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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 215 229
Rank change year-on-year -43 +14 -2
Contract jobs citing Fintech 376 372 441
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.04% 1.18% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 1.33% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 304 368
10th Percentile £339 £411 £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 £727 £675
90th Percentile £840 £825 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £444 £489
% change year-on-year +1.41% -9.25% -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 31,821 27,941 37,669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.79% 88.66% 87.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,057 16,962 24,992
10th Percentile £304 £306 £304
25th Percentile £406 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £744 £742
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,969 885 1,593
10th Percentile £14.60 £15.62 £14.18
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.48 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.25 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% -20.38% +16.41%
75th Percentile £56.00 £61.76 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.49 £74.82 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.11 £43.90
% change year-on-year -20.86% -31.42% +59.64%

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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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -58 322 £551 -10.04% 1,146
London -42 232 £650 +4.00% 292
Work from Home -41 133 £594 -5.00% 593
UK excluding London +16 104 £450 +1.41% 967
North of England -27 32 £425 -19.05% 171
Midlands -34 21 £375 -6.25% 100
Scotland +14 20 £550 +37.50% 24
South East 0 19 £375 -26.83% 366
East Midlands -11 18 £375 -6.25% 66
North West -16 18 £455 - 69
Yorkshire -33 12 £400 -23.81% 71
South West -11 7 £450 -35.71% 108
East of England -19 5 £450 -33.33% 144
West Midlands -33 3 £430 - 32
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 25
North East -6 2 - - 31

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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 26 (6.91%) Confluence
2 9 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.06%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.27%) Appian
5 1 (0.27%) IIS
Applications
1 16 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.86%) Chatbot
4 6 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.80%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.80%) Notion
6 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.27%) MadCap Flare
7 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.66%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.53%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.27%) BASE24
3 1 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 81 (21.54%) AWS
2 63 (16.76%) Azure
3 31 (8.24%) GCP
4 21 (5.59%) GitHub
4 21 (5.59%) Power Platform
5 17 (4.52%) SaaS
6 13 (3.46%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (3.19%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (2.66%) Datadog
8 10 (2.66%) Figma
9 9 (2.39%) Amazon Kinesis
9 9 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (2.39%) dbt
10 8 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (2.13%) AWS Step Functions
11 7 (1.86%) Serverless
12 6 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (1.60%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.06%) ATM
2 2 (0.53%) DNS
2 2 (0.53%) SSH
3 1 (0.27%) DHCP
3 1 (0.27%) Firewall
3 1 (0.27%) HTTP
3 1 (0.27%) Network Security
3 1 (0.27%) SSL
3 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.05%) Tableau
2 18 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (4.26%) Power BI
4 14 (3.72%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (3.72%) Apache Cassandra
5 13 (3.46%) MongoDB
6 11 (2.93%) MySQL
7 9 (2.39%) Hadoop
8 8 (2.13%) SQL Server
9 7 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (1.86%) Apache Arrow
9 7 (1.86%) Apache Iceberg
9 7 (1.86%) Dremio
9 7 (1.86%) NoSQL
10 6 (1.60%) Big Data
11 5 (1.33%) Looker
12 4 (1.06%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.80%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.80%) Redis
13 3 (0.80%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (10.64%) JIRA
2 19 (5.05%) Jenkins
3 15 (3.99%) Cypress.io
4 12 (3.19%) Git
5 8 (2.13%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.13%) JUnit
6 6 (1.60%) GitLab
7 5 (1.33%) Selenium
7 5 (1.33%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.80%) Gatling
9 3 (0.80%) MLflow
9 3 (0.80%) Storybook
10 2 (0.53%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.53%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.53%) JMeter
10 2 (0.53%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.53%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.53%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.53%) TestNG
General
1 237 (63.03%) Finance
2 124 (32.98%) Social Skills
3 114 (30.32%) Banking
4 55 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (5.59%) Front Office
6 15 (3.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (3.99%) Public Sector
7 13 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (3.19%) Legal
9 11 (2.93%) Financial Institution
9 11 (2.93%) Retail
10 10 (2.66%) Marketing
11 9 (2.39%) Retail Banking
