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 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 92 85
Rank change year-on-year +2 -7 -14
Contract jobs citing Fintech 35 30 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.04% 1.38% 2.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 1.53% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 19 74
10th Percentile £423 £200 £486
25th Percentile £463 £394 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £463 £603
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% -23.27% +0.46%
75th Percentile £725 £522 £709
90th Percentile £741 £845 £813
Central London median daily rate £538 £463 £603
% change year-on-year +16.22% -23.27% -1.59%

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 1,608 1,960 3,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.76% 90.45% 91.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,023 1,365 2,121
10th Percentile £355 £358 £358
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £819
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 25
10th Percentile £19.25 £19.98 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.43 £20.22 £15.50
Median hourly rate £29.75 £26.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -25.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £52.50 £40.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £48.57 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -15.66%

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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 16 June 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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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 (8.57%) Apache
1 3 (8.57%) Apache Spark
1 3 (8.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.57%) Figma
2 2 (5.71%) AWS
2 2 (5.71%) Azure
2 2 (5.71%) GCP
2 2 (5.71%) GitHub
2 2 (5.71%) npm
2 2 (5.71%) Yarn
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (2.86%) Datadog
3 1 (2.86%) dbt
3 1 (2.86%) IaaS
3 1 (2.86%) Kong
3 1 (2.86%) Miro
3 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.86%) SaaS
3 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Firewall
1 1 (2.86%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (2.86%) SSL
1 1 (2.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 4 (11.43%) Big Data
2 4 (11.43%) SQL Server
3 3 (8.57%) DB2
3 3 (8.57%) Hadoop
3 3 (8.57%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.71%) BigQuery
4 2 (5.71%) Mixpanel
4 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.71%) Tableau
5 1 (2.86%) Looker
5 1 (2.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) JIRA
2 2 (5.71%) Ant
2 2 (5.71%) Babel
2 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.71%) TeamCity
2 2 (5.71%) webpack
3 1 (2.86%) GitLab
3 1 (2.86%) Jaeger
3 1 (2.86%) Terragrunt
3 1 (2.86%) Xcode
General
1 27 (77.14%) Finance
2 15 (42.86%) Banking
3 11 (31.43%) Social Skills
4 6 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (11.43%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (8.57%) Financial Institution
6 3 (8.57%) Marketing
7 2 (5.71%) Front Office
7 2 (5.71%) Investment Banking
7 2 (5.71%) Retail
7 2 (5.71%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.86%) Legal
8 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (20.00%) Developer
2 5 (14.29%) Analyst
3 3 (8.57%) Designer
3 3 (8.57%) Programme Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Data Analyst
4 2 (5.71%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (5.71%) Java Developer
4 2 (5.71%) Oracle Analyst
4 2 (5.71%) Product Designer
4 2 (5.71%) React Developer
5 1 (2.86%) Analyst Developer
5 1 (2.86%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Lead
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (2.86%) Python Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Senior
5 1 (2.86%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.14%) React
2 5 (14.29%) RESTful
2 5 (14.29%) Web Services
3 4 (11.43%) AngularJS
4 3 (8.57%) .NET
4 3 (8.57%) Spring
5 2 (5.71%) CSS
5 2 (5.71%) CSS3
5 2 (5.71%) HTML
5 2 (5.71%) HTML5
5 2 (5.71%) Material-UI
5 2 (5.71%) Redux
5 2 (5.71%) Semantic UI
5 2 (5.71%) WPF
6 1 (2.86%) Dask
6 1 (2.86%) Fastify
6 1 (2.86%) LangChain
6 1 (2.86%) Loki
6 1 (2.86%) RxJS
6 1 (2.86%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.71%) Data Fabric
2 2 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.71%) Mobile Banking
2 2 (5.71%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.71%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.86%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.86%) Online Banking
3 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.86%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Apple iOS
1 4 (11.43%) Linux
1 4 (11.43%) Unix
2 3 (8.57%) Android
3 2 (5.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (28.57%) Agile
2 8 (22.86%) DevOps
3 7 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (17.14%) User Experience
5 5 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 5 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
5 5 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (11.43%) Data Management
6 4 (11.43%) Decision-Making
6 4 (11.43%) Migration
6 4 (11.43%) Risk Management
6 4 (11.43%) Roadmaps
6 4 (11.43%) UX Design
7 3 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (8.57%) Customer Experience
7 3 (8.57%) Data Analysis
7 3 (8.57%) Parallel Processing
7 3 (8.57%) Requirements Analysis
7 3 (8.57%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.00%) Python
1 7 (20.00%) TypeScript
2 6 (17.14%) JavaScript
2 6 (17.14%) SQL
3 4 (11.43%) Java
4 3 (8.57%) C#
4 3 (8.57%) Perl
4 3 (8.57%) Scala
4 3 (8.57%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.86%) Bash
5 1 (2.86%) Objective-C
5 1 (2.86%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.86%) R
5 1 (2.86%) Swift
5 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) Degree
2 2 (5.71%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.86%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) QA
2 2 (5.71%) GDPR
2 2 (5.71%) PMO
3 1 (2.86%) MiFID
3 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.86%) UCITS
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.86%) Grafana
2 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Oracle
2 3 (8.57%) Sybase
3 2 (5.71%) Google
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.71%) Optimizely
4 1 (2.86%) Advent
4 1 (2.86%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (2.86%) Bloomberg
4 1 (2.86%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.86%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.86%) SAP
4 1 (2.86%) SimCorp
4 1 (2.86%) SolarWinds