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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 197 245
Rank change year-on-year -136 +48 -30
Contract jobs citing Fintech 397 476 376
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.73% 1.45% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.60% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 382 306
10th Percentile £269 £363 £406
25th Percentile £413 £438 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £574 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% -4.38% -
75th Percentile £650 £773 £731
90th Percentile £750 £875 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £468 £475
% change year-on-year +17.65% -1.58% -8.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 3
10th Percentile £67.50 £45.88 £48.00
25th Percentile £71.25 £65.00 £50.63
Median hourly rate £80.00 £73.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.84% +33.64% -38.51%
75th Percentile £86.25 £85.63 £58.75
90th Percentile £88.50 £89.75 £61.00
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 45,839 29,816 32,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.46% 90.52% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,855 18,531 20,147
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,070 1,799 1,460
10th Percentile £13.84 £14.25 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.68 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.56 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +83.63% -47.37% +5.81%

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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 16 September 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -121 373 £550 -8.33% 3,839
London -79 294 £537 -14.08% 3,275
Work from Home -160 104 £523 -19.62% 1,476
UK excluding London -123 77 £550 +17.65% 723
South West -25 24 £700 +7.69% 83
North of England -90 24 £514 +28.50% 214
Yorkshire -38 14 £514 +24.15% 40
Midlands -46 11 - - 70
North West -59 9 £488 +21.88% 119
West Midlands -45 8 - - 41
East of England -17 6 £510 +13.33% 46
South East -66 6 £265 -29.80% 184
Scotland -55 4 £475 -9.52% 63
East Midlands -19 3 - - 29
Wales - 2 £525 - 28
North East -45 1 - - 57

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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 10 (2.52%) Confluence
2 3 (0.76%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.76%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.25%) Apache
4 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.25%) CMS
4 1 (0.25%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.25%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (2.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.76%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.76%) Trello
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.50%) Notion
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.25%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (1.51%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.01%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.50%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.25%) Findur
5 1 (0.25%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.25%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 66 (16.62%) AWS
2 47 (11.84%) Azure
3 30 (7.56%) GCP
4 24 (6.05%) SaaS
5 21 (5.29%) GitHub
6 17 (4.28%) Figma
7 15 (3.78%) Power Platform
8 14 (3.53%) Snowflake
9 11 (2.77%) GitHub Copilot
10 10 (2.52%) Serverless
11 9 (2.27%) Amazon S3
11 9 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (2.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (1.76%) dbt
13 7 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (1.51%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (1.51%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (1.51%) Microsoft 365
15 5 (1.26%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.26%) VPN
2 2 (0.50%) Firewall
2 2 (0.50%) Internet
2 2 (0.50%) Network Security
2 2 (0.50%) NFC
3 1 (0.25%) DHCP
3 1 (0.25%) DNS
3 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (5.29%) Tableau
3 16 (4.03%) MongoDB
3 16 (4.03%) NoSQL
4 15 (3.78%) Power BI
5 12 (3.02%) BigQuery
5 12 (3.02%) Relational Database
6 10 (2.52%) Looker
7 8 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (2.02%) SQL Server
8 6 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.51%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.01%) Mixpanel
10 3 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.76%) Big Data
10 3 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.76%) Redis
11 2 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 22 (5.54%) JIRA
2 16 (4.03%) Git
3 13 (3.27%) Jenkins
4 12 (3.02%) GitLab
5 6 (1.51%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.51%) Storybook
6 5 (1.26%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.76%) Gradle
8 2 (0.50%) Gemini Tracker
8 2 (0.50%) Maven
8 2 (0.50%) MLflow
9 1 (0.25%) Appium
9 1 (0.25%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.25%) JUnit
9 1 (0.25%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.25%) Mocha
9 1 (0.25%) Mockito
9 1 (0.25%) Postman
9 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.25%) XCUITest
General
1 238 (59.95%) Finance
2 128 (32.24%) Banking
3 83 (20.91%) Social Skills
4 49 (12.34%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (6.30%) Marketing
6 22 (5.54%) Financial Institution
7 15 (3.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (3.27%) Front Office
9 8 (2.02%) Publishing
10 7 (1.76%) Legal
10 7 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.26%) Private Banking
12 5 (1.26%) Public Sector
