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 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 115 122 144
Rank change year-on-year +7 +22 -3
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 12 46 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.56% 1.71% 0.94%
As % of the General category 0.87% 2.54% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 24 11
10th Percentile £316 £421 -
25th Percentile £323 £434 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +15.00% +18.34%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £606
90th Percentile £604 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £750 £700 £725
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £62.84 -
25th Percentile - £63.83 £40.25
Median hourly rate - £66.56 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year - +64.35% -3.57%
75th Percentile - £68.20 £44.38
90th Percentile - £68.53 £46.55
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £68.75 £40.50
% change year-on-year -71.64% +69.75% +25.58%

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 1,375 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%

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 2 June 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 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 -10 10 £345 -42.50% 6
Edinburgh +23 2 - -
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 4 (33.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (8.33%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) SAN
2 2 (16.67%) NAS
3 1 (8.33%) DHCP
3 1 (8.33%) DNS
3 1 (8.33%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (8.33%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Apache Hive
1 3 (25.00%) Big Data
1 3 (25.00%) Impala
1 3 (25.00%) MySQL
1 3 (25.00%) Spark SQL
2 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (16.67%) RDBMS
2 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (8.33%) DB2
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 12 (100.00%) Banking
2 7 (58.33%) Finance
3 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (16.67%) Retail
4 2 (16.67%) Retail Banking
5 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Analyst
1 4 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Python Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Banking Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Change Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Database Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Hardware Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) MySQL Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) Flash
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) POSIX
2 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Virtual Team
2 2 (16.67%) Mobile App
3 1 (8.33%) Client/Server
3 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (8.33%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Unix
2 4 (33.33%) Linux
3 3 (25.00%) Windows
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (8.33%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Agile
1 4 (33.33%) Use Case
1 4 (33.33%) Wealth Management
2 3 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (16.67%) Biometrics
3 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 2 (16.67%) Customer Experience
3 2 (16.67%) Data Deduplication
3 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 2 (16.67%) Functional Testing
3 2 (16.67%) High Availability
3 2 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
3 2 (16.67%) Investment Management
3 2 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (16.67%) SDLC
3 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (16.67%) Test Scripting
3 2 (16.67%) User Stories
4 1 (8.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) Perl
2 4 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (16.67%) Java
5 1 (8.33%) Kotlin
5 1 (8.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Firmware
2 1 (8.33%) GPFS
2 1 (8.33%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) NetBackup
3 1 (8.33%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Google
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle
2 3 (25.00%) Veritas
3 1 (8.33%) Brocade
3 1 (8.33%) EMC
3 1 (8.33%) IBM
3 1 (8.33%) NetApp
3 1 (8.33%) Sybase