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

6 months to
5 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 4 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 164 138 183
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 27.84% 23.35% 20.11%
As % of the General category 39.14% 31.65% 26.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 72 100
10th Percentile £325 £231 £400
25th Percentile £456 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £578 £588
90th Percentile £659 £636 £650
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
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 £60.61 £24.18 £19.50
% change year-on-year +150.67% +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 419 436 700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 71.14% 73.77% 76.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 234 425
10th Percentile £171 £192 £177
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £536 £569
90th Percentile £625 £635 £637
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 16
10th Percentile £16.85 £20.46 £14.77
25th Percentile - £22.22 £21.58
Median hourly rate £17.87 £24.18 £49.35
Median % change year-on-year -26.10% -51.00% +170.63%
75th Percentile £45.75 - £64.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £48.57 £70.00
Scotland median hourly rate £17.87 £24.08 £26.50
% change year-on-year -25.77% -9.15% +56.48%

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 5 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 13 (7.93%) Confluence
2 3 (1.83%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.22%) Apache
3 2 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.61%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.61%) FileNet
4 1 (0.61%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (4.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.05%) Adobe XD
2 5 (3.05%) InVision
2 5 (3.05%) Sketch
3 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.83%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (1.83%) Chatbot
5 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.22%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 40 (24.39%) Azure
2 31 (18.90%) AWS
3 12 (7.32%) GCP
4 10 (6.10%) Figma
5 6 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (3.66%) Snowflake
6 5 (3.05%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (3.05%) OCI
6 5 (3.05%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.44%) Serverless
8 3 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.83%) GitHub
8 3 (1.83%) SaaS
9 2 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.22%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (1.22%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.22%) Apigee
9 2 (1.22%) AWS KMS
9 2 (1.22%) Lucidchart
9 2 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.44%) Firewall
2 1 (0.61%) DHCP
2 1 (0.61%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.05%) Power BI
2 4 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.83%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.83%) Tableau
4 2 (1.22%) Data Mart
4 2 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.22%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.61%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.61%) BusinessObjects XI
5 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.61%) MySQL
5 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (9.76%) JIRA
2 6 (3.66%) GitLab
2 6 (3.66%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.05%) Axure RP
4 4 (2.44%) ER Studio
4 4 (2.44%) ERwin
5 3 (1.83%) Liquibase
6 2 (1.22%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.22%) Git
7 1 (0.61%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.61%) git-flow
7 1 (0.61%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.61%) JUnit
7 1 (0.61%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.61%) Maven
7 1 (0.61%) webpack
General
1 69 (42.07%) Banking
2 56 (34.15%) Social Skills
3 30 (18.29%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (10.37%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (7.93%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.71%) Retail Banking
7 10 (6.10%) Financial Institution
8 6 (3.66%) Retail
9 5 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (3.05%) Legal
10 3 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.83%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.22%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.61%) Local Government
12 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (25.61%) Analyst
2 18 (10.98%) Senior
3 14 (8.54%) Business Analyst
4 13 (7.93%) Designer
5 12 (7.32%) Developer
6 9 (5.49%) Lead
6 9 (5.49%) Project Manager
6 9 (5.49%) Software Engineer
7 8 (4.88%) Consultant
7 8 (4.88%) Data Analyst
8 7 (4.27%) Accountant
8 7 (4.27%) Administrator
8 7 (4.27%) Systems Accountant
9 6 (3.66%) Architect
9 6 (3.66%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (3.66%) Delivery Manager
9 6 (3.66%) Fraud Analyst
9 6 (3.66%) Project Officer
9 6 (3.66%) Project Support Officer
9 6 (3.66%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.27%) RESTful
2 6 (3.66%) REST
3 5 (3.05%) .NET
3 5 (3.05%) FastAPI
3 5 (3.05%) React
3 5 (3.05%) Spring
3 5 (3.05%) Spring Boot
4 4 (2.44%) JSON
5 3 (1.83%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.83%) PySpark
6 2 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.22%) XML
7 1 (0.61%) JMS
7 1 (0.61%) OAuth
7 1 (0.61%) OpenID
7 1 (0.61%) SAML
7 1 (0.61%) SOAP
7 1 (0.61%) Web Services
7 1 (0.61%) XML Messaging
7 1 (0.61%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.54%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.71%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.66%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.05%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.44%) Digital Wallet
5 4 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.83%) Clustering
6 3 (1.83%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.83%) PKI
6 3 (1.83%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.22%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.61%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.61%) Derivative
8 1 (0.61%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.05%) Linux
1 5 (3.05%) Windows
2 2 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.22%) Unix
3 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (35.37%) Agile
2 46 (28.05%) Migration
3 32 (19.51%) Continuous Improvement
4 30 (18.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 29 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (13.41%) AI
7 20 (12.20%) DevOps
8 19 (11.59%) Digital Banking
9 17 (10.37%) CI/CD
10 14 (8.54%) Data Protection
10 14 (8.54%) Fintech
10 14 (8.54%) Regulatory Compliance
11 13 (7.93%) Decision-Making
11 13 (7.93%) Software Engineering
11 13 (7.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 13 (7.93%) Workflow
12 12 (7.32%) Case Management
12 12 (7.32%) Change Management
12 12 (7.32%) Coaching
12 12 (7.32%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 29 (17.68%) Python
2 12 (7.32%) Java
2 12 (7.32%) SQL
3 8 (4.88%) TypeScript
4 4 (2.44%) Bash
4 4 (2.44%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.83%) C#
5 3 (1.83%) Go
5 3 (1.83%) Groovy
5 3 (1.83%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.22%) Korn
6 2 (1.22%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.61%) Bicep
7 1 (0.61%) COBOL
7 1 (0.61%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 7 (4.27%) Degree
2 4 (2.44%) AWS Certification
3 3 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.83%) Master's Degree
3 3 (1.83%) MCP
4 2 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (1.22%) FFIEC
5 1 (0.61%) APMG
5 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.61%) HND
5 1 (0.61%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.61%) PMP
5 1 (0.61%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.61%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.71%) QA
2 9 (5.49%) PMO
3 8 (4.88%) Disclosure Scotland
4 7 (4.27%) Accessibility
4 7 (4.27%) Data Quality
4 7 (4.27%) GDPR
5 4 (2.44%) COBIT
6 2 (1.22%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.61%) COREP
7 1 (0.61%) IFRS
7 1 (0.61%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.61%) NCSC
7 1 (0.61%) NIST
7 1 (0.61%) PSD2
7 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (1.83%) Active Directory
1 3 (1.83%) Docker
2 2 (1.22%) Firmware
3 1 (0.61%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.61%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 16 (9.76%) Terraform
2 10 (6.10%) Ansible
3 7 (4.27%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.83%) Grafana
4 3 (1.83%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 18 (10.98%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.32%) Oracle
3 8 (4.88%) Adobe
4 5 (3.05%) Google
5 4 (2.44%) CheckPoint
5 4 (2.44%) Dell
5 4 (2.44%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.44%) F5
5 4 (2.44%) HP
6 3 (1.83%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.83%) Pega
6 3 (1.83%) Splunk
7 2 (1.22%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.22%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.22%) Thales
8 1 (0.61%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.61%) Databricks
8 1 (0.61%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.61%) Meraki
8 1 (0.61%) WorldPay
50 Finance jobs in Edinburgh