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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 197 237
Rank change year-on-year -104 +40 -7
Contract jobs citing Fintech 426 471 441
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.81% 1.44% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 1.59% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 383 365
10th Percentile £280 £375 £400
25th Percentile £430 £461 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.42% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £750 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -9.42% -5.00% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 3
10th Percentile - £54.50 £48.00
25th Percentile £22.25 - £50.63
Median hourly rate £34.50 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.92% +18.18% -38.51%
75th Percentile £66.44 £80.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £82.50 £84.50 £81.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £88.00
% change year-on-year - - -1.61%

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 44,871 29,543 34,928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.02% 90.39% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,803 18,563 22,435
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.46%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,660 1,589 2,131
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.20 £13.46
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.44 £17.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -6.98%
75th Percentile £68.13 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £69.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.34 £40.00
% change year-on-year +82.83% -39.15% -1.95%

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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 24 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -90 395 £550 -8.33% 815
London -61 322 £560 -10.40% 692
Work from Home -145 110 £563 -16.67% 306
UK excluding London -106 78 £430 -9.42% 186
North of England -69 23 £500 +25.00% 56
South East -47 20 £280 - 80
Yorkshire -37 14 £514 +31.29% 9
South West -30 12 £570 -12.31% 11
Midlands -57 9 - - 19
Scotland -31 8 £463 -11.90% 8
North West -51 8 £473 +18.19% 31
West Midlands -57 8 - - 12
East of England -15 5 £415 -7.78% 4
East Midlands -20 1 - - 7
North East -40 1 - - 16
Wales - 1 £400 - 6

