Fintech Jobs in Scotland

Financial Technology (FinTech)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Fintech skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Fintech over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 189 136
Rank change year-on-year +85 -53 -31
Permanent jobs citing Fintech 61 92 95
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.07% 1.38% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 1.49% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 48 40 64
10th Percentile £25,000 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £25,313 £59,500 £47,213
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - +18.18%
75th Percentile £56,750 £91,609 £85,000
90th Percentile £66,250 £104,625 £111,264
UK median annual salary £82,500 £77,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +6.45% -6.06% +17.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,741 6,180 4,397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.85% 92.45% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,350 2,400 2,209
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £43,813 £40,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,471 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -8.70% +4.78%
75th Percentile £63,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,958 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Fintech
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Fintech in Scotland

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Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Fintech in Scotland.

Salary trend for Fintech in Scotland

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Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Fintech in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Fintech in Scotland

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Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Fintech within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +39 52 £45,000 -44.98% 19
Glasgow +130 8 £52,500 -19.23% 10
Fife - 1 £47,500 -
Fintech
UK

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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 (1.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (1.64%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.03%) AWS
1 11 (18.03%) Azure
2 9 (14.75%) SaaS
3 4 (6.56%) Power Platform
3 4 (6.56%) Serverless
4 3 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.92%) GitHub
5 2 (3.28%) dbt
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.64%) Apigee
6 1 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.64%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.64%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.64%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.20%) Network Security
2 1 (1.64%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.20%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.56%) Power BI
3 2 (3.28%) Looker
3 2 (3.28%) MySQL
3 2 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (3.28%) Tableau
4 1 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Cypress.io
1 3 (4.92%) Git
2 1 (1.64%) GitLab
2 1 (1.64%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.64%) JIRA
2 1 (1.64%) Selenium
General
1 36 (59.02%) Finance
2 29 (47.54%) Banking
3 15 (24.59%) Social Skills
4 7 (11.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (8.20%) Financial Institution
5 5 (8.20%) Legal
6 4 (6.56%) Marketing
7 3 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (19.67%) Analyst
1 12 (19.67%) Senior
2 9 (14.75%) Developer
3 5 (8.20%) Senior Analyst
3 5 (8.20%) Technologist
4 4 (6.56%) Java Developer
4 4 (6.56%) Onboarding Analyst
5 3 (4.92%) .NET Developer
5 3 (4.92%) Automation Test Analyst
5 3 (4.92%) Graduate
5 3 (4.92%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 3 (4.92%) Test Analyst
6 2 (3.28%) Consultant
6 2 (3.28%) Senior Data Scientist
6 2 (3.28%) Senior Developer
6 2 (3.28%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (3.28%) Senior SQL Developer
6 2 (3.28%) Software Engineer
6 2 (3.28%) SQL Developer
6 2 (3.28%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (19.67%) Software Packaging
2 5 (8.20%) React
3 4 (6.56%) .NET
3 4 (6.56%) Middleware
3 4 (6.56%) REST
3 4 (6.56%) WebSockets
4 3 (4.92%) ASP.NET
4 3 (4.92%) CSS
4 3 (4.92%) HTML
5 2 (3.28%) .NET Core
5 2 (3.28%) .NET Framework
5 2 (3.28%) RESTful
5 2 (3.28%) Web Services
6 1 (1.64%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.64%) Hibernate
6 1 (1.64%) Kafka
6 1 (1.64%) Node.js
6 1 (1.64%) Redux
6 1 (1.64%) Spring
6 1 (1.64%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.20%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.56%) Algorithms
2 4 (6.56%) Data Structures
2 4 (6.56%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.92%) Hackathon
3 3 (4.92%) Learning Management System
3 3 (4.92%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.28%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.64%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.64%) DataPower
5 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.39%) Linux
2 4 (6.56%) Windows
3 1 (1.64%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (36.07%) Artificial Intelligence
2 20 (32.79%) Cybersecurity
3 18 (29.51%) Software Engineering
4 17 (27.87%) Line Management
4 17 (27.87%) Mathematics
5 11 (18.03%) DevOps
6 9 (14.75%) Agile
6 9 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (14.75%) Risk Assessment
7 8 (13.11%) CI/CD
7 8 (13.11%) Risk Management
8 7 (11.48%) Containerisation
8 7 (11.48%) Information Security
9 6 (9.84%) Coaching
10 5 (8.20%) Analytics
10 5 (8.20%) Cryptography
10 5 (8.20%) Customer Experience
10 5 (8.20%) Due Diligence
10 5 (8.20%) Project Delivery
11 4 (6.56%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (19.67%) JavaScript
1 12 (19.67%) Python
2 10 (16.39%) Java
3 6 (9.84%) C#
4 4 (6.56%) C
4 4 (6.56%) C++
4 4 (6.56%) SQL
4 4 (6.56%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.92%) Kotlin
6 2 (3.28%) Bash
7 1 (1.64%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (36.07%) Degree
2 3 (4.92%) Master's Degree
2 3 (4.92%) PhD
3 2 (3.28%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.64%) ISEB
4 1 (1.64%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.64%) ISO 22301
2 1 (1.64%) ITGC
2 1 (1.64%) NIST
2 1 (1.64%) PMO
2 1 (1.64%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (9.84%) Docker
2 2 (3.28%) KVM
2 2 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (11.48%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.64%) Ansible
2 1 (1.64%) Grafana
2 1 (1.64%) OpenNebula
2 1 (1.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (6.56%) Google
2 3 (4.92%) IBM
2 3 (4.92%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.28%) VMware
4 1 (1.64%) Adobe
4 1 (1.64%) Oracle