Fintech Contract Job Trends in Central London

Financial Technology (FinTech)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Fintech skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 111 97
Rank change year-on-year +13 -14 -8
Contract jobs citing Fintech 36 21 44
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.78% 0.92% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 0.99% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 20 31
10th Percentile £409 £484 £425
25th Percentile £446 £515 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £663
90th Percentile £819 £826 £698
London median daily rate £650 £625 £600
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £85.00 £53.75 £50.50
% change year-on-year +58.14% +6.44% -

All Process & 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 1,826 2,117 2,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.31% 92.24% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,271 1,323 1,706
10th Percentile £348 £363 £358
25th Percentile £425 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -0.87%
75th Percentile £673 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 27 17
10th Percentile £20.18 £18.34 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.70 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -27.15%
75th Percentile £41.75 £43.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £47.50 £112.00 £68.50
London median hourly rate £31.50 £35.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year -10.65% +8.46% -15.30%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Fintech relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Fintech job vacancy trend in Central London

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Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Fintech.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Fintech

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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 30 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fintech in Central London

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Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Fintech.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Fintech

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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 30 December 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 +16 36 £600 - 229
Fintech
London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) BASE24
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (2.78%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.78%) Azure
2 3 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.78%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (2.78%) Datadog
3 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.78%) Firebase
3 1 (2.78%) GCP
3 1 (2.78%) GitHub
3 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (2.78%) iPaaS
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.78%) SaaS
3 1 (2.78%) Sumo Logic
3 1 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Event Store
2 1 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.78%) CouchDB
2 1 (2.78%) MySQL
2 1 (2.78%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (2.78%) OLTP
2 1 (2.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) JIRA
2 2 (5.56%) Cypress.io
2 2 (5.56%) Storybook
3 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
General
1 25 (69.44%) Finance
2 15 (41.67%) Banking
3 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Marketing
5 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.56%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.78%) Games
6 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Senior
2 6 (16.67%) Analyst
3 5 (13.89%) Business Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Architect
4 3 (8.33%) Developer
4 3 (8.33%) Lead
4 3 (8.33%) Payments Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Payments Business Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Product Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 2 (5.56%) Technical Architect
6 1 (2.78%) .NET Developer
6 1 (2.78%) Consultant
6 1 (2.78%) Data Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Process Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Senior Business Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Senior Developer
6 1 (2.78%) Senior Manager
6 1 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.22%) .NET
2 4 (11.11%) Kafka
3 3 (8.33%) RESTful
4 2 (5.56%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.56%) CSS
4 2 (5.56%) CSS3
4 2 (5.56%) Express.js
4 2 (5.56%) HTML
4 2 (5.56%) HTML5
4 2 (5.56%) Jest
4 2 (5.56%) React
5 1 (2.78%) Apollo GraphQL
5 1 (2.78%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.78%) JWT
5 1 (2.78%) MACH
5 1 (2.78%) OAuth2
5 1 (2.78%) React Native
5 1 (2.78%) Redux
5 1 (2.78%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.78%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.56%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.78%) EMV
3 1 (2.78%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (2.78%) PMI
3 1 (2.78%) Replication
3 1 (2.78%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (2.78%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Android
1 1 (2.78%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
1 1 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (36.11%) Agile
2 10 (27.78%) Event-Driven
2 10 (27.78%) Roadmaps
3 9 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (16.67%) Analytics
5 6 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (16.67%) User Experience
6 5 (13.89%) CI/CD
6 5 (13.89%) DevOps
6 5 (13.89%) Product Roadmap
7 4 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (11.11%) Microservices
7 4 (11.11%) Product Management
7 4 (11.11%) Project Delivery
7 4 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (8.33%) High Availability
8 3 (8.33%) Migration
8 3 (8.33%) Performance Monitoring
8 3 (8.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.78%) C#
2 5 (13.89%) Java
3 4 (11.11%) SQL
4 3 (8.33%) Python
4 3 (8.33%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.78%) Bash
6 1 (2.78%) C
6 1 (2.78%) C++
6 1 (2.78%) COBOL
6 1 (2.78%) Go
6 1 (2.78%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.78%) Objective-C
6 1 (2.78%) PHP
6 1 (2.78%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (2.78%) APMP
2 1 (2.78%) CBAP
2 1 (2.78%) DBS Check
2 1 (2.78%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.78%) PMP
2 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) ISO 20022
1 4 (11.11%) QA
2 3 (8.33%) PSD2
2 3 (8.33%) SEPA
3 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.78%) GDPR
3 1 (2.78%) ISO 8583
3 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.78%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Ansible
1 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.78%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.78%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (2.78%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (2.78%) HP
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle
2 1 (2.78%) Salesforce