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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 218 223
Rank change year-on-year -63 +5 +25
Contract jobs citing Fintech 374 363 478
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.92% 1.18% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 1.32% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 291 396
10th Percentile £341 £413 £398
25th Percentile £413 £500 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.13% +2.17%
75th Percentile £700 £713 £688
90th Percentile £850 £800 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £489
% change year-on-year - -13.09% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 5
10th Percentile £34.75 £47.38 £33.40
25th Percentile £57.81 £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 35,252 27,502 38,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.92% 89.66% 87.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,364 16,881 25,241
10th Percentile £310 £306 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,119 838 2,150
10th Percentile £14.53 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £60.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.08 £72.97
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £30.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.29% -12.06% +6.22%

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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 18 February 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 18 February 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 18 February 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 -61 339 £550 -10.20% 482
London -55 244 £625 - 325
Work from Home -83 112 £625 - 259
UK excluding London -18 101 £425 - 227
North of England -27 41 £434 -15.84% 59
North West -12 21 £455 +7.06% 34
South East -12 18 £310 - 113
Yorkshire -40 18 £368 -29.90% 13
Midlands -56 16 £385 -3.75% 16
East Midlands -25 13 £365 -8.88% 6
Scotland +8 10 £588 +17.50% 5
South West -13 8 £450 -35.71% 15
East of England -23 7 £300 -55.56% 15
West Midlands -47 3 £430 -16.50% 10
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 3
North East -11 2 - - 12

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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 34 (9.09%) Confluence
2 6 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.07%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.27%) Appian
Applications
1 23 (6.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.87%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.80%) Notion
6 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.27%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.27%) MadCap Flare
7 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.27%) Sketch
7 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.27%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) BASE24
1 1 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.27%) Exchequer
1 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 86 (22.99%) AWS
2 56 (14.97%) Azure
3 34 (9.09%) GCP
4 30 (8.02%) Power Platform
5 23 (6.15%) GitHub
6 21 (5.61%) SaaS
7 15 (4.01%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (3.21%) Figma
9 11 (2.94%) Amazon Kinesis
9 11 (2.94%) Datadog
10 10 (2.67%) AWS Step Functions
11 7 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (1.60%) dbt
12 6 (1.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (1.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (1.34%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (1.34%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.34%) Serverless
14 4 (1.07%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.07%) ATM
1 4 (1.07%) Network Security
2 2 (0.53%) SSH
3 1 (0.27%) DNS
3 1 (0.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.68%) Power BI
2 23 (6.15%) Tableau
3 16 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (4.01%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (4.01%) Apache Cassandra
5 12 (3.21%) Looker
6 11 (2.94%) MySQL
7 10 (2.67%) Hadoop
8 8 (2.14%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.87%) Mixpanel
10 6 (1.60%) Big Data
10 6 (1.60%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.34%) NoSQL
12 4 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.07%) Apache Arrow
12 4 (1.07%) Apache Iceberg
12 4 (1.07%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.07%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.07%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 45 (12.03%) JIRA
2 26 (6.95%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (2.41%) Cypress.io
5 7 (1.87%) Git
6 5 (1.34%) GitLab
6 5 (1.34%) JUnit
6 5 (1.34%) Selenium
7 4 (1.07%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.80%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.80%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.80%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.53%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.53%) Appium
9 2 (0.53%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.53%) MLflow
9 2 (0.53%) Postman
9 2 (0.53%) Sourcetree
9 2 (0.53%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.53%) TeamCity
General
1 232 (62.03%) Finance
2 115 (30.75%) Social Skills
3 100 (26.74%) Banking
4 46 (12.30%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (6.95%) Front Office
6 16 (4.28%) Marketing
6 16 (4.28%) Public Sector
7 14 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.94%) Corporate Banking
8 11 (2.94%) Financial Institution
8 11 (2.94%) Retail
9 10 (2.67%) Legal
