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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 220 215
Rank change year-on-year -64 -5 +28
Contract jobs citing Fintech 380 365 481
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.92% 1.19% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 1.32% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 290 401
10th Percentile £351 £424 £400
25th Percentile £428 £509 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £613 £595
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% +2.94% +6.97%
75th Percentile £704 £713 £688
90th Percentile £850 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £425 £489
% change year-on-year -5.41% -13.09% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 5
10th Percentile £34.75 £47.38 £33.40
25th Percentile £57.81 £49.06 £42.25
Median hourly rate £79.25 £53.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.44% -6.52% -
75th Percentile £88.13 £59.06 £73.75
90th Percentile £96.00 £61.13 £82.30
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 35,955 27,589 38,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.76% 89.91% 86.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,818 17,125 24,933
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £411 £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 £721 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.18% -1.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,143 864 2,185
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.99 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.61 £32.66 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year -18.53% -1.24% -5.53%
75th Percentile £61.50 £63.75 £59.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.18 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.81% -9.26% -

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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 26 February 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 26 February 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 26 February 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 -71 346 £550 -12.00% 447
London -37 258 £625 - 298
Work from Home -82 110 £625 - 218
UK excluding London -28 94 £402 -5.41% 220
North of England -40 35 £375 -27.33% 57
South East -16 19 £310 - 104
Yorkshire -50 19 £368 -29.90% 16
Midlands -54 16 £385 -3.75% 14
North West -21 14 £423 -0.53% 31
East Midlands -30 13 £365 -8.88% 5
Scotland +11 9 £588 +17.50% 5
East of England -15 7 £300 -55.56% 15
South West -19 7 £450 -35.71% 23
West Midlands -50 3 £430 -16.50% 9
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 3
North East -12 2 - - 10

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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 35 (9.21%) Confluence
2 5 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.05%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.26%) Appian
Applications
1 24 (6.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.11%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.84%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.79%) Notion
6 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.26%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.26%) MadCap Flare
7 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.26%) Sketch
7 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.26%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) BASE24
1 1 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.26%) Exchequer
1 1 (0.26%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 93 (24.47%) AWS
2 59 (15.53%) Azure
3 39 (10.26%) GCP
4 33 (8.68%) Power Platform
5 24 (6.32%) GitHub
6 21 (5.53%) SaaS
7 15 (3.95%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (2.89%) Amazon Kinesis
8 11 (2.89%) Datadog
9 10 (2.63%) AWS Step Functions
9 10 (2.63%) Figma
10 7 (1.84%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.58%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (1.58%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (1.58%) Serverless
11 6 (1.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.32%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.32%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.05%) Network Security
2 2 (0.53%) SSH
3 1 (0.26%) DNS
3 1 (0.26%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.84%) Power BI
2 24 (6.32%) Tableau
3 20 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (3.68%) Apache Cassandra
6 13 (3.42%) Looker
7 11 (2.89%) MySQL
8 10 (2.63%) Hadoop
9 8 (2.11%) MongoDB
10 7 (1.84%) Mixpanel
11 6 (1.58%) Big Data
11 6 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.58%) Relational Database
12 5 (1.32%) BigQuery
12 5 (1.32%) NoSQL
13 4 (1.05%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
14 3 (0.79%) Apache Arrow
14 3 (0.79%) Redis
14 3 (0.79%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 47 (12.37%) JIRA
2 27 (7.11%) Jenkins
3 12 (3.16%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (2.11%) Cypress.io
5 7 (1.84%) Git
6 5 (1.32%) GitLab
6 5 (1.32%) Selenium
7 4 (1.05%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.05%) JUnit
8 3 (0.79%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.79%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.79%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.53%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.53%) Appium
9 2 (0.53%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.53%) MLflow
9 2 (0.53%) Postman
9 2 (0.53%) Sourcetree
9 2 (0.53%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.53%) TeamCity
General
1 237 (62.37%) Finance
2 113 (29.74%) Social Skills
