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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 152 176 158
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 23.10% 29.38% 19.20%
As % of the General category 37.16% 38.18% 25.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 84 75
10th Percentile £250 £258 £314
25th Percentile £406 £430 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £616 £600 £599
90th Percentile £686 £675 £699
Scotland median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.74% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - - £17.83
25th Percentile - £22.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate - £23.59 £18.27
Median % change year-on-year - +29.12% +52.25%
75th Percentile - £24.18 £20.57
90th Percentile - - £21.95
Scotland median hourly rate £12.80 £24.18 £19.50
% change year-on-year -47.06% +24.00% +21.95%

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 409 461 622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 62.16% 76.96% 75.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 256 362
10th Percentile £167 £192 £178
25th Percentile £373 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £484
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.86% +1.79%
75th Percentile £540 £538 £575
90th Percentile £636 £634 £663
Scotland median daily rate £450 £457 £475
% change year-on-year -1.53% -3.79% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 17 34
10th Percentile £16.50 £21.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £30.50 £22.22 £16.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £24.18 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +106.78% -39.55% +88.15%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.66 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £30.74 £67.75
Scotland median hourly rate £16.82 £24.09 £19.50
% change year-on-year -30.18% +23.54% +13.97%

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 28 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 17 (11.18%) Confluence
2 4 (2.63%) Apache
3 3 (1.97%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.66%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.66%) IIS
5 1 (0.66%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.66%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (3.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 5 (3.29%) Adobe XD
1 5 (3.29%) InVision
1 5 (3.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (3.29%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (3.29%) Sketch
2 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) iTrent
1 2 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.66%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.66%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 44 (28.95%) Azure
2 19 (12.50%) AWS
3 14 (9.21%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (6.58%) Figma
5 7 (4.61%) GitHub
6 6 (3.95%) Snowflake
7 5 (3.29%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (3.29%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.63%) GCP
8 4 (2.63%) OCI
9 3 (1.97%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (1.97%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.97%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.97%) SaaS
10 2 (1.32%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (1.32%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.32%) AWS KMS
10 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.32%) Vyond
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.63%) Firewall
2 3 (1.97%) Network Security
2 3 (1.97%) WAN
3 2 (1.32%) DNS
4 1 (0.66%) DHCP
4 1 (0.66%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.29%) Power BI
2 4 (2.63%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.97%) Tableau
4 2 (1.32%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.32%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.66%) BusinessObjects XI
5 1 (0.66%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.66%) Metadata
5 1 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.66%) QlikView
5 1 (0.66%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.66%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 22 (14.47%) JIRA
2 5 (3.29%) Axure RP
3 4 (2.63%) ER Studio
3 4 (2.63%) ERwin
3 4 (2.63%) GitLab
4 3 (1.97%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.97%) Snyk
4 3 (1.97%) Zephyr
5 2 (1.32%) Git
6 1 (0.66%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio
General
1 60 (39.47%) Social Skills
2 39 (25.66%) Banking
3 17 (11.18%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.87%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.92%) Financial Institution
5 9 (5.92%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (4.61%) Retail
6 7 (4.61%) Retail Banking
7 4 (2.63%) Legal
8 3 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.97%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.97%) Military
8 3 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.32%) Games
9 2 (1.32%) Local Government
9 2 (1.32%) Marketing
9 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.32%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.66%) Front Office
10 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (20.39%) Analyst
2 17 (11.18%) Business Analyst
3 16 (10.53%) Senior
4 14 (9.21%) Project Manager
5 11 (7.24%) Designer
5 11 (7.24%) Lead
6 10 (6.58%) Administrator
7 7 (4.61%) Project Officer
7 7 (4.61%) Project Support Officer
7 7 (4.61%) Security Engineer
7 7 (4.61%) Support Officer
8 6 (3.95%) Architect
8 6 (3.95%) Developer
8 6 (3.95%) Senior Manager
9 5 (3.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 5 (3.29%) Consultant
9 5 (3.29%) Design Engineer
9 5 (3.29%) UX Designer
10 4 (2.63%) IT Analyst
10 4 (2.63%) PMO Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.97%) FastAPI
1 3 (1.97%) SLSA
2 2 (1.32%) .NET
2 2 (1.32%) JSON
2 2 (1.32%) Middleware
2 2 (1.32%) Model Context Protocol
2 2 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.32%) RESTful
3 1 (0.66%) ADO
3 1 (0.66%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (0.66%) JMS
3 1 (0.66%) Kafka
3 1 (0.66%) OAuth
3 1 (0.66%) OpenID
3 1 (0.66%) PySpark
3 1 (0.66%) SAML
3 1 (0.66%) Spring
3 1 (0.66%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.55%) Data Protection Act
2 10 (6.58%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.29%) Clustering
5 4 (2.63%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.63%) Digital Wallet
6 3 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.97%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.97%) PKI
6 3 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.32%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.32%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.32%) e-Learning
7 2 (1.32%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.32%) Learning Management System
7 2 (1.32%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.32%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.32%) SCORM
7 2 (1.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.97%) Windows
2 2 (1.32%) Linux
2 2 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.32%) Unix
2 2 (1.32%) zOS
3 1 (0.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (30.92%) Agile
2 31 (20.39%) AI
3 30 (19.74%) Stakeholder Management
4 26 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (13.16%) DevOps
5 20 (13.16%) Migration
6 17 (11.18%) Project Management
7 16 (10.53%) Workshop Facilitation
8 15 (9.87%) Asset Management
8 15 (9.87%) CI/CD
8 15 (9.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (9.87%) Data Analysis
9 14 (9.21%) Data Modelling
9 14 (9.21%) Generative AI
9 14 (9.21%) Project Delivery
9 14 (9.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 13 (8.55%) Data Protection
10 13 (8.55%) Risk Management
11 12 (7.89%) Validation
12 11 (7.24%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 20 (13.16%) Python
2 12 (7.89%) SQL
3 5 (3.29%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.63%) Bash
4 4 (2.63%) Java
5 2 (1.32%) C#
5 2 (1.32%) Korn
5 2 (1.32%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.32%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.66%) C++
6 1 (0.66%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (8.55%) Degree
2 5 (3.29%) CISM
2 5 (3.29%) CISSP
2 5 (3.29%) TOGAF Certification
3 4 (2.63%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.97%) PMP
4 3 (1.97%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.32%) FFIEC
5 2 (1.32%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.66%) APMG
6 1 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.66%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.66%) PhD
6 1 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.21%) QA
2 9 (5.92%) Accessibility
2 9 (5.92%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.92%) Disclosure Scotland
2 9 (5.92%) PMO
3 3 (1.97%) GDPR
3 3 (1.97%) NIST
4 2 (1.32%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.32%) WCAG
5 1 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.66%) COBIT
5 1 (0.66%) GRC
5 1 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (3.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.32%) Firmware
3 1 (0.66%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.66%) ISA Server
3 1 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (3.29%) Kubernetes
1 5 (3.29%) Terraform
2 4 (2.63%) Ansible
3 3 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 23 (15.13%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.58%) Adobe
3 9 (5.92%) Oracle
4 5 (3.29%) BiZZdesign
4 5 (3.29%) Google
4 5 (3.29%) OpenAI
4 5 (3.29%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.97%) Black Duck
5 3 (1.97%) Checkmarx
5 3 (1.97%) CheckPoint
5 3 (1.97%) IBM
5 3 (1.97%) Pega
5 3 (1.97%) Tenable
6 2 (1.32%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.32%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.32%) Synthesia
6 2 (1.32%) Thales
7 1 (0.66%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.66%) Okta
7 1 (0.66%) WorldPay