Fintech Contracts in England

Financial Technology (FinTech)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Fintech skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Fintech over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 203 232 173
Rank change year-on-year +29 -59 +59
Contract jobs citing Fintech 428 584 1,204
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.16% 1.16% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.28% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 462 1,064
10th Percentile £400 £405 £425
25th Percentile £475 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £750 £688 £681
90th Percentile £800 £750 £759
UK median daily rate £650 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £34.88 - £36.00
25th Percentile £45.44 - £37.50
Median hourly rate £56.25 - £40.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - £42.50
90th Percentile £80.88 - £44.00
UK median hourly rate £56.25 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -38.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Fintech is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Fintech in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Fintech in England.

Daily rate trend for Fintech in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fintech in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Fintech in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Fintech in England.

Hourly rate trend for Fintech in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Fintech in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Fintech in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fintech within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
London +10 336 £650 +8.33% 529
North of England +37 24 £425 -8.11% 52
North West +27 12 £475 +2.70% 34
Yorkshire +27 11 £425 -19.05% 12
South West +14 11 £398 -23.56% 32
Midlands +31 9 £575 +27.78% 36
East of England +16 8 £655 - 13
West Midlands +34 5 £475 -5.00% 22
East Midlands +20 4 £663 +55.88% 14
South East +15 3 £625 -24.24% 56
North East +18 1 - - 6
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 12 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (2.57%) Apache
3 8 (1.87%) Confluence
4 6 (1.40%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.40%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.70%) CMS
7 2 (0.47%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.47%) nginx
8 1 (0.23%) Drupal
8 1 (0.23%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.23%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 11 (2.57%) Aladdin
2 10 (2.34%) Distributed Ledger
2 10 (2.34%) Loan IQ
3 3 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.70%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 150 (35.05%) AWS
2 67 (15.65%) GCP
3 63 (14.72%) Azure
4 11 (2.57%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (1.87%) dbt
6 8 (1.87%) SaaS
6 8 (1.87%) Serverless
7 7 (1.64%) GitHub
8 6 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (1.40%) OneDrive
8 6 (1.40%) Twilio
9 5 (1.17%) Azure Functions
10 4 (0.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (0.93%) Azure Machine Learning
11 3 (0.70%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.70%) Figma
11 3 (0.70%) Snowflake
11 3 (0.70%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.64%) Internet
1 7 (1.64%) VPN
2 3 (0.70%) Firewall
3 2 (0.47%) DNS
3 2 (0.47%) NetScaler
3 2 (0.47%) Network Security
3 2 (0.47%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.23%) HTTP
4 1 (0.23%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (10.75%) Apache Cassandra
2 16 (3.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 16 (3.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 11 (2.57%) Apache Ignite
4 9 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (2.10%) NoSQL
4 9 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (1.64%) MongoDB
5 7 (1.64%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.40%) Apache Arrow
6 6 (1.40%) Dremio
7 5 (1.17%) SQL Server
8 3 (0.70%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (0.70%) Big Data
8 3 (0.70%) Looker
8 3 (0.70%) Tableau
9 2 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.47%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.47%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (1.87%) JIRA
2 7 (1.64%) Git
2 7 (1.64%) Postman
3 6 (1.40%) Appium
3 6 (1.40%) Selenium
4 5 (1.17%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.93%) Cucumber
5 4 (0.93%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.70%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.47%) Android Studio
7 2 (0.47%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.47%) git-flow
7 2 (0.47%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.47%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.47%) XCTest
7 2 (0.47%) XCUITest
8 1 (0.23%) Darcs
8 1 (0.23%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.23%) TestRail
General
1 208 (48.60%) Finance
2 88 (20.56%) Social Skills
3 73 (17.06%) Front Office
4 57 (13.32%) Banking
5 37 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (5.61%) Investment Banking
7 21 (4.91%) Financial Institution
8 14 (3.27%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (2.10%) Marketing
10 6 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.17%) Back Office
