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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 192 240
Rank change year-on-year -138 +48 -20
Contract jobs citing Fintech 403 474 377
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.73% 1.45% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.60% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 383 304
10th Percentile £269 £363 £425
25th Percentile £413 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £653 £781 £731
90th Percentile £750 £875 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £560 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +17.89% +5.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 3
10th Percentile £67.50 £45.88 £48.00
25th Percentile £71.25 £65.00 £50.63
Median hourly rate £80.00 £73.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.84% +33.64% -38.51%
75th Percentile £86.25 £85.63 £58.75
90th Percentile £88.50 £89.75 £61.00
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 46,309 29,588 32,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.42% 90.49% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,063 18,372 19,750
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £627 £625 £638
90th Percentile £731 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,189 1,818 1,403
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -
75th Percentile £67.25 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.25 £74.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +79.25% -48.10% +1.18%

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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 23 September 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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -99 377 £550 -8.33% 2,583
London -72 295 £550 -12.00% 2,082
Work from Home -169 102 £520 -19.22% 1,079
UK excluding London -127 81 £560 +17.89% 687
South West -13 27 £700 +7.69% 109
North of England -90 25 £514 +22.53% 179
Yorkshire -38 15 £514 +12.47% 38
Midlands -53 11 - - 61
North West -63 9 £488 +18.18% 105
West Midlands -34 8 - - 39
East of England -24 6 £510 +13.33% 41
Scotland -53 5 £344 -34.52% 48
South East -65 5 £265 -30.26% 166
East Midlands -29 3 - - 22
Wales - 2 £525 - 28
North East -43 1 - - 38

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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 12 (2.98%) Confluence
2 3 (0.74%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.74%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.50%) Apache
3 2 (0.50%) Ethereum
3 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.25%) CMS
4 1 (0.25%) JBoss
4 1 (0.25%) nginx
4 1 (0.25%) Solana
4 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.74%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.74%) Trello
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.50%) Notion
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.25%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (1.49%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.99%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.50%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.25%) Findur
5 1 (0.25%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.25%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 67 (16.63%) AWS
2 50 (12.41%) Azure
3 31 (7.69%) GCP
4 23 (5.71%) SaaS
5 22 (5.46%) GitHub
6 16 (3.97%) Figma
7 15 (3.72%) Power Platform
8 14 (3.47%) Snowflake
9 11 (2.73%) GitHub Copilot
10 9 (2.23%) Amazon S3
10 9 (2.23%) Serverless
11 8 (1.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (1.74%) dbt
13 6 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (1.24%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.24%) VPN
2 2 (0.50%) DNS
2 2 (0.50%) Internet
2 2 (0.50%) Network Security
2 2 (0.50%) NFC
3 1 (0.25%) DHCP
3 1 (0.25%) Firewall
3 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.46%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (5.21%) Tableau
3 17 (4.22%) NoSQL
4 16 (3.97%) MongoDB
5 15 (3.72%) Power BI
6 12 (2.98%) BigQuery
6 12 (2.98%) Relational Database
7 10 (2.48%) Looker
8 8 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (1.99%) SQL Server
9 6 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.49%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.99%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (0.99%) Mixpanel
11 3 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.74%) Big Data
11 3 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.74%) Redis
12 2 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 24 (5.96%) JIRA
2 18 (4.47%) Git
3 14 (3.47%) Jenkins
4 12 (2.98%) GitLab
5 6 (1.49%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.49%) Storybook
6 5 (1.24%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.74%) Gradle
8 2 (0.50%) Gemini Tracker
8 2 (0.50%) Maven
8 2 (0.50%) MLflow
9 1 (0.25%) Appium
9 1 (0.25%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.25%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.25%) JUnit
9 1 (0.25%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.25%) Postman
9 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.25%) XCUITest
General
1 242 (60.05%) Finance
2 129 (32.01%) Banking
3 82 (20.35%) Social Skills
4 47 (11.66%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (5.96%) Marketing
6 22 (5.46%) Financial Institution
7 15 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.98%) Front Office
9 7 (1.74%) Legal
9 7 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.74%) Publishing
10 6 (1.49%) Private Banking
11 5 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.24%) Public Sector
