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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 205 219
Rank change year-on-year -74 +14 +33
Contract jobs citing Fintech 401 389 461
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.85% 1.33% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.46% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 308 396
10th Percentile £333 £374 £400
25th Percentile £436 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +9.70%
75th Percentile £684 £725 £750
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £384 £468 £450
% change year-on-year -17.86% +3.89% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 5
10th Percentile - - £33.40
25th Percentile £22.25 - £42.25
Median hourly rate £53.75 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £78.75 - £58.75
90th Percentile £90.00 - £76.30
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 39,853 26,632 37,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.47% 90.92% 86.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,078 17,168 24,015
10th Percentile £319 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +1.46% -3.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,383 1,080 2,442
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.63 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.83
Median % change year-on-year +43.29% -19.06% -0.47%
75th Percentile £67.13 £61.69 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.40 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.00 £27.57 £37.50
% change year-on-year +59.59% -26.48% +7.14%

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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 4 May 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 4 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Fintech in the UK

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Top 14 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 4 May 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 -72 372 £550 -8.33% 735
London -44 279 £600 -4.00% 572
Work from Home -116 99 £594 -12.04% 308
UK excluding London -48 94 £384 -17.86% 233
North of England -43 34 £445 +7.37% 63
South East -27 31 £280 - 90
Yorkshire -34 18 £438 -13.71% 14
North West -30 14 £445 +7.76% 37
East Midlands -34 10 £340 -15.00% 13
Midlands -76 10 £340 -15.00% 23
South West - 9 £477 - 26
Scotland -9 7 £531 +6.25% 13
East of England -33 5 £415 -24.55% 12
North East -22 2 - - 12

