Fintech Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Financial Technology (FinTech)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Fintech skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 61 67
Rank change year-on-year -13 +6 +44
Contract jobs citing Fintech 5 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.68% 0.33% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.38% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £428 - £429
25th Percentile £450 £513 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -26.92%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £538
90th Percentile £533 - £590
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -23.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 642 531 802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 87.95% 86.91% 89.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 338 546
10th Percentile £304 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £401 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £574 £572 £613
90th Percentile £649 £688 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 18 6
10th Percentile - £15.59 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.25 £17.43 £18.74
Median hourly rate £15.25 £35.00 £21.01
Median % change year-on-year -56.43% +66.61% -2.29%
75th Percentile £25.38 £41.50 £21.80
90th Percentile £27.18 £98.25 £41.98
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £32.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -31.88% +71.05% -11.63%

Fintech
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Fintech job vacancy trend in Leeds

Fintech
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Fintech

Fintech
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Change Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Scrum Master
1 1 (20.00%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Micronaut
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Application Security
2 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (20.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (20.00%) Data Interpretation
2 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (20.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) CCSP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) GRC
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (20.00%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft