Fintech Contracts with Work from Home Options

Financial Technology (FinTech)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 153 174 189
Rank change year-on-year +21 +15 +58
Contract jobs citing Fintech 217 356 650
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.44% 1.42% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 1.58% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 279 544
10th Percentile £408 £413 £425
25th Percentile £521 £472 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £750 £689 £681
90th Percentile £800 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £650 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £55.13 - £36.00
25th Percentile £55.31 - £37.50
Median hourly rate £56.25 - £40.00
75th Percentile £57.81 - £42.50
90th Percentile £58.38 - £44.00
UK median hourly rate £56.25 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -38.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,282 22,550 40,272
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.75% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,890 15,929 29,247
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 522 532
10th Percentile £15.05 £18.63 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £69.31 £55.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Fintech
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Fintech as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Fintech trend for jobs with a WFH option

Fintech
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Fintech.

Fintech daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Fintech over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Fintech daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Fintech.

Fintech hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 13 (5.99%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (5.53%) Apache
3 4 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.84%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.38%) CMS
4 3 (1.38%) Confluence
4 3 (1.38%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.92%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.92%) nginx
6 1 (0.46%) MQSeries
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.30%) Distributed Ledger
2 4 (1.84%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 80 (36.87%) AWS
2 31 (14.29%) GCP
3 18 (8.29%) Azure
4 6 (2.76%) dbt
4 6 (2.76%) Twilio
5 5 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (1.84%) OneDrive
6 4 (1.84%) SaaS
7 3 (1.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (1.38%) Figma
7 3 (1.38%) GitHub
8 2 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (0.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.92%) Bitrise
8 2 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.92%) Serverless
8 2 (0.92%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.46%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.46%) Azure Service Fabric
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.84%) Firewall
1 4 (1.84%) VPN
2 2 (0.92%) Network Security
2 2 (0.92%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.46%) HTTP
3 1 (0.46%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
2 12 (5.53%) Apache Ignite
3 8 (3.69%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
4 7 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (2.76%) Apache Arrow
5 6 (2.76%) Big Data
5 6 (2.76%) Dremio
6 3 (1.38%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.92%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.92%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.46%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.46%) Looker
Development Applications
1 6 (2.76%) Git
2 3 (1.38%) Appium
3 2 (0.92%) Android Studio
3 2 (0.92%) git-flow
3 2 (0.92%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.92%) JIRA
3 2 (0.92%) Postman
3 2 (0.92%) XCTest
3 2 (0.92%) XCUITest
4 1 (0.46%) Fiddler
4 1 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.46%) PyCharm
4 1 (0.46%) Selenium
4 1 (0.46%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.46%) Storybook
4 1 (0.46%) TeamCity
General
1 109 (50.23%) Finance
2 37 (17.05%) Social Skills
3 35 (16.13%) Front Office
4 23 (10.60%) Banking
5 13 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.15%) Financial Institution
7 8 (3.69%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.69%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.30%) Retail Banking
10 4 (1.84%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (1.84%) Retail
11 2 (0.92%) Back Office
11 2 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.92%) Marketing
11 2 (0.92%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.92%) Publishing
12 1 (0.46%) Legal
12 1 (0.46%) Military
12 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 91 (41.94%) Developer
2 64 (29.49%) Software Engineer
3 42 (19.35%) Senior
4 27 (12.44%) React Developer
5 21 (9.68%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 19 (8.76%) Architect
