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 5 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 4 4
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 153 146 172
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 25.46% 24.05% 19.35%
As % of the General category 38.73% 31.74% 25.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 76 89
10th Percentile £325 £206 £393
25th Percentile £463 £367 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% - -
75th Percentile £653 £600 £588
90th Percentile £686 £663 £660
Scotland median daily rate £475 £467 £500
% change year-on-year +1.66% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - £21.63 £12.86
25th Percentile - £22.50 £14.69
Median hourly rate £60.00 £23.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +160.87% +29.80% +15.25%
75th Percentile - £24.18 £20.30
90th Percentile - - £21.84
Scotland median hourly rate £36.70 £24.18 £19.50
% change year-on-year +51.76% +24.00% +26.83%

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 395 460 677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 65.72% 75.78% 76.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 260 399
10th Percentile £150 £190 £213
25th Percentile £325 £362 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £555 £538 £575
90th Percentile £663 £631 £650
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £486
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 29
10th Percentile £17.06 £20.02 £15.66
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.02 £22.87
Median hourly rate £30.50 £24.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.08% -60.00% +220.00%
75th Percentile £76.56 £24.42 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £41.43 £70.00
Scotland median hourly rate £17.87 £24.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -25.54% -7.69% +53.53%

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 5 February 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 20 (13.07%) Confluence
2 4 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.96%) Apache
4 2 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.65%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.65%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.65%) FileNet
5 1 (0.65%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (3.27%) Adobe XD
1 5 (3.27%) InVision
1 5 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (3.27%) Microsoft Project
1 5 (3.27%) Sketch
2 3 (1.96%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 3 (1.96%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.31%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 53 (34.64%) Azure
2 33 (21.57%) AWS
3 12 (7.84%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (6.54%) Figma
4 10 (6.54%) GCP
5 9 (5.88%) GitHub
6 6 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (3.92%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.92%) Snowflake
7 5 (3.27%) OCI
8 4 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (2.61%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.96%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.96%) SaaS
10 2 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.31%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.31%) AWS KMS
10 2 (1.31%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.58%) Firewall
2 3 (1.96%) Network Security
3 2 (1.31%) WAN
4 1 (0.65%) DHCP
4 1 (0.65%) DNS
4 1 (0.65%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.92%) Power BI
2 4 (2.61%) Tableau
3 3 (1.96%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.31%) Data Mart
4 2 (1.31%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.65%) BusinessObjects XI
5 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.65%) Metadata
5 1 (0.65%) MySQL
5 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.65%) QlikView
5 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.65%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 23 (15.03%) JIRA
2 7 (4.58%) GitLab
2 7 (4.58%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.27%) Axure RP
4 4 (2.61%) ER Studio
4 4 (2.61%) ERwin
5 3 (1.96%) Git
5 3 (1.96%) Snyk
6 2 (1.31%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.65%) git-flow
7 1 (0.65%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.65%) Maven
7 1 (0.65%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.65%) webpack
General
1 53 (34.64%) Banking
2 52 (33.99%) Social Skills
3 15 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.50%) Public Sector
5 12 (7.84%) Retail Banking
6 9 (5.88%) Financial Institution
7 7 (4.58%) Retail
8 6 (3.92%) Legal
9 5 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.61%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.96%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.31%) Marketing
12 2 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.65%) Front Office
13 1 (0.65%) Local Government
