Fintech Contracts in England

Financial Technology (FinTech)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 192 202 233
Rank change year-on-year +10 +31 -61
Contract jobs citing Fintech 342 428 583
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.40% 1.15% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 1.33% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 374 461
10th Percentile £374 £400 £405
25th Percentile £463 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £750 £750 £688
90th Percentile £838 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Fintech
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Fintech in England

Fintech
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Fintech in England

Fintech
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fintech in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fintech in England

Fintech
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Fintech in England

Fintech
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fintech within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London +4 295 £625 -3.85% 1,517
North of England +11 16 £414 -2.59% 188
Midlands +28 15 £400 -30.43% 61
East Midlands +18 12 £400 -39.62% 22
North West +12 7 £413 -13.16% 132
Yorkshire +2 5 £507 +19.29% 30
North East +3 4 £200 - 26
South East +45 3 - - 450
West Midlands +12 3 £515 +8.42% 31
East of England +24 2 £550 -16.03% 43
Fintech
UK

Fintech
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 39 (11.40%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (5.26%) Apache
3 11 (3.22%) Confluence
4 4 (1.17%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.17%) nginx
5 3 (0.88%) CMS
5 3 (0.88%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.88%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 8 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (1.46%) Adobe XD
2 5 (1.46%) Sketch
3 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.58%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.17%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.58%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.29%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle TCA
3 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 137 (40.06%) AWS
2 91 (26.61%) GCP
3 61 (17.84%) Azure
4 40 (11.70%) dbt
5 17 (4.97%) Serverless
6 16 (4.68%) Amazon SQS
7 15 (4.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (4.39%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (4.39%) GitHub
8 14 (4.09%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (3.80%) SaaS
10 12 (3.51%) Figma
11 11 (3.22%) Amazon S3
12 9 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (2.63%) Dagster
13 5 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (1.46%) Snowflake
14 4 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (1.17%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.75%) Firewall
2 5 (1.46%) HTTP
3 4 (1.17%) Network Security
4 3 (0.88%) VPN
5 2 (0.58%) BGP
5 2 (0.58%) HSRP
5 2 (0.58%) IGMP
5 2 (0.58%) Multicast
5 2 (0.58%) OSPF
5 2 (0.58%) VRRP
6 1 (0.29%) DNS
6 1 (0.29%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.29%) SSL
6 1 (0.29%) SWIFTNet
6 1 (0.29%) tcpdump
6 1 (0.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (16.08%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
2 38 (11.11%) Apache Iceberg
2 38 (11.11%) Dremio
3 27 (7.89%) Apache Arrow
4 12 (3.51%) Data Lake
5 11 (3.22%) Apache Ignite
6 10 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (2.92%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (2.34%) SQL Server
8 7 (2.05%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.75%) Big Data
9 6 (1.75%) DB2
9 6 (1.75%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.75%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.46%) Tableau
11 4 (1.17%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.17%) MySQL
11 4 (1.17%) NoSQL
11 4 (1.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (4.68%) Git
2 12 (3.51%) JIRA
3 9 (2.63%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.46%) git-flow
4 5 (1.46%) Postman
5 3 (0.88%) Ant
5 3 (0.88%) GitLab
5 3 (0.88%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.58%) Babel
6 2 (0.58%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.58%) PHPUnit
6 2 (0.58%) webpack
7 1 (0.29%) Apache Ivy
7 1 (0.29%) GoCD
7 1 (0.29%) Gradle
7 1 (0.29%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.29%) MLflow
7 1 (0.29%) Selenium
7 1 (0.29%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.29%) WebDriver
General
1 253 (73.98%) Finance
2 105 (30.70%) Banking
3 99 (28.95%) Front Office
4 86 (25.15%) Social Skills
5 43 (12.57%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.80%) Marketing
7 10 (2.92%) Financial Institution
8 9 (2.63%) Investment Banking
9 8 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.34%) Retail
10 7 (2.05%) Legal
11 5 (1.46%) Corporate Banking
11 5 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.17%) German Language
12 4 (1.17%) Law
13 3 (0.88%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.58%) Back Office
