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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 197 226
Rank change year-on-year -113 +29 +4
Contract jobs citing Fintech 427 481 428
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.80% 1.45% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 1.61% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 391 354
10th Percentile £279 £375 £400
25th Percentile £419 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £750 £750
90th Percentile £850 £863 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £446 £478 £450
% change year-on-year -6.80% +6.22% -16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 2
10th Percentile - £54.50 £47.13
25th Percentile £22.25 - £48.44
Median hourly rate £34.50 £65.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -46.92% +26.83% -42.70%
75th Percentile £66.44 £80.00 £53.44
90th Percentile £82.50 £84.50 £54.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 45,351 29,931 33,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.42% 85.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,028 18,763 21,568
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £734 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,760 1,659 1,891
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.30 £18.15
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.10 £74.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.50 £41.25
% change year-on-year +87.06% -43.03% +3.13%

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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 2 August 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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -94 398 £537 -10.50% 1,034
London -51 328 £550 -12.00% 846
Work from Home -154 116 £550 -18.52% 398
UK excluding London -106 72 £446 -6.80% 296
North of England -77 21 £500 +25.00% 83
South East -53 19 £280 - 91
South West -28 11 £570 -12.31% 20
Yorkshire -39 11 £514 +24.15% 14
Midlands -53 10 - - 23
North West -61 9 £446 +11.38% 48
West Midlands -55 8 - - 14
East of England -10 5 £415 -7.78% 13
Scotland -36 5 £463 -11.90% 14
East Midlands -19 2 - - 9
North East -44 1 - - 22
Wales - 1 £400 - 47

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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 11 (2.58%) Confluence
2 3 (0.70%) Apache
2 3 (0.70%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.47%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.23%) CMS
4 1 (0.23%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.70%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.70%) Trello
5 2 (0.47%) Notion
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.23%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.23%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (0.94%) NetSuite
1 4 (0.94%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.47%) SAP EHS
2 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.23%) Findur
3 1 (0.23%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.23%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 90 (21.08%) AWS
2 70 (16.39%) Azure
3 47 (11.01%) GCP
4 26 (6.09%) GitHub
5 22 (5.15%) Power Platform
6 21 (4.92%) SaaS
7 18 (4.22%) Figma
8 15 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (2.58%) Snowflake
10 10 (2.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 9 (2.11%) GitHub Copilot
12 6 (1.41%) Anthropic Claude
12 6 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (1.41%) Serverless
12 6 (1.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (1.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (1.17%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (1.17%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.17%) VPN
2 4 (0.94%) Firewall
3 2 (0.47%) DNS
3 2 (0.47%) FTP
3 2 (0.47%) Internet
3 2 (0.47%) Network Security
3 2 (0.47%) NFC
4 1 (0.23%) DHCP
4 1 (0.23%) HTTP
4 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (9.84%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (5.85%) Tableau
3 19 (4.45%) NoSQL
3 19 (4.45%) Power BI
4 17 (3.98%) MongoDB
5 13 (3.04%) Relational Database
6 12 (2.81%) Looker
7 11 (2.58%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (2.58%) BigQuery
7 11 (2.58%) Data Lake
8 9 (2.11%) SQL Server
9 7 (1.64%) Mixpanel
10 5 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.94%) Big Data
11 4 (0.94%) Redis
12 3 (0.70%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.70%) Metadata
12 3 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (6.09%) JIRA
2 19 (4.45%) Jenkins
3 17 (3.98%) Git
4 7 (1.64%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.41%) GitLab
6 5 (1.17%) Storybook
7 4 (0.94%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.70%) Appium
8 3 (0.70%) Postman
8 3 (0.70%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.47%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.47%) Gemini Tracker
9 2 (0.47%) Gradle
9 2 (0.47%) MLflow
9 2 (0.47%) Selenium
9 2 (0.47%) Sourcetree
9 2 (0.47%) Xcode
10 1 (0.23%) JUnit
10 1 (0.23%) Maven
10 1 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 258 (60.42%) Finance
2 117 (27.40%) Banking
3 77 (18.03%) Social Skills
4 55 (12.88%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (7.03%) Front Office
6 27 (6.32%) Marketing
7 23 (5.39%) Financial Institution
8 13 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.11%) Publishing
10 8 (1.87%) Legal
10 8 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.87%) Public Sector
