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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 192 227
Rank change year-on-year -121 +35 -7
Contract jobs citing Fintech 413 494 405
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.77% 1.50% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 1.66% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 401 335
10th Percentile £275 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £443 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.48% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £661 £750 £731
90th Percentile £789 £875 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £475 £463
% change year-on-year +7.37% +2.70% -13.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 2
10th Percentile - £56.25 £47.13
25th Percentile £22.25 £65.00 £48.44
Median hourly rate £31.50 £69.25 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -54.51% +35.12% -42.70%
75th Percentile £75.00 £79.69 £53.44
90th Percentile £84.00 £83.75 £54.38
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 45,331 29,700 33,127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.72% 90.46% 85.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,838 18,524 21,130
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
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 2,836 1,729 1,767
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.31 £17.33 £18.14
Median hourly rate £41.63 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +65.54% -38.57% -0.24%
75th Percentile £67.99 £49.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +83.17% -43.53% +17.65%

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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 August 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 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Fintech in the UK

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Top 15 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 August 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 -108 385 £550 -8.33% 1,606
London -66 306 £550 -12.00% 1,394
Work from Home -165 105 £525 -19.23% 574
UK excluding London -134 78 £510 +7.37% 291
North of England -73 21 £507 +22.46% 97
South East -44 19 £280 -25.83% 99
South West -25 16 £585 -10.00% 25
Yorkshire -33 14 £514 +24.15% 18
Midlands -59 11 - - 24
West Midlands -49 8 - - 14
North West -53 7 £446 +4.82% 50
East of England -14 6 £510 +13.33% 19
Scotland -46 4 £475 -9.52% 18
East Midlands -26 3 - - 10
Wales - 1 £400 - 8

