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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 202 244
Rank change year-on-year -130 +42 -19
Contract jobs citing Fintech 407 456 381
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 1.38% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.52% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 362 303
10th Percentile £270 £363 £425
25th Percentile £420 £438 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £574 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% -4.38% -
75th Percentile £688 £750 £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 1 10 2
10th Percentile - £45.88 £47.38
25th Percentile - £65.81 £49.06
Median hourly rate £75.00 £76.75 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.28% +42.79% -39.90%
75th Percentile - £87.50 £59.06
90th Percentile - £89.75 £61.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 46,170 29,963 32,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.61% 90.48% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,721 18,625 19,646
10th Percentile £325 £295 £308
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 £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £737 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,354 1,887 1,283
10th Percentile £13.53 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -9.60%
75th Percentile £65.00 £42.90 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.65 £65.06 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.27 £40.33
% change year-on-year +68.43% -44.79% -7.99%

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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 October 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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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 October 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 -100 379 £550 -8.33% 2,976
London -72 298 £550 -12.00% 2,518
Work from Home -142 102 £520 -16.80% 1,241
UK excluding London -122 79 £560 +17.89% 586
South West -7 27 £700 +55.56% 79
North of England -83 26 £514 +20.94% 142
Yorkshire -20 15 £514 +2.80% 36
Midlands -51 11 - - 55
North West -62 10 £488 +18.18% 80
West Midlands -45 8 - - 33
East of England -22 6 £510 +13.33% 34
Scotland -57 5 £344 -34.52% 42
East Midlands -20 3 - - 22
South East -70 2 £231 -39.14% 158
Wales - 2 £525 - 24
North East -43 1 - - 27

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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 (3.19%) Confluence
2 4 (0.98%) Ethereum
3 3 (0.74%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.49%) Apache
4 2 (0.49%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.49%) Solana
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.25%) JBoss
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.25%) nginx
5 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (3.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.74%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.74%) Trello
4 2 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.49%) 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 7 (1.72%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.98%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.49%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
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 S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 74 (18.18%) AWS
2 54 (13.27%) Azure
3 35 (8.60%) GCP
4 30 (7.37%) SaaS
5 20 (4.91%) GitHub
6 17 (4.18%) Snowflake
7 16 (3.93%) Power Platform
8 15 (3.69%) Figma
9 12 (2.95%) Serverless
10 11 (2.70%) GitHub Copilot
11 9 (2.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (1.97%) Anthropic Claude
12 8 (1.97%) dbt
12 8 (1.97%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (1.72%) Amazon S3
13 7 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.23%) VPN
2 3 (0.74%) Network Security
3 2 (0.49%) DNS
3 2 (0.49%) Internet
3 2 (0.49%) NFC
4 1 (0.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.14%) Tableau
2 22 (5.41%) NoSQL
3 21 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (4.67%) MongoDB
5 16 (3.93%) Power BI
6 13 (3.19%) BigQuery
7 12 (2.95%) Relational Database
8 11 (2.70%) Looker
9 9 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (1.97%) SQL Server
11 6 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.98%) Big Data
12 4 (0.98%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.98%) Mixpanel
12 4 (0.98%) Redis
13 3 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 25 (6.14%) JIRA
2 17 (4.18%) GitLab
3 16 (3.93%) Git
4 11 (2.70%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.47%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.47%) Storybook
6 5 (1.23%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.74%) Gradle
8 2 (0.49%) Gemini Tracker
8 2 (0.49%) Maven
8 2 (0.49%) MLflow
9 1 (0.25%) Appium
9 1 (0.25%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.25%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.25%) Gerrit
9 1 (0.25%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.25%) Mocha
9 1 (0.25%) Mockito
9 1 (0.25%) Postman
9 1 (0.25%) XCUITest
General
1 255 (62.65%) Finance
2 132 (32.43%) Banking
3 80 (19.66%) Social Skills
4 49 (12.04%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (6.88%) Marketing
