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 4 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 2 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 192 193 158
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 28.15% 31.33% 19.01%
As % of the General category 43.34% 41.33% 26.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 88 71
10th Percentile £303 £325 £164
25th Percentile £413 £449 £287
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -6.20%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £544
90th Percentile £665 £575 £725
Scotland median daily rate £463 £492 £425
% change year-on-year -6.00% +15.76% -15.00%
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 £21.31 £27.40 £20.11
% change year-on-year -22.24% +36.25% +15.14%

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 443 467 589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 64.96% 75.81% 70.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 222 305
10th Percentile £218 £227 £159
25th Percentile £381 £413 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £531
90th Percentile £650 £598 £612
Scotland median daily rate £465 £475 £440
% change year-on-year -2.11% +7.95% -7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 15 16
10th Percentile £15.81 £17.08 £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 £37.90 £24.18
90th Percentile - £60.75 £56.25
Scotland median hourly rate £16.11 £17.87 £16.71
% change year-on-year -9.85% +6.94% -12.88%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 (5.21%) Confluence
2 6 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.60%) Apache
4 3 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.56%) CMS
4 3 (1.56%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.04%) IIS
5 2 (1.04%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.52%) CICS
6 1 (0.52%) nginx
6 1 (0.52%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.08%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.52%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (7.29%) SAP GRC
1 14 (7.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.04%) 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 33 (17.19%) Azure
2 24 (12.50%) AWS
3 19 (9.90%) Power Platform
4 9 (4.69%) GCP
5 8 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (3.13%) Figma
7 5 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.60%) SaaS
8 4 (2.08%) Apigee
8 4 (2.08%) Cloud Run
8 4 (2.08%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.08%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.56%) Azure AKS
9 3 (1.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (1.56%) dbt
9 3 (1.56%) Fivetran
9 3 (1.56%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.65%) Firewall
2 5 (2.60%) Network Security
3 4 (2.08%) DNS
3 4 (2.08%) SSL
4 3 (1.56%) VPN
5 2 (1.04%) BIG-IP
5 2 (1.04%) NGFW
5 2 (1.04%) 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 16 (8.33%) Power BI
2 4 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (2.08%) BigQuery
2 4 (2.08%) Data Lake
2 4 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.08%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.56%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.04%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.52%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
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 BI Publisher
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%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (5.73%) JIRA
2 3 (1.56%) GitLab
3 2 (1.04%) Git
3 2 (1.04%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.52%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.52%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 59 (30.73%) Social Skills
2 26 (13.54%) Banking
3 19 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.77%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.65%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (3.13%) Financial Institution
6 6 (3.13%) Legal
7 4 (2.08%) Retail
7 4 (2.08%) Retail Banking
8 3 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.04%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.04%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.04%) Local Government
10 1 (0.52%) Billing
10 1 (0.52%) Front Office
10 1 (0.52%) Games
10 1 (0.52%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.52%) Law
10 1 (0.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 40 (20.83%) Analyst
2 25 (13.02%) Consultant
3 23 (11.98%) Senior
4 21 (10.94%) Business Analyst
5 13 (6.77%) Architect
6 12 (6.25%) Developer
6 12 (6.25%) Project Manager
7 9 (4.69%) Designer
7 9 (4.69%) Security Consultant
8 8 (4.17%) Administrator
8 8 (4.17%) Business Consultant
8 8 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (3.65%) Programme Manager
9 7 (3.65%) Senior Consultant
10 6 (3.13%) Configuration Specialist
10 6 (3.13%) Data Architect
10 6 (3.13%) Lead
10 6 (3.13%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (3.13%) Service Analyst
11 5 (2.60%) Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.29%) SAP Fiori
2 7 (3.65%) Terraform
3 5 (2.60%) Middleware
3 5 (2.60%) REST
4 4 (2.08%) ISPF
4 4 (2.08%) LangGraph
5 3 (1.56%) JSON
5 3 (1.56%) LangChain
6 2 (1.04%) Kafka
6 2 (1.04%) OAuth
6 2 (1.04%) OpenID
6 2 (1.04%) React Native
6 2 (1.04%) SailPoint
6 2 (1.04%) SAML
6 2 (1.04%) SOAP
7 1 (0.52%) .NET
7 1 (0.52%) ADO
7 1 (0.52%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.52%) RESTful
7 1 (0.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.90%) Data Protection Act
2 11 (5.73%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.21%) Onboarding
4 8 (4.17%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.65%) Mobile App
6 6 (3.13%) Mainframe
7 4 (2.08%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.08%) Clustering
8 3 (1.56%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.04%) CMDB
9 2 (1.04%) Derivative
9 2 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.04%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.04%) OTC Derivatives
9 2 (1.04%) PKI
10 1 (0.52%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.52%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.21%) Windows
2 5 (2.60%) Windows Server
2 5 (2.60%) zOS
3 3 (1.56%) Linux
4 2 (1.04%) AIX
4 2 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.04%) Solaris
4 2 (1.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 39 (20.31%) Agile
3 34 (17.71%) Migration
4 30 (15.63%) AI
5 27 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (12.50%) Analytics
7 22 (11.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 20 (10.42%) Data Protection
9 19 (9.90%) User Acceptance Testing
10 17 (8.85%) Business Intelligence
10 17 (8.85%) CI/CD
10 17 (8.85%) Generative AI
11 15 (7.81%) Data Modelling
11 15 (7.81%) System Integration Testing
12 14 (7.29%) Change Management
12 14 (7.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (7.29%) Decision-Making
12 14 (7.29%) ITIL
13 13 (6.77%) SAP Security
13 13 (6.77%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 24 (12.50%) Python
2 20 (10.42%) SQL
3 7 (3.65%) PowerShell
4 5 (2.60%) Java
5 4 (2.08%) Bash
6 2 (1.04%) Go
6 2 (1.04%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.04%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.04%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.52%) C#
7 1 (0.52%) Scala
7 1 (0.52%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (0.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (4.69%) SC Cleared
1 9 (4.69%) Security Cleared
2 8 (4.17%) Degree
3 2 (1.04%) CBAP
3 2 (1.04%) CRISC
3 2 (1.04%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 2 (1.04%) PMI Certification
3 2 (1.04%) 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 (5.73%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.21%) GRC
3 5 (2.60%) PMO
4 3 (1.56%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.56%) QA
4 3 (1.56%) SLA
5 2 (1.04%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.04%) 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 (3.65%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.60%) RACF
3 4 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.52%) Docker
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (2.60%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.08%) Ansible
2 4 (2.08%) OMEGAMON
3 3 (1.56%) Istio
4 2 (1.04%) Grafana
4 2 (1.04%) 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
5 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (16.15%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.33%) SAP
3 13 (6.77%) ServiceNow
4 9 (4.69%) IBM
4 9 (4.69%) Oracle
5 5 (2.60%) Citrix
6 4 (2.08%) Cisco
6 4 (2.08%) Google
6 4 (2.08%) Splunk
6 4 (2.08%) VMware
7 3 (1.56%) Adobe
7 3 (1.56%) Calypso
7 3 (1.56%) CyberArk
7 3 (1.56%) Databricks
7 3 (1.56%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.56%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.04%) F5
8 2 (1.04%) Qualys
8 2 (1.04%) Rapid7
8 2 (1.04%) RedGate
326 Finance jobs in Edinburgh