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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 212 216
Rank change year-on-year -72 +4 +32
Contract jobs citing Fintech 399 369 474
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.87% 1.26% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.39% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 292 402
10th Percentile £321 £400 £400
25th Percentile £430 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% -2.00% +5.49%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £750
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £384 £471 £475
% change year-on-year -18.51% -0.79% +3.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 6
10th Percentile - £48.13 £34.88
25th Percentile £22.25 £50.94 £45.44
Median hourly rate £53.75 £56.25 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% - -
75th Percentile £78.75 £60.94 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £63.38 £80.88
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 39,116 26,622 37,889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.70% 86.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,735 17,238 24,535
10th Percentile £316 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £524 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% -0.26% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +0.41% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,315 1,028 2,411
10th Percentile £14.98 £14.96 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.85 £18.51 £15.85
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.43 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +23.25% -7.98% -8.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.00 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £28.75 £33.07
% change year-on-year +39.13% -13.05% -7.64%

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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 17 April 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 17 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Fintech in the UK

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Top 15 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 17 April 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 -77 361 £550 -12.00% 598
London -55 269 £600 -4.00% 421
Work from Home -91 107 £600 -11.11% 261
UK excluding London -30 97 £384 -18.51% 239
North of England -47 35 £425 - 79
South East -27 31 £280 - 92
Yorkshire -40 18 £372 -26.73% 22
North West -24 15 £446 -1.33% 43
East Midlands -32 10 £340 -15.00% 9
Midlands -75 10 £340 -15.00% 18
Scotland +5 9 £588 +17.50% 6
South West - 7 £384 - 24
East of England -24 6 £358 -35.00% 15
North East -18 2 - - 14
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3

