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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 198 217
Rank change year-on-year -82 +19 +27
Contract jobs citing Fintech 433 422 473
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.85% 1.41% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.55% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 336 387
10th Percentile £293 £363 £400
25th Percentile £443 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £752 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £444 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +4.35% -5.56% -13.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 3
10th Percentile - £52.75 £48.00
25th Percentile £22.25 £60.63 £50.63
Median hourly rate £53.75 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £78.75 £68.75 £71.50
90th Percentile £90.00 £75.50 £81.40
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 43,108 27,270 37,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.89% 91.01% 84.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,889 17,271 23,587
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% -4.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,584 1,289 2,614
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.70
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +76.94% -34.02% +17.29%

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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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -73 401 £550 -8.33% 727
London -50 312 £575 -8.00% 587
Work from Home -122 115 £569 -15.74% 308
UK excluding London -72 93 £444 +4.35% 231
South East -34 29 £280 - 91
North of England -67 29 £475 +18.75% 67
Yorkshire -37 17 £514 +32.39% 8
South West -21 12 £570 -12.31% 20
North West -46 10 £446 +8.18% 41
Scotland -22 9 £475 -5.00% 6
Midlands -60 9 £336 -15.94% 17
West Midlands -57 5 - - 9
East of England - 5 £415 - 6
East Midlands -26 4 £336 -15.94% 8
North East -38 2 - - 18

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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 26 (6.00%) Confluence
2 3 (0.69%) Apache
2 3 (0.69%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.23%) CMS
4 1 (0.23%) nginx
Applications
1 14 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.69%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.46%) Notion
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.23%) Sketch
7 1 (0.23%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 4 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.46%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.46%) SAP EHS
2 2 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.23%) Findur
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.23%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 94 (21.71%) AWS
2 61 (14.09%) Azure
3 43 (9.93%) GCP
4 25 (5.77%) Power Platform
5 23 (5.31%) GitHub
6 21 (4.85%) SaaS
7 13 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (2.54%) Figma
8 11 (2.54%) Snowflake
9 10 (2.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (1.62%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (1.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (1.39%) Serverless
12 5 (1.15%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (1.15%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.15%) Anthropic Claude
13 4 (0.92%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (0.92%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.15%) Network Security
1 5 (1.15%) VPN
2 4 (0.92%) Firewall
3 2 (0.46%) DNS
3 2 (0.46%) FTP
3 2 (0.46%) Internet
3 2 (0.46%) NFC
4 1 (0.23%) DHCP
4 1 (0.23%) HTTP
4 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (8.31%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (6.47%) Tableau
3 22 (5.08%) Power BI
4 18 (4.16%) NoSQL
5 14 (3.23%) Looker
5 14 (3.23%) MongoDB
6 13 (3.00%) Relational Database
7 11 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (2.54%) Data Lake
8 10 (2.31%) BigQuery
9 9 (2.08%) SQL Server
10 8 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.62%) Mixpanel
12 6 (1.39%) Apache Cassandra
12 6 (1.39%) MySQL
13 5 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.92%) Big Data
14 4 (0.92%) Hadoop
15 3 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
15 3 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (8.55%) JIRA
2 22 (5.08%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.54%) Git
4 8 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.69%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.69%) GitLab
5 3 (0.69%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.46%) Android Studio
6 2 (0.46%) Appium
6 2 (0.46%) Gemini Tracker
6 2 (0.46%) JUnit
6 2 (0.46%) MLflow
6 2 (0.46%) Postman
6 2 (0.46%) Selenium
6 2 (0.46%) Sourcetree
6 2 (0.46%) Xcode
7 1 (0.23%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.23%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 251 (57.97%) Finance
2 109 (25.17%) Banking
3 90 (20.79%) Social Skills
4 55 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (7.16%) Front Office
6 24 (5.54%) Financial Institution
7 19 (4.39%) Marketing
8 12 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.08%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.08%) Publishing
10 8 (1.85%) Corporate Banking
10 8 (1.85%) Retail
10 8 (1.85%) Retail Banking
