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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 186 227
Rank change year-on-year -118 +41 -6
Contract jobs citing Fintech 417 482 424
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.78% 1.46% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 1.62% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 393 351
10th Percentile £275 £375 £400
25th Percentile £420 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £750 £750
90th Percentile £830 £860 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £478 £450
% change year-on-year -3.24% +6.22% -16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 2
10th Percentile - £54.50 £47.13
25th Percentile £22.25 - £48.44
Median hourly rate £34.50 £65.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -46.92% +26.83% -42.70%
75th Percentile £66.44 £80.00 £53.44
90th Percentile £82.50 £84.50 £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 45,167 29,748 33,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.91% 90.41% 85.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,886 18,653 21,488
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,759 1,659 1,873
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.47 £17.30 £18.14
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £74.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.05 £40.94
% change year-on-year +90.72% -43.70% +3.38%

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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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -105 388 £529 -11.83% 1,210
London -59 320 £550 -12.00% 989
Work from Home -154 112 £550 -18.52% 466
UK excluding London -113 70 £463 -3.24% 310
North of England -69 20 £500 +25.00% 96
South East -52 19 £280 - 92
Yorkshire -42 11 £514 +24.15% 16
South West -37 10 £570 -12.31% 22
Midlands -58 10 - - 26
North West -58 9 £446 +11.38% 56
West Midlands -53 8 - - 15
East of England -11 5 £475 +5.56% 20
Scotland -40 5 £463 -11.90% 14
East Midlands -15 2 - - 11
Wales - 1 £400 - 17

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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 9 (2.16%) Confluence
2 3 (0.72%) Apache
2 3 (0.72%) 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 9 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.72%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.72%) Trello
5 2 (0.48%) Notion
6 1 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.24%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.24%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.24%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (0.96%) NetSuite
1 4 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.48%) SAP EHS
2 2 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.24%) Findur
3 1 (0.24%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.24%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 84 (20.14%) AWS
2 66 (15.83%) Azure
3 44 (10.55%) GCP
4 24 (5.76%) GitHub
5 21 (5.04%) Power Platform
5 21 (5.04%) SaaS
6 18 (4.32%) Figma
7 15 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (2.64%) Snowflake
9 10 (2.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 9 (2.16%) GitHub Copilot
11 6 (1.44%) Anthropic Claude
11 6 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.44%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.44%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (1.44%) Serverless
11 6 (1.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.20%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (1.20%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.20%) VPN
2 4 (0.96%) 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 38 (9.11%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (6.00%) Tableau
3 20 (4.80%) NoSQL
4 18 (4.32%) Power BI
5 17 (4.08%) MongoDB
6 12 (2.88%) Looker
6 12 (2.88%) Relational Database
7 11 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (2.64%) BigQuery
7 11 (2.64%) Data Lake
8 9 (2.16%) SQL Server
9 7 (1.68%) Mixpanel
10 5 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.96%) Big Data
11 4 (0.96%) Redis
12 3 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.72%) Metadata
12 3 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (5.76%) JIRA
2 17 (4.08%) Git
2 17 (4.08%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.44%) GitLab
4 5 (1.20%) Cypress.io
4 5 (1.20%) Storybook
5 4 (0.96%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.48%) Gemini Tracker
6 2 (0.48%) Gradle
6 2 (0.48%) MLflow
6 2 (0.48%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.24%) Appium
7 1 (0.24%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.24%) Mocha
7 1 (0.24%) Mockito
7 1 (0.24%) Postman
7 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.24%) XCUITest
General
1 251 (60.19%) Finance
2 117 (28.06%) Banking
3 75 (17.99%) Social Skills
4 51 (12.23%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (6.24%) Front Office
5 26 (6.24%) Marketing
6 22 (5.28%) Financial Institution
7 13 (3.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.16%) Publishing
9 8 (1.92%) Legal
9 8 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (1.92%) Public Sector
10 7 (1.68%) Games
10 7 (1.68%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.20%) Retail
