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 26 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 2 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 191 211 166
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 24.15% 33.33% 19.48%
As % of the General category 40.30% 42.12% 27.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 99 72
10th Percentile £289 £300 £235
25th Percentile £405 £441 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +7.65% -0.84%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £556
90th Percentile £650 £633 £749
Scotland median daily rate £475 £498 £450
% change year-on-year -4.52% +10.56% -9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £18.17
25th Percentile - - £18.24
Median hourly rate £95.00 - £21.23
75th Percentile - - £24.18
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £26.21 £18.13
% change year-on-year +33.54% +44.57% -51.79%

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 474 501 597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 59.92% 79.15% 70.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 256 323
10th Percentile £321 £250 £157
25th Percentile £406 £406 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £650 £600 £650
Scotland median daily rate £460 £465 £450
% change year-on-year -1.02% +3.28% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 8 20
10th Percentile £15.81 £16.19 £13.09
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.54 £13.60
Median hourly rate £50.00 £18.62 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +168.56% +6.39% -10.21%
75th Percentile £61.50 £32.73 £19.61
90th Percentile £75.00 £50.06 £27.26
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £19.37 £16.71
% change year-on-year -16.09% +15.89% -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 26 July 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 10 (5.24%) Confluence
2 6 (3.14%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.62%) Apache
4 4 (2.09%) WebSphere
5 3 (1.57%) CMS
5 3 (1.57%) IIS
5 3 (1.57%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.52%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.52%) CICS
6 1 (0.52%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 5 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (2.09%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
4 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 2 (1.05%) iTrent
4 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.52%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.52%) Primavera
4 1 (0.52%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.52%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.52%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.52%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 32 (16.75%) Azure
2 26 (13.61%) AWS
3 14 (7.33%) Power Platform
4 9 (4.71%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (4.19%) GCP
6 7 (3.66%) Figma
7 6 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.62%) SaaS
9 4 (2.09%) Apigee
9 4 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.57%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.57%) Azure AKS
10 3 (1.57%) Cloud Run
10 3 (1.57%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.57%) OCI
10 3 (1.57%) Serverless
10 3 (1.57%) Vertex AI
10 3 (1.57%) Vyond
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.62%) DNS
1 5 (2.62%) Firewall
2 4 (2.09%) Network Security
2 4 (2.09%) SSL
3 3 (1.57%) WAN
4 2 (1.05%) BIG-IP
4 2 (1.05%) NGFW
5 1 (0.52%) HTTP
5 1 (0.52%) LAN
5 1 (0.52%) SMS
5 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.76%) Power BI
2 4 (2.09%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.57%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.05%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.05%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.05%) Tableau
5 1 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.52%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.52%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.52%) DataStage
5 1 (0.52%) Looker
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.52%) QlikView
5 1 (0.52%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (7.33%) JIRA
2 3 (1.57%) Git
2 3 (1.57%) Zephyr
3 2 (1.05%) 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 65 (34.03%) Social Skills
2 25 (13.09%) Banking
3 19 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.33%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.19%) Legal
6 7 (3.66%) Financial Institution
6 7 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (3.66%) Retail
7 6 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.09%) Military
8 4 (2.09%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.57%) Games
9 3 (1.57%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.05%) Front Office
10 2 (1.05%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.05%) Local Government
10 2 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.05%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.52%) Law
Job Titles
1 37 (19.37%) Analyst
2 21 (10.99%) Business Analyst
3 20 (10.47%) Project Manager
4 14 (7.33%) Developer
5 13 (6.81%) Consultant
5 13 (6.81%) Senior
6 11 (5.76%) Administrator
6 11 (5.76%) Architect
7 10 (5.24%) Lead
8 8 (4.19%) Designer
8 8 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (3.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 6 (3.14%) Configuration Specialist
9 6 (3.14%) Technical Analyst
10 5 (2.62%) Business Systems Administrator
10 5 (2.62%) Senior Analyst
10 5 (2.62%) Senior Business Analyst
10 5 (2.62%) Technical Business Analyst
10 5 (2.62%) UI Designer
10 5 (2.62%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.33%) SAP Fiori
2 7 (3.66%) Middleware
3 4 (2.09%) ISPF
3 4 (2.09%) REST
4 3 (1.57%) JSON
4 3 (1.57%) LangChain
4 3 (1.57%) LangGraph
4 3 (1.57%) OAuth
4 3 (1.57%) OpenID
4 3 (1.57%) SAML
5 2 (1.05%) ADO
5 2 (1.05%) Kafka
5 2 (1.05%) React Native
5 2 (1.05%) SailPoint
5 2 (1.05%) SOAP
6 1 (0.52%) .NET
6 1 (0.52%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.52%) CSS
6 1 (0.52%) HTML
6 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Graph
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%) Mainframe
5 7 (3.66%) Mobile App
6 6 (3.14%) Clustering
7 3 (1.57%) CMDB
7 3 (1.57%) e-Learning
7 3 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.57%) Learning Management System
7 3 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.57%) PKI
7 3 (1.57%) SCORM
8 2 (1.05%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.05%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.05%) Derivative
8 2 (1.05%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.05%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.66%) zOS
2 5 (2.62%) Windows
3 3 (1.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (19.37%) AI
2 36 (18.85%) Agile
3 34 (17.80%) Stakeholder Management
4 28 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (13.09%) Migration
6 23 (12.04%) Analytics
7 22 (11.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 21 (10.99%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (10.47%) Data Protection
9 20 (10.47%) Generative AI
9 20 (10.47%) User Acceptance Testing
10 17 (8.90%) Asset Management
11 15 (7.85%) Project Delivery
11 15 (7.85%) System Integration Testing
12 14 (7.33%) CI/CD
12 14 (7.33%) Data Analysis
12 14 (7.33%) Decision-Making
12 14 (7.33%) ERP
12 14 (7.33%) Validation
13 13 (6.81%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 16 (8.38%) Python
1 16 (8.38%) SQL
2 6 (3.14%) Java
2 6 (3.14%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.05%) Bash
3 2 (1.05%) Go
3 2 (1.05%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.05%) PL/SQL
3 2 (1.05%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.52%) C#
4 1 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.52%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (0.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (6.28%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.76%) Degree
2 11 (5.76%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.09%) PMP
4 3 (1.57%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.05%) CBAP
5 2 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (1.05%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.52%) CISM
6 1 (0.52%) CISSP
6 1 (0.52%) CRISC
6 1 (0.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.28%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.76%) GRC
2 11 (5.76%) QA
3 5 (2.62%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.09%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.57%) PMO
5 3 (1.57%) WCAG
6 2 (1.05%) GDPR
7 1 (0.52%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (2.62%) Active Directory
1 5 (2.62%) RACF
2 3 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.52%) Docker
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (3.66%) Terraform
2 5 (2.62%) Ansible
3 4 (2.09%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.09%) OMEGAMON
4 3 (1.57%) Istio
5 2 (1.05%) Grafana
5 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.52%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.52%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.52%) linkerd
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 31 (16.23%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.90%) SAP
3 14 (7.33%) Oracle
4 12 (6.28%) ServiceNow
5 10 (5.24%) IBM
6 5 (2.62%) Adobe
6 5 (2.62%) Google
7 4 (2.09%) Splunk
8 3 (1.57%) Calypso
8 3 (1.57%) Cisco
8 3 (1.57%) Okta
8 3 (1.57%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.57%) Synthesia
8 3 (1.57%) VMware
9 2 (1.05%) Citrix
9 2 (1.05%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.05%) F5
9 2 (1.05%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.05%) RedGate
9 2 (1.05%) SolarWinds