11 7 (1.64%) Games
11 7 (1.64%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.17%) Retail
12 5 (1.17%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.94%) Advertising
13 4 (0.94%) Private Banking
14 3 (0.70%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (18.27%) Developer
2 72 (16.86%) Senior
3 44 (10.30%) Analyst
4 40 (9.37%) Lead
5 35 (8.20%) Software Engineer
6 27 (6.32%) Consultant
7 26 (6.09%) Designer
8 21 (4.92%) Data Engineer
8 21 (4.92%) Python Developer
9 19 (4.45%) Architect
10 16 (3.75%) Java Engineer
10 16 (3.75%) Lead Developer
11 14 (3.28%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 14 (3.28%) Project Manager
12 13 (3.04%) Product Designer
12 13 (3.04%) Product Manager
12 13 (3.04%) Senior Developer
13 12 (2.81%) AWS Engineer
13 12 (2.81%) Lead Software Developer
13 12 (2.81%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (9.13%) React
2 36 (8.43%) REST
3 33 (7.73%) Kafka
4 26 (6.09%) Node.js
5 22 (5.15%) .NET
6 19 (4.45%) Spring
7 18 (4.22%) Redux
8 17 (3.98%) Spring Boot
9 16 (3.75%) RESTful
10 11 (2.58%) FastAPI
10 11 (2.58%) Flask
10 11 (2.58%) NumPy
10 11 (2.58%) Pandas
10 11 (2.58%) React Native
11 10 (2.34%) Polars
12 9 (2.11%) Apache Avro
12 9 (2.11%) OAuth
13 8 (1.87%) CSS
13 8 (1.87%) OAuth2
14 7 (1.64%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.73%) Equities
2 26 (6.09%) Derivative
3 24 (5.62%) Onboarding
3 24 (5.62%) Product Ownership
4 23 (5.39%) Cloud Native
4 23 (5.39%) Fixed Income
5 18 (4.22%) Mobile App
6 16 (3.75%) Data Structures
6 16 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (3.28%) Hedge funds
8 12 (2.81%) Management Information System
9 11 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (2.11%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.64%) Market Risk
13 6 (1.41%) Virtual Team
14 5 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (1.17%) Data Centre
14 5 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.45%) Linux
2 14 (3.28%) Android
3 11 (2.58%) Unix
4 10 (2.34%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (20.37%) AI
2 78 (18.27%) CI/CD
3 76 (17.80%) Agile
3 76 (17.80%) Stakeholder Management
4 70 (16.39%) Software Engineering
5 54 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (11.94%) Analytics
7 50 (11.71%) DevOps
8 38 (8.90%) Mentoring
9 37 (8.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 37 (8.67%) User Experience
10 34 (7.96%) Microservices
11 33 (7.73%) Data Pipeline
11 33 (7.73%) Decision-Making
12 32 (7.49%) Generative AI
13 30 (7.03%) Machine Learning
14 28 (6.56%) Containerisation
14 28 (6.56%) Observability
15 27 (6.32%) Event-Driven
15 27 (6.32%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 90 (21.08%) SQL
2 83 (19.44%) Python
3 55 (12.88%) Java
4 40 (9.37%) TypeScript
5 31 (7.26%) JavaScript
6 25 (5.85%) C#
7 17 (3.98%) Go
8 15 (3.51%) Kotlin
8 15 (3.51%) R
9 10 (2.34%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.87%) PHP
11 7 (1.64%) C++
12 6 (1.41%) Korn
13 5 (1.17%) Bash
14 2 (0.47%) Bicep
14 2 (0.47%) F#
14 2 (0.47%) Groovy
14 2 (0.47%) Perl
14 2 (0.47%) Swift
15 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (7.49%) Degree
2 19 (4.45%) Security Cleared
3 16 (3.75%) SC Cleared
4 11 (2.58%) Master's Degree
5 10 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.11%) PMP
7 8 (1.87%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.94%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.94%) PhD
9 3 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.70%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.70%) CISM
9 3 (0.70%) CISSP
9 3 (0.70%) MBA
10 2 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.47%) CCSK
10 2 (0.47%) CCSP
10 2 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.09%) QA
2 10 (2.34%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.64%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.17%) PMO
4 5 (1.17%) PSD2
5 4 (0.94%) GDPR
6 3 (0.70%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.47%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.47%) NIST
7 2 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.47%) SLA
8 1 (0.23%) Basel III
8 1 (0.23%) GRC
8 1 (0.23%) IFRS
8 1 (0.23%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.23%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (9.37%) Docker
2 4 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (10.54%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.04%) Prometheus
2 13 (3.04%) Terraform
3 10 (2.34%) Grafana
4 5 (1.17%) Ansible
4 5 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.94%) Kibana
6 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.70%) SCCM
7 2 (0.47%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.23%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.23%) Istio
8 1 (0.23%) linkerd
8 1 (0.23%) QRadar
Vendors
1 31 (7.26%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.98%) Google
3 11 (2.58%) Databricks
4 10 (2.34%) Informatica
5 9 (2.11%) Amplitude
6 8 (1.87%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.64%) Oracle
8 6 (1.41%) SAP
9 5 (1.17%) Adobe
9 5 (1.17%) Dynatrace
10 4 (0.94%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.94%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.94%) PagerDuty
11 3 (0.70%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.70%) Citrix
11 3 (0.70%) Reuters
12 2 (0.47%) Ariba
12 2 (0.47%) ION Trading
12 2 (0.47%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.47%) Splunk