13 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (18.30%) Analyst
2 17 (11.11%) Senior
3 15 (9.80%) Business Analyst
4 13 (8.50%) Designer
4 13 (8.50%) Developer
5 12 (7.84%) Project Manager
6 10 (6.54%) Lead
7 8 (5.23%) Architect
7 8 (5.23%) Security Engineer
8 7 (4.58%) Administrator
8 7 (4.58%) Project Officer
8 7 (4.58%) Project Support Officer
8 7 (4.58%) Support Officer
9 6 (3.92%) Data Analyst
9 6 (3.92%) Senior Manager
9 6 (3.92%) Software Engineer
10 5 (3.27%) Delivery Manager
10 5 (3.27%) Design Engineer
10 5 (3.27%) UX Designer
11 4 (2.61%) Implementation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.92%) .NET
1 6 (3.92%) FastAPI
2 5 (3.27%) React
2 5 (3.27%) RESTful
2 5 (3.27%) Spring
2 5 (3.27%) Spring Boot
3 3 (1.96%) Model Context Protocol
3 3 (1.96%) PySpark
3 3 (1.96%) REST
3 3 (1.96%) SLSA
4 2 (1.31%) JSON
4 2 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.65%) Jest
5 1 (0.65%) JMS
5 1 (0.65%) Next.js
5 1 (0.65%) OAuth
5 1 (0.65%) OpenID
5 1 (0.65%) SAML
5 1 (0.65%) XML
5 1 (0.65%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.50%) Data Protection Act
1 13 (8.50%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.58%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.92%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.61%) Digital Wallet
4 4 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.96%) Clustering
5 3 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.96%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.96%) PKI
6 2 (1.31%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.31%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.65%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.65%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.65%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.92%) Windows
2 3 (1.96%) Linux
3 2 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.31%) Unix
4 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (37.91%) Agile
2 32 (20.92%) Stakeholder Management
3 29 (18.95%) Migration
4 28 (18.30%) AI
4 28 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (16.34%) DevOps
6 22 (14.38%) CI/CD
7 16 (10.46%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (10.46%) Cybersecurity
7 16 (10.46%) Project Management
7 16 (10.46%) Software Engineering
8 15 (9.80%) Data Protection
9 14 (9.15%) Workshop Facilitation
10 13 (8.50%) Decision-Making
10 13 (8.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 12 (7.84%) Coaching
11 12 (7.84%) Data Analysis
11 12 (7.84%) Data Modelling
11 12 (7.84%) Mentoring
12 11 (7.19%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (20.26%) Python
2 12 (7.84%) SQL
3 10 (6.54%) Java
4 8 (5.23%) TypeScript
5 5 (3.27%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.61%) Bash
6 4 (2.61%) C#
7 3 (1.96%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.31%) Korn
8 2 (1.31%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.65%) Bicep
9 1 (0.65%) C++
9 1 (0.65%) Go
9 1 (0.65%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 13 (8.50%) Degree
2 5 (3.27%) CISM
2 5 (3.27%) CISSP
2 5 (3.27%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (1.31%) FFIEC
3 2 (1.31%) PMI Certification
3 2 (1.31%) PMP
4 1 (0.65%) APMG
4 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.65%) PhD
4 1 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (0.65%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.65%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.19%) QA
2 10 (6.54%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.54%) Disclosure Scotland
2 10 (6.54%) PMO
3 7 (4.58%) Accessibility
4 5 (3.27%) GDPR
5 4 (2.61%) COBIT
5 4 (2.61%) NIST
6 2 (1.31%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.65%) COREP
7 1 (0.65%) GRC
7 1 (0.65%) IFRS
7 1 (0.65%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.65%) NCSC
7 1 (0.65%) PSD2
7 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (3.92%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.31%) Docker
2 2 (1.31%) Firmware
3 1 (0.65%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.65%) ISA Server
3 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (8.50%) Terraform
2 7 (4.58%) Ansible
2 7 (4.58%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.65%) Grafana
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (13.07%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.23%) Adobe
2 8 (5.23%) Oracle
3 6 (3.92%) CheckPoint
4 5 (3.27%) BiZZdesign
5 4 (2.61%) Dell
5 4 (2.61%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.61%) F5
5 4 (2.61%) Google
5 4 (2.61%) HP
5 4 (2.61%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.96%) Black Duck
6 3 (1.96%) Checkmarx
6 3 (1.96%) Pega
6 3 (1.96%) Tenable
7 2 (1.31%) Cisco
7 2 (1.31%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.31%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.31%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.31%) Thales