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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 229 217
Rank change year-on-year -58 -12 +22
Contract jobs citing Fintech 366 361 490
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.90% 1.17% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 1.31% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 288 408
10th Percentile £343 £421 £400
25th Percentile £413 £507 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £581
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +5.38% +1.09%
75th Percentile £700 £713 £688
90th Percentile £850 £800 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £425 £489
% change year-on-year -5.41% -13.09% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 5
10th Percentile £34.75 £47.38 £33.40
25th Percentile £57.81 £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 35,362 27,619 38,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.73% 89.84% 87.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,416 17,059 25,415
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £410 £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 £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.34% -1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,120 859 2,186
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £32.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.46% -6.26% -
75th Percentile £60.75 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.30 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.81% -9.26% -

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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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -62 333 £550 -12.00% 486
London -42 246 £625 - 336
Work from Home -77 107 £619 -1.00% 321
UK excluding London -33 92 £402 -5.41% 223
North of England -40 34 £375 -27.33% 60
South East -10 18 £310 - 105
Yorkshire -48 18 £368 -29.90% 16
Midlands -52 16 £385 -3.75% 15
North West -18 14 £423 -0.53% 33
East Midlands -29 13 £365 -8.88% 4
Scotland 0 9 £588 +17.50% 5
South West -17 7 £450 -35.71% 20
East of England -21 7 £300 -55.56% 16
West Midlands -60 3 £430 -16.50% 11
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 3
North East -19 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 33 (9.02%) Confluence
2 5 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.09%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.27%) Appian
Applications
1 23 (6.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.19%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.91%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.82%) Notion
6 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.27%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.27%) MadCap Flare
7 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.27%) Sketch
7 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.27%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) BASE24
1 1 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.27%) Exchequer
1 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 85 (23.22%) AWS
2 55 (15.03%) Azure
3 35 (9.56%) GCP
4 30 (8.20%) Power Platform
5 23 (6.28%) GitHub
6 21 (5.74%) SaaS
7 15 (4.10%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (3.01%) Amazon Kinesis
8 11 (3.01%) Datadog
9 10 (2.73%) AWS Step Functions
9 10 (2.73%) Figma
10 7 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (1.37%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.37%) dbt
12 5 (1.37%) Serverless
13 4 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.09%) Network Security
2 2 (0.55%) SSH
3 1 (0.27%) DNS
3 1 (0.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.83%) Power BI
2 23 (6.28%) Tableau
3 15 (4.10%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (3.83%) Apache Cassandra
5 12 (3.28%) Looker
6 11 (3.01%) MySQL
7 10 (2.73%) Hadoop
8 8 (2.19%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.91%) Mixpanel
10 6 (1.64%) Big Data
10 6 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.64%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.37%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.37%) NoSQL
12 4 (1.09%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.82%) Apache Arrow
13 3 (0.82%) Redis
13 3 (0.82%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 44 (12.02%) JIRA
2 26 (7.10%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.01%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (2.19%) Cypress.io
5 7 (1.91%) Git
6 5 (1.37%) GitLab
6 5 (1.37%) Selenium
7 4 (1.09%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.09%) JUnit
8 3 (0.82%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.82%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.82%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.55%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.55%) Appium
9 2 (0.55%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.55%) MLflow
9 2 (0.55%) Postman
9 2 (0.55%) Sourcetree
9 2 (0.55%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.55%) TeamCity
General
1 230 (62.84%) Finance
2 112 (30.60%) Social Skills
3 92 (25.14%) Banking
4 49 (13.39%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (7.10%) Front Office
6 16 (4.37%) Marketing
7 15 (4.10%) Public Sector
8 14 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (3.01%) Corporate Banking
9 11 (3.01%) Retail
10 10 (2.73%) Financial Institution
