Retail Banking Contracts in Scotland

Retail Banking
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail Banking over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 117 129
Rank change year-on-year +26 +12 +1
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 25 12 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.54% 0.54% 1.19%
As % of the General category 2.13% 0.83% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 24
10th Percentile £447 £573 £415
25th Percentile £472 £590 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £634 £498
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +27.39% -5.69%
75th Percentile £607 £682 £581
90th Percentile £625 £701 £588
UK median daily rate £506 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -11.96% -4.17% +4.35%

All General Skills
Scotland

Retail 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 common skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,171 1,442 1,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 72.06% 65.04% 65.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 713 864 1,390
10th Percentile £240 £182 £236
25th Percentile £375 £363 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% - +3.83%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £570
90th Percentile £612 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 73 28
10th Percentile £16.02 £12.30 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.52 £16.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £22.44 £19.17 £19.88
Median % change year-on-year +17.04% -3.57% -23.54%
75th Percentile £28.22 £60.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £55.74 £69.00 £66.84
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Retail Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Retail Banking in Scotland

Retail Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Retail Banking in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Retail Banking in Scotland

Retail Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail Banking in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retail Banking in Scotland

Retail Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Retail Banking in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Retail Banking in Scotland

Retail 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 Retail Banking within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Edinburgh +13 19 £453 -21.22%
Glasgow +5 3 £527 -23.97% 3
Retail Banking
UK

Retail Banking
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 (4.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.00%) AWS
3 2 (8.00%) GCP
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.00%) Datadog
4 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Tableau
2 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 25 (100.00%) Banking
2 12 (48.00%) Finance
3 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
4 7 (28.00%) Retail
5 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (20.00%) Corporate Banking
5 5 (20.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.00%) Front Office
6 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Analyst
2 3 (12.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (8.00%) Architect
3 2 (8.00%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (8.00%) IT Manager
3 2 (8.00%) Lead
3 2 (8.00%) Payments Analyst
3 2 (8.00%) Security Specialist
3 2 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (8.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 2 (8.00%) Technical Manager
4 1 (4.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Head of Data Management
4 1 (4.00%) Payments Business Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Senior
4 1 (4.00%) SOX Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) SOX Test Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Tableau Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Tableau Specialist
4 1 (4.00%) Testing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (4.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (4.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (4.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Unix
1 3 (12.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) Risk Management
2 7 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (20.00%) Wealth Management
4 4 (16.00%) Agile
4 4 (16.00%) Penetration Testing
4 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (16.00%) Security Operations
4 4 (16.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 3 (12.00%) Analytics
5 3 (12.00%) Data Engineering
5 3 (12.00%) Data Governance
5 3 (12.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (12.00%) Migration
5 3 (12.00%) Project Delivery
5 3 (12.00%) Service Delivery
5 3 (12.00%) SIEM
5 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Identification
5 3 (12.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) SQL
2 3 (12.00%) Python
3 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) CEH
1 2 (8.00%) CISSP
1 2 (8.00%) CRISC
1 2 (8.00%) Degree
1 2 (8.00%) GCIH
1 2 (8.00%) OSCP
2 1 (4.00%) ACCA
2 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.00%) CISA
2 1 (4.00%) GCFA
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (8.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.00%) SLA
3 1 (4.00%) Basel III
3 1 (4.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Splunk
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.00%) Adobe
3 1 (4.00%) Calypso
3 1 (4.00%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (4.00%) Databricks
3 1 (4.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) Planview
3 1 (4.00%) Qualys