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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 218 239
Rank change year-on-year -56 +21 -8
Contract jobs citing Fintech 372 378 458
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.96% 1.20% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.35% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 307 379
10th Percentile £332 £412 £375
25th Percentile £400 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £700 £713 £675
90th Percentile £850 £813 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £423 £489
% change year-on-year -4.85% -13.60% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 5
10th Percentile £54.88 £47.38 £33.40
25th Percentile £67.44 £49.06 £42.25
Median hourly rate £79.25 £53.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.44% -6.52% -
75th Percentile £88.13 £59.06 £73.75
90th Percentile £96.00 £61.13 £82.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £88.00

All Process & 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 33,821 28,022 39,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.29% 89.12% 87.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,401 17,008 25,726
10th Percentile £305 £307 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,033 874 2,031
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.00 £16.78
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -9.62% +12.38%
75th Percentile £58.00 £62.50 £62.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.71 £30.62 £36.50
% change year-on-year -19.29% -16.12% +31.77%

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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 31 January 2026.

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 31 January 2026.

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 31 January 2026. 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 -65 330 £525 -12.50% 353
London -52 229 £625 - 222
Work from Home -56 121 £588 -6.00% 169
UK excluding London -2 108 £402 -4.85% 209
North of England -24 41 £414 -19.86% 60
South East -6 22 £375 -25.00% 101
North West -12 21 £447 +5.18% 35
Midlands -39 21 £375 -6.25% 19
East Midlands -18 18 £375 -6.25% 9
Yorkshire -36 18 £368 -29.90% 14
Scotland +7 12 £588 +17.50% 3
South West -12 8 £450 -35.71% 13
East of England -15 4 - - 6
West Midlands -42 3 £430 - 10
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 2
North East -15 2 - - 11

