Investment Banking Contracts in Scotland

Investment Banking
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Investment Banking over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 117 140
Rank change year-on-year +9 +23 -1
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 19 54 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.88% 1.95% 0.94%
As % of the General category 1.36% 2.93% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 29 7
10th Percentile £329 £418 £354
25th Percentile £400 £431 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +34.31%
75th Percentile £695 £713 £650
90th Percentile £722 £750 £692
UK median daily rate £725 £700 £713
% change year-on-year +3.57% -1.75% +9.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £62.84 -
25th Percentile - £63.83 £46.00
Median hourly rate - £66.56 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year - +41.62% -
75th Percentile - £68.20 £48.00
90th Percentile - £68.53 -
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £66.56 £53.50
% change year-on-year -70.70% +24.42% +137.78%

All General Skills
Scotland

Investment Banking is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,398 1,845 2,439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 64.48% 66.78% 71.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 839 1,336 1,778
10th Percentile £179 £237 £227
25th Percentile £350 £403 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £570 £550
90th Percentile £663 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 29 43
10th Percentile £12.27 £12.75 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.75 £17.61
Median hourly rate £18.72 £21.26 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year -11.95% -20.82% -5.79%
75th Percentile £59.38 £58.75 £47.98
90th Percentile £70.00 £67.75 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £33.82 £22.38
% change year-on-year -10.82% +51.12% -0.53%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Investment Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Investment Banking in Scotland

Investment Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Investment Banking in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Investment Banking in Scotland

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Banking in Scotland

Investment Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Investment Banking in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Investment Banking in Scotland

Investment Banking
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Investment Banking within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -12 16 £550 -9.65% 6
Edinburgh +30 3 - -
Investment Banking
UK

Investment Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (15.79%) SAS
2 2 (10.53%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) AWS
1 6 (31.58%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) OpenShift
3 4 (21.05%) IaaS
4 2 (10.53%) GCP
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) DNS
1 5 (26.32%) SAN
2 4 (21.05%) DHCP
3 3 (15.79%) Fibre Channel
3 3 (15.79%) iSCSI
4 2 (10.53%) NAS
4 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) DB2
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Hive
2 1 (5.26%) Big Data
2 1 (5.26%) Impala
2 1 (5.26%) MySQL
2 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.26%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.53%) JIRA
General
1 19 (100.00%) Banking
2 12 (63.16%) Finance
3 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.53%) Retail
4 2 (10.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Linux Engineer
1 5 (26.32%) Python Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Analyst
2 3 (15.79%) Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Hardware Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Storage Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Change Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Backend Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) MySQL Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Portfolio Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Risk Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Technology Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Flash
1 3 (15.79%) POSIX
1 3 (15.79%) REST
2 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.26%) Hibernate
2 1 (5.26%) HTML
2 1 (5.26%) HTML5
2 1 (5.26%) Kafka
2 1 (5.26%) Middleware
2 1 (5.26%) RESTful
2 1 (5.26%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Client/Server
1 3 (15.79%) Embedded Systems
1 3 (15.79%) NVMe
2 2 (10.53%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (52.63%) Linux
2 7 (36.84%) Unix
3 5 (26.32%) Windows
3 5 (26.32%) Windows Server
4 3 (15.79%) Data ONTAP
4 3 (15.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Wealth Management
2 9 (47.37%) Investment Management
3 7 (36.84%) Agile
3 7 (36.84%) High Availability
4 5 (26.32%) SDLC
5 3 (15.79%) Capacity Management
5 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
5 3 (15.79%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (15.79%) Data Protection
5 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (15.79%) Observability
5 3 (15.79%) OO
5 3 (15.79%) Open Source
5 3 (15.79%) Preventative Maintenance
5 3 (15.79%) Problem Management
5 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (15.79%) Storage Management
5 3 (15.79%) Use Case
6 2 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (10.53%) Storage Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) Python
2 9 (47.37%) Perl
3 6 (31.58%) SQL
4 5 (26.32%) Java
5 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.26%) Kotlin
5 1 (5.26%) Scala
5 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) FFIEC
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
2 3 (15.79%) Firmware
2 3 (15.79%) GPFS
2 3 (15.79%) NFS
3 2 (10.53%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.79%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 2 (10.53%) NetBackup
4 1 (5.26%) Ansible
4 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
4 1 (5.26%) Puppet
4 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Veritas
2 4 (21.05%) Google
3 3 (15.79%) Brocade
3 3 (15.79%) EMC
3 3 (15.79%) IBM
3 3 (15.79%) NetApp
3 3 (15.79%) Sybase
4 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.26%) Oracle
5 1 (5.26%) VMware