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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 221 220
Rank change year-on-year -67 -1 +19
Contract jobs citing Fintech 368 365 485
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.90% 1.19% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.32% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 291 402
10th Percentile £344 £413 £400
25th Percentile £413 £503 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £581
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +5.38% +1.09%
75th Percentile £700 £713 £684
90th Percentile £850 £800 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £414 £425 £489
% change year-on-year -2.71% -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 35,563 27,597 38,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.83% 89.79% 87.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,526 17,059 25,424
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 £480 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.54% -1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,133 855 2,176
10th Percentile £14.62 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £60.46 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £73.27
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.29 £35.00
% change year-on-year -19.62% -10.60% -

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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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -71 335 £550 -12.00% 474
London -50 247 £625 - 315
Work from Home -82 107 £619 -1.00% 264
UK excluding London -32 93 £414 -2.71% 230
North of England -38 35 £389 -24.71% 65
South East -13 18 £310 - 108
Yorkshire -49 18 £368 -29.90% 16
Midlands -55 16 £385 -3.75% 15
North West -23 15 £444 +4.35% 37
East Midlands -26 13 £365 -8.88% 4
Scotland +6 9 £588 +17.50% 4
South West -14 7 £450 -35.71% 20
East of England -18 7 £300 -55.56% 16
West Midlands -53 3 £430 -16.50% 11
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 3
North East -18 2 - - 12

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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 (8.97%) Confluence
2 5 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.09%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.27%) Appian
Applications
1 23 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.90%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.82%) Notion
6 2 (0.54%) 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 86 (23.37%) AWS
2 55 (14.95%) Azure
3 35 (9.51%) GCP
4 30 (8.15%) Power Platform
5 23 (6.25%) GitHub
6 21 (5.71%) SaaS
7 15 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (2.99%) Amazon Kinesis
8 11 (2.99%) Datadog
9 10 (2.72%) AWS Step Functions
9 10 (2.72%) Figma
10 7 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.63%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (1.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.36%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (1.36%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.36%) dbt
12 5 (1.36%) Serverless
13 4 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.09%) Network Security
2 2 (0.54%) SSH
3 1 (0.27%) ATM
3 1 (0.27%) DNS
3 1 (0.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.79%) Power BI
2 23 (6.25%) Tableau
3 15 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (4.08%) Apache Cassandra
3 15 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (3.26%) Looker
5 11 (2.99%) MySQL
6 10 (2.72%) Hadoop
7 8 (2.17%) MongoDB
8 7 (1.90%) Mixpanel
9 6 (1.63%) Big Data
9 6 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.63%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.36%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.36%) NoSQL
11 4 (1.09%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.82%) Apache Arrow
12 3 (0.82%) Redis
12 3 (0.82%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 44 (11.96%) JIRA
2 26 (7.07%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.99%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (2.17%) Cypress.io
5 7 (1.90%) Git
6 5 (1.36%) GitLab
6 5 (1.36%) 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 (0.54%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.54%) Appium
9 2 (0.54%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.54%) MLflow
9 2 (0.54%) Postman
9 2 (0.54%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.54%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.54%) Xcode
General
1 230 (62.50%) Finance
2 112 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 94 (25.54%) Banking
4 49 (13.32%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (7.07%) Front Office
6 16 (4.35%) Marketing
7 15 (4.08%) Public Sector
8 14 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.99%) Corporate Banking
9 11 (2.99%) Retail
10 10 (2.72%) Financial Institution
10 10 (2.72%) Legal
10 10 (2.72%) Retail Banking
