Finance Contracts in Scotland

Financial
UK > Scotland

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 361 510 738
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 16.84% 18.92% 21.62%
As % of the General category 26.25% 28.16% 30.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 343 543
10th Percentile £269 £315 £325
25th Percentile £350 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £738 £701 £675
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 9
10th Percentile £12.30 £14.51 £23.90
25th Percentile £15.41 £16.60 -
Median hourly rate £18.89 £57.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year -67.16% +53.62% -18.63%
75th Percentile £19.75 £62.66 £40.75
90th Percentile £20.19 £67.44 £41.30
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £26.85 £37.43
% change year-on-year +0.58% -28.28% +74.50%

All General Skills
Scotland

Finance 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 1,375 1,811 2,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 64.13% 67.17% 70.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 828 1,296 1,737
10th Percentile £178 £225 £230
25th Percentile £333 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £561 £551 £550
90th Percentile £638 £644 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 28 46
10th Percentile £12.18 £12.62 £15.04
25th Percentile £14.50 £14.17 £17.50
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.88 £32.14
Median % change year-on-year -8.80% -38.15% +83.66%
75th Percentile £48.00 £58.75 £47.25
90th Percentile £67.00 £67.22 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.40 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.41% +44.00% +4.65%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Scotland

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in Scotland

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Scotland

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Scotland

Finance
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 Finance within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 June 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 -1 160 £463 -7.50% 113
Edinburgh 0 149 £500 +4.38% 127
Renfrewshire +3 8 £120 -79.13% 4
West Lothian +8 6 £300 - 6
Fife +6 6 £310 -43.64% 8
Highlands - 4 - - 3
Lanarkshire - 3 £575 - 50
South Lanarkshire +6 2 £500 -24.24% 2
Argyll and Bute - 2 £198 - 6
Dundee +4 1 - - 4
Perth and Kinross +2 1 £525 +23.53% 1
Perthshire -2 1 £525 +2.44% 1
Aberdeen -7 1 - - 25
Stirling - 1 £525 - 2
West Dunbartonshire - 1 - -
Finance
UK

