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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 214 231
Rank change year-on-year -57 +17 +3
Contract jobs citing Fintech 372 377 457
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.97% 1.20% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 1.35% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 304 377
10th Percentile £333 £411 £375
25th Percentile £400 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £700 £713 £675
90th Percentile £850 £813 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £425 £489
% change year-on-year -5.41% -13.09% -4.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 5
10th Percentile £54.88 £47.38 £33.40
25th Percentile £67.44 £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 33,541 27,883 38,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.38% 89.07% 87.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,255 16,908 25,386
10th Percentile £305 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £643
90th Percentile £722 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £499 £500
% change year-on-year -3.81% -0.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,020 876 1,970
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.98
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -9.67% +12.44%
75th Percentile £58.00 £62.50 £62.49
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.71 £30.45 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.85% -18.80% +44.23%

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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 28 January 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 28 January 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 28 January 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 -72 326 £525 -12.50% 1,026
London -53 228 £633 +1.20% 289
Work from Home -67 123 £588 -6.00% 514
UK excluding London +7 108 £402 -5.41% 867
North of England -28 40 £414 -19.86% 155
South East 0 21 £375 -25.00% 328
North West -11 21 £447 +5.18% 65
Midlands -43 21 £375 -6.25% 99
East Midlands -26 18 £375 -6.25% 66
Yorkshire -39 17 £368 -29.90% 63
Scotland +10 15 £550 +10.00% 23
South West -14 7 £450 -35.71% 93
East of England -12 4 - - 122
West Midlands -36 3 £430 - 31
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 22
North East -13 2 - - 27

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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 35 (9.41%) Confluence
2 7 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.08%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.27%) Appian
Applications
1 23 (6.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.15%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.88%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.81%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.81%) Notion
6 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.27%) MadCap Flare
7 1 (0.27%) Trello
7 1 (0.27%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 9 (2.42%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.27%) BASE24
2 1 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 75 (20.16%) AWS
2 58 (15.59%) Azure
3 25 (6.72%) GCP
4 22 (5.91%) GitHub
4 22 (5.91%) Power Platform
5 21 (5.65%) SaaS
6 16 (4.30%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (3.23%) Amazon Kinesis
7 12 (3.23%) Figma
8 11 (2.96%) AWS Step Functions
9 9 (2.42%) Datadog
9 9 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (1.88%) dbt
10 7 (1.88%) Serverless
11 6 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (1.61%) Amazon S3
11 6 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.08%) ATM
1 4 (1.08%) Network Security
2 2 (0.54%) SSH
3 1 (0.27%) DNS
3 1 (0.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.84%) Tableau
2 17 (4.57%) Power BI
3 16 (4.30%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (4.03%) Apache Cassandra
5 12 (3.23%) MySQL
6 11 (2.96%) Hadoop
6 11 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (2.69%) MongoDB
8 7 (1.88%) Looker
9 5 (1.34%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (1.34%) Apache Arrow
9 5 (1.34%) Apache Iceberg
9 5 (1.34%) Big Data
9 5 (1.34%) Dremio
9 5 (1.34%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.34%) SQL Server
10 4 (1.08%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.08%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.81%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.81%) Redis
Development Applications
1 50 (13.44%) JIRA
2 22 (5.91%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.69%) Cypress.io
3 10 (2.69%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (1.88%) Git
4 7 (1.88%) JUnit
5 5 (1.34%) Cucumber
5 5 (1.34%) GitLab
6 4 (1.08%) Selenium
7 3 (0.81%) MLflow
7 3 (0.81%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.54%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.54%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.54%) Gatling
8 2 (0.54%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.54%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.54%) Storybook
9 1 (0.27%) Gradle
9 1 (0.27%) Postman
9 1 (0.27%) REST Assured
General
1 228 (61.29%) Finance
2 126 (33.87%) Social Skills
3 111 (29.84%) Banking
4 53 (14.25%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (4.84%) Front Office
6 16 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (4.03%) Public Sector
8 12 (3.23%) Legal
9 11 (2.96%) Financial Institution
9 11 (2.96%) Marketing
9 11 (2.96%) Retail
10 10 (2.69%) Corporate Banking
10 10 (2.69%) Retail Banking
11 8 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (2.15%) Investment Banking
11 8 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.88%) Japanese Language
13 5 (1.34%) German Language
13 5 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 95 (25.54%) Developer
2 60 (16.13%) Senior
3 41 (11.02%) Analyst
4 32 (8.60%) Senior Developer
5 27 (7.26%) Java Developer
6 25 (6.72%) Business Analyst
7 23 (6.18%) Product Manager
8 22 (5.91%) Software Engineer
9 19 (5.11%) Lead
9 19 (5.11%) Project Manager
9 19 (5.11%) Python Developer
10 16 (4.30%) Architect
10 16 (4.30%) Java Engineer
11 12 (3.23%) Product Owner
12 11 (2.96%) Designer
12 11 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (2.96%) Technical Business Analyst
13 10 (2.69%) Quantitative Developer
13 10 (2.69%) Senior Manager
13 10 (2.69%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (9.68%) Kafka
2 26 (6.99%) REST
3 22 (5.91%) React
3 22 (5.91%) RESTful
4 19 (5.11%) AngularJS
5 17 (4.57%) .NET
6 15 (4.03%) Spring
7 13 (3.49%) Node.js
7 13 (3.49%) Spring Boot
8 10 (2.69%) Pandas
9 9 (2.42%) Jest
10 8 (2.15%) TensorFlow
11 7 (1.88%) GraphQL
11 7 (1.88%) NumPy
12 6 (1.61%) gRPC
12 6 (1.61%) scikit-learn
13 5 (1.34%) PyTorch
13 5 (1.34%) SciPy
13 5 (1.34%) Vue
13 5 (1.34%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.80%) Product Ownership
2 24 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (5.91%) Onboarding
4 19 (5.11%) Greenfield Project
5 17 (4.57%) Fixed Income
6 15 (4.03%) Equities
7 14 (3.76%) Virtual Team
8 12 (3.23%) Cloud Native
9 9 (2.42%) Hedge funds
9 9 (2.42%) PMI
9 9 (2.42%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 8 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.61%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.61%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.08%) Blockchain
13 4 (1.08%) Digital Wallet
13 4 (1.08%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.23%) Linux
2 7 (1.88%) Unix
3 6 (1.61%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.08%) Windows
5 1 (0.27%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (29.03%) Agile
2 98 (26.34%) Problem-Solving
3 62 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 60 (16.13%) Analytics
5 53 (14.25%) Microservices
6 52 (13.98%) DevOps
7 48 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 48 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
8 47 (12.63%) Software Engineering
9 38 (10.22%) User Experience
10 37 (9.95%) Roadmaps
11 35 (9.41%) AI
11 35 (9.41%) Migration
11 35 (9.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 31 (8.33%) Project Management
13 30 (8.06%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 29 (7.80%) Decision-Making
15 27 (7.26%) Full-Stack Development
15 27 (7.26%) Observability
16 23 (6.18%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 69 (18.55%) Java
2 67 (18.01%) Python
3 47 (12.63%) SQL
4 32 (8.60%) C#
5 24 (6.45%) Go
6 18 (4.84%) TypeScript
7 16 (4.30%) JavaScript
8 11 (2.96%) Kotlin
9 9 (2.42%) C++
10 7 (1.88%) Bash
10 7 (1.88%) R
11 5 (1.34%) Swift
12 4 (1.08%) Ruby
12 4 (1.08%) Rust
13 3 (0.81%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.81%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.54%) Haskell
14 2 (0.54%) Perl
14 2 (0.54%) PHP
14 2 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (8.87%) Degree
2 25 (6.72%) PMP
3 23 (6.18%) PMI Certification
4 14 (3.76%) Master's Degree
5 13 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.42%) MBA
7 8 (2.15%) SAFe Agilist
8 7 (1.88%) CISSP
8 7 (1.88%) Security Cleared
9 6 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.61%) CISM
10 5 (1.34%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.34%) CBAP
10 5 (1.34%) SC Cleared
11 4 (1.08%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.08%) OCP
11 4 (1.08%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.81%) APMP
12 3 (0.81%) IIBA
12 3 (0.81%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.68%) QA
2 17 (4.57%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.96%) PCI DSS
4 10 (2.69%) PMO
4 10 (2.69%) PSD2
5 8 (2.15%) GDPR
6 7 (1.88%) Basel III
6 7 (1.88%) ISO 20022
6 7 (1.88%) NIST
7 5 (1.34%) ISO 8583
7 5 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.08%) SEPA
9 3 (0.81%) GRC
9 3 (0.81%) SLA
10 2 (0.54%) COBIT
10 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.54%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 47 (12.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (9.95%) Kubernetes
2 19 (5.11%) Ansible
3 18 (4.84%) Terraform
4 6 (1.61%) Grafana
5 3 (0.81%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (0.81%) RSA Archer
6 2 (0.54%) Puppet
7 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (5.65%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.23%) Databricks
3 10 (2.69%) Sonatype
4 9 (2.42%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.15%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.34%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.34%) Oracle
7 4 (1.08%) Google
7 4 (1.08%) Splunk
8 3 (0.81%) BiZZdesign
8 3 (0.81%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.81%) GoldenSource
8 3 (0.81%) New Relic
8 3 (0.81%) Samsung
9 2 (0.54%) Alibaba
9 2 (0.54%) Amplitude
9 2 (0.54%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.54%) Rapid7
9 2 (0.54%) Thales
9 2 (0.54%) VMware