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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 2 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 197 202 151
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 27.59% 31.81% 18.26%
As % of the General category 42.64% 42.00% 25.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 92 65
10th Percentile £306 £325 £160
25th Percentile £410 £450 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +11.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £550
90th Percentile £658 £625 £725
Scotland median daily rate £467 £489 £450
% change year-on-year -4.50% +8.67% -9.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £32.68 - £18.19
25th Percentile £43.06 - £18.27
Median hourly rate £60.38 £60.00 £22.09
Median % change year-on-year +0.63% +171.62% +50.43%
75th Percentile £77.69 - £24.18
90th Percentile £88.08 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £25.75 £26.81 £18.27
% change year-on-year -3.94% +46.72% -68.23%

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 462 481 581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 64.71% 75.75% 70.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 235 298
10th Percentile £223 £263 £161
25th Percentile £391 £413 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £538
90th Percentile £650 £600 £621
Scotland median daily rate £463 £470 £450
% change year-on-year -1.60% +4.44% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 15 18
10th Percentile £15.81 £17.08 £12.85
25th Percentile £16.25 - £13.98
Median hourly rate £19.33 £17.87 £18.20
Median % change year-on-year +8.17% -1.81% +2.71%
75th Percentile £61.50 £52.90 £23.92
90th Percentile £69.60 £60.75 £55.75
Scotland median hourly rate £16.11 £19.23 £18.00
% change year-on-year -16.22% +6.83% -26.80%

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 19 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 19 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 11 (5.58%) Confluence
2 6 (3.05%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.52%) CMS
3 3 (1.52%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.02%) Apache
4 2 (1.02%) IIS
4 2 (1.02%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.51%) CICS
5 1 (0.51%) nginx
5 1 (0.51%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.03%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
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 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.51%) iTrent
3 1 (0.51%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.51%) Primavera
3 1 (0.51%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.51%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.51%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 31 (15.74%) Azure
2 24 (12.18%) AWS
3 17 (8.63%) Power Platform
4 9 (4.57%) GCP
5 8 (4.06%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (4.06%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (3.05%) Figma
7 5 (2.54%) SaaS
8 4 (2.03%) Apigee
8 4 (2.03%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (2.03%) Cloud Run
8 4 (2.03%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.03%) OCI
9 3 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.52%) Azure AKS
9 3 (1.52%) Vertex AI
10 2 (1.02%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.02%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.55%) Firewall
2 5 (2.54%) Network Security
3 4 (2.03%) DNS
3 4 (2.03%) SSL
4 3 (1.52%) VPN
5 2 (1.02%) BIG-IP
5 2 (1.02%) NGFW
5 2 (1.02%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.51%) HTTP
6 1 (0.51%) LAN
6 1 (0.51%) SMS
6 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.51%) WAN
6 1 (0.51%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.11%) Power BI
2 4 (2.03%) BigQuery
2 4 (2.03%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (1.52%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.52%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.02%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.02%) Tableau
5 1 (0.51%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.51%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.51%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.51%) DataStage
5 1 (0.51%) Db2
5 1 (0.51%) Looker
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (7.11%) JIRA
2 2 (1.02%) Git
2 2 (1.02%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (1.02%) Zephyr
3 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.51%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 66 (33.50%) Social Skills
2 27 (13.71%) Banking
3 21 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.60%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (3.05%) Financial Institution
6 6 (3.05%) Legal
7 5 (2.54%) Retail
8 4 (2.03%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.52%) General Ledger
9 3 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.52%) Military
10 2 (1.02%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.02%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.02%) Local Government
11 1 (0.51%) Billing
11 1 (0.51%) Front Office
11 1 (0.51%) Games
11 1 (0.51%) Law
Job Titles