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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 36 (9.68%) Confluence
2 7 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.08%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.27%) Appian
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 25 (6.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.15%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.88%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.81%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.81%) Notion
6 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.27%) MadCap Flare
7 1 (0.27%) Trello
7 1 (0.27%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 9 (2.42%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.27%) BASE24
2 1 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 77 (20.70%) AWS
2 57 (15.32%) Azure
3 25 (6.72%) GCP
4 23 (6.18%) GitHub
4 23 (6.18%) Power Platform
5 22 (5.91%) SaaS
6 16 (4.30%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (3.49%) Figma
8 12 (3.23%) Amazon Kinesis
9 11 (2.96%) AWS Step Functions
10 9 (2.42%) Datadog
10 9 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (1.88%) dbt
11 7 (1.88%) Serverless
12 6 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (1.61%) Amazon S3
12 6 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (1.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.08%) ATM
1 4 (1.08%) Network Security
2 2 (0.54%) SSH
3 1 (0.27%) DNS
3 1 (0.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.84%) Power BI
1 18 (4.84%) Tableau
2 16 (4.30%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (4.30%) Apache Cassandra
3 12 (3.23%) MySQL
4 11 (2.96%) Hadoop
4 11 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (2.69%) MongoDB
6 7 (1.88%) Looker
7 6 (1.61%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.34%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (1.34%) Apache Arrow
8 5 (1.34%) Apache Iceberg
8 5 (1.34%) Big Data
8 5 (1.34%) Dremio
8 5 (1.34%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.08%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.08%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.81%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.81%) Redis
Development Applications
1 51 (13.71%) JIRA
2 23 (6.18%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.96%) Sonatype Nexus
4 10 (2.69%) Cypress.io
5 7 (1.88%) Git
5 7 (1.88%) JUnit
6 5 (1.34%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.34%) GitLab
7 4 (1.08%) Selenium
8 3 (0.81%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.54%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.54%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.54%) Gatling
9 2 (0.54%) MLflow
9 2 (0.54%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.54%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.54%) Storybook
10 1 (0.27%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.27%) Postman
10 1 (0.27%) REST Assured
General
1 225 (60.48%) Finance
2 129 (34.68%) Social Skills
3 108 (29.03%) Banking
4 49 (13.17%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (5.11%) Front Office
6 15 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (4.03%) Public Sector
7 12 (3.23%) Financial Institution
7 12 (3.23%) Marketing
8 11 (2.96%) Legal
8 11 (2.96%) Retail
9 10 (2.69%) Corporate Banking
9 10 (2.69%) Retail Banking
10 8 (2.15%) Investment Banking
10 8 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.88%) Japanese Language
12 5 (1.34%) German Language
12 5 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.81%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 96 (25.81%) Developer
2 61 (16.40%) Senior
3 39 (10.48%) Analyst
4 32 (8.60%) Senior Developer
5 28 (7.53%) Java Developer
6 27 (7.26%) Business Analyst
7 22 (5.91%) Software Engineer
8 21 (5.65%) Product Manager
9 19 (5.11%) Lead
9 19 (5.11%) Project Manager
9 19 (5.11%) Python Developer
10 18 (4.84%) Java Engineer
11 17 (4.57%) Architect
12 12 (3.23%) Designer
12 12 (3.23%) Product Owner
13 11 (2.96%) AWS Engineer
13 11 (2.96%) Senior Manager
13 11 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
13 11 (2.96%) Technical Business Analyst
14 10 (2.69%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (9.68%) Kafka
2 27 (7.26%) REST
3 22 (5.91%) React
3 22 (5.91%) RESTful
4 19 (5.11%) AngularJS
5 17 (4.57%) Spring
6 16 (4.30%) .NET
7 14 (3.76%) Spring Boot
8 13 (3.49%) Node.js
9 10 (2.69%) Pandas
10 9 (2.42%) Jest
11 8 (2.15%) GraphQL
12 7 (1.88%) NumPy
12 7 (1.88%) TensorFlow
13 6 (1.61%) gRPC
14 5 (1.34%) React Native
14 5 (1.34%) scikit-learn
14 5 (1.34%) SciPy
14 5 (1.34%) Vue
14 5 (1.34%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.80%) Product Ownership
2 25 (6.72%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (5.91%) Onboarding
4 19 (5.11%) Greenfield Project
5 17 (4.57%) Fixed Income
6 15 (4.03%) Equities
7 13 (3.49%) Virtual Team
8 11 (2.96%) Cloud Native
9 9 (2.42%) Hedge funds
9 9 (2.42%) PMI
9 9 (2.42%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 8 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.88%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.61%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.08%) Digital Wallet
13 4 (1.08%) Learning Management System
13 4 (1.08%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.23%) Linux
2 7 (1.88%) Unix
3 6 (1.61%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.08%) Windows
5 1 (0.27%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (29.30%) Agile
2 99 (26.61%) Problem-Solving
3 65 (17.47%) CI/CD
4 61 (16.40%) Analytics
5 55 (14.78%) Microservices
6 53 (14.25%) DevOps
7 48 (12.90%) Software Engineering
7 48 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
8 44 (11.83%) Continuous Improvement
9 40 (10.75%) User Experience
10 36 (9.68%) Roadmaps
11 35 (9.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 34 (9.14%) AI
13 31 (8.33%) Migration
13 31 (8.33%) Project Management
14 30 (8.06%) Decision-Making
14 30 (8.06%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 29 (7.80%) Observability
16 28 (7.53%) Full-Stack Development
17 23 (6.18%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 71 (19.09%) Java
2 66 (17.74%) Python
3 47 (12.63%) SQL
4 31 (8.33%) C#
5 24 (6.45%) Go
6 18 (4.84%) TypeScript
7 16 (4.30%) JavaScript
8 11 (2.96%) Kotlin
9 9 (2.42%) C++
10 7 (1.88%) Bash
10 7 (1.88%) R
11 5 (1.34%) Swift
12 4 (1.08%) Ruby
12 4 (1.08%) Rust
13 3 (0.81%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.81%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.54%) Haskell
14 2 (0.54%) Perl
14 2 (0.54%) PHP
14 2 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (8.87%) Degree
2 25 (6.72%) PMP
3 23 (6.18%) PMI Certification
4 14 (3.76%) Master's Degree
5 13 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.42%) MBA
7 8 (2.15%) SAFe Agilist
8 7 (1.88%) CISSP
8 7 (1.88%) Security Cleared
9 6 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.61%) CISM
10 5 (1.34%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.34%) CBAP
10 5 (1.34%) SC Cleared
11 4 (1.08%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.08%) OCP
11 4 (1.08%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.81%) APMP
12 3 (0.81%) IIBA
12 3 (0.81%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.68%) QA
2 18 (4.84%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.96%) PCI DSS
4 10 (2.69%) PMO
4 10 (2.69%) PSD2
5 8 (2.15%) GDPR
6 7 (1.88%) Basel III
6 7 (1.88%) ISO 20022
6 7 (1.88%) NIST
7 5 (1.34%) ISO 8583
7 5 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.08%) SEPA
9 3 (0.81%) GRC
9 3 (0.81%) SLA
10 2 (0.54%) COBIT
10 2 (0.54%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.54%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 47 (12.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (10.22%) Kubernetes
2 20 (5.38%) Ansible
3 18 (4.84%) Terraform
4 6 (1.61%) Grafana
5 3 (0.81%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (0.81%) RSA Archer
6 2 (0.54%) Puppet
7 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (5.65%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.23%) Databricks
3 11 (2.96%) Sonatype
4 9 (2.42%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.15%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.34%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.34%) Oracle
6 5 (1.34%) Splunk
7 4 (1.08%) Google
8 3 (0.81%) BiZZdesign
8 3 (0.81%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.81%) GoldenSource
8 3 (0.81%) New Relic
8 3 (0.81%) Samsung
9 2 (0.54%) Alibaba
9 2 (0.54%) Amplitude
9 2 (0.54%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.54%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.54%) Rapid7
9 2 (0.54%) Thales