Fintech Contracts in Central London

Financial Technology (FinTech)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Fintech skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fintech over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 101 91
Rank change year-on-year +16 -10 -34
Contract jobs citing Fintech 39 34 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.95% 1.39% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 1.54% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 27 77
10th Percentile - £215 £420
25th Percentile £425 £413 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £463 £600
Median % change year-on-year +17.57% -22.92% -2.44%
75th Percentile £719 £588 £656
90th Percentile £738 £748 £794
London median daily rate £625 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Fintech falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,211 3,521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.89% 90.58% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 1,574 2,386
10th Percentile £361 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 24 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.01 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.38 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £29.11 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £41.29 £88.30
London median hourly rate £32.00 £28.50 £39.00
% change year-on-year +12.28% -26.92% +8.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Fintech in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Fintech in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fintech in Central London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fintech in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Fintech in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fintech within the Central London region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
City of London +12 36 £550 +22.22% 85
Fintech
London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 3 (7.69%) Apache
1 3 (7.69%) Apache Spark
1 3 (7.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (2.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.69%) Azure
1 3 (7.69%) Figma
2 2 (5.13%) AWS
2 2 (5.13%) GCP
2 2 (5.13%) npm
2 2 (5.13%) Yarn
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (2.56%) Apple Pay
3 1 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (2.56%) Datadog
3 1 (2.56%) dbt
3 1 (2.56%) GitHub
3 1 (2.56%) Google Pay
3 1 (2.56%) IaaS
3 1 (2.56%) Kong
3 1 (2.56%) Miro
3 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) Firewall
1 1 (2.56%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (2.56%) SSL
1 1 (2.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) MongoDB
2 4 (10.26%) Big Data
2 4 (10.26%) SQL Server
3 3 (7.69%) DB2
3 3 (7.69%) Hadoop
3 3 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.13%) BigQuery
4 2 (5.13%) Mixpanel
4 2 (5.13%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.13%) Tableau
5 1 (2.56%) Looker
5 1 (2.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) JIRA
2 2 (5.13%) Ant
2 2 (5.13%) Babel
2 2 (5.13%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.13%) TeamCity
2 2 (5.13%) webpack
3 1 (2.56%) GitLab
3 1 (2.56%) Jaeger
3 1 (2.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 28 (71.79%) Finance
2 13 (33.33%) Banking
2 13 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 9 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Corporate Banking
4 4 (10.26%) Marketing
5 3 (7.69%) Retail
6 2 (5.13%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.13%) Front Office
6 2 (5.13%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.13%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.56%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.56%) Automotive
7 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (17.95%) Developer
2 5 (12.82%) Analyst
3 3 (7.69%) Business Manager
3 3 (7.69%) Business Operations Manager
3 3 (7.69%) Designer
3 3 (7.69%) Operations Manager
3 3 (7.69%) Programme Manager
4 2 (5.13%) Data Analyst
4 2 (5.13%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (5.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (5.13%) Java Developer
4 2 (5.13%) Lead
4 2 (5.13%) Oracle Analyst
4 2 (5.13%) Product Designer
4 2 (5.13%) React Developer
5 1 (2.56%) Analyst Developer
5 1 (2.56%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (2.56%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.95%) React
2 5 (12.82%) AngularJS
2 5 (12.82%) RESTful
2 5 (12.82%) Web Services
3 3 (7.69%) .NET
3 3 (7.69%) Spring
4 2 (5.13%) CSS
4 2 (5.13%) CSS3
4 2 (5.13%) HTML
4 2 (5.13%) HTML5
4 2 (5.13%) Material-UI
4 2 (5.13%) OAuth
4 2 (5.13%) OAuth2
4 2 (5.13%) Redux
4 2 (5.13%) Semantic UI
4 2 (5.13%) WPF
5 1 (2.56%) Django
5 1 (2.56%) Node.js
5 1 (2.56%) NumPy
5 1 (2.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (5.13%) Data Fabric
2 2 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.13%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.13%) Mobile Banking
2 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.13%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.56%) Digital Wallet
3 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.56%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.56%) Online Banking
3 1 (2.56%) Reinsurance
3 1 (2.56%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.26%) Linux
1 4 (10.26%) Unix
2 3 (7.69%) Android
2 3 (7.69%) Apple iOS
3 2 (5.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (25.64%) Agile
2 9 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (20.51%) DevOps
4 7 (17.95%) Decision-Making
5 5 (12.82%) Continuous Delivery
5 5 (12.82%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (12.82%) Programme Management
5 5 (12.82%) Roadmaps
5 5 (12.82%) User Experience
6 4 (10.26%) CI/CD
6 4 (10.26%) Customer Experience
6 4 (10.26%) Data Management
6 4 (10.26%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 4 (10.26%) Risk Management
6 4 (10.26%) UX Design
7 3 (7.69%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (7.69%) Microservices
7 3 (7.69%) Regulatory Change
7 3 (7.69%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 8 (20.51%) Python
1 8 (20.51%) TypeScript
2 6 (15.38%) SQL
3 5 (12.82%) JavaScript
4 4 (10.26%) Java
5 3 (7.69%) Perl
5 3 (7.69%) Scala
5 3 (7.69%) Shell Script
6 2 (5.13%) C#
7 1 (2.56%) Bash
7 1 (2.56%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.56%) R
7 1 (2.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (23.08%) Degree
2 2 (5.13%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.56%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) PMO
1 2 (5.13%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) GDPR
2 1 (2.56%) MiFID
2 1 (2.56%) UCITS
System Software
1 2 (5.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.56%) Grafana
2 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (12.82%) Oracle
2 3 (7.69%) Sybase
3 2 (5.13%) Google
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.13%) Optimizely
4 1 (2.56%) Advent
4 1 (2.56%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (2.56%) Bloomberg
4 1 (2.56%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.56%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.56%) Klarna
4 1 (2.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.56%) SAP
4 1 (2.56%) SimCorp
4 1 (2.56%) SolarWinds