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 11 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 171 155 197
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 28.60% 23.52% 20.98%
As % of the General category 39.13% 32.22% 28.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 73 111
10th Percentile £305 £230 £363
25th Percentile £425 £325 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.13% -8.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £605
90th Percentile £600 £622 £700
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 4
10th Percentile - £21.77 £13.47
25th Percentile - £22.50 £16.20
Median hourly rate £60.00 £23.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +154.35% +33.13% +15.25%
75th Percentile - £24.18 £19.01
90th Percentile - - £21.33
Scotland median hourly rate £40.61 £24.18 £17.72
% change year-on-year +67.93% +36.46% +15.25%

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 437 481 702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 73.08% 72.99% 74.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 249 434
10th Percentile £175 £179 £180
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £540 £538 £551
90th Percentile £599 £632 £626
Scotland median daily rate £455 £450 £485
% change year-on-year +1.11% -7.12% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 11
10th Percentile £16.07 £14.18 £13.28
25th Percentile - £20.34 £17.72
Median hourly rate £17.87 £24.00 £22.87
Median % change year-on-year -25.54% +4.94% +15.21%
75th Percentile £31.50 £24.18 £56.85
90th Percentile £66.75 £26.70 £61.50
Scotland median hourly rate £19.23 £20.94 £19.18
% change year-on-year -8.17% +9.18% +13.26%

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 11 December 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 13 (7.60%) Confluence
2 4 (2.34%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.17%) Apache
3 2 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.58%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.58%) FileNet
4 1 (0.58%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (4.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.75%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.17%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.58%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.58%) InVision
4 1 (0.58%) Sketch
4 1 (0.58%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 36 (21.05%) Azure
2 28 (16.37%) AWS
3 12 (7.02%) GCP
4 6 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (3.51%) Snowflake
5 5 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (2.92%) OCI
6 4 (2.34%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.34%) Serverless
7 3 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.75%) Figma
8 2 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.17%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (1.17%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.17%) Apigee
8 2 (1.17%) GitHub
8 2 (1.17%) Lucidchart
8 2 (1.17%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.17%) SaaS
9 1 (0.58%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.92%) Firewall
2 1 (0.58%) DHCP
2 1 (0.58%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.92%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (2.34%) Power BI
3 3 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.75%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.17%) Data Mart
4 2 (1.17%) MySQL
4 2 (1.17%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.17%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.17%) Tableau
5 1 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.58%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.58%) BusinessObjects XI
5 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.58%) DB2
5 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 16 (9.36%) JIRA
2 6 (3.51%) GitLab
2 6 (3.51%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.34%) ER Studio
3 4 (2.34%) ERwin
3 4 (2.34%) Git
4 3 (1.75%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.75%) Liquibase
5 2 (1.17%) git-flow
5 2 (1.17%) JUnit
6 1 (0.58%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.58%) HP UFT
6 1 (0.58%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.58%) Maven
6 1 (0.58%) Selenium
6 1 (0.58%) Toad
6 1 (0.58%) webpack
General
1 70 (40.94%) Banking
2 56 (32.75%) Social Skills
3 42 (24.56%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (15.20%) Documentation Skills
5 19 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 13 (7.60%) Retail Banking
7 8 (4.68%) Financial Institution
8 7 (4.09%) Legal
8 7 (4.09%) Retail
9 6 (3.51%) Investment Banking
10 5 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.75%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.75%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.17%) Electronics
13 2 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.17%) Marketing
13 2 (1.17%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.58%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 52 (30.41%) Analyst
