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 13 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 2 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 197 215 163
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 26.23% 32.92% 19.73%
As % of the General category 42.09% 42.49% 28.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 99 75
10th Percentile £288 £325 £244
25th Percentile £381 £450 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +13.63% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £633 £733
Scotland median daily rate £470 £500 £438
% change year-on-year -6.00% +14.16% -9.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £18.17
25th Percentile - - £18.24
Median hourly rate £95.00 - £21.23
75th Percentile - - £24.18
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £43.96 £26.21 £18.20
% change year-on-year +67.72% +44.01% -51.61%

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 468 506 579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 62.32% 77.49% 70.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 243 315
10th Percentile £325 £282 £156
25th Percentile £406 £413 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £559 £538 £538
90th Percentile £650 £600 £638
Scotland median daily rate £463 £470 £440
% change year-on-year -1.60% +6.82% -7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 11 19
10th Percentile £15.81 £16.55 £12.97
25th Percentile £19.33 - £15.07
Median hourly rate £50.00 £17.87 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +179.80% -0.72% -37.63%
75th Percentile £61.50 £37.09 £20.05
90th Percentile £75.00 £60.00 £30.34
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £19.23 £17.00
% change year-on-year -15.50% +13.12% -30.87%

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 13 August 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 10 (5.08%) Confluence
2 6 (3.05%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.03%) Apache
3 4 (2.03%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.52%) CMS
4 3 (1.52%) IIS
4 3 (1.52%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.51%) CICS
5 1 (0.51%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (3.55%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 5 (2.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.03%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.51%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (7.11%) SAP GRC
1 14 (7.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.03%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.02%) iTrent
4 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.51%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.51%) Primavera
4 1 (0.51%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.51%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.51%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 29 (14.72%) Azure
2 23 (11.68%) AWS
3 14 (7.11%) Power Platform
4 9 (4.57%) Dynamics 365
4 9 (4.57%) GCP
5 8 (4.06%) Figma
6 6 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.54%) SaaS
8 4 (2.03%) Apigee
8 4 (2.03%) Cloud Run
8 4 (2.03%) OCI
9 3 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.52%) Azure AKS
9 3 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.52%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.52%) Serverless
9 3 (1.52%) Vertex AI
9 3 (1.52%) Vyond
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.54%) DNS
1 5 (2.54%) Firewall
2 4 (2.03%) Network Security
2 4 (2.03%) SSL
3 2 (1.02%) BIG-IP
3 2 (1.02%) NGFW
3 2 (1.02%) VPN
4 1 (0.51%) HTTP
4 1 (0.51%) LAN
4 1 (0.51%) SMS
4 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.51%) WAN
4 1 (0.51%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.58%) Power BI
2 4 (2.03%) BigQuery
2 4 (2.03%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.52%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.02%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.02%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.51%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.51%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.51%) DataStage
5 1 (0.51%) Looker
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.51%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (7.11%) JIRA
2 3 (1.52%) Git
2 3 (1.52%) Zephyr
3 2 (1.02%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.51%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 66 (33.50%) Social Skills
2 27 (13.71%) Banking
3 19 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.09%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.55%) Financial Institution
5 7 (3.55%) Legal
5 7 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (3.55%) Retail
6 5 (2.54%) Retail Banking
7 4 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.03%) Military
8 3 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.52%) Games
8 3 (1.52%) General Ledger
8 3 (1.52%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.02%) Local Government
