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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 193 238
Rank change year-on-year -133 +45 -27
Contract jobs citing Fintech 398 480 386
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.73% 1.46% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 1.61% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 388 313
10th Percentile £269 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £443 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £653 £788 £731
90th Percentile £750 £875 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £570 £468 £450
% change year-on-year +21.93% +3.89% -13.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 3
10th Percentile £67.50 £45.88 £48.00
25th Percentile £71.25 £65.00 £50.63
Median hourly rate £80.00 £73.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.84% +33.64% -38.51%
75th Percentile £86.25 £85.63 £58.75
90th Percentile £88.50 £89.75 £61.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 46,068 29,787 33,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.40% 90.53% 85.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,926 18,499 20,227
10th Percentile £325 £300 £309
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,164 1,816 1,455
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.23 £14.90
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -1.91%
75th Percentile £67.48 £44.05 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.03 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +77.91% -47.67% +1.18%

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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 20 September 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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -109 374 £550 -8.33% 3,243
London -81 292 £550 -12.00% 2,768
Work from Home -167 103 £523 -19.62% 1,227
UK excluding London -126 80 £570 +21.93% 635
South West -11 27 £700 +7.69% 79
North of England -80 25 £514 +26.29% 172
Yorkshire -38 15 £514 +12.47% 34
Midlands -55 11 - - 57
North West -62 9 £488 +21.88% 101
West Midlands -42 8 - - 33
East of England -22 6 £510 +13.33% 45
South East -60 5 £265 -29.80% 169
Scotland -55 4 £475 -9.52% 51
East Midlands -28 3 - - 24
Wales - 2 £525 - 24
North East -48 1 - - 39

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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 10 (2.51%) Confluence
2 3 (0.75%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.75%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.25%) Apache
4 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.25%) CMS
4 1 (0.25%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.25%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.75%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.75%) Trello
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.50%) Notion
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.25%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (1.51%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.01%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.50%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.25%) Findur
5 1 (0.25%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.25%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 67 (16.83%) AWS
2 49 (12.31%) Azure
3 31 (7.79%) GCP
4 23 (5.78%) SaaS
5 22 (5.53%) GitHub
6 17 (4.27%) Figma
7 15 (3.77%) Power Platform
8 14 (3.52%) Snowflake
9 11 (2.76%) GitHub Copilot
10 10 (2.51%) Serverless
11 9 (2.26%) Amazon S3
11 9 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (2.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (1.76%) dbt
14 6 (1.51%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (1.51%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (1.51%) Microsoft 365
15 5 (1.26%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.26%) VPN
2 2 (0.50%) Firewall
2 2 (0.50%) Internet
2 2 (0.50%) Network Security
2 2 (0.50%) NFC
3 1 (0.25%) DHCP
3 1 (0.25%) DNS
3 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.78%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (5.28%) Tableau
3 16 (4.02%) MongoDB
3 16 (4.02%) NoSQL
4 15 (3.77%) Power BI
5 12 (3.02%) BigQuery
5 12 (3.02%) Relational Database
6 10 (2.51%) Looker
7 8 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (2.01%) SQL Server
8 6 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.51%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.01%) Mixpanel
10 3 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.75%) Big Data
10 3 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.75%) Redis
11 2 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 22 (5.53%) JIRA
2 17 (4.27%) Git
3 13 (3.27%) Jenkins
4 12 (3.02%) GitLab
5 6 (1.51%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.51%) Storybook
6 5 (1.26%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.75%) Gradle
8 2 (0.50%) Gemini Tracker
8 2 (0.50%) Maven
8 2 (0.50%) MLflow
9 1 (0.25%) Appium
9 1 (0.25%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.25%) JUnit
9 1 (0.25%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.25%) Mocha
9 1 (0.25%) Mockito
9 1 (0.25%) Postman
9 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 238 (59.80%) Finance
2 127 (31.91%) Banking
3 83 (20.85%) Social Skills
4 47 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (6.03%) Marketing
6 22 (5.53%) Financial Institution
7 15 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (3.27%) Front Office
9 7 (1.76%) Legal
9 7 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.76%) Publishing
10 5 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.26%) Private Banking
10 5 (1.26%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.01%) Back Office
11 4 (1.01%) Games
11 4 (1.01%) Health Technology
11 4 (1.01%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.01%) Retail
12 3 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 77 (19.35%) Senior
2 66 (16.58%) Developer
3 52 (13.07%) Analyst
4 25 (6.28%) Software Engineer
5 24 (6.03%) Designer
6 22 (5.53%) Lead
7 19 (4.77%) Consultant
8 18 (4.52%) Java Engineer
9 16 (4.02%) Architect
10 14 (3.52%) Data Engineer
10 14 (3.52%) Infrastructure Manager
10 14 (3.52%) Report Analyst
10 14 (3.52%) Senior Manager
11 13 (3.27%) Network Infrastructure Manager
11 13 (3.27%) Network Manager
11 13 (3.27%) Senior Developer
12 12 (3.02%) Product Designer
13 11 (2.76%) Product Manager
13 11 (2.76%) Project Manager
13 11 (2.76%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (8.79%) REST
2 30 (7.54%) Kafka
3 20 (5.03%) Spring
4 19 (4.77%) .NET
4 19 (4.77%) React
5 17 (4.27%) Terraform
6 16 (4.02%) Spring Boot
7 14 (3.52%) RESTful
8 10 (2.51%) OAuth
8 10 (2.51%) React Native
9 9 (2.26%) FastAPI
9 9 (2.26%) Flask
9 9 (2.26%) NumPy
9 9 (2.26%) OAuth2
9 9 (2.26%) Pandas
10 8 (2.01%) JWT
10 8 (2.01%) Node.js
10 8 (2.01%) Polars
10 8 (2.01%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (1.76%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.78%) Cloud Native
2 23 (5.78%) Onboarding
3 19 (4.77%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (4.77%) Mobile App
4 17 (4.27%) AI Agents
4 17 (4.27%) Product Ownership
5 15 (3.77%) Equities
6 13 (3.27%) Data Protection Act
6 13 (3.27%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.76%) Hedge funds
8 10 (2.51%) Derivative
8 10 (2.51%) Management Information System
9 9 (2.26%) Data Centre
10 8 (2.01%) Fixed Income
10 8 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.76%) Market Risk
12 5 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.26%) Equity Derivative
12 5 (1.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.27%) Linux
2 15 (3.77%) Android
3 9 (2.26%) Apple iOS
4 8 (2.01%) Unix
5 5 (1.26%) Windows
6 2 (0.50%) CentOS
6 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (26.13%) AI
2 79 (19.85%) Stakeholder Management
3 75 (18.84%) CI/CD
4 62 (15.58%) Software Engineering
5 56 (14.07%) Agile
6 52 (13.07%) Analytics
7 44 (11.06%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (10.80%) DevOps
9 40 (10.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 40 (10.05%) Microservices
10 38 (9.55%) Generative AI
11 36 (9.05%) User Experience
12 33 (8.29%) Decision-Making
12 33 (8.29%) Observability
13 32 (8.04%) Containerisation
14 29 (7.29%) Event-Driven
15 27 (6.78%) Roadmaps
16 26 (6.53%) Machine Learning
17 25 (6.28%) Data Pipeline
17 25 (6.28%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 81 (20.35%) SQL
2 67 (16.83%) Python
3 50 (12.56%) Java
4 26 (6.53%) TypeScript
5 19 (4.77%) Go
6 18 (4.52%) C#
7 15 (3.77%) JavaScript
8 14 (3.52%) Kotlin
9 10 (2.51%) R
10 9 (2.26%) Bash
10 9 (2.26%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.51%) C++
11 6 (1.51%) PHP
12 5 (1.26%) Korn
13 2 (0.50%) Groovy
14 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.25%) CQL
14 1 (0.25%) Solidity
14 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 31 (7.79%) Degree
2 11 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 11 (2.76%) Security Cleared
3 10 (2.51%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.01%) Master's Degree
5 6 (1.51%) PMP
6 5 (1.26%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.26%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.01%) PhD
8 3 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (0.75%) CISM
8 3 (0.75%) CISSP
9 2 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.50%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.50%) CCSK
9 2 (0.50%) CCSP
9 2 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.50%) MBA
9 2 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.53%) QA
2 10 (2.51%) PMO
3 9 (2.26%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.76%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.51%) PSD2
6 3 (0.75%) GDPR
7 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.50%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.50%) NIST
7 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.25%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.25%) GRC
8 1 (0.25%) IFRS
8 1 (0.25%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.25%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.25%) SLA
8 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 40 (10.05%) Docker
2 5 (1.26%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (11.81%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.02%) Prometheus
3 7 (1.76%) Grafana
4 5 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.75%) Ansible
5 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.75%) SCCM
6 2 (0.50%) Puppet
7 1 (0.25%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.25%) Istio
7 1 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.25%) linkerd
7 1 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 26 (6.53%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.52%) Google
3 11 (2.76%) Databricks
4 7 (1.76%) Amplitude
4 7 (1.76%) Braze
4 7 (1.76%) SAP
5 6 (1.51%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.26%) Adobe
6 5 (1.26%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.26%) Informatica
6 5 (1.26%) Oracle
7 4 (1.01%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.01%) PagerDuty
8 3 (0.75%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.75%) Citrix
8 3 (0.75%) NetApp
8 3 (0.75%) Reuters
8 3 (0.75%) VMware
9 2 (0.50%) Ariba
9 2 (0.50%) ION Trading