11 8 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.90%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.90%) Japanese Language
13 5 (1.36%) German Language
13 5 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.09%) Games
15 3 (0.82%) French Language
Job Titles
1 88 (23.91%) Developer
2 66 (17.93%) Senior
3 34 (9.24%) Analyst
4 29 (7.88%) Senior Developer
5 27 (7.34%) Lead
6 24 (6.52%) Java Developer
7 23 (6.25%) Software Engineer
8 22 (5.98%) Business Analyst
9 21 (5.71%) Python Developer
10 19 (5.16%) Project Manager
11 18 (4.89%) Product Manager
12 16 (4.35%) Architect
12 16 (4.35%) Java Engineer
13 14 (3.80%) AWS Engineer
14 13 (3.53%) Designer
15 11 (2.99%) Product Owner
15 11 (2.99%) Technical Business Analyst
16 10 (2.72%) Data Engineer
16 10 (2.72%) Data Scientist
16 10 (2.72%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (8.70%) Kafka
2 24 (6.52%) React
3 22 (5.98%) REST
4 17 (4.62%) Node.js
4 17 (4.62%) RESTful
5 14 (3.80%) .NET
6 13 (3.53%) AngularJS
7 10 (2.72%) Spring
8 9 (2.45%) Redux
8 9 (2.45%) Spring Boot
9 8 (2.17%) Pandas
10 7 (1.90%) GraphQL
10 7 (1.90%) TensorFlow
11 6 (1.63%) gRPC
12 5 (1.36%) Jest
12 5 (1.36%) NumPy
12 5 (1.36%) scikit-learn
13 4 (1.09%) EDI
13 4 (1.09%) PyTorch
13 4 (1.09%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.61%) Product Ownership
2 25 (6.79%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (6.25%) Fixed Income
4 22 (5.98%) Equities
5 20 (5.43%) Greenfield Project
6 18 (4.89%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.26%) Virtual Team
8 10 (2.72%) Cloud Native
9 9 (2.45%) Derivative
10 8 (2.17%) Hedge funds
10 8 (2.17%) PMI
11 7 (1.90%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (1.09%) Blockchain
14 4 (1.09%) Data Structures
14 4 (1.09%) Learning Management System
14 4 (1.09%) Public Cloud
14 4 (1.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.08%) Linux
2 9 (2.45%) Unix
3 6 (1.63%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.82%) Android
5 2 (0.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (25.54%) Agile
2 91 (24.73%) Problem-Solving
3 71 (19.29%) Analytics
4 58 (15.76%) CI/CD
5 50 (13.59%) Software Engineering
6 46 (12.50%) Microservices
7 44 (11.96%) Stakeholder Management
8 41 (11.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 40 (10.87%) DevOps
10 35 (9.51%) AI
11 34 (9.24%) User Experience
12 33 (8.97%) Decision-Making
13 31 (8.42%) Roadmaps
14 30 (8.15%) Project Management
14 30 (8.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 28 (7.61%) Business Intelligence
16 25 (6.79%) Machine Learning
16 25 (6.79%) Mentoring
17 24 (6.52%) Data Science
17 24 (6.52%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 80 (21.74%) Python
2 64 (17.39%) Java
3 57 (15.49%) SQL
4 29 (7.88%) C#
5 21 (5.71%) Go
5 21 (5.71%) JavaScript
5 21 (5.71%) TypeScript
6 12 (3.26%) R
7 10 (2.72%) C++
8 9 (2.45%) Kotlin
9 7 (1.90%) Bash
10 5 (1.36%) Swift
11 4 (1.09%) Ruby
12 3 (0.82%) Objective-C
12 3 (0.82%) Rust
12 3 (0.82%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.54%) C
13 2 (0.54%) Haskell
13 2 (0.54%) Perl
13 2 (0.54%) PHP
Qualifications
1 29 (7.88%) Degree
2 23 (6.25%) PMP
3 19 (5.16%) PMI Certification
4 15 (4.08%) Master's Degree
5 10 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.72%) MBA
6 9 (2.45%) Security Cleared
7 8 (2.17%) SAFe Agilist
8 7 (1.90%) CISSP
9 6 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.63%) CISM
10 5 (1.36%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.36%) SC Cleared
11 4 (1.09%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.09%) OCP
11 4 (1.09%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.82%) IIBA
12 3 (0.82%) PgMP
12 3 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.70%) QA
2 20 (5.43%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.72%) PCI DSS
4 9 (2.45%) PMO
5 8 (2.17%) Basel III
6 7 (1.90%) NIST
7 6 (1.63%) GDPR
8 5 (1.36%) Data Quality
8 5 (1.36%) ISO 20022
8 5 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.82%) GRC
9 3 (0.82%) PSD2
9 3 (0.82%) SLA
10 2 (0.54%) COBIT
10 2 (0.54%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.54%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.54%) SEPA
11 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (10.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (10.33%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.89%) Ansible
3 14 (3.80%) Terraform
4 8 (2.17%) 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 (0.54%) Puppet
7 2 (0.54%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 16 (4.35%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.26%) Databricks
3 11 (2.99%) Sonatype
4 7 (1.90%) Amplitude
4 7 (1.90%) Oracle
5 6 (1.63%) Google
5 6 (1.63%) Salesforce
5 6 (1.63%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.36%) 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 (0.54%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.54%) Gemalto
9 2 (0.54%) Rapid7
9 2 (0.54%) Thales