Fintech Contracts

Financial Technology (FinTech)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Fintech skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fintech over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 193 218 233
Rank change year-on-year +25 +15 -43
Contract jobs citing Fintech 442 471 630
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.39% 1.09% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 1.27% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 385 476
10th Percentile £363 £400 £422
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £752 £750 £700
90th Percentile £850 £815 £776
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £488 £525
% change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £52.75 £48.00 -
25th Percentile £60.63 £50.63 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £89.44
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -38.51% +123.60%
75th Percentile £68.75 £71.50 -
90th Percentile £75.50 £81.40 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £88.00 £89.44
% change year-on-year - -1.61% -

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 28,850 36,964 50,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.71% 85.28% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,170 23,592 34,850
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,420 2,515 1,729
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.42 £16.18 £16.61
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +1.77% +43.62%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +66.67%

Fintech
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Fintech as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Fintech in the UK

Fintech
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Fintech.

Daily rate trend for Fintech in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fintech over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fintech in the UK

Fintech
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Fintech.

Hourly rate trend for Fintech in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Fintech over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Fintech in the UK

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Top 14 Contract 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 5 July 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 +17 377 £600 -4.00% 4,880
London +11 316 £625 - 3,858
Work from Home +37 234 £675 +3.85% 2,400
UK excluding London +55 68 £450 -7.69% 1,297
North of England +6 26 £400 -13.51% 336
Midlands +24 19 £400 -31.62% 142
Scotland +19 19 £519 +15.28% 91
North West +7 16 £400 -27.27% 230
East Midlands +17 14 £400 -30.43% 53
North East +4 6 £200 - 32
West Midlands +9 5 £400 -32.77% 89
Yorkshire -3 4 £366 -9.97% 75
South East +32 3 - - 387
South West +28 1 £650 +63.52% 115