11 5 (1.20%) Retail Banking
12 4 (0.96%) Advertising
12 4 (0.96%) Private Banking
13 3 (0.72%) Dutch Language
13 3 (0.72%) German Language
Job Titles
1 73 (17.51%) Developer
1 73 (17.51%) Senior
2 44 (10.55%) Analyst
3 35 (8.39%) Lead
4 32 (7.67%) Software Engineer
5 27 (6.47%) Consultant
6 26 (6.24%) Designer
7 21 (5.04%) Data Engineer
8 20 (4.80%) Architect
9 19 (4.56%) Python Developer
10 15 (3.60%) Java Engineer
11 14 (3.36%) Project Manager
12 13 (3.12%) Product Designer
12 13 (3.12%) Senior Developer
13 12 (2.88%) AWS Engineer
13 12 (2.88%) Lead Developer
13 12 (2.88%) Senior Manager
14 11 (2.64%) Business Analyst
14 11 (2.64%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 11 (2.64%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (8.63%) REST
2 35 (8.39%) React
3 31 (7.43%) Kafka
4 22 (5.28%) Node.js
5 21 (5.04%) .NET
6 19 (4.56%) Spring
7 16 (3.84%) RESTful
7 16 (3.84%) Spring Boot
8 14 (3.36%) Redux
9 11 (2.64%) FastAPI
9 11 (2.64%) Flask
9 11 (2.64%) NumPy
9 11 (2.64%) Pandas
9 11 (2.64%) React Native
10 10 (2.40%) Polars
11 9 (2.16%) Apache Avro
11 9 (2.16%) OAuth
12 8 (1.92%) CSS
12 8 (1.92%) OAuth2
13 7 (1.68%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.95%) Equities
2 24 (5.76%) Onboarding
3 22 (5.28%) Cloud Native
3 22 (5.28%) Derivative
3 22 (5.28%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.56%) Fixed Income
5 17 (4.08%) Data Structures
5 17 (4.08%) Mobile App
6 16 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (3.36%) Hedge funds
8 12 (2.88%) Management Information System
9 11 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (2.16%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.68%) Market Risk
13 6 (1.44%) Virtual Team
14 5 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (1.20%) Data Centre
15 4 (0.96%) Digital Wallet
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.56%) Linux
2 12 (2.88%) Android
3 10 (2.40%) Apple iOS
3 10 (2.40%) Unix
4 5 (1.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (20.86%) AI
2 77 (18.47%) CI/CD
3 75 (17.99%) Stakeholder Management
4 69 (16.55%) Agile
5 65 (15.59%) Software Engineering
6 52 (12.47%) Analytics
7 50 (11.99%) DevOps
7 50 (11.99%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (8.87%) Continuous Improvement
9 36 (8.63%) User Experience
10 34 (8.15%) Mentoring
10 34 (8.15%) Microservices
11 33 (7.91%) Data Pipeline
11 33 (7.91%) Decision-Making
12 32 (7.67%) Generative AI
13 30 (7.19%) Machine Learning
14 28 (6.71%) Containerisation
15 27 (6.47%) Event-Driven
15 27 (6.47%) Observability
15 27 (6.47%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 87 (20.86%) SQL
2 77 (18.47%) Python
3 51 (12.23%) Java
4 36 (8.63%) TypeScript
5 25 (6.00%) JavaScript
6 23 (5.52%) C#
7 17 (4.08%) Go
8 15 (3.60%) Kotlin
8 15 (3.60%) R
9 9 (2.16%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.92%) PHP
11 6 (1.44%) C++
12 5 (1.20%) Bash
12 5 (1.20%) Korn
13 2 (0.48%) Bicep
13 2 (0.48%) F#
13 2 (0.48%) Groovy
13 2 (0.48%) Perl
13 2 (0.48%) Swift
14 1 (0.24%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 33 (7.91%) Degree
2 19 (4.56%) Security Cleared
3 16 (3.84%) SC Cleared
4 11 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (2.64%) Master's Degree
5 9 (2.16%) PMP
6 8 (1.92%) PMI Certification
7 4 (0.96%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.96%) PhD
8 3 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (0.72%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.72%) CISM
8 3 (0.72%) CISSP
8 3 (0.72%) MBA
9 2 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.48%) CCSK
9 2 (0.48%) CCSP
9 2 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.76%) QA
2 9 (2.16%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.68%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.68%) PMO
4 5 (1.20%) PSD2
5 4 (0.96%) GDPR
6 3 (0.72%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.48%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.48%) NIST
7 2 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.48%) SLA
8 1 (0.24%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.24%) GRC
8 1 (0.24%) IFRS
8 1 (0.24%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.24%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (9.35%) Docker
2 4 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (10.55%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.12%) Terraform
3 12 (2.88%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.68%) Grafana
5 5 (1.20%) Ansible
5 5 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.72%) SCCM
7 1 (0.24%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.24%) Istio
7 1 (0.24%) Kibana
7 1 (0.24%) linkerd
7 1 (0.24%) QRadar
Vendors
1 31 (7.43%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.08%) Google
3 11 (2.64%) Databricks
4 10 (2.40%) Informatica
5 9 (2.16%) Amplitude
6 8 (1.92%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.68%) SAP
8 6 (1.44%) Oracle
9 5 (1.20%) Adobe
9 5 (1.20%) Dynatrace
10 4 (0.96%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.96%) PagerDuty
11 3 (0.72%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.72%) Citrix
11 3 (0.72%) Reuters
12 2 (0.48%) Ariba
12 2 (0.48%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.48%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.48%) Splunk
12 2 (0.48%) YouTube