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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 225 231
Rank change year-on-year -54 +6 +3
Contract jobs citing Fintech 367 368 466
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.95% 1.19% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 1.34% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 297 385
10th Percentile £332 £413 £387
25th Percentile £400 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.08% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £700 £713 £675
90th Percentile £850 £813 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £425 £489
% change year-on-year -5.88% -13.09% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 5
10th Percentile £54.88 £47.38 £33.40
25th Percentile £67.44 £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 33,753 27,550 39,300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.16% 89.25% 87.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,385 16,677 25,860
10th Percentile £306 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £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 £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -3.66% -0.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,027 862 2,114
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +8.53%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £61.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £31.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -20.63% -11.27% +22.41%

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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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -64 326 £525 -12.50% 557
London -53 224 £625 - 377
Work from Home -64 116 £588 -6.00% 287
UK excluding London -3 108 £400 -5.88% 251
North of England -30 41 £402 -22.09% 84
South East -7 22 £375 -25.00% 104
Midlands -50 21 £375 -6.25% 24
North West -17 20 £445 +4.76% 50
East Midlands -23 18 £375 -6.25% 12
Yorkshire -38 18 £368 -29.90% 20
Scotland +8 11 £588 +17.50% 7
South West -11 9 £450 -35.71% 16
East of England -18 4 - - 9
North East -11 3 - - 14
West Midlands -34 3 £430 - 12
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 2

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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 36 (9.81%) Confluence
2 6 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.09%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.27%) Appian
Applications
1 25 (6.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.18%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.91%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.82%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.82%) Notion
6 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.27%) MadCap Flare
7 1 (0.27%) Trello
7 1 (0.27%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (2.18%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.27%) BASE24
2 1 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 73 (19.89%) AWS
2 54 (14.71%) Azure
3 24 (6.54%) GCP
3 24 (6.54%) Power Platform
4 22 (5.99%) GitHub
4 22 (5.99%) SaaS
5 16 (4.36%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (3.54%) Figma
7 12 (3.27%) Amazon Kinesis
8 11 (3.00%) AWS Step Functions
9 9 (2.45%) Datadog
10 8 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.63%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (1.63%) dbt
12 5 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.36%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (1.36%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.36%) Serverless
12 5 (1.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.09%) ATM
1 4 (1.09%) Network Security
2 2 (0.54%) SSH
3 1 (0.27%) DNS
3 1 (0.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.18%) Power BI
2 18 (4.90%) Tableau
3 16 (4.36%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (4.36%) Apache Cassandra
4 12 (3.27%) MySQL
5 11 (3.00%) Hadoop
6 9 (2.45%) MongoDB
6 9 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.91%) Looker
8 6 (1.63%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.36%) Big Data
9 5 (1.36%) SQL Server
10 4 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.09%) Apache Arrow
10 4 (1.09%) Apache Iceberg
10 4 (1.09%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.09%) Dremio
10 4 (1.09%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.82%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 50 (13.62%) JIRA
2 23 (6.27%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (2.18%) Cypress.io
5 7 (1.91%) Git
6 6 (1.63%) JUnit
7 5 (1.36%) GitLab
8 4 (1.09%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.82%) Selenium
9 3 (0.82%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.54%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.54%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.54%) MLflow
10 2 (0.54%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.54%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.27%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.27%) Gatling
11 1 (0.27%) Gradle
11 1 (0.27%) Postman
General
1 220 (59.95%) Finance
2 126 (34.33%) Social Skills
3 102 (27.79%) Banking
4 50 (13.62%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (4.90%) Front Office
6 15 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (4.09%) Public Sector
7 13 (3.54%) Financial Institution
7 13 (3.54%) Marketing
8 11 (3.00%) Legal
