Fintech Contract Job Trends

Financial Technology (FinTech)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Fintech skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 227 223 225
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +11
Contract jobs citing Fintech 430 411 502
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.20% 1.13% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.30% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 326 412
10th Percentile £363 £418 £400
25th Percentile £425 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £724 £731 £688
90th Percentile £850 £825 £761
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £484 £500
% change year-on-year -4.91% -3.25% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 3
10th Percentile £44.25 - £36.25
25th Percentile £68.25 £46.25 £49.38
Median hourly rate £80.00 £47.50 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.42% -34.48% -
75th Percentile £87.50 £55.63 £81.60
90th Percentile £92.00 £59.75 £86.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £89.44

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,161 31,515 40,985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.65% 86.38% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,137 18,969 27,555
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,122 1,120 1,583
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.23 £18.98
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.27% +25.43%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.48 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £33.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -31.42% -25.42% +42.74%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Fintech job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fintech over the 6 months to 21 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fintech in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Fintech over the 6 months to 21 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Fintech in the UK

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Top 16 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 21 November 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
England -32 350 £600 - 1,168
London -40 263 £650 +6.12% 886
Work from Home +2 175 £625 - 600
UK excluding London +31 117 £460 -4.91% 376
North of England -30 38 £425 -19.81% 98
Scotland +25 37 £525 +31.25% 18
North West -6 23 £440 -20.00% 64
Midlands -18 19 £395 -1.25% 30
East Midlands -6 14 £378 -5.63% 12
Yorkshire -37 13 £363 -28.50% 21
South East +7 9 £378 -26.34% 180
South West +8 8 £450 -35.71% 25
East of England -11 5 £450 -33.33% 10
West Midlands -19 5 £400 - 18
Northern Ireland -5 3 - - 12
North East -7 2 £450 - 13

