Fintech Contracts in the City of London

Financial Technology (FinTech)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 94 93
Rank change year-on-year +8 -1 -21
Contract jobs citing Fintech 36 31 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.05% 1.42% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 1.57% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 24 73
10th Percentile £425 £208 £430
25th Percentile £467 £413 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £725 £520 £656
90th Percentile £738 £708 £782
Central London median daily rate £544 £456 £600
% change year-on-year +19.18% -23.96% -2.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,638 1,975 3,332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.28% 90.51% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,036 1,399 2,240
10th Percentile £363 £361 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £568 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -5.42% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 25
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.35
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -13.58%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -13.58%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Fintech in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Fintech in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Fintech in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fintech in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fintech in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Fintech in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Fintech in the City of London

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Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 4 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
Moorgate -1 1 £200 -
Fintech
Central London

Fintech
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (8.33%) Apache
1 3 (8.33%) Apache Spark
1 3 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (2.78%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.33%) Azure
1 3 (8.33%) Figma
2 2 (5.56%) AWS
2 2 (5.56%) GCP
2 2 (5.56%) npm
2 2 (5.56%) Yarn
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (2.78%) Apple Pay
3 1 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (2.78%) Datadog
3 1 (2.78%) dbt
3 1 (2.78%) GitHub
3 1 (2.78%) Google Pay
3 1 (2.78%) IaaS
3 1 (2.78%) Kong
3 1 (2.78%) Miro
3 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Firewall
1 1 (2.78%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (2.78%) SSL
1 1 (2.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) MongoDB
2 4 (11.11%) Big Data
2 4 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 3 (8.33%) DB2
3 3 (8.33%) Hadoop
3 3 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.56%) BigQuery
4 2 (5.56%) Mixpanel
4 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.56%) Tableau
5 1 (2.78%) Looker
5 1 (2.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) JIRA
2 2 (5.56%) Ant
2 2 (5.56%) Babel
2 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.56%) TeamCity
2 2 (5.56%) webpack
3 1 (2.78%) GitLab
3 1 (2.78%) Jaeger
3 1 (2.78%) Terragrunt
General
1 25 (69.44%) Finance
2 13 (36.11%) Banking
3 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
4 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (11.11%) Corporate Banking
5 4 (11.11%) Marketing
6 3 (8.33%) Retail
7 2 (5.56%) Financial Institution
7 2 (5.56%) Front Office
7 2 (5.56%) Investment Banking
7 2 (5.56%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.78%) Aerospace
8 1 (2.78%) Automotive
8 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (19.44%) Developer
2 5 (13.89%) Analyst
3 3 (8.33%) Designer
3 3 (8.33%) Programme Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Data Analyst
4 2 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (5.56%) Java Developer
4 2 (5.56%) Lead
4 2 (5.56%) Oracle Analyst
4 2 (5.56%) Product Designer
4 2 (5.56%) React Developer
5 1 (2.78%) Angular Developer
5 1 (2.78%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Gen AI Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Python Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Senior
5 1 (2.78%) Senior Product Designer
5 1 (2.78%) Web Applications Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (19.44%) React
2 5 (13.89%) AngularJS
2 5 (13.89%) RESTful
2 5 (13.89%) Web Services
3 3 (8.33%) .NET
3 3 (8.33%) Spring
4 2 (5.56%) CSS
4 2 (5.56%) CSS3
4 2 (5.56%) HTML
4 2 (5.56%) HTML5
4 2 (5.56%) Material-UI
4 2 (5.56%) OAuth
4 2 (5.56%) OAuth2
4 2 (5.56%) Redux
4 2 (5.56%) Semantic UI
4 2 (5.56%) WPF
5 1 (2.78%) Fastify
5 1 (2.78%) LangChain
5 1 (2.78%) RxJS
5 1 (2.78%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.56%) Data Fabric
1 2 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Mobile App
1 2 (5.56%) Mobile Banking
1 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
1 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
1 2 (5.56%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.78%) Digital Wallet
2 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.78%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.78%) Online Banking
2 1 (2.78%) Reinsurance
2 1 (2.78%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) Linux
1 4 (11.11%) Unix
2 3 (8.33%) Android
2 3 (8.33%) Apple iOS
3 2 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.78%) Agile
2 8 (22.22%) DevOps
3 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (13.89%) Continuous Delivery
4 5 (13.89%) Deployment Automation
4 5 (13.89%) Roadmaps
4 5 (13.89%) User Experience
5 4 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 4 (11.11%) Customer Experience
5 4 (11.11%) Data Management
5 4 (11.11%) Decision-Making
5 4 (11.11%) Risk Management
5 4 (11.11%) UX Design
6 3 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (8.33%) Data Analysis
6 3 (8.33%) Migration
6 3 (8.33%) Project Management
6 3 (8.33%) Requirements Analysis
6 3 (8.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.22%) Python
1 8 (22.22%) TypeScript
2 6 (16.67%) SQL
3 5 (13.89%) JavaScript
4 4 (11.11%) Java
5 3 (8.33%) Perl
5 3 (8.33%) Scala
5 3 (8.33%) Shell Script
6 2 (5.56%) C#
7 1 (2.78%) Bash
7 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.78%) R
7 1 (2.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (5.56%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.78%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) PMO
1 2 (5.56%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) GDPR
2 1 (2.78%) MiFID
2 1 (2.78%) UCITS
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.78%) Grafana
2 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Oracle
2 3 (8.33%) Sybase
3 2 (5.56%) Google
3 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.56%) Optimizely
4 1 (2.78%) Advent
4 1 (2.78%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (2.78%) Bloomberg
4 1 (2.78%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.78%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.78%) Klarna
4 1 (2.78%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.78%) SAP
4 1 (2.78%) SimCorp
4 1 (2.78%) SolarWinds