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 9 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 2 4
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 142 171 170
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 22.47% 27.85% 19.79%
As % of the General category 36.41% 36.46% 26.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 89 86
10th Percentile £263 £230 £339
25th Percentile £442 £420 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £651 £600 £588
90th Percentile £686 £675 £653
Scotland median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £18.24
25th Percentile - £22.50 £19.01
Median hourly rate - £23.59 £20.30
Median % change year-on-year - +16.24% +69.13%
75th Percentile - £24.18 £21.58
90th Percentile - - £22.36
Scotland median hourly rate £13.39 £24.18 £19.50
% change year-on-year -44.62% +24.00% +39.34%

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 390 469 652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 61.71% 76.38% 75.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 263 380
10th Percentile £150 £192 £178
25th Percentile £359 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £487
Median % change year-on-year - -7.60% +2.53%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £575
90th Percentile £663 £630 £660
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 17 32
10th Percentile £17.23 £21.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £22.22 £16.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £24.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +106.78% -46.27% +109.64%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.66 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £30.74 £69.25
Scotland median hourly rate £17.23 £23.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -25.09% +17.95% +10.05%

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 9 March 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 18 (12.68%) Confluence
2 4 (2.82%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.11%) Apache
4 1 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.70%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.70%) FileNet
4 1 (0.70%) IIS
4 1 (0.70%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.70%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (3.52%) Adobe XD
1 5 (3.52%) InVision
1 5 (3.52%) Microsoft Project
1 5 (3.52%) Sketch
2 4 (2.82%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.70%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) iTrent
1 1 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 48 (33.80%) Azure
2 23 (16.20%) AWS
3 13 (9.15%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (6.34%) Figma
5 7 (4.93%) GitHub
6 6 (4.23%) GCP
7 5 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (3.52%) Snowflake
8 4 (2.82%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.82%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.11%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.11%) OCI
9 3 (2.11%) SaaS
10 2 (1.41%) AWS KMS
10 2 (1.41%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.70%) Asana
11 1 (0.70%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.52%) Firewall
2 3 (2.11%) Network Security
2 3 (2.11%) WAN
3 2 (1.41%) DNS
4 1 (0.70%) DHCP
4 1 (0.70%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.82%) Data Lake
1 4 (2.82%) Power BI
2 2 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.41%) Tableau
3 1 (0.70%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.70%) BusinessObjects XI
3 1 (0.70%) Data Mart
3 1 (0.70%) Metadata
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.70%) QlikView
3 1 (0.70%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.70%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 21 (14.79%) JIRA
2 5 (3.52%) Axure RP
3 4 (2.82%) ER Studio
3 4 (2.82%) ERwin
3 4 (2.82%) GitLab
3 4 (2.82%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.11%) Snyk
5 2 (1.41%) Git
6 1 (0.70%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.70%) Maven
6 1 (0.70%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.70%) webpack
6 1 (0.70%) Zephyr
General
1 55 (38.73%) Social Skills
2 39 (27.46%) Banking
3 17 (11.97%) Public Sector
4 16 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.34%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (5.63%) Financial Institution
6 8 (5.63%) Retail Banking
7 6 (4.23%) Legal
7 6 (4.23%) Retail
8 4 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.82%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.41%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.41%) Local Government
10 2 (1.41%) Marketing
10 2 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.70%) Front Office
11 1 (0.70%) Games
11 1 (0.70%) Military
11 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (19.72%) Analyst
2 16 (11.27%) Business Analyst
2 16 (11.27%) Senior
