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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 198 241
Rank change year-on-year -126 +43 -22
Contract jobs citing Fintech 407 488 397
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.76% 1.49% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.65% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 397 325
10th Percentile £275 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £443 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £656 £750 £731
90th Percentile £750 £875 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £475 £463
% change year-on-year +8.21% +2.70% -11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 2
10th Percentile - £56.25 £47.13
25th Percentile £22.25 £65.00 £48.44
Median hourly rate £31.50 £69.25 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -54.51% +35.12% -42.70%
75th Percentile £75.00 £79.69 £53.44
90th Percentile £84.00 £83.75 £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 45,367 29,590 33,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.58% 90.44% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,794 18,422 20,982
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,879 1,766 1,695
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £13.86
25th Percentile £17.97 £17.30 £18.13
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.26% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £67.89 £47.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.63 £42.50
% change year-on-year +94.26% -46.75% +6.25%

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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 26 August 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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -98 378 £550 -8.33% 552
London -71 297 £550 -12.00% 432
Work from Home -160 104 £507 -22.00% 231
UK excluding London -106 79 £514 +8.21% 179
North of England -91 20 £507 +20.86% 54
South West -28 19 £585 -10.00% 59
South East -59 18 £280 -25.83% 29
Yorkshire -32 13 £514 +24.15% 14
Midlands -55 11 - - 12
West Midlands -52 8 - - 7
North West -67 7 £446 +4.82% 31
East of England -19 6 £510 +13.33% 11
Scotland -50 4 £475 -9.52% 15
East Midlands -24 3 - - 5
Wales - 1 £400 - 4

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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 9 (2.21%) Confluence
2 3 (0.74%) Apache
2 3 (0.74%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.49%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.25%) CMS
4 1 (0.25%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.74%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.74%) Trello
4 2 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.49%) 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 5 (1.23%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.98%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.49%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
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 68 (16.71%) AWS
2 57 (14.00%) Azure
3 32 (7.86%) GCP
4 23 (5.65%) GitHub
5 22 (5.41%) SaaS
6 17 (4.18%) Figma
7 16 (3.93%) Power Platform
8 14 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (3.44%) Snowflake
9 10 (2.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (2.46%) GitHub Copilot
10 6 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (1.47%) Amazon S3
10 6 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (1.47%) Serverless
10 6 (1.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (1.23%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (1.23%) dbt
11 5 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.47%) VPN
2 5 (1.23%) Firewall
3 2 (0.49%) DNS
3 2 (0.49%) FTP
3 2 (0.49%) Internet
3 2 (0.49%) Network Security
3 2 (0.49%) NFC
4 1 (0.25%) DHCP
4 1 (0.25%) HTTP
4 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.37%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (5.16%) NoSQL
3 20 (4.91%) Tableau
4 15 (3.69%) MongoDB
4 15 (3.69%) Power BI
5 12 (2.95%) Relational Database
6 11 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (2.70%) BigQuery
6 11 (2.70%) Data Lake
7 9 (2.21%) Looker
8 8 (1.97%) SQL Server
9 6 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
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%) Mixpanel
11 3 (0.74%) Redis
12 2 (0.49%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 22 (5.41%) JIRA
2 18 (4.42%) Git
3 17 (4.18%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.21%) GitLab
5 6 (1.47%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.47%) Storybook
6 3 (0.74%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.49%) Gemini Tracker
7 2 (0.49%) Gradle
7 2 (0.49%) MLflow
8 1 (0.25%) Appium
8 1 (0.25%) JUnit
8 1 (0.25%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.25%) Maven
8 1 (0.25%) Mocha
8 1 (0.25%) Mockito
8 1 (0.25%) Postman
8 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.25%) XCUITest
General
1 240 (58.97%) Finance
2 121 (29.73%) Banking
3 81 (19.90%) Social Skills
4 46 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (6.14%) Marketing
6 21 (5.16%) Financial Institution
7 15 (3.69%) Front Office
8 13 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.21%) Publishing
10 8 (1.97%) Legal
10 8 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.47%) Public Sector
12 5 (1.23%) Private Banking
12 5 (1.23%) Retail
13 4 (0.98%) Advertising
13 4 (0.98%) Games
13 4 (0.98%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.98%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.74%) Dutch Language
14 3 (0.74%) German Language
Job Titles
1 76 (18.67%) Senior
2 69 (16.95%) Developer
3 47 (11.55%) Analyst
4 29 (7.13%) Software Engineer
5 28 (6.88%) Lead
6 26 (6.39%) Consultant
7 24 (5.90%) Designer
8 17 (4.18%) Architect
8 17 (4.18%) Java Engineer
9 16 (3.93%) Data Engineer
10 15 (3.69%) Senior Manager
11 14 (3.44%) Python Developer
12 13 (3.19%) Project Manager
12 13 (3.19%) Senior Developer
13 12 (2.95%) Product Designer
13 12 (2.95%) Product Manager
14 11 (2.70%) Report Analyst
15 10 (2.46%) Technical Manager
16 9 (2.21%) Java Developer
16 9 (2.21%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (9.58%) REST
2 32 (7.86%) Kafka
3 23 (5.65%) React
4 19 (4.67%) .NET
4 19 (4.67%) Spring
5 16 (3.93%) Spring Boot
5 16 (3.93%) Terraform
6 15 (3.69%) RESTful
7 14 (3.44%) React Native
8 12 (2.95%) Node.js
9 11 (2.70%) FastAPI
9 11 (2.70%) Flask
9 11 (2.70%) NumPy
9 11 (2.70%) Pandas
10 10 (2.46%) OAuth
10 10 (2.46%) Polars
11 9 (2.21%) Apache Avro
11 9 (2.21%) OAuth2
12 8 (1.97%) JWT
13 7 (1.72%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.90%) Onboarding
2 22 (5.41%) Cloud Native
3 21 (5.16%) Equities
4 19 (4.67%) Mobile App
5 17 (4.18%) Product Ownership
6 16 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (3.44%) Data Structures
8 13 (3.19%) Derivative
8 13 (3.19%) Hedge funds
9 12 (2.95%) AI Agents
9 12 (2.95%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (2.95%) Fixed Income
9 12 (2.95%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.97%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.72%) Market Risk
12 6 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.23%) Equity Derivative
13 5 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.67%) Linux
2 13 (3.19%) Android
3 11 (2.70%) Apple iOS
4 9 (2.21%) Unix
5 5 (1.23%) Windows
6 2 (0.49%) CentOS
6 2 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (22.85%) AI
2 78 (19.16%) Stakeholder Management
3 76 (18.67%) CI/CD
4 64 (15.72%) Software Engineering
5 54 (13.27%) Agile
6 50 (12.29%) DevOps
7 47 (11.55%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (10.81%) Analytics
9 39 (9.58%) Microservices
10 37 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (8.60%) User Experience
12 34 (8.35%) Generative AI
13 32 (7.86%) Observability
14 31 (7.62%) Containerisation
15 29 (7.13%) Data Pipeline
15 29 (7.13%) Decision-Making
16 27 (6.63%) Roadmaps
17 26 (6.39%) Machine Learning
17 26 (6.39%) Mentoring
18 25 (6.14%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 81 (19.90%) SQL
2 68 (16.71%) Python
3 56 (13.76%) Java
4 27 (6.63%) TypeScript
5 21 (5.16%) Go
6 19 (4.67%) C#
7 18 (4.42%) JavaScript
8 14 (3.44%) Kotlin
9 10 (2.46%) R
10 9 (2.21%) PowerShell
11 8 (1.97%) Bash
11 8 (1.97%) PHP
12 6 (1.47%) C++
13 5 (1.23%) Korn
14 2 (0.49%) Bicep
14 2 (0.49%) Groovy
14 2 (0.49%) Perl
14 2 (0.49%) Swift
15 1 (0.25%) C
15 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (7.37%) Degree
2 17 (4.18%) Security Cleared
3 16 (3.93%) SC Cleared
4 11 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.97%) Master's Degree
5 8 (1.97%) PMP
6 7 (1.72%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.23%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.98%) PhD
9 3 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.74%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.74%) CISM
9 3 (0.74%) CISSP
10 2 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.49%) CCSK
10 2 (0.49%) CCSP
10 2 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.49%) MBA
10 2 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.65%) QA
2 9 (2.21%) PMO
3 6 (1.47%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.47%) PSD2
4 5 (1.23%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.74%) GDPR
6 2 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.49%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.49%) NIST
6 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.49%) SLA
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%) SOC 2
System Software
1 42 (10.32%) Docker
2 4 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (11.79%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.95%) Prometheus
3 7 (1.72%) Grafana
4 5 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.74%) Ansible
5 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.74%) SCCM
6 2 (0.49%) Puppet
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 30 (7.37%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.18%) Google
3 11 (2.70%) Databricks
4 10 (2.46%) Informatica
5 7 (1.72%) Salesforce
5 7 (1.72%) SAP
6 6 (1.47%) Amplitude
7 5 (1.23%) Adobe
7 5 (1.23%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.23%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.23%) Oracle
8 4 (0.98%) PagerDuty
9 3 (0.74%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.74%) Citrix
9 3 (0.74%) NetApp
9 3 (0.74%) Reuters
9 3 (0.74%) VMware
10 2 (0.49%) Ariba
10 2 (0.49%) ION Trading
10 2 (0.49%) ServiceNow