10 10 (2.73%) Legal
10 10 (2.73%) Retail Banking
11 8 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.91%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.91%) Japanese Language
13 5 (1.37%) German Language
13 5 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.09%) Games
15 3 (0.82%) French Language
Job Titles
1 87 (23.77%) Developer
2 65 (17.76%) Senior
3 34 (9.29%) Analyst
4 28 (7.65%) Senior Developer
5 27 (7.38%) Lead
6 24 (6.56%) Java Developer
7 23 (6.28%) Software Engineer
8 22 (6.01%) Business Analyst
9 21 (5.74%) Python Developer
10 19 (5.19%) Project Manager
11 18 (4.92%) Product Manager
12 16 (4.37%) Java Engineer
13 15 (4.10%) Architect
14 14 (3.83%) AWS Engineer
15 13 (3.55%) Designer
16 11 (3.01%) Product Owner
16 11 (3.01%) Technical Business Analyst
17 10 (2.73%) Data Engineer
17 10 (2.73%) Data Scientist
17 10 (2.73%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (8.47%) Kafka
2 24 (6.56%) React
3 21 (5.74%) REST
4 17 (4.64%) Node.js
4 17 (4.64%) RESTful
5 14 (3.83%) .NET
6 13 (3.55%) AngularJS
7 10 (2.73%) Spring
8 9 (2.46%) Redux
8 9 (2.46%) Spring Boot
9 8 (2.19%) Pandas
10 7 (1.91%) GraphQL
10 7 (1.91%) TensorFlow
11 5 (1.37%) gRPC
11 5 (1.37%) Jest
11 5 (1.37%) NumPy
11 5 (1.37%) scikit-learn
12 4 (1.09%) PyTorch
12 4 (1.09%) Ruby on Rails
12 4 (1.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.65%) Product Ownership
2 25 (6.83%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (6.28%) Fixed Income
4 22 (6.01%) Equities
5 20 (5.46%) Greenfield Project
6 18 (4.92%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.28%) Virtual Team
8 10 (2.73%) Cloud Native
9 9 (2.46%) Derivative
10 8 (2.19%) Hedge funds
10 8 (2.19%) PMI
11 7 (1.91%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (1.09%) Blockchain
14 4 (1.09%) Data Structures
14 4 (1.09%) Digital Wallet
14 4 (1.09%) Learning Management System
14 4 (1.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.10%) Linux
2 9 (2.46%) Unix
3 6 (1.64%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.82%) Android
5 2 (0.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (25.68%) Agile
2 91 (24.86%) Problem-Solving
3 71 (19.40%) Analytics
4 58 (15.85%) CI/CD
5 49 (13.39%) Software Engineering
6 45 (12.30%) Microservices
7 44 (12.02%) Stakeholder Management
8 41 (11.20%) Continuous Improvement
9 40 (10.93%) DevOps
10 35 (9.56%) AI
11 34 (9.29%) User Experience
12 33 (9.02%) Decision-Making
13 30 (8.20%) Project Management
13 30 (8.20%) Roadmaps
13 30 (8.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 28 (7.65%) Business Intelligence
15 25 (6.83%) Machine Learning
15 25 (6.83%) Mentoring
16 24 (6.56%) Data Science
17 23 (6.28%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 80 (21.86%) Python
2 64 (17.49%) Java
3 57 (15.57%) SQL
4 29 (7.92%) C#
5 21 (5.74%) JavaScript
5 21 (5.74%) TypeScript
6 20 (5.46%) Go
7 12 (3.28%) R
8 10 (2.73%) C++
9 9 (2.46%) Kotlin
10 7 (1.91%) Bash
11 5 (1.37%) Swift
12 4 (1.09%) Ruby
13 3 (0.82%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.82%) Rust
13 3 (0.82%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.55%) C
14 2 (0.55%) Haskell
14 2 (0.55%) Perl
14 2 (0.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 29 (7.92%) Degree
2 23 (6.28%) PMP
3 19 (5.19%) PMI Certification
4 15 (4.10%) Master's Degree
5 10 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.73%) MBA
6 9 (2.46%) Security Cleared
7 8 (2.19%) SAFe Agilist
8 7 (1.91%) CISSP
9 6 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.64%) CISM
10 5 (1.37%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.37%) SC Cleared
11 4 (1.09%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.09%) OCP
11 4 (1.09%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.82%) APMP
12 3 (0.82%) CBAP
12 3 (0.82%) IIBA
12 3 (0.82%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.74%) QA
2 20 (5.46%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.73%) PCI DSS
4 9 (2.46%) PMO
5 8 (2.19%) Basel III
6 7 (1.91%) NIST
7 6 (1.64%) GDPR
8 5 (1.37%) Data Quality
8 5 (1.37%) ISO 20022
8 5 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.82%) GRC
9 3 (0.82%) PSD2
9 3 (0.82%) SLA
10 2 (0.55%) COBIT
10 2 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.55%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.55%) SEPA
11 1 (0.27%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (10.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (10.11%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.92%) Ansible
3 14 (3.83%) Terraform
4 8 (2.19%) Grafana
5 4 (1.09%) Kibana
6 3 (0.82%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.82%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.82%) RSA Archer
7 2 (0.55%) Puppet
7 2 (0.55%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 15 (4.10%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.28%) Databricks
3 11 (3.01%) Sonatype
4 7 (1.91%) Amplitude
4 7 (1.91%) Oracle
5 6 (1.64%) Google
5 6 (1.64%) Salesforce
5 6 (1.64%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.37%) Splunk
7 4 (1.09%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.82%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.82%) BiZZdesign
8 3 (0.82%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.82%) GoldenSource
8 3 (0.82%) HubSpot
8 3 (0.82%) Samsung
9 2 (0.55%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.55%) Gemalto
9 2 (0.55%) Rapid7
9 2 (0.55%) Thales