14 2 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 1 (0.29%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 130 (38.01%) Developer
2 86 (25.15%) Software Engineer
3 73 (21.35%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 40 (11.70%) AWS Engineer
4 40 (11.70%) Python Engineer
5 35 (10.23%) React Developer
6 30 (8.77%) AWS Developer
6 30 (8.77%) Senior
7 28 (8.19%) AWS Software Engineer
7 28 (8.19%) Full-Stack Developer
8 24 (7.02%) Analyst
9 23 (6.73%) Python Developer
10 21 (6.14%) Python Software Engineer
11 17 (4.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 17 (4.97%) UI Developer
12 16 (4.68%) Data Engineer
12 16 (4.68%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 16 (4.68%) Java Engineer
13 14 (4.09%) DevOps Engineer
13 14 (4.09%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (28.95%) React
2 65 (19.01%) Node.js
2 65 (19.01%) Redux
3 58 (16.96%) AngularJS
4 44 (12.87%) Vue
5 37 (10.82%) NumPy
5 37 (10.82%) Pandas
6 36 (10.53%) SciPy
7 15 (4.39%) CSS
7 15 (4.39%) HTML
8 13 (3.80%) gRPC
8 13 (3.80%) RESTful
8 13 (3.80%) Web Services
9 12 (3.51%) .NET
9 12 (3.51%) Kafka
10 11 (3.22%) Protocol Buffers
11 10 (2.92%) Spring
12 9 (2.63%) PySpark
13 8 (2.34%) JSON
14 7 (2.05%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 78 (22.81%) Fixed Income
2 28 (8.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 22 (6.43%) Equities
4 21 (6.14%) Hedge funds
5 10 (2.92%) Algorithms
5 10 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.63%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.34%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.75%) PMI
9 5 (1.46%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.46%) Digital Wallet
9 5 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.17%) Derivative
10 4 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.88%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.88%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.09%) Linux
2 11 (3.22%) Windows
3 6 (1.75%) Android
3 6 (1.75%) Unix
4 4 (1.17%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.58%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.29%) VMS
6 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (46.49%) Agile
2 112 (32.75%) Software Engineering
3 99 (28.95%) Asset Management
4 83 (24.27%) Investment Management
5 53 (15.50%) User Experience
6 51 (14.91%) Analytics
7 44 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (11.99%) CI/CD
9 39 (11.40%) DevOps
10 33 (9.65%) Full-Stack Development
10 33 (9.65%) Risk Management
11 31 (9.06%) Stakeholder Management
12 27 (7.89%) Performance Attribution
13 25 (7.31%) TDD
14 23 (6.73%) Decision-Making
14 23 (6.73%) Roadmaps
15 22 (6.43%) Project Management
16 20 (5.85%) Microservices
17 19 (5.56%) Visualisation
18 16 (4.68%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 118 (34.50%) Python
2 110 (32.16%) JavaScript
3 95 (27.78%) TypeScript
4 51 (14.91%) Java
5 32 (9.36%) SQL
6 14 (4.09%) C#
7 8 (2.34%) C++
8 7 (2.05%) Kotlin
8 7 (2.05%) PHP
8 7 (2.05%) Scala
9 6 (1.75%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.46%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.17%) Perl
11 4 (1.17%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.88%) Bash
12 3 (0.88%) C
12 3 (0.88%) Go
12 3 (0.88%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.88%) Rust
13 1 (0.29%) Dart
Qualifications
1 32 (9.36%) Degree
2 13 (3.80%) Master's Degree
3 12 (3.51%) PMI Certification
4 7 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.05%) PMP
5 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.58%) ACSP
7 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.29%) CFA
7 1 (0.29%) CIPD
7 1 (0.29%) CISSP
7 1 (0.29%) CSPO
7 1 (0.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.68%) PMO
2 7 (2.05%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.05%) PSD2
2 7 (2.05%) QA
3 5 (1.46%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.46%) GDPR
3 5 (1.46%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.88%) ISO 20022
5 3 (0.88%) MiFID
6 2 (0.58%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.58%) SEPA
7 1 (0.29%) GRC
7 1 (0.29%) NIST
7 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.29%) UCITS
System Software
1 32 (9.36%) Docker
2 2 (0.58%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (7.89%) Kubernetes
2 21 (6.14%) Terraform
3 3 (0.88%) Ansible
3 3 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.58%) SCCM
4 2 (0.58%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.29%) CASB
5 1 (0.29%) Grafana
5 1 (0.29%) Kibana
5 1 (0.29%) logstash
5 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (4.97%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.39%) Oracle
3 6 (1.75%) Google
4 5 (1.46%) Adobe
4 5 (1.46%) Databricks
5 4 (1.17%) Fortinet
5 4 (1.17%) Sybase
6 3 (0.88%) Apple
6 3 (0.88%) Cisco
6 3 (0.88%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.88%) SAP
6 3 (0.88%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.58%) Arista
7 2 (0.58%) Avaloq
7 2 (0.58%) Cribl.io
7 2 (0.58%) CyberArk
7 2 (0.58%) IBM
7 2 (0.58%) Optimizely
7 2 (0.58%) Pega
7 2 (0.58%) SolarWinds