Fintech Contract Job Trends

Financial Technology (FinTech)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Fintech skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 192 244 219
Rank change year-on-year +52 -25 -1
Contract jobs citing Fintech 473 376 606
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.46% 0.99% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 1.15% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 379 306 483
10th Percentile £363 £400 £425
25th Percentile £434 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% - -
75th Percentile £781 £731 £700
90th Percentile £875 £825 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £463 £520
% change year-on-year +1.08% -11.06% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 1
10th Percentile £45.88 £48.00 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £50.63 -
Median hourly rate £73.50 £55.00 £89.44
Median % change year-on-year +33.64% -38.51% +98.76%
75th Percentile £85.63 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £89.75 £61.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £89.44

All Process and 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 29,370 32,658 44,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.49% 85.62% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,234 20,154 30,464
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £403 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,777 1,475 1,557
10th Percentile £14.23 £14.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £18.78
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +47.06%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.70 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £43.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -47.67% +6.17% +76.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Fintech as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Fintech 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 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 2025. 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 +25 387 £600 - 991
London +7 317 £625 +2.04% 708
Work from Home +96 241 £650 +4.00% 449
UK excluding London +61 97 £468 +1.08% 574
North of England +3 38 £400 -27.27% 72
Scotland +26 37 £525 +23.53% 27
North West +1 24 £400 -27.27% 38
Midlands -2 14 £390 -17.89% 38
East Midlands - 12 £380 - 13
North East +4 7 £200 - 17
Yorkshire -13 7 £414 +6.84% 17
South East +24 4 £378 -26.34% 375
South West +27 3 £650 +73.33% 27
West Midlands -13 2 £395 -16.84% 23
East of England +6 1 £450 - 22
Northern Ireland -6 1 - - 10

