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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 202 217
Rank change year-on-year -77 +15 +34
Contract jobs citing Fintech 408 399 454
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.86% 1.36% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.49% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 312 387
10th Percentile £333 £373 £400
25th Percentile £442 £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 £384 £446 £450
% change year-on-year -13.95% -0.83% -1.75%
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 40,197 26,741 37,098
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.41% 90.94% 86.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,242 17,210 23,886
10th Percentile £320 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +2.30% -4.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,406 1,094 2,440
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.44 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.87 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.13 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.52% -21.23% +0.69%
75th Percentile £67.25 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £27.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% -28.95% +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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -85 377 £550 -8.33% 642
London -44 285 £600 -4.00% 492
Work from Home -115 101 £575 -14.81% 266
UK excluding London -44 94 £384 -13.95% 209
North of England -53 34 £445 +11.13% 72
South East -29 31 £280 - 90
Yorkshire -39 18 £438 -13.71% 19
North West -37 14 £445 +11.13% 39
East Midlands -35 9 £340 -15.00% 11
Midlands -70 9 £340 -15.00% 21
South West - 9 £477 - 11
Scotland +3 8 £531 +6.25% 6
East of England -27 5 £415 -24.55% 6
North East -20 2 - - 14

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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 (7.60%) Confluence
2 3 (0.74%) Apache
2 3 (0.74%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.25%) Appian
3 1 (0.25%) CMS
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.25%) nginx
3 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (2.21%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (1.23%) Notion
4 4 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.49%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.25%) Sketch
6 1 (0.25%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.49%) SAP EHS
1 2 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.25%) BASE24
2 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
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 93 (22.79%) AWS
2 63 (15.44%) Azure
3 40 (9.80%) GCP
4 32 (7.84%) Power Platform
5 27 (6.62%) GitHub
6 18 (4.41%) SaaS
7 14 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (2.45%) Figma
10 8 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (1.96%) Datadog
10 8 (1.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (1.72%) Serverless
12 6 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (1.47%) Amazon S3
12 6 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (1.23%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.98%) Firewall
1 4 (0.98%) Network Security
2 3 (0.74%) VPN
3 2 (0.49%) DNS
3 2 (0.49%) FTP
3 2 (0.49%) SSH
4 1 (0.25%) DHCP
4 1 (0.25%) HTTP
4 1 (0.25%) NFC
4 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.35%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (6.37%) Power BI
3 21 (5.15%) Tableau
4 13 (3.19%) Looker
4 13 (3.19%) Relational Database
5 12 (2.94%) Data Lake
5 12 (2.94%) NoSQL
6 10 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
7 7 (1.72%) Mixpanel
8 6 (1.47%) MySQL
9 5 (1.23%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.23%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.98%) Big Data
10 4 (0.98%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.98%) Pinecone
10 4 (0.98%) Weaviate
11 3 (0.74%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 43 (10.54%) JIRA
2 26 (6.37%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.45%) Git
4 8 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (0.98%) GitLab
6 3 (0.74%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.74%) REST Assured
6 3 (0.74%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.49%) Android Studio
7 2 (0.49%) Appium
7 2 (0.49%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.49%) JUnit
7 2 (0.49%) MLflow
7 2 (0.49%) Postman
7 2 (0.49%) Selenium
7 2 (0.49%) Sourcetree
7 2 (0.49%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.49%) Xcode
8 1 (0.25%) Gradle
8 1 (0.25%) Liquibase
General
1 246 (60.29%) Finance
2 101 (24.75%) Banking
3 95 (23.28%) Social Skills
4 55 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (7.60%) Front Office
6 17 (4.17%) Marketing
7 14 (3.43%) Public Sector
8 13 (3.19%) Financial Institution
9 12 (2.94%) Retail
10 11 (2.70%) Corporate Banking
11 10 (2.45%) Retail Banking
12 9 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (2.21%) Investment Banking
12 9 (2.21%) Legal
12 9 (2.21%) Publishing
13 6 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.98%) Games
