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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 186 219
Rank change year-on-year -122 +33 +6
Contract jobs citing Fintech 413 493 413
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.77% 1.50% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 1.66% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 398 341
10th Percentile £275 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £449 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% -6.12% +2.08%
75th Percentile £663 £750 £750
90th Percentile £808 £866 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 2
10th Percentile - £56.25 £47.13
25th Percentile £22.25 £65.00 £48.44
Median hourly rate £31.50 £69.25 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -54.51% +35.12% -42.70%
75th Percentile £75.00 £79.69 £53.44
90th Percentile £84.00 £83.75 £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 45,278 29,786 33,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.80% 90.49% 85.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,840 18,586 21,275
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £423 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,823 1,710 1,832
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.31 £18.46
Median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.19% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £74.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.13% -45.88% +13.33%

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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 14 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 14 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Fintech in the UK

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Top 15 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 14 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 -97 385 £550 -8.33% 1,200
London -58 311 £550 -12.00% 976
Work from Home -151 107 £525 -19.23% 474
UK excluding London -116 74 £500 +5.26% 304
North of England -76 20 £500 +25.00% 81
South East -58 19 £280 -25.83% 104
Yorkshire -33 13 £514 +24.15% 15
South West -36 13 £575 -11.54% 31
Midlands -52 11 - - 26
West Midlands -48 8 - - 19
North West -53 7 £446 +11.38% 50
East of England -14 6 £510 +13.33% 22
Scotland -39 4 £475 -9.52% 17
East Midlands -29 3 - - 7
Wales - 1 £400 - 15

