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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 198 206 218
Rank change year-on-year +8 +12 -46
Contract jobs citing Fintech 373 434 559
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.43% 1.16% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.36% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 357 441
10th Percentile £350 £400 £425
25th Percentile £431 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £800 £750 £700
90th Percentile £875 £825 £788
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £52.75 £48.00 -
25th Percentile £60.63 £50.63 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £89.44
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -38.51% +123.60%
75th Percentile £68.75 £71.50 -
90th Percentile £75.50 £81.40 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £89.44
% change year-on-year +18.18% -38.51% +123.60%

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 23,765 31,961 42,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.03% 85.51% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,278 20,746 29,768
10th Percentile £300 £305 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,187 2,306 1,553
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £64.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £75.82
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fintech in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fintech in England

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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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Fintech in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Fintech in England

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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 3 July 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 +4 312 £625 -0.79% 1,837
North of England +9 26 £400 -5.88% 168
Midlands +29 19 £400 -31.62% 37
North West +11 16 £400 -27.27% 127
East Midlands +16 14 £400 -30.43% 11
North East +6 6 £200 - 20
West Midlands +10 5 £400 -32.77% 25
Yorkshire -2 4 £366 -9.97% 22
South East +38 3 - - 200
South West +24 1 £650 +63.52% 31
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UK