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 43 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (3.81%) Confluence
3 9 (1.90%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.48%) Apache
4 7 (1.48%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.42%) IIS
6 2 (0.42%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.21%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.85%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.42%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.21%) MadCap Flare
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.11%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.42%) Kondor
2 2 (0.42%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.21%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.21%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 160 (33.83%) AWS
2 110 (23.26%) GCP
3 81 (17.12%) Azure
4 41 (8.67%) dbt
5 25 (5.29%) GitHub
6 23 (4.86%) SaaS
7 14 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (2.33%) Figma
10 11 (2.33%) Serverless
11 10 (2.11%) Datadog
12 9 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (1.69%) Amazon Kinesis
13 8 (1.69%) AWS Step Functions
13 8 (1.69%) Power Platform
14 7 (1.48%) Entra ID
14 7 (1.48%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.11%) Firewall
2 4 (0.85%) ATM
2 4 (0.85%) VPN
3 3 (0.63%) DHCP
3 3 (0.63%) DNS
4 2 (0.42%) HTTP
4 2 (0.42%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.21%) BGP
5 1 (0.21%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.21%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.21%) OSPF
5 1 (0.21%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.21%) SSL
5 1 (0.21%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (16.91%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (7.82%) Amazon Athena
3 36 (7.61%) Apache Arrow
3 36 (7.61%) Apache Iceberg
3 36 (7.61%) Dremio
4 18 (3.81%) SQL Server
5 17 (3.59%) MySQL
6 14 (2.96%) MongoDB
6 14 (2.96%) NoSQL
7 13 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (2.54%) Apache Cassandra
9 10 (2.11%) BigQuery
10 9 (1.90%) Tableau
11 8 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.69%) Power BI
12 7 (1.48%) Hadoop
12 7 (1.48%) Oracle Database
13 6 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (1.27%) Big Data
13 6 (1.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (5.29%) JIRA
2 16 (3.38%) Git
3 11 (2.33%) Cypress.io
3 11 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.90%) GitLab
5 8 (1.69%) Postman
6 7 (1.48%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.27%) MLflow
8 5 (1.06%) JUnit
9 4 (0.85%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.63%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.63%) Selenium
10 3 (0.63%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.63%) Storybook
11 2 (0.42%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.42%) Gatling
11 2 (0.42%) JMeter
11 2 (0.42%) Snyk
11 2 (0.42%) TestNG
12 1 (0.21%) Xcode
General
1 330 (69.77%) Finance
2 152 (32.14%) Banking
3 123 (26.00%) Social Skills
4 80 (16.91%) Front Office
5 66 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (1.90%) Financial Institution
7 9 (1.90%) Investment Banking
7 9 (1.90%) Marketing
8 8 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.69%) Legal
8 8 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (1.69%) Retail
9 7 (1.48%) Retail Banking
10 6 (1.27%) Back Office
10 6 (1.27%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.06%) Public Sector
12 4 (0.85%) Law
12 4 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.42%) Games
Job Titles
1 152 (32.14%) Developer
2 92 (19.45%) Software Engineer
3 78 (16.49%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 62 (13.11%) Analyst
5 40 (8.46%) AWS Engineer
6 38 (8.03%) AWS Developer
7 37 (7.82%) AWS Software Engineer
7 37 (7.82%) Senior
8 30 (6.34%) Java Engineer
8 30 (6.34%) Python Engineer
9 28 (5.92%) React Developer
10 27 (5.71%) Java Developer
10 27 (5.71%) Python Developer
11 24 (5.07%) Python Software Engineer
12 23 (4.86%) Full-Stack Developer
13 21 (4.44%) Lead
14 19 (4.02%) Java Software Engineer
14 19 (4.02%) Senior Developer
15 17 (3.59%) Architect
15 17 (3.59%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (20.72%) React
2 73 (15.43%) Node.js
3 61 (12.90%) AngularJS
4 50 (10.57%) Vue
5 42 (8.88%) Redux
6 37 (7.82%) Pandas
7 36 (7.61%) NumPy
7 36 (7.61%) SciPy
8 35 (7.40%) Kafka
9 23 (4.86%) REST
10 22 (4.65%) RESTful
11 19 (4.02%) Spring
12 18 (3.81%) Spring Boot
13 14 (2.96%) .NET
14 11 (2.33%) Web Services
15 9 (1.90%) OAuth
16 8 (1.69%) CSS
16 8 (1.69%) HTML
16 8 (1.69%) Jest
16 8 (1.69%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 79 (16.70%) Fixed Income
2 64 (13.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 59 (12.47%) Equities
4 26 (5.50%) Product Ownership
5 22 (4.65%) Hedge funds
6 20 (4.23%) Cloud Native
7 19 (4.02%) Onboarding
8 18 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
9 14 (2.96%) Virtual Team
10 11 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (2.11%) Mobile App
12 9 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (1.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 6 (1.27%) Algorithms
15 6 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
15 6 (1.27%) Public Cloud
16 5 (1.06%) Data Structures
16 5 (1.06%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.29%) Windows
2 21 (4.44%) Linux
3 12 (2.54%) Android
3 12 (2.54%) Apple iOS
4 10 (2.11%) Unix
5 1 (0.21%) VMS
5 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (38.69%) Agile
2 124 (26.22%) Software Engineering
3 81 (17.12%) CI/CD
4 78 (16.49%) Asset Management
5 77 (16.28%) Investment Management
5 77 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
6 68 (14.38%) DevOps
7 63 (13.32%) User Experience
8 57 (12.05%) Migration
9 56 (11.84%) Microservices
10 54 (11.42%) Analytics
11 53 (11.21%) Risk Management
12 48 (10.15%) Stakeholder Management
13 46 (9.73%) Continuous Improvement
14 40 (8.46%) Roadmaps
15 37 (7.82%) Digital Banking
16 36 (7.61%) Order Management
16 36 (7.61%) Performance Attribution
17 35 (7.40%) Full-Stack Development
18 31 (6.55%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 129 (27.27%) Python
2 97 (20.51%) JavaScript
3 89 (18.82%) TypeScript
4 78 (16.49%) Java
5 44 (9.30%) SQL
6 27 (5.71%) C#
7 21 (4.44%) Go
8 15 (3.17%) Kotlin
9 12 (2.54%) C++
10 6 (1.27%) Bash
10 6 (1.27%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.06%) Rust
12 4 (0.85%) PHP
13 3 (0.63%) Swift
13 3 (0.63%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.42%) C
14 2 (0.42%) Dart
14 2 (0.42%) Objective-C
14 2 (0.42%) Perl
14 2 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 52 (10.99%) Degree
2 26 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (2.75%) Master's Degree
4 11 (2.33%) PMI Certification
5 10 (2.11%) PMP
6 9 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.69%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.27%) CISM
8 6 (1.27%) CISSP
9 3 (0.63%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.63%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 2 (0.42%) CBAP
10 2 (0.42%) CISA
10 2 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.42%) CSSLP
10 2 (0.42%) GCIA
10 2 (0.42%) GCIH
10 2 (0.42%) GIAC
10 2 (0.42%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.13%) QA
2 21 (4.44%) PCI DSS
3 17 (3.59%) GDPR
4 16 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.75%) PMO
6 11 (2.33%) PSD2
7 10 (2.11%) NIST
8 8 (1.69%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.69%) GRC
9 6 (1.27%) SOC 2
10 5 (1.06%) ISO 20022
10 5 (1.06%) SEPA
11 4 (0.85%) ISO 8583
12 3 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.63%) MiFID
12 3 (0.63%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.42%) Basel III
13 2 (0.42%) COBIT
13 2 (0.42%) Data Quality
13 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 33 (6.98%) Docker
2 6 (1.27%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (7.19%) Terraform
2 32 (6.77%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.90%) Ansible
4 4 (0.85%) Grafana
5 3 (0.63%) Istio
5 3 (0.63%) linkerd
5 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.63%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.63%) QRadar
5 3 (0.63%) RSA Archer
5 3 (0.63%) SCCM
5 3 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.63%) WSUS
6 1 (0.21%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.21%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.21%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 43 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.23%) Google
3 14 (2.96%) Oracle
4 12 (2.54%) Databricks
5 7 (1.48%) Darktrace
5 7 (1.48%) Salesforce
5 7 (1.48%) Zscaler
6 5 (1.06%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.06%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.06%) VMware
7 4 (0.85%) CA Agile Central
7 4 (0.85%) SolarWinds
8 3 (0.63%) Alibaba
8 3 (0.63%) IBM
8 3 (0.63%) OneTrust
8 3 (0.63%) Sybase
8 3 (0.63%) Varonis
9 2 (0.42%) ForgeRock
9 2 (0.42%) New Relic
9 2 (0.42%) Optimizely