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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 198 230
Rank change year-on-year -108 +32 +2
Contract jobs citing Fintech 425 476 431
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.80% 1.44% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 1.60% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 390 356
10th Percentile £280 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £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 £851 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £415 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -12.63% +5.56% -14.29%
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 44,856 29,798 34,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.96% 90.42% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,798 18,719 22,071
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,670 1,616 2,026
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £13.56
25th Percentile £20.02 £17.33 £17.55
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.38 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.38 £68.75 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.82 £40.00
% change year-on-year +84.59% -40.46% -

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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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -89 394 £550 -8.33% 743
London -53 323 £550 -12.00% 596
Work from Home -143 112 £550 -18.52% 284
UK excluding London -94 76 £415 -12.63% 212
North of England -81 21 £500 +25.00% 67
South East -55 20 £280 - 88
South West -29 12 £570 -12.31% 14
Yorkshire -42 12 £514 +24.15% 11
Midlands -56 9 - - 17
Scotland -25 8 £463 -11.90% 10
West Midlands -47 8 - - 10
North West -55 8 £473 +18.19% 33
East of England -15 5 £415 -7.78% 5
East Midlands -20 1 - - 7
North East -45 1 - - 24
Wales - 1 £400 - 8

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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 14 (3.29%) Confluence
2 3 (0.71%) Apache
2 3 (0.71%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.47%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.24%) CMS
4 1 (0.24%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.71%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.71%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.71%) Trello
5 2 (0.47%) Notion
6 1 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.24%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.24%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.24%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (0.94%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.71%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.47%) SAP EHS
3 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.24%) Exchequer
4 1 (0.24%) Findur
4 1 (0.24%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 94 (22.12%) AWS
2 70 (16.47%) Azure
3 47 (11.06%) GCP
4 28 (6.59%) GitHub
5 21 (4.94%) Power Platform
6 20 (4.71%) SaaS
7 18 (4.24%) Figma
8 14 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (2.59%) Snowflake
10 10 (2.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 9 (2.12%) GitHub Copilot
12 7 (1.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (1.41%) Serverless
14 5 (1.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (1.18%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (1.18%) Amazon S3
14 5 (1.18%) Anthropic Claude
14 5 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.18%) VPN
2 4 (0.94%) Firewall
3 2 (0.47%) DNS
3 2 (0.47%) FTP
3 2 (0.47%) Internet
3 2 (0.47%) Network Security
3 2 (0.47%) 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 (9.41%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (5.88%) Tableau
3 18 (4.24%) NoSQL
3 18 (4.24%) Power BI
4 17 (4.00%) MongoDB
5 13 (3.06%) Relational Database
6 11 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (2.59%) Data Lake
6 11 (2.59%) Looker
7 10 (2.35%) BigQuery
8 9 (2.12%) SQL Server
9 7 (1.65%) Mixpanel
10 5 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.94%) Big Data
11 4 (0.94%) Redis
12 3 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.71%) Metadata
12 3 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (6.82%) JIRA
2 20 (4.71%) Jenkins
3 15 (3.53%) Git
4 7 (1.65%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.41%) GitLab
6 5 (1.18%) Storybook
7 4 (0.94%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.71%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.47%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.47%) Appium
9 2 (0.47%) Gemini Tracker
9 2 (0.47%) Gradle
9 2 (0.47%) MLflow
9 2 (0.47%) Postman
9 2 (0.47%) Selenium
9 2 (0.47%) Sourcetree
9 2 (0.47%) Xcode
10 1 (0.24%) Maven
10 1 (0.24%) TeamCity
General
1 259 (60.94%) Finance
2 113 (26.59%) Banking
3 80 (18.82%) Social Skills
4 54 (12.71%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (7.29%) Front Office
6 25 (5.88%) Financial Institution
6 25 (5.88%) Marketing
7 12 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.12%) Publishing
9 8 (1.88%) Legal
9 8 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (1.88%) Public Sector
