Finance Contracts in Edinburgh

Financial
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 4 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 143 201 387
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 19.07% 20.43% 22.64%
As % of the General category 27.08% 27.31% 30.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 114 248
10th Percentile £160 £300 £344
25th Percentile £296 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.25% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £528 £588 £588
90th Percentile £588 £654 £675
Scotland median daily rate £430 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -14.10% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £19.59 £12.26 £12.61
25th Percentile £21.83 £13.17 £13.53
Median hourly rate £24.18 £14.69 £15.38
Median % change year-on-year +64.66% -4.49% -12.14%
75th Percentile - £16.20 £17.53
90th Percentile - £17.11 £18.64
Scotland median hourly rate £24.18 £17.72 £37.43
% change year-on-year +36.46% -52.66% +59.28%

All General Skills
Edinburgh

Finance 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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 528 736 1,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 70.40% 74.80% 75.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 455 894
10th Percentile £161 £166 £347
25th Percentile £325 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.06% +10.23%
75th Percentile £525 £545 £553
90th Percentile £589 £606 £638
Scotland median daily rate £445 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -6.32% - +6.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 21
10th Percentile £13.42 £12.63 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £15.50 £15.68
Median hourly rate £23.14 £17.72 £18.90
Median % change year-on-year +30.56% -6.24% -12.09%
75th Percentile £24.18 £57.60 £39.75
90th Percentile £40.84 £61.90 £52.50
Scotland median hourly rate £19.00 £19.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year -2.56% +5.41% +5.71%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Finance in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Finance in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Edinburgh

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 9 (6.29%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.20%) Confluence
3 5 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.10%) Apache
4 3 (2.10%) SAS
5 2 (1.40%) CMS
6 1 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.70%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.70%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (3.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.40%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.70%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (2.10%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 17 (11.89%) AWS
1 17 (11.89%) Azure
2 7 (4.90%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (4.90%) SaaS
3 6 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (3.50%) Power Platform
4 5 (3.50%) Serverless
4 5 (3.50%) Snowflake
5 4 (2.80%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.10%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.40%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.40%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.70%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (0.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.70%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.70%) Google Analytics
8 1 (0.70%) OCI
8 1 (0.70%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.40%) ATM
1 2 (1.40%) DHCP
1 2 (1.40%) DNS
1 2 (1.40%) Firewall
1 2 (1.40%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.70%) LAN
2 1 (0.70%) Skype
2 1 (0.70%) SSL
2 1 (0.70%) VPN
2 1 (0.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.50%) Power BI
2 4 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.80%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.10%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (1.40%) Tableau
5 1 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.70%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.70%) DB2
5 1 (0.70%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.70%) Metadata
5 1 (0.70%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.70%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 16 (11.19%) JIRA
2 3 (2.10%) GitLab
3 2 (1.40%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.40%) Git
3 2 (1.40%) JMeter
4 1 (0.70%) Postman
4 1 (0.70%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.70%) TestCafe
4 1 (0.70%) Zephyr
General
1 40 (27.97%) Social Skills
2 36 (25.17%) Banking
3 19 (13.29%) Public Sector
4 13 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (8.39%) Retail Banking
6 6 (4.20%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (4.20%) Marketing
7 4 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.80%) Legal
7 4 (2.80%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.10%) Electronics
8 3 (2.10%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.10%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.40%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.40%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.40%) Retail
10 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Front Office
10 1 (0.70%) Law
10 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (19.58%) Analyst
2 22 (15.38%) Project Manager
3 14 (9.79%) Business Analyst
4 9 (6.29%) IT Manager
5 8 (5.59%) Developer
5 8 (5.59%) IT Project Manager
6 7 (4.90%) Data Engineer
6 7 (4.90%) Senior
7 6 (4.20%) Security Engineer
7 6 (4.20%) Senior Manager
7 6 (4.20%) Tester
8 5 (3.50%) Consultant
8 5 (3.50%) IT Engineer
8 5 (3.50%) Lead
9 4 (2.80%) Automation Tester
9 4 (2.80%) Contracts Manager
9 4 (2.80%) Data Analyst
9 4 (2.80%) Designer
9 4 (2.80%) Product Owner
9 4 (2.80%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.20%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (3.50%) Node.js
3 4 (2.80%) React
3 4 (2.80%) REST
4 3 (2.10%) .NET
4 3 (2.10%) AWS CDK
4 3 (2.10%) CSS
4 3 (2.10%) HTML
4 3 (2.10%) Java EE
4 3 (2.10%) Kafka
5 2 (1.40%) ADO
5 2 (1.40%) PySpark
6 1 (0.70%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.70%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.70%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.70%) Middleware
6 1 (0.70%) Playwright
6 1 (0.70%) RESTful
6 1 (0.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.59%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.20%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (3.50%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.80%) iPhone
4 4 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.80%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (2.10%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.10%) Mainframe
5 3 (2.10%) Robotics
5 3 (2.10%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.40%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.40%) FMCG
6 2 (1.40%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.70%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.70%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.70%) Insider Threat
7 1 (0.70%) iPad
7 1 (0.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.19%) Windows
2 9 (6.29%) Windows 10
3 3 (2.10%) Linux
4 2 (1.40%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.40%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.40%) zOS
5 1 (0.70%) Android
5 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (22.38%) Agile
2 26 (18.18%) Project Management
3 20 (13.99%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (10.49%) Analytics
4 15 (10.49%) Project Delivery
4 15 (10.49%) Test Automation
5 13 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
5 13 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (8.39%) Migration
7 11 (7.69%) Decision-Making
7 11 (7.69%) Scrum
8 10 (6.99%) Roadmaps
9 9 (6.29%) Data Protection
10 8 (5.59%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (5.59%) Data Analysis
10 8 (5.59%) DevOps
10 8 (5.59%) Waterfall
11 7 (4.90%) Change Management
11 7 (4.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (4.90%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 9 (6.29%) JavaScript
1 9 (6.29%) TypeScript
2 8 (5.59%) Python
2 8 (5.59%) SQL
3 5 (3.50%) C#
3 5 (3.50%) Java
4 3 (2.10%) Bash
5 2 (1.40%) Groovy
6 1 (0.70%) COBOL
6 1 (0.70%) Go
6 1 (0.70%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.70%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (5.59%) Degree
2 6 (4.20%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.10%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.10%) Six Sigma Black Belt
4 2 (1.40%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 2 (1.40%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
5 1 (0.70%) CBAP
5 1 (0.70%) CISM
5 1 (0.70%) CISSP
5 1 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.90%) Disclosure Scotland
1 7 (4.90%) PMO
2 4 (2.80%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.40%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.40%) GDPR
4 2 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (1.40%) NIST
5 1 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.70%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.80%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.40%) Docker
2 2 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.80%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.70%) Grafana
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.70%) SCCM
2 1 (0.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (11.89%) Oracle
2 10 (6.99%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.90%) HP
4 5 (3.50%) SAP
4 5 (3.50%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.80%) Samsung
6 2 (1.40%) F5
6 2 (1.40%) Planview
6 2 (1.40%) Qualys
6 2 (1.40%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.40%) Splunk
6 2 (1.40%) VMware
7 1 (0.70%) Apple
7 1 (0.70%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.70%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.70%) Google
7 1 (0.70%) IBM
7 1 (0.70%) Informatica
7 1 (0.70%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.70%) Teradata