13 4 (1.01%) Back Office
13 4 (1.01%) Games
13 4 (1.01%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.01%) Retail
14 3 (0.76%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 76 (19.14%) Senior
2 67 (16.88%) Developer
3 52 (13.10%) Analyst
4 25 (6.30%) Software Engineer
5 24 (6.05%) Designer
6 21 (5.29%) Lead
7 19 (4.79%) Consultant
8 18 (4.53%) Java Engineer
9 15 (3.78%) Architect
10 14 (3.53%) Data Engineer
10 14 (3.53%) Senior Manager
11 13 (3.27%) Report Analyst
11 13 (3.27%) Senior Developer
12 12 (3.02%) Infrastructure Manager
12 12 (3.02%) Product Designer
13 11 (2.77%) Business Analyst
13 11 (2.77%) Network Infrastructure Manager
13 11 (2.77%) Network Manager
13 11 (2.77%) Product Manager
13 11 (2.77%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (9.07%) REST
2 31 (7.81%) Kafka
3 21 (5.29%) Spring
4 19 (4.79%) .NET
5 18 (4.53%) React
5 18 (4.53%) Terraform
6 17 (4.28%) Spring Boot
7 14 (3.53%) RESTful
8 11 (2.77%) React Native
9 10 (2.52%) FastAPI
9 10 (2.52%) Flask
9 10 (2.52%) NumPy
9 10 (2.52%) OAuth
9 10 (2.52%) Pandas
10 9 (2.27%) Node.js
10 9 (2.27%) OAuth2
10 9 (2.27%) Polars
11 8 (2.02%) Apache Avro
11 8 (2.02%) JWT
11 8 (2.02%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.80%) Cloud Native
2 23 (5.79%) Onboarding
3 21 (5.29%) Mobile App
4 19 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (4.28%) Product Ownership
6 16 (4.03%) AI Agents
6 16 (4.03%) Equities
7 14 (3.53%) Data Structures
8 13 (3.27%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (3.02%) Hedge funds
10 11 (2.77%) Management Information System
11 10 (2.52%) Derivative
12 9 (2.27%) Data Centre
13 8 (2.02%) Fixed Income
13 8 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 7 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (1.76%) Market Risk
15 5 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
15 5 (1.26%) Equity Derivative
15 5 (1.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.28%) Linux
2 14 (3.53%) Android
3 10 (2.52%) Apple iOS
4 8 (2.02%) Unix
5 5 (1.26%) Windows
6 2 (0.50%) CentOS
6 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (26.20%) AI
2 78 (19.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 76 (19.14%) CI/CD
4 62 (15.62%) Software Engineering
5 53 (13.35%) Agile
6 51 (12.85%) Analytics
7 46 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (10.58%) DevOps
9 40 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 40 (10.08%) Microservices
10 37 (9.32%) Generative AI
11 35 (8.82%) User Experience
12 33 (8.31%) Containerisation
12 33 (8.31%) Observability
13 32 (8.06%) Decision-Making
14 29 (7.30%) Event-Driven
15 27 (6.80%) Roadmaps
16 26 (6.55%) Data Pipeline
16 26 (6.55%) Machine Learning
17 23 (5.79%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 81 (20.40%) SQL
2 67 (16.88%) Python
3 52 (13.10%) Java
4 27 (6.80%) TypeScript
5 19 (4.79%) Go
6 18 (4.53%) C#
7 16 (4.03%) JavaScript
8 15 (3.78%) Kotlin
9 10 (2.52%) R
10 9 (2.27%) Bash
10 9 (2.27%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.51%) C++
11 6 (1.51%) PHP
12 5 (1.26%) Korn
13 2 (0.50%) Groovy
14 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.25%) C
14 1 (0.25%) CQL
14 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (8.06%) Degree
2 11 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
2 11 (2.77%) Security Cleared
3 10 (2.52%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.02%) Master's Degree
5 7 (1.76%) PMP
6 6 (1.51%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.26%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.01%) PhD
9 3 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.76%) CISM
9 3 (0.76%) CISSP
10 2 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.50%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.50%) CCSK
10 2 (0.50%) CCSP
10 2 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.50%) MBA
10 2 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.29%) QA
2 10 (2.52%) PMO
3 9 (2.27%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.51%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.51%) PSD2
5 3 (0.76%) GDPR
6 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.50%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.50%) NIST
6 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.25%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
7 1 (0.25%) IFRS
7 1 (0.25%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.25%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.25%) SLA
7 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 41 (10.33%) Docker
2 4 (1.01%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (12.09%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.02%) Prometheus
3 7 (1.76%) Grafana
4 5 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.76%) Ansible
5 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.76%) SCCM
6 2 (0.50%) Puppet
7 1 (0.25%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.25%) Istio
7 1 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.25%) linkerd
7 1 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 25 (6.30%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.53%) Google
3 11 (2.77%) Databricks
4 7 (1.76%) Amplitude
4 7 (1.76%) Braze
4 7 (1.76%) SAP
5 6 (1.51%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.26%) Adobe
6 5 (1.26%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.26%) Informatica
6 5 (1.26%) Oracle
7 4 (1.01%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.01%) PagerDuty
8 3 (0.76%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.76%) Citrix
8 3 (0.76%) NetApp
8 3 (0.76%) Reuters
8 3 (0.76%) VMware
9 2 (0.50%) Ariba
9 2 (0.50%) ION Trading