Fintech Contracts in the North West

Financial Technology (FinTech)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 113 125 149
Rank change year-on-year +12 +24 -4
Contract jobs citing Fintech 7 12 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.36% 0.44% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.50% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 7
10th Percentile £200 £393 £393
25th Percentile £250 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% +2.70% -5.13%
75th Percentile £468 £500 £538
90th Percentile £517 - £563
England median daily rate £600 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Fintech in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Fintech in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Fintech in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +10 4 £452 -4.95% 176
Merseyside - 2 £300 - 15
Cheshire 0 1 - - 31
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (28.57%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
General
1 5 (71.43%) Banking
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Payments Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Governance Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Junior
2 1 (14.29%) Junior Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Junior PMO
2 1 (14.29%) Junior PMO Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Junior Risk Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) PMO Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Risk Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) OAuth
1 2 (28.57%) OAuth2
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Digital Wallet
1 2 (28.57%) EMV
1 2 (28.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Microservices
2 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
2 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) Information Security
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) Design Thinking
3 1 (14.29%) Front End Development
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (14.29%) Security Operations
3 1 (14.29%) Server Hardening
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) ISO 20022
1 2 (28.57%) ISO 8583
1 2 (28.57%) PCI DSS
1 2 (28.57%) PSD2
1 2 (28.57%) SEPA
2 1 (14.29%) GRC
2 1 (14.29%) PMO
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) OneTrust