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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 217 223
Rank change year-on-year -64 +6 +13
Contract jobs citing Fintech 373 373 462
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.95% 1.20% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 1.34% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 301 382
10th Percentile £329 £413 £388
25th Percentile £400 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £700 £713 £675
90th Percentile £850 £813 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £395 £425 £489
% change year-on-year -7.06% -13.09% -3.41%
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 34,126 27,826 38,980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.15% 89.30% 87.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,616 16,956 25,656
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 £497 £500
% change year-on-year -3.47% -0.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,067 860 2,108
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.45
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +9.38%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.55 £61.31
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £30.88 £35.50
% change year-on-year -19.03% -13.03% +18.89%

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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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -58 334 £525 -12.50% 588
London -57 230 £625 - 406
Work from Home -82 114 £594 -5.00% 314
UK excluding London -10 110 £395 -7.06% 251
North of England -25 41 £402 -22.09% 77
South East -11 22 £375 -25.00% 107
Midlands -48 21 £375 -6.25% 25
North West -12 20 £445 +4.76% 45
East Midlands -22 18 £375 -6.25% 15
Yorkshire -44 18 £368 -29.90% 21
Scotland +8 11 £588 +17.50% 8
South West -8 9 £450 -35.71% 17
East of England -23 6 £300 -55.56% 15
North East -11 3 - - 11
West Midlands -41 3 £430 - 10
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 38 (10.19%) Confluence
2 6 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.07%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.27%) Appian
Applications
1 25 (6.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.88%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.80%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.80%) 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 (2.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.27%) BASE24
2 1 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.27%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 81 (21.72%) AWS
2 56 (15.01%) Azure
3 28 (7.51%) GCP
4 25 (6.70%) Power Platform
5 24 (6.43%) GitHub
6 22 (5.90%) SaaS
7 16 (4.29%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (3.49%) Figma
9 12 (3.22%) Amazon Kinesis
10 11 (2.95%) AWS Step Functions
10 11 (2.95%) Datadog
11 8 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.61%) dbt
13 5 (1.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (1.34%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (1.34%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.34%) Serverless
13 5 (1.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.07%) ATM
1 4 (1.07%) Network Security
2 2 (0.54%) SSH
3 1 (0.27%) DNS
3 1 (0.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.36%) Power BI
2 19 (5.09%) Tableau
3 16 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (4.29%) Apache Cassandra
4 13 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (3.22%) MySQL
6 11 (2.95%) Hadoop
7 8 (2.14%) Looker
7 8 (2.14%) MongoDB
8 6 (1.61%) Big Data
8 6 (1.61%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.61%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.07%) Apache Arrow
9 4 (1.07%) Apache Iceberg
9 4 (1.07%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.07%) Dremio
10 3 (0.80%) Mixpanel
10 3 (0.80%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 52 (13.94%) JIRA
2 25 (6.70%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.95%) Sonatype Nexus
4 10 (2.68%) Cypress.io
5 7 (1.88%) Git
6 6 (1.61%) JUnit
7 5 (1.34%) GitLab
7 5 (1.34%) Selenium
8 4 (1.07%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.80%) Postman
9 3 (0.80%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.54%) Android Studio
10 2 (0.54%) Appium
10 2 (0.54%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.54%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.54%) MLflow
10 2 (0.54%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.54%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.54%) Sourcetree
10 2 (0.54%) SpecFlow
General
1 226 (60.59%) Finance
2 126 (33.78%) Social Skills
3 106 (28.42%) Banking
4 55 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.90%) Front Office
6 16 (4.29%) Public Sector
7 15 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (3.75%) Marketing
9 13 (3.49%) Financial Institution
10 11 (2.95%) Legal
10 11 (2.95%) Retail
11 10 (2.68%) Corporate Banking
11 10 (2.68%) Retail Banking
12 8 (2.14%) Investment Banking
12 8 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.88%) Japanese Language
14 5 (1.34%) German Language
14 5 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.80%) French Language
