Fintech Contract Job Trends in Essex

Financial Technology (FinTech)
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Fintech skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs citing Fintech 3 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 2.42% - 3.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.45% - 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile - - £547
25th Percentile - - £618
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +31.71%
75th Percentile £374 - -
90th Percentile £418 - -
East of England median daily rate £358 £675 £655
% change year-on-year -47.04% +3.05% +27.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £88.00
East of England median hourly rate - - £88.00

All Process & Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87 71 189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 70.16% 81.61% 82.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 40 109
10th Percentile £191 £188 £181
25th Percentile £300 £309 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £325 £465
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -30.11% -2.11%
75th Percentile £425 £500 £551
90th Percentile £475 £600 £601
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £477
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.93% -4.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 40
10th Percentile £12.75 £31.50 £10.42
25th Percentile £15.32 £33.75 £13.84
Median hourly rate £22.00 £117.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -81.28% +261.54% -25.51%
75th Percentile £54.06 £200.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £62.50 - £75.50
East of England median hourly rate £21.80 £57.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year -62.09% +50.84% +15.52%

Fintech
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Fintech job vacancy trend in Essex

Fintech
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Fintech.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Fintech

Fintech
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fintech within the Essex region over the 6 months to 10 March 2026. 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
Basildon - 3 £300 - 1
Fintech
East of England

Fintech
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) Sauce Labs
1 2 (66.67%) TestFlight
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Android Studio
1 2 (66.67%) Appium
1 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Postman
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
1 2 (66.67%) Sourcetree
1 2 (66.67%) Xcode
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Management Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Quality Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Management Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) UAT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) API Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Black-Box Testing
1 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Manual Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Time Management
1 2 (66.67%) White-Box Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Due Diligence
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Kibana
1 2 (66.67%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Atlassian