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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 214 212
Rank change year-on-year -76 -2 +32
Contract jobs citing Fintech 405 368 483
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.88% 1.26% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 1.39% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 291 411
10th Percentile £327 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £691 £713 £750
90th Percentile £850 £813 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £384 £446 £475
% change year-on-year -13.95% -6.05% +3.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 6
10th Percentile - £48.13 £34.88
25th Percentile £22.25 £50.94 £45.44
Median hourly rate £53.75 £56.25 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% - -
75th Percentile £78.75 £60.94 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £63.38 £80.88
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 39,074 26,483 37,997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.36% 90.62% 86.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,751 17,195 24,633
10th Percentile £315 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £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 £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,316 997 2,379
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £12.79
25th Percentile £19.34 £20.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £36.70 £31.64 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +15.99% -4.31% -8.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.91
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.80 £70.41
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.71 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +22.37% -9.09% -8.08%

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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 9 April 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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -85 366 £550 -8.33% 565
London -41 266 £600 -4.00% 416
Work from Home -94 112 £600 -11.11% 261
UK excluding London -34 102 £384 -13.95% 207
North of England -46 37 £402 -5.41% 61
South East -23 32 £280 - 89
Yorkshire -40 20 £359 -29.19% 14
North West -21 15 £446 -1.33% 33
Midlands -65 12 £354 -11.50% 18
East Midlands -33 11 £347 -13.25% 4
Scotland +10 8 £588 +17.50% 4
East of England -31 7 £358 -47.04% 15
South West - 7 £384 - 17
North East -16 2 - - 14
West Midlands -61 1 £460 -10.68% 14
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3

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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 33 (8.15%) Confluence
2 4 (0.99%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.74%) Apache
4 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.25%) Appian
4 1 (0.25%) CMS
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.74%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.74%) Notion
6 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.25%) Sketch
7 1 (0.25%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) SAP EHS
1 2 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.25%) BASE24
2 1 (0.25%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 96 (23.70%) AWS
2 66 (16.30%) Azure
3 42 (10.37%) GCP
4 33 (8.15%) Power Platform
5 28 (6.91%) GitHub
6 20 (4.94%) SaaS
7 11 (2.72%) Figma
8 10 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (2.47%) Datadog
9 9 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (1.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (1.73%) Serverless
11 7 (1.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (1.48%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (1.48%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (1.48%) Amazon S3
12 6 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.23%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.23%) Firewall
2 4 (0.99%) Network Security
3 3 (0.74%) VPN
4 2 (0.49%) DNS
4 2 (0.49%) FTP
4 2 (0.49%) SSH
5 1 (0.25%) DHCP
5 1 (0.25%) HTTP
5 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.16%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (6.17%) Power BI
3 19 (4.69%) Tableau
4 13 (3.21%) Looker
5 12 (2.96%) NoSQL
6 11 (2.72%) Relational Database
7 10 (2.47%) Data Lake
8 9 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
9 8 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (1.73%) Mixpanel
10 7 (1.73%) MySQL
11 6 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.48%) Hadoop
11 6 (1.48%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.23%) Big Data
12 5 (1.23%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.74%) Pinecone
13 3 (0.74%) Weaviate
14 2 (0.49%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 43 (10.62%) JIRA
2 32 (7.90%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.96%) Sonatype Nexus
4 10 (2.47%) Git
5 5 (1.23%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.99%) GitLab
7 3 (0.74%) JUnit
7 3 (0.74%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.74%) Selenium
7 3 (0.74%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.49%) Android Studio
8 2 (0.49%) Appium
8 2 (0.49%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.49%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.49%) MLflow
8 2 (0.49%) Postman
8 2 (0.49%) Sourcetree
8 2 (0.49%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.49%) Xcode
9 1 (0.25%) Gatling
General
1 241 (59.51%) Finance
2 102 (25.19%) Banking
3 101 (24.94%) Social Skills
4 54 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (7.90%) Front Office
6 15 (3.70%) Marketing
6 15 (3.70%) Public Sector
