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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 155 110 72
Rank change year-on-year -45 -38 -19
Permanent jobs citing Fintech 1,863 3,274 7,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.90% 3.13% 4.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% 3.27% 5.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,518 2,787 4,660
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,125 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £82,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% +17.86% -
75th Percentile £99,688 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £116,250 £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 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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 27 April 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 27 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -45 1,630 £80,000 -3.03% 659
London -9 1,069 £85,000 -5.56% 470
Work from Home -50 848 £75,000 -6.25% 345
UK excluding London -41 704 £60,000 -7.69% 217
North of England +66 196 £55,000 -8.33% 47
North West +37 135 £60,000 - 30
South West +15 129 £62,500 -7.41% 29
South East -110 101 £67,500 -10.00% 53
Scotland -66 94 £70,288 +3.92% 23
Midlands -19 75 £55,000 -4.35% 33
West Midlands -9 48 £45,000 -25.00% 21
Wales +25 45 £47,500 -37.70% 15
East of England -15 43 £62,500 +8.70% 11
Yorkshire +91 41 £50,000 -16.67% 12
East Midlands -8 27 £65,000 +23.81% 12
Northern Ireland +28 20 £75,000 -3.23% 6
North East -4 20 £53,750 -6.52% 5
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 62 (3.33%) Confluence
2 26 (1.40%) Apache
2 26 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (1.02%) SAS
4 16 (0.86%) nginx
5 15 (0.81%) CMS
6 9 (0.48%) Drupal
6 9 (0.48%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.43%) WordPress
8 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
10 4 (0.21%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2013
11 3 (0.16%) Hyperledger
12 2 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.11%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.054%) MQSeries
13 1 (0.054%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 28 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (0.81%) SPSS
4 14 (0.75%) 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
8 2 (0.11%) S-PLUS
9 1 (0.054%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (0.70%) Aladdin
1 13 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
2 7 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
2 7 (0.38%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.21%) Relativity
4 3 (0.16%) R3 Corda
5 2 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.11%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.11%) Veritas eDiscovery
6 1 (0.054%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.054%) Magento
6 1 (0.054%) Ringtail
6 1 (0.054%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 689 (36.98%) AWS
2 363 (19.48%) Azure
3 213 (11.43%) GCP
4 142 (7.62%) SaaS
5 82 (4.40%) Serverless
6 59 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
7 53 (2.84%) Figma
8 46 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
9 37 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
10 32 (1.72%) SurveyMonkey
11 31 (1.66%) Amazon S3
12 24 (1.29%) GitHub
13 22 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
14 21 (1.13%) npm
15 20 (1.07%) Amazon ECS
16 19 (1.02%) dbt
17 18 (0.97%) Azure Service Bus
17 18 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
18 17 (0.91%) AWS CloudFormation
18 17 (0.91%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.68%) Firewall
2 19 (1.02%) DNS
2 19 (1.02%) LAN
2 19 (1.02%) PBX
2 19 (1.02%) TCP/IP
3 17 (0.91%) WAN
4 15 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
5 11 (0.59%) Network Security
6 10 (0.54%) Internet
7 7 (0.38%) OpenVPN
7 7 (0.38%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.32%) AMQP
8 6 (0.32%) BGP
