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 20 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 185 151 191
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 29.98% 21.42% 19.79%
As % of the General category 40.13% 30.32% 26.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 71 112
10th Percentile £300 £192 £305
25th Percentile £418 £287 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £544 £591
90th Percentile £600 £612 £684
Scotland median daily rate £475 £438 £500
% change year-on-year +8.57% -12.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 4
10th Percentile - £21.77 £13.47
25th Percentile - £22.92 £16.20
Median hourly rate £60.00 £24.18 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +148.14% +36.46% +15.25%
75th Percentile - - £19.01
90th Percentile - - £21.33
Scotland median hourly rate £27.40 £24.18 £17.72
% change year-on-year +13.32% +36.46% -36.92%

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 common skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 461 498 728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 74.72% 70.64% 75.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 249 455
10th Percentile £192 £179 £166
25th Percentile £400 £363 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -0.84%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £600 £620 £617
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £479
% change year-on-year - -6.05% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 11
10th Percentile £16.07 £14.18 £13.28
25th Percentile - £18.82 £17.72
Median hourly rate £17.87 £24.18 £22.87
Median % change year-on-year -26.10% +5.73% +21.01%
75th Percentile £31.50 - £56.85
90th Percentile £66.75 £26.70 £61.50
Scotland median hourly rate £19.60 £19.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year +0.05% +0.46% +10.73%

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 20 November 2025.