9 2 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.02%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.51%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.51%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 39 (19.80%) Analyst
2 23 (11.68%) Business Analyst
3 18 (9.14%) Project Manager
4 17 (8.63%) Consultant
5 15 (7.61%) Developer
5 15 (7.61%) Senior
6 13 (6.60%) Architect
7 10 (5.08%) Administrator
8 9 (4.57%) Designer
8 9 (4.57%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (4.06%) Lead
10 6 (3.05%) Business Consultant
10 6 (3.05%) Configuration Specialist
10 6 (3.05%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (3.05%) Technical Analyst
11 5 (2.54%) Business Systems Administrator
11 5 (2.54%) Senior Business Analyst
11 5 (2.54%) Service Analyst
11 5 (2.54%) Technical Business Analyst
11 5 (2.54%) UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.11%) SAP Fiori
2 6 (3.05%) Middleware
3 5 (2.54%) REST
4 4 (2.03%) ISPF
4 4 (2.03%) JSON
5 3 (1.52%) Kafka
5 3 (1.52%) LangChain
5 3 (1.52%) LangGraph
5 3 (1.52%) OAuth
5 3 (1.52%) OpenID
5 3 (1.52%) SAML
6 2 (1.02%) ADO
6 2 (1.02%) React Native
6 2 (1.02%) SailPoint
6 2 (1.02%) SOAP
7 1 (0.51%) .NET
7 1 (0.51%) CSS
7 1 (0.51%) HTML
7 1 (0.51%) MSMQ
7 1 (0.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.14%) Data Protection Act
2 13 (6.60%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.58%) Onboarding
4 8 (4.06%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.55%) Mobile App
6 6 (3.05%) Mainframe
7 5 (2.54%) Clustering
8 3 (1.52%) CMDB
8 3 (1.52%) e-Learning
8 3 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.52%) Learning Management System
8 3 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.52%) PKI
8 3 (1.52%) SCORM
9 2 (1.02%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.02%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.02%) Derivative
9 2 (1.02%) Educational Technology
9 2 (1.02%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.55%) Windows
2 6 (3.05%) zOS
3 3 (1.52%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (20.30%) Stakeholder Management
2 38 (19.29%) Agile
3 36 (18.27%) AI
4 29 (14.72%) Migration
5 28 (14.21%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (12.69%) Analytics
7 24 (12.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 21 (10.66%) Generative AI
9 20 (10.15%) User Acceptance Testing
10 19 (9.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (9.64%) Data Protection
11 16 (8.12%) Asset Management
11 16 (8.12%) Risk Management
11 16 (8.12%) Workshop Facilitation
12 15 (7.61%) Decision-Making
12 15 (7.61%) ERP
12 15 (7.61%) ITIL
12 15 (7.61%) System Integration Testing
13 14 (7.11%) Project Delivery
13 14 (7.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 17 (8.63%) Python
1 17 (8.63%) SQL
2 6 (3.05%) Java
2 6 (3.05%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.02%) Bash
3 2 (1.02%) Go
3 2 (1.02%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.02%) PL/SQL
3 2 (1.02%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.51%) C#
4 1 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.51%) Scala
4 1 (0.51%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (0.51%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (5.08%) Degree
1 10 (5.08%) Security Cleared
2 9 (4.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.02%) CBAP
3 2 (1.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (1.02%) PMI Certification
3 2 (1.02%) PMP
4 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.51%) CISM
4 1 (0.51%) CISSP
4 1 (0.51%) CRISC
4 1 (0.51%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.09%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.08%) GRC
3 9 (4.57%) QA
4 5 (2.54%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.03%) PMO
6 3 (1.52%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (1.52%) WCAG
7 2 (1.02%) GDPR
7 2 (1.02%) SLA
8 1 (0.51%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (3.55%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.54%) RACF
3 3 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.51%) Docker
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.51%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (3.55%) Terraform
2 5 (2.54%) Ansible
3 4 (2.03%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.03%) OMEGAMON
4 3 (1.52%) Istio
5 2 (1.02%) Grafana
5 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.51%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.51%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.51%) linkerd
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (16.75%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.63%) SAP
3 16 (8.12%) ServiceNow
4 15 (7.61%) Oracle
5 9 (4.57%) IBM
6 5 (2.54%) Adobe
6 5 (2.54%) Google
7 4 (2.03%) Citrix
7 4 (2.03%) Splunk
8 3 (1.52%) Calypso
8 3 (1.52%) Cisco
8 3 (1.52%) Okta
8 3 (1.52%) Synthesia
8 3 (1.52%) VMware
9 2 (1.02%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.02%) Databricks
9 2 (1.02%) F5
9 2 (1.02%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.02%) RedGate
9 2 (1.02%) SolarWinds