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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 2 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 191 197 155
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 27.72% 31.47% 18.54%
As % of the General category 42.92% 41.83% 26.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 89 70
10th Percentile £301 £325 £163
25th Percentile £411 £450 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +12.22% -5.66%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £547
90th Percentile £666 £585 £725
Scotland median daily rate £463 £500 £438
% change year-on-year -7.50% +14.29% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £32.68 - £19.00
25th Percentile £43.06 - £20.32
Median hourly rate £60.38 £60.00 £23.14
Median % change year-on-year +0.63% +159.35% +57.54%
75th Percentile £77.69 - £24.18
90th Percentile £88.08 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £25.75 £27.40 £20.11
% change year-on-year -6.02% +36.25% +13.49%

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 445 471 590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 64.59% 75.24% 70.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 225 307
10th Percentile £213 £266 £160
25th Percentile £375 £413 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £570 £538 £531
90th Percentile £650 £600 £611
Scotland median daily rate £463 £472 £448
% change year-on-year -2.01% +5.47% -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 16 16
10th Percentile £15.81 £17.21 £12.61
25th Percentile £16.25 - £13.60
Median hourly rate £19.33 £17.87 £18.65
Median % change year-on-year +8.17% -4.18% +5.25%
75th Percentile £61.50 £49.35 £24.18
90th Percentile - £60.63 £56.25
Scotland median hourly rate £16.05 £19.23 £16.92
% change year-on-year -16.54% +13.65% -31.19%

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 28 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 28 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 (5.24%) Confluence
2 6 (3.14%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.57%) CMS
3 3 (1.57%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.05%) Apache
4 2 (1.05%) IIS
4 2 (1.05%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.52%) CICS
5 1 (0.52%) nginx
5 1 (0.52%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (2.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.09%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.52%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (7.33%) SAP GRC
1 14 (7.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.57%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.52%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.52%) Primavera
3 1 (0.52%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.52%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.52%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.52%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 31 (16.23%) Azure
2 24 (12.57%) AWS
3 16 (8.38%) Power Platform
4 9 (4.71%) GCP
5 8 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (3.14%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (3.14%) Figma
7 5 (2.62%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.62%) SaaS
8 4 (2.09%) Apigee
8 4 (2.09%) Cloud Run
8 4 (2.09%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.57%) Azure AKS
9 3 (1.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (1.57%) Vertex AI
10 2 (1.05%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.05%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.66%) Firewall
2 5 (2.62%) Network Security
3 4 (2.09%) DNS
3 4 (2.09%) SSL
4 3 (1.57%) VPN
5 2 (1.05%) BIG-IP
5 2 (1.05%) NGFW
5 2 (1.05%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.52%) HTTP
6 1 (0.52%) LAN
6 1 (0.52%) SMS
6 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.52%) WAN
6 1 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.81%) Power BI
2 4 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (2.09%) BigQuery
2 4 (2.09%) Data Lake
2 4 (2.09%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.57%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.05%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.52%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.52%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.52%) DataStage
5 1 (0.52%) Db2
5 1 (0.52%) Looker
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.52%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.52%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (5.76%) JIRA
2 2 (1.05%) Git
2 2 (1.05%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.52%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.52%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 60 (31.41%) Social Skills
2 26 (13.61%) Banking
3 20 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.81%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (3.14%) Financial Institution
6 6 (3.14%) Legal
7 4 (2.09%) Retail
7 4 (2.09%) Retail Banking
8 3 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.05%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.05%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.05%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.05%) Local Government