1 39 (19.80%) Analyst
2 23 (11.68%) Consultant
3 19 (9.64%) Business Analyst
3 19 (9.64%) Senior
4 14 (7.11%) Project Manager
5 13 (6.60%) Architect
5 13 (6.60%) Developer
6 10 (5.08%) Administrator
7 9 (4.57%) Designer
7 9 (4.57%) Lead
8 8 (4.06%) Business Consultant
8 8 (4.06%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (3.55%) Programme Manager
9 7 (3.55%) Service Analyst
10 6 (3.05%) Configuration Specialist
10 6 (3.05%) Data Architect
10 6 (3.05%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (2.54%) Mobile UI Designer
11 5 (2.54%) Mobile UX Designer
11 5 (2.54%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.11%) SAP Fiori
2 7 (3.55%) Terraform
3 5 (2.54%) Middleware
3 5 (2.54%) REST
4 4 (2.03%) ISPF
4 4 (2.03%) LangGraph
5 3 (1.52%) JSON
5 3 (1.52%) Kafka
5 3 (1.52%) LangChain
6 2 (1.02%) ADO
6 2 (1.02%) OAuth
6 2 (1.02%) OpenID
6 2 (1.02%) React Native
6 2 (1.02%) SailPoint
6 2 (1.02%) SAML
6 2 (1.02%) SOAP
7 1 (0.51%) CSS
7 1 (0.51%) HTML
7 1 (0.51%) MSMQ
7 1 (0.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.64%) Data Protection Act
2 12 (6.09%) Onboarding
3 11 (5.58%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.06%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.55%) Mobile App
6 6 (3.05%) Mainframe
7 4 (2.03%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.03%) Clustering
8 3 (1.52%) CMDB
8 3 (1.52%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.52%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.02%) Derivative
9 2 (1.02%) Freedom of Information
9 2 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.02%) OTC Derivatives
9 2 (1.02%) PKI
10 1 (0.51%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.51%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.08%) Windows
2 5 (2.54%) Windows Server
2 5 (2.54%) zOS
3 3 (1.52%) Linux
4 2 (1.02%) AIX
4 2 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.02%) Solaris
4 2 (1.02%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (23.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 36 (18.27%) Agile
3 34 (17.26%) AI
4 32 (16.24%) Migration
5 30 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (13.20%) Analytics
6 26 (13.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 21 (10.66%) Generative AI
8 20 (10.15%) Data Protection
9 19 (9.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (9.64%) User Acceptance Testing
10 16 (8.12%) Change Management
10 16 (8.12%) Decision-Making
10 16 (8.12%) ITIL
11 15 (7.61%) Business Intelligence
11 15 (7.61%) ERP
11 15 (7.61%) System Integration Testing
12 14 (7.11%) CI/CD
12 14 (7.11%) DevOps
13 13 (6.60%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 21 (10.66%) Python
2 20 (10.15%) SQL
3 7 (3.55%) PowerShell
4 5 (2.54%) Java
5 4 (2.03%) Bash
6 2 (1.02%) Go
6 2 (1.02%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.02%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.02%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.51%) C#
7 1 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.51%) Scala
7 1 (0.51%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (0.51%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (5.58%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.08%) Degree
2 10 (5.08%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.02%) CBAP
3 2 (1.02%) CRISC
3 2 (1.02%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
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%) CISA
4 1 (0.51%) CISM
4 1 (0.51%) CISSP
4 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
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 5 (2.54%) PMO
3 5 (2.54%) QA
4 3 (1.52%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.52%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (1.52%) SLA
5 2 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.51%) COBIT
6 1 (0.51%) GDPR
6 1 (0.51%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.51%) ITGC
6 1 (0.51%) NIST
6 1 (0.51%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (3.55%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.54%) RACF
3 4 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.51%) Docker
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.51%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (2.54%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.03%) Ansible
2 4 (2.03%) OMEGAMON
3 3 (1.52%) Istio
4 2 (1.02%) Grafana
4 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.51%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.51%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.51%) linkerd
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 36 (18.27%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.63%) SAP
3 16 (8.12%) ServiceNow
4 13 (6.60%) Oracle
5 9 (4.57%) IBM
6 5 (2.54%) Citrix
7 4 (2.03%) Cisco
7 4 (2.03%) Google
7 4 (2.03%) Splunk
7 4 (2.03%) VMware
8 3 (1.52%) Adobe
8 3 (1.52%) Calypso
8 3 (1.52%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.52%) Databricks
8 3 (1.52%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.52%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.02%) Okta
9 2 (1.02%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.02%) Rapid7
9 2 (1.02%) Tenable