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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 199 218
Rank change year-on-year -80 +19 +20
Contract jobs citing Fintech 418 391 456
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.86% 1.36% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.49% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 306 388
10th Percentile £308 £363 £400
25th Percentile £442 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £750
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £409 £446 £463
% change year-on-year -8.46% -3.51% -11.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 3
10th Percentile - - £48.00
25th Percentile £22.25 - £50.63
Median hourly rate £53.75 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £78.75 - £71.50
90th Percentile £90.00 - £81.40
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 40,852 26,213 36,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.38% 91.03% 85.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,586 16,831 23,574
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.74% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,418 1,066 2,483
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.85 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.13 £27.59 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +52.71% -23.47% -0.22%
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.73 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.69 £25.15 £38.00
% change year-on-year +73.72% -33.82% +8.57%

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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 25 May 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 25 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Fintech in the UK

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Top 14 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 25 May 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 -67 388 £550 -8.33% 710
London -45 300 £575 -8.00% 563
Work from Home -112 103 £594 -12.04% 291
UK excluding London -67 90 £409 -8.46% 239
North of England -68 31 £449 +12.13% 64
South East -32 30 £280 - 104
Yorkshire -44 19 £482 +16.43% 19
North West -44 10 £446 +11.56% 31
South West - 9 £477 - 17
Scotland -3 8 £531 +6.25% 6
East Midlands -27 8 £340 -15.00% 7
Midlands -68 8 £340 -15.00% 23
East of England - 5 £415 - 12
North East -28 2 - - 14

