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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 208 213
Rank change year-on-year -70 +5 +34
Contract jobs citing Fintech 404 361 487
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.92% 1.24% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.37% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 285 407
10th Percentile £339 £395 £400
25th Percentile £425 £500 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £713 £704
90th Percentile £850 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £390 £473 £475
% change year-on-year -17.61% -0.47% +3.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 6
10th Percentile - £48.13 £34.88
25th Percentile £22.25 £50.94 £45.44
Median hourly rate £37.50 £56.25 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% - -
75th Percentile £81.25 £60.94 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.50 £63.38 £80.88
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 37,733 26,318 38,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.81% 90.56% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,910 17,091 24,889
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.89% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,221 949 2,344
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.19 £12.85
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.45 £16.00
Median hourly rate £34.50 £32.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.81% -1.54% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £58.69
90th Percentile £76.00 £76.25 £71.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £31.52 £31.80
% change year-on-year -4.82% -0.88% -12.28%

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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 26 March 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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -72 363 £550 -10.20% 565
London -45 263 £613 -2.00% 416
Work from Home -100 110 £600 -9.09% 261
UK excluding London -39 105 £390 -17.61% 207
North of England -42 35 £402 -18.38% 61
South East -25 30 £280 - 89
Yorkshire -40 18 £359 -31.62% 14
North West -30 15 £446 -1.33% 33
Midlands -62 15 £375 -6.25% 18
East Midlands -33 12 £354 -11.50% 4
Scotland +9 9 £588 +17.50% 4
South West -18 8 £450 -35.71% 17
East of England -24 8 £358 -47.04% 15
West Midlands -62 3 £430 -16.50% 14
North East -11 2 - - 14
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 3

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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 34 (8.42%) Confluence
2 4 (0.99%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.50%) Apache
4 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.25%) Appian
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (4.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.74%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.74%) Notion
6 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.25%) Sketch
7 1 (0.25%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) BASE24
1 1 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.25%) Exchequer
1 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.25%) SAP EHS
1 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 97 (24.01%) AWS
2 69 (17.08%) Azure
3 41 (10.15%) GCP
4 33 (8.17%) Power Platform
5 29 (7.18%) GitHub
6 21 (5.20%) SaaS
7 13 (3.22%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (2.72%) Datadog
9 10 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (2.48%) Figma
10 8 (1.98%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (1.98%) Amazon Kinesis
10 8 (1.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (1.98%) Serverless
10 8 (1.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (1.73%) Amazon S3
11 7 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (1.73%) AWS Step Functions
12 6 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.24%) Firewall
2 4 (0.99%) Network Security
3 3 (0.74%) DNS
3 3 (0.74%) VPN
4 2 (0.50%) FTP
4 2 (0.50%) SSH
5 1 (0.25%) DHCP
5 1 (0.25%) HTTP
5 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.68%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (6.19%) Power BI
3 20 (4.95%) Tableau
4 13 (3.22%) Looker
5 12 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (2.97%) Apache Cassandra
6 10 (2.48%) Data Lake
6 10 (2.48%) MySQL
6 10 (2.48%) NoSQL
7 9 (2.23%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.98%) Hadoop
9 7 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (1.73%) Mixpanel
10 6 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.49%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.24%) Big Data
11 5 (1.24%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.74%) Pinecone
12 3 (0.74%) Redis
12 3 (0.74%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 44 (10.89%) JIRA
2 31 (7.67%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.97%) Sonatype Nexus
4 10 (2.48%) Git
5 7 (1.73%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.99%) GitLab
6 4 (0.99%) JUnit
6 4 (0.99%) Selenium
7 3 (0.74%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.74%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.74%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.50%) Android Studio
8 2 (0.50%) Appium
8 2 (0.50%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.50%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.50%) MLflow
8 2 (0.50%) Postman
8 2 (0.50%) Sourcetree
8 2 (0.50%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.50%) Xcode
General
1 246 (60.89%) Finance
2 104 (25.74%) Social Skills
3 96 (23.76%) Banking