3 12 (8.45%) Project Manager
4 11 (7.75%) Designer
5 10 (7.04%) Lead
6 9 (6.34%) Developer
7 8 (5.63%) Administrator
7 8 (5.63%) Security Engineer
8 7 (4.93%) Project Officer
8 7 (4.93%) Project Support Officer
8 7 (4.93%) Support Officer
9 6 (4.23%) Architect
9 6 (4.23%) Senior Manager
10 5 (3.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 5 (3.52%) Design Engineer
10 5 (3.52%) UX Designer
11 4 (2.82%) Data Analyst
11 4 (2.82%) Data Modeller
11 4 (2.82%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.82%) FastAPI
1 4 (2.82%) RESTful
2 3 (2.11%) .NET
2 3 (2.11%) JSON
2 3 (2.11%) SLSA
3 2 (1.41%) Middleware
3 2 (1.41%) Model Context Protocol
3 2 (1.41%) OAuth
3 2 (1.41%) OpenID
3 2 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.41%) React
3 2 (1.41%) SAML
3 2 (1.41%) Spring
3 2 (1.41%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.70%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (0.70%) Jest
4 1 (0.70%) Kafka
4 1 (0.70%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.70%) PySpark
4 1 (0.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.75%) Product Ownership
2 10 (7.04%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (4.93%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.52%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.52%) Clustering
5 4 (2.82%) Digital Wallet
5 4 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.82%) PKI
6 3 (2.11%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.41%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.41%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.70%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.70%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.70%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.70%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.70%) SCORM
8 1 (0.70%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.82%) Windows
2 2 (1.41%) Linux
2 2 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.41%) Unix
2 2 (1.41%) zOS
3 1 (0.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (34.51%) Agile
2 27 (19.01%) AI
2 27 (19.01%) Stakeholder Management
3 25 (17.61%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (14.79%) DevOps
5 18 (12.68%) Migration
5 18 (12.68%) Project Management
6 17 (11.97%) Workshop Facilitation
7 16 (11.27%) CI/CD
8 15 (10.56%) Project Delivery
9 14 (9.86%) Data Analysis
9 14 (9.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 13 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (9.15%) Cybersecurity
11 12 (8.45%) Data Modelling
12 11 (7.75%) Asset Management
12 11 (7.75%) Waterfall
13 10 (7.04%) Data Protection
13 10 (7.04%) Software Engineering
13 10 (7.04%) UML
Programming Languages
1 23 (16.20%) Python
2 11 (7.75%) SQL
3 6 (4.23%) Java
3 6 (4.23%) PowerShell
4 5 (3.52%) TypeScript
5 4 (2.82%) Bash
6 3 (2.11%) C#
6 3 (2.11%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.41%) Korn
7 2 (1.41%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.70%) Bicep
8 1 (0.70%) C++
Qualifications
1 12 (8.45%) Degree
2 5 (3.52%) CISM
2 5 (3.52%) CISSP
2 5 (3.52%) TOGAF Certification
3 3 (2.11%) PMP
4 2 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.41%) FFIEC
4 2 (1.41%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.41%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.41%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.70%) APMG
5 1 (0.70%) PhD
5 1 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.45%) QA
2 9 (6.34%) Disclosure Scotland
3 8 (5.63%) Accessibility
3 8 (5.63%) Data Quality
3 8 (5.63%) PMO
4 4 (2.82%) NIST
5 3 (2.11%) GDPR
6 2 (1.41%) COBIT
6 2 (1.41%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.70%) GRC
7 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.70%) NCSC
7 1 (0.70%) PSD2
7 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.70%) SLA
7 1 (0.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (3.52%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.41%) Firmware
3 1 (0.70%) Docker
3 1 (0.70%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.70%) ISA Server
3 1 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (5.63%) Terraform
2 6 (4.23%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.52%) Ansible
4 4 (2.82%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 19 (13.38%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.34%) Adobe
3 6 (4.23%) Oracle
4 5 (3.52%) BiZZdesign
4 5 (3.52%) Google
4 5 (3.52%) OpenAI
5 4 (2.82%) CheckPoint
5 4 (2.82%) IBM
6 3 (2.11%) Black Duck
6 3 (2.11%) Checkmarx
6 3 (2.11%) Pega
6 3 (2.11%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.11%) Tenable
7 2 (1.41%) Dell
7 2 (1.41%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.41%) F5
7 2 (1.41%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.41%) HP
7 2 (1.41%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.41%) Thales
53 Finance jobs in Edinburgh