12 8 (2.13%) Investment Banking
12 8 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.86%) Corporate Banking
13 7 (1.86%) Japanese Language
13 7 (1.86%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.33%) German Language
14 5 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 100 (26.60%) Developer
2 62 (16.49%) Senior
3 40 (10.64%) Analyst
4 34 (9.04%) Senior Developer
5 28 (7.45%) Java Developer
6 24 (6.38%) Product Manager
7 21 (5.59%) Python Developer
7 21 (5.59%) Software Engineer
8 20 (5.32%) Lead
8 20 (5.32%) Project Manager
9 18 (4.79%) Architect
9 18 (4.79%) Business Analyst
10 15 (3.99%) Java Engineer
10 15 (3.99%) Python Engineer
11 12 (3.19%) AWS Engineer
11 12 (3.19%) Product Owner
12 11 (2.93%) C# Developer
12 11 (2.93%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (2.66%) Backend Developer
13 10 (2.66%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (11.44%) Kafka
2 29 (7.71%) React
2 29 (7.71%) RESTful
3 26 (6.91%) REST
4 24 (6.38%) AngularJS
5 20 (5.32%) Spring
6 19 (5.05%) .NET
7 18 (4.79%) Spring Boot
8 17 (4.52%) Node.js
9 12 (3.19%) Jest
9 12 (3.19%) Pandas
10 9 (2.39%) NumPy
11 7 (1.86%) GraphQL
11 7 (1.86%) gRPC
11 7 (1.86%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (1.86%) SciPy
11 7 (1.86%) TensorFlow
11 7 (1.86%) Vue
12 6 (1.60%) OAuth
12 6 (1.60%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.98%) Product Ownership
2 23 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (5.85%) Onboarding
4 19 (5.05%) Fixed Income
4 19 (5.05%) Greenfield Project
5 17 (4.52%) Equities
6 13 (3.46%) Cloud Native
7 12 (3.19%) Virtual Team
8 10 (2.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (2.39%) PMI
9 9 (2.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 8 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (2.13%) Hedge funds
11 7 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.60%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.60%) Public Cloud
13 5 (1.33%) Data Fabric
14 4 (1.06%) Blockchain
14 4 (1.06%) Digital Wallet
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.93%) Linux
2 8 (2.13%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.33%) Unix
3 5 (1.33%) Windows
4 3 (0.80%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (31.65%) Agile
2 89 (23.67%) Problem-Solving
3 65 (17.29%) CI/CD
4 59 (15.69%) Analytics
5 58 (15.43%) Microservices
6 56 (14.89%) DevOps
7 53 (14.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 48 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
9 46 (12.23%) Software Engineering
10 36 (9.57%) AI
10 36 (9.57%) User Experience
11 35 (9.31%) Migration
11 35 (9.31%) Roadmaps
11 35 (9.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 31 (8.24%) Observability
13 30 (7.98%) Full-Stack Development
13 30 (7.98%) Project Management
13 30 (7.98%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 29 (7.71%) Decision-Making
15 26 (6.91%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 75 (19.95%) Python
2 72 (19.15%) Java
3 46 (12.23%) SQL
4 33 (8.78%) C#
5 22 (5.85%) JavaScript
5 22 (5.85%) TypeScript
6 21 (5.59%) Go
7 13 (3.46%) Kotlin
8 9 (2.39%) Bash
9 7 (1.86%) C++
10 6 (1.60%) R
11 5 (1.33%) Swift
12 3 (0.80%) Objective-C
12 3 (0.80%) Perl
12 3 (0.80%) Ruby
12 3 (0.80%) Rust
13 2 (0.53%) C
13 2 (0.53%) Dart
13 2 (0.53%) PHP
13 2 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (8.78%) Degree
2 25 (6.65%) PMP
3 23 (6.12%) PMI Certification
4 15 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (3.72%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.13%) SAFe Agilist
7 7 (1.86%) MBA
8 6 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.60%) Security Cleared
9 5 (1.33%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.33%) CBAP
9 5 (1.33%) SC Cleared
10 4 (1.06%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.06%) OCP
10 4 (1.06%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.80%) APMP
11 3 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.80%) CISSP
11 3 (0.80%) IIBA
11 3 (0.80%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (11.44%) QA
2 18 (4.79%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.93%) PCI DSS
4 10 (2.66%) PMO
4 10 (2.66%) PSD2
5 8 (2.13%) GDPR
6 7 (1.86%) Basel III
6 7 (1.86%) ISO 20022
7 5 (1.33%) ISO 8583
7 5 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.06%) NIST
8 4 (1.06%) SEPA
9 3 (0.80%) GRC
9 3 (0.80%) SLA
10 2 (0.53%) COBIT
10 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.53%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 55 (14.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (10.90%) Kubernetes
2 22 (5.85%) Terraform
3 16 (4.26%) Ansible
4 7 (1.86%) Grafana
5 3 (0.80%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (0.80%) RSA Archer
6 2 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.27%) Istio
7 1 (0.27%) linkerd
7 1 (0.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (6.65%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.72%) Databricks
3 9 (2.39%) Salesforce
4 8 (2.13%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.33%) Dynatrace
5 5 (1.33%) Google
6 4 (1.06%) Sonatype
7 3 (0.80%) Bloomberg
7 3 (0.80%) GoldenSource
7 3 (0.80%) New Relic
7 3 (0.80%) Oracle
7 3 (0.80%) Samsung
8 2 (0.53%) Alibaba
8 2 (0.53%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.53%) Amplitude
8 2 (0.53%) Gemalto
8 2 (0.53%) HubSpot
8 2 (0.53%) Rapid7
8 2 (0.53%) Thales
8 2 (0.53%) VMware