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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 41 (10.99%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (4.02%) Confluence
3 11 (2.95%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.68%) Apache
5 7 (1.88%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.54%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (2.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.54%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.07%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.54%) Kondor
2 2 (0.54%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.27%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 141 (37.80%) AWS
2 105 (28.15%) GCP
3 70 (18.77%) Azure
4 42 (11.26%) dbt
5 17 (4.56%) SaaS
6 16 (4.29%) GitHub
6 16 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (2.95%) Serverless
8 8 (2.14%) Power Platform
9 7 (1.88%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (1.88%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (1.88%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (1.61%) Figma
11 5 (1.34%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (1.34%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.34%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (1.34%) Snowflake
12 4 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.07%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.22%) Firewall
2 6 (1.61%) HTTP
2 6 (1.61%) VPN
3 4 (1.07%) Network Security
4 3 (0.80%) BGP
4 3 (0.80%) DNS
4 3 (0.80%) OSPF
5 2 (0.54%) DHCP
5 2 (0.54%) HSRP
5 2 (0.54%) IGMP
5 2 (0.54%) Multicast
5 2 (0.54%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.54%) VRRP
6 1 (0.27%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.27%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.27%) SWIFTNet
6 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.27%) tcpdump
6 1 (0.27%) VLAN
6 1 (0.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (19.84%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (10.19%) Amazon Athena
2 38 (10.19%) Apache Iceberg
2 38 (10.19%) Dremio
3 34 (9.12%) Apache Arrow
4 10 (2.68%) Relational Database
4 10 (2.68%) SQL Server
5 9 (2.41%) MongoDB
6 8 (2.14%) Big Data
6 8 (2.14%) NoSQL
6 8 (2.14%) Power BI
7 7 (1.88%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.88%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.88%) Tableau
8 6 (1.61%) MySQL
9 5 (1.34%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (1.34%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.34%) DB2
9 5 (1.34%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 20 (5.36%) JIRA
2 17 (4.56%) Git
3 9 (2.41%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.88%) Postman
5 5 (1.34%) git-flow
6 4 (1.07%) GitLab
6 4 (1.07%) MLflow
7 2 (0.54%) Ant
7 2 (0.54%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.54%) Babel
7 2 (0.54%) PHPUnit
7 2 (0.54%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.54%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.54%) webpack
8 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.27%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.27%) JUnit
8 1 (0.27%) Selenium
8 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.27%) Xcode
General
1 283 (75.87%) Finance
2 123 (32.98%) Banking
3 99 (26.54%) Front Office
4 89 (23.86%) Social Skills
5 39 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (2.41%) Retail
8 8 (2.14%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.14%) Legal
9 7 (1.88%) Back Office
9 7 (1.88%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.61%) Law
11 5 (1.34%) Marketing
12 4 (1.07%) Corporate Banking
12 4 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.07%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.54%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.27%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 148 (39.68%) Developer
2 101 (27.08%) Software Engineer
3 90 (24.13%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 38 (10.19%) AWS Developer
5 36 (9.65%) AWS Engineer
5 36 (9.65%) React Developer
6 35 (9.38%) AWS Software Engineer
7 32 (8.58%) Analyst
8 31 (8.31%) Full-Stack Developer
9 27 (7.24%) Python Engineer
10 25 (6.70%) Python Developer
11 24 (6.43%) Java Engineer
12 22 (5.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 22 (5.90%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 22 (5.90%) Python Software Engineer
13 20 (5.36%) Java Developer
13 20 (5.36%) Senior
14 14 (3.75%) Java Software Engineer
15 13 (3.49%) Azure Engineer
15 13 (3.49%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (28.95%) React
2 78 (20.91%) Node.js
3 66 (17.69%) Redux
4 64 (17.16%) AngularJS
5 57 (15.28%) Vue
6 39 (10.46%) NumPy
6 39 (10.46%) Pandas
7 38 (10.19%) SciPy
8 18 (4.83%) RESTful
9 15 (4.02%) REST
9 15 (4.02%) Web Services
10 12 (3.22%) Kafka
11 11 (2.95%) .NET
11 11 (2.95%) CSS
11 11 (2.95%) HTML
12 7 (1.88%) gRPC
12 7 (1.88%) Spring
13 6 (1.61%) Middleware
13 6 (1.61%) Swagger
13 6 (1.61%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 93 (24.93%) Fixed Income
2 55 (14.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 50 (13.40%) Equities
4 26 (6.97%) Hedge funds
5 13 (3.49%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.41%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.41%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.14%) Algorithms
8 8 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.88%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.61%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.61%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.34%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.34%) Derivative
11 5 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.90%) Windows
2 19 (5.09%) Linux
3 11 (2.95%) Unix
4 7 (1.88%) Android
4 7 (1.88%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.54%) VMS
6 1 (0.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (44.77%) Agile
2 119 (31.90%) Software Engineering
3 96 (25.74%) Asset Management
4 95 (25.47%) Investment Management
5 59 (15.82%) User Experience
6 51 (13.67%) Risk Management
7 50 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (12.87%) Analytics
9 41 (10.99%) Stakeholder Management
10 37 (9.92%) CI/CD
11 34 (9.12%) Performance Attribution
12 32 (8.58%) Full-Stack Development
13 31 (8.31%) Order Management
14 29 (7.77%) DevOps
14 29 (7.77%) Roadmaps
15 27 (7.24%) Microservices
15 27 (7.24%) TDD
16 25 (6.70%) Decision-Making
17 20 (5.36%) Project Management
17 20 (5.36%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 118 (31.64%) Python
2 111 (29.76%) JavaScript
3 108 (28.95%) TypeScript
4 54 (14.48%) Java
5 36 (9.65%) SQL
6 18 (4.83%) C#
7 10 (2.68%) Kotlin
8 9 (2.41%) C++
9 7 (1.88%) PHP
9 7 (1.88%) Shell Script
9 7 (1.88%) T-SQL
10 6 (1.61%) Scala
11 4 (1.07%) Go
11 4 (1.07%) Perl
11 4 (1.07%) Rust
12 3 (0.80%) C
13 2 (0.54%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.54%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.54%) Swift
14 1 (0.27%) Dart
Qualifications
1 47 (12.60%) Degree
2 15 (4.02%) Master's Degree
3 11 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (2.95%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (2.41%) PMI Certification
5 8 (2.14%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.14%) PMP
6 3 (0.80%) CISSP
6 3 (0.80%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 2 (0.54%) CISA
7 2 (0.54%) CISM
7 2 (0.54%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 2 (0.54%) Sun Certification
8 1 (0.27%) CCIE
8 1 (0.27%) CCIE Data Center
8 1 (0.27%) CCNP
8 1 (0.27%) CFA
8 1 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.27%) CSPO
8 1 (0.27%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.75%) PMO
2 11 (2.95%) QA
3 9 (2.41%) GDPR
3 9 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.41%) PCI DSS
3 9 (2.41%) PSD2
4 7 (1.88%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.88%) NIST
5 4 (1.07%) ISO 20022
5 4 (1.07%) MiFID
5 4 (1.07%) SEPA
6 3 (0.80%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.80%) GRC
7 2 (0.54%) Basel III
7 2 (0.54%) COBIT
7 2 (0.54%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.54%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (4.29%) Docker
2 6 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (4.56%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.95%) Terraform
3 3 (0.80%) QRadar
3 3 (0.80%) SCCM
3 3 (0.80%) WSUS
4 2 (0.54%) Ansible
4 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.54%) RSA Archer
4 2 (0.54%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.27%) CASB
5 1 (0.27%) Grafana
5 1 (0.27%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.27%) Kibana
5 1 (0.27%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.27%) logstash
5 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 35 (9.38%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.75%) Oracle
3 12 (3.22%) Google
4 8 (2.14%) Databricks
5 7 (1.88%) Darktrace
6 6 (1.61%) Sybase
6 6 (1.61%) Zscaler
7 4 (1.07%) Cisco
7 4 (1.07%) Fortinet
8 3 (0.80%) IBM
8 3 (0.80%) SAP
8 3 (0.80%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.80%) Varonis
9 2 (0.54%) Arista
9 2 (0.54%) Checkmarx
9 2 (0.54%) Citrix
9 2 (0.54%) CyberArk
9 2 (0.54%) OneTrust
9 2 (0.54%) Optimizely
9 2 (0.54%) Rapid7