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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 203 240
Rank change year-on-year -134 +37 -19
Contract jobs citing Fintech 401 456 381
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.73% 1.40% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.54% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 369 308
10th Percentile £268 £363 £425
25th Percentile £413 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £661 £788 £731
90th Percentile £750 £875 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £560 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +17.89% +5.56% -13.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 2
10th Percentile £67.50 £44.25 £47.38
25th Percentile £71.25 £65.00 £49.06
Median hourly rate £80.00 £73.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +8.84% +36.74% -39.90%
75th Percentile £86.25 £87.50 £59.06
90th Percentile £88.50 £92.00 £61.13
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 46,073 29,551 32,512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.35% 90.64% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,867 18,364 19,652
10th Percentile £325 £294 £308
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £731 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,200 1,847 1,359
10th Percentile £13.74 £14.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.23 £17.30 £20.06
Median hourly rate £39.75 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.05% -40.82% -1.16%
75th Percentile £65.88 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.00 £74.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +79.25% -48.10% +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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -107 376 £550 -8.33% 2,547
London -76 296 £550 -12.52% 2,072
Work from Home -149 100 £520 -19.22% 1,102
UK excluding London -123 79 £560 +17.89% 639
South West -16 27 £700 +27.27% 99
North of England -84 25 £514 +20.94% 171
Yorkshire -33 15 £514 +12.47% 42
Midlands -46 11 - - 61
North West -63 9 £488 +18.18% 92
West Midlands -38 8 - - 36
East of England -22 6 £510 +13.33% 39
Scotland -59 5 £344 -34.52% 44
East Midlands -27 3 - - 25
South East -72 3 £250 -34.21% 141
Wales - 2 £525 - 25
North East -44 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 13 (3.24%) Confluence
2 3 (0.75%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.50%) Apache
3 2 (0.50%) Ethereum
3 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.25%) JBoss
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.25%) nginx
4 1 (0.25%) Solana
4 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.25%) 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 (1.50%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.00%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.25%) Findur
4 1 (0.25%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.25%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.25%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 71 (17.71%) AWS
2 52 (12.97%) Azure
3 33 (8.23%) GCP
4 24 (5.99%) SaaS
5 20 (4.99%) GitHub
6 15 (3.74%) Figma
6 15 (3.74%) Power Platform
7 14 (3.49%) Snowflake
8 11 (2.74%) GitHub Copilot
9 9 (2.24%) Serverless
10 8 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (2.00%) dbt
10 8 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (1.75%) Amazon S3
11 7 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.50%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (1.25%) Anthropic Claude
13 5 (1.25%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.25%) VPN
2 2 (0.50%) DNS
2 2 (0.50%) Internet
2 2 (0.50%) Network Security
2 2 (0.50%) NFC
3 1 (0.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (5.24%) NoSQL
2 21 (5.24%) Tableau
3 17 (4.24%) MongoDB
4 15 (3.74%) Power BI
5 13 (3.24%) BigQuery
6 12 (2.99%) Relational Database
7 10 (2.49%) Looker
8 8 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (2.00%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.00%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.00%) Mixpanel
9 4 (1.00%) Redis
10 3 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.75%) Big Data
10 3 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 25 (6.23%) JIRA
2 17 (4.24%) Git
3 16 (3.99%) GitLab
4 13 (3.24%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.50%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.50%) Storybook
6 5 (1.25%) 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%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.25%) JUnit
9 1 (0.25%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.25%) Postman
9 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.25%) XCUITest
General
1 244 (60.85%) Finance
2 130 (32.42%) Banking
3 85 (21.20%) Social Skills
4 48 (11.97%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.74%) Financial Institution
5 23 (5.74%) Marketing
6 15 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.99%) Front Office
8 8 (2.00%) Legal
9 7 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.50%) Private Banking
10 6 (1.50%) Publishing
