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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 196 231
Rank change year-on-year -110 +35 -7
Contract jobs citing Fintech 420 475 430
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.79% 1.45% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 1.60% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 388 356
10th Percentile £280 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £750 £750
90th Percentile £850 £854 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -9.42% +5.56% -15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 2
10th Percentile - £54.50 £47.13
25th Percentile £22.25 - £48.44
Median hourly rate £34.50 £65.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -46.92% +26.83% -42.70%
75th Percentile £66.44 £80.00 £53.44
90th Percentile £82.50 £84.50 £54.38
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 45,002 29,684 34,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.96% 90.46% 85.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,855 18,648 21,888
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £734 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,714 1,621 1,980
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.20 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.89 £17.33 £17.74
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.57 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.55% -41.56% -

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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 30 July 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 30 July 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 30 July 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 -85 392 £550 -8.33% 806
London -59 322 £555 -11.20% 666
Work from Home -150 112 £556 -17.59% 326
UK excluding London -98 72 £430 -9.42% 207
North of England -77 21 £500 +25.00% 59
South East -52 19 £280 - 77
South West -25 12 £570 -12.31% 18
Yorkshire -43 11 £514 +24.15% 12
North West -57 9 £446 +11.38% 29
Midlands -62 9 - - 22
West Midlands -60 8 - - 14
East of England -11 5 £415 -7.78% 6
Scotland -39 5 £463 -11.90% 11
East Midlands -19 1 - - 8
North East -50 1 - - 19
Wales - 1 £400 - 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 11 (2.62%) Confluence
2 3 (0.71%) Apache
2 3 (0.71%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.48%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.24%) CMS
4 1 (0.24%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.71%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.71%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.71%) Trello
4 2 (0.48%) Notion
5 1 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.24%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.24%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.24%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (0.95%) NetSuite
1 4 (0.95%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.48%) SAP EHS
2 2 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.24%) Findur
3 1 (0.24%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.24%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 91 (21.67%) AWS
2 69 (16.43%) Azure
3 47 (11.19%) GCP
4 26 (6.19%) GitHub
5 21 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 20 (4.76%) SaaS
7 18 (4.29%) Figma
8 15 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (2.62%) Snowflake
10 10 (2.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 9 (2.14%) GitHub Copilot
12 6 (1.43%) Anthropic Claude
12 6 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (1.43%) Serverless
12 6 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (1.19%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (1.19%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.19%) VPN
2 4 (0.95%) Firewall
3 2 (0.48%) DNS
3 2 (0.48%) FTP
3 2 (0.48%) Internet
3 2 (0.48%) Network Security
3 2 (0.48%) NFC
4 1 (0.24%) DHCP
4 1 (0.24%) HTTP
4 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (5.71%) Tableau
3 18 (4.29%) Power BI
4 17 (4.05%) MongoDB
4 17 (4.05%) NoSQL
5 13 (3.10%) Relational Database
6 11 (2.62%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (2.62%) BigQuery
6 11 (2.62%) Data Lake
6 11 (2.62%) Looker
7 9 (2.14%) SQL Server
8 7 (1.67%) Mixpanel
9 5 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.95%) Big Data
10 4 (0.95%) Redis
11 3 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.71%) Metadata
11 3 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (6.19%) JIRA
2 17 (4.05%) Jenkins
3 15 (3.57%) Git
4 7 (1.67%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.43%) GitLab
6 5 (1.19%) Storybook
7 4 (0.95%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.71%) Appium
8 3 (0.71%) Postman
8 3 (0.71%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.48%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.48%) Gemini Tracker
9 2 (0.48%) Gradle
9 2 (0.48%) MLflow
9 2 (0.48%) Selenium
9 2 (0.48%) Sourcetree
9 2 (0.48%) Xcode
10 1 (0.24%) Maven
10 1 (0.24%) Mockito
10 1 (0.24%) TeamCity
General
1 256 (60.95%) Finance
2 113 (26.90%) Banking
3 75 (17.86%) Social Skills
4 54 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (7.14%) Front Office
6 26 (6.19%) Marketing
7 24 (5.71%) Financial Institution
8 12 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.14%) Publishing
10 8 (1.90%) Legal
10 8 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.90%) Public Sector