10 7 (1.65%) Games
11 6 (1.41%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.94%) Advertising
12 4 (0.94%) Private Banking
12 4 (0.94%) Retail
12 4 (0.94%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (18.35%) Developer
2 71 (16.71%) Senior
3 45 (10.59%) Analyst
4 41 (9.65%) Lead
5 34 (8.00%) Software Engineer
6 27 (6.35%) Consultant
7 23 (5.41%) Designer
8 21 (4.94%) Data Engineer
8 21 (4.94%) Python Developer
9 19 (4.47%) Architect
9 19 (4.47%) Java Engineer
10 16 (3.76%) Lead Developer
11 15 (3.53%) Business Analyst
12 14 (3.29%) AWS Engineer
12 14 (3.29%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 14 (3.29%) Project Manager
13 13 (3.06%) Senior Developer
13 13 (3.06%) Senior Manager
14 12 (2.82%) Lead Software Engineer
14 12 (2.82%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (9.18%) React
2 35 (8.24%) REST
3 33 (7.76%) Kafka
4 26 (6.12%) Node.js
5 22 (5.18%) .NET
5 22 (5.18%) Spring
6 19 (4.47%) Spring Boot
7 18 (4.24%) Redux
8 16 (3.76%) RESTful
9 12 (2.82%) React Native
10 11 (2.59%) FastAPI
10 11 (2.59%) Flask
10 11 (2.59%) NumPy
10 11 (2.59%) Pandas
11 10 (2.35%) Polars
12 9 (2.12%) Apache Avro
12 9 (2.12%) OAuth
13 8 (1.88%) CSS
13 8 (1.88%) OAuth2
14 7 (1.65%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.76%) Equities
2 26 (6.12%) Derivative
3 24 (5.65%) Onboarding
3 24 (5.65%) Product Ownership
4 23 (5.41%) Fixed Income
5 21 (4.94%) Cloud Native
6 18 (4.24%) Mobile App
7 17 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (3.76%) Data Structures
9 14 (3.29%) Hedge funds
10 12 (2.82%) Management Information System
11 11 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (2.12%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (1.65%) Market Risk
15 6 (1.41%) Virtual Team
16 5 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
16 5 (1.18%) Data Centre
16 5 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.24%) Linux
2 12 (2.82%) Android
3 11 (2.59%) Unix
4 8 (1.88%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (20.00%) AI
2 83 (19.53%) CI/CD
3 77 (18.12%) Agile
4 73 (17.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 70 (16.47%) Software Engineering
6 57 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
7 52 (12.24%) DevOps
8 50 (11.76%) Analytics
9 39 (9.18%) Mentoring
9 39 (9.18%) User Experience
10 36 (8.47%) Microservices
11 34 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (8.00%) Data Pipeline
12 33 (7.76%) Decision-Making
13 32 (7.53%) Machine Learning
14 31 (7.29%) Generative AI
15 29 (6.82%) Containerisation
15 29 (6.82%) Full-Stack Development
15 29 (6.82%) Observability
16 28 (6.59%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 89 (20.94%) SQL
2 83 (19.53%) Python
3 58 (13.65%) Java
4 40 (9.41%) TypeScript
5 31 (7.29%) JavaScript
6 25 (5.88%) C#
7 15 (3.53%) Go
7 15 (3.53%) Kotlin
7 15 (3.53%) R
8 10 (2.35%) PowerShell
9 8 (1.88%) PHP
10 7 (1.65%) C++
11 6 (1.41%) Korn
12 5 (1.18%) Bash
13 2 (0.47%) Bicep
13 2 (0.47%) F#
13 2 (0.47%) Groovy
13 2 (0.47%) Perl
13 2 (0.47%) Swift
14 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (7.29%) Degree
2 19 (4.47%) Security Cleared
3 16 (3.76%) SC Cleared
4 11 (2.59%) Master's Degree
5 9 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.12%) PMP
6 8 (1.88%) PMI Certification
7 4 (0.94%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.94%) 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 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.47%) CCSK
9 2 (0.47%) CCSP
9 2 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.88%) QA
2 11 (2.59%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.88%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.18%) PSD2
5 4 (0.94%) GDPR
5 4 (0.94%) PMO
6 3 (0.71%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.47%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.47%) NIST
7 2 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.47%) SLA
8 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.24%) Basel III
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 (9.18%) Docker
2 4 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (10.82%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.06%) Prometheus
2 13 (3.06%) Terraform
3 10 (2.35%) Grafana
4 8 (1.88%) Ansible
5 5 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.94%) Kibana
7 3 (0.71%) SCCM
8 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.47%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.24%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.24%) linkerd
9 1 (0.24%) QRadar
Vendors
1 29 (6.82%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.00%) Google
3 11 (2.59%) Databricks
4 10 (2.35%) Informatica
5 8 (1.88%) Amplitude
5 8 (1.88%) Oracle
5 8 (1.88%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.41%) SAP
7 5 (1.18%) Adobe
7 5 (1.18%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.18%) Splunk
8 4 (0.94%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.94%) PagerDuty
8 4 (0.94%) Sonatype
9 3 (0.71%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.71%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.71%) Citrix
9 3 (0.71%) Reuters
10 2 (0.47%) Ariba
10 2 (0.47%) ION Trading