6 21 (5.16%) Financial Institution
7 15 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.95%) Front Office
9 10 (2.46%) Legal
10 7 (1.72%) Back Office
10 7 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.47%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.47%) Private Banking
12 5 (1.23%) Health Technology
12 5 (1.23%) Public Sector
12 5 (1.23%) Retail
13 4 (0.98%) Publishing
14 3 (0.74%) Dutch Language
14 3 (0.74%) Games
Job Titles
1 77 (18.92%) Senior
2 72 (17.69%) Developer
3 53 (13.02%) Analyst
4 26 (6.39%) Lead
5 24 (5.90%) Software Engineer
6 22 (5.41%) Designer
7 20 (4.91%) Architect
7 20 (4.91%) Java Engineer
8 17 (4.18%) Consultant
9 16 (3.93%) Report Analyst
9 16 (3.93%) Senior Developer
10 15 (3.69%) Data Engineer
11 14 (3.44%) Infrastructure Manager
12 13 (3.19%) Java Developer
12 13 (3.19%) Network Infrastructure Manager
12 13 (3.19%) Network Manager
13 12 (2.95%) Product Designer
14 11 (2.70%) Product Manager
14 11 (2.70%) React Developer
14 11 (2.70%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (8.60%) Kafka
2 31 (7.62%) REST
3 26 (6.39%) Spring
4 22 (5.41%) Spring Boot
5 20 (4.91%) Terraform
6 18 (4.42%) .NET
7 17 (4.18%) React
8 14 (3.44%) RESTful
9 11 (2.70%) OAuth
10 10 (2.46%) OAuth2
11 9 (2.21%) JWT
11 9 (2.21%) Node.js
11 9 (2.21%) RabbitMQ
11 9 (2.21%) React Native
12 7 (1.72%) CSS
12 7 (1.72%) Jest
12 7 (1.72%) Playwright
13 6 (1.47%) HTML
13 6 (1.47%) NumPy
13 6 (1.47%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.86%) Distributed Systems
2 29 (7.13%) Cloud Native
3 24 (5.90%) Onboarding
4 23 (5.65%) AI Agents
5 18 (4.42%) Product Ownership
6 17 (4.18%) Mobile App
7 13 (3.19%) Equities
8 11 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (2.70%) Derivative
9 10 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (2.46%) Management Information System
10 9 (2.21%) Data Centre
10 9 (2.21%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.97%) Fixed Income
11 8 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (1.97%) Hedge funds
12 6 (1.47%) Equity Derivative
13 5 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.23%) Blockchain
14 4 (0.98%) Digital Wallet
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.67%) Linux
2 16 (3.93%) Android
3 9 (2.21%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.72%) Unix
5 4 (0.98%) Windows
6 2 (0.49%) CentOS
6 2 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (27.52%) AI
2 90 (22.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 76 (18.67%) CI/CD
4 70 (17.20%) Software Engineering
5 61 (14.99%) Agile
6 55 (13.51%) Analytics
7 51 (12.53%) Microservices
8 48 (11.79%) Problem-Solving
9 42 (10.32%) DevOps
10 41 (10.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 39 (9.58%) Generative AI
12 35 (8.60%) Decision-Making
13 34 (8.35%) Event-Driven
14 33 (8.11%) User Experience
15 31 (7.62%) Observability
15 31 (7.62%) Roadmaps
16 30 (7.37%) Containerisation
17 28 (6.88%) Machine Learning
18 26 (6.39%) LLM
19 25 (6.14%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 84 (20.64%) SQL
2 68 (16.71%) Python
3 57 (14.00%) Java
4 25 (6.14%) TypeScript
5 18 (4.42%) C#
5 18 (4.42%) Go
6 15 (3.69%) JavaScript
7 11 (2.70%) Kotlin
8 10 (2.46%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.21%) Bash
9 9 (2.21%) R
10 7 (1.72%) PHP
11 5 (1.23%) C++
11 5 (1.23%) Korn
12 2 (0.49%) Groovy
12 2 (0.49%) Solidity
13 1 (0.25%) Bicep
13 1 (0.25%) CQL
13 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (7.37%) Degree
2 11 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.97%) Master's Degree
3 8 (1.97%) SC Cleared
3 8 (1.97%) Security Cleared
4 6 (1.47%) PMP
5 5 (1.23%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.23%) PMI Certification
6 4 (0.98%) PhD
7 3 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (0.74%) CISM
7 3 (0.74%) CISSP
8 2 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.49%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.49%) CCSK
8 2 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.49%) MBA
8 2 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.91%) QA
2 13 (3.19%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.46%) PMO
4 8 (1.97%) GDPR
5 6 (1.47%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.47%) PSD2
6 4 (0.98%) GRC
7 3 (0.74%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.49%) NIST
8 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.49%) 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 (10.32%) Docker
2 4 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 49 (12.04%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.44%) Prometheus
3 9 (2.21%) Grafana
4 4 (0.98%) Ansible
4 4 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.49%) Puppet
5 2 (0.49%) 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 29 (7.13%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.41%) Google
3 11 (2.70%) Databricks
4 10 (2.46%) Salesforce
5 8 (1.97%) Oracle
6 7 (1.72%) Amplitude
6 7 (1.72%) Braze
7 6 (1.47%) SAP
8 5 (1.23%) Adobe
8 5 (1.23%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.98%) Fiserv
9 4 (0.98%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.98%) PagerDuty
10 3 (0.74%) Ariba
10 3 (0.74%) FIS
10 3 (0.74%) Informatica
10 3 (0.74%) NetApp
10 3 (0.74%) PayPal
10 3 (0.74%) VMware
10 3 (0.74%) WorldPay