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 25 (5.81%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (5.12%) Confluence
3 6 (1.40%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.16%) Apache
4 5 (1.16%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.47%) IIS
6 2 (0.47%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.63%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.70%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.23%) MadCap Flare
7 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (2.09%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.47%) Kondor
3 1 (0.23%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.23%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 119 (27.67%) AWS
2 73 (16.98%) Azure
3 61 (14.19%) GCP
4 24 (5.58%) dbt
4 24 (5.58%) GitHub
5 19 (4.42%) Amazon EC2
5 19 (4.42%) SaaS
6 13 (3.02%) Datadog
7 12 (2.79%) Amazon Kinesis
7 12 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (2.79%) Power Platform
8 11 (2.56%) AWS Step Functions
9 10 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (2.33%) Amazon S3
9 10 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (2.33%) Serverless
10 9 (2.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (2.09%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (2.09%) Figma
11 8 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.63%) Firewall
2 4 (0.93%) ATM
3 3 (0.70%) DNS
3 3 (0.70%) VPN
4 2 (0.47%) DHCP
4 2 (0.47%) HTTP
4 2 (0.47%) SSH
4 2 (0.47%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.23%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.23%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.23%) Network Security
5 1 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (4.65%) Amazon Athena
2 20 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (4.42%) Apache Arrow
3 19 (4.42%) Apache Iceberg
3 19 (4.42%) Dremio
4 17 (3.95%) MySQL
5 15 (3.49%) MongoDB
5 15 (3.49%) SQL Server
6 14 (3.26%) Apache Cassandra
6 14 (3.26%) Tableau
7 13 (3.02%) NoSQL
8 10 (2.33%) Hadoop
8 10 (2.33%) Power BI
9 8 (1.86%) BigQuery
10 7 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.16%) Oracle Database
12 5 (1.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (8.37%) JIRA
2 21 (4.88%) Jenkins
3 15 (3.49%) Cypress.io
4 12 (2.79%) Git
5 10 (2.33%) GitLab
6 8 (1.86%) Cucumber
6 8 (1.86%) JUnit
7 5 (1.16%) Selenium
8 4 (0.93%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (0.93%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.70%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.70%) Gatling
9 3 (0.70%) MLflow
9 3 (0.70%) Postman
9 3 (0.70%) Storybook
10 2 (0.47%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.47%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.47%) Snyk
10 2 (0.47%) SpecFlow
General
1 287 (66.74%) Finance
2 138 (32.09%) Banking
3 125 (29.07%) Social Skills
4 66 (15.35%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (9.53%) Front Office
6 27 (6.28%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (3.02%) Financial Institution
8 12 (2.79%) Legal
9 11 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (2.09%) Marketing
11 9 (2.09%) Public Sector
11 9 (2.09%) Retail
12 8 (1.86%) Back Office
13 7 (1.63%) Japanese Language
14 6 (1.40%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.40%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.16%) German Language
15 5 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (1.16%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 112 (26.05%) Developer
2 58 (13.49%) Analyst
3 53 (12.33%) Senior
4 46 (10.70%) Software Engineer
5 33 (7.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 27 (6.28%) Senior Developer
7 25 (5.81%) AWS Engineer
7 25 (5.81%) Python Developer
8 24 (5.58%) Java Developer
8 24 (5.58%) Product Manager
9 22 (5.12%) Python Engineer
10 21 (4.88%) Architect
10 21 (4.88%) Java Engineer
10 21 (4.88%) Lead
11 20 (4.65%) AWS Developer
11 20 (4.65%) AWS Software Engineer
12 19 (4.42%) Business Analyst
13 15 (3.49%) Python Software Engineer
14 14 (3.26%) Backend Developer
14 14 (3.26%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (12.33%) React
2 40 (9.30%) Kafka
3 38 (8.84%) Node.js
4 36 (8.37%) AngularJS
5 27 (6.28%) RESTful
6 25 (5.81%) REST
7 23 (5.35%) Vue
8 22 (5.12%) Pandas
9 21 (4.88%) Spring
10 20 (4.65%) .NET
10 20 (4.65%) NumPy
11 19 (4.42%) SciPy
11 19 (4.42%) Spring Boot
12 15 (3.49%) Redux
13 12 (2.79%) Jest
14 8 (1.86%) GraphQL
14 8 (1.86%) OAuth
15 7 (1.63%) OAuth2
15 7 (1.63%) RabbitMQ
15 7 (1.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (9.77%) Fixed Income
2 33 (7.67%) Equities
2 33 (7.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 28 (6.51%) Product Ownership
4 24 (5.58%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (4.42%) Onboarding
6 18 (4.19%) Cloud Native
6 18 (4.19%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (3.02%) Virtual Team
8 9 (2.09%) Hedge funds
8 9 (2.09%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 7 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.40%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.16%) Derivative
11 5 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.16%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.65%) Linux
2 17 (3.95%) Windows
3 11 (2.56%) Apple iOS
3 11 (2.56%) Unix
4 7 (1.63%) Android
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (33.72%) Agile
2 89 (20.70%) Problem-Solving
3 87 (20.23%) CI/CD
4 81 (18.84%) Software Engineering
5 71 (16.51%) DevOps
6 63 (14.65%) Microservices
7 62 (14.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 58 (13.49%) Migration
9 56 (13.02%) Analytics
10 49 (11.40%) User Experience
11 48 (11.16%) Stakeholder Management
12 47 (10.93%) Roadmaps
13 34 (7.91%) Asset Management
13 34 (7.91%) Digital Banking
14 31 (7.21%) AI
14 31 (7.21%) Investment Management
14 31 (7.21%) Test Automation
15 30 (6.98%) Risk Management
16 29 (6.74%) Infrastructure as Code
16 29 (6.74%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 102 (23.72%) Python
2 77 (17.91%) Java
3 48 (11.16%) JavaScript
4 47 (10.93%) SQL
5 42 (9.77%) TypeScript
6 36 (8.37%) C#
7 22 (5.12%) Go
8 19 (4.42%) Kotlin
9 12 (2.79%) Bash
10 8 (1.86%) C++
11 7 (1.63%) Swift
12 4 (0.93%) Objective-C
12 4 (0.93%) Rust
13 3 (0.70%) Perl
13 3 (0.70%) Ruby
13 3 (0.70%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.47%) Dart
14 2 (0.47%) PHP
14 2 (0.47%) R
14 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (7.44%) Degree
2 18 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (3.26%) PMI Certification
3 14 (3.26%) PMP
4 8 (1.86%) CISSP
5 7 (1.63%) CISM
5 7 (1.63%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.40%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.40%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.93%) CISA
8 4 (0.93%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 4 (0.93%) OCP
8 4 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.70%) PgMP
9 3 (0.70%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 2 (0.47%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.14%) QA
2 22 (5.12%) PCI DSS
3 18 (4.19%) Accessibility
4 14 (3.26%) GDPR
5 13 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (2.79%) NIST
7 10 (2.33%) PSD2
8 8 (1.86%) PMO
9 7 (1.63%) ISO 20022
10 5 (1.16%) GRC
10 5 (1.16%) NIST 800
10 5 (1.16%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.93%) COBIT
11 4 (0.93%) ISO 8583
11 4 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (0.93%) SEPA
12 3 (0.70%) Basel III
12 3 (0.70%) MiFID
12 3 (0.70%) SLA
13 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (10.93%) Docker
2 3 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 43 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 34 (7.91%) Terraform
3 16 (3.72%) Ansible
4 6 (1.40%) Grafana
5 5 (1.16%) RSA Archer
6 3 (0.70%) Istio
6 3 (0.70%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.70%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.70%) QRadar
7 2 (0.47%) linkerd
7 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.47%) SCCM
7 2 (0.47%) WSUS
8 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (9.53%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.02%) Databricks
2 13 (3.02%) Google
3 10 (2.33%) Oracle
4 8 (1.86%) Salesforce
5 7 (1.63%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.40%) Zscaler
7 5 (1.16%) Darktrace
7 5 (1.16%) Dynatrace
8 4 (0.93%) Alteryx
8 4 (0.93%) Rapid7
8 4 (0.93%) Sonatype
9 3 (0.70%) Alibaba
9 3 (0.70%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (0.70%) Samsung
9 3 (0.70%) VMware
10 2 (0.47%) Checkmarx
10 2 (0.47%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.47%) Splunk
10 2 (0.47%) Thales