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 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 191 228
Rank change year-on-year -134 +37 -2
Contract jobs citing Fintech 413 492 399
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.77% 1.49% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 1.65% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 399 327
10th Percentile £275 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £446 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -6.12% +2.08%
75th Percentile £663 £750 £738
90th Percentile £790 £875 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £475 £463
% change year-on-year +8.21% +2.70% -11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 2
10th Percentile - £56.25 £47.13
25th Percentile £22.25 £65.00 £48.44
Median hourly rate £31.50 £69.25 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -54.51% +35.12% -42.70%
75th Percentile £75.00 £79.69 £53.44
90th Percentile £84.00 £83.75 £54.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 45,630 29,844 33,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.69% 90.49% 85.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,001 18,599 21,039
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.54%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £728 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,875 1,760 1,727
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £13.87
25th Percentile £18.29 £17.30 £18.00
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £67.86 £47.66 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.74 £42.05
% change year-on-year +93.36% -45.93% +12.12%

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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 23 August 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 23 August 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 23 August 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 -114 385 £550 -8.33% 372
London -69 304 £550 -12.00% 211
Work from Home -158 105 £525 -19.23% 163
UK excluding London -122 80 £514 +8.21% 227
North of England -77 21 £507 +20.86% 68
South East -55 19 £280 -25.83% 80
South West -25 18 £643 -1.15% 30
Yorkshire -32 14 £514 +24.15% 17
Midlands -48 11 - - 24
West Midlands -44 8 - - 17
North West -60 7 £446 +4.82% 39
East of England -13 6 £510 +13.33% 13
Scotland -46 4 £475 -9.52% 8
East Midlands -24 3 - - 7
Wales - 1 £400 - 8

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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 10 (2.42%) Confluence
2 3 (0.73%) Apache
2 3 (0.73%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.48%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.24%) CMS
4 1 (0.24%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.21%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.73%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.73%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.73%) Trello
4 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.48%) Notion
5 1 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.24%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.21%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.97%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.48%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.24%) Findur
5 1 (0.24%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.24%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 73 (17.68%) AWS
2 61 (14.77%) Azure
3 36 (8.72%) GCP
4 24 (5.81%) GitHub
5 21 (5.08%) SaaS
6 17 (4.12%) Figma
6 17 (4.12%) Power Platform
7 14 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (2.66%) Snowflake
9 10 (2.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (2.42%) GitHub Copilot
10 7 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (1.69%) Serverless
11 6 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (1.45%) Amazon S3
11 6 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (1.21%) Anthropic Claude
12 5 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.45%) VPN
2 5 (1.21%) Firewall
3 2 (0.48%) DNS
3 2 (0.48%) FTP
3 2 (0.48%) Internet
3 2 (0.48%) Network Security
3 2 (0.48%) NFC
4 1 (0.24%) DHCP
4 1 (0.24%) HTTP
4 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (5.08%) NoSQL
3 20 (4.84%) Tableau
4 15 (3.63%) MongoDB
5 14 (3.39%) Power BI
6 12 (2.91%) Relational Database
7 11 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (2.66%) Data Lake
8 10 (2.42%) BigQuery
9 9 (2.18%) Looker
10 8 (1.94%) SQL Server
11 6 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.73%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.73%) Big Data
12 3 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.73%) Mixpanel
12 3 (0.73%) Redis
13 2 (0.48%) Metadata
13 2 (0.48%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 24 (5.81%) JIRA
2 18 (4.36%) Git
2 18 (4.36%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.94%) GitLab
4 6 (1.45%) Cypress.io
4 6 (1.45%) Storybook
5 3 (0.73%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.48%) Gemini Tracker
6 2 (0.48%) Gradle
6 2 (0.48%) MLflow
7 1 (0.24%) Appium
7 1 (0.24%) JUnit
7 1 (0.24%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.24%) Maven
7 1 (0.24%) Mocha
7 1 (0.24%) Mockito
7 1 (0.24%) Postman
7 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.24%) XCUITest
General
1 244 (59.08%) Finance
2 122 (29.54%) Banking
3 81 (19.61%) Social Skills
4 44 (10.65%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (6.05%) Marketing
6 22 (5.33%) Financial Institution
7 21 (5.08%) Front Office
8 13 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.18%) Publishing
