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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 213 232
Rank change year-on-year -48 +19 +3
Contract jobs citing Fintech 387 377 439
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.05% 1.17% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.32% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 309 364
10th Percentile £340 £423 £375
25th Percentile £413 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £731 £675
90th Percentile £825 £825 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £484 £489
% change year-on-year -6.98% -1.07% -6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 4
10th Percentile £53.45 £47.38 £31.93
25th Percentile £68.25 £49.06 £38.56
Median hourly rate £85.00 £53.75 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.14% +6.44% -
75th Percentile £87.50 £59.06 £62.50
90th Percentile £96.50 £61.13 £69.25
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 32,425 28,554 37,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.87% 88.48% 87.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,478 17,360 24,692
10th Percentile £304 £308 £305
25th Percentile £406 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £720 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,006 922 1,534
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +21.43%
75th Percentile £55.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.55 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.41 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.65% -32.42% +55.17%

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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 8 January 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 8 January 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 8 January 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 -49 327 £551 -10.04% 1,028
London -41 239 £650 +4.00% 314
Work from Home -37 138 £594 -5.00% 422
UK excluding London -2 106 £450 -6.98% 811
North of England -30 32 £425 -19.05% 153
Scotland +16 24 £550 +22.22% 19
Midlands -27 21 £375 -5.66% 94
North West -7 18 £455 - 60
East Midlands -16 18 £375 -5.66% 61
South East -7 17 £375 -26.83% 302
Yorkshire -40 12 £400 -23.81% 66
South West -2 7 £450 -35.71% 97
East of England -19 5 £450 -33.33% 107
West Midlands -37 3 £430 - 30
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 17
North East -9 2 - - 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 27 (6.98%) Confluence
2 13 (3.36%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.81%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.78%) Apache
5 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.26%) Appian
6 1 (0.26%) IIS
Applications
1 16 (4.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.07%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.81%) Chatbot
4 6 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.78%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.78%) Notion
6 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.26%) MadCap Flare
7 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.58%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.26%) BASE24
3 1 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.26%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 91 (23.51%) AWS
2 69 (17.83%) Azure
3 36 (9.30%) GCP
4 23 (5.94%) GitHub
5 21 (5.43%) Power Platform
6 18 (4.65%) SaaS
7 14 (3.62%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (3.36%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (3.10%) dbt
10 11 (2.84%) Datadog
11 10 (2.58%) Amazon Kinesis
11 10 (2.58%) Figma
12 9 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (2.33%) AWS Step Functions
12 9 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (2.07%) Serverless
14 7 (1.81%) Amazon S3
15 6 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.03%) ATM
2 2 (0.52%) DNS
2 2 (0.52%) SSH
3 1 (0.26%) DHCP
3 1 (0.26%) Firewall
3 1 (0.26%) HTTP
3 1 (0.26%) Network Security
3 1 (0.26%) SSL
3 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (4.65%) Tableau
3 16 (4.13%) Power BI
4 15 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (3.62%) Apache Cassandra
6 13 (3.36%) MongoDB
7 12 (3.10%) MySQL
8 9 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (2.33%) Hadoop
8 9 (2.33%) NoSQL
8 9 (2.33%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.07%) Apache Arrow
9 8 (2.07%) Apache Iceberg
9 8 (2.07%) Dremio
10 7 (1.81%) Big Data
11 6 (1.55%) BigQuery
11 6 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (1.03%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.03%) Looker
Development Applications
1 41 (10.59%) JIRA
2 19 (4.91%) Jenkins
3 16 (4.13%) Cypress.io
4 12 (3.10%) Git
5 8 (2.07%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.07%) JUnit
6 6 (1.55%) GitLab
7 5 (1.29%) Selenium
7 5 (1.29%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.78%) Gatling
9 3 (0.78%) MLflow
9 3 (0.78%) Storybook
10 2 (0.52%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.52%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.52%) JMeter
10 2 (0.52%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.52%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.52%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.52%) TestNG
General
1 244 (63.05%) Finance
2 126 (32.56%) Social Skills
3 118 (30.49%) Banking
4 59 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.68%) Front Office
6 16 (4.13%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (3.88%) Public Sector
8 12 (3.10%) Legal
9 11 (2.84%) Financial Institution
9 11 (2.84%) Retail
10 10 (2.58%) Marketing
11 9 (2.33%) Retail Banking
