Finance Contracts in Edinburgh

Financial
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 148 255 491
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 17.11% 21.67% 25.86%
As % of the General category 23.87% 29.34% 34.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 157 366
10th Percentile £278 £269 £340
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -0.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £586
90th Percentile £750 £650 £675
Scotland median daily rate £475 £500 £493
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.52% +15.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £18.16 - £18.30
25th Percentile £18.20 - £19.50
Median hourly rate £18.27 - £21.75
75th Percentile £21.23 - £24.25
90th Percentile £23.00 - £25.60
Scotland median hourly rate £18.89 £57.50 £37.43
% change year-on-year -67.16% +53.62% -23.17%

All General Skills
Edinburgh

Finance is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 620 869 1,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 71.68% 73.83% 74.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 616 1,022
10th Percentile £162 £228 £231
25th Percentile £340 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.58% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £556 £545 £565
90th Percentile £663 £600 £638
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 5 11
10th Percentile £13.38 £13.39 -
25th Percentile £16.50 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £25.09 £21.26 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.02% -18.23% -49.46%
75th Percentile £60.75 £21.67 £48.75
90th Percentile £65.38 £33.27 £52.50
Scotland median hourly rate £18.13 £19.88 £32.14
% change year-on-year -8.80% -38.15% +83.66%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Edinburgh

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Finance in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Finance in Edinburgh

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Edinburgh

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (6.08%) Confluence
2 3 (2.03%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.68%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.03%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.68%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (4.73%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (2.70%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (2.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (2.03%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.35%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (1.35%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 22 (14.86%) Azure
2 13 (8.78%) OCI
3 12 (8.11%) Power Platform
4 11 (7.43%) AWS
5 6 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (4.05%) SaaS
6 5 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (2.70%) GCP
8 3 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.03%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.03%) Serverless
9 2 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.35%) Figma
9 2 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.35%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.68%) Cloud Run
10 1 (0.68%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.03%) LAN
1 3 (2.03%) WAN
2 2 (1.35%) Firewall
3 1 (0.68%) ATM
3 1 (0.68%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.68%) Wireless
3 1 (0.68%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.11%) Power BI
2 9 (6.08%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (3.38%) Star Schema
4 4 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.70%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 4 (2.70%) Tableau
5 3 (2.03%) Big Data
5 3 (2.03%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.35%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.35%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.35%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.68%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.68%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.68%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.68%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (7.43%) JIRA
2 5 (3.38%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.35%) ERwin
3 2 (1.35%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.68%) GitLab
4 1 (0.68%) Gradle
4 1 (0.68%) JMeter
4 1 (0.68%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.68%) Selenium
4 1 (0.68%) SilkCentral
4 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 41 (27.70%) Social Skills
2 37 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 25 (16.89%) Banking
4 20 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (7.43%) Retail Banking
6 5 (3.38%) Billing
7 4 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.03%) Retail
8 3 (2.03%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.35%) Electronics
9 2 (1.35%) Legal
9 2 (1.35%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.35%) Marketing
10 1 (0.68%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (25.00%) Analyst
2 22 (14.86%) Project Manager
3 16 (10.81%) Architect
4 14 (9.46%) Business Analyst
5 12 (8.11%) Senior
6 9 (6.08%) Consultant
7 8 (5.41%) Data Analyst
7 8 (5.41%) Finance Manager
7 8 (5.41%) Lead
8 7 (4.73%) Data Architect
8 7 (4.73%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (4.05%) Data Engineer
9 6 (4.05%) Programme Manager
10 5 (3.38%) Developer
10 5 (3.38%) Project Officer
10 5 (3.38%) Project Support Officer
10 5 (3.38%) Support Officer
11 4 (2.70%) Financial Analyst
11 4 (2.70%) Senior Financial Analyst
11 4 (2.70%) UAT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.76%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (3.38%) Kafka
3 3 (2.03%) Middleware
4 2 (1.35%) ADO
4 2 (1.35%) AWS CDK
4 2 (1.35%) Node.js
4 2 (1.35%) React
5 1 (0.68%) CSS
5 1 (0.68%) HTML
5 1 (0.68%) Java EE
5 1 (0.68%) PySpark
5 1 (0.68%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.14%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (3.38%) Management Information System
2 5 (3.38%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.70%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.03%) iPhone
4 3 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.03%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.03%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (1.35%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (1.35%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.35%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.68%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.68%) iPad
6 1 (0.68%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.68%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.68%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.78%) Windows
2 5 (3.38%) Linux
3 4 (2.70%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.35%) zOS
5 1 (0.68%) Android
5 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.68%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (16.89%) Agile
2 22 (14.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 18 (12.16%) Business Intelligence
4 17 (11.49%) Migration
5 15 (10.14%) Data Protection
5 15 (10.14%) ERP
5 15 (10.14%) Project Management
6 13 (8.78%) Data Modelling
7 12 (8.11%) User Acceptance Testing
8 11 (7.43%) Data Migration
8 11 (7.43%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (6.76%) Analytics
9 10 (6.76%) DevOps
10 9 (6.08%) Business Strategy
10 9 (6.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (6.08%) Test Strategy
11 8 (5.41%) Procure-to-Pay
11 8 (5.41%) Record to Report
12 7 (4.73%) Data Analysis
12 7 (4.73%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 14 (9.46%) SQL
2 9 (6.08%) Python
3 3 (2.03%) Java
3 3 (2.03%) JavaScript
3 3 (2.03%) TypeScript
4 2 (1.35%) Bash
4 2 (1.35%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.68%) Groovy
5 1 (0.68%) Scala
5 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (4.05%) Degree
2 2 (1.35%) ISTQB
2 2 (1.35%) SC Cleared
2 2 (1.35%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.68%) APMG
3 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.68%) CISA
3 1 (0.68%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.11%) PMO
2 7 (4.73%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (2.70%) QA
4 2 (1.35%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.35%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (1.35%) NIST
5 1 (0.68%) IFRS
5 1 (0.68%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.68%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (3.38%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (3.38%) VMware NSX
1 5 (3.38%) vSphere
2 4 (2.70%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (18.92%) Oracle
2 19 (12.84%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.76%) Databricks
4 7 (4.73%) Informatica
5 5 (3.38%) Cisco
5 5 (3.38%) Dell
5 5 (3.38%) IDERA
5 5 (3.38%) VMware
6 4 (2.70%) HP
6 4 (2.70%) Splunk
7 3 (2.03%) Pega
7 3 (2.03%) Samsung
7 3 (2.03%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.35%) Blue Prism
8 2 (1.35%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.35%) F5
8 2 (1.35%) Google
8 2 (1.35%) Qualys
8 2 (1.35%) SAP
9 1 (0.68%) Cognizant