Fintech Contracts in the North of England

Financial Technology (FinTech)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 150 161 201
Rank change year-on-year +11 +40 -9
Contract jobs citing Fintech 16 24 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.49% 0.50% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.59% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 17
10th Percentile - £404 £380
25th Percentile £200 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £425 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% -8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £488 £500 £538
90th Percentile £525 £545 £607
England median daily rate £600 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Fintech in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Fintech in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Fintech in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West +12 7 £413 -13.16% 250
Yorkshire +2 5 £507 +19.29% 129
North East +3 4 £200 - 61
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
2 1 (6.25%) GitHub
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Postman
General
1 14 (87.50%) Finance
2 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (37.50%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (31.25%) Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Lead
1 4 (25.00%) User Experience Researcher
2 2 (12.50%) Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Payments Architect
2 2 (12.50%) PMO Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Designer
3 1 (6.25%) Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Governance Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Junior
3 1 (6.25%) Junior Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Junior Risk Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Risk Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) OAuth
1 2 (12.50%) OAuth2
2 1 (6.25%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) Middleware
2 1 (6.25%) OpenAPI
2 1 (6.25%) REST
2 1 (6.25%) Spring
2 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
2 1 (6.25%) Swagger
2 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) PMI
2 2 (12.50%) Digital Wallet
2 2 (12.50%) EMV
2 2 (12.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (31.25%) Critical Thinking
3 5 (31.25%) Design Thinking
3 5 (31.25%) Portfolio Management
3 5 (31.25%) Time Management
4 4 (25.00%) A/B Testing
4 4 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (25.00%) Analytics
4 4 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (25.00%) Change Management
4 4 (25.00%) Microservices
4 4 (25.00%) PRINCE2
4 4 (25.00%) Project Management
4 4 (25.00%) User Experience
4 4 (25.00%) User Research
4 4 (25.00%) UX Research
5 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven
5 2 (12.50%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) C#
1 1 (6.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) PMO
2 2 (12.50%) ISO 20022
2 2 (12.50%) ISO 8583
2 2 (12.50%) PCI DSS
2 2 (12.50%) PSD2
2 2 (12.50%) SEPA
3 1 (6.25%) GRC
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) OneTrust