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 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 361 508 741
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 17.20% 18.94% 21.86%
As % of the General category 26.60% 28.41% 30.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 343 548
10th Percentile £280 £356 £325
25th Percentile £379 £417 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £743 £712 £675
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 10
10th Percentile £12.30 £14.51 £19.55
25th Percentile £16.67 £16.60 £28.48
Median hourly rate £18.89 £57.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year -67.16% +53.62% -23.17%
75th Percentile £19.75 £62.66 £39.36
90th Percentile - £67.44 £41.03
UK median hourly rate £26.97 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.10% -14.29% +62.79%

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 1,357 1,788 2,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 64.65% 66.67% 70.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 829 1,290 1,747
10th Percentile £179 £230 £230
25th Percentile £340 £403 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 28 45
10th Percentile £12.06 £12.62 £15.04
25th Percentile £13.50 £14.17 £17.50
Median hourly rate £18.27 £19.88 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year -8.10% -46.89% +113.89%
75th Percentile £55.00 £58.75 £47.25
90th Percentile £69.00 £67.22 £54.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% +2.27%

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 24 May 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 24 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 0 162 £475 -5.00% 101
Edinburgh 0 149 £500 +0.40% 126
Renfrewshire +3 7 £120 -79.13% 3
West Lothian +7 6 £300 - 3
Fife +5 6 £310 -47.23% 11
Highlands - 4 - - 3
Argyll and Bute - 2 £198 - 2
Lanarkshire - 2 £575 - 36
Dundee +4 1 - - 1
Perth and Kinross +2 1 £525 +23.53% 1
South Lanarkshire +2 1 £500 -24.24% 4
Perthshire -1 1 £525 -4.11% 2
Aberdeen -7 1 - - 16
Stirling - 1 £525 - 3
West Dunbartonshire - 1 - -
Moray - 1 - - 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 19 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.60%) Confluence
3 4 (1.11%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.83%) IBM HTTP Server
4 3 (0.83%) SAS
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
Applications
1 48 (13.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (4.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (3.88%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.66%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (1.11%) MS Visio
7 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%) Yammer
9 5 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.39%) SaaS
9 5 (1.39%) Serverless
10 4 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (0.83%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (0.83%) OpenShift
12 2 (0.55%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.55%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.39%) ATM
1 5 (1.39%) Firewall
2 3 (0.83%) DHCP
2 3 (0.83%) DNS
2 3 (0.83%) Fibre Channel
2 3 (0.83%) HTTP
2 3 (0.83%) iSCSI
2 3 (0.83%) LAN
2 3 (0.83%) SAN
2 3 (0.83%) Skype
2 3 (0.83%) WAN
3 1 (0.28%) 4G
3 1 (0.28%) 5G
3 1 (0.28%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (0.28%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (0.28%) NAS
3 1 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.28%) SNMP
3 1 (0.28%) Wireshark
3 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 8 (2.22%) Big Data
5 7 (1.94%) DB2
6 6 (1.66%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 6 (1.66%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.39%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.39%) Star Schema
8 4 (1.11%) BusinessObjects
8 4 (1.11%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.11%) Parquet
8 4 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (0.83%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.55%) Apache Hive
10 2 (0.55%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.55%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.55%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (7.76%) JIRA
2 5 (1.39%) ER Studio
2 5 (1.39%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.83%) Git
3 3 (0.83%) GitLab
3 3 (0.83%) IBM UrbanCode
4 2 (0.55%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.55%) ERwin
4 2 (0.55%) Gradle
4 2 (0.55%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.28%) Android Studio
5 1 (0.28%) JMeter
5 1 (0.28%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.28%) Maven
5 1 (0.28%) Selenium
5 1 (0.28%) SilkCentral
5 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 97 (26.87%) Social Skills
2 68 (18.84%) Banking
3 67 (18.56%) Public Sector
4 52 (14.40%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (3.32%) Telecoms
7 11 (3.05%) Financial Institution
8 10 (2.77%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.49%) Investment Banking
9 9 (2.49%) Legal
10 8 (2.22%) Retail Banking
11 7 (1.94%) Publishing
12 6 (1.66%) Billing
12 6 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.66%) Marketing
13 5 (1.39%) Electronics
14 3 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.83%) Local Government
14 3 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 86 (23.82%) Analyst
2 47 (13.02%) Project Manager
3 37 (10.25%) Developer
4 24 (6.65%) Architect
4 24 (6.65%) Business Analyst
4 24 (6.65%) Lead
5 23 (6.37%) Senior
6 21 (5.82%) Data Analyst
7 16 (4.43%) Java Developer
8 14 (3.88%) Consultant
9 12 (3.32%) Financial Analyst
9 12 (3.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (3.05%) Administrator
10 11 (3.05%) Finance Manager
10 11 (3.05%) Programme Manager
10 11 (3.05%) Senior Analyst
11 10 (2.77%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (2.22%) PMO Analyst
13 7 (1.94%) Data Architect
13 7 (1.94%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.88%) Spring
2 12 (3.32%) Oracle Fusion
3 10 (2.77%) Middleware
3 10 (2.77%) Spring Boot
4 9 (2.49%) CSS
4 9 (2.49%) HTML
4 9 (2.49%) Kafka
4 9 (2.49%) REST
5 7 (1.94%) AngularJS
6 6 (1.66%) JPA
7 5 (1.39%) PySpark
7 5 (1.39%) React
7 5 (1.39%) RESTful
8 4 (1.11%) Apache Avro
8 4 (1.11%) AWS CDK
8 4 (1.11%) Node.js
9 3 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.83%) Flash
9 3 (0.83%) J2EE
9 3 (0.83%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.54%) Data Protection Act
2 19 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 12 (3.32%) Public Cloud
4 10 (2.77%) Onboarding
4 10 (2.77%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.49%) Credit Risk
6 6 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 5 (1.39%) FMCG
7 5 (1.39%) iPhone
8 4 (1.11%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.11%) Mainframe
8 4 (1.11%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.11%) Renewable Energy
8 4 (1.11%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.83%) NVMe
9 3 (0.83%) Operational Technology
9 3 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.76%) Windows
2 23 (6.37%) Linux
3 16 (4.43%) Unix
4 5 (1.39%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.11%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.11%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.83%) Data ONTAP
7 2 (0.55%) Android
7 2 (0.55%) zOS
8 1 (0.28%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (23.55%) Agile
2 60 (16.62%) Project Management
3 41 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 40 (11.08%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (10.80%) ERP
6 34 (9.42%) Project Delivery
7 27 (7.48%) Business Intelligence
8 26 (7.20%) Data Modelling
8 26 (7.20%) SDLC
9 25 (6.93%) DevOps
10 24 (6.65%) Decision-Making
11 23 (6.37%) Data Protection
11 23 (6.37%) Migration
12 22 (6.09%) Microservices
13 21 (5.82%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (5.54%) Analytics
14 20 (5.54%) Business Analysis
14 20 (5.54%) Business Case
14 20 (5.54%) Software Engineering
14 20 (5.54%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 49 (13.57%) SQL
2 35 (9.70%) Python
3 32 (8.86%) Java
4 15 (4.16%) Perl
5 14 (3.88%) PL/SQL
5 14 (3.88%) Shell Script
6 11 (3.05%) TypeScript
7 10 (2.77%) Scala
8 6 (1.66%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.39%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.11%) Bash
11 3 (0.83%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.28%) C
12 1 (0.28%) COBOL
12 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.28%) Go
12 1 (0.28%) Groovy
12 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (8.59%) Degree
2 13 (3.60%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.22%) 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%) APMP
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 29 (8.03%) PMO
2 10 (2.77%) Disclosure Scotland
3 7 (1.94%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.66%) QA
5 4 (1.11%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.83%) SLA
7 2 (0.55%) Basel III
7 2 (0.55%) COBIT
7 2 (0.55%) FINREP
7 2 (0.55%) IFRS
7 2 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.55%) NEBOSH
7 2 (0.55%) NIST
7 2 (0.55%) P3O
8 1 (0.28%) COREP
8 1 (0.28%) HAZOP
8 1 (0.28%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.28%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 6 (1.66%) Docker
2 5 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (1.39%) VMware NSX
2 5 (1.39%) vSphere
3 4 (1.11%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.83%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.83%) GPFS
4 3 (0.83%) NFS
5 2 (0.55%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (2.22%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.39%) Terraform
3 3 (0.83%) Ansible
3 3 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (0.83%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.83%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 2 (0.55%) NetBackup
4 2 (0.55%) Zipkin
5 1 (0.28%) Grafana
5 1 (0.28%) Istio
5 1 (0.28%) Nagios
5 1 (0.28%) OpenView
Vendors
1 55 (15.24%) Oracle
2 52 (14.40%) Microsoft
3 15 (4.16%) SAP
4 10 (2.77%) Databricks
5 9 (2.49%) IBM
6 8 (2.22%) Alteryx
6 8 (2.22%) Informatica
7 7 (1.94%) Google
8 6 (1.66%) Cisco
8 6 (1.66%) Dell
9 5 (1.39%) IDERA
9 5 (1.39%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.39%) Splunk
9 5 (1.39%) VMware
10 4 (1.11%) Avaloq
10 4 (1.11%) CA Agile Central
10 4 (1.11%) EMC
10 4 (1.11%) NetApp
10 4 (1.11%) Sybase
10 4 (1.11%) Veritas