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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 4 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 167 147 186
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 28.35% 23.75% 20.35%
As % of the General category 39.57% 31.89% 26.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 78 103
10th Percentile £325 £230 £400
25th Percentile £452 £364 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% -6.10% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £651 £629 £655
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 422 461 696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 71.65% 74.47% 76.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 249 426
10th Percentile £170 £192 £171
25th Percentile £398 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.33% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £567
90th Percentile £621 £632 £636
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +2.78% -8.16% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 15 14
10th Percentile £16.66 £20.20 £14.17
25th Percentile - £22.36 £19.01
Median hourly rate £17.87 £24.18 £49.35
Median % change year-on-year -26.10% -51.00% +170.63%
75th Percentile £31.13 - £62.25
90th Percentile £65.38 £53.35 £70.00
Scotland median hourly rate £17.87 £24.00 £21.19
% change year-on-year -25.54% +13.29% +25.10%

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 1 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 (7.78%) Confluence
2 3 (1.80%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.20%) Apache
3 2 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.60%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.60%) FileNet
4 1 (0.60%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (4.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.99%) Adobe XD
2 5 (2.99%) InVision
2 5 (2.99%) Sketch
3 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (1.80%) Chatbot
5 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.20%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 39 (23.35%) Azure
2 30 (17.96%) AWS
3 12 (7.19%) GCP
4 10 (5.99%) Figma
5 6 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (3.59%) Snowflake
6 5 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (2.99%) OCI
6 5 (2.99%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.40%) Serverless
8 3 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.80%) GitHub
8 3 (1.80%) SaaS
9 2 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.20%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (1.20%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.20%) Apigee
9 2 (1.20%) Lucidchart
9 2 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.60%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.40%) Firewall
2 1 (0.60%) DHCP
2 1 (0.60%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.99%) Oracle Reports
1 5 (2.99%) Power BI
2 3 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.80%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.80%) Tableau
3 2 (1.20%) Data Mart
3 2 (1.20%) MySQL
3 2 (1.20%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.20%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.60%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.60%) BusinessObjects XI
4 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 17 (10.18%) JIRA
2 6 (3.59%) GitLab
2 6 (3.59%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.99%) Axure RP
4 4 (2.40%) ER Studio
4 4 (2.40%) ERwin
5 3 (1.80%) Git
5 3 (1.80%) Liquibase
6 2 (1.20%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.20%) git-flow
7 1 (0.60%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.60%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.60%) JUnit
7 1 (0.60%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.60%) Maven
7 1 (0.60%) webpack
General
1 72 (43.11%) Banking
2 56 (33.53%) Social Skills
3 31 (18.56%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.78%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (7.78%) Public Sector
5 13 (7.78%) Retail Banking
6 9 (5.39%) Financial Institution
7 7 (4.19%) Retail
8 6 (3.59%) Legal
9 5 (2.99%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.80%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.60%) Local Government
13 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (25.75%) Analyst
2 18 (10.78%) Senior
3 14 (8.38%) Business Analyst
4 13 (7.78%) Designer
5 12 (7.19%) Developer
6 10 (5.99%) Lead
6 10 (5.99%) Project Manager
6 10 (5.99%) Software Engineer
7 8 (4.79%) Consultant
7 8 (4.79%) Data Analyst
8 7 (4.19%) Accountant
8 7 (4.19%) Administrator
8 7 (4.19%) Fraud Analyst
8 7 (4.19%) Support Officer
8 7 (4.19%) Systems Accountant
9 6 (3.59%) Architect
9 6 (3.59%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (3.59%) Delivery Manager
9 6 (3.59%) Project Officer
9 6 (3.59%) Project Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.19%) RESTful
2 6 (3.59%) REST
2 6 (3.59%) Spring
2 6 (3.59%) Spring Boot
3 5 (2.99%) .NET
3 5 (2.99%) FastAPI
3 5 (2.99%) React
4 4 (2.40%) JSON
5 3 (1.80%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.80%) PySpark
6 2 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.20%) XML
7 1 (0.60%) JMS
7 1 (0.60%) OAuth
7 1 (0.60%) OpenID
7 1 (0.60%) SAML
7 1 (0.60%) SOAP
7 1 (0.60%) Web Services
7 1 (0.60%) XML Messaging
7 1 (0.60%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.38%) Product Ownership
2 12 (7.19%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (4.19%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.59%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.99%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.40%) Digital Wallet
6 4 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.80%) Clustering
7 3 (1.80%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.80%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.20%) PKI
9 1 (0.60%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.60%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.60%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.60%) Derivative
9 1 (0.60%) OTC Derivatives
9 1 (0.60%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.99%) Linux
1 5 (2.99%) Windows
2 2 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.20%) Unix
3 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (34.13%) Agile
2 46 (27.54%) Migration
3 34 (20.36%) Continuous Improvement
4 31 (18.56%) Stakeholder Management
5 27 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (12.57%) AI
6 21 (12.57%) DevOps
7 20 (11.98%) Digital Banking
8 18 (10.78%) CI/CD
9 15 (8.98%) Data Protection
9 15 (8.98%) Fintech
9 15 (8.98%) Regulatory Compliance
10 14 (8.38%) Decision-Making
10 14 (8.38%) Project Management
10 14 (8.38%) Software Engineering
11 13 (7.78%) Case Management
11 13 (7.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 12 (7.19%) Data Analysis
12 12 (7.19%) Data Modelling
12 12 (7.19%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 27 (16.17%) Python
2 13 (7.78%) Java
2 13 (7.78%) SQL
3 8 (4.79%) TypeScript
4 3 (1.80%) Bash
4 3 (1.80%) C#
4 3 (1.80%) Go
4 3 (1.80%) Groovy
4 3 (1.80%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.80%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.20%) Korn
5 2 (1.20%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.60%) Bicep
6 1 (0.60%) COBOL
6 1 (0.60%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 7 (4.19%) Degree
2 4 (2.40%) AWS Certification
3 3 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.80%) Master's Degree
3 3 (1.80%) MCP
4 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.60%) APMG
5 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.60%) FFIEC
5 1 (0.60%) HND
5 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.60%) PMP
5 1 (0.60%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.60%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.19%) QA
2 9 (5.39%) PMO
3 8 (4.79%) Disclosure Scotland
4 7 (4.19%) Accessibility
4 7 (4.19%) Data Quality
4 7 (4.19%) GDPR
5 4 (2.40%) COBIT
6 1 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.60%) COREP
6 1 (0.60%) IFRS
6 1 (0.60%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.60%) NCSC
6 1 (0.60%) NIST
6 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.60%) PSD2
6 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.60%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (1.80%) Active Directory
1 3 (1.80%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Firmware
2 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.60%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 15 (8.98%) Terraform
2 9 (5.39%) Ansible
3 6 (3.59%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.80%) Grafana
4 3 (1.80%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 19 (11.38%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.38%) Oracle
3 8 (4.79%) Adobe
4 4 (2.40%) CheckPoint
4 4 (2.40%) Dell
4 4 (2.40%) Dynatrace
4 4 (2.40%) F5
4 4 (2.40%) Google
4 4 (2.40%) HP
5 3 (1.80%) Pega
5 3 (1.80%) Splunk
6 2 (1.20%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.20%) Planview
6 2 (1.20%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.20%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.60%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.60%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.60%) Meraki
7 1 (0.60%) Workday
7 1 (0.60%) WorldPay