Investment Management Contracts in Scotland

Investment Management
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Investment Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Investment Management over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 120 136
Rank change year-on-year +16 +16 +19
Contract jobs citing Investment Management 17 1 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.00% 0.048% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.056% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 17
10th Percentile £421 - £300
25th Percentile £425 £575 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +26.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £547 £625 £650
90th Percentile £580 - £670
UK median daily rate £725 £725 £650
% change year-on-year - +11.54% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Investment Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,574 1,800 2,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 92.26% 86.83% 92.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 888 1,105 1,708
10th Percentile £256 £213 £254
25th Percentile £368 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £459 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.03% -3.37% -
75th Percentile £538 £563 £550
90th Percentile £600 £643 £625
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 89 62
10th Percentile £16.43 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.50 £12.13
Median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% +28.50% -59.27%
75th Percentile £25.15 £48.00 £34.38
90th Percentile £50.48 £61.10 £60.40
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

Investment Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Investment Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Investment Management in Scotland

Investment Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Investment Management in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Investment Management in Scotland

Investment Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Management in Scotland

Investment Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Investment Management in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Investment Management in Scotland

Investment Management
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 Management within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 July 2025. 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 - 16 £450 - 6
Edinburgh +9 1 £525 -12.50% 5
Investment Management
UK

Investment Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (5.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) IaaS
2 2 (11.76%) Apigee
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (11.76%) OpenShift
3 1 (5.88%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) DHCP
1 6 (35.29%) DNS
2 2 (11.76%) HTTP
2 2 (11.76%) SSL
2 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.76%) DB2
2 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) JIRA
2 4 (23.53%) Git
3 2 (11.76%) Bitbucket
3 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 2 (11.76%) JUnit
General
1 17 (100.00%) Finance
2 16 (94.12%) Banking
2 16 (94.12%) Investment Banking
3 8 (47.06%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
4 3 (17.65%) Front Office
5 2 (11.76%) Legal
6 1 (5.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Architect
2 4 (23.53%) Java Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Scrum Master
3 3 (17.65%) Data Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Applications Support
4 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Applications Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) Applications Support Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Support
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) Python Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) AngularJS
1 3 (17.65%) REST
2 2 (11.76%) JMS
2 2 (11.76%) Kafka
2 2 (11.76%) Loki
2 2 (11.76%) Middleware
2 2 (11.76%) RESTful
2 2 (11.76%) SOAP
2 2 (11.76%) Spring
3 1 (5.88%) .NET
3 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (23.53%) Product Ownership
2 3 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (11.76%) CMDB
3 2 (11.76%) Data Structures
3 2 (11.76%) Equities
3 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
3 2 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (11.76%) Virtual Team
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (5.88%) Derivative
4 1 (5.88%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (64.71%) Linux
2 4 (23.53%) Unix
3 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) Wealth Management
2 14 (82.35%) Agile
3 9 (52.94%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (35.29%) DevOps
6 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
6 5 (29.41%) ITIL
6 5 (29.41%) Roadmaps
6 5 (29.41%) Waterfall
7 4 (23.53%) Conflict Resolution
7 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (23.53%) Data Protection
7 4 (23.53%) Enterprise Architecture
7 4 (23.53%) Kanban
7 4 (23.53%) Scrum
7 4 (23.53%) Service Delivery
8 3 (17.65%) Data Security
8 3 (17.65%) High Availability
8 3 (17.65%) Load Balancing
8 3 (17.65%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) Java
2 4 (23.53%) Shell Script
3 2 (11.76%) Bash
3 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.76%) Perl
3 2 (11.76%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (11.76%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (11.76%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 3 (17.65%) Terraform
3 2 (11.76%) Ansible
3 2 (11.76%) Grafana
3 2 (11.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) ServiceNow
1 3 (17.65%) Splunk
2 2 (11.76%) F5
2 2 (11.76%) Infoblox
2 2 (11.76%) MuleSoft
2 2 (11.76%) Sybase
2 2 (11.76%) Veritas
2 2 (11.76%) VMware
3 1 (5.88%) Netskope
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) Proofpoint
3 1 (5.88%) Symantec