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 3 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 2 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 200 201 149
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 27.14% 32.32% 18.84%
As % of the General category 41.75% 42.05% 26.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 89 63
10th Percentile £299 £325 £185
25th Percentile £403 £450 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +12.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £585 £735
Scotland median daily rate £470 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -6.00% +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £32.68 - £18.17
25th Percentile £43.06 - £18.24
Median hourly rate £60.38 £60.00 £21.23
Median % change year-on-year +0.63% +182.69% +44.54%
75th Percentile £77.69 - £24.18
90th Percentile £88.08 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £43.96 £26.81 £18.20
% change year-on-year +64.00% +47.28% -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 479 478 557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 64.99% 76.85% 70.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 228 288
10th Percentile £239 £268 £156
25th Percentile £381 £413 £282
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +7.95% -7.37%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £538
90th Percentile £650 £597 £621
Scotland median daily rate £463 £465 £450
% change year-on-year -0.48% +3.28% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 12 20
10th Percentile £15.81 £16.68 £13.09
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.87 £14.66
Median hourly rate £25.75 £18.62 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.31% +3.43% +1.58%
75th Percentile £61.50 £49.35 £21.74
90th Percentile £75.00 £60.00 £55.25
Scotland median hourly rate £16.86 £19.23 £17.00
% change year-on-year -12.32% +13.12% -11.37%

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 3 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 3 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in Edinburgh

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 (5.00%) Confluence
2 7 (3.50%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.00%) Apache
3 4 (2.00%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.50%) CMS
4 3 (1.50%) IIS
4 3 (1.50%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.50%) CICS
5 1 (0.50%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 4 (2.00%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.50%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (7.00%) SAP GRC
1 14 (7.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.00%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.50%) iTrent
3 1 (0.50%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.50%) Primavera
3 1 (0.50%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.50%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.50%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.50%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 31 (15.50%) Azure
2 23 (11.50%) AWS
3 15 (7.50%) Power Platform
4 9 (4.50%) GCP
5 8 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (3.50%) Figma
7 6 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.50%) SaaS
9 4 (2.00%) Apigee
9 4 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.00%) Cloud Run
9 4 (2.00%) Entra ID
9 4 (2.00%) OCI
10 3 (1.50%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.50%) Azure AKS
10 3 (1.50%) Serverless
10 3 (1.50%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.50%) Firewall
2 5 (2.50%) DNS
3 4 (2.00%) Network Security
3 4 (2.00%) SSL
4 3 (1.50%) VPN
5 2 (1.00%) BIG-IP
5 2 (1.00%) NGFW
5 2 (1.00%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.50%) HTTP
6 1 (0.50%) LAN
6 1 (0.50%) SMS
6 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.50%) WAN
6 1 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.00%) Power BI
2 4 (2.00%) BigQuery
2 4 (2.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (1.50%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.50%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.00%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.50%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.50%) DataStage
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.50%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (6.50%) JIRA
2 3 (1.50%) Git
3 2 (1.00%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (1.00%) Zephyr
4 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.50%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 67 (33.50%) Social Skills
2 28 (14.00%) Banking
3 17 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.50%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.00%) Financial Institution
6 7 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.00%) Legal
7 6 (3.00%) Retail
8 5 (2.50%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.50%) General Ledger
9 3 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.50%) Military
10 2 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.00%) Games
10 2 (1.00%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.00%) Local Government
