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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 198 216
Rank change year-on-year -82 +18 +27
Contract jobs citing Fintech 433 404 478
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.87% 1.38% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.51% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 321 394
10th Percentile £294 £363 £400
25th Percentile £449 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £672 £750 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £415 £425 £463
% change year-on-year -2.35% -8.11% -9.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 3
10th Percentile - - £48.00
25th Percentile £22.25 - £50.63
Median hourly rate £53.75 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £78.75 £72.50 £71.50
90th Percentile £90.00 £77.00 £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 42,291 26,731 37,187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 91.01% 85.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,385 16,984 23,772
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 2,541 1,182 2,587
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.28 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.14% -25.26% +1.39%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.00 £61.16
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -71 401 £550 -8.33% 491
London -50 313 £575 -8.00% 352
Work from Home -124 110 £594 -12.04% 246
UK excluding London -63 91 £415 -2.35% 222
South East -32 30 £280 - 101
North of England -69 29 £475 +18.75% 64
Yorkshire -36 18 £514 +32.39% 11
South West - 11 £570 - 16
North West -48 9 £447 +5.18% 38
Scotland -18 8 £475 -5.00% 3
Midlands -75 8 £340 -15.00% 17
East Midlands -35 5 £340 -15.00% 7
East of England - 5 £415 - 7
West Midlands -61 3 - - 10
North East -31 2 - - 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 26 (6.00%) Confluence
2 4 (0.92%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.69%) Apache
4 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.23%) Appian
5 1 (0.23%) CMS
5 1 (0.23%) nginx
Applications
1 15 (3.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.69%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.46%) Notion
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.23%) Sketch
7 1 (0.23%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 5 (1.15%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.46%) SAP EHS
2 2 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.23%) BASE24
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.23%) Findur
3 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.23%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 95 (21.94%) AWS
2 62 (14.32%) Azure
3 44 (10.16%) GCP
4 25 (5.77%) GitHub
4 25 (5.77%) Power Platform
5 20 (4.62%) SaaS
6 13 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (2.77%) Snowflake
8 10 (2.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (2.08%) Figma
10 7 (1.62%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (1.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (1.39%) Anthropic Claude
11 6 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.39%) Serverless
12 5 (1.15%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (1.15%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.15%) Datadog
12 5 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (0.92%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.15%) Network Security
2 4 (0.92%) Firewall
2 4 (0.92%) VPN
3 2 (0.46%) DNS
3 2 (0.46%) FTP
4 1 (0.23%) DHCP
4 1 (0.23%) HTTP
4 1 (0.23%) Internet
4 1 (0.23%) NFC
4 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (8.55%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (6.47%) Tableau
3 22 (5.08%) Power BI
4 18 (4.16%) NoSQL
5 14 (3.23%) Looker
6 13 (3.00%) MongoDB
6 13 (3.00%) Relational Database
7 11 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (2.54%) BigQuery
7 11 (2.54%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.62%) Mixpanel
8 7 (1.62%) SQL Server
9 6 (1.39%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (1.39%) MySQL
10 5 (1.15%) Big Data
10 5 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.92%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.92%) Pinecone
11 4 (0.92%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 37 (8.55%) JIRA
2 22 (5.08%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.54%) Git
4 8 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.69%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.69%) GitLab
5 3 (0.69%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.46%) Android Studio
6 2 (0.46%) Appium
6 2 (0.46%) JUnit
6 2 (0.46%) MLflow
6 2 (0.46%) Postman
6 2 (0.46%) Selenium
6 2 (0.46%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.46%) Sourcetree
6 2 (0.46%) Xcode
7 1 (0.23%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.23%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 252 (58.20%) Finance
2 107 (24.71%) Banking
3 90 (20.79%) Social Skills
4 55 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (7.16%) Front Office
6 22 (5.08%) Financial Institution
7 20 (4.62%) Marketing
8 13 (3.00%) Public Sector
9 12 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.31%) Retail
11 9 (2.08%) Publishing
12 8 (1.85%) Corporate Banking
12 8 (1.85%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.85%) Retail Banking
