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 18 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 4 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 154 140 184
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 26.60% 23.26% 20.31%
As % of the General category 38.69% 31.75% 26.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 73 97
10th Percentile £325 £232 £400
25th Percentile £456 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £499 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.21% -0.20% -
75th Percentile £612 £588 £588
90th Percentile £675 £638 £653
Scotland median daily rate £500 £464 £500
% change year-on-year +7.87% -7.30% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 3
10th Percentile - £21.77 £12.86
25th Percentile - £22.50 £14.69
Median hourly rate £60.00 £23.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +154.35% +33.13% +15.25%
75th Percentile - £24.18 £20.30
90th Percentile - - £21.84
Scotland median hourly rate £60.00 £24.18 £19.50
% change year-on-year +148.14% +24.00% +26.83%

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 398 441 690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 68.74% 73.26% 76.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 240 417
10th Percentile £167 £192 £188
25th Percentile £362 £377 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £569
90th Percentile £651 £619 £638
Scotland median daily rate £464 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +3.06% -8.16% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 20 20
10th Percentile £17.23 £19.29 £13.14
25th Percentile - £21.03 £17.35
Median hourly rate £17.87 £24.09 £49.35
Median % change year-on-year -25.82% -51.19% +170.63%
75th Percentile £60.94 £24.30 £61.75
90th Percentile £76.87 £37.86 £70.00
Scotland median hourly rate £17.87 £24.08 £22.87
% change year-on-year -25.77% +5.27% +35.05%

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 18 January 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 (10.39%) Confluence
2 3 (1.95%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.30%) Apache
3 2 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.65%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.65%) FileNet
4 1 (0.65%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (3.25%) Adobe XD
1 5 (3.25%) InVision
1 5 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (3.25%) Sketch
2 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.95%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (1.95%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.30%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 46 (29.87%) Azure
2 29 (18.83%) AWS
3 10 (6.49%) Figma
3 10 (6.49%) GCP
4 9 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (3.90%) Snowflake
6 5 (3.25%) GitHub
6 5 (3.25%) OCI
6 5 (3.25%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.95%) SaaS
9 2 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.30%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (1.30%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.30%) Apigee
9 2 (1.30%) AWS KMS
9 2 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.30%) Lucidchart
9 2 (1.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.90%) Firewall
2 2 (1.30%) Network Security
3 1 (0.65%) DHCP
3 1 (0.65%) DNS
3 1 (0.65%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.65%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.25%) Power BI
2 4 (2.60%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.95%) Tableau
4 2 (1.30%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.30%) Data Mart
4 2 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.30%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.65%) BusinessObjects XI
5 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.65%) MySQL
5 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.65%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 19 (12.34%) JIRA
2 6 (3.90%) GitLab
2 6 (3.90%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.25%) Axure RP
4 4 (2.60%) ER Studio
4 4 (2.60%) ERwin
5 2 (1.30%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.30%) Git
5 2 (1.30%) Snyk
6 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.65%) git-flow
6 1 (0.65%) HP UFT
6 1 (0.65%) JUnit
6 1 (0.65%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.65%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.65%) Maven
6 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.65%) webpack
General
1 60 (38.96%) Banking
2 50 (32.47%) Social Skills
3 23 (14.94%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.44%) Public Sector
5 12 (7.79%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (7.14%) Retail Banking
7 9 (5.84%) Financial Institution
8 6 (3.90%) Legal
8 6 (3.90%) Retail
9 4 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.95%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.30%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.65%) Local Government