8 11 (3.00%) Retail
9 10 (2.72%) Corporate Banking
9 10 (2.72%) Retail Banking
10 8 (2.18%) Investment Banking
10 8 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.91%) Japanese Language
12 5 (1.36%) German Language
12 5 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.82%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 92 (25.07%) Developer
2 61 (16.62%) Senior
3 39 (10.63%) Analyst
4 31 (8.45%) Senior Developer
5 27 (7.36%) Business Analyst
5 27 (7.36%) Java Developer
6 21 (5.72%) Product Manager
6 21 (5.72%) Software Engineer
7 19 (5.18%) Lead
7 19 (5.18%) Project Manager
8 18 (4.90%) Python Developer
9 17 (4.63%) Architect
9 17 (4.63%) Java Engineer
10 12 (3.27%) Designer
10 12 (3.27%) Product Owner
11 11 (3.00%) Senior Manager
11 11 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
11 11 (3.00%) Technical Business Analyst
12 10 (2.72%) Quantitative Developer
12 10 (2.72%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (8.99%) Kafka
2 26 (7.08%) REST
3 19 (5.18%) RESTful
4 18 (4.90%) React
5 16 (4.36%) .NET
6 15 (4.09%) AngularJS
7 14 (3.81%) Spring
8 12 (3.27%) Spring Boot
9 11 (3.00%) Node.js
10 9 (2.45%) Pandas
11 7 (1.91%) GraphQL
11 7 (1.91%) Jest
11 7 (1.91%) TensorFlow
12 6 (1.63%) gRPC
12 6 (1.63%) NumPy
13 5 (1.36%) React Native
13 5 (1.36%) scikit-learn
13 5 (1.36%) XML
14 4 (1.09%) EDI
14 4 (1.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.90%) Product Ownership
2 24 (6.54%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (5.99%) Onboarding
4 19 (5.18%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (4.36%) Fixed Income
6 14 (3.81%) Equities
7 12 (3.27%) Virtual Team
8 11 (3.00%) Cloud Native
9 9 (2.45%) Hedge funds
9 9 (2.45%) PMI
9 9 (2.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 8 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.91%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 5 (1.36%) Public Cloud
14 4 (1.09%) Blockchain
14 4 (1.09%) Digital Wallet
14 4 (1.09%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.54%) Linux
2 8 (2.18%) Unix
3 6 (1.63%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.82%) Windows
5 1 (0.27%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (28.34%) Agile
2 99 (26.98%) Problem-Solving
3 61 (16.62%) Analytics
4 58 (15.80%) CI/CD
5 51 (13.90%) Microservices
6 49 (13.35%) Stakeholder Management
7 48 (13.08%) Software Engineering
8 46 (12.53%) DevOps
9 44 (11.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 39 (10.63%) User Experience
11 35 (9.54%) Roadmaps
11 35 (9.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 34 (9.26%) AI
13 31 (8.45%) Project Management
14 30 (8.17%) Decision-Making
14 30 (8.17%) Migration
14 30 (8.17%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 26 (7.08%) Full-Stack Development
15 26 (7.08%) Observability
16 23 (6.27%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 68 (18.53%) Java
2 65 (17.71%) Python
3 48 (13.08%) SQL
4 32 (8.72%) C#
5 24 (6.54%) Go
6 14 (3.81%) TypeScript
7 12 (3.27%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.00%) Kotlin
9 10 (2.72%) C++
10 7 (1.91%) Bash
10 7 (1.91%) R
11 5 (1.36%) Swift
12 4 (1.09%) Ruby
12 4 (1.09%) Rust
13 3 (0.82%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.82%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.54%) Haskell
14 2 (0.54%) Perl
14 2 (0.54%) PHP
14 2 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (8.99%) Degree
2 25 (6.81%) PMP
3 23 (6.27%) PMI Certification
4 14 (3.81%) Master's Degree
5 13 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.45%) MBA
7 8 (2.18%) SAFe Agilist
8 7 (1.91%) CISSP
8 7 (1.91%) Security Cleared
9 6 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.63%) CISM
10 5 (1.36%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.36%) CBAP
10 5 (1.36%) SC Cleared
11 4 (1.09%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.09%) OCP
11 4 (1.09%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.82%) APMP
12 3 (0.82%) IIBA
12 3 (0.82%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.72%) QA
2 18 (4.90%) Accessibility
3 11 (3.00%) PCI DSS
4 10 (2.72%) PSD2
5 9 (2.45%) PMO
6 8 (2.18%) GDPR
7 7 (1.91%) Basel III
7 7 (1.91%) ISO 20022
7 7 (1.91%) NIST
8 5 (1.36%) ISO 8583
8 5 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (1.09%) SEPA
10 3 (0.82%) GRC
10 3 (0.82%) SLA
11 2 (0.54%) COBIT
11 2 (0.54%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.54%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 42 (11.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (10.08%) Kubernetes
2 19 (5.18%) Ansible
3 17 (4.63%) Terraform
4 6 (1.63%) Grafana
5 3 (0.82%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (0.82%) RSA Archer
6 2 (0.54%) Puppet
7 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (5.72%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.27%) Databricks
3 11 (3.00%) Sonatype
4 9 (2.45%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.18%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.63%) Oracle
7 5 (1.36%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.36%) Splunk
8 4 (1.09%) Google
9 3 (0.82%) BiZZdesign
9 3 (0.82%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.82%) GoldenSource
9 3 (0.82%) New Relic
9 3 (0.82%) Samsung
10 2 (0.54%) Alibaba
10 2 (0.54%) Amplitude
10 2 (0.54%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.54%) Gemalto
10 2 (0.54%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.54%) Thales