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 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 191 219
Rank change year-on-year -94 +28 +15
Contract jobs citing Fintech 435 429 472
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.85% 1.40% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.54% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 342 384
10th Percentile £284 £363 £400
25th Percentile £447 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £755 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £445 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +4.59% -10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 3
10th Percentile - £52.75 £48.00
25th Percentile £22.25 £60.63 £50.63
Median hourly rate £53.75 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £78.75 £68.75 £71.50
90th Percentile £90.00 £75.50 £81.40
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 43,435 27,782 37,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.96% 90.94% 85.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,037 17,554 23,597
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £414 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% -4.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £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 2,605 1,350 2,559
10th Percentile £14.74 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.44 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +2.63%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.95 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £25.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +75.84% -34.42% +8.91%

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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 29 June 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 29 June 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 29 June 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 -65 404 £550 -8.33% 516
London -45 315 £575 -8.00% 406
Work from Home -133 115 £575 -14.81% 194
UK excluding London -77 92 £445 +4.59% 199
North of England -64 29 £475 +18.75% 45
South East -36 28 £280 - 95
Yorkshire -34 18 £514 +40.53% 6
South West -24 12 £570 -12.31% 10
North West -47 10 £446 +8.18% 24
Midlands -65 10 £336 -15.94% 22
Scotland -17 8 £463 -9.76% 6
West Midlands -55 8 - - 13
East of England - 5 £415 - 5
East Midlands -24 2 £336 -15.94% 9
North East -40 1 - - 15

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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 24 (5.52%) Confluence
2 3 (0.69%) Apache
2 3 (0.69%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.23%) CMS
4 1 (0.23%) nginx
Applications
1 14 (3.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.69%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.46%) Notion
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.23%) Sketch
6 1 (0.23%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 4 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.46%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.46%) SAP EHS
2 2 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.23%) Findur
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.23%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 94 (21.61%) AWS
2 63 (14.48%) Azure
3 46 (10.57%) GCP
4 24 (5.52%) GitHub
5 23 (5.29%) Power Platform
6 22 (5.06%) SaaS
7 14 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (2.76%) Figma
9 11 (2.53%) Snowflake
10 10 (2.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (1.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (1.38%) Serverless
13 5 (1.15%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (1.15%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.15%) Anthropic Claude
14 4 (0.92%) AWS Step Functions
14 4 (0.92%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.15%) Network Security
1 5 (1.15%) VPN
2 4 (0.92%) Firewall
3 2 (0.46%) DNS
3 2 (0.46%) FTP
3 2 (0.46%) Internet
3 2 (0.46%) NFC
4 1 (0.23%) DHCP
4 1 (0.23%) HTTP
4 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (8.28%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (6.44%) Tableau
3 20 (4.60%) Power BI
4 18 (4.14%) NoSQL
5 14 (3.22%) Looker
5 14 (3.22%) MongoDB
6 13 (2.99%) Relational Database
7 11 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (2.53%) Data Lake
8 10 (2.30%) BigQuery
9 9 (2.07%) SQL Server
10 8 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.61%) Mixpanel
12 6 (1.38%) Apache Cassandra
12 6 (1.38%) MySQL
13 5 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.92%) Big Data
14 4 (0.92%) Hadoop
15 3 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
15 3 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (8.05%) JIRA
2 24 (5.52%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.53%) Git
4 8 (1.84%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.69%) GitLab
5 3 (0.69%) MLflow
5 3 (0.69%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.46%) Android Studio
6 2 (0.46%) Appium
6 2 (0.46%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.46%) Gemini Tracker
6 2 (0.46%) Postman
6 2 (0.46%) Selenium
6 2 (0.46%) Sourcetree
6 2 (0.46%) Xcode
7 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.23%) JUnit
7 1 (0.23%) Mocha
7 1 (0.23%) Mockito
7 1 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 251 (57.70%) Finance
2 108 (24.83%) Banking
3 89 (20.46%) Social Skills
4 55 (12.64%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (7.13%) Front Office
6 24 (5.52%) Financial Institution
7 20 (4.60%) Marketing
8 12 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.07%) Publishing