10 1 (0.52%) Billing
10 1 (0.52%) Games
10 1 (0.52%) Military
10 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 38 (19.90%) Analyst
2 25 (13.09%) Consultant
3 23 (12.04%) Senior
4 19 (9.95%) Business Analyst
5 14 (7.33%) Architect
6 13 (6.81%) Developer
6 13 (6.81%) Project Manager
7 9 (4.71%) Designer
7 9 (4.71%) Security Consultant
8 8 (4.19%) Administrator
8 8 (4.19%) Business Consultant
8 8 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (3.66%) Data Architect
9 7 (3.66%) Lead
9 7 (3.66%) Programme Manager
9 7 (3.66%) Senior Consultant
10 6 (3.14%) Configuration Specialist
10 6 (3.14%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (3.14%) Service Analyst
11 5 (2.62%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.33%) SAP Fiori
2 7 (3.66%) Terraform
3 5 (2.62%) Middleware
3 5 (2.62%) REST
4 4 (2.09%) ISPF
4 4 (2.09%) LangGraph
5 3 (1.57%) JSON
5 3 (1.57%) Kafka
5 3 (1.57%) LangChain
6 2 (1.05%) OAuth
6 2 (1.05%) OpenID
6 2 (1.05%) React Native
6 2 (1.05%) SailPoint
6 2 (1.05%) SAML
6 2 (1.05%) SOAP
7 1 (0.52%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.52%) MSMQ
7 1 (0.52%) RESTful
7 1 (0.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.95%) Data Protection Act
2 11 (5.76%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.24%) Onboarding
4 8 (4.19%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.66%) Mobile App
6 6 (3.14%) Mainframe
7 4 (2.09%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.09%) Clustering
8 3 (1.57%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.05%) CMDB
9 2 (1.05%) Derivative
9 2 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.05%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.05%) OTC Derivatives
9 2 (1.05%) PKI
10 1 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.24%) Windows
2 5 (2.62%) Windows Server
2 5 (2.62%) zOS
3 3 (1.57%) Linux
4 2 (1.05%) AIX
4 2 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.05%) Solaris
4 2 (1.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (24.08%) Stakeholder Management
2 34 (17.80%) Agile
3 32 (16.75%) Migration
4 31 (16.23%) AI
5 27 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (13.09%) Analytics
7 22 (11.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 20 (10.47%) Data Protection
9 18 (9.42%) Generative AI
9 18 (9.42%) User Acceptance Testing
10 15 (7.85%) System Integration Testing
11 14 (7.33%) Business Intelligence
11 14 (7.33%) Change Management
11 14 (7.33%) CI/CD
11 14 (7.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (7.33%) ITIL
12 13 (6.81%) Decision-Making
12 13 (6.81%) Project Delivery
12 13 (6.81%) SAP Security
13 12 (6.28%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 21 (10.99%) Python
2 20 (10.47%) SQL
3 7 (3.66%) PowerShell
4 5 (2.62%) Java
5 4 (2.09%) Bash
6 2 (1.05%) Go
6 2 (1.05%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.05%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.05%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.52%) C#
7 1 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.52%) Scala
7 1 (0.52%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (0.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (4.71%) SC Cleared
1 9 (4.71%) Security Cleared
2 8 (4.19%) Degree
3 2 (1.05%) CBAP
3 2 (1.05%) CRISC
3 2 (1.05%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 2 (1.05%) PMI Certification
3 2 (1.05%) PMP
4 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.52%) CISA
4 1 (0.52%) CISM
4 1 (0.52%) CISSP
4 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.76%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.24%) GRC
3 5 (2.62%) PMO
4 3 (1.57%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.57%) QA
4 3 (1.57%) SLA
5 2 (1.05%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.52%) COBIT
6 1 (0.52%) GDPR
6 1 (0.52%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.52%) ITGC
6 1 (0.52%) NIST
6 1 (0.52%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (3.66%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.62%) RACF
3 4 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.52%) Docker
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (2.62%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.09%) Ansible
2 4 (2.09%) OMEGAMON
3 3 (1.57%) Istio
4 2 (1.05%) Grafana
4 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.52%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.52%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.52%) linkerd
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (17.28%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.38%) SAP
3 13 (6.81%) ServiceNow
4 10 (5.24%) Oracle
5 9 (4.71%) IBM
6 5 (2.62%) Citrix
7 4 (2.09%) Cisco
7 4 (2.09%) Databricks
7 4 (2.09%) Google
7 4 (2.09%) Splunk
7 4 (2.09%) VMware
8 3 (1.57%) Adobe
8 3 (1.57%) Calypso
8 3 (1.57%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.57%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.57%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.05%) F5
9 2 (1.05%) Qualys
9 2 (1.05%) Rapid7
9 2 (1.05%) RedGate