8 6 (0.32%) Multicast
8 6 (0.32%) OSPF
9 5 (0.27%) VPN
10 4 (0.21%) Intranet
10 4 (0.21%) VoIP
11 3 (0.16%) SAN
11 3 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (7.73%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (4.94%) SQL Server
3 62 (3.33%) MySQL
4 56 (3.01%) MongoDB
5 54 (2.90%) NoSQL
6 53 (2.84%) Big Data
7 45 (2.42%) Relational Database
8 32 (1.72%) Redis
9 26 (1.40%) BigQuery
10 25 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
10 25 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
11 22 (1.18%) Apache Ignite
12 19 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
13 17 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (0.81%) DynamoDB
14 15 (0.81%) EDRMS
15 14 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
16 13 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
17 12 (0.64%) Apache Arrow
17 12 (0.64%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 117 (6.28%) Git
2 108 (5.80%) Jenkins
3 95 (5.10%) JIRA
4 60 (3.22%) Selenium
5 53 (2.84%) Cucumber
6 49 (2.63%) Postman
7 32 (1.72%) TeamCity
8 27 (1.45%) GitLab
9 22 (1.18%) Maven
10 19 (1.02%) Bitbucket
11 14 (0.75%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.64%) Storybook
12 12 (0.64%) Visual Studio
13 11 (0.59%) Appium
14 10 (0.54%) JMeter
15 9 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
16 8 (0.43%) CircleCI
16 8 (0.43%) SonarQube
17 7 (0.38%) git-flow
18 6 (0.32%) Mocha
General
1 885 (47.50%) Finance
2 382 (20.50%) Social Skills
3 265 (14.22%) Banking
4 174 (9.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 149 (8.00%) Law
6 131 (7.03%) Front Office
7 126 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
8 113 (6.07%) Marketing
9 94 (5.05%) Retail
10 66 (3.54%) Financial Institution
11 51 (2.74%) Legal
12 43 (2.31%) Investment Banking
13 35 (1.88%) Games
14 32 (1.72%) Social Science
15 19 (1.02%) Publishing
15 19 (1.02%) Turkish Language
16 12 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
17 11 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
18 10 (0.54%) Retail Banking
18 10 (0.54%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 653 (35.05%) Developer
2 360 (19.32%) Senior
3 260 (13.96%) Lead
4 233 (12.51%) Software Engineer
5 180 (9.66%) Senior Developer
6 142 (7.62%) .NET Developer
7 138 (7.41%) Analyst
8 137 (7.35%) Java Developer
9 108 (5.80%) Full Stack Developer
10 90 (4.83%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 88 (4.72%) Software Developer
12 67 (3.60%) Lead Developer
13 66 (3.54%) .NET Software Developer
14 62 (3.33%) C# Developer
15 60 (3.22%) Architect
16 59 (3.17%) React Developer
17 56 (3.01%) DevOps Engineer
18 55 (2.95%) Data Engineer
19 53 (2.84%) Business Analyst
20 52 (2.79%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 310 (16.64%) React
2 283 (15.19%) .NET
3 204 (10.95%) AngularJS
4 138 (7.41%) Vue
5 130 (6.98%) Node.js
6 126 (6.76%) REST
7 123 (6.60%) CSS
8 113 (6.07%) Spring
9 112 (6.01%) Redux
10 110 (5.90%) HTML
11 108 (5.80%) Spring Boot
12 93 (4.99%) .NET Core
12 93 (4.99%) ASP.NET
13 90 (4.83%) Kafka
14 78 (4.19%) .NET Framework
15 56 (3.01%) ASP.NET Web API
16 52 (2.79%) RESTful
17 51 (2.74%) Laravel
18 48 (2.58%) JSON
19 45 (2.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 126 (6.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 116 (6.23%) Product Ownership
3 112 (6.01%) Fixed Income
4 94 (5.05%) Greenfield Project
5 84 (4.51%) Hedge funds
6 79 (4.24%) Equities
7 78 (4.19%) Derivative
8 52 (2.79%) Onboarding
9 46 (2.47%) Cloud Native
10 45 (2.42%) Blog
11 40 (2.15%) Management Information System
12 38 (2.04%) Blockchain
12 38 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
13 33 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
13 33 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
14 27 (1.45%) Market Risk
15 26 (1.40%) Public Cloud
16 24 (1.29%) Data Centre
16 24 (1.29%) Mobile App
17 22 (1.18%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 104 (5.58%) Linux
2 83 (4.46%) Windows
3 42 (2.25%) Android