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 12 (6.49%) Confluence
2 5 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.08%) Apache
3 2 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.54%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.54%) FileNet
4 1 (0.54%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (4.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.62%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.62%) Trello
3 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.08%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 37 (20.00%) Azure
2 30 (16.22%) AWS
3 13 (7.03%) GCP
4 9 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (3.24%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (2.70%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.70%) Serverless
7 4 (2.16%) OCI
7 4 (2.16%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.08%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (1.08%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.08%) Apigee
9 2 (1.08%) Figma
9 2 (1.08%) GitHub
9 2 (1.08%) Lucidchart
9 2 (1.08%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.08%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.70%) Firewall
2 1 (0.54%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.78%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (2.70%) Power BI
3 4 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.62%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.08%) Data Mart
5 2 (1.08%) MySQL
5 2 (1.08%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.08%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.08%) Tableau
6 1 (0.54%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.54%) BusinessObjects XI
6 1 (0.54%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.54%) DB2
6 1 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 17 (9.19%) JIRA
2 6 (3.24%) GitLab
2 6 (3.24%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.70%) Git
4 4 (2.16%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.62%) Liquibase
6 2 (1.08%) ER Studio
6 2 (1.08%) ERwin
6 2 (1.08%) git-flow
6 2 (1.08%) JUnit
6 2 (1.08%) webpack
7 1 (0.54%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.54%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.54%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.54%) Maven
7 1 (0.54%) Selenium
7 1 (0.54%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.54%) Toad
General
1 70 (37.84%) Banking
2 64 (34.59%) Social Skills
3 42 (22.70%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (15.68%) Documentation Skills
5 22 (11.89%) Public Sector
6 13 (7.03%) Retail Banking
7 8 (4.32%) Financial Institution
7 8 (4.32%) Retail
8 7 (3.78%) Legal
8 7 (3.78%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (3.24%) Investment Banking
9 6 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.16%) Electronics
10 4 (2.16%) Marketing
10 4 (2.16%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.62%) Automotive
11 3 (1.62%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (30.81%) Analyst
2 16 (8.65%) Business Analyst
3 14 (7.57%) Lead
3 14 (7.57%) Senior
4 13 (7.03%) Fraud Analyst
4 13 (7.03%) Software Engineer
5 12 (6.49%) Data Analyst
5 12 (6.49%) Developer
6 10 (5.41%) Consultant
6 10 (5.41%) Project Manager
7 9 (4.86%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (4.32%) Support Officer
9 7 (3.78%) Accountant
9 7 (3.78%) Systems Accountant
10 5 (2.70%) Business Consultant
10 5 (2.70%) Delivery Manager
10 5 (2.70%) Project Officer
10 5 (2.70%) Project Support Officer
11 4 (2.16%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (2.16%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.32%) RESTful
2 7 (3.78%) React
2 7 (3.78%) Spring
2 7 (3.78%) Spring Boot
3 6 (3.24%) REST
4 5 (2.70%) .NET
4 5 (2.70%) FastAPI
4 5 (2.70%) JSON
5 3 (1.62%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.62%) OAuth
5 3 (1.62%) PySpark
6 2 (1.08%) Jest
6 2 (1.08%) Node.js
6 2 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.08%) Playwright
6 2 (1.08%) Web Services
6 2 (1.08%) XML
7 1 (0.54%) CSS
7 1 (0.54%) Next.js
7 1 (0.54%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.57%) Data Protection Act
2 9 (4.86%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (3.78%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.24%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.70%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.16%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.62%) Life Science
9 2 (1.08%) Derivative
9 2 (1.08%) OTC Derivatives
10 1 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.54%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.54%) Freedom of Information
10 1 (0.54%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.54%) PKI
10 1 (0.54%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.54%) SCADA
10 1 (0.54%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.70%) Windows
2 4 (2.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (31.35%) Migration
2 55 (29.73%) Agile
3 51 (27.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 36 (19.46%) Stakeholder Management
5 26 (14.05%) DevOps
5 26 (14.05%) Fintech
5 26 (14.05%) Regulatory Compliance
6 24 (12.97%) Digital Banking
6 24 (12.97%) Due Diligence
7 23 (12.43%) Case Management
7 23 (12.43%) Scenario Testing
8 21 (11.35%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (10.81%) CI/CD
10 18 (9.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 17 (9.19%) Data Protection
11 17 (9.19%) Software Engineering
12 16 (8.65%) Decision-Making
13 15 (8.11%) AI
14 14 (7.57%) Mentoring
14 14 (7.57%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (12.97%) Python
2 17 (9.19%) Java
3 11 (5.95%) SQL
4 9 (4.86%) TypeScript
5 5 (2.70%) Groovy
6 4 (2.16%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.62%) C#
7 3 (1.62%) Go
8 2 (1.08%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.54%) Bash
9 1 (0.54%) Bicep
9 1 (0.54%) COBOL
9 1 (0.54%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 10 (5.41%) Degree
2 8 (4.32%) Security Cleared
3 5 (2.70%) AWS Certification
3 5 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.16%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (1.62%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.62%) MCP
6 2 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.08%) CISA
6 2 (1.08%) CISM
6 2 (1.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 2 (1.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 1 (0.54%) ACCA
7 1 (0.54%) APMG
7 1 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.54%) CIMA
7 1 (0.54%) HND
7 1 (0.54%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.54%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.95%) QA
2 10 (5.41%) PMO
3 8 (4.32%) Disclosure Scotland
4 7 (3.78%) GDPR
5 5 (2.70%) Data Quality
6 4 (2.16%) COBIT
7 3 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.54%) COREP
8 1 (0.54%) IFRS
8 1 (0.54%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.54%) NCSC
8 1 (0.54%) NIST
8 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.54%) PSD2
8 1 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.54%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (2.16%) Docker
2 1 (0.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.54%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 14 (7.57%) Terraform
2 9 (4.86%) Ansible
3 8 (4.32%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.62%) Grafana
4 3 (1.62%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (10.27%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.73%) Oracle
3 6 (3.24%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.70%) Dynatrace
4 5 (2.70%) SAP
5 4 (2.16%) CheckPoint
5 4 (2.16%) Dell
5 4 (2.16%) F5
5 4 (2.16%) ForgeRock
5 4 (2.16%) HP
6 3 (1.62%) Hitachi
6 3 (1.62%) Pega
6 3 (1.62%) Splunk
7 2 (1.08%) Cisco
7 2 (1.08%) Google
7 2 (1.08%) IBM
7 2 (1.08%) Planview
7 2 (1.08%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.08%) Tenable
8 1 (0.54%) BMC