.45%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (3.45%) WCAG
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%) ServiceNow
1 4 (13.79%) Sybase
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle
3 1 (3.45%) Adobe
3 1 (3.45%) Alteryx
3 1 (3.45%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (3.45%) Greenplum
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.45%) MobileIron
3 1 (3.45%) Synthesia