Finance
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 20 (5.54%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.60%) Confluence
3 6 (1.66%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.83%) IBM HTTP Server
4 3 (0.83%) Skype for Business
4 3 (0.83%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.83%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (0.83%) WebSphere Portal
5 2 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.28%) Apache
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 48 (13.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (4.43%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (4.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.66%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (1.11%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.28%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 9 (2.49%) Oracle Cash Management
1 9 (2.49%) Oracle ERP
1 9 (2.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 9 (2.49%) Oracle Receivables
2 6 (1.66%) Oracle Financials
3 5 (1.39%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (1.11%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 4 (1.11%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.83%) iTrent
5 3 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.28%) Maximo
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.28%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 34 (9.42%) Azure
2 28 (7.76%) AWS
3 22 (6.09%) OCI
4 18 (4.99%) Power Platform
5 14 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (2.49%) Snowflake
7 8 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (1.66%) Amazon S3
8 6 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (1.66%) GCP
8 6 (1.66%) SaaS
8 6 (1.66%) Yammer
9 5 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.39%) Serverless
10 4 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (0.83%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (0.55%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.55%) Figma
12 2 (0.55%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.66%) Firewall
2 5 (1.39%) ATM
3 3 (0.83%) DNS
3 3 (0.83%) HTTP
3 3 (0.83%) LAN
3 3 (0.83%) Skype
3 3 (0.83%) WAN
4 2 (0.55%) DHCP
5 1 (0.28%) 4G
5 1 (0.28%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.28%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.28%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.28%) NAS
5 1 (0.28%) SAN
5 1 (0.28%) SNMP
5 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.28%) Wireless
5 1 (0.28%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.28%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.71%) Oracle Reports
2 16 (4.43%) Power BI
3 11 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (3.05%) Tableau
4 10 (2.77%) Big Data
5 6 (1.66%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 6 (1.66%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.39%) DB2
6 5 (1.39%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.39%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.39%) Star Schema
7 4 (1.11%) Apache Hive
7 4 (1.11%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (1.11%) Parquet
7 4 (1.11%) Spark SQL
8 3 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (0.83%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.83%) Impala
8 3 (0.83%) MySQL
8 3 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (8.31%) JIRA
2 5 (1.39%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.11%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.83%) GitLab
4 3 (0.83%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (0.55%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.55%) ERwin
5 2 (0.55%) Git
5 2 (0.55%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.28%) Gradle
6 1 (0.28%) JMeter
6 1 (0.28%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.28%) Maven
6 1 (0.28%) Selenium
6 1 (0.28%) SilkCentral
6 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 100 (27.70%) Social Skills
2 67 (18.56%) Public Sector
3 64 (17.73%) Banking
4 52 (14.40%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (3.60%) Telecoms
6 12 (3.32%) Retail Banking
7 10 (2.77%) Financial Institution
7 10 (2.77%) Manufacturing
8 9 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.49%) Legal
9 8 (2.22%) Marketing
9 8 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.94%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.94%) Publishing
11 6 (1.66%) Electronics
12 5 (1.39%) Back Office
12 5 (1.39%) Billing
13 3 (0.83%) Local Government
13 3 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 88 (24.38%) Analyst
2 46 (12.74%) Project Manager
3 39 (10.80%) Developer
4 26 (7.20%) Senior
5 24 (6.65%) Business Analyst
5 24 (6.65%) Lead
6 23 (6.37%) Architect
7 22 (6.09%) Data Analyst
8 15 (4.16%) Java Developer
9 14 (3.88%) Consultant
10 12 (3.32%) Financial Analyst
11 11 (3.05%) Administrator
11 11 (3.05%) Finance Manager
11 11 (3.05%) Senior Analyst
12 10 (2.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (2.77%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (2.49%) Programme Manager
14 8 (2.22%) Change Analyst
14 8 (2.22%) PMO Analyst
15 7 (1.94%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.88%) Spring
2 13 (3.60%) Oracle Fusion
3 10 (2.77%) Middleware
3 10 (2.77%) REST
3 10 (2.77%) Spring Boot
4 9 (2.49%) CSS
4 9 (2.49%) HTML
5 8 (2.22%) Kafka
6 7 (1.94%) AngularJS
7 6 (1.66%) JPA
8 5 (1.39%) PySpark
9 4 (1.11%) Apache Avro
9 4 (1.11%) AWS CDK
9 4 (1.11%) Node.js
9 4 (1.11%) React
9 4 (1.11%) RESTful
10 3 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.83%) J2EE
11 2 (0.55%) ADO
11 2 (0.55%) OpenTracing
Miscellaneous
1 19 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
2 15 (4.16%) Management Information System
3 10 (2.77%) Onboarding
3 10 (2.77%) Product Ownership
3 10 (2.77%) Public Cloud
4 9 (2.49%) Credit Risk
5 6 (1.66%) iPhone
5 6 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (1.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 6 (1.66%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.39%) CMDB
7 4 (1.11%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.11%) FMCG
7 4 (1.11%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.11%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (0.83%) Data Centre
8 3 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (0.83%) Operational Technology
8 3 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (8.03%) Windows
2 20 (5.54%) Linux
3 18 (4.99%) Unix
4 7 (1.94%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.11%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.55%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.55%) zOS
7 1 (0.28%) Android
7 1 (0.28%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.28%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (22.71%) Agile
2 56 (15.51%) Project Management
3 44 (12.19%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (11.08%) ERP
4 40 (11.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 31 (8.59%) Project Delivery
6 29 (8.03%) Business Intelligence
7 26 (7.20%) Data Modelling
8 25 (6.93%) SDLC
9 24 (6.65%) DevOps
10 23 (6.37%) Decision-Making
10 23 (6.37%) Migration
11 22 (6.09%) Data Protection
12 21 (5.82%) Analytics
12 21 (5.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (5.82%) Microservices
13 20 (5.54%) Data Analysis
13 20 (5.54%) User Acceptance Testing
14 19 (5.26%) Software Engineering
14 19 (5.26%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 49 (13.57%) SQL
2 32 (8.86%) Python
3 27 (7.48%) Java
4 17 (4.71%) Shell Script
5 15 (4.16%) PL/SQL
6 12 (3.32%) Perl
7 11 (3.05%) TypeScript
8 9 (2.49%) Scala
9 5 (1.39%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.39%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.11%) Bash
11 2 (0.55%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.28%) C
12 1 (0.28%) COBOL
12 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.28%) Groovy
12 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (8.86%) Degree
2 17 (4.71%) Security Cleared
3 11 (3.05%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.39%) ACCA
4 5 (1.39%) CIMA
5 4 (1.11%) HNC
5 4 (1.11%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.55%) HND
6 2 (0.55%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.55%) PMP
7 1 (0.28%) APMG
7 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.28%) CISA
7 1 (0.28%) CISSP
7 1 (0.28%) MCSE
7 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.28%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.31%) PMO
2 9 (2.49%) Disclosure Scotland
3 7 (1.94%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.66%) QA
5 4 (1.11%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.55%) Basel III
6 2 (0.55%) COBIT
6 2 (0.55%) FINREP
6 2 (0.55%) IFRS
6 2 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.55%) NEBOSH
6 2 (0.55%) NIST
6 2 (0.55%) P3O
6 2 (0.55%) SLA
7 1 (0.28%) COREP
7 1 (0.28%) HAZOP
7 1 (0.28%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 5 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (1.39%) VMware NSX
1 5 (1.39%) vSphere
2 4 (1.11%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.11%) Docker
2 4 (1.11%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.28%) Firmware
3 1 (0.28%) GPFS
3 1 (0.28%) NFS
Systems Management
1 6 (1.66%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.11%) Terraform
3 3 (0.83%) Ansible
3 3 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (0.83%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.55%) NetBackup
4 2 (0.55%) Zipkin
5 1 (0.28%) Grafana
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.28%) Nagios
5 1 (0.28%) Nessus
5 1 (0.28%) OpenView
5 1 (0.28%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 59 (16.34%) Oracle
2 54 (14.96%) Microsoft
3 16 (4.43%) SAP
4 10 (2.77%) Databricks
5 8 (2.22%) Alteryx
5 8 (2.22%) Informatica
5 8 (2.22%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.66%) Cisco
6 6 (1.66%) Dell
6 6 (1.66%) Google
6 6 (1.66%) IBM
7 5 (1.39%) HP
7 5 (1.39%) IDERA
7 5 (1.39%) Splunk
7 5 (1.39%) VMware
8 4 (1.11%) Adobe
8 4 (1.11%) Apple
8 4 (1.11%) Avaloq
8 4 (1.11%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (0.83%) Citrix