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 1 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 2 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 194 216 167
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 25.10% 33.38% 19.88%
As % of the General category 41.28% 42.52% 28.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 105 72
10th Percentile £288 £306 £235
25th Percentile £386 £431 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £459
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +11.47% -3.83%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £625 £736
Scotland median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -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 £43.96 £26.21 £18.13
% change year-on-year +67.72% +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 470 508 587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 60.80% 78.52% 69.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 253 318
10th Percentile £325 £263 £156
25th Percentile £406 £413 £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £548
90th Percentile £650 £598 £638
Scotland median daily rate £460 £470 £445
% change year-on-year -2.13% +5.74% -6.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 9 20
10th Percentile £15.81 £16.31 £13.09
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.87 £13.60
Median hourly rate £50.00 £19.37 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +158.20% +10.66% -1.24%
75th Percentile £61.50 £45.80 £19.61
90th Percentile £75.00 £60.25 £27.26
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £19.48 £16.92
% change year-on-year -16.57% +15.12% -11.78%

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 1 August 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 9 (4.64%) Confluence
2 6 (3.09%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.06%) Apache
3 4 (2.06%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.55%) CMS
4 3 (1.55%) IIS
4 3 (1.55%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.52%) CICS
5 1 (0.52%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.58%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 5 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.06%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.52%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (7.22%) SAP GRC
1 14 (7.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.06%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.03%) 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 Financials
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 30 (15.46%) Azure
2 25 (12.89%) AWS
3 13 (6.70%) Power Platform
4 9 (4.64%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (4.12%) GCP
6 7 (3.61%) Figma
7 6 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (2.58%) SaaS
9 4 (2.06%) Apigee
9 4 (2.06%) OCI
10 3 (1.55%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.55%) Azure AKS
10 3 (1.55%) Cloud Run
10 3 (1.55%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.55%) Serverless
10 3 (1.55%) Vertex AI
10 3 (1.55%) Vyond
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.58%) DNS
1 5 (2.58%) Firewall
2 4 (2.06%) Network Security
2 4 (2.06%) SSL
3 2 (1.03%) BIG-IP
3 2 (1.03%) NGFW
3 2 (1.03%) WAN
4 1 (0.52%) HTTP
4 1 (0.52%) LAN
4 1 (0.52%) SMS
4 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.52%) VPN
4 1 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.15%) Power BI
2 4 (2.06%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.55%) BigQuery
3 3 (1.55%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.03%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
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 BI Publisher
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.52%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (6.70%) JIRA
2 3 (1.55%) Git
2 3 (1.55%) Zephyr
3 2 (1.03%) 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 66 (34.02%) Social Skills
2 26 (13.40%) Banking
3 20 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.70%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.12%) Legal
5 8 (4.12%) Retail
6 7 (3.61%) Financial Institution
6 7 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.58%) Retail Banking
9 4 (2.06%) Military
10 3 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.55%) Games
10 3 (1.55%) General Ledger
10 3 (1.55%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.03%) Local Government
11 2 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.03%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.52%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.52%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 38 (19.59%) Analyst
2 21 (10.82%) Business Analyst
3 19 (9.79%) Project Manager
4 15 (7.73%) Developer
5 14 (7.22%) Consultant
6 13 (6.70%) Senior
7 12 (6.19%) Architect
8 11 (5.67%) Administrator
9 10 (5.15%) Lead
10 9 (4.64%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (4.12%) Designer
12 6 (3.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 6 (3.09%) Configuration Specialist
12 6 (3.09%) Senior Analyst
12 6 (3.09%) Technical Analyst
13 5 (2.58%) Business Systems Administrator
13 5 (2.58%) Senior Business Analyst
13 5 (2.58%) Systems Administrator
13 5 (2.58%) Technical Business Analyst
13 5 (2.58%) UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.22%) SAP Fiori
2 7 (3.61%) Middleware
3 4 (2.06%) ISPF
3 4 (2.06%) REST
4 3 (1.55%) JSON
4 3 (1.55%) LangChain
4 3 (1.55%) LangGraph
4 3 (1.55%) OAuth
4 3 (1.55%) OpenID
4 3 (1.55%) SAML
5 2 (1.03%) ADO
5 2 (1.03%) Kafka
5 2 (1.03%) React Native
5 2 (1.03%) SailPoint
5 2 (1.03%) 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%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.28%) Data Protection Act
2 11 (5.67%) Onboarding
2 11 (5.67%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.12%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.61%) Mainframe
4 7 (3.61%) Mobile App
5 6 (3.09%) Clustering
6 3 (1.55%) CMDB
6 3 (1.55%) e-Learning
6 3 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.55%) Learning Management System
6 3 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.55%) PKI
6 3 (1.55%) SCORM
7 2 (1.03%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.03%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.03%) Derivative
7 2 (1.03%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.03%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.61%) zOS
2 6 (3.09%) Windows
3 3 (1.55%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (18.04%) Agile
1 35 (18.04%) AI
2 34 (17.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 29 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (13.92%) Migration
5 25 (12.89%) Analytics
6 22 (11.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 21 (10.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (10.31%) Generative AI
8 20 (10.31%) User Acceptance Testing
9 19 (9.79%) Data Protection
10 17 (8.76%) Asset Management
11 15 (7.73%) Project Delivery
11 15 (7.73%) Risk Management
11 15 (7.73%) System Integration Testing
11 15 (7.73%) Validation
12 14 (7.22%) Decision-Making
12 14 (7.22%) ERP
12 14 (7.22%) ITIL
12 14 (7.22%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 17 (8.76%) Python
2 16 (8.25%) SQL
3 6 (3.09%) Java
3 6 (3.09%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.03%) Bash
4 2 (1.03%) Go
4 2 (1.03%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.03%) PL/SQL
4 2 (1.03%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.52%) C#
5 1 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.52%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (0.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (5.67%) Degree
1 11 (5.67%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.15%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.55%) PMP
4 2 (1.03%) CBAP
4 2 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (1.03%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.52%) CISM
5 1 (0.52%) CISSP
5 1 (0.52%) CRISC
5 1 (0.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.19%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.67%) QA
3 10 (5.15%) GRC
4 5 (2.58%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.06%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (1.55%) PMO
6 3 (1.55%) WCAG
7 2 (1.03%) GDPR
8 1 (0.52%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (3.09%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.58%) RACF
3 3 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.52%) Docker
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (3.61%) Terraform
2 5 (2.58%) Ansible
3 4 (2.06%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.06%) OMEGAMON
4 3 (1.55%) Istio
5 2 (1.03%) Grafana
5 2 (1.03%) 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 (15.98%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.76%) SAP
3 15 (7.73%) Oracle
4 14 (7.22%) ServiceNow
5 10 (5.15%) IBM
6 5 (2.58%) Adobe
6 5 (2.58%) Google
7 4 (2.06%) Splunk
8 3 (1.55%) Calypso
8 3 (1.55%) Cisco
8 3 (1.55%) Citrix
8 3 (1.55%) Okta
8 3 (1.55%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.55%) Synthesia
8 3 (1.55%) VMware
9 2 (1.03%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.03%) F5
9 2 (1.03%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.03%) RedGate
9 2 (1.03%) SolarWinds