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 41 (9.28%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (3.39%) Confluence
3 11 (2.49%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.04%) Apache
5 7 (1.58%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.45%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.23%) IIS
7 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.23%) nginx
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.45%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.90%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.45%) Kondor
2 2 (0.45%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 154 (34.84%) AWS
2 117 (26.47%) GCP
3 78 (17.65%) Azure
4 42 (9.50%) dbt
5 20 (4.52%) GitHub
6 18 (4.07%) SaaS
7 17 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (3.39%) Serverless
9 11 (2.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (2.26%) Power Platform
11 8 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (1.81%) Datadog
12 7 (1.58%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (1.58%) Amazon S3
12 7 (1.58%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (1.58%) Entra ID
13 6 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.36%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.17%) Firewall
2 6 (1.36%) HTTP
2 6 (1.36%) VPN
3 4 (0.90%) Network Security
4 3 (0.68%) BGP
4 3 (0.68%) DNS
4 3 (0.68%) OSPF
5 2 (0.45%) DHCP
5 2 (0.45%) HSRP
5 2 (0.45%) IGMP
5 2 (0.45%) Multicast
5 2 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.45%) VRRP
6 1 (0.23%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.23%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.23%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.23%) SWIFTNet
6 1 (0.23%) tcpdump
6 1 (0.23%) VLAN
6 1 (0.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (18.33%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (8.60%) Amazon Athena
2 38 (8.60%) Apache Iceberg
2 38 (8.60%) Dremio
3 34 (7.69%) Apache Arrow
4 16 (3.62%) SQL Server
5 15 (3.39%) MySQL
6 11 (2.49%) MongoDB
6 11 (2.49%) Relational Database
7 10 (2.26%) NoSQL
7 10 (2.26%) Power BI
8 8 (1.81%) Big Data
8 8 (1.81%) BigQuery
8 8 (1.81%) DynamoDB
8 8 (1.81%) Looker
8 8 (1.81%) Tableau
9 7 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (1.58%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.36%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (1.13%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 21 (4.75%) JIRA
2 17 (3.85%) Git
3 14 (3.17%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.26%) GitLab
5 8 (1.81%) Postman
6 5 (1.13%) git-flow
7 4 (0.90%) MLflow
8 3 (0.68%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.45%) Ant
9 2 (0.45%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.45%) Babel
9 2 (0.45%) PHPUnit
9 2 (0.45%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.45%) webpack
10 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.23%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.23%) JUnit
10 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.23%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.23%) Xcode
General
1 316 (71.49%) Finance
2 136 (30.77%) Banking
3 100 (22.62%) Front Office
4 97 (21.95%) Social Skills
5 51 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (2.04%) Retail
9 8 (1.81%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.81%) Legal
10 7 (1.58%) Back Office
10 7 (1.58%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.36%) Law
11 6 (1.36%) Retail Banking
12 5 (1.13%) Marketing
13 4 (0.90%) Corporate Banking
13 4 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.45%) Public Sector
15 1 (0.23%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 172 (38.91%) Developer
2 102 (23.08%) Software Engineer
3 90 (20.36%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 49 (11.09%) Analyst
5 38 (8.60%) AWS Developer
5 38 (8.60%) AWS Engineer
6 36 (8.14%) AWS Software Engineer
6 36 (8.14%) React Developer
7 32 (7.24%) Full-Stack Developer
8 27 (6.11%) Java Engineer
8 27 (6.11%) Python Engineer
9 26 (5.88%) Python Developer
10 23 (5.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 22 (4.98%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 22 (4.98%) Python Software Engineer
12 21 (4.75%) Java Developer
13 20 (4.52%) Senior
14 16 (3.62%) Lead
15 14 (3.17%) Architect
15 14 (3.17%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (24.89%) React
2 80 (18.10%) Node.js
3 66 (14.93%) AngularJS
4 65 (14.71%) Redux
5 57 (12.90%) Vue
6 39 (8.82%) NumPy
6 39 (8.82%) Pandas
7 38 (8.60%) SciPy
8 20 (4.52%) RESTful
9 18 (4.07%) REST
10 17 (3.85%) Web Services
11 13 (2.94%) Kafka
12 12 (2.71%) .NET
13 11 (2.49%) CSS
13 11 (2.49%) HTML
13 11 (2.49%) Spring
14 10 (2.26%) Symfony
15 8 (1.81%) Middleware
15 8 (1.81%) OAuth
15 8 (1.81%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 93 (21.04%) Fixed Income
2 56 (12.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 51 (11.54%) Equities
4 26 (5.88%) Hedge funds
5 17 (3.85%) Product Ownership
6 14 (3.17%) Cloud Native
7 13 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (2.49%) Mobile App
9 9 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (2.04%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.81%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.36%) Credit Risk
12 6 (1.36%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.36%) Derivative
12 6 (1.36%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.13%) Data Centre
13 5 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.20%) Windows
2 22 (4.98%) Linux
3 12 (2.71%) Unix
4 9 (2.04%) Android
4 9 (2.04%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.45%) VMS
6 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (39.37%) Agile
2 124 (28.05%) Software Engineering
3 96 (21.72%) Asset Management
4 95 (21.49%) Investment Management
5 59 (13.35%) User Experience
6 55 (12.44%) CI/CD
6 55 (12.44%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (12.22%) Risk Management
8 49 (11.09%) Analytics
9 46 (10.41%) DevOps
10 41 (9.28%) Stakeholder Management
11 37 (8.37%) Migration
12 35 (7.92%) Full-Stack Development
13 34 (7.69%) Performance Attribution
14 33 (7.47%) Microservices
15 32 (7.24%) Order Management
16 29 (6.56%) Continuous Improvement
16 29 (6.56%) Roadmaps
17 27 (6.11%) TDD
18 25 (5.66%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 134 (30.32%) Python
2 112 (25.34%) JavaScript
3 110 (24.89%) TypeScript
4 63 (14.25%) Java
5 45 (10.18%) SQL
6 21 (4.75%) C#
7 20 (4.52%) Go
8 11 (2.49%) Kotlin
8 11 (2.49%) PHP
9 10 (2.26%) C++
10 8 (1.81%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.58%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.36%) Scala
13 5 (1.13%) Bash
13 5 (1.13%) Rust
14 4 (0.90%) Perl
15 3 (0.68%) C
15 3 (0.68%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.45%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 50 (11.31%) Degree
2 15 (3.39%) Master's Degree
3 14 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (2.04%) PMI Certification
6 8 (1.81%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.81%) PMP
7 7 (1.58%) CISSP
8 6 (1.36%) CISM
9 3 (0.68%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 2 (0.45%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.45%) CISA
10 2 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.45%) CSSLP
10 2 (0.45%) GCIA
10 2 (0.45%) GCIH
10 2 (0.45%) GIAC
10 2 (0.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 2 (0.45%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.07%) PCI DSS
2 15 (3.39%) PMO
3 14 (3.17%) GDPR
3 14 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.71%) QA
5 10 (2.26%) NIST
6 9 (2.04%) PSD2
7 7 (1.58%) Data Quality
7 7 (1.58%) GRC
8 6 (1.36%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.90%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.90%) MiFID
9 4 (0.90%) SEPA
10 3 (0.68%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.68%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.45%) Basel III
11 2 (0.45%) COBIT
11 2 (0.45%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 22 (4.98%) Docker
2 6 (1.36%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (6.33%) Kubernetes
2 24 (5.43%) Terraform
3 4 (0.90%) Ansible
3 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.90%) SCCM
3 4 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.68%) QRadar
4 3 (0.68%) WSUS
5 2 (0.45%) Istio
5 2 (0.45%) linkerd
5 2 (0.45%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.45%) RSA Archer
5 2 (0.45%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.23%) CASB
6 1 (0.23%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.23%) Kibana
6 1 (0.23%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.23%) logstash
6 1 (0.23%) SCOM
Vendors
1 38 (8.60%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.98%) Google
2 22 (4.98%) Oracle
3 9 (2.04%) Databricks
4 7 (1.58%) Darktrace
4 7 (1.58%) Zscaler
5 6 (1.36%) Sybase
6 4 (0.90%) Cisco
6 4 (0.90%) Fortinet
6 4 (0.90%) SolarWinds
7 3 (0.68%) IBM
7 3 (0.68%) SAP
7 3 (0.68%) ServiceNow
7 3 (0.68%) Varonis
7 3 (0.68%) VMware
8 2 (0.45%) Avaloq
8 2 (0.45%) Citrix
8 2 (0.45%) Dell
8 2 (0.45%) ForgeRock
8 2 (0.45%) Pega