11 5 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.25%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.25%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.00%) Back Office
12 4 (1.00%) Health Technology
12 4 (1.00%) Retail
13 3 (0.75%) Games
13 3 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 80 (19.95%) Senior
2 71 (17.71%) Developer
3 50 (12.47%) Analyst
4 27 (6.73%) Software Engineer
5 22 (5.49%) Designer
5 22 (5.49%) Lead
6 19 (4.74%) Java Engineer
7 18 (4.49%) Consultant
8 16 (3.99%) Architect
9 15 (3.74%) Report Analyst
9 15 (3.74%) Senior Developer
10 14 (3.49%) Data Engineer
10 14 (3.49%) Infrastructure Manager
11 13 (3.24%) Network Infrastructure Manager
11 13 (3.24%) Network Manager
11 13 (3.24%) Senior Manager
12 12 (2.99%) Product Designer
13 11 (2.74%) Java Developer
13 11 (2.74%) Product Manager
14 10 (2.49%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (8.73%) REST
2 34 (8.48%) Kafka
3 25 (6.23%) Spring
4 21 (5.24%) Spring Boot
5 20 (4.99%) React
6 19 (4.74%) .NET
6 19 (4.74%) Terraform
7 15 (3.74%) RESTful
8 11 (2.74%) OAuth
9 10 (2.49%) OAuth2
9 10 (2.49%) React Native
10 9 (2.24%) JWT
10 9 (2.24%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (2.00%) Node.js
11 8 (2.00%) NumPy
11 8 (2.00%) Pandas
12 7 (1.75%) FastAPI
12 7 (1.75%) Flask
12 7 (1.75%) Jest
12 7 (1.75%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.48%) Cloud Native
2 26 (6.48%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (5.49%) Onboarding
4 19 (4.74%) Mobile App
4 19 (4.74%) Product Ownership
5 18 (4.49%) AI Agents
6 15 (3.74%) Equities
7 13 (3.24%) Data Structures
8 12 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (2.74%) Derivative
10 10 (2.49%) Hedge funds
10 10 (2.49%) Management Information System
11 9 (2.24%) Data Centre
11 9 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (2.00%) Fixed Income
12 8 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (1.75%) Market Risk
14 6 (1.50%) Equity Derivative
15 5 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
15 5 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.74%) Linux
2 16 (3.99%) Android
3 9 (2.24%) Apple iOS
4 8 (2.00%) Unix
5 4 (1.00%) Windows
6 2 (0.50%) CentOS
6 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (26.43%) AI
2 81 (20.20%) CI/CD
3 79 (19.70%) Stakeholder Management
4 70 (17.46%) Software Engineering
5 57 (14.21%) Agile
6 52 (12.97%) Analytics
7 46 (11.47%) Microservices
8 45 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (10.22%) DevOps
10 40 (9.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 39 (9.73%) Generative AI
12 34 (8.48%) Observability
12 34 (8.48%) User Experience
13 32 (7.98%) Decision-Making
14 31 (7.73%) Containerisation
14 31 (7.73%) Event-Driven
15 28 (6.98%) Roadmaps
16 27 (6.73%) Machine Learning
17 24 (5.99%) Customer Experience
17 24 (5.99%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 83 (20.70%) SQL
2 68 (16.96%) Python
3 56 (13.97%) Java
4 27 (6.73%) TypeScript
5 19 (4.74%) C#
5 19 (4.74%) Go
6 15 (3.74%) JavaScript
7 14 (3.49%) Kotlin
8 10 (2.49%) PowerShell
8 10 (2.49%) R
9 9 (2.24%) Bash
10 7 (1.75%) PHP
11 6 (1.50%) C++
12 5 (1.25%) 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 (7.73%) Degree
2 11 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (2.24%) Security Cleared
4 8 (2.00%) Master's Degree
4 8 (2.00%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.50%) PMP
6 5 (1.25%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.25%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.00%) 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 21 (5.24%) QA
2 11 (2.74%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.49%) PMO
4 7 (1.75%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.50%) PSD2
6 4 (1.00%) GDPR
7 3 (0.75%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.50%) GRC
8 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.50%) NIST
8 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.25%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.25%) IFRS
9 1 (0.25%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.25%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.25%) SLA
9 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 42 (10.47%) Docker
2 4 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (12.72%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.24%) Prometheus
3 8 (2.00%) Grafana
4 4 (1.00%) Ansible
4 4 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.50%) Puppet
5 2 (0.50%) SCCM
6 1 (0.25%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.25%) Istio
6 1 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.25%) linkerd
6 1 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 24 (5.99%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.49%) Google
3 12 (2.99%) Databricks
4 7 (1.75%) Amplitude
4 7 (1.75%) Braze
5 6 (1.50%) Oracle
5 6 (1.50%) Salesforce
5 6 (1.50%) SAP
6 5 (1.25%) Adobe
6 5 (1.25%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.00%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.00%) PagerDuty
8 3 (0.75%) Informatica
8 3 (0.75%) NetApp
8 3 (0.75%) VMware
9 2 (0.50%) Ariba
9 2 (0.50%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.50%) ION Trading
9 2 (0.50%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.50%) Splunk