Financial Technology (FinTech)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 156 117 73
Rank change year-on-year -39 -44 -16
Permanent jobs citing Fintech 1,898 2,937 8,418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.84% 3.02% 5.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 3.16% 5.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,506 2,547 4,716
10th Percentile £42,875 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,125 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £82,818 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.42% +14.23% +3.57%
75th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £118,450 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,886 92,843 159,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.13% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,763 54,795 82,800
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Fintech
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Fintech in the UK

Fintech
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Fintech in the UK

Fintech
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Fintech over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Fintech in the UK

Fintech
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Fintech within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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
England -42 1,658 £77,500 -8.82% 686
London -10 1,084 £85,000 -5.56% 501
Work from Home -52 859 £75,000 -11.76% 378
UK excluding London -29 728 £60,000 -7.69% 205
North of England +57 188 £55,000 -4.35% 58
South West +8 134 £65,000 - 18
North West +34 127 £60,000 +5.73% 44
South East -113 116 £67,500 -10.00% 65
Scotland -55 98 £70,000 +7.69% 18
Midlands -41 79 £57,500 - 21
Wales +29 51 £47,500 -44.12% 9
East of England -9 43 £62,500 +15.74% 16
West Midlands -46 43 £45,000 -21.74% 7
Yorkshire +76 40 £50,000 -16.67% 11
East Midlands -6 36 £65,000 +23.81% 14
North East +1 21 £42,500 -22.73% 3
Northern Ireland +23 18 £80,000 +3.23% 4
Channel Islands - 1 £120,000 -

Fintech
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 58 (3.06%) Confluence
2 47 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
3 45 (2.37%) Apache
4 19 (1.00%) SAS
5 18 (0.95%) CMS
6 15 (0.79%) nginx
7 10 (0.53%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.47%) Drupal
9 8 (0.42%) WordPress
10 7 (0.37%) Apache Spark
11 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
13 4 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
14 3 (0.16%) Ethereum
14 3 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2013
15 2 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
15 2 (0.11%) Hyperledger
15 2 (0.11%) Umbraco
16 1 (0.053%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 28 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (0.79%) SPSS
4 14 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.32%) UserZoom
6 4 (0.21%) Sketch
7 3 (0.16%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.16%) InVision
7 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.16%) S-PLUS
8 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.053%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (0.74%) Aladdin
2 13 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
3 7 (0.37%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.21%) Relativity
5 2 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.11%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.11%) R3 Corda
5 2 (0.11%) Veritas eDiscovery
6 1 (0.053%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.053%) Ringtail
6 1 (0.053%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 706 (37.20%) AWS
2 384 (20.23%) Azure
3 232 (12.22%) GCP
4 141 (7.43%) SaaS
5 87 (4.58%) Serverless
6 57 (3.00%) Figma
7 56 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
9 41 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
10 35 (1.84%) dbt
11 32 (1.69%) SurveyMonkey
12 30 (1.58%) Amazon S3
13 25 (1.32%) GitHub
14 21 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
14 21 (1.11%) npm
15 20 (1.05%) Amazon ECS
15 20 (1.05%) Amazon EKS
15 20 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
