Fintech Contracts

Financial Technology (FinTech)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Fintech skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fintech over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 200 215 245
Rank change year-on-year +15 +30 -62
Contract jobs citing Fintech 387 465 661
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.32% 1.07% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 1.24% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 402 502
10th Percentile £375 £400 £405
25th Percentile £472 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £725 £750 £688
90th Percentile £838 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £463 £460
% change year-on-year +1.08% +0.49% -7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £88.00 -

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 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Fintech
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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Fintech.

Daily rate trend for Fintech in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fintech over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fintech in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Fintech.

Hourly rate trend for Fintech in the UK

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Top 14 Contract 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 1 May 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 +10 342 £600 -7.69% 1,828
London +4 295 £625 -3.85% 1,440
Work from Home +25 213 £675 +3.85% 985
UK excluding London +46 44 £468 +1.08% 765
North of England +11 16 £414 -2.59% 173
Midlands +28 15 £400 -30.43% 57
East Midlands +18 12 £400 -39.62% 21
Scotland +19 8 £500 +5.26% 48
North West +12 7 £413 -13.16% 120
Yorkshire +2 5 £507 +19.29% 30
North East +3 4 £200 - 23
South East +45 3 - - 409
West Midlands +12 3 £515 +8.42% 30
East of England +24 2 £550 -16.03% 37