4 36 (1.93%) Apple iOS
5 27 (1.45%) Mac OS
6 22 (1.18%) Unix
7 11 (0.59%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.38%) CentOS
9 5 (0.27%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 561 (30.11%) Agile
2 364 (19.54%) Software Engineering
3 300 (16.10%) DevOps
4 286 (15.35%) CI/CD
5 254 (13.63%) Full Stack Development
6 231 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
7 222 (11.92%) Microservices
8 200 (10.74%) TDD
9 178 (9.55%) Asset Management
10 164 (8.80%) Roadmaps
11 162 (8.70%) Computer Science
12 153 (8.21%) Test Automation
13 152 (8.16%) Analytics
14 150 (8.05%) Mentoring
15 148 (7.94%) User Experience
16 132 (7.09%) SDLC
17 119 (6.39%) Artificial Intelligence
18 108 (5.80%) Investment Management
18 108 (5.80%) Scrum
19 96 (5.15%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 469 (25.17%) Java
2 358 (19.22%) JavaScript
3 318 (17.07%) SQL
4 316 (16.96%) Python
5 314 (16.85%) C#
6 266 (14.28%) TypeScript
7 160 (8.59%) Kotlin
8 72 (3.86%) PHP
9 57 (3.06%) PowerShell
10 50 (2.68%) Scala
11 43 (2.31%) R
12 33 (1.77%) Bash
13 31 (1.66%) Go
14 29 (1.56%) C++
15 17 (0.91%) T-SQL
16 15 (0.81%) Swift
17 14 (0.75%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.75%) Rust
18 11 (0.59%) Ruby
19 8 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 323 (17.34%) Degree
2 106 (5.69%) Master's Degree
3 83 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 61 (3.27%) PhD
5 34 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
6 21 (1.13%) AWS Certification
6 21 (1.13%) CCNA
7 17 (0.91%) CISSP
8 11 (0.59%) CISM
8 11 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
9 10 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (0.54%) CCSP
9 10 (0.54%) CISA
10 9 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 8 (0.43%) OSCP
11 8 (0.43%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.32%) CRISC
12 6 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (0.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (8.27%) QA
2 34 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (1.23%) Accessibility
4 17 (0.91%) GDPR
4 17 (0.91%) SLA
5 15 (0.81%) PCI DSS
6 14 (0.75%) Data Quality
7 12 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (0.48%) NIST
9 8 (0.43%) COBIT
9 8 (0.43%) PSD2
10 7 (0.38%) SEPA
10 7 (0.38%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.32%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.21%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.21%) PMO
12 4 (0.21%) WCAG
13 3 (0.16%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.11%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 232 (12.45%) Docker
2 43 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.32%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.16%) VMware Server
7 3 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
7 3 (0.16%) vSphere
8 2 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.11%) Firmware
9 1 (0.054%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 225 (12.08%) Kubernetes
2 199 (10.68%) Terraform
3 58 (3.11%) Ansible
4 29 (1.56%) Grafana
5 14 (0.75%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.38%) Kibana
7 6 (0.32%) logstash
8 5 (0.27%) CASB
8 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.21%) Istio
9 4 (0.21%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.16%) CSIRT
10 3 (0.16%) SCCM
11 2 (0.11%) Core Impact
11 2 (0.11%) Nmap
12 1 (0.054%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.054%) HP SiteScope
12 1 (0.054%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.054%) Puppet
Vendors
1 164 (8.80%) Microsoft
2 51 (2.74%) Google
3 38 (2.04%) Qualtrics
4 36 (1.93%) Atlassian
5 35 (1.88%) Oracle
6 30 (1.61%) VMware
7 22 (1.18%) Palo Alto
8 16 (0.86%) Cisco
9 15 (0.81%) Bloomberg
10 14 (0.75%) Salesforce
11 13 (0.70%) BISAM
11 13 (0.70%) Meraki
12 11 (0.59%) Apple
12 11 (0.59%) Splunk
13 10 (0.54%) Adobe
14 8 (0.43%) Murex
15 7 (0.38%) Fortinet
16 6 (0.32%) AppDynamics
16 6 (0.32%) F5
16 6 (0.32%) ForgeRock