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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 197 252
Rank change year-on-year -126 +55 -29
Contract jobs citing Fintech 397 485 385
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.74% 1.48% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.64% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 394 315
10th Percentile £275 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £443 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £574 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% -4.38% -
75th Percentile £647 £750 £731
90th Percentile £750 £875 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £527 £475 £463
% change year-on-year +10.95% +2.70% -14.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 3
10th Percentile - £58.00 £48.00
25th Percentile £22.25 £65.00 £50.63
Median hourly rate £50.75 £73.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.95% +33.64% -38.51%
75th Percentile £78.75 £83.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £85.50 £96.50 £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 45,369 29,617 32,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.56% 90.44% 85.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,730 18,446 20,728
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% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,902 1,758 1,607
10th Percentile £14.10 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.78 £17.30 £18.82
Median hourly rate £41.09 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.39% -40.82% +2.41%
75th Percentile £67.88 £47.09 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.56 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +92.49% -47.37% +14.67%

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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 1 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 1 September 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 1 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 -107 371 £550 -8.33% 2,499
London -78 293 £550 -12.00% 2,204
Work from Home -150 100 £507 -22.00% 923
UK excluding London -120 76 £527 +10.95% 450
South West -19 22 £643 -1.15% 76
North of England -88 19 £514 +22.53% 126
South East -53 14 £280 -25.83% 119
Yorkshire -30 13 £514 +24.15% 25
Midlands -57 11 - - 32
West Midlands -43 8 - - 21
North West -74 6 £438 +2.94% 66
East of England -18 5 £543 +20.56% 27
Scotland -53 4 £475 -9.52% 39
East Midlands -23 3 - - 11
Wales - 1 £400 - 7

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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 9 (2.27%) Confluence
2 3 (0.76%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.50%) Apache
3 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.25%) CMS
4 1 (0.25%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.76%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.76%) Trello
5 2 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.50%) Notion
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.25%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.26%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.01%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.76%) 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 60 (15.11%) AWS
2 51 (12.85%) Azure
3 27 (6.80%) GCP
4 23 (5.79%) GitHub
4 23 (5.79%) SaaS
5 17 (4.28%) Figma
6 15 (3.78%) Power Platform
6 15 (3.78%) Snowflake
7 14 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (2.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 10 (2.52%) GitHub Copilot
9 6 (1.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (1.51%) Amazon S3
9 6 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (1.51%) dbt
9 6 (1.51%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (1.51%) Serverless
9 6 (1.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (1.26%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (1.26%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.51%) VPN
2 4 (1.01%) Firewall
3 2 (0.50%) Internet
3 2 (0.50%) Network Security
3 2 (0.50%) NFC
4 1 (0.25%) DHCP
4 1 (0.25%) DNS
4 1 (0.25%) FTP
4 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.30%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (5.29%) Tableau
3 19 (4.79%) NoSQL
4 15 (3.78%) MongoDB
4 15 (3.78%) Power BI
5 12 (3.02%) BigQuery
5 12 (3.02%) Relational Database
6 11 (2.77%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (2.77%) Data Lake
7 10 (2.52%) Looker
8 8 (2.02%) SQL Server
9 6 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (1.01%) Mixpanel
11 3 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.76%) Big Data
11 3 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.76%) Redis
12 2 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (5.29%) JIRA
2 17 (4.28%) Git
3 16 (4.03%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.27%) GitLab
5 6 (1.51%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.51%) Storybook
6 3 (0.76%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.50%) Gemini Tracker
7 2 (0.50%) Gradle
7 2 (0.50%) MLflow
8 1 (0.25%) Appium
8 1 (0.25%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.25%) JUnit
8 1 (0.25%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.25%) Maven
8 1 (0.25%) Mocha
8 1 (0.25%) Mockito
8 1 (0.25%) Postman
8 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.25%) XCUITest
General
1 232 (58.44%) Finance
2 121 (30.48%) Banking
3 78 (19.65%) Social Skills
4 45 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (6.55%) Marketing
6 21 (5.29%) Financial Institution
