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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 202 221
Rank change year-on-year -71 +19 +27
Contract jobs citing Fintech 413 392 455
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.87% 1.35% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.48% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 308 387
10th Percentile £306 £365 £400
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £750
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £390 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -8.35% -5.56% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 4
10th Percentile - - £46.08
25th Percentile £22.25 - £51.81
Median hourly rate £53.75 £65.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% +15.56% -
75th Percentile £78.75 - £66.06
90th Percentile £90.00 - £79.23
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 40,228 26,443 36,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.35% 90.98% 86.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,265 17,000 23,677
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,380 1,081 2,436
10th Percentile £14.89 £14.42 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.38 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.83% -21.23% +0.29%
75th Percentile £67.31 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £26.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +69.81% -30.26% +8.57%

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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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -83 383 £550 -8.33% 658
London -49 292 £600 -4.00% 494
Work from Home -108 102 £594 -12.04% 287
UK excluding London -50 93 £390 -8.35% 236
North of England -50 33 £446 +11.38% 81
South East -29 31 £280 - 103
Yorkshire -43 19 £450 -11.24% 25
North West -31 12 £445 +11.13% 38
South West - 9 £477 - 15
Scotland +1 8 £531 +6.25% 5
East Midlands -31 8 £340 -15.00% 9
Midlands -72 8 £340 -15.00% 19
East of England -28 5 £415 -24.55% 7
North East -22 2 - - 18

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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 30 (7.26%) Confluence
2 4 (0.97%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.73%) Apache
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.24%) Appian
4 1 (0.24%) CMS
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.24%) nginx
4 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (3.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.94%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.21%) Notion
5 4 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.73%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.24%) Sketch
8 1 (0.24%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.48%) SAP EHS
1 2 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.24%) BASE24
2 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.24%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.24%) Orchestrade
2 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 92 (22.28%) AWS
2 63 (15.25%) Azure
3 42 (10.17%) GCP
4 34 (8.23%) Power Platform
5 26 (6.30%) GitHub
6 20 (4.84%) SaaS
7 14 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (2.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (2.42%) Figma
10 9 (2.18%) Snowflake
11 8 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (1.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (1.69%) Datadog
12 7 (1.69%) Serverless
13 6 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (1.45%) Amazon S3
13 6 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (0.97%) Amazon Kinesis
14 4 (0.97%) AWS Step Functions
14 4 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.21%) Network Security
2 4 (0.97%) Firewall
3 3 (0.73%) VPN
4 2 (0.48%) DNS
4 2 (0.48%) FTP
4 2 (0.48%) SSH
5 1 (0.24%) DHCP
5 1 (0.24%) HTTP
5 1 (0.24%) NFC
5 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (7.75%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (6.78%) Power BI
3 27 (6.54%) Tableau
4 16 (3.87%) Looker
4 16 (3.87%) NoSQL
5 13 (3.15%) Relational Database
6 12 (2.91%) Data Lake
7 10 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (2.18%) BigQuery
8 9 (2.18%) Mixpanel
9 8 (1.94%) MongoDB
10 7 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
11 6 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.45%) MySQL
12 5 (1.21%) Big Data
12 5 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.21%) Pinecone
12 5 (1.21%) Weaviate
13 4 (0.97%) Hadoop
14 3 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 42 (10.17%) JIRA
2 24 (5.81%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.42%) Git
4 8 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (0.97%) GitLab
6 3 (0.73%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.73%) REST Assured
6 3 (0.73%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.48%) Android Studio
7 2 (0.48%) Appium
7 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.48%) JUnit
7 2 (0.48%) MLflow
7 2 (0.48%) Postman
7 2 (0.48%) Selenium
7 2 (0.48%) Sourcetree
7 2 (0.48%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.48%) Xcode
8 1 (0.24%) Gradle
8 1 (0.24%) Liquibase
General
1 247 (59.81%) Finance
2 98 (23.73%) Banking
3 92 (22.28%) Social Skills
4 56 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (7.51%) Front Office
6 17 (4.12%) Marketing
7 16 (3.87%) Financial Institution
8 14 (3.39%) Public Sector
9 10 (2.42%) Corporate Banking
9 10 (2.42%) Retail
10 9 (2.18%) Investment Banking
10 9 (2.18%) Publishing
10 9 (2.18%) Retail Banking