7 17 (7.83%) Senior Software Engineer
8 12 (5.53%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (5.07%) Full Stack Developer
10 10 (4.61%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 9 (4.15%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (4.15%) C# Developer
11 9 (4.15%) Full Stack Engineer
11 9 (4.15%) Full Stack Software Engineer
11 9 (4.15%) Senior Developer
12 8 (3.69%) AWS Developer
12 8 (3.69%) Python Developer
13 7 (3.23%) AWS Software Engineer
13 7 (3.23%) Python Software Engineer
13 7 (3.23%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (17.05%) React
2 34 (15.67%) Kafka
3 25 (11.52%) Node.js
4 21 (9.68%) Redux
5 14 (6.45%) GraphQL
6 12 (5.53%) gRPC
6 12 (5.53%) Protocol Buffers
7 10 (4.61%) .NET
8 9 (4.15%) Material-UI
9 7 (3.23%) NumPy
9 7 (3.23%) Pandas
10 6 (2.76%) AngularJS
10 6 (2.76%) CSS
10 6 (2.76%) React Native
10 6 (2.76%) SciPy
10 6 (2.76%) Vue
11 5 (2.30%) Next.js
12 4 (1.84%) Jest
12 4 (1.84%) PyTorch
12 4 (1.84%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.68%) Fixed Income
1 21 (9.68%) Greenfield Project
2 10 (4.61%) Mobile App
3 6 (2.76%) Blockchain
4 4 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.38%) PKI
5 3 (1.38%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (0.92%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.92%) Blog
6 2 (0.92%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (0.46%) CBDC
7 1 (0.46%) Equities
7 1 (0.46%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.46%) Replication
7 1 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.46%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.46%) Web3
7 1 (0.46%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.15%) Android
2 7 (3.23%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.76%) Windows
4 3 (1.38%) Linux
5 2 (0.92%) VMS
5 2 (0.92%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.92%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 82 (37.79%) Agile
3 46 (21.20%) User Experience
4 33 (15.21%) UX Design
5 32 (14.75%) UX Research
6 30 (13.82%) User Research
7 22 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (9.68%) Asset Management
8 21 (9.68%) DevOps
8 21 (9.68%) Investment Management
8 21 (9.68%) Performance Attribution
9 18 (8.29%) Full Stack Development
10 13 (5.99%) CI/CD
10 13 (5.99%) Computer Science
11 12 (5.53%) Front End Development
12 11 (5.07%) Low Latency
13 9 (4.15%) Analytics
13 9 (4.15%) Data Modelling
13 9 (4.15%) Infrastructure as Code
13 9 (4.15%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 37 (17.05%) Python
1 37 (17.05%) TypeScript
2 36 (16.59%) Go
3 33 (15.21%) JavaScript
4 31 (14.29%) Java
5 25 (11.52%) C#
6 18 (8.29%) SQL
7 16 (7.37%) Kotlin
8 7 (3.23%) Scala
9 6 (2.76%) PHP
10 3 (1.38%) Swift
11 2 (0.92%) Perl
11 2 (0.92%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.92%) R
12 1 (0.46%) Bash
12 1 (0.46%) Groovy
12 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.46%) Ruby
12 1 (0.46%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 20 (9.22%) Degree
2 11 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.23%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.23%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.84%) Master's Degree
4 4 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (1.84%) PhD
5 3 (1.38%) MBA
6 2 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.92%) CCNA
6 2 (0.92%) CCNP
6 2 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.92%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.76%) QA
2 4 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.84%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.92%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.92%) GRC
3 2 (0.92%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (15.21%) Docker
2 2 (0.92%) Squid
2 2 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.46%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 40 (18.43%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.23%) Terraform
3 2 (0.92%) Ansible
3 2 (0.92%) HAProxy
3 2 (0.92%) SCCM
4 1 (0.46%) Grafana
4 1 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.46%) Kibana
4 1 (0.46%) logstash
4 1 (0.46%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.46%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.46%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (3.23%) Google
1 7 (3.23%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.84%) ION Trading
3 3 (1.38%) Apple
3 3 (1.38%) Oracle
4 2 (0.92%) Cisco
4 2 (0.92%) CyberArk
4 2 (0.92%) Fortinet
4 2 (0.92%) Palo Alto
4 2 (0.92%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.46%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.46%) Checkmarx
5 1 (0.46%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.46%) Freshdesk
5 1 (0.46%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.46%) IBM
5 1 (0.46%) Ping Identity
5 1 (0.46%) Solace
5 1 (0.46%) Splunk
5 1 (0.46%) TIBCO