16 16 (0.84%) Entra ID
16 16 (0.84%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.32%) Firewall
2 21 (1.11%) TCP/IP
3 20 (1.05%) DNS
4 19 (1.00%) LAN
5 18 (0.95%) WAN
6 15 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (0.68%) Network Security
8 11 (0.58%) PBX
9 10 (0.53%) Internet
10 7 (0.37%) BGP
10 7 (0.37%) OSPF
10 7 (0.37%) SD-WAN
11 6 (0.32%) AMQP
11 6 (0.32%) Multicast
11 6 (0.32%) OpenVPN
12 5 (0.26%) VPN
13 4 (0.21%) Intranet
13 4 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (0.21%) VoIP
14 3 (0.16%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (7.06%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (5.16%) SQL Server
3 55 (2.90%) MongoDB
4 52 (2.74%) MySQL
5 47 (2.48%) Big Data
6 46 (2.42%) Relational Database
7 40 (2.11%) NoSQL
8 38 (2.00%) Apache Ignite
9 28 (1.48%) Redis
10 27 (1.42%) BigQuery
11 26 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
11 26 (1.37%) Dremio
12 24 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
12 24 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
13 20 (1.05%) Apache Arrow
14 18 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (0.79%) EDRMS
16 13 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
16 13 (0.68%) Power BI
17 12 (0.63%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 119 (6.27%) Git
2 93 (4.90%) Jenkins
3 92 (4.85%) JIRA
4 49 (2.58%) Selenium
5 41 (2.16%) Postman
6 39 (2.05%) Cucumber
7 34 (1.79%) GitLab
8 31 (1.63%) TeamCity
9 17 (0.90%) Maven
10 16 (0.84%) Cypress.io
11 14 (0.74%) Storybook
12 13 (0.68%) Bitbucket
13 12 (0.63%) JMeter
13 12 (0.63%) Visual Studio
14 11 (0.58%) Appium
15 9 (0.47%) CircleCI
16 8 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
17 7 (0.37%) git-flow
17 7 (0.37%) JUnit
17 7 (0.37%) Mocha
General
1 907 (47.79%) Finance
2 378 (19.92%) Social Skills
3 273 (14.38%) Banking
4 199 (10.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 170 (8.96%) Law
6 138 (7.27%) Front Office
7 122 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
8 120 (6.32%) Marketing
9 96 (5.06%) Retail
10 62 (3.27%) Financial Institution
10 62 (3.27%) Legal
11 44 (2.32%) Investment Banking
12 35 (1.84%) Games
13 32 (1.69%) Social Science
14 21 (1.11%) Turkish Language
15 19 (1.00%) Publishing
16 13 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
17 12 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
17 12 (0.63%) Retail Finance
18 10 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 645 (33.98%) Developer
2 351 (18.49%) Senior
3 263 (13.86%) Lead
4 258 (13.59%) Software Engineer
5 165 (8.69%) Senior Developer
6 141 (7.43%) Java Developer
7 134 (7.06%) Analyst
8 132 (6.95%) .NET Developer
9 92 (4.85%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 91 (4.79%) Full Stack Developer
10 91 (4.79%) Software Developer
11 67 (3.53%) C# Developer
12 64 (3.37%) Lead Developer
13 62 (3.27%) DevOps Engineer
14 61 (3.21%) Architect
15 60 (3.16%) .NET Software Developer
16 56 (2.95%) Data Engineer
16 56 (2.95%) Senior Software Engineer
17 51 (2.69%) React Developer
18 50 (2.63%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 298 (15.70%) React
2 285 (15.02%) .NET
3 200 (10.54%) AngularJS
4 137 (7.22%) Vue
5 135 (7.11%) Node.js
6 115 (6.06%) CSS
7 112 (5.90%) Redux
8 110 (5.80%) REST
9 108 (5.69%) HTML
10 102 (5.37%) Spring Boot
11 100 (5.27%) Spring
12 86 (4.53%) .NET Core
12 86 (4.53%) ASP.NET
13 85 (4.48%) Kafka
14 76 (4.00%) .NET Framework
15 52 (2.74%) ASP.NET Web API
15 52 (2.74%) gRPC
16 51 (2.69%) RESTful
17 47 (2.48%) Laravel
18 46 (2.42%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 119 (6.27%) Product Ownership
2 114 (6.01%) Fixed Income
3 113 (5.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 94 (4.95%) Greenfield Project
5 78 (4.11%) Hedge funds
6 75 (3.95%) Equities
7 72 (3.79%) Derivative
8 59 (3.11%) Cloud Native
9 58 (3.06%) Onboarding
10 45 (2.37%) Blog
11 41 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
12 39 (2.05%) Management Information System
13 34 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
14 30 (1.58%) Blockchain
14 30 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
15 27 (1.42%) Market Risk
16 26 (1.37%) Public Cloud
