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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 230 231
Rank change year-on-year -26 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Fintech 402 386 467
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.09% 1.12% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.27% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 312 379
10th Percentile £363 £414 £375
25th Percentile £413 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £731 £681
90th Percentile £850 £825 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -10.00% +2.15% -6.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 5
10th Percentile £42.63 £47.38 £33.40
25th Percentile £63.06 £49.06 £42.25
Median hourly rate £79.25 £53.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.44% -6.52% -
75th Percentile £87.50 £59.06 £73.75
90th Percentile £94.25 £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 32,541 30,291 38,815
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.45% 88.04% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,482 18,505 25,899
10th Percentile £300 £306 £308
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £744 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,089 1,000 1,504
10th Percentile £14.53 £15.61 £14.38
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £18.95
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.86% +25.25%
75th Percentile £48.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.78 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £32.28 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.75% -27.46% +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 17 December 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 17 December 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 17 December 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 -42 333 £550 -8.33% 478
London -29 249 £625 - 185
Work from Home -29 149 £606 -3.00% 289
UK excluding London +10 107 £450 -10.00% 385
North of England -29 35 £402 -25.56% 91
Scotland +30 31 £538 +34.38% 21
North West -16 20 £402 -26.91% 48
Midlands -20 19 £400 - 47
East Midlands -14 16 £395 -1.25% 23
Yorkshire -38 13 £369 -29.71% 32
South East -7 10 £375 -26.83% 153
South West +5 7 £450 -35.71% 31
East of England -13 5 £450 -33.33% 38
West Midlands -32 3 £430 - 20
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 2
North East -6 2 £450 - 11

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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 24 (5.97%) Confluence
2 16 (3.98%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.74%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.75%) Apache
4 3 (0.75%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.50%) IIS
5 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.50%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.25%) Appian
Applications
1 18 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.74%) Chatbot
3 6 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.75%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.75%) Notion
6 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.25%) MadCap Flare
7 1 (0.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.49%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.50%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.25%) BASE24
3 1 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.25%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 97 (24.13%) AWS
2 73 (18.16%) Azure
3 40 (9.95%) GCP
4 25 (6.22%) GitHub
5 22 (5.47%) SaaS
6 20 (4.98%) Power Platform
7 15 (3.73%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (3.48%) dbt
9 13 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (2.99%) Datadog
11 11 (2.74%) Figma
12 10 (2.49%) Amazon Kinesis
13 9 (2.24%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (2.24%) AWS Step Functions
13 9 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (1.99%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (1.99%) Amazon S3
14 8 (1.99%) Serverless
15 7 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 6 (1.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.00%) ATM
1 4 (1.00%) Firewall
2 3 (0.75%) VPN
3 2 (0.50%) DNS
3 2 (0.50%) HTTP
3 2 (0.50%) SSH
4 1 (0.25%) DHCP
4 1 (0.25%) Network Security
4 1 (0.25%) SSL
4 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.72%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (4.73%) Tableau
3 16 (3.98%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (3.73%) Power BI
5 14 (3.48%) MongoDB
6 13 (3.23%) Apache Cassandra
6 13 (3.23%) MySQL
7 12 (2.99%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (2.99%) SQL Server
8 11 (2.74%) Apache Arrow
8 11 (2.74%) Apache Iceberg
8 11 (2.74%) Dremio
9 9 (2.24%) Hadoop
9 9 (2.24%) NoSQL
10 7 (1.74%) Big Data
11 6 (1.49%) BigQuery
11 6 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.00%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 41 (10.20%) JIRA
2 19 (4.73%) Jenkins
3 15 (3.73%) Cypress.io
4 12 (2.99%) Git
5 8 (1.99%) Cucumber
6 7 (1.74%) JUnit
7 6 (1.49%) GitLab
8 5 (1.24%) Selenium
8 5 (1.24%) TeamCity
9 4 (1.00%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.75%) Gatling
10 3 (0.75%) MLflow
10 3 (0.75%) Postman
10 3 (0.75%) Storybook
11 2 (0.50%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.50%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.50%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.50%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.50%) SpecFlow
General
1 264 (65.67%) Finance
2 132 (32.84%) Banking
3 126 (31.34%) Social Skills
4 68 (16.92%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (6.72%) Front Office
6 23 (5.72%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.99%) Financial Institution