10 2 (1.00%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.50%) Billing
11 1 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 38 (19.00%) Analyst
2 22 (11.00%) Consultant
3 20 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 19 (9.50%) Senior
5 15 (7.50%) Project Manager
6 14 (7.00%) Architect
6 14 (7.00%) Developer
7 10 (5.00%) Administrator
8 9 (4.50%) Designer
8 9 (4.50%) Lead
8 9 (4.50%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (4.00%) Business Consultant
10 7 (3.50%) Service Analyst
11 6 (3.00%) Configuration Specialist
11 6 (3.00%) Data Architect
11 6 (3.00%) Senior Analyst
12 5 (2.50%) Mobile UI Designer
12 5 (2.50%) Mobile UX Designer
12 5 (2.50%) UI/UX Designer
12 5 (2.50%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.00%) SAP Fiori
2 8 (4.00%) Terraform
3 5 (2.50%) Middleware
3 5 (2.50%) REST
4 4 (2.00%) ISPF
4 4 (2.00%) JSON
4 4 (2.00%) LangGraph
5 3 (1.50%) Kafka
5 3 (1.50%) LangChain
5 3 (1.50%) OAuth
5 3 (1.50%) OpenID
5 3 (1.50%) SAML
6 2 (1.00%) ADO
6 2 (1.00%) React Native
6 2 (1.00%) SailPoint
6 2 (1.00%) SOAP
7 1 (0.50%) .NET
7 1 (0.50%) CSS
7 1 (0.50%) HTML
7 1 (0.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 12 (6.00%) Onboarding
2 12 (6.00%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.50%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.50%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.50%) Mainframe
6 4 (2.00%) Clustering
7 3 (1.50%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.50%) CMDB
7 3 (1.50%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.50%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.50%) PKI
8 2 (1.00%) Derivative
8 2 (1.00%) e-Learning
8 2 (1.00%) Learning Management System
8 2 (1.00%) OTC Derivatives
8 2 (1.00%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.00%) Windows
2 5 (2.50%) Windows Server
2 5 (2.50%) zOS
3 3 (1.50%) Linux
4 2 (1.00%) AIX
4 2 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.00%) Solaris
4 2 (1.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (22.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 36 (18.00%) Agile
3 34 (17.00%) AI
4 30 (15.00%) Migration
5 28 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (12.50%) Analytics
6 25 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 21 (10.50%) Data Protection
8 20 (10.00%) Generative AI
9 19 (9.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (9.00%) User Acceptance Testing
11 16 (8.00%) Change Management
11 16 (8.00%) ITIL
12 15 (7.50%) CI/CD
12 15 (7.50%) ERP
12 15 (7.50%) System Integration Testing
13 14 (7.00%) Decision-Making
13 14 (7.00%) DevOps
14 13 (6.50%) Business Intelligence
14 13 (6.50%) SAP Security
Programming Languages
1 19 (9.50%) Python
2 18 (9.00%) SQL
3 8 (4.00%) PowerShell
4 6 (3.00%) Java
5 4 (2.00%) Bash
6 2 (1.00%) Go
6 2 (1.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.00%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.00%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.50%) C#
7 1 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.50%) Scala
7 1 (0.50%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (5.50%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.00%) Degree
2 10 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.00%) CBAP
3 2 (1.00%) CRISC
3 2 (1.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 2 (1.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (1.00%) PMI Certification
3 2 (1.00%) PMP
4 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.50%) CISA
4 1 (0.50%) CISM
4 1 (0.50%) CISSP
4 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.50%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.00%) GRC
3 6 (3.00%) QA
4 5 (2.50%) PMO
5 4 (2.00%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.50%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (1.00%) GDPR
7 2 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.00%) SLA
7 2 (1.00%) WCAG
8 1 (0.50%) COBIT
8 1 (0.50%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.50%) ITGC
8 1 (0.50%) NIST
8 1 (0.50%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (3.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.50%) RACF
3 4 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.50%) Docker
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (2.50%) Ansible
1 5 (2.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.00%) OMEGAMON
3 3 (1.50%) Istio
4 2 (1.00%) Grafana
4 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.50%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.50%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.50%) linkerd
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 36 (18.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.50%) SAP
3 16 (8.00%) ServiceNow
4 14 (7.00%) Oracle
5 9 (4.50%) IBM
6 5 (2.50%) Citrix
7 4 (2.00%) Adobe
7 4 (2.00%) Cisco
7 4 (2.00%) Google
7 4 (2.00%) Splunk
7 4 (2.00%) VMware
8 3 (1.50%) Calypso
8 3 (1.50%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.50%) Databricks
8 3 (1.50%) Okta
8 3 (1.50%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.50%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.00%) Qualys
9 2 (1.00%) Synthesia
9 2 (1.00%) Tenable