7 12 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.96%) Retail
8 11 (2.72%) Corporate Banking
8 11 (2.72%) Financial Institution
8 11 (2.72%) Retail Banking
9 9 (2.22%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.98%) Legal
11 6 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.23%) Publishing
13 4 (0.99%) Advertising
13 4 (0.99%) Games
14 3 (0.74%) Retail Finance
14 3 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 97 (23.95%) Developer
2 74 (18.27%) Senior
3 36 (8.89%) Lead
4 33 (8.15%) Analyst
5 30 (7.41%) Software Engineer
6 26 (6.42%) Java Developer
6 26 (6.42%) Senior Developer
7 25 (6.17%) Python Developer
8 22 (5.43%) Business Analyst
8 22 (5.43%) Project Manager
9 19 (4.69%) Architect
10 17 (4.20%) Product Manager
11 16 (3.95%) Consultant
11 16 (3.95%) Data Engineer
11 16 (3.95%) Lead Developer
12 15 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (3.70%) Designer
13 14 (3.46%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 14 (3.46%) Senior Manager
14 13 (3.21%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (8.40%) React
2 33 (8.15%) Kafka
2 33 (8.15%) REST
3 27 (6.67%) Node.js
4 18 (4.44%) Redux
4 18 (4.44%) RESTful
5 13 (3.21%) Spring
5 13 (3.21%) Spring Boot
6 12 (2.96%) .NET
6 12 (2.96%) AngularJS
7 10 (2.47%) Pandas
8 9 (2.22%) GraphQL
8 9 (2.22%) React Native
9 7 (1.73%) FastAPI
9 7 (1.73%) Flask
9 7 (1.73%) NumPy
9 7 (1.73%) TensorFlow
10 6 (1.48%) Next.js
11 5 (1.23%) Apache Avro
11 5 (1.23%) Polars
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.65%) Equities
2 27 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 25 (6.17%) Fixed Income
4 19 (4.69%) Derivative
4 19 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (4.69%) Onboarding
5 16 (3.95%) Cloud Native
6 15 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (3.46%) Mobile App
8 13 (3.21%) Hedge funds
9 12 (2.96%) Data Structures
10 10 (2.47%) Virtual Team
11 9 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (2.22%) PMI
12 7 (1.73%) Management Information System
13 6 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (0.99%) Digital Wallet
14 4 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
14 4 (0.99%) Market Risk
14 4 (0.99%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.69%) Linux
2 11 (2.72%) Unix
3 6 (1.48%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.74%) Android
5 2 (0.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (20.25%) Agile
1 82 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
2 73 (18.02%) CI/CD
3 58 (14.32%) Analytics
4 54 (13.33%) Software Engineering
5 51 (12.59%) DevOps
6 47 (11.60%) Stakeholder Management
7 41 (10.12%) AI
8 37 (9.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (9.14%) Microservices
9 35 (8.64%) Mentoring
10 33 (8.15%) Decision-Making
11 32 (7.90%) User Experience
12 28 (6.91%) Business Intelligence
12 28 (6.91%) Observability
12 28 (6.91%) Project Management
13 27 (6.67%) Data Pipeline
13 27 (6.67%) Process Improvement
14 25 (6.17%) Full-Stack Development
14 25 (6.17%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 85 (20.99%) Python
2 69 (17.04%) Java
3 68 (16.79%) SQL
4 37 (9.14%) TypeScript
5 25 (6.17%) C#
5 25 (6.17%) JavaScript
6 21 (5.19%) Go
7 12 (2.96%) R
8 10 (2.47%) Kotlin
9 9 (2.22%) C++
10 6 (1.48%) Swift
11 5 (1.23%) Bash
12 4 (0.99%) Perl
13 3 (0.74%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.74%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.74%) Ruby
14 2 (0.49%) F#
14 2 (0.49%) Haskell
14 2 (0.49%) PHP
14 2 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (7.65%) Degree
2 19 (4.69%) Security Cleared
3 17 (4.20%) PMP
4 15 (3.70%) Master's Degree
4 15 (3.70%) PMI Certification
5 14 (3.46%) SC Cleared
6 10 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.47%) MBA
7 8 (1.98%) SAFe Agilist
8 6 (1.48%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.48%) CISSP
9 5 (1.23%) CISM
10 4 (0.99%) APMP
10 4 (0.99%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.74%) CBAP
11 3 (0.74%) IIBA
11 3 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.15%) QA
2 15 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.98%) Basel III
3 8 (1.98%) PMO
4 7 (1.73%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.48%) GDPR
6 5 (1.23%) NIST
7 4 (0.99%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.99%) SLA
8 3 (0.74%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.49%) GRC
10 1 (0.25%) COBIT
10 1 (0.25%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.25%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.25%) PSD2
10 1 (0.25%) SEPA
10 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 43 (10.62%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (10.12%) Kubernetes
2 17 (4.20%) Ansible
3 14 (3.46%) Terraform
4 7 (1.73%) Grafana
5 4 (0.99%) Kibana
6 3 (0.74%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.49%) Puppet
7 2 (0.49%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.25%) SCCM
8 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (6.42%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.96%) Sonatype
3 11 (2.72%) Salesforce
4 10 (2.47%) Databricks
5 8 (1.98%) Amplitude
6 7 (1.73%) Informatica
7 6 (1.48%) Google
7 6 (1.48%) Splunk
8 5 (1.23%) Oracle
9 4 (0.99%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.74%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (0.74%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.74%) GoldenSource
10 3 (0.74%) SAP
11 2 (0.49%) Adobe
11 2 (0.49%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.49%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.49%) Gemalto
11 2 (0.49%) HubSpot
11 2 (0.49%) Thales