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 28 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 109 155
Rank change year-on-year -2 +46 +8
Contract jobs citing Fintech 15 11 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.69% 0.44% 0.066%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.52% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 1
10th Percentile £204 £456 -
25th Percentile £250 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £468 - -
90th Percentile £595 - -
England median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -

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 1,919 2,101 2,708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 87.91% 84.58% 89.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,240 1,286 1,864
10th Percentile £275 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.35% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £591
90th Percentile £671 £675 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 203 167
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.06 £18.70
Median hourly rate £28.75 £30.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -1.77% +32.47%
75th Percentile £56.19 £51.44 £45.88
90th Percentile £74.63 £70.67 £60.34
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +63.46%

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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 28 July 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 28 July 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
Merseyside - 8 £400 - 4
Manchester +13 6 £508 -7.68% 57
Cheshire -16 1 - - 3
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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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Kondor
1 2 (13.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (6.67%) n8n
4 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) HTTP
2 1 (6.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
General
1 11 (73.33%) Banking
1 11 (73.33%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Back Office
3 2 (13.33%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (33.33%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 5 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Junior
3 2 (13.33%) Junior Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Junior Risk Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Payments Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Risk Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Governance Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Junior PMO
4 1 (6.67%) Onboarding Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) PMO Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Security Operations Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) SIEM Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) OAuth
1 2 (13.33%) OAuth2
1 2 (13.33%) REST
1 2 (13.33%) SOAP
2 1 (6.67%) Express.js
2 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
2 1 (6.67%) Node.js
2 1 (6.67%) RESTful
2 1 (6.67%) Spring
2 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Credit Derivative
1 2 (13.33%) Derivative
1 2 (13.33%) Digital Wallet
1 2 (13.33%) EMV
1 2 (13.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (13.33%) Market Risk
1 2 (13.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Information Security
2 5 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 5 (33.33%) Server Hardening
3 4 (26.67%) Data Loss Prevention
3 4 (26.67%) Security Operations
4 3 (20.00%) Microservices
5 2 (13.33%) Data Management
5 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
5 2 (13.33%) Event-Driven
5 2 (13.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (13.33%) High Availability
5 2 (13.33%) Migration
5 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
5 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (6.67%) Agile
6 1 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (6.67%) Incident Management
6 1 (6.67%) Risk Assessment
6 1 (6.67%) SIEM
6 1 (6.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Python
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) Java
2 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (33.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (13.33%) Basel III
2 2 (13.33%) GRC
2 2 (13.33%) ISO 20022
2 2 (13.33%) ISO 8583
2 2 (13.33%) MiFID
2 2 (13.33%) NIST
2 2 (13.33%) PSD2
2 2 (13.33%) SEPA
3 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (6.67%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) QRadar
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) Darktrace
3 4 (26.67%) Zscaler
4 3 (20.00%) Varonis
5 2 (13.33%) OneTrust
5 2 (13.33%) Oracle
5 2 (13.33%) Sybase