11 7 (1.62%) Games
11 7 (1.62%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.39%) Legal
13 3 (0.69%) Advertising
13 3 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 94 (21.71%) Developer
2 75 (17.32%) Senior
3 43 (9.93%) Analyst
4 42 (9.70%) Lead
5 36 (8.31%) Software Engineer
6 23 (5.31%) Designer
6 23 (5.31%) Java Developer
7 21 (4.85%) Data Engineer
7 21 (4.85%) Python Developer
8 20 (4.62%) Business Analyst
9 19 (4.39%) Consultant
9 19 (4.39%) Senior Developer
10 18 (4.16%) Java Engineer
10 18 (4.16%) Project Manager
11 16 (3.70%) Architect
11 16 (3.70%) Lead Developer
12 15 (3.46%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (3.46%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 12 (2.77%) Lead Software Developer
13 12 (2.77%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (8.08%) React
2 31 (7.16%) Kafka
3 30 (6.93%) REST
4 26 (6.00%) Node.js
5 20 (4.62%) .NET
6 19 (4.39%) Spring
6 19 (4.39%) Spring Boot
7 18 (4.16%) Redux
8 12 (2.77%) React Native
9 11 (2.54%) FastAPI
9 11 (2.54%) Flask
9 11 (2.54%) RESTful
10 10 (2.31%) NumPy
10 10 (2.31%) Pandas
10 10 (2.31%) Polars
11 9 (2.08%) Apache Avro
12 8 (1.85%) AngularJS
13 7 (1.62%) GraphQL
13 7 (1.62%) Next.js
13 7 (1.62%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.93%) Equities
2 26 (6.00%) Product Ownership
3 23 (5.31%) Derivative
3 23 (5.31%) Fixed Income
3 23 (5.31%) Onboarding
4 21 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (4.62%) Cloud Native
6 17 (3.93%) Hedge funds
6 17 (3.93%) Mobile App
7 14 (3.23%) Data Structures
8 13 (3.00%) Management Information System
9 11 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (2.08%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.85%) AI Agents
12 7 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.62%) Market Risk
13 6 (1.39%) PMI
14 5 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (1.15%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.39%) Linux
2 13 (3.00%) Unix
3 11 (2.54%) Android
4 7 (1.62%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (18.48%) CI/CD
2 77 (17.78%) Software Engineering
3 75 (17.32%) Agile
4 71 (16.40%) Stakeholder Management
5 68 (15.70%) AI
6 60 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (11.78%) Analytics
8 50 (11.55%) DevOps
9 38 (8.78%) Microservices
10 37 (8.55%) Mentoring
11 36 (8.31%) Data Pipeline
11 36 (8.31%) User Experience
12 34 (7.85%) Continuous Improvement
13 30 (6.93%) Business Intelligence
14 29 (6.70%) Decision-Making
15 27 (6.24%) Generative AI
15 27 (6.24%) Machine Learning
15 27 (6.24%) Project Management
16 26 (6.00%) Data Engineering
16 26 (6.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 90 (20.79%) SQL
2 79 (18.24%) Python
3 68 (15.70%) Java
4 36 (8.31%) TypeScript
5 26 (6.00%) C#
5 26 (6.00%) JavaScript
6 20 (4.62%) Go
7 16 (3.70%) R
8 11 (2.54%) Kotlin
9 9 (2.08%) C++
10 8 (1.85%) PHP
10 8 (1.85%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.39%) Korn
12 3 (0.69%) Bash
13 2 (0.46%) Bicep
13 2 (0.46%) F#
13 2 (0.46%) Perl
13 2 (0.46%) Swift
14 1 (0.23%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (9.24%) Degree
2 20 (4.62%) Security Cleared
3 16 (3.70%) Master's Degree
3 16 (3.70%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (3.00%) PMP
5 12 (2.77%) PMI Certification
6 8 (1.85%) MBA
7 6 (1.39%) CISM
7 6 (1.39%) CISSP
8 5 (1.15%) SAFe Agilist
9 4 (0.92%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.92%) PhD
9 4 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.69%) APMP
10 3 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.69%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.46%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.39%) QA
2 12 (2.77%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.62%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.39%) PMO
5 5 (1.15%) Basel III
6 4 (0.92%) GDPR
6 4 (0.92%) NIST
7 3 (0.69%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.69%) SLA
8 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.46%) PSD2
9 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.23%) IFRS
9 1 (0.23%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.23%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.23%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (7.62%) Docker
2 4 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (9.01%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.00%) Ansible
2 13 (3.00%) Terraform
3 5 (1.15%) Grafana
3 5 (1.15%) Prometheus
3 5 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.92%) Kibana
5 3 (0.69%) SCCM
6 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.46%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.23%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.23%) linkerd
7 1 (0.23%) Puppet
7 1 (0.23%) QRadar
Vendors
1 25 (5.77%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.46%) Google
3 10 (2.31%) Databricks
3 10 (2.31%) Informatica
4 8 (1.85%) Amplitude
4 8 (1.85%) Oracle
4 8 (1.85%) Salesforce
4 8 (1.85%) Sonatype
5 7 (1.62%) Splunk
6 5 (1.15%) SAP
7 4 (0.92%) Adobe
7 4 (0.92%) Bloomberg
7 4 (0.92%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.92%) PagerDuty
8 3 (0.69%) BiZZdesign
8 3 (0.69%) Citrix
8 3 (0.69%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.69%) Reuters
8 3 (0.69%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.46%) Ariba