15 3 (0.80%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 92 (24.66%) Developer
2 63 (16.89%) Senior
3 39 (10.46%) Analyst
4 31 (8.31%) Senior Developer
5 27 (7.24%) Business Analyst
5 27 (7.24%) Java Developer
6 26 (6.97%) Lead
7 23 (6.17%) Product Manager
8 21 (5.63%) Software Engineer
9 20 (5.36%) Python Developer
10 19 (5.09%) Project Manager
11 18 (4.83%) Architect
12 17 (4.56%) Java Engineer
13 13 (3.49%) Product Owner
14 12 (3.22%) Designer
15 11 (2.95%) Senior Manager
15 11 (2.95%) Solutions Architect
15 11 (2.95%) Technical Business Analyst
16 10 (2.68%) Quantitative Developer
16 10 (2.68%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (8.85%) Kafka
2 26 (6.97%) REST
3 21 (5.63%) React
4 19 (5.09%) RESTful
5 15 (4.02%) AngularJS
6 14 (3.75%) .NET
6 14 (3.75%) Node.js
6 14 (3.75%) Spring
7 12 (3.22%) Spring Boot
8 9 (2.41%) Pandas
9 7 (1.88%) GraphQL
9 7 (1.88%) Jest
9 7 (1.88%) TensorFlow
10 6 (1.61%) gRPC
10 6 (1.61%) NumPy
11 5 (1.34%) Redux
11 5 (1.34%) scikit-learn
11 5 (1.34%) XML
12 4 (1.07%) PyTorch
12 4 (1.07%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.58%) Product Ownership
2 26 (6.97%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (5.90%) Onboarding
4 20 (5.36%) Fixed Income
5 18 (4.83%) Equities
5 18 (4.83%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (3.49%) Cloud Native
6 13 (3.49%) Virtual Team
7 9 (2.41%) Hedge funds
7 9 (2.41%) PMI
7 9 (2.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 8 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.88%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.34%) Derivative
11 5 (1.34%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.07%) Digital Wallet
12 4 (1.07%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.22%) Linux
2 7 (1.88%) Unix
3 6 (1.61%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.80%) Android
4 3 (0.80%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (28.69%) Agile
2 99 (26.54%) Problem-Solving
3 63 (16.89%) Analytics
4 58 (15.55%) CI/CD
5 53 (14.21%) Microservices
6 49 (13.14%) Stakeholder Management
7 48 (12.87%) Software Engineering
8 44 (11.80%) Continuous Improvement
8 44 (11.80%) DevOps
9 40 (10.72%) User Experience
10 37 (9.92%) Roadmaps
11 35 (9.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 33 (8.85%) AI
13 31 (8.31%) Decision-Making
13 31 (8.31%) Project Management
14 30 (8.04%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 28 (7.51%) Migration
16 27 (7.24%) Observability
17 25 (6.70%) Full-Stack Development
18 23 (6.17%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 71 (19.03%) Java
1 71 (19.03%) Python
2 49 (13.14%) SQL
3 29 (7.77%) C#
4 23 (6.17%) Go
5 18 (4.83%) TypeScript
6 17 (4.56%) JavaScript
7 11 (2.95%) Kotlin
8 10 (2.68%) C++
9 8 (2.14%) R
10 7 (1.88%) Bash
11 5 (1.34%) Swift
12 4 (1.07%) Ruby
12 4 (1.07%) Rust
13 3 (0.80%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.80%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.54%) C
14 2 (0.54%) Haskell
14 2 (0.54%) Perl
14 2 (0.54%) PHP
Qualifications
1 35 (9.38%) Degree
2 25 (6.70%) PMP
3 23 (6.17%) PMI Certification
4 15 (4.02%) Master's Degree
5 14 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.41%) MBA
7 8 (2.14%) SAFe Agilist
7 8 (2.14%) Security Cleared
8 7 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.88%) CISSP
9 6 (1.61%) CISM
10 5 (1.34%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.34%) CBAP
10 5 (1.34%) SC Cleared
11 4 (1.07%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.07%) OCP
11 4 (1.07%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.80%) APMP
12 3 (0.80%) IIBA
12 3 (0.80%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (9.38%) QA
2 19 (5.09%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.95%) PCI DSS
4 10 (2.68%) PSD2
5 9 (2.41%) GDPR
5 9 (2.41%) PMO
6 7 (1.88%) Basel III
6 7 (1.88%) ISO 20022
6 7 (1.88%) NIST
7 5 (1.34%) ISO 8583
7 5 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.07%) SEPA
9 3 (0.80%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.80%) GRC
9 3 (0.80%) SLA
10 2 (0.54%) COBIT
10 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.54%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 44 (11.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (10.46%) Kubernetes
2 19 (5.09%) Ansible
3 17 (4.56%) Terraform
4 10 (2.68%) Grafana
5 4 (1.07%) Kibana
6 3 (0.80%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.80%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.80%) RSA Archer
7 2 (0.54%) Puppet
7 2 (0.54%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 22 (5.90%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.22%) Databricks
3 11 (2.95%) Sonatype
4 8 (2.14%) ServiceNow
5 7 (1.88%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.61%) Oracle
7 5 (1.34%) Splunk
8 4 (1.07%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.07%) Google
9 3 (0.80%) Amplitude
9 3 (0.80%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.80%) BiZZdesign
9 3 (0.80%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.80%) GoldenSource
9 3 (0.80%) New Relic
9 3 (0.80%) Samsung
10 2 (0.54%) Alibaba
10 2 (0.54%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.54%) Rapid7
10 2 (0.54%) Thales