10 8 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.84%) Public Sector
11 7 (1.61%) Games
11 7 (1.61%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.61%) Legal
12 6 (1.38%) Corporate Banking
12 6 (1.38%) Retail
12 6 (1.38%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.69%) Advertising
13 3 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 92 (21.15%) Developer
2 75 (17.24%) Senior
3 44 (10.11%) Analyst
4 41 (9.43%) Lead
5 36 (8.28%) Software Engineer
6 23 (5.29%) Designer
7 21 (4.83%) Consultant
7 21 (4.83%) Data Engineer
7 21 (4.83%) Java Developer
7 21 (4.83%) Python Developer
8 20 (4.60%) Business Analyst
9 18 (4.14%) Java Engineer
9 18 (4.14%) Senior Developer
10 16 (3.68%) Architect
10 16 (3.68%) Lead Developer
11 15 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
11 15 (3.45%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 14 (3.22%) Project Manager
13 12 (2.76%) Lead Software Engineer
13 12 (2.76%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (7.82%) React
2 31 (7.13%) Kafka
3 29 (6.67%) REST
4 26 (5.98%) Node.js
5 21 (4.83%) .NET
6 18 (4.14%) Redux
6 18 (4.14%) Spring
6 18 (4.14%) Spring Boot
7 12 (2.76%) React Native
8 11 (2.53%) FastAPI
8 11 (2.53%) Flask
8 11 (2.53%) NumPy
8 11 (2.53%) Pandas
9 10 (2.30%) Polars
9 10 (2.30%) RESTful
10 9 (2.07%) Apache Avro
11 7 (1.61%) AngularJS
11 7 (1.61%) GraphQL
11 7 (1.61%) Next.js
11 7 (1.61%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.90%) Equities
2 24 (5.52%) Onboarding
2 24 (5.52%) Product Ownership
3 23 (5.29%) Derivative
3 23 (5.29%) Fixed Income
4 21 (4.83%) Cloud Native
4 21 (4.83%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (3.91%) Hedge funds
5 17 (3.91%) Mobile App
6 14 (3.22%) Data Structures
7 13 (2.99%) Management Information System
8 10 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (2.07%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.84%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.61%) Market Risk
12 5 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.15%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.37%) Linux
2 13 (2.99%) Unix
3 11 (2.53%) Android
4 7 (1.61%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (18.85%) CI/CD
2 78 (17.93%) Software Engineering
3 74 (17.01%) Agile
4 70 (16.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 69 (15.86%) AI
6 60 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
7 52 (11.95%) Analytics
7 52 (11.95%) DevOps
8 38 (8.74%) Mentoring
9 36 (8.28%) Data Pipeline
9 36 (8.28%) Microservices
10 34 (7.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (7.82%) User Experience
11 31 (7.13%) Decision-Making
12 28 (6.44%) Business Intelligence
12 28 (6.44%) Machine Learning
13 27 (6.21%) Generative AI
13 27 (6.21%) Roadmaps
14 26 (5.98%) Data Engineering
14 26 (5.98%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 91 (20.92%) SQL
2 82 (18.85%) Python
3 66 (15.17%) Java
4 36 (8.28%) TypeScript
5 27 (6.21%) C#
6 26 (5.98%) JavaScript
7 20 (4.60%) Go
8 16 (3.68%) R
9 11 (2.53%) Kotlin
10 10 (2.30%) PowerShell
11 9 (2.07%) C++
12 8 (1.84%) PHP
13 6 (1.38%) Korn
14 5 (1.15%) Bash
15 2 (0.46%) Bicep
15 2 (0.46%) F#
15 2 (0.46%) Groovy
15 2 (0.46%) Perl
15 2 (0.46%) Swift
16 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (8.74%) Degree
2 19 (4.37%) Security Cleared
3 15 (3.45%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.22%) Master's Degree
5 13 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.30%) PMP
7 9 (2.07%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.61%) CISM
8 7 (1.61%) CISSP
9 6 (1.38%) MBA
10 4 (0.92%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.92%) PhD
10 4 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.69%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.69%) SAFe Agilist
12 2 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.46%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.44%) QA
2 11 (2.53%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.61%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.38%) PMO
5 5 (1.15%) GDPR
5 5 (1.15%) NIST
6 4 (0.92%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.69%) Basel III
7 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.69%) SLA
8 2 (0.46%) PSD2
8 2 (0.46%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.23%) GRC
9 1 (0.23%) IFRS
9 1 (0.23%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.23%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.23%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (7.36%) Docker
2 4 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (9.43%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.22%) Terraform
3 12 (2.76%) Ansible
4 5 (1.15%) Grafana
4 5 (1.15%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.92%) Kibana
6 3 (0.69%) SCCM
7 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.46%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.23%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.23%) linkerd
8 1 (0.23%) Puppet
8 1 (0.23%) QRadar
Vendors
1 25 (5.75%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.91%) Google
3 11 (2.53%) Databricks
4 10 (2.30%) Informatica
5 8 (1.84%) Amplitude
5 8 (1.84%) Oracle
5 8 (1.84%) Salesforce
5 8 (1.84%) Sonatype
6 7 (1.61%) Splunk
7 5 (1.15%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.15%) SAP
8 4 (0.92%) Adobe
8 4 (0.92%) Bloomberg
8 4 (0.92%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.92%) PagerDuty
9 3 (0.69%) BiZZdesign
9 3 (0.69%) Citrix
9 3 (0.69%) Reuters
9 3 (0.69%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.46%) Ariba