Fractional Jobs Edinburgh
Fractional Jobs Edinburgh
The Edinburgh hub for fractional and part-time executive roles — which functions are in demand, and how Scotland's tech scene is creating opportunities.
Part-time senior leadership work across finance, tech, marketing, and operations in Scotland's capital.
How a brief runswhat we undertake
- 01Brief30-MINUTE SCOPING CALLDay 0
- 02Shortlist of 3–5VETTED · RATE BENCHMARK · IR35After the brief
- 03InterviewsYOU MEET THE SHORTLISTYour diary
- 04Scoped startFIRST-MONTH OUTCOMES AGREEDYou set the date
- 05Fractional, interim and permanentIR35 POSITION SET OUTOn every brief
Shortlist3–5
On the board · last 3 months
Edinburgh fractional jobs on the board
No Edinburgh fractional roles on the board in the last three months. Showing UK-wide fractional roles instead.
- FractionalSyndicatedPart time / Fractional Finance Director
PHIX · United Kingdom
est £650/day3 d/wk - FractionalSyndicatedAcquisition CFO / Finance Director (Fractional)
CivSec Group · London
est £1,500/dayLondon - FractionalSyndicatedBusiness Affairs Executive (Fractional / Per-Project)
Twenty-Nine Palms Entertainment · London
est £1,100/dayLondon - FractionalSyndicatedFinancial Controller (fractional)
Fermtech · Oxford
est £550/dayOxford - FractionalSyndicatedFractional IT Director – Technology & AI (FTC)
Flat Iron · London
est £1,000/day2 d/wk - FractionalSyndicatedFractional Chief Medical Officer - Tricorder Systems
Founders Factory · Bristol
Rate not statedBristol - FractionalSyndicatedFractional People Director
People Puzzles Ltd · Cambridge
Rate not statedCambridge - FractionalSyndicatedFractional CFO
KeelCFO · England
Rate not statedEngland - FractionalSyndicatedFractional CFO
fin-house · London
£700–£1,000/dayLondon
01/ the board
What the board holds.
A read of the roles on the board above, counted as they stand: the seat, how each is engaged, whether the posting gives the days and the rate, and where the work happens.
On this board, last 90 days · 9 roles · UK-wide fractional
Engagement
- Fractional9
Seat
- CFO3
- Finance director1
- General counsel1
- Financial controller1
- CTO1
- Other1
- Other seats1
Days a week
- Stated in the posting2
- Not stated7
Day rate
- Verified rate1
- Estimated (est)5
- Rate not stated3
Work arrangement (as the job feed classifies it)
- Remote0
- Hybrid6
- On-site3
Newest posting on the board: 12 Oct 2026.
Postings per week on this board, last 90 days
8 postings on this board in the last 90 days, counted by the week each was published.
02/ overview
Edinburgh's Fractional Executive Market
The shape of fractional work in this market.
Edinburgh's fractional executive market has grown significantly, driven by the city's expanding tech sector, particularly fintech and AI companies.
Scotland's capital offers a unique combination of established financial services expertise and emerging startup energy, creating diverse opportunities for part-time senior leadership.
The city benefits from strong university talent pipelines from Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt universities, and a supportive business environment through Scottish Enterprise.
Many Edinburgh roles offer remote flexibility, making them attractive to executives across Scotland and northern England.
Edinburgh's key sectors for fractional work
Fintech leads demand with established players and startups requiring senior financial and technology expertise.
AI and data science companies are growing rapidly.
Life sciences and biotech benefit from Edinburgh's research strengths.
Professional services and traditional finance also create opportunities for fractional expertise.
03/ by function
Edinburgh Fractional Roles by Function
What hiring teams and candidates need to know, function by function.
04/ saas roles
SaaS jobs in Edinburgh senior and fractional roles
At leadership level, SaaS jobs in Edinburgh include part-time and fractional shapes as well as full-time ones: a finance lead to build subscription reporting and investor metrics, a technology lead to take a product from founder-built to scalable, a commercial lead to build the first sales team.
The roles call for people who have worked through those stages in a software company.
The Scottish Government's policy for the sector was set by the Scottish Technology Ecosystem Review, which focuses on helping more tech start-ups reach profitable scale.
Scottish Enterprise backs companies scaling through innovation, and the British Business Bank's Investment Fund for Scotland provides loans and equity to smaller Scottish businesses; the Scottish National Investment Bank provides patient, long-term capital to businesses across Scotland.
Companies at those stages often need senior help.
When you search SaaS jobs, Edinburgh or anywhere else, what software companies look for at leadership level is experience of recurring-revenue metrics and pricing, of taking a product through growth, and of working with investors.
Live Edinburgh roles are on the board above; the fractional CTO and fractional CFO hubs cover UK-wide roles and published day rates.
05/ cfo roles
CFO jobs in Edinburgh fractional, interim and full-time
Edinburgh has a long-established financial services sector — banking, asset management, insurance — and CFO jobs in Edinburgh reflect that mix: full-time roles in established firms, interim cover during change programmes, and fractional CFO roles for tech founders and growing companies that need a CFO for a few days a week.
In Scotland the Chartered Accountant (CA) qualification awarded by ICAS sits alongside ICAEW, ACCA and CIMA as the recognised finance qualifications.
For fractional CFO roles with founders, experience of fundraising and investor reporting matters as much as technical accounting: a company preparing to raise from the Investment Fund for Scotland or private investors wants someone who has run a round before.
Payroll differs too: Scottish Income Tax applies to the wages of anyone who lives in Scotland and has its own bands, so a CFO here budgets for it.
For the state of the jobs market, the ONS publishes regional labour market statistics that include Scotland.
For CFO jobs, Edinburgh-specific day rates are not published by any source we can cite, so we don't quote one; published UK bands are on the fractional CFO jobs hub, and national roles on fractional jobs UK.
Hiring a fractional CFO: Edinburgh, hybrid or remote
If you are hiring rather than looking for work: we shortlist fractional CFOs across the UK, Scotland included, for hybrid or remote engagements.
A fractional CFO Edinburgh founders bring in for a raise can do the modelling remotely and be in the room for investor and board meetings; say which days you need in the brief.
You get a shortlist of 3–5, each with day rate, availability and IR35 position set out, after our five-stage vetting.
06/ questions
Frequently asked
Common questions about fractional work in this market.
15 minutes · video or phone
Book 15 minutes to hire a fractional executive
Tell us the seat, the days a week and the start date. We come back with candidates, their day rates and availability.
- 0115 minutes, video or phone
- 02We scope the role, the days and the start date
- 03A shortlist of 3–5 after the call
- 04Fractional, interim and permanent briefs
Pick a day that suits · live availability
Fractional recruitment works differently from a permanent search — shorter, scoped by days a week, and priced on the engagement. Send a brief and we come back with a shortlist of three to five vetted candidates.
