Fintech Contracts in the UK excluding London

Financial Technology (FinTech)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 339 386
Rank change year-on-year +44 +47 -28
Contract jobs citing Fintech 44 60 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.29% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.34% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 47 45
10th Percentile £200 £325 £380
25th Percentile £350 £403 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +3.89% -2.70% -7.50%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £538
90th Percentile - £705 £637
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £88.00 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Fintech as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Fintech in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Fintech in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Fintech in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fintech in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fintech in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Fintech in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Fintech in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fintech within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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 of England +15 16 £414 -2.59% 170
Midlands +25 15 £400 -30.43% 64
East Midlands +22 12 £400 -39.62% 24
Scotland +19 8 £500 +5.26% 52
North West +9 7 £413 -13.16% 118
Yorkshire +1 5 £507 +19.29% 26
North East +1 4 £200 - 26
South East +45 3 - - 460
West Midlands +13 3 £515 +8.42% 34
East of England +23 2 £550 -16.03% 42
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) nginx
2 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.45%) Azure
2 8 (18.18%) AWS
3 5 (11.36%) GitHub
4 4 (9.09%) CloudFront
4 4 (9.09%) Serverless
5 3 (6.82%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (6.82%) Route 53
6 2 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (4.55%) Azure Pipelines
6 2 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (4.55%) SaaS
6 2 (4.55%) Yarn
7 1 (2.27%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.27%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) MySQL
1 4 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 3 (6.82%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.27%) Looker
3 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (13.64%) JIRA
2 4 (9.09%) Postman
3 2 (4.55%) Ant
3 2 (4.55%) Cypress.io
3 2 (4.55%) Git
3 2 (4.55%) webpack
4 1 (2.27%) GitLab
4 1 (2.27%) Selenium
4 1 (2.27%) WebDriver
General
1 35 (79.55%) Finance
2 17 (38.64%) Social Skills
3 7 (15.91%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (13.64%) Banking
5 2 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (20.45%) Developer
2 5 (11.36%) Analyst
2 5 (11.36%) Lead
3 4 (9.09%) PHP Developer
3 4 (9.09%) PHP Symfony Developer
3 4 (9.09%) Software Engineer
3 4 (9.09%) Symfony Developer
3 4 (9.09%) User Experience Researcher
4 3 (6.82%) Delivery Manager
4 3 (6.82%) Designer
4 3 (6.82%) PMO Analyst
4 3 (6.82%) Senior
5 2 (4.55%) Architect
5 2 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) AWS Software Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (4.55%) Payments Architect
5 2 (4.55%) Solutions Designer
5 2 (4.55%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.36%) .NET
1 5 (11.36%) OAuth
2 4 (9.09%) Symfony
3 3 (6.82%) JSON
3 3 (6.82%) JSON Schema
3 3 (6.82%) Node.js
3 3 (6.82%) OpenAPI
3 3 (6.82%) RESTful
4 2 (4.55%) Middleware
4 2 (4.55%) OAuth2
4 2 (4.55%) REST
4 2 (4.55%) Swagger
4 2 (4.55%) TypeORM
4 2 (4.55%) Web Services
5 1 (2.27%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.27%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.27%) CSS
5 1 (2.27%) React
5 1 (2.27%) Spring
5 1 (2.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) PMI
2 3 (6.82%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.55%) Digital Wallet
3 2 (4.55%) EMV
3 2 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.55%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.55%) Windows
2 1 (2.27%) Android
2 1 (2.27%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.27%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (27.27%) Agile
1 12 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
2 11 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (20.45%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (20.45%) Microservices
4 7 (15.91%) CI/CD
5 6 (13.64%) Critical Thinking
5 6 (13.64%) Design Thinking
5 6 (13.64%) Portfolio Management
5 6 (13.64%) Project Management
5 6 (13.64%) Time Management
6 5 (11.36%) Analytics
6 5 (11.36%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (11.36%) Change Management
6 5 (11.36%) PRINCE2
6 5 (11.36%) Project Delivery
6 5 (11.36%) Software Engineering
7 4 (9.09%) Actionable Insight
7 4 (9.09%) User Research
7 4 (9.09%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.64%) Python
2 5 (11.36%) C#
2 5 (11.36%) TypeScript
3 4 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 4 (9.09%) PHP
4 3 (6.82%) SQL
5 2 (4.55%) Bash
5 2 (4.55%) Java
5 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.27%) Go
6 1 (2.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (13.64%) PMI Certification
2 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.55%) Degree
3 1 (2.27%) ACSP
3 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.18%) PMO
2 3 (6.82%) QA
3 2 (4.55%) ISO 20022
3 2 (4.55%) ISO 8583
3 2 (4.55%) PCI DSS
3 2 (4.55%) PSD2
3 2 (4.55%) SEPA
4 1 (2.27%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.82%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.55%) Terraform
3 1 (2.27%) Ansible
3 1 (2.27%) HAProxy
3 1 (2.27%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (2.27%) linkerd
Vendors
1 6 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.27%) Apple
2 1 (2.27%) Dynatrace
2 1 (2.27%) ForgeRock
2 1 (2.27%) Google
2 1 (2.27%) OneTrust
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle