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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 211 229
Rank change year-on-year -69 +18 +4
Contract jobs citing Fintech 372 369 468
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.94% 1.20% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 1.34% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 298 387
10th Percentile £331 £413 £387
25th Percentile £400 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £700 £713 £688
90th Percentile £850 £802 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £395 £423 £489
% change year-on-year -6.51% -13.60% -2.20%
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 34,545 27,534 38,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.04% 89.45% 87.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,908 16,837 25,471
10th Percentile £306 £306 £300
25th Percentile £408 £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 £717 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,083 848 2,117
10th Percentile £14.51 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.78 £21.03 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -2.99% +2.48%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £72.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.08 £35.00
% change year-on-year -19.08% -11.20% +8.53%

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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 11 February 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 11 February 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 11 February 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 -63 335 £525 -12.50% 458
London -52 230 £625 - 301
Work from Home -71 114 £600 -4.00% 296
UK excluding London -8 109 £395 -6.51% 218
North of England -28 42 £402 -22.09% 59
North West -10 22 £445 +4.76% 36
South East -18 22 £375 -25.00% 105
Midlands -52 21 £375 -6.25% 19
East Midlands -21 18 £375 -6.25% 9
Yorkshire -45 18 £368 -29.90% 12
Scotland +9 9 £588 +17.50% 5
South West -13 9 £450 -35.71% 14
East of England -19 6 £300 -55.56% 13
West Midlands -46 3 £430 - 10
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 4
North East -12 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 38 (10.22%) Confluence
2 6 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.08%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.27%) Appian
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%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.27%) MadCap Flare
7 1 (0.27%) Sketch
7 1 (0.27%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (2.15%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.27%) BASE24
2 1 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.27%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 80 (21.51%) AWS
2 53 (14.25%) Azure
3 29 (7.80%) Power Platform
4 26 (6.99%) GCP
5 23 (6.18%) GitHub
6 21 (5.65%) SaaS
7 16 (4.30%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (4.03%) Figma
9 12 (3.23%) Amazon Kinesis
10 11 (2.96%) AWS Step Functions
10 11 (2.96%) Datadog
11 7 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (1.61%) dbt
13 5 (1.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (1.34%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (1.34%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.34%) Serverless
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 24 (6.45%) Power BI
2 22 (5.91%) Tableau
3 16 (4.30%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (4.30%) Apache Cassandra
4 12 (3.23%) MySQL
4 12 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.96%) Hadoop
5 11 (2.96%) Looker
6 6 (1.61%) Big Data
6 6 (1.61%) Mixpanel
6 6 (1.61%) MongoDB
6 6 (1.61%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.34%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (1.08%) Apache Arrow
8 4 (1.08%) Apache Iceberg
8 4 (1.08%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.08%) Dremio
9 3 (0.81%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 52 (13.98%) JIRA
2 25 (6.72%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.96%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (2.42%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.61%) Git
6 5 (1.34%) GitLab
6 5 (1.34%) JUnit
6 5 (1.34%) Selenium
7 4 (1.08%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.81%) Postman
9 2 (0.54%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.54%) Appium
9 2 (0.54%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.54%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.54%) MLflow
9 2 (0.54%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.54%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.54%) Sourcetree
9 2 (0.54%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.54%) TeamCity
General
1 227 (61.02%) Finance
2 123 (33.06%) Social Skills
3 104 (27.96%) Banking
4 54 (14.52%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.91%) Front Office
6 17 (4.57%) Public Sector
7 14 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (3.76%) Marketing
8 13 (3.49%) Financial Institution
9 11 (2.96%) Corporate Banking
9 11 (2.96%) Retail
9 11 (2.96%) Retail Banking
10 9 (2.42%) Legal