8 12 (2.99%) Legal
9 10 (2.49%) Public Sector
10 9 (2.24%) Marketing
11 8 (1.99%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.74%) Japanese Language
12 7 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.74%) Retail Banking
12 7 (1.74%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.49%) Retail
14 5 (1.24%) German Language
14 5 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (1.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 98 (24.38%) Developer
2 62 (15.42%) Senior
3 54 (13.43%) Analyst
4 30 (7.46%) Senior Developer
5 26 (6.47%) Software Engineer
6 24 (5.97%) Python Developer
7 23 (5.72%) Product Manager
8 21 (5.22%) Lead
9 20 (4.98%) Architect
9 20 (4.98%) Business Analyst
9 20 (4.98%) Java Developer
10 18 (4.48%) Python Engineer
11 17 (4.23%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (3.73%) Java Engineer
13 14 (3.48%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 13 (3.23%) Backend Developer
15 12 (2.99%) AWS Software Engineer
15 12 (2.99%) Product Owner
16 11 (2.74%) AWS Developer
16 11 (2.74%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (11.44%) Kafka
2 35 (8.71%) React
3 29 (7.21%) RESTful
4 28 (6.97%) REST
5 27 (6.72%) AngularJS
6 24 (5.97%) Node.js
7 21 (5.22%) .NET
7 21 (5.22%) Spring
8 19 (4.73%) Spring Boot
9 16 (3.98%) Pandas
10 12 (2.99%) Jest
10 12 (2.99%) NumPy
11 11 (2.74%) SciPy
11 11 (2.74%) Vue
12 9 (2.24%) GraphQL
13 8 (1.99%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (1.74%) OAuth
14 7 (1.74%) OAuth2
14 7 (1.74%) TensorFlow
14 7 (1.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.72%) Product Ownership
2 24 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (5.97%) Fixed Income
3 23 (5.72%) Onboarding
4 20 (4.98%) Equities
4 20 (4.98%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (3.98%) Cloud Native
6 14 (3.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 14 (3.48%) Virtual Team
7 9 (2.24%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 8 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.99%) Hedge funds
8 8 (1.99%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.74%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.24%) Data Fabric
11 5 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.24%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.48%) Linux
2 11 (2.74%) Apple iOS
3 10 (2.49%) Windows
4 7 (1.74%) Unix
5 6 (1.49%) Android
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (32.84%) Agile
2 94 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
3 77 (19.15%) CI/CD
4 65 (16.17%) DevOps
5 62 (15.42%) Analytics
5 62 (15.42%) Continuous Improvement
5 62 (15.42%) Microservices
6 54 (13.43%) Software Engineering
7 49 (12.19%) Migration
8 47 (11.69%) Stakeholder Management
9 41 (10.20%) Roadmaps
10 38 (9.45%) AI
10 38 (9.45%) User Experience
11 34 (8.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 31 (7.71%) Observability
13 30 (7.46%) Digital Banking
14 29 (7.21%) Full-Stack Development
15 28 (6.97%) Computer Science
15 28 (6.97%) Decision-Making
15 28 (6.97%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 86 (21.39%) Python
2 69 (17.16%) Java
3 50 (12.44%) SQL
4 38 (9.45%) C#
5 28 (6.97%) JavaScript
5 28 (6.97%) TypeScript
6 22 (5.47%) Go
7 17 (4.23%) Kotlin
8 10 (2.49%) Bash
9 9 (2.24%) C++
10 7 (1.74%) Swift
11 6 (1.49%) R
12 5 (1.24%) Rust
13 4 (1.00%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.75%) Perl
14 3 (0.75%) Ruby
14 3 (0.75%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.50%) C
15 2 (0.50%) PHP
15 2 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (8.71%) Degree
2 20 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (4.48%) PMP
4 17 (4.23%) PMI Certification
5 10 (2.49%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.99%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.49%) CISSP
8 5 (1.24%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.24%) CBAP
8 5 (1.24%) CISM
9 4 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.00%) CISA
9 4 (1.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 4 (1.00%) OCP
9 4 (1.00%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (1.00%) SAFe Agilist
10 3 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.75%) MBA
10 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.71%) QA
2 18 (4.48%) Accessibility
3 17 (4.23%) PCI DSS
4 10 (2.49%) GDPR
4 10 (2.49%) NIST
4 10 (2.49%) PSD2
5 9 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.74%) ISO 20022
6 7 (1.74%) PMO
7 5 (1.24%) ISO 8583
8 4 (1.00%) COBIT
8 4 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (1.00%) NIST 800
8 4 (1.00%) SEPA
8 4 (1.00%) SLA
9 3 (0.75%) Basel III
9 3 (0.75%) GRC
10 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.25%) MiFID
10 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 53 (13.18%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 42 (10.45%) Kubernetes
2 27 (6.72%) Terraform
3 16 (3.98%) Ansible
4 7 (1.74%) Grafana
5 5 (1.24%) RSA Archer
6 3 (0.75%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.75%) QRadar
7 2 (0.50%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.25%) Istio
8 1 (0.25%) linkerd
8 1 (0.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 34 (8.46%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.73%) Databricks
3 9 (2.24%) Google
3 9 (2.24%) Salesforce
3 9 (2.24%) ServiceNow
4 6 (1.49%) Oracle
5 5 (1.24%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.00%) Alteryx
6 4 (1.00%) Rapid7
6 4 (1.00%) Sonatype
7 3 (0.75%) Alibaba
7 3 (0.75%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (0.75%) Darktrace
7 3 (0.75%) GoldenSource
7 3 (0.75%) New Relic
7 3 (0.75%) Samsung
7 3 (0.75%) Zscaler
8 2 (0.50%) Amplitude
8 2 (0.50%) Checkmarx
8 2 (0.50%) Thales