12 4 (0.99%) Back Office
12 4 (0.99%) Games
12 4 (0.99%) Health Technology
12 4 (0.99%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.99%) Retail
13 3 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 78 (19.35%) Senior
2 71 (17.62%) Developer
3 52 (12.90%) Analyst
4 25 (6.20%) Software Engineer
5 23 (5.71%) Designer
6 22 (5.46%) Lead
7 20 (4.96%) Consultant
8 18 (4.47%) Java Engineer
9 16 (3.97%) Architect
10 15 (3.72%) Report Analyst
10 15 (3.72%) Senior Developer
11 14 (3.47%) Data Engineer
11 14 (3.47%) Infrastructure Manager
11 14 (3.47%) Senior Manager
12 13 (3.23%) Network Infrastructure Manager
12 13 (3.23%) Network Manager
13 12 (2.98%) Product Designer
14 11 (2.73%) Product Manager
14 11 (2.73%) Project Manager
14 11 (2.73%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (8.93%) REST
2 30 (7.44%) Kafka
3 21 (5.21%) Spring
4 20 (4.96%) React
5 19 (4.71%) .NET
6 17 (4.22%) Spring Boot
6 17 (4.22%) Terraform
7 14 (3.47%) RESTful
8 10 (2.48%) OAuth
8 10 (2.48%) React Native
9 9 (2.23%) NumPy
9 9 (2.23%) OAuth2
9 9 (2.23%) Pandas
10 8 (1.99%) FastAPI
10 8 (1.99%) Flask
10 8 (1.99%) JWT
10 8 (1.99%) Node.js
10 8 (1.99%) Polars
10 8 (1.99%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (1.74%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.70%) Cloud Native
2 23 (5.71%) Onboarding
3 20 (4.96%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (4.71%) Mobile App
5 17 (4.22%) AI Agents
5 17 (4.22%) Product Ownership
6 16 (3.97%) Equities
7 13 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (3.23%) Data Structures
8 11 (2.73%) Derivative
8 11 (2.73%) Hedge funds
9 10 (2.48%) Management Information System
10 9 (2.23%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.99%) Fixed Income
11 8 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.74%) Market Risk
13 6 (1.49%) Equity Derivative
14 5 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (1.24%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.71%) Linux
2 16 (3.97%) Android
3 9 (2.23%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.99%) Unix
5 4 (0.99%) Windows
6 2 (0.50%) CentOS
6 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (25.81%) AI
2 79 (19.60%) Stakeholder Management
3 75 (18.61%) CI/CD
4 65 (16.13%) Software Engineering
5 56 (13.90%) Agile
6 52 (12.90%) Analytics
7 44 (10.92%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (10.67%) DevOps
9 42 (10.42%) Microservices
10 39 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 39 (9.68%) Generative AI
11 35 (8.68%) User Experience
12 33 (8.19%) Decision-Making
12 33 (8.19%) Observability
13 32 (7.94%) Containerisation
14 29 (7.20%) Event-Driven
15 27 (6.70%) Machine Learning
15 27 (6.70%) Roadmaps
16 25 (6.20%) Data Pipeline
16 25 (6.20%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 81 (20.10%) SQL
2 67 (16.63%) Python
3 53 (13.15%) Java
4 26 (6.45%) TypeScript
5 19 (4.71%) C#
5 19 (4.71%) Go
6 16 (3.97%) JavaScript
7 14 (3.47%) Kotlin
8 10 (2.48%) R
9 9 (2.23%) Bash
9 9 (2.23%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.49%) C++
10 6 (1.49%) PHP
11 5 (1.24%) Korn
12 2 (0.50%) Groovy
13 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.25%) CQL
13 1 (0.25%) Solidity
13 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 31 (7.69%) Degree
2 11 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
2 11 (2.73%) Security Cleared
3 10 (2.48%) SC Cleared
4 8 (1.99%) Master's Degree
5 6 (1.49%) PMP
6 5 (1.24%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.24%) PMI Certification
7 4 (0.99%) PhD
8 3 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (0.74%) CISM
8 3 (0.74%) CISSP
9 2 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.50%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.50%) CCSK
9 2 (0.50%) CCSP
9 2 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.50%) MBA
9 2 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.71%) QA
2 10 (2.48%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.48%) PMO
3 7 (1.74%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.49%) PSD2
5 3 (0.74%) GDPR
6 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.50%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.50%) NIST
6 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.25%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
7 1 (0.25%) IFRS
7 1 (0.25%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.25%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.25%) SLA
7 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (9.68%) Docker
2 5 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (11.66%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.98%) Prometheus
3 7 (1.74%) Grafana
4 5 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.74%) Ansible
5 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.50%) Puppet
6 2 (0.50%) SCCM
7 1 (0.25%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.25%) Istio
7 1 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.25%) linkerd
7 1 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 26 (6.45%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.22%) Google
3 11 (2.73%) Databricks
4 7 (1.74%) Amplitude
4 7 (1.74%) Braze
4 7 (1.74%) SAP
5 6 (1.49%) Oracle
5 6 (1.49%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.24%) Adobe
6 5 (1.24%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.24%) Informatica
7 4 (0.99%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.99%) PagerDuty
8 3 (0.74%) NetApp
8 3 (0.74%) VMware
9 2 (0.50%) Ariba
9 2 (0.50%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.50%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.50%) ION Trading
9 2 (0.50%) Reuters