11 7 (1.67%) Games
11 7 (1.67%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.19%) Retail
12 5 (1.19%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.95%) Advertising
13 4 (0.95%) Private Banking
14 3 (0.71%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (18.33%) Developer
2 72 (17.14%) Senior
3 43 (10.24%) Analyst
4 40 (9.52%) Lead
5 34 (8.10%) Software Engineer
6 27 (6.43%) Consultant
7 23 (5.48%) Designer
8 21 (5.00%) Data Engineer
8 21 (5.00%) Python Developer
9 18 (4.29%) Architect
10 17 (4.05%) Java Engineer
11 16 (3.81%) Lead Developer
12 14 (3.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 14 (3.33%) Project Manager
13 13 (3.10%) AWS Engineer
13 13 (3.10%) Product Manager
13 13 (3.10%) Senior Developer
14 12 (2.86%) Lead Software Developer
14 12 (2.86%) Lead Software Engineer
14 12 (2.86%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (9.29%) React
2 34 (8.10%) REST
3 32 (7.62%) Kafka
4 26 (6.19%) Node.js
5 22 (5.24%) .NET
6 20 (4.76%) Spring
7 18 (4.29%) Redux
7 18 (4.29%) Spring Boot
8 16 (3.81%) RESTful
9 11 (2.62%) FastAPI
9 11 (2.62%) Flask
9 11 (2.62%) NumPy
9 11 (2.62%) Pandas
9 11 (2.62%) React Native
10 10 (2.38%) Polars
11 9 (2.14%) Apache Avro
11 9 (2.14%) OAuth
12 8 (1.90%) CSS
12 8 (1.90%) OAuth2
13 7 (1.67%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.86%) Equities
2 26 (6.19%) Derivative
3 24 (5.71%) Onboarding
3 24 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 23 (5.48%) Fixed Income
5 22 (5.24%) Cloud Native
6 18 (4.29%) Mobile App
7 16 (3.81%) Data Structures
7 16 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (3.33%) Hedge funds
9 12 (2.86%) Management Information System
10 11 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (2.14%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (1.67%) Market Risk
14 6 (1.43%) Virtual Team
15 5 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
15 5 (1.19%) Data Centre
15 5 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.52%) Linux
2 14 (3.33%) Android
3 11 (2.62%) Unix
4 10 (2.38%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (20.71%) AI
2 79 (18.81%) CI/CD
3 76 (18.10%) Agile
4 74 (17.62%) Stakeholder Management
5 68 (16.19%) Software Engineering
6 54 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (12.14%) Analytics
8 50 (11.90%) DevOps
9 38 (9.05%) Mentoring
9 38 (9.05%) User Experience
10 37 (8.81%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (8.10%) Microservices
12 33 (7.86%) Data Pipeline
12 33 (7.86%) Decision-Making
13 32 (7.62%) Generative AI
14 30 (7.14%) Machine Learning
15 28 (6.67%) Containerisation
15 28 (6.67%) Full-Stack Development
15 28 (6.67%) Observability
16 27 (6.43%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 89 (21.19%) SQL
2 83 (19.76%) Python
3 54 (12.86%) Java
4 40 (9.52%) TypeScript
5 31 (7.38%) JavaScript
6 25 (5.95%) C#
7 15 (3.57%) Go
7 15 (3.57%) Kotlin
7 15 (3.57%) R
8 10 (2.38%) PowerShell
9 8 (1.90%) PHP
10 7 (1.67%) C++
11 6 (1.43%) Korn
12 5 (1.19%) Bash
13 2 (0.48%) Bicep
13 2 (0.48%) F#
13 2 (0.48%) Groovy
13 2 (0.48%) Perl
13 2 (0.48%) Swift
14 1 (0.24%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 31 (7.38%) Degree
2 19 (4.52%) Security Cleared
3 16 (3.81%) SC Cleared
4 11 (2.62%) Master's Degree
5 9 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.14%) PMP
6 8 (1.90%) PMI Certification
7 4 (0.95%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.95%) PhD
8 3 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (0.71%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.71%) CISM
8 3 (0.71%) CISSP
8 3 (0.71%) MBA
9 2 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.48%) CCSK
9 2 (0.48%) CCSP
9 2 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.19%) QA
2 10 (2.38%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.67%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.19%) PMO
4 5 (1.19%) PSD2
5 4 (0.95%) GDPR
6 3 (0.71%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.48%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.48%) NIST
7 2 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.48%) SLA
8 1 (0.24%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.24%) GRC
8 1 (0.24%) IFRS
8 1 (0.24%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.24%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (9.29%) Docker
2 4 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.10%) Prometheus
2 13 (3.10%) Terraform
3 10 (2.38%) Grafana
4 5 (1.19%) Ansible
4 5 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.95%) Kibana
6 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.71%) SCCM
7 2 (0.48%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.24%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.24%) Istio
8 1 (0.24%) linkerd
8 1 (0.24%) QRadar
Vendors
1 29 (6.90%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.05%) Google
3 11 (2.62%) Databricks
4 10 (2.38%) Informatica
5 9 (2.14%) Amplitude
6 8 (1.90%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.67%) Oracle
8 6 (1.43%) SAP
9 5 (1.19%) Adobe
9 5 (1.19%) Dynatrace
10 4 (0.95%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.95%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.95%) PagerDuty
11 3 (0.71%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.71%) Citrix
11 3 (0.71%) Reuters
12 2 (0.48%) Ariba
12 2 (0.48%) ION Trading
12 2 (0.48%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.48%) Splunk