11 8 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.69%) Legal
13 6 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.97%) Games
14 4 (0.97%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.73%) Advertising
16 2 (0.48%) Billing
Job Titles
1 93 (22.52%) Developer
2 77 (18.64%) Senior
3 39 (9.44%) Analyst
4 38 (9.20%) Lead
5 36 (8.72%) Software Engineer
6 25 (6.05%) Python Developer
7 22 (5.33%) Data Engineer
7 22 (5.33%) Java Developer
7 22 (5.33%) Project Manager
7 22 (5.33%) Senior Developer
8 21 (5.08%) Business Analyst
9 18 (4.36%) Designer
10 17 (4.12%) Architect
10 17 (4.12%) Consultant
11 16 (3.87%) AWS Engineer
11 16 (3.87%) Lead Developer
12 15 (3.63%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 12 (2.91%) Kafka Developer
13 12 (2.91%) Lead Software Developer
13 12 (2.91%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (8.96%) Kafka
2 35 (8.47%) REST
3 33 (7.99%) React
4 26 (6.30%) Node.js
5 18 (4.36%) Redux
6 16 (3.87%) RESTful
7 15 (3.63%) Spring Boot
8 14 (3.39%) Spring
9 13 (3.15%) Pandas
10 11 (2.66%) .NET
10 11 (2.66%) AngularJS
10 11 (2.66%) FastAPI
10 11 (2.66%) Flask
10 11 (2.66%) NumPy
11 10 (2.42%) Polars
12 9 (2.18%) Apache Avro
12 9 (2.18%) React Native
12 9 (2.18%) TensorFlow
13 8 (1.94%) GraphQL
14 7 (1.69%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.51%) Equities
2 28 (6.78%) Product Ownership
3 23 (5.57%) Onboarding
4 22 (5.33%) Fixed Income
5 20 (4.84%) Derivative
6 18 (4.36%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (3.87%) Cloud Native
7 16 (3.87%) Data Structures
7 16 (3.87%) Hedge funds
8 14 (3.39%) Management Information System
8 14 (3.39%) Mobile App
9 11 (2.66%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (2.42%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.94%) PMI
12 7 (1.69%) AI Agents
12 7 (1.69%) Market Risk
13 5 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (0.73%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.33%) Linux
2 14 (3.39%) Unix
3 7 (1.69%) Android
4 5 (1.21%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (19.85%) Agile
2 70 (16.95%) CI/CD
3 63 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
3 63 (15.25%) Software Engineering
3 63 (15.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 59 (14.29%) Analytics
5 57 (13.80%) AI
6 47 (11.38%) DevOps
7 40 (9.69%) Microservices
8 36 (8.72%) Data Pipeline
9 34 (8.23%) Business Intelligence
10 33 (7.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (7.99%) Mentoring
11 31 (7.51%) Decision-Making
12 30 (7.26%) Project Management
13 29 (7.02%) User Experience
14 28 (6.78%) Machine Learning
14 28 (6.78%) Observability
15 27 (6.54%) Full-Stack Development
16 26 (6.30%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 96 (23.24%) SQL
2 88 (21.31%) Python
3 62 (15.01%) Java
4 40 (9.69%) TypeScript
5 26 (6.30%) JavaScript
6 25 (6.05%) C#
7 21 (5.08%) Go
8 17 (4.12%) R
9 12 (2.91%) C++
10 7 (1.69%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.21%) PHP
12 4 (0.97%) Bash
12 4 (0.97%) Korn
12 4 (0.97%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.48%) F#
13 2 (0.48%) Haskell
13 2 (0.48%) Perl
13 2 (0.48%) Rust
13 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.48%) Swift
Qualifications
1 35 (8.47%) Degree
2 22 (5.33%) Security Cleared
3 17 (4.12%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.87%) PMP
5 15 (3.63%) Master's Degree
6 14 (3.39%) PMI Certification
7 10 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.42%) MBA
8 7 (1.69%) SAFe Agilist
9 6 (1.45%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.45%) CISM
9 6 (1.45%) CISSP
10 5 (1.21%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.97%) APMP
11 4 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.73%) CBAP
12 3 (0.73%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (8.96%) QA
2 9 (2.18%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.94%) PMO
4 7 (1.69%) Basel III
4 7 (1.69%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.21%) GDPR
6 4 (0.97%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.97%) SLA
7 3 (0.73%) NIST
8 2 (0.48%) GRC
9 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.24%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.24%) IFRS
9 1 (0.24%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.24%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.24%) PSD2
9 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 44 (10.65%) Docker
2 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (10.65%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.15%) Terraform
3 12 (2.91%) Ansible
4 6 (1.45%) Grafana
5 4 (0.97%) Kibana
6 3 (0.73%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.73%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.48%) Puppet
7 2 (0.48%) Rundeck
7 2 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.24%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.24%) linkerd
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.24%) SCCM
Vendors
1 23 (5.57%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.66%) Databricks
2 11 (2.66%) Salesforce
3 10 (2.42%) Amplitude
3 10 (2.42%) Informatica
4 8 (1.94%) Sonatype
5 7 (1.69%) Google
5 7 (1.69%) Oracle
6 6 (1.45%) Splunk
7 4 (0.97%) SAP
7 4 (0.97%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.73%) BiZZdesign
8 3 (0.73%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.73%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.48%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.48%) Gemalto
9 2 (0.48%) GoldenSource
9 2 (0.48%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.48%) Thales
9 2 (0.48%) Workday