4 53 (13.12%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (7.92%) Front Office
6 16 (3.96%) Marketing
7 15 (3.71%) Public Sector
8 13 (3.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.97%) Financial Institution
9 12 (2.97%) Retail
10 11 (2.72%) Corporate Banking
10 11 (2.72%) Legal
10 11 (2.72%) Retail Banking
11 9 (2.23%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.49%) Japanese Language
14 4 (0.99%) Games
15 3 (0.74%) Advertising
15 3 (0.74%) French Language
15 3 (0.74%) German Language
Job Titles
1 96 (23.76%) Developer
2 70 (17.33%) Senior
3 36 (8.91%) Analyst
4 35 (8.66%) Lead
5 28 (6.93%) Software Engineer
6 27 (6.68%) Java Developer
6 27 (6.68%) Senior Developer
7 25 (6.19%) Python Developer
8 23 (5.69%) Business Analyst
9 22 (5.45%) Project Manager
10 19 (4.70%) Product Manager
11 18 (4.46%) Architect
12 17 (4.21%) AWS Engineer
13 16 (3.96%) Consultant
13 16 (3.96%) Data Engineer
13 16 (3.96%) Lead Developer
14 13 (3.22%) Designer
14 13 (3.22%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 13 (3.22%) Java Engineer
14 13 (3.22%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (8.17%) Kafka
2 31 (7.67%) React
3 30 (7.43%) REST
4 25 (6.19%) Node.js
5 19 (4.70%) Redux
6 18 (4.46%) RESTful
7 13 (3.22%) AngularJS
8 12 (2.97%) .NET
8 12 (2.97%) Spring
8 12 (2.97%) Spring Boot
9 8 (1.98%) GraphQL
9 8 (1.98%) Pandas
9 8 (1.98%) React Native
10 7 (1.73%) TensorFlow
11 5 (1.24%) FastAPI
11 5 (1.24%) Flask
11 5 (1.24%) gRPC
11 5 (1.24%) Jest
11 5 (1.24%) NumPy
11 5 (1.24%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.43%) Equities
2 27 (6.68%) Product Ownership
3 26 (6.44%) Fixed Income
4 22 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (4.95%) Onboarding
6 19 (4.70%) Derivative
7 15 (3.71%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (3.22%) Mobile App
9 12 (2.97%) Cloud Native
10 11 (2.72%) Hedge funds
11 10 (2.48%) Virtual Team
12 9 (2.23%) PMI
13 8 (1.98%) Data Structures
14 6 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
15 5 (1.24%) Management Information System
16 4 (0.99%) Digital Wallet
16 4 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
16 4 (0.99%) Learning Management System
16 4 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
16 4 (0.99%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.70%) Linux
2 11 (2.72%) Unix
3 7 (1.73%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.50%) Android
4 2 (0.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
2 88 (21.78%) Agile
3 68 (16.83%) CI/CD
4 62 (15.35%) Analytics
5 55 (13.61%) Software Engineering
6 53 (13.12%) DevOps
7 45 (11.14%) Stakeholder Management
8 42 (10.40%) Microservices
9 39 (9.65%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (8.42%) AI
10 34 (8.42%) User Experience
11 32 (7.92%) Decision-Making
11 32 (7.92%) Mentoring
12 29 (7.18%) Business Intelligence
13 27 (6.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 26 (6.44%) Data Pipeline
14 26 (6.44%) Process Improvement
14 26 (6.44%) Roadmaps
15 25 (6.19%) Observability
15 25 (6.19%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 88 (21.78%) Python
2 69 (17.08%) SQL
3 68 (16.83%) Java
4 31 (7.67%) TypeScript
5 27 (6.68%) C#
6 26 (6.44%) JavaScript
7 23 (5.69%) Go
8 12 (2.97%) R
9 9 (2.23%) C++
10 8 (1.98%) Kotlin
11 7 (1.73%) Bash
11 7 (1.73%) Swift
12 4 (0.99%) Objective-C
12 4 (0.99%) Perl
13 3 (0.74%) PHP
13 3 (0.74%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.74%) Ruby
14 2 (0.50%) F#
14 2 (0.50%) Haskell
14 2 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (7.43%) Degree
2 17 (4.21%) PMP
2 17 (4.21%) Security Cleared
3 15 (3.71%) Master's Degree
3 15 (3.71%) PMI Certification
4 13 (3.22%) SC Cleared
5 10 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.48%) MBA
6 8 (1.98%) SAFe Agilist
7 6 (1.49%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.49%) CISSP
8 5 (1.24%) CISM
9 4 (0.99%) APMP
9 4 (0.99%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.74%) CBAP
10 3 (0.74%) IIBA
10 3 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (9.41%) QA
2 18 (4.46%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.48%) PMO
4 8 (1.98%) Basel III
5 7 (1.73%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.49%) GDPR
7 5 (1.24%) NIST
8 4 (0.99%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.99%) SLA
9 3 (0.74%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.50%) GRC
11 1 (0.25%) COBIT
11 1 (0.25%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.25%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.25%) PSD2
11 1 (0.25%) SEPA
11 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (10.89%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 37 (9.16%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.70%) Ansible
3 16 (3.96%) Terraform
4 8 (1.98%) Grafana
5 4 (0.99%) Kibana
6 3 (0.74%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.74%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.50%) Puppet
7 2 (0.50%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.25%) SCCM
8 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (6.44%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.97%) Sonatype
3 9 (2.23%) Databricks
3 9 (2.23%) Salesforce
4 8 (1.98%) Amplitude
5 7 (1.73%) Informatica
6 6 (1.49%) Oracle
6 6 (1.49%) Splunk
7 5 (1.24%) Google
8 4 (0.99%) Bloomberg
8 4 (0.99%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.74%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.74%) BiZZdesign
9 3 (0.74%) GoldenSource
10 2 (0.50%) Adobe
10 2 (0.50%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.50%) Gemalto
10 2 (0.50%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.50%) SAP
10 2 (0.50%) Thales