Investment Management Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Investment Management
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Investment Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 106 129
Rank change year-on-year -1 +23 +38
Contract jobs citing Investment Management 11 5 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.69% 0.27% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.31% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 13
10th Percentile - £415 -
25th Percentile £513 £419 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £494 £638
90th Percentile £582 £505 £650
UK median daily rate £750 £725 £663
% change year-on-year +3.45% +9.43% +1.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £44.04 -
UK median hourly rate - £44.04 -

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 1,460 1,608 2,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 91.19% 86.36% 92.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 807 978 1,483
10th Percentile £263 £213 £250
25th Percentile £391 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 46 58
10th Percentile £16.84 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.63 £13.43
Median hourly rate £20.00 £20.94 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% +6.88% -10.95%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £58.96
90th Percentile £29.80 £51.50 £75.03
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +47.01%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Investment Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Investment Management

Investment Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Investment Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Investment Management

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 17 September 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 -13 11 £550 +22.22%
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 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Apigee
2 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) DHCP
1 3 (27.27%) DNS
1 3 (27.27%) HTTP
1 3 (27.27%) SSL
1 3 (27.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) MSDE
2 1 (9.09%) DB2
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) Power BI
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Jenkins
2 4 (36.36%) JIRA
3 3 (27.27%) Bitbucket
3 3 (27.27%) Git
3 3 (27.27%) IntelliJ
3 3 (27.27%) PyCharm
3 3 (27.27%) Visual Studio
3 3 (27.27%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (9.09%) JUnit
General
1 11 (100.00%) Banking
1 11 (100.00%) Finance
1 11 (100.00%) Investment Banking
2 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Python Developer
3 4 (36.36%) Java Developer
4 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
1 3 (27.27%) REST
1 3 (27.27%) RESTful
1 3 (27.27%) SOAP
2 1 (9.09%) JMS
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Analytical Mindset
1 3 (27.27%) Onboarding
2 2 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
3 1 (9.09%) Derivative
3 1 (9.09%) Equities
3 1 (9.09%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Linux
2 4 (36.36%) Windows
3 3 (27.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Wealth Management
2 9 (81.82%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) SDLC
4 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
4 4 (36.36%) DevOps
5 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (27.27%) Issue Tracking
5 3 (27.27%) Migration
6 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
6 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
7 1 (9.09%) Critical Thinking
7 1 (9.09%) Data Loss Prevention
7 1 (9.09%) Data Science
7 1 (9.09%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
7 1 (9.09%) IT Strategy
7 1 (9.09%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Python
2 7 (63.64%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) Bash
3 3 (27.27%) C#
3 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
3 3 (27.27%) Perl
3 3 (27.27%) TypeScript
4 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
4 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 4 (36.36%) Terraform
3 3 (27.27%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) F5
1 3 (27.27%) Infoblox
1 3 (27.27%) MuleSoft
2 1 (9.09%) Netskope
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Proofpoint
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) Splunk
2 1 (9.09%) Sybase
2 1 (9.09%) Symantec