Fintech Contract Job Trends in the South East

Financial Technology (FinTech)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Fintech skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 176 204
Rank change year-on-year +19 +28 +37
Contract jobs citing Fintech 7 6 14
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.20% 0.14% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.17% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 11
10th Percentile £339 £440 £300
25th Percentile £363 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.85% -6.82% -12.00%
75th Percentile £402 £545 £600
90th Percentile £573 £559 -
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,157 3,629 4,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 88.90% 82.97% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,978 2,174 3,333
10th Percentile £213 £254 £248
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 201 260
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £30.00 £24.07
Median hourly rate £22.19 £58.38 £54.38
Median % change year-on-year -61.99% +7.35% +80.48%
75th Percentile £48.75 £70.18 £66.70
90th Percentile £69.11 £76.86 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +47.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Fintech job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Fintech.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Fintech

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fintech in the South East over the 6 months to 5 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fintech in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Fintech.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Fintech

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fintech within the South East region over the 6 months to 5 October 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
Hampshire +18 7 £380 -32.44% 14
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (42.86%) OpenShift
2 2 (28.57%) Apple Pay
2 2 (28.57%) Google Pay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
General
1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Migration Manager
1 3 (42.86%) Product Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Product Owner
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Wallet
3 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 6 (85.71%) Roadmaps
3 4 (57.14%) Product Vision
3 4 (57.14%) Regulatory Change
4 3 (42.86%) Cost Control
4 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (42.86%) Data Migration
4 3 (42.86%) Market Research
4 3 (42.86%) Microservices
4 3 (42.86%) Migration
4 3 (42.86%) People Management
4 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) Product Management
4 3 (42.86%) Programme Management
4 3 (42.86%) Project Management
4 3 (42.86%) Release Train
4 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (42.86%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (28.57%) Scrum
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) OCP
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle Certification
1 3 (42.86%) PgMP
1 3 (42.86%) PMI Certification
1 3 (42.86%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
1 1 (14.29%) PSD2
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Google
1 3 (42.86%) Samsung
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft