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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 222 231
Rank change year-on-year -24 +9 0
Contract jobs citing Fintech 418 409 505
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.18% 1.12% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 1.29% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 325 413
10th Percentile £363 £411 £400
25th Percentile £413 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -3.97%
75th Percentile £721 £731 £688
90th Percentile £850 £825 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £484 £500
% change year-on-year -6.46% -3.25% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 5
10th Percentile £44.25 £47.38 £33.40
25th Percentile £68.25 £49.06 £42.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £53.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.84% -6.52% -
75th Percentile £87.50 £59.06 £73.75
90th Percentile £92.00 £61.13 £83.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £89.44

All Process and 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 31,798 31,745 40,964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.44% 86.76% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,901 19,110 27,507
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £531
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £740 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,102 1,148 1,575
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.12 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.27% +25.43%
75th Percentile £45.46 £64.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.74 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.05% -26.97% +39.06%

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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 24 November 2025.

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 24 November 2025.

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 24 November 2025. 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 -45 341 £575 -4.17% 436
London -35 255 £650 +6.12% 250
Work from Home +8 169 £625 - 267
UK excluding London +27 114 £453 -6.46% 239
North of England -26 36 £413 -22.17% 48
Scotland +31 35 £525 +31.25% 13
North West -13 21 £425 -22.73% 30
Midlands -17 19 £395 -1.25% 20
East Midlands -4 14 £378 -5.63% 9
Yorkshire -31 13 £363 -28.50% 12
South East +5 10 £375 -26.83% 117
South West +14 8 £450 -35.71% 21
West Midlands -12 5 £400 - 11
East of England -12 5 £450 -33.33% 14
Northern Ireland -2 3 - - 4
North East -6 2 £450 - 6

