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 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 154 110 72
Rank change year-on-year -44 -38 -18
Permanent jobs citing Fintech 1,855 3,154 7,877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.87% 3.11% 5.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 3.25% 5.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,489 2,686 4,700
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £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 £98,474 £103,750 £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 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
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 8 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 8 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 -44 1,625 £77,500 -8.82% 681
London -9 1,073 £85,000 -5.56% 487
Work from Home -57 834 £75,000 -6.25% 341
UK excluding London -47 693 £60,000 -7.69% 214
North of England +54 190 £55,000 -8.33% 59
North West +28 132 £60,000 - 39
South West -5 132 £62,500 -7.41% 25
South East -132 97 £67,500 -10.00% 54
Scotland -61 92 £65,000 -1.99% 20
Midlands -27 74 £55,000 -4.35% 29
West Midlands -24 47 £45,000 -25.00% 18
Wales +24 45 £47,500 -44.12% 15
East of England -17 43 £62,500 +8.70% 9
Yorkshire +73 38 £50,000 -16.67% 17
East Midlands -8 27 £65,000 +23.81% 11
North East -3 20 £53,750 -4.44% 3
Northern Ireland +24 19 £77,500 - 6
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 60 (3.23%) Confluence
2 32 (1.73%) Apache
3 30 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (1.02%) SAS
5 16 (0.86%) nginx
6 15 (0.81%) CMS
7 9 (0.49%) Drupal
7 9 (0.49%) SharePoint
8 8 (0.43%) WordPress
9 6 (0.32%) Apache Spark
9 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.16%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2013
12 2 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.11%) Hyperledger
12 2 (0.11%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.054%) MQSeries
13 1 (0.054%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 28 (1.51%) 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 (0.22%) Sketch
7 3 (0.16%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.16%) InVision
8 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.11%) S-PLUS
9 1 (0.054%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (0.75%) Aladdin
2 13 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
3 7 (0.38%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.22%) 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 (0.054%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.054%) Ringtail
6 1 (0.054%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 686 (36.98%) AWS
2 367 (19.78%) Azure
3 220 (11.86%) GCP
4 140 (7.55%) SaaS
5 82 (4.42%) Serverless
6 59 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
7 55 (2.96%) Figma
8 46 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
9 36 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
10 32 (1.73%) SurveyMonkey
11 28 (1.51%) Amazon S3
12 27 (1.46%) GitHub
13 22 (1.19%) dbt
14 21 (1.13%) npm
15 20 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
16 19 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
17 18 (0.97%) Amazon ECS
18 17 (0.92%) AWS CloudFormation
19 16 (0.86%) Azure Service Bus
19 16 (0.86%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (2.53%) Firewall
2 21 (1.13%) DNS
2 21 (1.13%) TCP/IP
3 19 (1.02%) LAN
4 17 (0.92%) PBX
4 17 (0.92%) WAN
5 15 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (0.59%) Network Security
7 10 (0.54%) Internet
8 7 (0.38%) OpenVPN
8 7 (0.38%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.32%) AMQP
9 6 (0.32%) BGP
9 6 (0.32%) Multicast
9 6 (0.32%) OSPF
10 5 (0.27%) VPN
11 4 (0.22%) Intranet
11 4 (0.22%) VoIP
12 3 (0.16%) Fibre Channel
12 3 (0.16%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
2 96 (5.18%) SQL Server
3 59 (3.18%) MySQL
4 57 (3.07%) MongoDB
5 49 (2.64%) Big Data
5 49 (2.64%) NoSQL
6 45 (2.43%) Relational Database
7 29 (1.56%) Redis
8 26 (1.40%) Apache Ignite
8 26 (1.40%) BigQuery
9 24 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
9 24 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
10 16 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
11 15 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (0.81%) EDRMS
12 14 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
12 14 (0.75%) Apache Arrow
12 14 (0.75%) Dremio
13 13 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
13 13 (0.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 118 (6.36%) Git
2 105 (5.66%) Jenkins
3 93 (5.01%) JIRA
4 56 (3.02%) Selenium
5 49 (2.64%) Cucumber
6 45 (2.43%) Postman
7 32 (1.73%) TeamCity
8 29 (1.56%) GitLab
9 20 (1.08%) Maven
10 17 (0.92%) Bitbucket
11 14 (0.75%) Cypress.io
12 13 (0.70%) Storybook
13 12 (0.65%) Visual Studio
14 11 (0.59%) Appium
15 10 (0.54%) JMeter
16 9 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
17 8 (0.43%) CircleCI
17 8 (0.43%) SonarQube
18 7 (0.38%) git-flow
19 6 (0.32%) Mocha
General
1 899 (48.46%) Finance
2 385 (20.75%) Social Skills
3 266 (14.34%) Banking
4 190 (10.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 164 (8.84%) Law
6 131 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
7 130 (7.01%) Front Office
8 118 (6.36%) Marketing
9 94 (5.07%) Retail
10 66 (3.56%) Financial Institution
11 59 (3.18%) Legal
12 44 (2.37%) Investment Banking
