Fintech Jobs in Scotland

Financial Technology (FinTech)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Fintech skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Fintech over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 189 138 111
Rank change year-on-year -51 -27 -9
Permanent jobs citing Fintech 97 93 169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.43% 2.08% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 2.20% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 46 64 121
10th Percentile £53,750 £41,625 £37,500
25th Percentile £59,938 £46,350 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,788 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £91,934 £85,000 £77,530
90th Percentile £108,125 £111,264 £83,125
UK median annual salary £77,500 £82,659 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.24% +14.01% +3.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Fintech is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,197 4,226 5,521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 91.25% 94.48% 91.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,442 2,092 2,855
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,133
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +14.58%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Fintech in Scotland

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Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Fintech in Scotland.

Salary trend for Fintech in Scotland

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Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Fintech in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Fintech in Scotland

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Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Fintech within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -58 66 £65,000 +18.18% 6
Edinburgh -11 28 £77,500 +8.77% 10
Renfrewshire - 2 £63,750 - 1
Dundee - 1 £60,000 -
Fintech
UK

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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:

Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 32 (32.99%) Figma
1 32 (32.99%) SurveyMonkey
2 20 (20.62%) AWS
3 10 (10.31%) Azure
4 5 (5.15%) SaaS
4 5 (5.15%) Serverless
5 4 (4.12%) Amazon S3
5 4 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (4.12%) GCP
6 3 (3.09%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.09%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.06%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.06%) GitHub
7 2 (2.06%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.09%) Firewall
1 3 (3.09%) LAN
1 3 (3.09%) TCP/IP
1 3 (3.09%) VPN
1 3 (3.09%) WAN
1 3 (3.09%) Wireless
2 1 (1.03%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.12%) DynamoDB
1 4 (4.12%) NoSQL
1 4 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.09%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.09%) Power BI
2 3 (3.09%) Tableau
3 2 (2.06%) Big Data
3 2 (2.06%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (7.22%) Git
2 6 (6.19%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.06%) JIRA
3 2 (2.06%) Maven
3 2 (2.06%) Selenium
4 1 (1.03%) Gatling
4 1 (1.03%) JMeter
4 1 (1.03%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.03%) Vite
4 1 (1.03%) webpack
General
1 72 (74.23%) Finance
2 49 (50.52%) Marketing
3 45 (46.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 45 (46.39%) Law
4 32 (32.99%) Social Science
5 31 (31.96%) Social Skills
6 10 (10.31%) Banking
7 3 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.09%) Legal
8 2 (2.06%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.06%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (40.21%) Lead
2 16 (16.49%) Developer
3 13 (13.40%) Senior
3 13 (13.40%) User Experience Researcher
4 8 (8.25%) Java Developer
5 7 (7.22%) Architect
5 7 (7.22%) Senior Developer
6 5 (5.15%) Head of Infrastructure
7 4 (4.12%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.12%) Python Developer
7 4 (4.12%) Security Architect
7 4 (4.12%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (3.09%) Analyst
8 3 (3.09%) Infrastructure Manager
8 3 (3.09%) Network Analyst
8 3 (3.09%) Senior Manager
8 3 (3.09%) Senior Project Manager
8 3 (3.09%) Software Engineer
9 2 (2.06%) Lead Developer
9 2 (2.06%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.28%) REST
2 7 (7.22%) JSON
2 7 (7.22%) OAuth
2 7 (7.22%) OpenID
2 7 (7.22%) React
3 6 (6.19%) Web Services
4 5 (5.15%) CSS
4 5 (5.15%) HTML
4 5 (5.15%) Kafka
4 5 (5.15%) Spring
5 4 (4.12%) AngularJS
5 4 (4.12%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (4.12%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.06%) Django
6 2 (2.06%) Node.js
6 2 (2.06%) RESTful
6 2 (2.06%) SAML
6 2 (2.06%) SOAP
6 2 (2.06%) WebSphere MQ
7 1 (1.03%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 27 (27.84%) Market Risk
2 12 (12.37%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.19%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.12%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.06%) Blockchain
5 2 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.06%) PMI
5 2 (2.06%) Robotics
5 2 (2.06%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.03%) Linux
1 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.03%) Ubuntu
1 1 (1.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (47.42%) User Experience
2 45 (46.39%) Anthropology
2 45 (46.39%) Cognitive Science
2 45 (46.39%) Psychology
2 45 (46.39%) User Research
2 45 (46.39%) UX Research
3 44 (45.36%) Service Design
4 43 (44.33%) Actionable Insight
4 43 (44.33%) Interaction Design
4 43 (44.33%) Qualitative Research
5 36 (37.11%) Roadmaps
6 35 (36.08%) Product Management
7 32 (32.99%) Business Strategy
7 32 (32.99%) Information Architecture
7 32 (32.99%) Objectives and Key Results
7 32 (32.99%) Project Planning
8 19 (19.59%) Agile
9 16 (16.49%) Data Sharing
10 15 (15.46%) Project Management
11 12 (12.37%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 34 (35.05%) R
2 15 (15.46%) Java
3 13 (13.40%) JavaScript
4 9 (9.28%) SQL
5 6 (6.19%) Python
6 4 (4.12%) Groovy
7 3 (3.09%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.06%) C#
9 1 (1.03%) C++
9 1 (1.03%) Go
9 1 (1.03%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.03%) PHP
Qualifications
1 53 (54.64%) Degree
2 49 (50.52%) Master's Degree
3 45 (46.39%) PhD
4 5 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.15%) PMI Certification
5 4 (4.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 4 (4.12%) CISA
5 4 (4.12%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (4.12%) CISSP
6 3 (3.09%) PMP
7 2 (2.06%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.06%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.06%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.06%) GDPR
2 2 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (2.06%) NIST
2 2 (2.06%) QA
2 2 (2.06%) SEPA
System Software
1 8 (8.25%) Docker
2 3 (3.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (11.34%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.15%) Ansible
3 2 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.03%) Grafana
4 1 (1.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (32.99%) Qualtrics
2 6 (6.19%) ForgeRock
3 4 (4.12%) Google
4 3 (3.09%) Cisco
4 3 (3.09%) Juniper
4 3 (3.09%) Meraki
4 3 (3.09%) Oracle
4 3 (3.09%) Palo Alto
4 3 (3.09%) VMware
5 2 (2.06%) IBM
6 1 (1.03%) Microsoft