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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 10 (2.42%) Confluence
2 3 (0.73%) Apache
2 3 (0.73%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.48%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.24%) CMS
4 1 (0.24%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.21%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.73%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.73%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.73%) Trello
4 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.48%) Notion
5 1 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.24%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (0.97%) NetSuite
1 4 (0.97%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.48%) SAP EHS
4 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.24%) Findur
4 1 (0.24%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.24%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 76 (18.40%) AWS
2 62 (15.01%) Azure
3 39 (9.44%) GCP
4 25 (6.05%) GitHub
5 20 (4.84%) SaaS
6 19 (4.60%) Power Platform
7 17 (4.12%) Figma
8 15 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (2.66%) Snowflake
10 10 (2.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 10 (2.42%) GitHub Copilot
11 7 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (1.69%) Serverless
12 6 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (1.45%) Amazon S3
12 6 (1.45%) Anthropic Claude
12 6 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.45%) VPN
2 5 (1.21%) Firewall
3 2 (0.48%) DNS
3 2 (0.48%) FTP
3 2 (0.48%) Internet
3 2 (0.48%) Network Security
3 2 (0.48%) NFC
4 1 (0.24%) DHCP
4 1 (0.24%) HTTP
4 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (5.33%) Tableau
3 21 (5.08%) NoSQL
4 16 (3.87%) MongoDB
4 16 (3.87%) Power BI
5 12 (2.91%) Relational Database
6 11 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (2.66%) Data Lake
7 10 (2.42%) BigQuery
7 10 (2.42%) Looker
8 9 (2.18%) SQL Server
9 6 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.73%) Big Data
10 3 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.73%) Mixpanel
10 3 (0.73%) Pinecone
10 3 (0.73%) Redis
10 3 (0.73%) Weaviate
11 2 (0.48%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 25 (6.05%) JIRA
2 18 (4.36%) Git
2 18 (4.36%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.94%) GitLab
4 6 (1.45%) Cypress.io
4 6 (1.45%) Storybook
5 3 (0.73%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.48%) Gemini Tracker
6 2 (0.48%) Gradle
6 2 (0.48%) MLflow
7 1 (0.24%) Appium
7 1 (0.24%) JUnit
7 1 (0.24%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.24%) Mocha
7 1 (0.24%) Mockito
7 1 (0.24%) Postman
7 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.24%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.24%) XCUITest
General
1 245 (59.32%) Finance
2 118 (28.57%) Banking
3 77 (18.64%) Social Skills
4 47 (11.38%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (6.05%) Marketing
6 22 (5.33%) Financial Institution
6 22 (5.33%) Front Office
7 13 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.18%) Publishing
9 8 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.69%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.69%) Legal
11 6 (1.45%) Public Sector
12 5 (1.21%) Games
12 5 (1.21%) Private Banking
12 5 (1.21%) Retail
13 4 (0.97%) Advertising
13 4 (0.97%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.73%) Dutch Language
14 3 (0.73%) German Language
Job Titles
1 74 (17.92%) Senior
2 72 (17.43%) Developer
3 47 (11.38%) Analyst
4 30 (7.26%) Lead
4 30 (7.26%) Software Engineer
5 29 (7.02%) Consultant
6 24 (5.81%) Designer
7 18 (4.36%) Architect
7 18 (4.36%) Data Engineer
8 16 (3.87%) Java Engineer
8 16 (3.87%) Python Developer
9 14 (3.39%) Senior Manager
10 13 (3.15%) Project Manager
10 13 (3.15%) Senior Developer
11 12 (2.91%) Product Designer
12 11 (2.66%) Business Analyst
12 11 (2.66%) Product Manager
12 11 (2.66%) Technical Manager
13 10 (2.42%) Java Developer
13 10 (2.42%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (9.20%) REST
2 31 (7.51%) Kafka
3 29 (7.02%) React
4 20 (4.84%) .NET
4 20 (4.84%) Spring
5 17 (4.12%) Node.js
5 17 (4.12%) RESTful
5 17 (4.12%) Spring Boot
6 12 (2.91%) React Native
7 11 (2.66%) FastAPI
7 11 (2.66%) Flask
7 11 (2.66%) NumPy
7 11 (2.66%) Pandas
8 10 (2.42%) OAuth
8 10 (2.42%) Polars
8 10 (2.42%) Redux
9 9 (2.18%) Apache Avro
9 9 (2.18%) CSS
9 9 (2.18%) OAuth2
10 8 (1.94%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (6.05%) Equities
1 25 (6.05%) Onboarding
2 21 (5.08%) Cloud Native
3 19 (4.60%) Derivative
3 19 (4.60%) Mobile App
4 18 (4.36%) Product Ownership
5 17 (4.12%) Data Structures
6 16 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (3.87%) Fixed Income
7 14 (3.39%) Hedge funds
8 12 (2.91%) Management Information System
9 11 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (2.42%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.69%) Market Risk
12 6 (1.45%) Data Centre
13 5 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.21%) Equity Derivative
13 5 (1.21%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.60%) Linux
2 13 (3.15%) Android
3 11 (2.66%) Apple iOS
4 9 (2.18%) Unix
5 5 (1.21%) Windows
6 1 (0.24%) CentOS
6 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (21.79%) AI
2 79 (19.13%) Stakeholder Management
3 77 (18.64%) CI/CD
4 63 (15.25%) Software Engineering
5 62 (15.01%) Agile
6 52 (12.59%) DevOps
7 49 (11.86%) Analytics
7 49 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (9.20%) Microservices
8 38 (9.20%) User Experience
9 37 (8.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (8.23%) Decision-Making
11 33 (7.99%) Generative AI
12 32 (7.75%) Data Pipeline
13 30 (7.26%) Containerisation
13 30 (7.26%) Mentoring
13 30 (7.26%) Observability
14 27 (6.54%) Roadmaps
15 26 (6.30%) Machine Learning
16 25 (6.05%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 81 (19.61%) SQL
2 72 (17.43%) Python
3 56 (13.56%) Java
4 34 (8.23%) TypeScript
5 23 (5.57%) JavaScript
6 22 (5.33%) C#
7 19 (4.60%) Go
8 15 (3.63%) Kotlin
9 11 (2.66%) R
10 9 (2.18%) PowerShell
11 8 (1.94%) PHP
12 7 (1.69%) Bash
13 5 (1.21%) C++
13 5 (1.21%) Korn
14 2 (0.48%) Bicep
14 2 (0.48%) F#
14 2 (0.48%) Groovy
14 2 (0.48%) Perl
14 2 (0.48%) Swift
15 1 (0.24%) CQL
Qualifications
1 31 (7.51%) Degree
2 17 (4.12%) Security Cleared
3 16 (3.87%) SC Cleared
4 11 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.18%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.94%) PMP
7 7 (1.69%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.21%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.97%) PhD
10 3 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.73%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.73%) CISM
10 3 (0.73%) CISSP
11 2 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.48%) CCSK
11 2 (0.48%) CCSP
11 2 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.48%) MBA
11 2 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.81%) QA
2 8 (1.94%) PMO
3 7 (1.69%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.45%) PSD2
5 5 (1.21%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.73%) GDPR
6 3 (0.73%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.48%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.48%) NIST
7 2 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.48%) SLA
8 1 (0.24%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.24%) GRC
8 1 (0.24%) IFRS
8 1 (0.24%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.24%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 42 (10.17%) Docker
2 4 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 46 (11.14%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.63%) Terraform
3 12 (2.91%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.69%) Grafana
5 5 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.97%) Ansible
7 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.73%) SCCM
8 1 (0.24%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.24%) Istio
8 1 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.24%) linkerd
8 1 (0.24%) Puppet
8 1 (0.24%) QRadar
Vendors
1 31 (7.51%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.60%) Google
3 11 (2.66%) Databricks
4 10 (2.42%) Informatica
5 8 (1.94%) Salesforce
5 8 (1.94%) SAP
6 7 (1.69%) Amplitude
7 6 (1.45%) Adobe
8 5 (1.21%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.21%) Oracle
9 4 (0.97%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.97%) PagerDuty
10 3 (0.73%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.73%) Citrix
10 3 (0.73%) Reuters
11 2 (0.48%) Ariba
11 2 (0.48%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.48%) ION Trading
11 2 (0.48%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.48%) Splunk