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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 194 222
Rank change year-on-year -112 +28 +6
Contract jobs citing Fintech 422 485 420
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.79% 1.47% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 1.63% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 394 346
10th Percentile £277 £372 £400
25th Percentile £425 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £750 £750
90th Percentile £825 £871 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £489 £450
% change year-on-year -0.31% +8.67% -16.28%
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 45,557 29,755 33,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.99% 90.46% 85.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,078 18,625 21,348
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £726 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,814 1,660 1,859
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.22 £17.32 £18.22
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £64.25
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £74.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.10 £41.25
% change year-on-year +90.30% -44.00% +7.56%

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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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -95 393 £550 -8.33% 1,195
London -69 321 £550 -12.00% 973
Work from Home -157 114 £550 -15.38% 479
UK excluding London -105 74 £488 -0.31% 313
North of England -89 21 £500 +25.00% 85
South East -46 19 £280 - 95
Yorkshire -34 13 £514 +24.15% 14
South West -34 11 £570 -12.31% 27
Midlands -49 11 - - 27
West Midlands -48 8 - - 18
North West -53 8 £473 +18.19% 50
East of England -11 6 £493 +9.44% 24
Scotland -41 5 £463 -11.90% 16
East Midlands -14 3 - - 9
Wales - 1 £400 - 16

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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 (2.13%) 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 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.42%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.71%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.71%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.71%) Trello
5 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
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 (0.95%) NetSuite
1 4 (0.95%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.47%) SAP EHS
2 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) Findur
3 1 (0.24%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.24%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 82 (19.43%) AWS
2 67 (15.88%) Azure
3 45 (10.66%) GCP
4 25 (5.92%) GitHub
5 21 (4.98%) Power Platform
5 21 (4.98%) SaaS
6 19 (4.50%) Figma
7 15 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (2.61%) Snowflake
9 10 (2.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (2.37%) GitHub Copilot
10 6 (1.42%) Anthropic Claude
10 6 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (1.42%) Serverless
10 6 (1.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (1.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.18%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (1.18%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.42%) VPN
2 5 (1.18%) 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 38 (9.00%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (5.69%) Tableau
3 20 (4.74%) NoSQL
4 18 (4.27%) MongoDB
4 18 (4.27%) Power BI
5 12 (2.84%) Looker
5 12 (2.84%) Relational Database
6 11 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (2.61%) BigQuery
6 11 (2.61%) Data Lake
7 9 (2.13%) SQL Server
8 6 (1.42%) Mixpanel
9 5 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.95%) Redis
11 3 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.71%) Big Data
11 3 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.71%) Pinecone
11 3 (0.71%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 24 (5.69%) JIRA
2 18 (4.27%) Git
3 17 (4.03%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.66%) GitLab
5 6 (1.42%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.42%) Storybook
6 4 (0.95%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.47%) Gemini Tracker
7 2 (0.47%) Gradle
7 2 (0.47%) MLflow
8 1 (0.24%) Appium
8 1 (0.24%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.24%) Mocha
8 1 (0.24%) Mockito
8 1 (0.24%) Postman
8 1 (0.24%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.24%) XCUITest
General
1 254 (60.19%) Finance
2 118 (27.96%) Banking
3 77 (18.25%) Social Skills
4 50 (11.85%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (6.16%) Front Office
5 26 (6.16%) Marketing
6 22 (5.21%) Financial Institution
7 13 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.13%) Publishing
9 8 (1.90%) Legal
9 8 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.66%) Games
10 7 (1.66%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.42%) Public Sector
12 5 (1.18%) Private Banking
12 5 (1.18%) Retail
13 4 (0.95%) Advertising
13 4 (0.95%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.71%) Dutch Language
14 3 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 75 (17.77%) Developer
2 74 (17.54%) Senior
3 45 (10.66%) Analyst
4 34 (8.06%) Lead
5 33 (7.82%) Software Engineer
6 28 (6.64%) Consultant
7 26 (6.16%) Designer
8 20 (4.74%) Architect
8 20 (4.74%) Data Engineer
9 19 (4.50%) Python Developer
10 16 (3.79%) Java Engineer
11 13 (3.08%) Product Designer
11 13 (3.08%) Project Manager
11 13 (3.08%) Senior Developer
11 13 (3.08%) Senior Manager
12 12 (2.84%) Lead Developer
13 11 (2.61%) AWS Engineer
13 11 (2.61%) Business Analyst
13 11 (2.61%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 11 (2.61%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (8.77%) REST
2 36 (8.53%) React
3 31 (7.35%) Kafka
4 22 (5.21%) Node.js
5 21 (4.98%) .NET
6 19 (4.50%) Spring
7 17 (4.03%) RESTful
8 16 (3.79%) Spring Boot
9 14 (3.32%) Redux
10 11 (2.61%) FastAPI
10 11 (2.61%) Flask
10 11 (2.61%) NumPy
10 11 (2.61%) Pandas
10 11 (2.61%) React Native
11 10 (2.37%) OAuth
11 10 (2.37%) Polars
12 9 (2.13%) Apache Avro
12 9 (2.13%) CSS
12 9 (2.13%) OAuth2
13 8 (1.90%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.11%) Equities
2 25 (5.92%) Onboarding
3 23 (5.45%) Derivative
4 21 (4.98%) Cloud Native
5 20 (4.74%) Product Ownership
6 19 (4.50%) Fixed Income
7 18 (4.27%) Mobile App
8 17 (4.03%) Data Structures
9 15 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (3.32%) Hedge funds
11 12 (2.84%) Management Information System
12 11 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (2.13%) AI Agents
14 8 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (1.66%) Market Risk
16 5 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
16 5 (1.18%) Data Centre
16 5 (1.18%) Equity Derivative
16 5 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.98%) Linux
2 12 (2.84%) Android
3 11 (2.61%) Unix
4 10 (2.37%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.18%) Windows
6 1 (0.24%) CentOS
6 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (21.56%) AI
2 77 (18.25%) CI/CD
2 77 (18.25%) Stakeholder Management
3 69 (16.35%) Agile
4 67 (15.88%) Software Engineering
5 53 (12.56%) DevOps
6 51 (12.09%) Analytics
6 51 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (9.00%) User Experience
8 37 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 35 (8.29%) Mentoring
9 35 (8.29%) Microservices
10 34 (8.06%) Decision-Making
10 34 (8.06%) Generative AI
11 33 (7.82%) Data Pipeline
12 30 (7.11%) Machine Learning
13 29 (6.87%) Containerisation
14 28 (6.64%) Observability
15 27 (6.40%) Roadmaps
16 26 (6.16%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 85 (20.14%) SQL
2 79 (18.72%) Python
3 52 (12.32%) Java
4 37 (8.77%) TypeScript
5 26 (6.16%) JavaScript
6 24 (5.69%) C#
7 17 (4.03%) Go
8 15 (3.55%) Kotlin
9 14 (3.32%) R
10 9 (2.13%) PowerShell
11 8 (1.90%) PHP
12 6 (1.42%) Bash
12 6 (1.42%) C++
13 5 (1.18%) Korn
14 2 (0.47%) Bicep
14 2 (0.47%) F#
14 2 (0.47%) Groovy
14 2 (0.47%) Perl
14 2 (0.47%) Swift
15 1 (0.24%) CQL
Qualifications
1 30 (7.11%) Degree
2 17 (4.03%) Security Cleared
3 16 (3.79%) SC Cleared
4 10 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.13%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.90%) PMP
7 7 (1.66%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.95%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.95%) PhD
9 3 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.71%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.71%) CISM
9 3 (0.71%) CISSP
10 2 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.47%) CCSK
10 2 (0.47%) CCSP
10 2 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.47%) MBA
10 2 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.21%) QA
2 9 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.66%) PMO
4 6 (1.42%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.18%) PSD2
6 3 (0.71%) GDPR
6 3 (0.71%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
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%) Dodd-Frank
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 (9.24%) Docker
2 4 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (10.43%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.32%) Terraform
3 12 (2.84%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.66%) Grafana
5 5 (1.18%) Ansible
5 5 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.71%) SCCM
7 1 (0.24%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.24%) Istio
7 1 (0.24%) linkerd
7 1 (0.24%) Puppet
7 1 (0.24%) QRadar
Vendors
1 31 (7.35%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.50%) Google
3 11 (2.61%) Databricks
4 10 (2.37%) Informatica
5 9 (2.13%) Amplitude
6 8 (1.90%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.66%) SAP
8 6 (1.42%) Adobe
8 6 (1.42%) Oracle
9 5 (1.18%) Dynatrace
10 4 (0.95%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.95%) PagerDuty
11 3 (0.71%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.71%) Citrix
11 3 (0.71%) Reuters
12 2 (0.47%) Ariba
12 2 (0.47%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.47%) ION Trading
12 2 (0.47%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.47%) Splunk