12 1 (0.65%) Marketing
12 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (22.08%) Analyst
2 16 (10.39%) Senior
3 13 (8.44%) Business Analyst
3 13 (8.44%) Designer
4 12 (7.79%) Developer
5 10 (6.49%) Project Manager
6 9 (5.84%) Lead
7 8 (5.19%) Architect
8 7 (4.55%) Administrator
8 7 (4.55%) Consultant
8 7 (4.55%) Data Analyst
8 7 (4.55%) Software Engineer
9 6 (3.90%) Delivery Manager
9 6 (3.90%) Project Officer
9 6 (3.90%) Project Support Officer
9 6 (3.90%) Security Engineer
9 6 (3.90%) Support Officer
10 5 (3.25%) Junior
10 5 (3.25%) Senior Manager
10 5 (3.25%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.90%) .NET
2 5 (3.25%) FastAPI
2 5 (3.25%) React
2 5 (3.25%) RESTful
2 5 (3.25%) Spring
2 5 (3.25%) Spring Boot
3 4 (2.60%) REST
4 3 (1.95%) JSON
4 3 (1.95%) PySpark
5 2 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.30%) SLSA
5 2 (1.30%) XML
6 1 (0.65%) JMS
6 1 (0.65%) OAuth
6 1 (0.65%) Playwright
6 1 (0.65%) SAML
6 1 (0.65%) SOAP
6 1 (0.65%) Web Services
6 1 (0.65%) XML Messaging
6 1 (0.65%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 10 (6.49%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (3.90%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.25%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.60%) Digital Wallet
6 3 (1.95%) Clustering
6 3 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.95%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.95%) PKI
7 2 (1.30%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.65%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.65%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.65%) OTC Derivatives
8 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.90%) Windows
2 3 (1.95%) Linux
3 2 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.30%) Unix
4 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (35.71%) Agile
2 38 (24.68%) Migration
3 29 (18.83%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (18.83%) Stakeholder Management
4 24 (15.58%) AI
4 24 (15.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (13.64%) DevOps
6 18 (11.69%) CI/CD
7 14 (9.09%) Digital Banking
7 14 (9.09%) Project Management
7 14 (9.09%) Software Engineering
8 13 (8.44%) Decision-Making
8 13 (8.44%) Workshop Facilitation
9 12 (7.79%) Coaching
9 12 (7.79%) Cybersecurity
9 12 (7.79%) Data Modelling
9 12 (7.79%) Data Protection
9 12 (7.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 11 (7.14%) Data Migration
10 11 (7.14%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 28 (18.18%) Python
2 12 (7.79%) SQL
3 10 (6.49%) Java
4 8 (5.19%) TypeScript
5 4 (2.60%) Bash
5 4 (2.60%) C#
5 4 (2.60%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.95%) Groovy
6 3 (1.95%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.30%) Korn
7 2 (1.30%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.65%) Bicep
8 1 (0.65%) C++
8 1 (0.65%) Go
8 1 (0.65%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 10 (6.49%) Degree
2 3 (1.95%) CISM
2 3 (1.95%) CISSP
2 3 (1.95%) MCP
2 3 (1.95%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (1.30%) FFIEC
4 1 (0.65%) APMG
4 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.65%) HND
4 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.65%) PhD
4 1 (0.65%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.65%) PMP
4 1 (0.65%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.49%) QA
2 9 (5.84%) Disclosure Scotland
2 9 (5.84%) PMO
3 7 (4.55%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.55%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.25%) GDPR
5 4 (2.60%) COBIT
6 3 (1.95%) NIST
7 2 (1.30%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.65%) COREP
8 1 (0.65%) IFRS
8 1 (0.65%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.65%) NCSC
8 1 (0.65%) PSD2
8 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (2.60%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.30%) Docker
2 2 (1.30%) Firmware
3 1 (0.65%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.65%) ISA Server
3 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (8.44%) Terraform
2 7 (4.55%) Ansible
3 6 (3.90%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.65%) Grafana
5 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (11.69%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.14%) Oracle
3 8 (5.19%) Adobe
4 5 (3.25%) CheckPoint
5 4 (2.60%) Dell
5 4 (2.60%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.60%) F5
5 4 (2.60%) HP
6 3 (1.95%) BiZZdesign
6 3 (1.95%) Google
6 3 (1.95%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.95%) Pega
7 2 (1.30%) Black Duck
7 2 (1.30%) Checkmarx
7 2 (1.30%) Cisco
7 2 (1.30%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.30%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.30%) Tenable
7 2 (1.30%) Thales
8 1 (0.65%) Meraki
68 Finance jobs in Edinburgh