3 95 (25.00%) Banking
4 49 (12.89%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (8.42%) Front Office
6 16 (4.21%) Marketing
7 15 (3.95%) Public Sector
8 14 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.89%) Corporate Banking
9 11 (2.89%) Financial Institution
9 11 (2.89%) Retail
10 10 (2.63%) Legal
10 10 (2.63%) Retail Banking
11 9 (2.37%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.84%) Japanese Language
12 7 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.32%) German Language
13 5 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.05%) Games
15 3 (0.79%) French Language
Job Titles
1 93 (24.47%) Developer
2 67 (17.63%) Senior
3 37 (9.74%) Analyst
4 30 (7.89%) Lead
5 28 (7.37%) Senior Developer
6 26 (6.84%) Software Engineer
7 25 (6.58%) Business Analyst
7 25 (6.58%) Java Developer
8 23 (6.05%) Python Developer
9 20 (5.26%) Project Manager
10 18 (4.74%) Product Manager
11 16 (4.21%) AWS Engineer
11 16 (4.21%) Java Engineer
12 15 (3.95%) Architect
13 13 (3.42%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 13 (3.42%) Technical Business Analyst
14 12 (3.16%) Designer
14 12 (3.16%) Lead Developer
14 12 (3.16%) Python Engineer
15 11 (2.89%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (8.16%) Kafka
2 30 (7.89%) React
3 22 (5.79%) Node.js
3 22 (5.79%) REST
4 17 (4.47%) RESTful
5 15 (3.95%) AngularJS
5 15 (3.95%) Redux
6 14 (3.68%) .NET
7 11 (2.89%) Spring
8 10 (2.63%) Spring Boot
9 8 (2.11%) Pandas
10 7 (1.84%) GraphQL
10 7 (1.84%) TensorFlow
11 5 (1.32%) gRPC
11 5 (1.32%) Jest
11 5 (1.32%) NumPy
11 5 (1.32%) scikit-learn
12 4 (1.05%) CSS
12 4 (1.05%) PyTorch
12 4 (1.05%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.63%) Product Ownership
2 27 (7.11%) Fixed Income
3 26 (6.84%) Equities
4 25 (6.58%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
6 18 (4.74%) Onboarding
7 15 (3.95%) Derivative
8 12 (3.16%) Virtual Team
9 10 (2.63%) Cloud Native
10 9 (2.37%) Mobile App
11 8 (2.11%) Hedge funds
11 8 (2.11%) PMI
12 7 (1.84%) Data Structures
13 6 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
14 5 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (1.32%) Digital Wallet
15 4 (1.05%) Learning Management System
15 4 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
15 4 (1.05%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.95%) Linux
2 9 (2.37%) Unix
3 5 (1.32%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.53%) Android
4 2 (0.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (26.32%) Agile
2 91 (23.95%) Problem-Solving
3 72 (18.95%) Analytics
4 61 (16.05%) CI/CD
5 53 (13.95%) Software Engineering
6 45 (11.84%) Microservices
7 44 (11.58%) Stakeholder Management
8 41 (10.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 41 (10.79%) DevOps
9 37 (9.74%) AI
10 36 (9.47%) User Experience
11 33 (8.68%) Decision-Making
12 30 (7.89%) Roadmaps
12 30 (7.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 29 (7.63%) Business Intelligence
13 29 (7.63%) Mentoring
14 28 (7.37%) Project Management
15 25 (6.58%) Machine Learning
16 24 (6.32%) Asset Management
17 23 (6.05%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 86 (22.63%) Python
2 67 (17.63%) Java
3 59 (15.53%) SQL
4 31 (8.16%) C#
5 28 (7.37%) TypeScript
6 25 (6.58%) JavaScript
7 20 (5.26%) Go
8 12 (3.16%) R
9 10 (2.63%) C++
9 10 (2.63%) Kotlin
10 7 (1.84%) Bash
11 5 (1.32%) Swift
12 4 (1.05%) Ruby
13 3 (0.79%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.79%) Rust
13 3 (0.79%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.53%) F#
14 2 (0.53%) Haskell
14 2 (0.53%) Perl
14 2 (0.53%) PHP
Qualifications
1 30 (7.89%) Degree
2 21 (5.53%) PMP
3 18 (4.74%) PMI Certification
4 15 (3.95%) Master's Degree
5 10 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.63%) MBA
6 9 (2.37%) Security Cleared
7 8 (2.11%) SAFe Agilist
8 7 (1.84%) CISSP
9 6 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.58%) CISM
10 5 (1.32%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.32%) SC Cleared
11 4 (1.05%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.05%) OCP
11 4 (1.05%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.79%) APMP
12 3 (0.79%) CBAP
12 3 (0.79%) IIBA
12 3 (0.79%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.68%) QA
2 20 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.37%) PCI DSS
3 9 (2.37%) PMO
4 8 (2.11%) Basel III
5 7 (1.84%) NIST
6 6 (1.58%) GDPR
7 5 (1.32%) Data Quality
7 5 (1.32%) ISO 20022
7 5 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.79%) GRC
8 3 (0.79%) PSD2
8 3 (0.79%) SLA
9 2 (0.53%) COBIT
9 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.53%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.53%) SEPA
10 1 (0.26%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (10.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (9.74%) Kubernetes
2 19 (5.00%) Ansible
3 14 (3.68%) Terraform
4 8 (2.11%) Grafana
5 4 (1.05%) Kibana
6 3 (0.79%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.79%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.79%) RSA Archer
7 2 (0.53%) Puppet
7 2 (0.53%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 17 (4.47%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.16%) Databricks
2 12 (3.16%) Sonatype
3 8 (2.11%) Amplitude
3 8 (2.11%) Salesforce
4 7 (1.84%) Google
4 7 (1.84%) Oracle
5 6 (1.58%) ServiceNow
5 6 (1.58%) Splunk
6 4 (1.05%) Dynatrace
7 3 (0.79%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.79%) BiZZdesign
7 3 (0.79%) Bloomberg
7 3 (0.79%) GoldenSource
7 3 (0.79%) HubSpot
7 3 (0.79%) Samsung
8 2 (0.53%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.53%) Gemalto
8 2 (0.53%) Rapid7
8 2 (0.53%) Thales