11 5 (1.17%) Corporate Banking
11 5 (1.17%) Legal
11 5 (1.17%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.17%) Retail
11 5 (1.17%) Retail Banking
12 4 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.70%) Wholesale Banking
14 2 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 161 (37.62%) Developer
2 117 (27.34%) Software Engineer
3 66 (15.42%) Senior
4 46 (10.75%) .NET Developer
4 46 (10.75%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 44 (10.28%) Architect
6 34 (7.94%) Senior Software Engineer
7 30 (7.01%) Software Manager
8 29 (6.78%) React Developer
8 29 (6.78%) Solutions Architect
9 28 (6.54%) .NET Software Developer
9 28 (6.54%) Analyst
10 27 (6.31%) .NET Software Engineer
11 26 (6.07%) Finance Manager
11 26 (6.07%) Software Asset Manager
12 20 (4.67%) Business Analyst
13 17 (3.97%) Full Stack Developer
14 13 (3.04%) Data Business Analyst
15 12 (2.80%) AWS Engineer
15 12 (2.80%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (15.65%) React
2 59 (13.79%) .NET
3 49 (11.45%) Kafka
4 47 (10.98%) Redux
5 32 (7.48%) Node.js
6 30 (7.01%) AngularJS
7 20 (4.67%) .NET Core
8 18 (4.21%) GraphQL
9 17 (3.97%) Vue
10 14 (3.27%) ASP.NET
10 14 (3.27%) React Native
11 13 (3.04%) ASP.NET Core
12 10 (2.34%) gRPC
12 10 (2.34%) Material-UI
12 10 (2.34%) Protocol Buffers
12 10 (2.34%) REST
13 6 (1.40%) Flutter
13 6 (1.40%) NumPy
13 6 (1.40%) Pandas
13 6 (1.40%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 58 (13.55%) Fixed Income
2 47 (10.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 41 (9.58%) Hedge funds
4 39 (9.11%) Derivative
4 39 (9.11%) Equities
5 23 (5.37%) Product Ownership
6 22 (5.14%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (3.27%) Mobile App
8 13 (3.04%) Blockchain
9 9 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.40%) CBDC
10 6 (1.40%) Social Media
11 5 (1.17%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.17%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.17%) Web3
12 4 (0.93%) IoT
12 4 (0.93%) Wiki
13 3 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.70%) PKI
13 3 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.10%) Windows
2 8 (1.87%) Android
3 7 (1.64%) Apple iOS
3 7 (1.64%) Unix
4 5 (1.17%) Linux
4 5 (1.17%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.93%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.70%) VMS
7 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (39.25%) Agile
2 153 (35.75%) Software Engineering
3 68 (15.89%) DevOps
4 63 (14.72%) User Experience
5 59 (13.79%) Asset Management
6 58 (13.55%) Investment Management
7 57 (13.32%) Full Stack Development
8 54 (12.62%) UX Design
9 49 (11.45%) User Research
10 47 (10.98%) UX Research
11 41 (9.58%) TDD
12 36 (8.41%) Problem-Solving
13 33 (7.71%) Roadmaps
14 29 (6.78%) CI/CD
15 26 (6.07%) Computer Science
16 24 (5.61%) Test Automation
17 23 (5.37%) Machine Learning
18 20 (4.67%) Continuous Integration
18 20 (4.67%) Performance Attribution
19 19 (4.44%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 79 (18.46%) C#
2 74 (17.29%) Python
3 73 (17.06%) SQL
4 71 (16.59%) JavaScript
5 68 (15.89%) TypeScript
6 54 (12.62%) Go
7 52 (12.15%) Java
8 18 (4.21%) Kotlin
9 16 (3.74%) Scala
10 10 (2.34%) PL/SQL
11 9 (2.10%) PHP
12 7 (1.64%) C++
13 5 (1.17%) Swift
14 4 (0.93%) C
14 4 (0.93%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.93%) R
14 4 (0.93%) Ruby
15 2 (0.47%) Perl
15 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.23%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 34 (7.94%) Degree
2 23 (5.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (3.04%) SC Cleared
3 13 (3.04%) Security Cleared
4 4 (0.93%) Master's Degree
4 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (0.93%) PhD
5 3 (0.70%) MBA
6 2 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.47%) CCNA
6 2 (0.47%) CCNP
6 2 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.47%) MCSA
7 1 (0.23%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (11.45%) QA
2 5 (1.17%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.93%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.47%) GRC
4 2 (0.47%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.47%) NIST
4 2 (0.47%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
System Software
1 52 (12.15%) Docker
2 2 (0.47%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.47%) Squid
2 2 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 62 (14.49%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.27%) Terraform
3 5 (1.17%) SCCM
4 3 (0.70%) Ansible
5 2 (0.47%) HAProxy
5 2 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.23%) Grafana
6 1 (0.23%) Istio
6 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.23%) Kibana
6 1 (0.23%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.23%) logstash
6 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (3.74%) Google
2 14 (3.27%) Microsoft
3 13 (3.04%) Oracle
4 12 (2.80%) Bloomberg
5 11 (2.57%) BISAM
5 11 (2.57%) Salesforce
6 4 (0.93%) Freshdesk
6 4 (0.93%) ION Trading
7 3 (0.70%) Apple
7 3 (0.70%) Citrix
7 3 (0.70%) Databricks
8 2 (0.47%) Checkmarx
8 2 (0.47%) Cisco
8 2 (0.47%) CyberArk
8 2 (0.47%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.47%) IBM
8 2 (0.47%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.47%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.23%) DataRobot
9 1 (0.23%) TikTok