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 25 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 4 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 155 147 181
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 25.66% 24.34% 20.07%
As % of the General category 37.80% 32.67% 26.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 77 97
10th Percentile £325 £207 £400
25th Percentile £463 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -
75th Percentile £625 £588 £588
90th Percentile £686 £660 £653
Scotland median daily rate £500 £466 £500
% change year-on-year +7.35% -6.85% -
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 £60.00 £24.18 £19.50
% change year-on-year +148.14% +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 410 450 689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 67.88% 74.50% 76.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 249 413
10th Percentile £153 £192 £193
25th Percentile £367 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +4.33% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £575
90th Percentile £652 £632 £638
Scotland median daily rate £455 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +1.11% -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 27
10th Percentile £17.23 £20.02 £15.06
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.02 £20.30
Median hourly rate £23.94 £24.00 £53.70
Median % change year-on-year -0.27% -55.31% +194.49%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.42 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £41.43 £70.00
Scotland median hourly rate £17.87 £23.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -23.96% -9.62% +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 25 January 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 19 (12.26%) Confluence
2 4 (2.58%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.29%) Apache
3 2 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.65%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.65%) FileNet
4 1 (0.65%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (3.23%) Adobe XD
1 5 (3.23%) InVision
1 5 (3.23%) Sketch
2 4 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.58%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.94%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (1.94%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.29%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 49 (31.61%) Azure
2 30 (19.35%) AWS
3 11 (7.10%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (6.45%) Figma
4 10 (6.45%) GCP
5 8 (5.16%) GitHub
6 6 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (3.87%) Snowflake
7 5 (3.23%) OCI
7 5 (3.23%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (2.58%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.94%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.94%) SaaS
10 2 (1.29%) Apigee
10 2 (1.29%) AWS KMS
10 2 (1.29%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.52%) Firewall
2 3 (1.94%) Network Security
3 1 (0.65%) DHCP
3 1 (0.65%) DNS
3 1 (0.65%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.65%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.23%) Power BI
2 3 (1.94%) Data Lake
2 3 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.94%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.94%) Tableau
3 2 (1.29%) Data Mart
3 2 (1.29%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.65%) BusinessObjects XI
4 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.65%) Metadata
4 1 (0.65%) MySQL
4 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.65%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 22 (14.19%) JIRA
2 7 (4.52%) GitLab
2 7 (4.52%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.23%) Axure RP
4 4 (2.58%) ER Studio
4 4 (2.58%) ERwin
5 3 (1.94%) Git
5 3 (1.94%) Snyk
6 2 (1.29%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.65%) git-flow
7 1 (0.65%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.65%) JUnit
7 1 (0.65%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.65%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.65%) Maven
7 1 (0.65%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.65%) webpack
General
1 58 (37.42%) Banking
2 49 (31.61%) Social Skills
3 20 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.74%) Public Sector
4 12 (7.74%) Retail Banking
5 10 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (5.81%) Financial Institution
7 7 (4.52%) Retail
8 6 (3.87%) Legal
9 4 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.58%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.94%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Local Government
11 1 (0.65%) Marketing
11 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (21.29%) Analyst
2 16 (10.32%) Senior
3 15 (9.68%) Business Analyst
4 13 (8.39%) Designer
4 13 (8.39%) Developer
5 11 (7.10%) Project Manager
6 10 (6.45%) Lead
7 8 (5.16%) Architect
7 8 (5.16%) Security Engineer
8 7 (4.52%) Administrator
9 6 (3.87%) Consultant
9 6 (3.87%) Data Analyst
9 6 (3.87%) Project Officer
9 6 (3.87%) Project Support Officer
9 6 (3.87%) Software Engineer
9 6 (3.87%) Support Officer
10 5 (3.23%) Delivery Manager
10 5 (3.23%) Design Engineer
10 5 (3.23%) Senior Manager
10 5 (3.23%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.87%) .NET
1 6 (3.87%) FastAPI
2 5 (3.23%) React
2 5 (3.23%) RESTful
2 5 (3.23%) Spring
2 5 (3.23%) Spring Boot
3 4 (2.58%) REST
4 3 (1.94%) JSON
4 3 (1.94%) PySpark
4 3 (1.94%) SLSA
5 2 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.29%) XML
6 1 (0.65%) JMS
6 1 (0.65%) Kafka
6 1 (0.65%) Node.js
6 1 (0.65%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.65%) OpenID
6 1 (0.65%) pytest
6 1 (0.65%) SAML
6 1 (0.65%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.03%) Product Ownership
2 11 (7.10%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (3.87%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.87%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.87%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.58%) Digital Wallet
6 3 (1.94%) Clustering
6 3 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.94%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.94%) PKI
7 2 (1.29%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.65%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.65%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.65%) OTC Derivatives
8 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.87%) Windows
2 3 (1.94%) Linux
3 2 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.29%) Unix
4 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (35.48%) Agile
2 35 (22.58%) Migration
3 31 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 28 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (16.13%) AI
6 24 (15.48%) DevOps
7 21 (13.55%) CI/CD
8 20 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (10.32%) Cybersecurity
10 15 (9.68%) Project Management
10 15 (9.68%) Software Engineering
11 13 (8.39%) Data Modelling
11 13 (8.39%) Data Protection
11 13 (8.39%) Decision-Making
11 13 (8.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 13 (8.39%) Workshop Facilitation
12 12 (7.74%) Data Analysis
12 12 (7.74%) Digital Banking
12 12 (7.74%) Mentoring
13 11 (7.10%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 29 (18.71%) Python
2 12 (7.74%) SQL
3 10 (6.45%) Java
4 8 (5.16%) TypeScript
5 5 (3.23%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.58%) Bash
6 4 (2.58%) C#
7 3 (1.94%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.29%) Groovy
8 2 (1.29%) Korn
8 2 (1.29%) 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 12 (7.74%) Degree
2 5 (3.23%) CISM
2 5 (3.23%) CISSP
2 5 (3.23%) TOGAF Certification
3 3 (1.94%) MCP
4 2 (1.29%) FFIEC
5 1 (0.65%) APMG
5 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.65%) PhD
5 1 (0.65%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.65%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.45%) QA
2 9 (5.81%) Disclosure Scotland
2 9 (5.81%) PMO
3 7 (4.52%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.52%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.23%) GDPR
5 4 (2.58%) COBIT
5 4 (2.58%) NIST
6 2 (1.29%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.65%) COREP
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 (3.87%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.29%) Docker
2 2 (1.29%) Firmware
3 1 (0.65%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.65%) ISA Server
3 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (8.39%) Terraform
2 7 (4.52%) Ansible
2 7 (4.52%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.58%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.65%) Grafana
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.45%) Oracle
3 8 (5.16%) Adobe
4 6 (3.87%) CheckPoint
5 5 (3.23%) BiZZdesign
6 4 (2.58%) Dell
6 4 (2.58%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.58%) F5
6 4 (2.58%) HP
7 3 (1.94%) Black Duck
7 3 (1.94%) Checkmarx
7 3 (1.94%) Google
7 3 (1.94%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.94%) Pega
7 3 (1.94%) Tenable
8 2 (1.29%) Cisco
8 2 (1.29%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.29%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.29%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.29%) Thales