17 25 (1.32%) Data Centre
17 25 (1.32%) Data Structures
18 24 (1.26%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 101 (5.32%) Linux
2 77 (4.06%) Windows
3 40 (2.11%) Android
4 34 (1.79%) Apple iOS
5 26 (1.37%) Unix
6 20 (1.05%) Mac OS
7 11 (0.58%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.37%) CentOS
9 4 (0.21%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.053%) Debian
11 1 (0.053%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 567 (29.87%) Agile
2 390 (20.55%) Software Engineering
3 291 (15.33%) DevOps
4 282 (14.86%) CI/CD
5 251 (13.22%) Full Stack Development
6 239 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
7 223 (11.75%) Microservices
8 186 (9.80%) Asset Management
9 182 (9.59%) TDD
10 170 (8.96%) Roadmaps
11 159 (8.38%) Computer Science
12 156 (8.22%) User Experience
13 152 (8.01%) Test Automation
14 151 (7.96%) Analytics
15 140 (7.38%) Mentoring
16 136 (7.17%) SDLC
17 125 (6.59%) Artificial Intelligence
18 117 (6.16%) Investment Management
19 104 (5.48%) Scrum
20 100 (5.27%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 469 (24.71%) Java
2 360 (18.97%) JavaScript
3 339 (17.86%) Python
4 314 (16.54%) C#
5 310 (16.33%) SQL
6 263 (13.86%) TypeScript
7 168 (8.85%) Kotlin
8 68 (3.58%) PHP
9 53 (2.79%) PowerShell
10 49 (2.58%) Scala
11 42 (2.21%) R
12 34 (1.79%) Go
13 33 (1.74%) Bash
14 30 (1.58%) C++
15 18 (0.95%) T-SQL
16 17 (0.90%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.74%) Swift
18 12 (0.63%) Rust
19 7 (0.37%) Ruby
19 7 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 319 (16.81%) Degree
2 102 (5.37%) Master's Degree
3 93 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 61 (3.21%) PhD
5 26 (1.37%) AWS Certification
6 25 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
7 19 (1.00%) CISSP
8 15 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 13 (0.68%) CCNA
10 12 (0.63%) CISM
11 11 (0.58%) CISA
11 11 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
12 10 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 9 (0.47%) CCSP
14 8 (0.42%) OSCP
14 8 (0.42%) PMI Certification
15 6 (0.32%) CREST Certified
15 6 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (7.17%) QA
2 40 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (1.53%) Accessibility
4 18 (0.95%) GDPR
4 18 (0.95%) SLA
5 14 (0.74%) Data Quality
6 11 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (0.58%) PCI DSS
7 10 (0.53%) NIST
8 8 (0.42%) COBIT
8 8 (0.42%) PSD2
8 8 (0.42%) SOC 2
9 7 (0.37%) MiFID
10 6 (0.32%) ISO 20022
10 6 (0.32%) UCITS
11 4 (0.21%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.21%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
11 4 (0.21%) WCAG
12 3 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 209 (11.01%) Docker
2 35 (1.84%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
3 10 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.32%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.16%) VMware Server
6 3 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
6 3 (0.16%) vSphere
7 2 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.11%) Firmware
8 1 (0.053%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 218 (11.49%) Kubernetes
2 216 (11.38%) Terraform
3 60 (3.16%) Ansible
4 30 (1.58%) Grafana
5 15 (0.79%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.37%) Kibana
6 7 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.32%) CASB
7 6 (0.32%) logstash
7 6 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.26%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.21%) Istio
9 4 (0.21%) Puppet
10 3 (0.16%) CSIRT
10 3 (0.16%) SCCM
11 2 (0.11%) Core Impact
11 2 (0.11%) Nmap
12 1 (0.053%) Argo
12 1 (0.053%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.053%) HP SiteScope
Vendors
1 169 (8.90%) Microsoft
2 61 (3.21%) Google
3 38 (2.00%) Oracle
3 38 (2.00%) Qualtrics
4 30 (1.58%) Atlassian
5 22 (1.16%) VMware
6 19 (1.00%) Salesforce
7 16 (0.84%) Bloomberg
7 16 (0.84%) Palo Alto
8 15 (0.79%) Cisco
9 14 (0.74%) BISAM
10 13 (0.68%) Meraki
10 13 (0.68%) Splunk
11 11 (0.58%) Apple
12 8 (0.42%) Adobe
12 8 (0.42%) Fortinet
12 8 (0.42%) Murex
13 6 (0.32%) AppDynamics
13 6 (0.32%) F5
13 6 (0.32%) ForgeRock