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

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 330 372
Rank change year-on-year +62 +42 -8
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Fintech 99 40 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.64% 0.22% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.27% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 22 55
10th Percentile £304 £375 £380
25th Percentile £370 £379 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -11.90% -8.70%
75th Percentile £536 £547 £600
90th Percentile £550 £550 £718
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £89.44
UK median hourly rate £69.25 £51.25 £89.44
% change year-on-year +35.12% -42.70% +123.60%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,713 15,053 19,209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.21% 82.75% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,234 8,986 12,838
10th Percentile £238 £250 £260
25th Percentile £366 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,387 1,466 1,202
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.30 £17.55
Median hourly rate £22.84 £41.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.96% +10.67% +70.45%
75th Percentile £43.88 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year -37.90% -2.41% +54.56%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Fintech.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Fintech

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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 22 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fintech in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Fintech.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Fintech

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DemandTrendContract 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 22 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 of England +1 39 £420 -20.10% 80
Scotland +26 37 £525 +23.53% 25
North West +6 25 £425 -22.73% 54
Midlands +8 14 £390 -17.89% 21
East Midlands - 12 £380 - 13
North East +6 7 £200 - 12
Yorkshire -7 7 £414 +3.50% 14
South East +9 6 £378 -26.34% 415
South West +28 3 £650 +73.33% 18
West Midlands -6 2 £395 -16.84% 8
East of England +6 1 £450 - 37
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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 (4.04%) Confluence
1 4 (4.04%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.01%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (9.09%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (2.02%) Kondor
Cloud Services
1 18 (18.18%) Azure
2 12 (12.12%) AWS
3 6 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (6.06%) SaaS
4 5 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (5.05%) GitHub
5 4 (4.04%) Figma
6 3 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (3.03%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.03%) Serverless
7 2 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (2.02%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.01%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.01%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.01%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.06%) Firewall
2 4 (4.04%) ATM
3 2 (2.02%) HTTP
4 1 (1.01%) DHCP
4 1 (1.01%) DNS
4 1 (1.01%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.01%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.01%) SSL
4 1 (1.01%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.01%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.04%) MongoDB
1 4 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.03%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.02%) Power BI
3 2 (2.02%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.02%) Tableau
4 1 (1.01%) CockroachDB
4 1 (1.01%) NewSQL
4 1 (1.01%) OLTP
4 1 (1.01%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (7.07%) JIRA
2 3 (3.03%) Cypress.io
2 3 (3.03%) Postman
3 2 (2.02%) Git
3 2 (2.02%) JUnit
4 1 (1.01%) GitLab
4 1 (1.01%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.01%) Selenium
4 1 (1.01%) WebDriver
General
1 71 (71.72%) Finance
2 46 (46.46%) Banking
3 33 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (28.28%) Social Skills
5 24 (24.24%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (7.07%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (5.05%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.02%) Back Office
8 2 (2.02%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.01%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Retail
9 1 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (35.35%) Analyst
2 13 (13.13%) Fraud Analyst
3 10 (10.10%) Developer
4 9 (9.09%) Architect
5 8 (8.08%) Java Developer
6 6 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (6.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 6 (6.06%) Product Manager
6 6 (6.06%) Product Owner
6 6 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (5.05%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 5 (5.05%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 5 (5.05%) Security Engineer
8 4 (4.04%) Business Analyst
8 4 (4.04%) Designer
8 4 (4.04%) PMO Analyst
8 4 (4.04%) User Experience Researcher
9 3 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.03%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.10%) REST
2 8 (8.08%) Spring
2 8 (8.08%) Spring Boot
3 7 (7.07%) AngularJS
3 7 (7.07%) Web Services
4 5 (5.05%) Middleware
5 4 (4.04%) Kafka
5 4 (4.04%) OAuth
6 3 (3.03%) Jest
6 3 (3.03%) OAuth2
6 3 (3.03%) OpenAPI
6 3 (3.03%) React
6 3 (3.03%) RESTful
6 3 (3.03%) SOAP
7 2 (2.02%) Express.js
7 2 (2.02%) GraphQL
7 2 (2.02%) Node.js
7 2 (2.02%) SailPoint
7 2 (2.02%) Swagger
8 1 (1.01%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 5 (5.05%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (5.05%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (5.05%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.05%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.04%) Distributed Applications
4 4 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.04%) PACS
5 2 (2.02%) Credit Derivative
5 2 (2.02%) Derivative
5 2 (2.02%) Digital Wallet
5 2 (2.02%) EMV
5 2 (2.02%) EPoS
5 2 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.02%) Market Risk
5 2 (2.02%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.01%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.01%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.07%) Windows
2 4 (4.04%) Linux
3 3 (3.03%) Unix
4 1 (1.01%) Android
4 1 (1.01%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (34.34%) Continuous Improvement
2 30 (30.30%) Migration
3 29 (29.29%) Agile
4 27 (27.27%) Digital Banking
5 23 (23.23%) Case Management
5 23 (23.23%) Due Diligence
5 23 (23.23%) Regulatory Compliance
5 23 (23.23%) Scenario Testing
6 20 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (19.19%) Stakeholder Management
8 18 (18.18%) DevOps
9 17 (17.17%) Roadmaps
10 13 (13.13%) Anti-Money Laundering
10 13 (13.13%) Fraud Detection
10 13 (13.13%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 12 (12.12%) User Experience
12 11 (11.11%) CI/CD
13 10 (10.10%) Architecture Roadmap
13 10 (10.10%) Microservices
13 10 (10.10%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.09%) Java
2 6 (6.06%) Python
3 4 (4.04%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.03%) SQL
5 2 (2.02%) Bash
5 2 (2.02%) C#
5 2 (2.02%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.01%) ANSI SQL
6 1 (1.01%) Go
6 1 (1.01%) Perl
6 1 (1.01%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.01%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (9.09%) Degree
2 6 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (5.05%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.03%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (3.03%) CISM
4 3 (3.03%) CISSP
5 2 (2.02%) CISA
5 2 (2.02%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 2 (2.02%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.02%) PMP
5 2 (2.02%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.01%) CRISC
6 1 (1.01%) ISEB
6 1 (1.01%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.01%) MCP
6 1 (1.01%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.07%) PSD2
2 6 (6.06%) ISO 8583
3 5 (5.05%) PCI DSS
3 5 (5.05%) PMO
4 4 (4.04%) NIST
5 3 (3.03%) GDPR
5 3 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (3.03%) QA
6 2 (2.02%) Accessibility
6 2 (2.02%) Basel III
6 2 (2.02%) COBIT
6 2 (2.02%) GRC
6 2 (2.02%) ISO 20022
6 2 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (2.02%) MiFID
6 2 (2.02%) NIST 800
6 2 (2.02%) SEPA
7 1 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 7 (7.07%) Docker
2 1 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (7.07%) Terraform
2 6 (6.06%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.05%) Ansible
4 2 (2.02%) RSA Archer
5 1 (1.01%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.01%) linkerd
5 1 (1.01%) QRadar
Vendors
1 25 (25.25%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.05%) Darktrace
3 4 (4.04%) Zscaler
4 3 (3.03%) Varonis
5 2 (2.02%) Alteryx
5 2 (2.02%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.02%) ForgeRock
5 2 (2.02%) Google
5 2 (2.02%) OneTrust
5 2 (2.02%) Oracle
5 2 (2.02%) Rapid7
5 2 (2.02%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.02%) Sybase
6 1 (1.01%) F5
6 1 (1.01%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.01%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.01%) PagerDuty