13 7 (1.62%) Games
14 6 (1.39%) Legal
15 3 (0.69%) Advertising
15 3 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 96 (22.17%) Developer
2 72 (16.63%) Senior
3 41 (9.47%) Lead
4 39 (9.01%) Analyst
5 37 (8.55%) Software Engineer
6 25 (5.77%) Java Developer
7 22 (5.08%) Data Engineer
7 22 (5.08%) Python Developer
8 19 (4.39%) Business Analyst
8 19 (4.39%) Designer
8 19 (4.39%) Project Manager
9 18 (4.16%) Consultant
9 18 (4.16%) Java Engineer
9 18 (4.16%) Senior Developer
10 16 (3.70%) Architect
10 16 (3.70%) Lead Developer
11 15 (3.46%) AWS Engineer
11 15 (3.46%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 12 (2.77%) Lead Software Developer
12 12 (2.77%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (8.31%) React
2 33 (7.62%) Kafka
3 31 (7.16%) REST
4 27 (6.24%) Node.js
5 19 (4.39%) Spring
5 19 (4.39%) Spring Boot
6 18 (4.16%) Redux
7 16 (3.70%) .NET
8 12 (2.77%) Pandas
8 12 (2.77%) React Native
8 12 (2.77%) RESTful
9 11 (2.54%) FastAPI
9 11 (2.54%) Flask
9 11 (2.54%) NumPy
10 10 (2.31%) Polars
11 9 (2.08%) AngularJS
11 9 (2.08%) Apache Avro
12 8 (1.85%) Next.js
12 8 (1.85%) TensorFlow
13 7 (1.62%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.93%) Equities
2 27 (6.24%) Product Ownership
3 23 (5.31%) Fixed Income
4 22 (5.08%) Derivative
4 22 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (5.08%) Onboarding
5 21 (4.85%) Cloud Native
6 17 (3.93%) Hedge funds
7 16 (3.70%) Mobile App
8 14 (3.23%) Data Structures
9 13 (3.00%) Management Information System
10 11 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (2.31%) Virtual Team
12 9 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.85%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 7 (1.62%) Market Risk
15 6 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
15 6 (1.39%) PMI
16 5 (1.15%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.16%) Linux
2 12 (2.77%) Unix
3 9 (2.08%) Android
4 6 (1.39%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (18.24%) CI/CD
2 75 (17.32%) Agile
3 74 (17.09%) Software Engineering
4 70 (16.17%) AI
5 68 (15.70%) Stakeholder Management
6 59 (13.63%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (12.24%) Analytics
8 50 (11.55%) DevOps
9 38 (8.78%) Microservices
10 37 (8.55%) Data Pipeline
10 37 (8.55%) Mentoring
11 35 (8.08%) Continuous Improvement
12 32 (7.39%) User Experience
13 31 (7.16%) Decision-Making
14 30 (6.93%) Business Intelligence
14 30 (6.93%) Machine Learning
15 27 (6.24%) Full-Stack Development
15 27 (6.24%) Project Management
15 27 (6.24%) Visualisation
16 26 (6.00%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 93 (21.48%) SQL
2 84 (19.40%) Python
3 72 (16.63%) Java
4 39 (9.01%) TypeScript
5 27 (6.24%) JavaScript
6 24 (5.54%) C#
7 22 (5.08%) Go
8 17 (3.93%) R
9 10 (2.31%) C++
9 10 (2.31%) Kotlin
10 8 (1.85%) PHP
11 7 (1.62%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.39%) Korn
13 3 (0.69%) Bash
14 2 (0.46%) Bicep
14 2 (0.46%) F#
14 2 (0.46%) Haskell
14 2 (0.46%) Perl
14 2 (0.46%) Rust
14 2 (0.46%) Swift
Qualifications
1 40 (9.24%) Degree
2 23 (5.31%) Security Cleared
3 18 (4.16%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.46%) Master's Degree
5 13 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.00%) PMP
6 11 (2.54%) PMI Certification
7 8 (1.85%) MBA
8 6 (1.39%) CISM
8 6 (1.39%) CISSP
9 5 (1.15%) SAFe Agilist
10 4 (0.92%) APMP
10 4 (0.92%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.92%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.69%) PhD
12 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.46%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (7.85%) QA
2 10 (2.31%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.85%) PMO
4 7 (1.62%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.15%) Basel III
6 4 (0.92%) GDPR
6 4 (0.92%) NIST
7 3 (0.69%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.69%) SLA
8 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.23%) GRC
9 1 (0.23%) IFRS
9 1 (0.23%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.23%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.23%) PSD2
9 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (8.08%) Docker
2 3 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (9.24%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.23%) Ansible
2 14 (3.23%) Terraform
3 5 (1.15%) Grafana
3 5 (1.15%) Prometheus
3 5 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.92%) Kibana
5 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.46%) Rundeck
5 2 (0.46%) SCCM
6 1 (0.23%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.23%) linkerd
6 1 (0.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (5.54%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.00%) Google
3 12 (2.77%) Databricks
4 10 (2.31%) Informatica
5 9 (2.08%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.85%) Amplitude
6 8 (1.85%) Oracle
6 8 (1.85%) Sonatype
7 6 (1.39%) Splunk
8 5 (1.15%) SAP
9 4 (0.92%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.92%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.69%) Adobe
10 3 (0.69%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (0.69%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.69%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.69%) PagerDuty
11 2 (0.46%) Ariba
11 2 (0.46%) Citrix
11 2 (0.46%) Reuters