11 8 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.88%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.88%) Japanese Language
13 5 (1.34%) German Language
13 5 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.81%) French Language
14 3 (0.81%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 89 (23.92%) Developer
2 63 (16.94%) Senior
3 39 (10.48%) Analyst
4 30 (8.06%) Senior Developer
5 27 (7.26%) Business Analyst
6 25 (6.72%) Java Developer
6 25 (6.72%) Lead
7 23 (6.18%) Product Manager
8 21 (5.65%) Software Engineer
9 20 (5.38%) Python Developer
10 19 (5.11%) Project Manager
11 18 (4.84%) Architect
12 17 (4.57%) Java Engineer
13 14 (3.76%) Designer
14 13 (3.49%) Product Owner
15 11 (2.96%) AWS Engineer
15 11 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
15 11 (2.96%) Technical Business Analyst
16 10 (2.69%) Quantitative Developer
16 10 (2.69%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (8.06%) Kafka
2 26 (6.99%) REST
3 20 (5.38%) React
4 17 (4.57%) RESTful
5 14 (3.76%) AngularJS
5 14 (3.76%) Node.js
6 13 (3.49%) .NET
7 12 (3.23%) Spring
8 10 (2.69%) Spring Boot
9 9 (2.42%) Pandas
10 7 (1.88%) GraphQL
10 7 (1.88%) TensorFlow
11 6 (1.61%) gRPC
11 6 (1.61%) Jest
11 6 (1.61%) NumPy
12 5 (1.34%) Redux
12 5 (1.34%) scikit-learn
12 5 (1.34%) XML
13 4 (1.08%) React Native
13 4 (1.08%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.87%) Product Ownership
2 26 (6.99%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (5.65%) Onboarding
4 20 (5.38%) Fixed Income
5 19 (5.11%) Greenfield Project
6 18 (4.84%) Equities
7 13 (3.49%) Virtual Team
8 11 (2.96%) Cloud Native
9 10 (2.69%) PMI
10 9 (2.42%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 8 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (2.15%) Hedge funds
11 8 (2.15%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (1.34%) Derivative
14 4 (1.08%) Learning Management System
14 4 (1.08%) PACS
14 4 (1.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.23%) Linux
2 7 (1.88%) Unix
3 6 (1.61%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.81%) Android
4 3 (0.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (28.76%) Agile
2 97 (26.08%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (17.74%) Analytics
4 56 (15.05%) CI/CD
5 49 (13.17%) Microservices
5 49 (13.17%) Stakeholder Management
6 48 (12.90%) Software Engineering
7 43 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 41 (11.02%) DevOps
8 41 (11.02%) User Experience
9 37 (9.95%) Roadmaps
10 35 (9.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 33 (8.87%) AI
12 32 (8.60%) Project Management
13 31 (8.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 30 (8.06%) Decision-Making
15 27 (7.26%) Business Intelligence
15 27 (7.26%) Migration
16 24 (6.45%) Observability
16 24 (6.45%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 73 (19.62%) Python
2 69 (18.55%) Java
3 52 (13.98%) SQL
4 28 (7.53%) C#
5 23 (6.18%) Go
6 17 (4.57%) JavaScript
6 17 (4.57%) TypeScript
7 11 (2.96%) R
8 10 (2.69%) C++
8 10 (2.69%) Kotlin
9 7 (1.88%) Bash
10 5 (1.34%) Swift
11 4 (1.08%) Ruby
11 4 (1.08%) Rust
12 3 (0.81%) Objective-C
12 3 (0.81%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.54%) C
13 2 (0.54%) Haskell
13 2 (0.54%) Perl
13 2 (0.54%) PHP
Qualifications
1 32 (8.60%) Degree
2 25 (6.72%) PMP
3 23 (6.18%) PMI Certification
4 15 (4.03%) Master's Degree
5 11 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.69%) MBA
7 9 (2.42%) SAFe Agilist
7 9 (2.42%) Security Cleared
8 7 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.88%) CISSP
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%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (9.41%) QA
2 20 (5.38%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.96%) PCI DSS
4 10 (2.69%) PSD2
5 9 (2.42%) GDPR
5 9 (2.42%) PMO
6 8 (2.15%) Basel III
7 7 (1.88%) ISO 20022
7 7 (1.88%) NIST
8 5 (1.34%) ISO 8583
8 5 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (1.08%) SEPA
10 3 (0.81%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.81%) GRC
10 3 (0.81%) SLA
11 2 (0.54%) COBIT
11 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.54%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 42 (11.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (10.22%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.84%) Ansible
3 15 (4.03%) Terraform
4 8 (2.15%) Grafana
5 4 (1.08%) Kibana
6 3 (0.81%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.81%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.81%) RSA Archer
7 2 (0.54%) Puppet
7 2 (0.54%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 22 (5.91%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.23%) Databricks
3 11 (2.96%) Sonatype
4 6 (1.61%) Amplitude
4 6 (1.61%) Oracle
4 6 (1.61%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.34%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.34%) Splunk
6 4 (1.08%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.08%) Google
7 3 (0.81%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.81%) BiZZdesign
7 3 (0.81%) Bloomberg
7 3 (0.81%) GoldenSource
7 3 (0.81%) Samsung
8 2 (0.54%) Alibaba
8 2 (0.54%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.54%) Gemalto
8 2 (0.54%) HubSpot
8 2 (0.54%) Thales