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 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 148 192
Rank change year-on-year -4 +44 +38
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Fintech 38 20 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.95% 0.48% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 0.58% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 8 7
10th Percentile £200 £387 -
25th Percentile £328 £398 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £525 £445
Median % change year-on-year -21.14% +17.98% -13.17%
75th Percentile £494 £550 £547
90th Percentile £590 - £574
England median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,568 3,472 4,593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.13% 83.64% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,286 2,082 3,091
10th Percentile £268 £313 £285
25th Percentile £375 £408 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - -
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
England median daily rate £510 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -3.77% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 237 199
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £15.72
25th Percentile £17.48 £14.13 £17.75
Median hourly rate £22.63 £27.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% -1.82% +41.95%
75th Percentile £44.26 £48.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.50 £69.85 £58.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.75 £40.85
% change year-on-year -41.17% +4.66% +51.39%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Fintech.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Fintech

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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 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fintech in the North of England

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DemandTrendContract 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 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +7 24 £425 -22.73% 59
North East +4 7 £200 - 13
Yorkshire -12 7 £414 +3.50% 17
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England

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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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (10.53%) SharePoint
2 3 (7.89%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Kondor
1 2 (5.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 9 (23.68%) Azure
2 6 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (13.16%) AWS
4 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (7.89%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (7.89%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.89%) Figma
4 3 (7.89%) GitHub
4 3 (7.89%) SaaS
5 2 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.63%) n8n
6 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.16%) Firewall
2 3 (7.89%) ATM
3 1 (2.63%) HTTP
3 1 (2.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) JIRA
2 2 (5.26%) Postman
3 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
General
1 27 (71.05%) Finance
2 19 (50.00%) Banking
3 14 (36.84%) Social Skills
4 5 (13.16%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (7.89%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.26%) Back Office
7 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (23.68%) Analyst
2 7 (18.42%) Architect
3 5 (13.16%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Security Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (10.53%) PMO Analyst
4 4 (10.53%) User Experience Researcher
5 3 (7.89%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Business Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Payments Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Digital Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Digital Business Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) IT Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Junior
6 2 (5.26%) Junior Risk Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Programme Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.05%) REST
2 5 (13.16%) Web Services
3 3 (7.89%) OAuth
3 3 (7.89%) OAuth2
4 2 (5.26%) Express.js
4 2 (5.26%) GraphQL
4 2 (5.26%) Middleware
4 2 (5.26%) Node.js
4 2 (5.26%) OpenAPI
4 2 (5.26%) SOAP
4 2 (5.26%) Spring
4 2 (5.26%) Spring Boot
4 2 (5.26%) Swagger
5 1 (2.63%) Jest
5 1 (2.63%) JWT
5 1 (2.63%) Micronaut
5 1 (2.63%) Next.js
5 1 (2.63%) Playwright
5 1 (2.63%) RESTful
5 1 (2.63%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 4 (10.53%) Onboarding
3 3 (7.89%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (7.89%) PACS
4 2 (5.26%) Credit Derivative
4 2 (5.26%) Derivative
4 2 (5.26%) Digital Wallet
4 2 (5.26%) EMV
4 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.26%) EPoS
4 2 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (5.26%) Market Risk
4 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.63%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.63%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.63%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (2.63%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.79%) Windows
2 2 (5.26%) Linux
2 2 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (31.58%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (21.05%) Information Security
4 7 (18.42%) Architecture Roadmap
4 7 (18.42%) Roadmaps
4 7 (18.42%) Validation
5 6 (15.79%) Agile
5 6 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (15.79%) Design Thinking
5 6 (15.79%) User Experience
6 5 (13.16%) Analytics
6 5 (13.16%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (13.16%) Cloud Security
6 5 (13.16%) Data Protection
6 5 (13.16%) DevOps
6 5 (13.16%) Microservices
6 5 (13.16%) Migration
6 5 (13.16%) Server Hardening
7 4 (10.53%) Business Strategy
7 4 (10.53%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.26%) Java
1 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
1 2 (5.26%) Python
1 2 (5.26%) SQL
1 2 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (13.16%) Azure Certification
3 3 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.89%) Degree
4 2 (5.26%) PMI Certification
4 2 (5.26%) PMP
4 2 (5.26%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.63%) ISEB
5 1 (2.63%) MCP
5 1 (2.63%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) ISO 8583
1 5 (13.16%) PMO
1 5 (13.16%) PSD2
2 3 (7.89%) GDPR
2 3 (7.89%) PCI DSS
3 2 (5.26%) Basel III
3 2 (5.26%) GRC
3 2 (5.26%) ISO 20022
3 2 (5.26%) MiFID
3 2 (5.26%) NIST
3 2 (5.26%) SEPA
4 1 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.63%) QRadar
Vendors
1 15 (39.47%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.16%) Darktrace
3 4 (10.53%) Zscaler
4 3 (7.89%) Varonis
5 2 (5.26%) OneTrust
5 2 (5.26%) Oracle
5 2 (5.26%) Sybase
6 1 (2.63%) Google
6 1 (2.63%) PagerDuty