Fintech Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Financial Technology (FinTech)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Fintech skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 55 44
Rank change year-on-year -4 -11 +34
Contract jobs citing Fintech 14 7 22
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.58% 1.00% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 1.17% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 7 21
10th Percentile £312 £249 £446
25th Percentile £337 £263 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £378 £400 £490
Median % change year-on-year -5.63% -18.37% -13.27%
75th Percentile £438 £450 £575
90th Percentile £508 £461 £750
England median daily rate £581 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -3.13% +4.35% -3.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 757 600 653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.25% 85.71% 82.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 351 465
10th Percentile £191 £263 £213
25th Percentile £350 £350 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% -6.32% -
75th Percentile £523 £550 £588
90th Percentile £627 £638 £700
England median daily rate £501 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.53% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 29 52
10th Percentile £16.17 £15.08 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.06 £17.00 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £24.00 £22.39
Median % change year-on-year -21.38% +7.20% +33.02%
75th Percentile £25.12 £42.25 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £51.00 £64.10
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +19.85%

Fintech
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Fintech job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Fintech.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Fintech

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fintech in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 28 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fintech in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fintech within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 November 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
Northamptonshire - 9 £358 - 4
Fintech
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Power Platform
2 2 (14.29%) SaaS
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Power BI
2 4 (28.57%) Tableau
3 1 (7.14%) Big Data
3 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
3 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) JIRA
General
1 6 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Finance
3 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Product Owner
2 4 (28.57%) Security Specialist
3 3 (21.43%) Product Manager
4 2 (14.29%) Digital Product Owner
5 1 (7.14%) Banking Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Data Scientist
5 1 (7.14%) Finance Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Finance Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Junior
5 1 (7.14%) Junior Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) SailPoint
2 1 (7.14%) Pandas
2 1 (7.14%) scikit-learn
2 1 (7.14%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Product Ownership
2 4 (28.57%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (7.14%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Agile
2 8 (57.14%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 5 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (35.71%) Kanban
3 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (35.71%) Product Backlog
3 5 (35.71%) Product Vision
3 5 (35.71%) Regulatory Change
3 5 (35.71%) Roadmaps
3 5 (35.71%) Scrum
3 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (28.57%) Acceptance Criteria
4 4 (28.57%) IT Audit
4 4 (28.57%) User Stories
5 3 (21.43%) Analytics
5 3 (21.43%) Backlog Management
5 3 (21.43%) Cost Control
5 3 (21.43%) Market Research
5 3 (21.43%) Strategic Roadmap
5 3 (21.43%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Python
1 1 (7.14%) R
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) CISA
1 4 (28.57%) CISM
1 4 (28.57%) CISSP
1 4 (28.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 3 (21.43%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.14%) MBA
3 1 (7.14%) PMI Certification
3 1 (7.14%) PMP
3 1 (7.14%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) COBIT
1 4 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 4 (28.57%) NIST
1 4 (28.57%) NIST 800
2 2 (14.29%) PCI DSS
3 1 (7.14%) Basel III
3 1 (7.14%) GDPR
3 1 (7.14%) PSD2
3 1 (7.14%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Alteryx
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 4 (28.57%) Rapid7
1 4 (28.57%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.14%) Databricks