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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 16 (3.76%) Confluence
2 3 (0.70%) Apache
2 3 (0.70%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.47%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.23%) CMS
4 1 (0.23%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.70%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.47%) Notion
5 2 (0.47%) Trello
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.23%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.23%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (0.94%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.70%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.47%) SAP EHS
3 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.23%) Exchequer
4 1 (0.23%) Findur
4 1 (0.23%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 93 (21.83%) AWS
2 69 (16.20%) Azure
3 46 (10.80%) GCP
4 28 (6.57%) GitHub
5 20 (4.69%) Power Platform
5 20 (4.69%) SaaS
6 18 (4.23%) Figma
7 14 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (2.58%) Snowflake
9 10 (2.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (1.88%) GitHub Copilot
11 7 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (1.41%) Serverless
13 5 (1.17%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (1.17%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.17%) Anthropic Claude
14 4 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (0.94%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.17%) VPN
2 4 (0.94%) Firewall
3 3 (0.70%) Network Security
4 2 (0.47%) DNS
4 2 (0.47%) FTP
4 2 (0.47%) Internet
4 2 (0.47%) NFC
5 1 (0.23%) DHCP
5 1 (0.23%) HTTP
5 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (9.15%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (5.63%) Tableau
3 18 (4.23%) NoSQL
4 17 (3.99%) Power BI
5 16 (3.76%) MongoDB
6 13 (3.05%) Relational Database
7 11 (2.58%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (2.58%) Data Lake
8 10 (2.35%) BigQuery
8 10 (2.35%) Looker
9 9 (2.11%) SQL Server
10 7 (1.64%) Mixpanel
11 5 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.94%) Big Data
13 3 (0.70%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.70%) Metadata
13 3 (0.70%) Redis
13 3 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.70%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 30 (7.04%) JIRA
2 21 (4.93%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.29%) Git
4 7 (1.64%) Cypress.io
5 5 (1.17%) GitLab
5 5 (1.17%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (1.17%) Storybook
6 3 (0.70%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.70%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.47%) Android Studio
7 2 (0.47%) Appium
7 2 (0.47%) Gemini Tracker
7 2 (0.47%) Gradle
7 2 (0.47%) MLflow
7 2 (0.47%) Postman
7 2 (0.47%) Selenium
7 2 (0.47%) Sourcetree
7 2 (0.47%) Xcode
8 1 (0.23%) Maven
8 1 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 260 (61.03%) Finance
2 112 (26.29%) Banking
3 81 (19.01%) Social Skills
4 53 (12.44%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (7.28%) Front Office
6 25 (5.87%) Financial Institution
7 24 (5.63%) Marketing
8 11 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.11%) Publishing
10 8 (1.88%) Legal
10 8 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.88%) Public Sector
11 7 (1.64%) Games
12 6 (1.41%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.94%) Advertising
13 4 (0.94%) Private Banking
13 4 (0.94%) Retail
13 4 (0.94%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (18.54%) Developer
2 74 (17.37%) Senior
3 44 (10.33%) Analyst
4 41 (9.62%) Lead
5 33 (7.75%) Software Engineer
6 26 (6.10%) Consultant
7 24 (5.63%) Designer
8 21 (4.93%) Data Engineer
8 21 (4.93%) Python Developer
9 19 (4.46%) Architect
10 18 (4.23%) Java Engineer
11 16 (3.76%) Business Analyst
11 16 (3.76%) Lead Developer
12 14 (3.29%) AWS Engineer
12 14 (3.29%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 14 (3.29%) Project Manager
12 14 (3.29%) Senior Developer
12 14 (3.29%) Senior Manager
13 12 (2.82%) Lead Software Developer
13 12 (2.82%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (9.15%) React
2 35 (8.22%) Kafka
3 34 (7.98%) REST
4 26 (6.10%) Node.js
5 22 (5.16%) .NET
6 21 (4.93%) Spring
7 19 (4.46%) Spring Boot
8 18 (4.23%) Redux
9 16 (3.76%) RESTful
10 12 (2.82%) React Native
11 11 (2.58%) FastAPI
11 11 (2.58%) Flask
11 11 (2.58%) NumPy
11 11 (2.58%) Pandas
12 10 (2.35%) Polars
13 9 (2.11%) Apache Avro
13 9 (2.11%) OAuth
14 8 (1.88%) CSS
14 8 (1.88%) OAuth2
15 7 (1.64%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.75%) Equities
2 26 (6.10%) Derivative
3 24 (5.63%) Onboarding
3 24 (5.63%) Product Ownership
4 23 (5.40%) Fixed Income
5 21 (4.93%) Cloud Native
6 18 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (4.23%) Mobile App
7 15 (3.52%) Data Structures
7 15 (3.52%) Hedge funds
8 12 (2.82%) Management Information System
9 11 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (2.11%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.64%) Market Risk
13 6 (1.41%) Virtual Team
14 5 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (1.17%) Data Centre
14 5 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.46%) Linux
2 12 (2.82%) Android
2 12 (2.82%) Unix
3 8 (1.88%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (19.48%) AI
1 83 (19.48%) CI/CD
2 77 (18.08%) Agile
3 72 (16.90%) Stakeholder Management
4 71 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 55 (12.91%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (12.44%) DevOps
7 50 (11.74%) Analytics
8 40 (9.39%) Mentoring
9 39 (9.15%) User Experience
10 36 (8.45%) Microservices
11 34 (7.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (7.98%) Data Pipeline
12 32 (7.51%) Decision-Making
12 32 (7.51%) Machine Learning
13 31 (7.28%) Generative AI
14 29 (6.81%) Containerisation
14 29 (6.81%) Observability
15 28 (6.57%) Event-Driven
15 28 (6.57%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 89 (20.89%) SQL
2 83 (19.48%) Python
3 58 (13.62%) Java
4 40 (9.39%) TypeScript
5 31 (7.28%) JavaScript
6 26 (6.10%) C#
7 15 (3.52%) Go
7 15 (3.52%) R
8 14 (3.29%) Kotlin
9 10 (2.35%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.88%) C++
10 8 (1.88%) PHP
11 6 (1.41%) Korn
12 5 (1.17%) Bash
13 2 (0.47%) Bicep
13 2 (0.47%) F#
13 2 (0.47%) Groovy
13 2 (0.47%) Perl
13 2 (0.47%) Swift
14 1 (0.23%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 32 (7.51%) Degree
2 19 (4.46%) Security Cleared
3 16 (3.76%) SC Cleared
4 11 (2.58%) Master's Degree
5 10 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.11%) PMP
7 8 (1.88%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.94%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.94%) CISM
8 4 (0.94%) CISSP
8 4 (0.94%) PhD
9 3 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.70%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.70%) MBA
10 2 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.47%) CCSK
10 2 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.87%) QA
2 11 (2.58%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.88%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.17%) PSD2
5 4 (0.94%) GDPR
5 4 (0.94%) PMO
6 3 (0.70%) NIST
6 3 (0.70%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.47%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.47%) SLA
8 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.23%) Basel III
8 1 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.23%) GRC
8 1 (0.23%) IFRS
8 1 (0.23%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (8.92%) Docker
2 4 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (10.56%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.05%) Terraform
3 12 (2.82%) Prometheus
4 10 (2.35%) Grafana
5 9 (2.11%) Ansible
6 5 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.94%) Kibana
8 3 (0.70%) SCCM
9 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.47%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.23%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.23%) linkerd
10 1 (0.23%) QRadar
Vendors
1 29 (6.81%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.99%) Google
3 11 (2.58%) Databricks
4 10 (2.35%) Informatica
5 9 (2.11%) Oracle
6 8 (1.88%) Amplitude
6 8 (1.88%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.41%) SAP
7 6 (1.41%) Splunk
8 5 (1.17%) Adobe
8 5 (1.17%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.17%) Sonatype
9 4 (0.94%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.94%) PagerDuty
10 3 (0.70%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.70%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.70%) Citrix
10 3 (0.70%) Reuters
11 2 (0.47%) Ariba
11 2 (0.47%) ION Trading