14 4 (0.98%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.74%) Advertising
15 3 (0.74%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 92 (22.55%) Developer
2 76 (18.63%) Senior
3 38 (9.31%) Lead
4 35 (8.58%) Analyst
4 35 (8.58%) Software Engineer
5 25 (6.13%) Project Manager
5 25 (6.13%) Python Developer
6 21 (5.15%) Business Analyst
6 21 (5.15%) Data Engineer
6 21 (5.15%) Java Developer
7 20 (4.90%) Senior Developer
8 18 (4.41%) Architect
8 18 (4.41%) Designer
9 16 (3.92%) AWS Engineer
9 16 (3.92%) Consultant
9 16 (3.92%) Lead Developer
10 15 (3.68%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 13 (3.19%) Senior Manager
12 12 (2.94%) Lead Software Engineer
12 12 (2.94%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (8.58%) REST
2 33 (8.09%) Kafka
2 33 (8.09%) React
3 26 (6.37%) Node.js
4 18 (4.41%) Redux
5 16 (3.92%) RESTful
6 14 (3.43%) Spring Boot
7 13 (3.19%) Pandas
7 13 (3.19%) Spring
8 11 (2.70%) .NET
8 11 (2.70%) AngularJS
8 11 (2.70%) FastAPI
8 11 (2.70%) Flask
8 11 (2.70%) NumPy
9 10 (2.45%) Polars
10 9 (2.21%) Apache Avro
10 9 (2.21%) React Native
11 8 (1.96%) GraphQL
11 8 (1.96%) TensorFlow
12 7 (1.72%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.60%) Equities
2 29 (7.11%) Product Ownership
3 24 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 22 (5.39%) Fixed Income
5 20 (4.90%) Derivative
6 17 (4.17%) Hedge funds
7 16 (3.92%) Cloud Native
7 16 (3.92%) Data Structures
7 16 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (3.92%) Mobile App
8 14 (3.43%) Management Information System
9 11 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (2.45%) Virtual Team
11 9 (2.21%) PMI
12 7 (1.72%) Market Risk
13 6 (1.47%) AI Agents
14 5 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
15 4 (0.98%) Digital Wallet
16 3 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.15%) Linux
2 13 (3.19%) Unix
3 7 (1.72%) Android
3 7 (1.72%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (20.83%) Agile
2 71 (17.40%) CI/CD
3 66 (16.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 64 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (14.71%) Software Engineering
6 54 (13.24%) AI
7 52 (12.75%) Analytics
8 48 (11.76%) DevOps
9 37 (9.07%) Microservices
10 34 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 33 (8.09%) Data Pipeline
11 33 (8.09%) Mentoring
12 32 (7.84%) Project Management
13 31 (7.60%) Business Intelligence
13 31 (7.60%) Decision-Making
14 30 (7.35%) User Experience
15 28 (6.86%) Observability
16 27 (6.62%) Full-Stack Development
17 26 (6.37%) Roadmaps
18 25 (6.13%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 87 (21.32%) SQL
2 84 (20.59%) Python
3 62 (15.20%) Java
4 40 (9.80%) TypeScript
5 26 (6.37%) JavaScript
6 24 (5.88%) C#
7 19 (4.66%) Go
8 12 (2.94%) R
9 11 (2.70%) C++
10 9 (2.21%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.98%) Bash
11 4 (0.98%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.98%) Swift
12 3 (0.74%) Korn
12 3 (0.74%) Ruby
13 2 (0.49%) F#
13 2 (0.49%) Haskell
13 2 (0.49%) Perl
13 2 (0.49%) PHP
13 2 (0.49%) Rust
Qualifications
1 36 (8.82%) Degree
2 22 (5.39%) Security Cleared
3 19 (4.66%) PMP
4 17 (4.17%) PMI Certification
4 17 (4.17%) SC Cleared
5 16 (3.92%) Master's Degree
6 11 (2.70%) MBA
7 10 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.96%) SAFe Agilist
9 6 (1.47%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.23%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.23%) CISM
10 5 (1.23%) CISSP
11 4 (0.98%) APMP
11 4 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.74%) CBAP
12 3 (0.74%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (9.31%) QA
2 9 (2.21%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.96%) Basel III
3 8 (1.96%) PMO
4 6 (1.47%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.23%) GDPR
6 4 (0.98%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.98%) SLA
7 3 (0.74%) NIST
8 2 (0.49%) GRC
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 8583
9 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.25%) PSD2
9 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (10.05%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (9.80%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.43%) Terraform
3 12 (2.94%) Ansible
4 6 (1.47%) Grafana
5 4 (0.98%) Kibana
6 3 (0.74%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.74%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.49%) Puppet
7 2 (0.49%) Rundeck
7 2 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.25%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.25%) linkerd
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.70%) Salesforce
3 10 (2.45%) Informatica
4 8 (1.96%) Amplitude
4 8 (1.96%) Databricks
4 8 (1.96%) Sonatype
5 7 (1.72%) Google
6 6 (1.47%) Oracle
6 6 (1.47%) Splunk
7 4 (0.98%) SAP
7 4 (0.98%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.74%) BiZZdesign
8 3 (0.74%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.74%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.74%) GoldenSource
9 2 (0.49%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.49%) Gemalto
9 2 (0.49%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.49%) Thales
9 2 (0.49%) Workday