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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 30 (7.18%) Confluence
2 3 (0.72%) Apache
2 3 (0.72%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.48%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.24%) Appian
4 1 (0.24%) CMS
4 1 (0.24%) nginx
Applications
1 17 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.91%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.20%) Notion
5 4 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.72%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.24%) Sketch
7 1 (0.24%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.48%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.48%) SAP EHS
2 2 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.24%) BASE24
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.24%) Findur
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.24%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 91 (21.77%) AWS
2 64 (15.31%) Azure
3 43 (10.29%) GCP
4 33 (7.89%) Power Platform
5 25 (5.98%) GitHub
6 21 (5.02%) SaaS
7 14 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (2.39%) Figma
10 9 (2.15%) Snowflake
11 5 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (0.96%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (0.96%) AWS Step Functions
12 4 (0.96%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (0.96%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (0.72%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (0.72%) Anthropic Claude
13 3 (0.72%) Datadog
13 3 (0.72%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.20%) Network Security
2 4 (0.96%) Firewall
3 3 (0.72%) VPN
4 2 (0.48%) DNS
4 2 (0.48%) FTP
5 1 (0.24%) DHCP
5 1 (0.24%) HTTP
5 1 (0.24%) NFC
5 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (6.70%) Power BI
3 27 (6.46%) Tableau
4 17 (4.07%) NoSQL
5 16 (3.83%) Looker
6 13 (3.11%) Relational Database
7 12 (2.87%) Data Lake
8 10 (2.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (2.39%) BigQuery
8 10 (2.39%) MongoDB
9 9 (2.15%) Mixpanel
10 7 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
11 6 (1.44%) MySQL
12 5 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.96%) Big Data
13 4 (0.96%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.96%) Pinecone
13 4 (0.96%) Weaviate
14 3 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.72%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 40 (9.57%) JIRA
2 20 (4.78%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.39%) Git
4 8 (1.91%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.72%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.72%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.48%) Android Studio
6 2 (0.48%) Appium
6 2 (0.48%) JUnit
6 2 (0.48%) MLflow
6 2 (0.48%) Postman
6 2 (0.48%) Selenium
6 2 (0.48%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.48%) Sourcetree
6 2 (0.48%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.48%) Xcode
7 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.24%) GitLab
7 1 (0.24%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.24%) Mockito
General
1 247 (59.09%) Finance
2 108 (25.84%) Banking
3 94 (22.49%) Social Skills
4 54 (12.92%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (7.42%) Front Office
6 18 (4.31%) Financial Institution
6 18 (4.31%) Marketing
7 14 (3.35%) Public Sector
8 11 (2.63%) Retail
9 10 (2.39%) Corporate Banking
9 10 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.15%) Investment Banking
10 9 (2.15%) Publishing
10 9 (2.15%) Retail Banking
11 7 (1.67%) Legal
12 5 (1.20%) Games
12 5 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.96%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.72%) Advertising
14 3 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 92 (22.01%) Developer
2 78 (18.66%) Senior
3 37 (8.85%) Analyst
3 37 (8.85%) Lead
4 36 (8.61%) Software Engineer
5 24 (5.74%) Java Developer
6 23 (5.50%) Business Analyst
7 22 (5.26%) Data Engineer
7 22 (5.26%) Python Developer
8 21 (5.02%) Project Manager
8 21 (5.02%) Senior Developer
9 20 (4.78%) Designer
10 18 (4.31%) Consultant
11 17 (4.07%) Architect
12 16 (3.83%) AWS Engineer
12 16 (3.83%) Java Engineer
12 16 (3.83%) Lead Developer
13 15 (3.59%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 12 (2.87%) Kafka Developer
14 12 (2.87%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (8.85%) Kafka
2 33 (7.89%) React
2 33 (7.89%) REST
3 25 (5.98%) Node.js
4 18 (4.31%) Redux
4 18 (4.31%) Spring Boot
5 17 (4.07%) Spring
6 14 (3.35%) RESTful
7 13 (3.11%) .NET
7 13 (3.11%) Pandas
8 11 (2.63%) FastAPI
8 11 (2.63%) Flask
8 11 (2.63%) NumPy
9 10 (2.39%) AngularJS
9 10 (2.39%) Polars
10 9 (2.15%) Apache Avro
10 9 (2.15%) React Native
10 9 (2.15%) TensorFlow
11 8 (1.91%) GraphQL
12 7 (1.67%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.18%) Equities
2 29 (6.94%) Product Ownership
3 25 (5.98%) Onboarding
4 21 (5.02%) Derivative
4 21 (5.02%) Fixed Income
5 18 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (4.07%) Cloud Native
6 17 (4.07%) Hedge funds
7 16 (3.83%) Data Structures
8 14 (3.35%) Management Information System
8 14 (3.35%) Mobile App
9 10 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (2.39%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (2.39%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.91%) PMI
11 7 (1.67%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.67%) Market Risk
12 5 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.96%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.07%) Linux
2 13 (3.11%) Unix
3 8 (1.91%) Android
4 6 (1.44%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (19.14%) Agile
2 68 (16.27%) CI/CD
3 64 (15.31%) Software Engineering
4 63 (15.07%) Stakeholder Management
5 59 (14.11%) AI
6 57 (13.64%) Analytics
7 56 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (10.53%) DevOps
9 37 (8.85%) Microservices
10 36 (8.61%) Data Pipeline
11 34 (8.13%) Business Intelligence
12 32 (7.66%) Decision-Making
13 31 (7.42%) Continuous Improvement
13 31 (7.42%) Mentoring
13 31 (7.42%) User Experience
14 29 (6.94%) Project Management
15 27 (6.46%) Machine Learning
16 26 (6.22%) Roadmaps
17 25 (5.98%) Data Science
17 25 (5.98%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 92 (22.01%) SQL
2 80 (19.14%) Python
3 64 (15.31%) Java
4 39 (9.33%) TypeScript
5 26 (6.22%) JavaScript
6 24 (5.74%) C#
7 21 (5.02%) Go
8 17 (4.07%) R
9 9 (2.15%) C++
10 8 (1.91%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.44%) Korn
11 6 (1.44%) PHP
11 6 (1.44%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.48%) Bicep
12 2 (0.48%) F#
12 2 (0.48%) Haskell
12 2 (0.48%) Perl
12 2 (0.48%) Rust
12 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.48%) Swift
Qualifications
1 36 (8.61%) Degree
2 23 (5.50%) Security Cleared
3 18 (4.31%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.59%) Master's Degree
4 15 (3.59%) PMP
5 14 (3.35%) PMI Certification
6 10 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.39%) MBA
7 7 (1.67%) SAFe Agilist
8 6 (1.44%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.44%) CISM
8 6 (1.44%) CISSP
9 4 (0.96%) APMP
9 4 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.72%) CBAP
10 3 (0.72%) IIBA
11 2 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.48%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.48%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.37%) QA
2 9 (2.15%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.91%) PMO
4 7 (1.67%) Basel III
4 7 (1.67%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.20%) GDPR
5 5 (1.20%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.96%) NIST
6 4 (0.96%) SLA
7 2 (0.48%) GRC
7 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.24%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.24%) IFRS
8 1 (0.24%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.24%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.24%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.24%) PSD2
8 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (9.33%) Docker
2 2 (0.48%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (9.57%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.87%) Ansible
3 11 (2.63%) Terraform
4 6 (1.44%) Grafana
5 4 (0.96%) Kibana
6 3 (0.72%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.48%) Puppet
7 2 (0.48%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.24%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.24%) linkerd
8 1 (0.24%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (5.74%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.63%) Salesforce
3 10 (2.39%) Amplitude
3 10 (2.39%) Databricks
3 10 (2.39%) Informatica
4 8 (1.91%) Google
4 8 (1.91%) Sonatype
5 7 (1.67%) Oracle
6 6 (1.44%) Splunk
7 5 (1.20%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.96%) SAP
9 3 (0.72%) BiZZdesign
10 2 (0.48%) Adobe
10 2 (0.48%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.48%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.48%) GoldenSource
10 2 (0.48%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.48%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.48%) Temenos
10 2 (0.48%) Workday