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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 31 (7.73%) Confluence
2 4 (1.00%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.75%) Apache
4 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.25%) Appian
4 1 (0.25%) CMS
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.25%) nginx
4 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (3.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (2.24%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (1.25%) Notion
4 4 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.25%) Sketch
6 1 (0.25%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.50%) SAP EHS
1 2 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.25%) BASE24
2 1 (0.25%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.25%) Orchestrade
2 1 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 92 (22.94%) AWS
2 62 (15.46%) Azure
3 39 (9.73%) GCP
4 32 (7.98%) Power Platform
5 27 (6.73%) GitHub
6 17 (4.24%) SaaS
7 14 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (2.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (2.49%) Figma
10 8 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (2.00%) Datadog
10 8 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (1.75%) Serverless
12 6 (1.50%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (1.50%) Amazon S3
12 6 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (1.25%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.00%) Firewall
1 4 (1.00%) Network Security
2 3 (0.75%) VPN
3 2 (0.50%) DNS
3 2 (0.50%) FTP
3 2 (0.50%) SSH
4 1 (0.25%) DHCP
4 1 (0.25%) HTTP
4 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (6.48%) Power BI
3 21 (5.24%) Tableau
4 13 (3.24%) Data Lake
4 13 (3.24%) Looker
4 13 (3.24%) Relational Database
5 11 (2.74%) NoSQL
6 10 (2.49%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
7 7 (1.75%) Mixpanel
8 6 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.50%) MySQL
9 5 (1.25%) Big Data
9 5 (1.25%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.25%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.00%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.75%) Metadata
11 3 (0.75%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 43 (10.72%) JIRA
2 26 (6.48%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.74%) Git
4 8 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (1.00%) GitLab
6 3 (0.75%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.75%) REST Assured
6 3 (0.75%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.50%) Android Studio
7 2 (0.50%) Appium
7 2 (0.50%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.50%) MLflow
7 2 (0.50%) Postman
7 2 (0.50%) Selenium
7 2 (0.50%) Sourcetree
7 2 (0.50%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.50%) Xcode
8 1 (0.25%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.25%) Gatling
8 1 (0.25%) Gradle
General
1 242 (60.35%) Finance
2 98 (24.44%) Banking
3 96 (23.94%) Social Skills
4 55 (13.72%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (7.73%) Front Office
6 17 (4.24%) Marketing
7 14 (3.49%) Public Sector
8 13 (3.24%) Financial Institution
9 11 (2.74%) Corporate Banking
9 11 (2.74%) Retail
10 10 (2.49%) Retail Banking
11 9 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (2.24%) Investment Banking
12 8 (2.00%) Publishing
13 7 (1.75%) Legal
14 6 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (1.00%) Games
16 3 (0.75%) Advertising
16 3 (0.75%) Retail Finance
16 3 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 93 (23.19%) Developer
2 76 (18.95%) Senior
3 37 (9.23%) Lead
4 34 (8.48%) Analyst
5 33 (8.23%) Software Engineer
6 26 (6.48%) Python Developer
7 24 (5.99%) Project Manager
8 22 (5.49%) Java Developer
9 21 (5.24%) Business Analyst
9 21 (5.24%) Senior Developer
10 20 (4.99%) Data Engineer
11 18 (4.49%) Architect
11 18 (4.49%) Designer
12 16 (3.99%) AWS Engineer
12 16 (3.99%) Lead Developer
13 15 (3.74%) Consultant
14 14 (3.49%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 13 (3.24%) Senior Manager
16 12 (2.99%) Lead Software Developer
16 12 (2.99%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (8.48%) REST
2 33 (8.23%) Kafka
3 32 (7.98%) React
4 25 (6.23%) Node.js
5 18 (4.49%) Redux
6 15 (3.74%) RESTful
7 13 (3.24%) Pandas
8 12 (2.99%) Spring
8 12 (2.99%) Spring Boot
9 11 (2.74%) .NET
10 10 (2.49%) AngularJS
10 10 (2.49%) FastAPI
10 10 (2.49%) Flask
10 10 (2.49%) NumPy
11 9 (2.24%) Polars
11 9 (2.24%) React Native
12 8 (2.00%) Apache Avro
12 8 (2.00%) GraphQL
12 8 (2.00%) TensorFlow
13 7 (1.75%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.98%) Equities
2 25 (6.23%) Product Ownership
3 24 (5.99%) Fixed Income
4 20 (4.99%) Derivative
5 19 (4.74%) Onboarding
6 17 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (3.99%) Data Structures
7 16 (3.99%) Hedge funds
7 16 (3.99%) Mobile App
8 15 (3.74%) Cloud Native
9 13 (3.24%) Management Information System
10 12 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (2.24%) PMI
11 9 (2.24%) Virtual Team
12 8 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (1.75%) Market Risk
14 5 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
15 4 (1.00%) AI Agents
15 4 (1.00%) Digital Wallet
16 3 (0.75%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.99%) Linux
2 12 (2.99%) Unix
3 6 (1.50%) Android
3 6 (1.50%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (19.95%) Agile
2 67 (16.71%) CI/CD
3 66 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
4 60 (14.96%) Stakeholder Management
5 57 (14.21%) Software Engineering
6 54 (13.47%) Analytics
7 52 (12.97%) AI
8 47 (11.72%) DevOps
9 34 (8.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (8.48%) Mentoring
9 34 (8.48%) Microservices
10 33 (8.23%) Data Pipeline
11 31 (7.73%) Business Intelligence
12 30 (7.48%) Decision-Making
12 30 (7.48%) Project Management
13 28 (6.98%) User Experience
14 27 (6.73%) Observability
15 26 (6.48%) Full-Stack Development
16 24 (5.99%) Data Engineering
16 24 (5.99%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 84 (20.95%) Python
2 81 (20.20%) SQL
3 62 (15.46%) Java
4 38 (9.48%) TypeScript
5 26 (6.48%) JavaScript
6 23 (5.74%) C#
7 19 (4.74%) Go
8 12 (2.99%) R
9 10 (2.49%) C++
9 10 (2.49%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.00%) Bash
10 4 (1.00%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.00%) Swift
11 3 (0.75%) Korn
11 3 (0.75%) Ruby
12 2 (0.50%) C
12 2 (0.50%) Haskell
12 2 (0.50%) Perl
12 2 (0.50%) PHP
12 2 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (8.73%) Degree
2 21 (5.24%) Security Cleared
3 19 (4.74%) PMP
4 17 (4.24%) PMI Certification
5 16 (3.99%) Master's Degree
5 16 (3.99%) SC Cleared
6 11 (2.74%) MBA
7 10 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.00%) SAFe Agilist
9 6 (1.50%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.25%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.25%) CISM
10 5 (1.25%) CISSP
11 4 (1.00%) APMP
11 4 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.75%) CBAP
12 3 (0.75%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (9.23%) QA
2 9 (2.24%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.00%) Basel III
3 8 (2.00%) PMO
4 6 (1.50%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.50%) GDPR
5 5 (1.25%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.00%) SLA
7 3 (0.75%) NIST
8 2 (0.50%) GRC
9 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.25%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.25%) IFRS
9 1 (0.25%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.25%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.25%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.25%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.25%) PSD2
9 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 40 (9.98%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (9.73%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.49%) Terraform
3 12 (2.99%) Ansible
4 6 (1.50%) Grafana
5 4 (1.00%) Kibana
6 3 (0.75%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.75%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.50%) Puppet
7 2 (0.50%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.25%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.25%) linkerd
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.25%) SCCM
8 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (6.48%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.49%) Informatica
2 10 (2.49%) Salesforce
3 9 (2.24%) Databricks
4 8 (2.00%) Amplitude
4 8 (2.00%) Sonatype
5 6 (1.50%) Google
5 6 (1.50%) Oracle
5 6 (1.50%) Splunk
6 4 (1.00%) SAP
6 4 (1.00%) ServiceNow
7 3 (0.75%) BiZZdesign
7 3 (0.75%) Bloomberg
7 3 (0.75%) Dynatrace
7 3 (0.75%) GoldenSource
8 2 (0.50%) Adobe
8 2 (0.50%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.50%) HubSpot
8 2 (0.50%) Thales
8 2 (0.50%) Workday