12 8 (2.07%) Investment Banking
12 8 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.81%) Corporate Banking
13 7 (1.81%) Japanese Language
13 7 (1.81%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.29%) German Language
14 5 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (24.81%) Developer
2 66 (17.05%) Senior
3 44 (11.37%) Analyst
4 33 (8.53%) Senior Developer
5 26 (6.72%) Java Developer
6 23 (5.94%) Product Manager
7 22 (5.68%) Python Developer
7 22 (5.68%) Software Engineer
8 21 (5.43%) Lead
9 20 (5.17%) Project Manager
10 19 (4.91%) Architect
11 18 (4.65%) Business Analyst
12 16 (4.13%) Python Engineer
13 15 (3.88%) Java Engineer
14 14 (3.62%) AWS Engineer
15 13 (3.36%) Product Owner
16 11 (2.84%) C# Developer
16 11 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
17 10 (2.58%) Backend Developer
17 10 (2.58%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (11.89%) Kafka
2 31 (8.01%) React
3 30 (7.75%) RESTful
4 26 (6.72%) REST
5 25 (6.46%) AngularJS
6 21 (5.43%) Spring
7 20 (5.17%) .NET
8 19 (4.91%) Node.js
8 19 (4.91%) Spring Boot
9 14 (3.62%) Pandas
10 13 (3.36%) Jest
11 10 (2.58%) NumPy
12 8 (2.07%) GraphQL
12 8 (2.07%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (2.07%) SciPy
12 8 (2.07%) Vue
13 7 (1.81%) gRPC
13 7 (1.81%) OAuth
13 7 (1.81%) OAuth2
13 7 (1.81%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.27%) Product Ownership
2 24 (6.20%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (5.68%) Onboarding
4 20 (5.17%) Fixed Income
4 20 (5.17%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (4.65%) Equities
6 14 (3.62%) Cloud Native
6 14 (3.62%) Virtual Team
7 10 (2.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (2.33%) PMI
8 9 (2.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 8 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (2.07%) Hedge funds
10 7 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.81%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.55%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.29%) Data Fabric
13 4 (1.03%) Blockchain
13 4 (1.03%) Digital Wallet
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.84%) Linux
2 9 (2.33%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.55%) Windows
4 5 (1.29%) Unix
5 4 (1.03%) Android
6 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (31.78%) Agile
2 92 (23.77%) Problem-Solving
3 71 (18.35%) CI/CD
4 63 (16.28%) Analytics
5 61 (15.76%) DevOps
5 61 (15.76%) Microservices
6 56 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
7 49 (12.66%) Stakeholder Management
8 48 (12.40%) Software Engineering
9 40 (10.34%) Migration
10 38 (9.82%) AI
11 37 (9.56%) Roadmaps
11 37 (9.56%) User Experience
12 35 (9.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 31 (8.01%) Observability
13 31 (8.01%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 30 (7.75%) Full-Stack Development
14 30 (7.75%) Project Management
15 29 (7.49%) Decision-Making
16 27 (6.98%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 80 (20.67%) Python
2 72 (18.60%) Java
3 49 (12.66%) SQL
4 34 (8.79%) C#
5 24 (6.20%) TypeScript
6 23 (5.94%) JavaScript
7 20 (5.17%) Go
8 14 (3.62%) Kotlin
9 9 (2.33%) Bash
10 7 (1.81%) C++
11 6 (1.55%) R
11 6 (1.55%) Swift
12 4 (1.03%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.78%) Perl
13 3 (0.78%) Ruby
13 3 (0.78%) Rust
14 2 (0.52%) C
14 2 (0.52%) Dart
14 2 (0.52%) PHP
14 2 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (8.79%) Degree
2 25 (6.46%) PMP
3 23 (5.94%) PMI Certification
4 16 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (3.62%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.07%) SAFe Agilist
7 7 (1.81%) MBA
8 6 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.55%) Security Cleared
9 5 (1.29%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.29%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.29%) CBAP
9 5 (1.29%) SC Cleared
10 4 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.03%) OCP
10 4 (1.03%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.78%) APMP
11 3 (0.78%) CISSP
11 3 (0.78%) IIBA
11 3 (0.78%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (11.37%) QA
2 18 (4.65%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.10%) PCI DSS
4 10 (2.58%) PMO
4 10 (2.58%) PSD2
5 9 (2.33%) GDPR
6 7 (1.81%) Basel III
6 7 (1.81%) ISO 20022
7 6 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (1.29%) ISO 8583
9 4 (1.03%) NIST
9 4 (1.03%) SEPA
10 3 (0.78%) GRC
10 3 (0.78%) SLA
11 2 (0.52%) COBIT
11 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.52%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.26%) Data Quality
System Software
1 56 (14.47%) Docker
2 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 26 (6.72%) Terraform
3 17 (4.39%) Ansible
4 7 (1.81%) Grafana
5 3 (0.78%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (0.78%) RSA Archer
6 2 (0.52%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.26%) Istio
7 1 (0.26%) linkerd
7 1 (0.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (6.98%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.88%) Databricks
3 10 (2.58%) Salesforce
4 7 (1.81%) ServiceNow
5 6 (1.55%) Google
6 5 (1.29%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.03%) Oracle
7 4 (1.03%) Sonatype
8 3 (0.78%) CA Agile Central
8 3 (0.78%) GoldenSource
8 3 (0.78%) New Relic
8 3 (0.78%) Samsung
9 2 (0.52%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.52%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.52%) Gemalto
9 2 (0.52%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.52%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.52%) Rapid7
9 2 (0.52%) Thales
9 2 (0.52%) VMware