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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 31 (7.77%) Confluence
2 4 (1.00%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.75%) Apache
4 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.25%) Appian
4 1 (0.25%) CMS
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.25%) nginx
4 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.01%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.75%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.75%) Notion
6 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.25%) Sketch
7 1 (0.25%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.50%) SAP EHS
1 2 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.25%) BASE24
2 1 (0.25%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 95 (23.81%) AWS
2 64 (16.04%) Azure
3 41 (10.28%) GCP
4 30 (7.52%) Power Platform
5 26 (6.52%) GitHub
6 21 (5.26%) SaaS
7 11 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (2.76%) Figma
8 9 (2.26%) Datadog
9 8 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (2.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (1.75%) Serverless
11 6 (1.50%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (1.50%) Amazon S3
11 6 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.25%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.00%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.25%) Firewall
2 4 (1.00%) Network Security
3 3 (0.75%) VPN
4 2 (0.50%) DNS
4 2 (0.50%) FTP
4 2 (0.50%) SSH
5 1 (0.25%) DHCP
5 1 (0.25%) HTTP
5 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (6.02%) Power BI
3 19 (4.76%) Tableau
4 13 (3.26%) Looker
5 11 (2.76%) Data Lake
5 11 (2.76%) NoSQL
5 11 (2.76%) Relational Database
6 8 (2.01%) Apache Cassandra
7 7 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.75%) Mixpanel
8 6 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.50%) MySQL
9 5 (1.25%) Big Data
9 5 (1.25%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.25%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.00%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.75%) Pinecone
11 3 (0.75%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 40 (10.03%) JIRA
2 29 (7.27%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.51%) Git
3 10 (2.51%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (1.25%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.00%) GitLab
6 3 (0.75%) JUnit
6 3 (0.75%) REST Assured
6 3 (0.75%) Selenium
6 3 (0.75%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.50%) Android Studio
7 2 (0.50%) Appium
7 2 (0.50%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.50%) MLflow
7 2 (0.50%) Postman
7 2 (0.50%) Sourcetree
7 2 (0.50%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.50%) Xcode
8 1 (0.25%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.25%) Gatling
General
1 240 (60.15%) Finance
2 100 (25.06%) Social Skills
3 99 (24.81%) Banking
4 55 (13.78%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (8.02%) Front Office
6 16 (4.01%) Marketing
7 14 (3.51%) Public Sector
8 11 (2.76%) Corporate Banking
8 11 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.76%) Retail
8 11 (2.76%) Retail Banking
9 10 (2.51%) Financial Institution
10 9 (2.26%) Investment Banking
10 9 (2.26%) Legal
11 6 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.50%) Publishing
12 4 (1.00%) Advertising
12 4 (1.00%) Games
13 3 (0.75%) Retail Finance
13 3 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 95 (23.81%) Developer
2 72 (18.05%) Senior
3 37 (9.27%) Lead
4 32 (8.02%) Analyst
5 31 (7.77%) Software Engineer
6 27 (6.77%) Python Developer
7 24 (6.02%) Java Developer
7 24 (6.02%) Senior Developer
8 22 (5.51%) Project Manager
9 21 (5.26%) Architect
10 20 (5.01%) Business Analyst
11 16 (4.01%) AWS Engineer
11 16 (4.01%) Data Engineer
11 16 (4.01%) Lead Developer
11 16 (4.01%) Product Manager
12 15 (3.76%) Consultant
12 15 (3.76%) Designer
13 14 (3.51%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 13 (3.26%) Senior Manager
15 12 (3.01%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (8.52%) React
1 34 (8.52%) REST
2 33 (8.27%) Kafka
3 26 (6.52%) Node.js
4 18 (4.51%) Redux
4 18 (4.51%) RESTful
5 14 (3.51%) Spring
5 14 (3.51%) Spring Boot
6 12 (3.01%) AngularJS
6 12 (3.01%) Pandas
7 10 (2.51%) .NET
8 9 (2.26%) GraphQL
8 9 (2.26%) NumPy
8 9 (2.26%) React Native
9 8 (2.01%) FastAPI
9 8 (2.01%) Flask
9 8 (2.01%) TensorFlow
10 7 (1.75%) Polars
11 6 (1.50%) Apache Avro
11 6 (1.50%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.02%) Equities
2 26 (6.52%) Fixed Income
2 26 (6.52%) Product Ownership
3 19 (4.76%) Derivative
3 19 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 18 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (4.01%) Cloud Native
6 14 (3.51%) Hedge funds
6 14 (3.51%) Mobile App
7 13 (3.26%) Data Structures
7 13 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (2.26%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.26%) PMI
8 9 (2.26%) Virtual Team
9 8 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.25%) Market Risk
11 4 (1.00%) Digital Wallet
11 4 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.76%) Linux
2 11 (2.76%) Unix
3 4 (1.00%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.75%) Android
5 2 (0.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (19.80%) Agile
2 76 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (17.04%) CI/CD
4 59 (14.79%) Analytics
5 55 (13.78%) Software Engineering
6 50 (12.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 48 (12.03%) DevOps
8 46 (11.53%) AI
9 39 (9.77%) Microservices
10 35 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (8.52%) Mentoring
12 32 (8.02%) Decision-Making
12 32 (8.02%) User Experience
13 29 (7.27%) Business Intelligence
13 29 (7.27%) Data Pipeline
14 28 (7.02%) Observability
14 28 (7.02%) Project Management
15 26 (6.52%) Full-Stack Development
15 26 (6.52%) Roadmaps
16 25 (6.27%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 88 (22.06%) Python
2 72 (18.05%) SQL
3 66 (16.54%) Java
4 37 (9.27%) TypeScript
5 25 (6.27%) JavaScript
6 23 (5.76%) C#
7 22 (5.51%) Go
8 12 (3.01%) R
9 9 (2.26%) C++
9 9 (2.26%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.25%) Bash
11 4 (1.00%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.00%) Swift
12 3 (0.75%) Perl
12 3 (0.75%) Ruby
13 2 (0.50%) C
13 2 (0.50%) F#
13 2 (0.50%) Haskell
13 2 (0.50%) PHP
13 2 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (8.02%) Degree
2 19 (4.76%) Security Cleared
3 17 (4.26%) PMP
4 15 (3.76%) Master's Degree
4 15 (3.76%) PMI Certification
5 14 (3.51%) SC Cleared
6 10 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.51%) MBA
7 8 (2.01%) SAFe Agilist
8 7 (1.75%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.50%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.25%) CISSP
11 4 (1.00%) APMP
11 4 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (1.00%) CISM
11 4 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.75%) CBAP
12 3 (0.75%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.27%) QA
2 14 (3.51%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.01%) Basel III
3 8 (2.01%) PMO
4 7 (1.75%) GDPR
4 7 (1.75%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.00%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.00%) NIST
6 3 (0.75%) ISO 20022
6 3 (0.75%) SLA
7 2 (0.50%) GRC
7 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.25%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.25%) PSD2
8 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.25%) SEPA
8 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 43 (10.78%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (10.03%) Kubernetes
2 16 (4.01%) Ansible
3 15 (3.76%) Terraform
4 7 (1.75%) Grafana
5 4 (1.00%) Kibana
6 3 (0.75%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.75%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.50%) Puppet
7 2 (0.50%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.25%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.25%) linkerd
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.25%) SCCM
8 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (5.76%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.51%) Salesforce
2 10 (2.51%) Sonatype
3 9 (2.26%) Databricks
4 8 (2.01%) Amplitude
5 7 (1.75%) Informatica
6 6 (1.50%) Google
6 6 (1.50%) Splunk
7 5 (1.25%) Oracle
8 4 (1.00%) SAP
8 4 (1.00%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.75%) BiZZdesign
9 3 (0.75%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.75%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.75%) GoldenSource
10 2 (0.50%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.50%) Gemalto
10 2 (0.50%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.50%) Thales
10 2 (0.50%) Workday