7 14 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.77%) Front Office
9 9 (2.27%) Publishing
10 7 (1.76%) Legal
11 6 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.26%) Private Banking
12 5 (1.26%) Public Sector
13 4 (1.01%) Advertising
13 4 (1.01%) Games
13 4 (1.01%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.01%) Retail
13 4 (1.01%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.76%) Dutch Language
14 3 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 76 (19.14%) Senior
2 65 (16.37%) Developer
3 49 (12.34%) Analyst
4 26 (6.55%) Software Engineer
5 24 (6.05%) Designer
5 24 (6.05%) Lead
6 22 (5.54%) Consultant
7 18 (4.53%) Java Engineer
8 16 (4.03%) Architect
8 16 (4.03%) Data Engineer
9 14 (3.53%) Senior Manager
10 13 (3.27%) Senior Developer
11 12 (3.02%) Product Designer
11 12 (3.02%) Product Manager
11 12 (3.02%) Python Developer
11 12 (3.02%) Report Analyst
12 11 (2.77%) Project Manager
13 10 (2.52%) Infrastructure Manager
13 10 (2.52%) Java Developer
14 9 (2.27%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (9.32%) REST
2 32 (8.06%) Kafka
3 20 (5.04%) Spring
4 19 (4.79%) React
5 18 (4.53%) .NET
6 17 (4.28%) Spring Boot
7 16 (4.03%) Terraform
8 14 (3.53%) RESTful
9 12 (3.02%) React Native
10 11 (2.77%) FastAPI
10 11 (2.77%) Flask
10 11 (2.77%) NumPy
10 11 (2.77%) Pandas
11 10 (2.52%) OAuth
11 10 (2.52%) Polars
12 9 (2.27%) Apache Avro
12 9 (2.27%) OAuth2
13 8 (2.02%) JWT
13 8 (2.02%) Node.js
14 7 (1.76%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.54%) Cloud Native
1 22 (5.54%) Onboarding
2 18 (4.53%) Mobile App
3 17 (4.28%) Equities
3 17 (4.28%) Product Ownership
4 16 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (3.53%) Data Structures
6 13 (3.27%) AI Agents
6 13 (3.27%) Hedge funds
7 12 (3.02%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (3.02%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.27%) Derivative
9 8 (2.02%) Data Centre
9 8 (2.02%) Fixed Income
10 7 (1.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (1.76%) Market Risk
11 6 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.26%) Equity Derivative
12 5 (1.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.28%) Linux
2 13 (3.27%) Android
3 10 (2.52%) Apple iOS
4 8 (2.02%) Unix
5 5 (1.26%) Windows
6 2 (0.50%) CentOS
6 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (24.18%) AI
2 77 (19.40%) Stakeholder Management
3 73 (18.39%) CI/CD
4 59 (14.86%) Software Engineering
5 49 (12.34%) Agile
6 48 (12.09%) DevOps
7 46 (11.59%) Analytics
8 45 (11.34%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (9.57%) Microservices
10 36 (9.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (8.82%) User Experience
12 34 (8.56%) Generative AI
13 31 (7.81%) Containerisation
13 31 (7.81%) Observability
14 29 (7.30%) Data Pipeline
15 28 (7.05%) Decision-Making
15 28 (7.05%) Roadmaps
16 25 (6.30%) Event-Driven
16 25 (6.30%) Machine Learning
17 23 (5.79%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 81 (20.40%) SQL
2 63 (15.87%) Python
3 55 (13.85%) Java
4 23 (5.79%) TypeScript
5 20 (5.04%) Go
6 18 (4.53%) C#
7 14 (3.53%) JavaScript
7 14 (3.53%) Kotlin
8 10 (2.52%) R
9 9 (2.27%) PowerShell
10 8 (2.02%) Bash
11 7 (1.76%) PHP
12 6 (1.51%) C++
13 5 (1.26%) Korn
14 2 (0.50%) Bicep
14 2 (0.50%) Groovy
15 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.25%) CQL
15 1 (0.25%) Perl
15 1 (0.25%) Swift
Qualifications
1 30 (7.56%) Degree
2 16 (4.03%) Security Cleared
3 15 (3.78%) SC Cleared
4 11 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.02%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.76%) PMP
7 6 (1.51%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.26%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.01%) PhD
10 3 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.76%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.76%) CISM
10 3 (0.76%) CISSP
11 2 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.50%) CCSK
11 2 (0.50%) CCSP
11 2 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.50%) MBA
11 2 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.79%) QA
2 8 (2.02%) PMO
3 6 (1.51%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.51%) PSD2
4 5 (1.26%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.76%) GDPR
6 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.50%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.50%) NIST
6 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.50%) SLA
7 1 (0.25%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
7 1 (0.25%) IFRS
7 1 (0.25%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.25%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 41 (10.33%) Docker
2 4 (1.01%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (11.84%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.02%) Prometheus
3 7 (1.76%) Grafana
4 5 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.76%) Ansible
5 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.76%) 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 29 (7.30%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.28%) Google
3 11 (2.77%) Databricks
4 10 (2.52%) Informatica
5 7 (1.76%) Amplitude
5 7 (1.76%) Salesforce
5 7 (1.76%) SAP
6 5 (1.26%) Adobe
6 5 (1.26%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.26%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.26%) Oracle
7 4 (1.01%) Braze
7 4 (1.01%) PagerDuty
8 3 (0.76%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.76%) Citrix
8 3 (0.76%) NetApp
8 3 (0.76%) Reuters
8 3 (0.76%) VMware
9 2 (0.50%) Ariba
9 2 (0.50%) ION Trading