Fintech
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 39 (10.08%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (4.65%) Apache
3 11 (2.84%) Confluence
4 5 (1.29%) nginx
5 4 (1.03%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.78%) CMS
6 3 (0.78%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.78%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 8 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (1.29%) Adobe XD
2 5 (1.29%) Sketch
3 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.52%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.52%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.26%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle TCA
3 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 146 (37.73%) AWS
2 97 (25.06%) GCP
3 68 (17.57%) Azure
4 40 (10.34%) dbt
5 22 (5.68%) Serverless
6 19 (4.91%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (4.91%) GitHub
7 16 (4.13%) Amazon SQS
7 16 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (3.88%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (3.62%) Amazon S3
9 14 (3.62%) SaaS
10 12 (3.10%) Figma
11 10 (2.58%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (2.33%) Dagster
13 6 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (1.55%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (1.55%) Snowflake
14 5 (1.29%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.55%) Firewall
2 5 (1.29%) HTTP
3 4 (1.03%) Network Security
4 3 (0.78%) VPN
5 2 (0.52%) BGP
5 2 (0.52%) HSRP
5 2 (0.52%) IGMP
5 2 (0.52%) Multicast
5 2 (0.52%) OSPF
5 2 (0.52%) VRRP
6 1 (0.26%) DNS
6 1 (0.26%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.26%) SSL
6 1 (0.26%) SWIFTNet
6 1 (0.26%) tcpdump
6 1 (0.26%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (14.47%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (9.82%) Amazon Athena
2 38 (9.82%) Apache Iceberg
2 38 (9.82%) Dremio
3 27 (6.98%) Apache Arrow
4 12 (3.10%) Data Lake
5 11 (2.84%) Apache Ignite
5 11 (2.84%) MySQL
6 10 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (2.58%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (2.33%) Relational Database
7 9 (2.33%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.07%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.81%) DynamoDB
9 7 (1.81%) Looker
9 7 (1.81%) NoSQL
10 6 (1.55%) Big Data
10 6 (1.55%) DB2
10 6 (1.55%) Tableau
11 5 (1.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (4.13%) Git
2 14 (3.62%) JIRA
3 12 (3.10%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.07%) GitLab
5 6 (1.55%) Postman
6 5 (1.29%) Ant
6 5 (1.29%) git-flow
7 4 (1.03%) webpack
8 3 (0.78%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.52%) Babel
9 2 (0.52%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.52%) PHPUnit
9 2 (0.52%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.26%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.26%) GoCD
10 1 (0.26%) GoogleTest
10 1 (0.26%) Gradle
10 1 (0.26%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.26%) MLflow
10 1 (0.26%) WebDriver
General
1 267 (68.99%) Finance
2 108 (27.91%) Banking
3 99 (25.58%) Front Office
4 88 (22.74%) Social Skills
5 43 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.36%) Marketing
7 10 (2.58%) Financial Institution
8 9 (2.33%) Investment Banking
9 8 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.07%) Retail
10 7 (1.81%) Legal
11 5 (1.29%) Corporate Banking
11 5 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.29%) Retail Banking
12 4 (1.03%) German Language
12 4 (1.03%) Law
13 3 (0.78%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.78%) Automotive
14 2 (0.52%) Back Office
14 2 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 150 (38.76%) Developer
2 89 (23.00%) Software Engineer
3 73 (18.86%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 43 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
5 40 (10.34%) Python Engineer
6 35 (9.04%) React Developer
7 31 (8.01%) AWS Developer
7 31 (8.01%) Senior
8 30 (7.75%) Analyst
8 30 (7.75%) AWS Software Engineer
9 28 (7.24%) Full-Stack Developer
10 24 (6.20%) Python Developer
11 21 (5.43%) Python Software Engineer
12 19 (4.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 19 (4.91%) Java Engineer
13 18 (4.65%) Data Engineer
14 17 (4.39%) DevOps Engineer
14 17 (4.39%) UI Developer
15 16 (4.13%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 16 (4.13%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (26.87%) React
2 69 (17.83%) Node.js
3 65 (16.80%) Redux
4 59 (15.25%) AngularJS
5 44 (11.37%) Vue
6 37 (9.56%) NumPy
6 37 (9.56%) Pandas
7 36 (9.30%) SciPy
8 17 (4.39%) RESTful
9 15 (3.88%) CSS
9 15 (3.88%) HTML
9 15 (3.88%) Web Services
10 14 (3.62%) .NET
11 13 (3.36%) gRPC
11 13 (3.36%) Spring
12 12 (3.10%) JSON
12 12 (3.10%) Kafka
12 12 (3.10%) OAuth
13 11 (2.84%) Protocol Buffers
13 11 (2.84%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 78 (20.16%) Fixed Income
2 28 (7.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 22 (5.68%) Equities
4 21 (5.43%) Hedge funds
5 12 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (2.84%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.58%) Algorithms
8 9 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (2.33%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.33%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.55%) PMI
11 5 (1.29%) Cloud Native
11 5 (1.29%) Credit Risk
11 5 (1.29%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.29%) Digital Wallet
12 4 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.03%) Derivative
12 4 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.62%) Linux
2 11 (2.84%) Windows
3 8 (2.07%) Android
4 6 (1.55%) Unix
5 5 (1.29%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.52%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.26%) VMS
7 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (42.38%) Agile
2 116 (29.97%) Software Engineering
3 99 (25.58%) Asset Management
4 83 (21.45%) Investment Management
5 53 (13.70%) User Experience
6 52 (13.44%) Analytics
7 50 (12.92%) CI/CD
8 47 (12.14%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (11.63%) DevOps
10 36 (9.30%) Full-Stack Development
11 34 (8.79%) Risk Management
12 31 (8.01%) Stakeholder Management
13 27 (6.98%) Performance Attribution
14 25 (6.46%) TDD
15 24 (6.20%) Microservices
16 23 (5.94%) Decision-Making
16 23 (5.94%) Roadmaps
17 22 (5.68%) Project Management
17 22 (5.68%) Visualisation
18 18 (4.65%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 130 (33.59%) Python
2 111 (28.68%) JavaScript
3 102 (26.36%) TypeScript
4 58 (14.99%) Java
5 40 (10.34%) SQL
6 16 (4.13%) C#
7 14 (3.62%) Go
8 11 (2.84%) PHP
9 8 (2.07%) C++
9 8 (2.07%) Kotlin
10 7 (1.81%) Scala
11 6 (1.55%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.55%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.03%) Bash
12 4 (1.03%) Perl
12 4 (1.03%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.03%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.78%) C
13 3 (0.78%) Rust
14 2 (0.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 35 (9.04%) Degree
2 13 (3.36%) Master's Degree
3 12 (3.10%) PMI Certification
4 8 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.81%) PMP
6 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.52%) ACSP
8 1 (0.26%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.26%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.26%) CFA
8 1 (0.26%) CIPD
8 1 (0.26%) CISSP
8 1 (0.26%) CSPO
8 1 (0.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.39%) PMO
2 8 (2.07%) QA
3 7 (1.81%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.81%) PSD2
4 5 (1.29%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.29%) GDPR
4 5 (1.29%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.78%) ISO 20022
6 3 (0.78%) MiFID
7 2 (0.52%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.52%) SEPA
8 1 (0.26%) GRC
8 1 (0.26%) NIST
8 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.26%) UCITS
System Software
1 37 (9.56%) Docker
2 3 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.52%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (8.27%) Kubernetes
2 26 (6.72%) Terraform
3 4 (1.03%) Ansible
4 3 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (0.78%) SCCM
4 3 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.52%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.26%) CASB
6 1 (0.26%) Grafana
6 1 (0.26%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.26%) Kibana
6 1 (0.26%) linkerd
6 1 (0.26%) logstash
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.26%) SCOM
6 1 (0.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 19 (4.91%) Oracle
2 18 (4.65%) Microsoft
3 11 (2.84%) Google
4 5 (1.29%) Adobe
4 5 (1.29%) Databricks
5 4 (1.03%) Fortinet
5 4 (1.03%) SolarWinds
5 4 (1.03%) Sybase
6 3 (0.78%) Apple
6 3 (0.78%) Cisco
6 3 (0.78%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.78%) SAP
6 3 (0.78%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.52%) Arista
7 2 (0.52%) Avaloq
7 2 (0.52%) Dell
7 2 (0.52%) IBM
7 2 (0.52%) Optimizely
7 2 (0.52%) Pega
7 2 (0.52%) VMware