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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 23 (5.50%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (4.78%) Confluence
3 6 (1.44%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.20%) Apache
4 5 (1.20%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.48%) IIS
5 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.48%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.67%) Chatbot
2 7 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.72%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.24%) MadCap Flare
5 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (2.15%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.24%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.24%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 113 (27.03%) AWS
2 72 (17.22%) Azure
3 57 (13.64%) GCP
4 24 (5.74%) GitHub
5 22 (5.26%) dbt
6 19 (4.55%) SaaS
7 18 (4.31%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (3.11%) Power Platform
9 12 (2.87%) Amazon Kinesis
9 12 (2.87%) Datadog
9 12 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (2.63%) AWS Step Functions
11 10 (2.39%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (2.39%) Serverless
12 9 (2.15%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (2.15%) Amazon S3
12 9 (2.15%) Figma
13 8 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.67%) Firewall
2 4 (0.96%) ATM
3 3 (0.72%) DNS
3 3 (0.72%) VPN
4 2 (0.48%) DHCP
4 2 (0.48%) HTTP
4 2 (0.48%) SSH
4 2 (0.48%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.24%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.24%) Network Security
5 1 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
3 18 (4.31%) Amazon Athena
4 17 (4.07%) Apache Arrow
4 17 (4.07%) Apache Iceberg
4 17 (4.07%) Dremio
5 16 (3.83%) MySQL
6 15 (3.59%) MongoDB
7 14 (3.35%) Tableau
8 13 (3.11%) Apache Cassandra
8 13 (3.11%) NoSQL
9 12 (2.87%) SQL Server
10 10 (2.39%) Hadoop
10 10 (2.39%) Power BI
11 8 (1.91%) BigQuery
12 7 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.96%) Big Data
14 4 (0.96%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 35 (8.37%) JIRA
2 21 (5.02%) Jenkins
3 15 (3.59%) Cypress.io
4 12 (2.87%) Git
5 10 (2.39%) GitLab
6 8 (1.91%) Cucumber
6 8 (1.91%) JUnit
7 5 (1.20%) Selenium
8 4 (0.96%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (0.96%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.72%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.72%) Gatling
9 3 (0.72%) MLflow
9 3 (0.72%) Postman
9 3 (0.72%) Storybook
10 2 (0.48%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.48%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.48%) Snyk
10 2 (0.48%) TestNG
General
1 277 (66.27%) Finance
2 133 (31.82%) Banking
3 124 (29.67%) Social Skills
4 65 (15.55%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (8.85%) Front Office
6 26 (6.22%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.87%) Legal
8 10 (2.39%) Financial Institution
8 10 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (2.15%) Marketing
9 9 (2.15%) Public Sector
10 7 (1.67%) Japanese Language
10 7 (1.67%) Retail
11 6 (1.44%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.44%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.20%) Back Office
12 5 (1.20%) German Language
12 5 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.20%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 107 (25.60%) Developer
2 56 (13.40%) Analyst
3 52 (12.44%) Senior
4 42 (10.05%) Software Engineer
5 29 (6.94%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 26 (6.22%) Senior Developer
7 24 (5.74%) Product Manager
7 24 (5.74%) Python Developer
8 23 (5.50%) AWS Engineer
8 23 (5.50%) Java Developer
9 21 (5.02%) Architect
9 21 (5.02%) Lead
9 21 (5.02%) Python Engineer
10 20 (4.78%) Java Engineer
11 18 (4.31%) AWS Developer
11 18 (4.31%) AWS Software Engineer
11 18 (4.31%) Business Analyst
12 14 (3.35%) Backend Developer
12 14 (3.35%) Python Software Engineer
13 13 (3.11%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (11.72%) React
2 39 (9.33%) Kafka
3 35 (8.37%) Node.js
4 33 (7.89%) AngularJS
5 27 (6.46%) RESTful
6 23 (5.50%) REST
7 21 (5.02%) Spring
8 20 (4.78%) .NET
8 20 (4.78%) Pandas
8 20 (4.78%) Vue
9 19 (4.55%) Spring Boot
10 18 (4.31%) NumPy
11 17 (4.07%) SciPy
12 13 (3.11%) Redux
13 12 (2.87%) Jest
14 8 (1.91%) GraphQL
15 7 (1.67%) OAuth
15 7 (1.67%) OAuth2
15 7 (1.67%) RabbitMQ
15 7 (1.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (9.09%) Fixed Income
2 29 (6.94%) Equities
3 27 (6.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 27 (6.46%) Product Ownership
4 24 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (4.55%) Onboarding
6 18 (4.31%) Cloud Native
6 18 (4.31%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (3.35%) Virtual Team
8 9 (2.15%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 8 (1.91%) Hedge funds
10 7 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.44%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.96%) Data Fabric
13 4 (0.96%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.83%) Linux
1 16 (3.83%) Windows
2 11 (2.63%) Apple iOS
3 8 (1.91%) Unix
4 7 (1.67%) Android
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (33.01%) Agile
2 90 (21.53%) Problem-Solving
3 86 (20.57%) CI/CD
4 76 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 70 (16.75%) DevOps
6 62 (14.83%) Continuous Improvement
7 61 (14.59%) Microservices
8 55 (13.16%) Analytics
8 55 (13.16%) Migration
9 47 (11.24%) Stakeholder Management
9 47 (11.24%) User Experience
10 46 (11.00%) Roadmaps
11 32 (7.66%) Digital Banking
12 31 (7.42%) AI
12 31 (7.42%) Asset Management
13 29 (6.94%) Observability
13 29 (6.94%) Test Automation
14 28 (6.70%) Containerisation
14 28 (6.70%) Infrastructure as Code
14 28 (6.70%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 96 (22.97%) Python
2 76 (18.18%) Java
3 44 (10.53%) JavaScript
3 44 (10.53%) SQL
4 38 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 36 (8.61%) C#
6 21 (5.02%) Go
7 19 (4.55%) Kotlin
8 12 (2.87%) Bash
9 8 (1.91%) C++
10 7 (1.67%) Swift
11 4 (0.96%) Objective-C
11 4 (0.96%) Rust
12 3 (0.72%) Perl
12 3 (0.72%) Ruby
12 3 (0.72%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.48%) Dart
13 2 (0.48%) PHP
13 2 (0.48%) R
14 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 32 (7.66%) Degree
2 18 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (3.59%) PMP
4 14 (3.35%) PMI Certification
5 8 (1.91%) CISSP
6 7 (1.67%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.67%) CISM
6 7 (1.67%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.44%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.96%) CISA
9 4 (0.96%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 4 (0.96%) OCP
9 4 (0.96%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.72%) PgMP
11 2 (0.48%) CBAP
11 2 (0.48%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.13%) QA
2 21 (5.02%) PCI DSS
3 18 (4.31%) Accessibility
4 14 (3.35%) GDPR
5 13 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (2.87%) NIST
7 10 (2.39%) PSD2
8 8 (1.91%) PMO
9 7 (1.67%) ISO 20022
10 5 (1.20%) GRC
10 5 (1.20%) NIST 800
10 5 (1.20%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.96%) COBIT
11 4 (0.96%) ISO 8583
11 4 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (0.96%) SEPA
12 3 (0.72%) SLA
13 1 (0.24%) Basel III
13 1 (0.24%) MiFID
13 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (11.00%) Docker
2 2 (0.48%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 41 (9.81%) Kubernetes
2 33 (7.89%) Terraform
3 16 (3.83%) Ansible
4 6 (1.44%) Grafana
5 5 (1.20%) RSA Archer
6 3 (0.72%) Istio
6 3 (0.72%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.72%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.72%) QRadar
7 2 (0.48%) linkerd
7 2 (0.48%) SCCM
7 2 (0.48%) WSUS
8 1 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (9.33%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.11%) Databricks
2 13 (3.11%) Google
3 8 (1.91%) Salesforce
4 7 (1.67%) Oracle
4 7 (1.67%) ServiceNow
5 6 (1.44%) Zscaler
6 5 (1.20%) Darktrace
6 5 (1.20%) Dynatrace
7 4 (0.96%) Alteryx
7 4 (0.96%) CA Agile Central
7 4 (0.96%) Rapid7
7 4 (0.96%) Sonatype
8 3 (0.72%) Alibaba
8 3 (0.72%) Samsung
9 2 (0.48%) Checkmarx
9 2 (0.48%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.48%) Gemalto
9 2 (0.48%) Splunk
9 2 (0.48%) Thales