Finance Contract Job Trends 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 29 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 1 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 160 191 157
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 22.28% 30.51% 19.41%
As % of the General category 38.28% 39.30% 25.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 91 70
10th Percentile £253 £263 £312
25th Percentile £405 £459 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £623
90th Percentile £684 £675 £739
Scotland median daily rate £500 £489 £488
% change year-on-year +2.25% +0.31% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - - £17.83
25th Percentile - £22.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate - £23.59 £18.27
Median % change year-on-year - +29.12% -
75th Percentile - £24.18 £20.57
90th Percentile - - £21.95
Scotland median hourly rate £12.80 £24.18 £19.50
% change year-on-year -47.06% +24.00% -66.09%

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 general skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 418 486 605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 58.22% 77.64% 74.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 267 347
10th Percentile £187 £199 £183
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.15% -1.05% -
75th Percentile £540 £538 £575
90th Percentile £644 £627 £675
Scotland median daily rate £463 £463 £475
% change year-on-year - -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 18 34
10th Percentile £16.74 £20.26 £16.25
25th Percentile - £21.31 £16.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £24.09 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.56% -31.17% +64.63%
75th Percentile £75.00 £28.38 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £50.06 £67.23
Scotland median hourly rate £16.97 £23.00 £19.17
% change year-on-year -26.22% +19.98% -3.57%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Finance job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 29 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Edinburgh