10 8 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.69%) Legal
12 6 (1.45%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.45%) Public Sector
13 5 (1.21%) Private Banking
13 5 (1.21%) Retail
14 4 (0.97%) Advertising
14 4 (0.97%) Games
14 4 (0.97%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.73%) Dutch Language
15 3 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 75 (18.16%) Developer
2 73 (17.68%) Senior
3 48 (11.62%) Analyst
4 32 (7.75%) Software Engineer
5 31 (7.51%) Lead
6 27 (6.54%) Consultant
7 24 (5.81%) Designer
8 17 (4.12%) Architect
8 17 (4.12%) Java Engineer
9 16 (3.87%) Python Developer
10 14 (3.39%) Data Engineer
10 14 (3.39%) Senior Manager
11 13 (3.15%) Project Manager
11 13 (3.15%) Senior Developer
12 12 (2.91%) Product Designer
13 11 (2.66%) Business Analyst
13 11 (2.66%) Product Manager
13 11 (2.66%) React Developer
13 11 (2.66%) Report Analyst
13 11 (2.66%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (9.69%) REST
2 31 (7.51%) Kafka
3 29 (7.02%) React
4 20 (4.84%) Spring
5 19 (4.60%) .NET
6 17 (4.12%) Node.js
6 17 (4.12%) Spring Boot
7 15 (3.63%) RESTful
7 15 (3.63%) Terraform
8 14 (3.39%) React Native
9 12 (2.91%) FastAPI
9 12 (2.91%) Flask
10 11 (2.66%) NumPy
10 11 (2.66%) Pandas
11 10 (2.42%) OAuth
11 10 (2.42%) Polars
11 10 (2.42%) Redux
12 9 (2.18%) Apache Avro
12 9 (2.18%) CSS
12 9 (2.18%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 25 (6.05%) Equities
2 24 (5.81%) Onboarding
3 22 (5.33%) Cloud Native
4 20 (4.84%) Mobile App
5 19 (4.60%) Derivative
6 17 (4.12%) Data Structures
7 16 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (3.87%) Fixed Income
7 16 (3.87%) Product Ownership
8 13 (3.15%) Hedge funds
9 12 (2.91%) Management Information System
10 11 (2.66%) AI Agents
10 11 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.94%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 7 (1.69%) Market Risk
13 6 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (1.21%) Equity Derivative
14 5 (1.21%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.36%) Linux
2 13 (3.15%) Android
3 11 (2.66%) Apple iOS
4 9 (2.18%) Unix
5 5 (1.21%) Windows
6 1 (0.24%) CentOS
6 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (22.52%) AI
2 79 (19.13%) Stakeholder Management
3 77 (18.64%) CI/CD
4 67 (16.22%) Software Engineering
5 60 (14.53%) Agile
6 50 (12.11%) DevOps
7 47 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (10.17%) Analytics
9 38 (9.20%) Microservices
10 36 (8.72%) Continuous Improvement
10 36 (8.72%) User Experience
11 33 (7.99%) Generative AI
12 31 (7.51%) Containerisation
12 31 (7.51%) Observability
13 30 (7.26%) Mentoring
14 28 (6.78%) Data Pipeline
15 27 (6.54%) Decision-Making
16 26 (6.30%) Machine Learning
16 26 (6.30%) Roadmaps
17 25 (6.05%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 80 (19.37%) SQL
2 70 (16.95%) Python
3 58 (14.04%) Java
4 34 (8.23%) TypeScript
5 22 (5.33%) JavaScript
6 21 (5.08%) C#
7 20 (4.84%) Go
8 15 (3.63%) Kotlin
9 10 (2.42%) R
10 9 (2.18%) PowerShell
11 8 (1.94%) PHP
12 7 (1.69%) Bash
13 6 (1.45%) C++
14 5 (1.21%) Korn
15 2 (0.48%) Bicep
15 2 (0.48%) F#
15 2 (0.48%) Groovy
15 2 (0.48%) Perl
15 2 (0.48%) Swift
16 1 (0.24%) C
Qualifications
1 31 (7.51%) Degree
2 17 (4.12%) Security Cleared
3 16 (3.87%) SC Cleared
4 11 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.94%) Master's Degree
5 8 (1.94%) PMP
6 7 (1.69%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.21%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.97%) PhD
9 3 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.73%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.73%) CISM
9 3 (0.73%) CISSP
10 2 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.48%) CCSK
10 2 (0.48%) CCSP
10 2 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.48%) MBA
10 2 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.81%) QA
2 8 (1.94%) PMO
3 6 (1.45%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.45%) PSD2
4 4 (0.97%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.73%) GDPR
6 2 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.48%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.48%) NIST
6 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.48%) SLA
7 1 (0.24%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.24%) GRC
7 1 (0.24%) IFRS
7 1 (0.24%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.24%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 43 (10.41%) Docker
2 4 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (11.38%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.91%) Prometheus
3 7 (1.69%) Grafana
4 5 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.97%) Ansible
6 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.73%) SCCM
7 1 (0.24%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.24%) Istio
7 1 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.24%) linkerd
7 1 (0.24%) Puppet
7 1 (0.24%) QRadar
Vendors
1 31 (7.51%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.12%) Google
3 11 (2.66%) Databricks
4 10 (2.42%) Informatica
5 8 (1.94%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.69%) SAP
7 6 (1.45%) Amplitude
8 5 (1.21%) Adobe
8 5 (1.21%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.21%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.21%) Oracle
9 4 (0.97%) PagerDuty
10 3 (0.73%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.73%) Citrix
10 3 (0.73%) NetApp
10 3 (0.73%) Reuters
10 3 (0.73%) VMware
11 2 (0.48%) Ariba
11 2 (0.48%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.48%) ION Trading