13 35 (1.89%) Games
14 32 (1.73%) Social Science
15 19 (1.02%) Publishing
15 19 (1.02%) Turkish Language
16 12 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
17 11 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
18 10 (0.54%) Retail Banking
18 10 (0.54%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 638 (34.39%) Developer
2 354 (19.08%) Senior
3 261 (14.07%) Lead
4 239 (12.88%) Software Engineer
5 175 (9.43%) Senior Developer
6 138 (7.44%) Analyst
7 135 (7.28%) .NET Developer
7 135 (7.28%) Java Developer
8 101 (5.44%) Full Stack Developer
9 89 (4.80%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 88 (4.74%) Software Developer
11 66 (3.56%) Lead Developer
12 65 (3.50%) C# Developer
13 63 (3.40%) .NET Software Developer
14 58 (3.13%) Architect
14 58 (3.13%) React Developer
15 56 (3.02%) DevOps Engineer
16 53 (2.86%) Java Engineer
17 52 (2.80%) Business Analyst
18 50 (2.70%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 304 (16.39%) React
2 283 (15.26%) .NET
3 199 (10.73%) AngularJS
4 134 (7.22%) Vue
5 130 (7.01%) Node.js
6 122 (6.58%) CSS
7 119 (6.42%) REST
8 112 (6.04%) HTML
9 110 (5.93%) Redux
10 109 (5.88%) Spring
11 106 (5.71%) Spring Boot
12 91 (4.91%) Kafka
13 90 (4.85%) ASP.NET
14 88 (4.74%) .NET Core
15 77 (4.15%) .NET Framework
16 53 (2.86%) ASP.NET Web API
17 51 (2.75%) RESTful
18 49 (2.64%) JSON
19 48 (2.59%) Laravel
20 45 (2.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 123 (6.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 118 (6.36%) Product Ownership
3 112 (6.04%) Fixed Income
4 93 (5.01%) Greenfield Project
5 82 (4.42%) Hedge funds
6 78 (4.20%) Equities
7 75 (4.04%) Derivative
8 55 (2.96%) Onboarding
9 52 (2.80%) Cloud Native
10 45 (2.43%) Blog
11 39 (2.10%) Management Information System
12 38 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
13 35 (1.89%) Blockchain
14 34 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
15 32 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
16 27 (1.46%) Market Risk
17 25 (1.35%) Data Structures
17 25 (1.35%) Public Cloud
18 24 (1.29%) Data Centre
19 23 (1.24%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 99 (5.34%) Linux
2 80 (4.31%) Windows
3 42 (2.26%) Android
4 36 (1.94%) Apple iOS
5 25 (1.35%) Mac OS
6 24 (1.29%) 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
1 556 (29.97%) Agile
2 368 (19.84%) Software Engineering
3 296 (15.96%) DevOps
4 285 (15.36%) CI/CD
5 249 (13.42%) Full Stack Development
6 239 (12.88%) Problem-Solving
7 220 (11.86%) Microservices
8 192 (10.35%) TDD
9 178 (9.60%) Asset Management
10 167 (9.00%) Computer Science
11 166 (8.95%) Roadmaps
12 155 (8.36%) User Experience
13 154 (8.30%) Test Automation
14 151 (8.14%) Analytics
15 147 (7.92%) Mentoring
16 130 (7.01%) SDLC
17 126 (6.79%) Artificial Intelligence
18 108 (5.82%) Investment Management
19 105 (5.66%) Scrum
20 96 (5.18%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 471 (25.39%) Java
2 355 (19.14%) JavaScript
3 319 (17.20%) Python
4 311 (16.77%) SQL
5 310 (16.71%) C#
6 261 (14.07%) TypeScript
7 167 (9.00%) Kotlin
8 69 (3.72%) PHP
9 56 (3.02%) PowerShell
10 49 (2.64%) Scala
11 42 (2.26%) R
12 33 (1.78%) Go
13 31 (1.67%) Bash
13 31 (1.67%) C++
14 19 (1.02%) T-SQL
15 15 (0.81%) Swift
16 14 (0.75%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.70%) Rust
18 10 (0.54%) Ruby
19 8 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 332 (17.90%) Degree
2 108 (5.82%) Master's Degree
3 92 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 61 (3.29%) PhD
5 32 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
6 23 (1.24%) AWS Certification
7 19 (1.02%) CCNA
8 17 (0.92%) CISSP
9 12 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (0.59%) CISM
10 11 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
11 10 (0.54%) CCSP
11 10 (0.54%) CISA
11 10 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 8 (0.43%) OSCP
13 8 (0.43%) PMI Certification
14 6 (0.32%) CRISC
14 6 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (7.92%) QA
2 37 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (1.40%) Accessibility
4 18 (0.97%) SLA
5 16 (0.86%) GDPR
6 14 (0.75%) Data Quality
7 12 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (0.49%) NIST
10 8 (0.43%) COBIT
10 8 (0.43%) PSD2
11 7 (0.38%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.32%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.22%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.22%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.22%) MiFID
13 4 (0.22%) SEPA
13 4 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
13 4 (0.22%) WCAG
14 3 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 224 (12.08%) Docker
2 41 (2.21%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.81%) 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 (12.13%) Kubernetes
2 204 (11.00%) Terraform
3 59 (3.18%) Ansible
4 31 (1.67%) Grafana
5 16 (0.86%) 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 (0.22%) Istio
9 4 (0.22%) 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
1 166 (8.95%) Microsoft
2 58 (3.13%) Google
3 38 (2.05%) Qualtrics
4 35 (1.89%) Oracle
5 34 (1.83%) Atlassian
6 28 (1.51%) VMware
7 20 (1.08%) Palo Alto
8 16 (0.86%) Bloomberg
8 16 (0.86%) Cisco
9 15 (0.81%) Salesforce
10 14 (0.75%) BISAM
11 13 (0.70%) Meraki
11 13 (0.70%) Splunk
12 11 (0.59%) Apple
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