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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 11 (2.66%) Confluence
2 3 (0.73%) Apache
2 3 (0.73%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.48%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.24%) CMS
4 1 (0.24%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.21%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.73%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.73%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.73%) Trello
4 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.48%) Notion
5 1 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.24%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.21%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.97%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.48%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.24%) Findur
5 1 (0.24%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.24%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 75 (18.16%) AWS
2 62 (15.01%) Azure
3 37 (8.96%) GCP
4 25 (6.05%) GitHub
5 21 (5.08%) SaaS
6 18 (4.36%) Power Platform
7 17 (4.12%) Figma
8 15 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (2.66%) Snowflake
10 10 (2.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 10 (2.42%) GitHub Copilot
11 7 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (1.69%) Serverless
12 6 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (1.45%) Amazon S3
12 6 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (1.21%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.45%) VPN
2 5 (1.21%) Firewall
3 2 (0.48%) DNS
3 2 (0.48%) FTP
3 2 (0.48%) Internet
3 2 (0.48%) Network Security
3 2 (0.48%) NFC
4 1 (0.24%) DHCP
4 1 (0.24%) HTTP
4 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (5.33%) NoSQL
3 21 (5.08%) Tableau
4 16 (3.87%) MongoDB
5 15 (3.63%) Power BI
6 12 (2.91%) Relational Database
7 11 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (2.66%) Data Lake
8 10 (2.42%) BigQuery
8 10 (2.42%) Looker
9 9 (2.18%) SQL Server
10 6 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.73%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.73%) Big Data
11 3 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.73%) Mixpanel
11 3 (0.73%) Redis
12 2 (0.48%) Metadata
12 2 (0.48%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 25 (6.05%) JIRA
2 19 (4.60%) Git
3 18 (4.36%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.94%) GitLab
5 6 (1.45%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.45%) Storybook
6 3 (0.73%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.48%) Gemini Tracker
7 2 (0.48%) Gradle
7 2 (0.48%) MLflow
8 1 (0.24%) Appium
8 1 (0.24%) JUnit
8 1 (0.24%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.24%) Mocha
8 1 (0.24%) Mockito
8 1 (0.24%) Postman
8 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.24%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.24%) XCUITest
General
1 244 (59.08%) Finance
2 122 (29.54%) Banking
3 79 (19.13%) Social Skills
4 45 (10.90%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (6.05%) Marketing
6 22 (5.33%) Financial Institution
6 22 (5.33%) Front Office
7 13 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.18%) Publishing
9 8 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.69%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.69%) Legal
11 6 (1.45%) Public Sector
12 5 (1.21%) Private Banking
12 5 (1.21%) Retail
13 4 (0.97%) Advertising
13 4 (0.97%) Games
13 4 (0.97%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.73%) Dutch Language
14 3 (0.73%) German Language
Job Titles
1 76 (18.40%) Developer
2 74 (17.92%) Senior
3 49 (11.86%) Analyst
4 31 (7.51%) Lead
4 31 (7.51%) Software Engineer
5 28 (6.78%) Consultant
6 24 (5.81%) Designer
7 17 (4.12%) Architect
8 16 (3.87%) Java Engineer
8 16 (3.87%) Python Developer
9 14 (3.39%) Data Engineer
9 14 (3.39%) Senior Manager
10 13 (3.15%) Project Manager
10 13 (3.15%) Senior Developer
11 12 (2.91%) Business Analyst
11 12 (2.91%) Product Designer
12 11 (2.66%) Product Manager
12 11 (2.66%) React Developer
12 11 (2.66%) Technical Manager
13 10 (2.42%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (9.69%) REST
2 32 (7.75%) Kafka
3 29 (7.02%) React
4 20 (4.84%) .NET
4 20 (4.84%) Spring
5 17 (4.12%) Node.js
5 17 (4.12%) Spring Boot
6 16 (3.87%) RESTful
7 15 (3.63%) Terraform
8 14 (3.39%) React Native
9 12 (2.91%) FastAPI
9 12 (2.91%) Flask
10 11 (2.66%) NumPy
10 11 (2.66%) Pandas
11 10 (2.42%) OAuth
11 10 (2.42%) Polars
11 10 (2.42%) Redux
12 9 (2.18%) Apache Avro
12 9 (2.18%) CSS
12 9 (2.18%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 25 (6.05%) Equities
2 24 (5.81%) Onboarding
3 22 (5.33%) Cloud Native
4 21 (5.08%) Mobile App
5 19 (4.60%) Derivative
6 18 (4.36%) Data Structures
7 17 (4.12%) Product Ownership
8 16 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (3.87%) Fixed Income
9 14 (3.39%) Hedge funds
10 12 (2.91%) Management Information System
11 11 (2.66%) AI Agents
11 11 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.69%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 7 (1.69%) Market Risk
13 6 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (1.21%) Equity Derivative
14 5 (1.21%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.36%) Linux
2 13 (3.15%) Android
3 11 (2.66%) Apple iOS
4 9 (2.18%) Unix
5 5 (1.21%) Windows
6 1 (0.24%) CentOS
6 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (22.52%) AI
2 80 (19.37%) Stakeholder Management
3 79 (19.13%) CI/CD
4 66 (15.98%) Software Engineering
5 61 (14.77%) Agile
6 51 (12.35%) DevOps
7 49 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (10.65%) Analytics
9 39 (9.44%) Microservices
10 37 (8.96%) User Experience
11 36 (8.72%) Continuous Improvement
12 33 (7.99%) Generative AI
13 31 (7.51%) Containerisation
13 31 (7.51%) Observability
14 30 (7.26%) Mentoring
15 29 (7.02%) Data Pipeline
15 29 (7.02%) Decision-Making
16 27 (6.54%) Roadmaps
17 26 (6.30%) Event-Driven
17 26 (6.30%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 81 (19.61%) SQL
2 71 (17.19%) Python
3 57 (13.80%) Java
4 34 (8.23%) TypeScript
5 22 (5.33%) C#
5 22 (5.33%) JavaScript
6 20 (4.84%) Go
7 15 (3.63%) Kotlin
8 10 (2.42%) R
9 9 (2.18%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.94%) PHP
11 7 (1.69%) Bash
12 6 (1.45%) C++
13 5 (1.21%) Korn
14 2 (0.48%) Bicep
14 2 (0.48%) F#
14 2 (0.48%) Groovy
14 2 (0.48%) Perl
14 2 (0.48%) Swift
15 1 (0.24%) CQL
Qualifications
1 32 (7.75%) Degree
2 17 (4.12%) Security Cleared
3 16 (3.87%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.18%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.94%) PMP
7 7 (1.69%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.21%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.97%) PhD
10 3 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.73%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.73%) CISM
10 3 (0.73%) CISSP
11 2 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.48%) CCSK
11 2 (0.48%) CCSP
11 2 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.48%) MBA
11 2 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.81%) QA
2 8 (1.94%) PMO
3 6 (1.45%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.45%) PSD2
4 4 (0.97%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.73%) GDPR
6 2 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.48%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.48%) NIST
6 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.48%) SLA
7 1 (0.24%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.24%) GRC
7 1 (0.24%) IFRS
7 1 (0.24%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.24%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 44 (10.65%) Docker
2 4 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (11.62%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.91%) Prometheus
3 7 (1.69%) Grafana
4 5 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.97%) Ansible
6 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.73%) SCCM
7 1 (0.24%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.24%) Istio
7 1 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.24%) linkerd
7 1 (0.24%) Puppet
7 1 (0.24%) QRadar
Vendors
1 31 (7.51%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.36%) Google
3 11 (2.66%) Databricks
4 10 (2.42%) Informatica
5 8 (1.94%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.69%) Amplitude
6 7 (1.69%) SAP
7 6 (1.45%) Adobe
8 5 (1.21%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.21%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.21%) Oracle
9 4 (0.97%) PagerDuty
10 3 (0.73%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.73%) Citrix
10 3 (0.73%) Reuters
11 2 (0.48%) Ariba
11 2 (0.48%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.48%) NetApp
11 2 (0.48%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.48%) Splunk