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Finance

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 16 (10.00%) Confluence
2 4 (2.50%) Apache
2 4 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.25%) IIS
3 2 (1.25%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.25%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.63%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (3.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 6 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.13%) Adobe XD
2 5 (3.13%) InVision
2 5 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (3.13%) Sketch
3 2 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.63%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.50%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.25%) iTrent
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 42 (26.25%) Azure
2 19 (11.88%) AWS
3 14 (8.75%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (6.88%) Figma
5 8 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 7 (4.38%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (4.38%) GitHub
7 6 (3.75%) Snowflake
8 4 (2.50%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.88%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (1.88%) GCP
9 3 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.88%) OCI
9 3 (1.88%) SaaS
9 3 (1.88%) Vyond
10 2 (1.25%) AWS KMS
10 2 (1.25%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.25%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.88%) DNS
1 3 (1.88%) Firewall
1 3 (1.88%) Network Security
1 3 (1.88%) WAN
2 1 (0.63%) DHCP
2 1 (0.63%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.63%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.38%) Power BI
2 3 (1.88%) Data Lake
2 3 (1.88%) Tableau
3 2 (1.25%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (1.25%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.63%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.63%) BusinessObjects XI
4 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.63%) Metadata
4 1 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.63%) QlikView
4 1 (0.63%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 22 (13.75%) JIRA
2 5 (3.13%) Axure RP
3 4 (2.50%) ER Studio
3 4 (2.50%) ERwin
4 3 (1.88%) Git
4 3 (1.88%) GitLab
4 3 (1.88%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.88%) Snyk
4 3 (1.88%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.63%) ScriptRunner
5 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 63 (39.38%) Social Skills
2 33 (20.63%) Banking
3 18 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.13%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.63%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (5.00%) Financial Institution
6 8 (5.00%) Retail
7 5 (3.13%) Retail Banking
8 4 (2.50%) Military
9 3 (1.88%) Games
9 3 (1.88%) General Ledger
9 3 (1.88%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.88%) Legal
10 2 (1.25%) Marketing
10 2 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.25%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.63%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 35 (21.88%) Analyst
2 18 (11.25%) Business Analyst
2 18 (11.25%) Senior
3 15 (9.38%) Project Manager
4 13 (8.13%) Administrator
5 11 (6.88%) Designer
5 11 (6.88%) Developer
6 10 (6.25%) Lead
7 8 (5.00%) Architect
8 7 (4.38%) Security Engineer
9 5 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 5 (3.13%) Business Systems Administrator
9 5 (3.13%) Design Engineer
9 5 (3.13%) Dynamics 365 Administrator
9 5 (3.13%) IT Analyst
9 5 (3.13%) Project Officer
9 5 (3.13%) Project Support Officer
9 5 (3.13%) Support Officer
9 5 (3.13%) Systems Administrator
9 5 (3.13%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.88%) Kafka
1 3 (1.88%) SLSA
2 2 (1.25%) .NET
2 2 (1.25%) ADO
2 2 (1.25%) JSON
2 2 (1.25%) Middleware
2 2 (1.25%) OAuth
2 2 (1.25%) OpenID
2 2 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.25%) SAML
3 1 (0.63%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (0.63%) FastAPI
3 1 (0.63%) JMS
3 1 (0.63%) RESTful
3 1 (0.63%) Spring
3 1 (0.63%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 12 (7.50%) Product Ownership
3 10 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.13%) Clustering
5 4 (2.50%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.50%) Digital Wallet
5 4 (2.50%) PKI
5 4 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.88%) e-Learning
6 3 (1.88%) Learning Management System
6 3 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.88%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.88%) SCORM
7 2 (1.25%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.25%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.25%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.25%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.25%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.25%) Linux
1 2 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (1.25%) Unix
1 2 (1.25%) Windows
1 2 (1.25%) zOS
2 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (26.88%) Agile
2 34 (21.25%) AI
3 26 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (14.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (12.50%) DevOps
5 20 (12.50%) Migration
6 18 (11.25%) Generative AI
7 17 (10.63%) Asset Management
8 16 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (10.00%) Data Protection
9 15 (9.38%) Project Management
9 15 (9.38%) Risk Management
9 15 (9.38%) Workshop Facilitation
10 14 (8.75%) Data Analysis
10 14 (8.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 13 (8.13%) CI/CD
11 13 (8.13%) Data Modelling
11 13 (8.13%) Validation
12 12 (7.50%) Change Management
12 12 (7.50%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 18 (11.25%) Python
2 14 (8.75%) SQL
3 7 (4.38%) PowerShell
4 5 (3.13%) Bash
4 5 (3.13%) Java
5 2 (1.25%) C#
5 2 (1.25%) Korn
5 2 (1.25%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.63%) C++
6 1 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.63%) Go
Qualifications
1 16 (10.00%) Degree
2 5 (3.13%) CISM
2 5 (3.13%) CISSP
2 5 (3.13%) TOGAF Certification
3 4 (2.50%) PMP
3 4 (2.50%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.88%) PMI Certification
4 3 (1.88%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.25%) FFIEC
5 2 (1.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.63%) PhD
6 1 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.50%) QA
2 10 (6.25%) Accessibility
3 9 (5.63%) Data Quality
4 7 (4.38%) Disclosure Scotland
5 6 (3.75%) PMO
6 3 (1.88%) NIST
6 3 (1.88%) WCAG
7 2 (1.25%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.63%) GDPR
8 1 (0.63%) GRC
8 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.25%) Firmware
3 1 (0.63%) Docker
3 1 (0.63%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (3.75%) Kubernetes
1 6 (3.75%) Terraform
2 5 (3.13%) Ansible
3 3 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.63%) Grafana
4 1 (0.63%) HAProxy
4 1 (0.63%) linkerd
4 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.88%) Adobe
3 10 (6.25%) Oracle
4 6 (3.75%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.13%) BiZZdesign
5 5 (3.13%) Google
5 5 (3.13%) OpenAI
6 4 (2.50%) IBM
7 3 (1.88%) Black Duck
7 3 (1.88%) Checkmarx
7 3 (1.88%) Pega
7 3 (1.88%) Synthesia
7 3 (1.88%) Tenable
8 2 (1.25%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.25%) Calypso
8 2 (1.25%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.25%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.25%) Okta
8 2 (1.25%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.25%) Thales