9 10 (2.67%) Retail Banking
10 8 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.87%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.87%) Japanese Language
12 5 (1.34%) German Language
12 5 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.80%) French Language
13 3 (0.80%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 90 (24.06%) Developer
2 65 (17.38%) Senior
3 35 (9.36%) Analyst
4 30 (8.02%) Senior Developer
5 27 (7.22%) Lead
6 25 (6.68%) Software Engineer
7 24 (6.42%) Java Developer
8 23 (6.15%) Business Analyst
9 22 (5.88%) Python Developer
10 19 (5.08%) Project Manager
11 18 (4.81%) Architect
11 18 (4.81%) Product Manager
12 17 (4.55%) Java Engineer
13 14 (3.74%) AWS Engineer
13 14 (3.74%) Designer
14 11 (2.94%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 11 (2.94%) Technical Business Analyst
15 10 (2.67%) Data Scientist
15 10 (2.67%) Product Owner
15 10 (2.67%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (8.56%) Kafka
2 25 (6.68%) React
2 25 (6.68%) REST
3 18 (4.81%) Node.js
3 18 (4.81%) RESTful
4 14 (3.74%) .NET
4 14 (3.74%) AngularJS
5 11 (2.94%) Spring
6 10 (2.67%) Spring Boot
7 9 (2.41%) Pandas
7 9 (2.41%) Redux
8 7 (1.87%) GraphQL
8 7 (1.87%) TensorFlow
9 6 (1.60%) gRPC
9 6 (1.60%) Jest
9 6 (1.60%) NumPy
10 5 (1.34%) scikit-learn
11 4 (1.07%) Ruby on Rails
11 4 (1.07%) SciPy
11 4 (1.07%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.49%) Product Ownership
2 25 (6.68%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (6.42%) Fixed Income
4 23 (6.15%) Equities
5 19 (5.08%) Greenfield Project
6 18 (4.81%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.21%) Virtual Team
8 10 (2.67%) Cloud Native
9 9 (2.41%) Derivative
10 8 (2.14%) Hedge funds
10 8 (2.14%) PMI
11 7 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.87%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 6 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (1.07%) Blockchain
14 4 (1.07%) Learning Management System
14 4 (1.07%) PACS
14 4 (1.07%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.01%) Linux
2 9 (2.41%) Unix
3 6 (1.60%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.80%) Android
4 3 (0.80%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (26.47%) Agile
2 91 (24.33%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (18.18%) Analytics
4 60 (16.04%) CI/CD
5 52 (13.90%) Software Engineering
6 47 (12.57%) Microservices
7 44 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
8 41 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
8 41 (10.96%) DevOps
9 37 (9.89%) User Experience
10 34 (9.09%) AI
11 33 (8.82%) Roadmaps
12 32 (8.56%) Project Management
12 32 (8.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 30 (8.02%) Decision-Making
14 28 (7.49%) Business Intelligence
15 27 (7.22%) Migration
16 25 (6.68%) Machine Learning
16 25 (6.68%) Mentoring
17 24 (6.42%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 80 (21.39%) Python
2 66 (17.65%) Java
3 56 (14.97%) SQL
4 29 (7.75%) C#
5 22 (5.88%) Go
5 22 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 22 (5.88%) TypeScript
6 12 (3.21%) R
7 11 (2.94%) C++
8 10 (2.67%) Kotlin
9 7 (1.87%) Bash
10 5 (1.34%) Swift
11 4 (1.07%) Ruby
11 4 (1.07%) Rust
12 3 (0.80%) Objective-C
12 3 (0.80%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.53%) C
13 2 (0.53%) Haskell
13 2 (0.53%) Perl
13 2 (0.53%) PHP
Qualifications
1 29 (7.75%) Degree
2 25 (6.68%) PMP
3 21 (5.61%) PMI Certification
4 15 (4.01%) Master's Degree
5 10 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.67%) MBA
6 9 (2.41%) Security Cleared
7 8 (2.14%) SAFe Agilist
8 7 (1.87%) CISSP
9 6 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.60%) CISM
10 5 (1.34%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.34%) SC Cleared
11 4 (1.07%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.07%) OCP
11 4 (1.07%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.80%) APMP
12 3 (0.80%) CBAP
12 3 (0.80%) IIBA
12 3 (0.80%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.82%) QA
2 20 (5.35%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.67%) PCI DSS
4 9 (2.41%) PMO
5 8 (2.14%) Basel III
6 7 (1.87%) GDPR
6 7 (1.87%) NIST
7 5 (1.34%) ISO 20022
7 5 (1.34%) ISO 8583
7 5 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.07%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.07%) PSD2
9 3 (0.80%) GRC
9 3 (0.80%) SLA
10 2 (0.53%) COBIT
10 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.53%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.53%) SEPA
11 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (10.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (10.16%) Kubernetes
2 19 (5.08%) Ansible
3 15 (4.01%) Terraform
4 8 (2.14%) Grafana
5 4 (1.07%) Kibana
6 3 (0.80%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.80%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.80%) RSA Archer
7 2 (0.53%) Puppet
7 2 (0.53%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 17 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.21%) Databricks
3 11 (2.94%) Sonatype
4 7 (1.87%) Amplitude
4 7 (1.87%) Oracle
5 6 (1.60%) Salesforce
5 6 (1.60%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.34%) Google
6 5 (1.34%) Splunk
7 4 (1.07%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.80%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.80%) BiZZdesign
8 3 (0.80%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.80%) GoldenSource
8 3 (0.80%) HubSpot
8 3 (0.80%) Samsung
9 2 (0.53%) Alibaba
9 2 (0.53%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.53%) Gemalto
9 2 (0.53%) Thales