2 16 (9.36%) Business Analyst
2 16 (9.36%) Senior
3 12 (7.02%) Developer
4 11 (6.43%) Fraud Analyst
4 11 (6.43%) Lead
4 11 (6.43%) Software Engineer
5 10 (5.85%) Consultant
5 10 (5.85%) Data Analyst
5 10 (5.85%) Project Manager
6 9 (5.26%) Support Officer
7 7 (4.09%) Accountant
7 7 (4.09%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (4.09%) Systems Accountant
8 6 (3.51%) Project Officer
8 6 (3.51%) Project Support Officer
9 5 (2.92%) Administrator
9 5 (2.92%) Business Consultant
9 5 (2.92%) Delivery Manager
10 4 (2.34%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.09%) RESTful
1 7 (4.09%) Spring
2 6 (3.51%) React
2 6 (3.51%) REST
2 6 (3.51%) Spring Boot
3 5 (2.92%) .NET
3 5 (2.92%) FastAPI
3 5 (2.92%) JSON
4 3 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.75%) PySpark
5 2 (1.17%) Node.js
5 2 (1.17%) OAuth
5 2 (1.17%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.17%) Playwright
5 2 (1.17%) XML
6 1 (0.58%) JMS
6 1 (0.58%) SAML
6 1 (0.58%) SOAP
6 1 (0.58%) Web Services
6 1 (0.58%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.19%) Data Protection Act
2 9 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 9 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.51%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.92%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.92%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.75%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.17%) Clustering
7 2 (1.17%) Derivative
7 2 (1.17%) OTC Derivatives
8 1 (0.58%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.58%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.58%) Life Science
8 1 (0.58%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.58%) PKI
8 1 (0.58%) SCADA
8 1 (0.58%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.58%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.92%) Linux
1 5 (2.92%) Windows
2 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.58%) Unix
2 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (30.41%) Migration
2 51 (29.82%) Agile
3 43 (25.15%) Continuous Improvement
4 34 (19.88%) Stakeholder Management
5 23 (13.45%) Fintech
5 23 (13.45%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (13.45%) Regulatory Compliance
6 21 (12.28%) DevOps
6 21 (12.28%) Digital Banking
6 21 (12.28%) Due Diligence
7 20 (11.70%) Case Management
7 20 (11.70%) Scenario Testing
8 18 (10.53%) CI/CD
9 17 (9.94%) Data Protection
9 17 (9.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 15 (8.77%) Decision-Making
10 15 (8.77%) Software Engineering
11 13 (7.60%) AI
11 13 (7.60%) Project Management
12 12 (7.02%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 24 (14.04%) Python
2 15 (8.77%) Java
3 13 (7.60%) SQL
4 8 (4.68%) TypeScript
5 4 (2.34%) Groovy
6 3 (1.75%) C#
6 3 (1.75%) Go
6 3 (1.75%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.17%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.58%) Bash
8 1 (0.58%) Bicep
8 1 (0.58%) COBOL
8 1 (0.58%) Korn
8 1 (0.58%) SAS Macro
8 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (5.26%) Degree
2 5 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.34%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.75%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.75%) MCP
4 3 (1.75%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.17%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.58%) AAT
6 1 (0.58%) ACCA
6 1 (0.58%) APMG
6 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.58%) CIMA
6 1 (0.58%) HND
6 1 (0.58%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.58%) PMP
6 1 (0.58%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.43%) QA
2 10 (5.85%) PMO
3 7 (4.09%) Disclosure Scotland
3 7 (4.09%) GDPR
4 5 (2.92%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.34%) COBIT
6 1 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.58%) COREP
6 1 (0.58%) IFRS
6 1 (0.58%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.58%) NCSC
6 1 (0.58%) NIST
6 1 (0.58%) PSD2
6 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.58%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (1.75%) Docker
2 2 (1.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.58%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.58%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 13 (7.60%) Terraform
2 8 (4.68%) Ansible
3 6 (3.51%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.75%) Grafana
4 3 (1.75%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 18 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.77%) Oracle
3 4 (2.34%) CheckPoint
3 4 (2.34%) Dell
3 4 (2.34%) Dynatrace
3 4 (2.34%) F5
3 4 (2.34%) HP
4 3 (1.75%) Pega
4 3 (1.75%) SAP
4 3 (1.75%) Splunk
5 2 (1.17%) ForgeRock
5 2 (1.17%) Google
5 2 (1.17%) IBM
5 2 (1.17%) Planview
5 2 (1.17%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.17%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.58%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.58%) Meraki
6 1 (0.58%) Workday
6 1 (0.58%) WorldPay