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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 207 215
Rank change year-on-year -67 +8 +32
Contract jobs citing Fintech 414 396 458
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.86% 1.35% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.48% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 311 388
10th Percentile £300 £363 £400
25th Percentile £433 £463 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £731 £750
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £390 £420 £450
% change year-on-year -7.15% -6.78% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 4
10th Percentile - - £46.08
25th Percentile £22.25 - £51.81
Median hourly rate £53.75 £65.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% +15.56% -
75th Percentile £78.75 - £66.06
90th Percentile £90.00 - £79.23
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 40,423 26,734 36,712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.29% 90.97% 86.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,371 17,185 23,631
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.68% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,395 1,096 2,442
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.35 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.72 £18.22 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.18 £36.02
Median % change year-on-year +50.82% -21.77% +1.04%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.23 £37.50
% change year-on-year +78.39% -32.73% +7.14%

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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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -61 384 £550 -8.33% 671
London -44 294 £587 -6.08% 513
Work from Home -113 103 £588 -12.96% 284
UK excluding London -51 92 £390 -7.15% 236
North of England -63 32 £446 +11.38% 76
South East -33 31 £280 - 103
Yorkshire -46 18 £450 -11.24% 22
North West -36 12 £445 +11.13% 38
South West - 9 £477 - 14
Scotland 0 8 £531 +6.25% 8
East Midlands -30 8 £340 -15.00% 7
Midlands -68 8 £340 -15.00% 18
East of England - 5 £415 - 11
North East -23 2 - - 16

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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 (7.25%) Confluence
2 4 (0.97%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.72%) Apache
4 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.48%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.24%) Appian
5 1 (0.24%) CMS
5 1 (0.24%) nginx
Applications
1 17 (4.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.93%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.21%) Notion
5 4 (0.97%) 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%) 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%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.24%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 88 (21.26%) AWS
2 63 (15.22%) Azure
3 42 (10.14%) GCP
4 34 (8.21%) Power Platform
5 25 (6.04%) GitHub
6 20 (4.83%) SaaS
7 14 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (2.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (2.42%) Figma
10 9 (2.17%) Snowflake
11 5 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (1.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (0.97%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (0.97%) AWS Step Functions
12 4 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (0.97%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (0.72%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (0.72%) Anthropic Claude
13 3 (0.72%) Datadog
13 3 (0.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.21%) Network Security
2 4 (0.97%) Firewall
3 3 (0.72%) VPN
4 2 (0.48%) DNS
4 2 (0.48%) FTP
4 2 (0.48%) SSH
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 32 (7.73%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (6.76%) Power BI
3 27 (6.52%) Tableau
4 16 (3.86%) Looker
4 16 (3.86%) NoSQL
5 13 (3.14%) Relational Database
6 12 (2.90%) Data Lake
7 10 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (2.17%) BigQuery
8 9 (2.17%) Mixpanel
8 9 (2.17%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (1.45%) MySQL
11 5 (1.21%) Big Data
11 5 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.97%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.97%) Pinecone
12 4 (0.97%) Weaviate
13 3 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (0.72%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 40 (9.66%) JIRA
2 21 (5.07%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.42%) Git
4 8 (1.93%) 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
1 245 (59.18%) Finance
2 97 (23.43%) Banking
3 92 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 55 (13.29%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (7.73%) Front Office
6 18 (4.35%) Marketing
7 17 (4.11%) Financial Institution
8 14 (3.38%) Public Sector
9 10 (2.42%) Corporate Banking
9 10 (2.42%) Retail
10 9 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.17%) Publishing
10 9 (2.17%) Retail Banking
11 8 (1.93%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.69%) Legal
13 6 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.97%) Games
14 4 (0.97%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.72%) Advertising
16 2 (0.48%) Billing
Job Titles
1 95 (22.95%) Developer
2 78 (18.84%) Senior
3 39 (9.42%) Analyst
4 36 (8.70%) Lead
4 36 (8.70%) Software Engineer
5 25 (6.04%) Python Developer
6 23 (5.56%) Senior Developer
7 22 (5.31%) Data Engineer
7 22 (5.31%) Java Developer
7 22 (5.31%) Project Manager
8 21 (5.07%) Business Analyst
9 19 (4.59%) Designer
10 17 (4.11%) Consultant
11 16 (3.86%) Architect
11 16 (3.86%) AWS Engineer
11 16 (3.86%) Lead Developer
12 15 (3.62%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 12 (2.90%) Java Engineer
13 12 (2.90%) Kafka Developer
13 12 (2.90%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (8.94%) Kafka
2 35 (8.45%) REST
3 33 (7.97%) React
4 25 (6.04%) Node.js
5 18 (4.35%) Redux
6 16 (3.86%) RESTful
7 15 (3.62%) Spring Boot
8 14 (3.38%) Spring
9 13 (3.14%) .NET
9 13 (3.14%) Pandas
10 11 (2.66%) AngularJS
10 11 (2.66%) FastAPI
10 11 (2.66%) Flask
10 11 (2.66%) NumPy
11 10 (2.42%) Polars
12 9 (2.17%) Apache Avro
12 9 (2.17%) React Native
13 8 (1.93%) GraphQL
13 8 (1.93%) TensorFlow
14 7 (1.69%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.73%) Equities
2 29 (7.00%) Product Ownership
3 24 (5.80%) Onboarding
4 23 (5.56%) Fixed Income
5 21 (5.07%) Derivative
6 17 (4.11%) Hedge funds
7 16 (3.86%) Cloud Native
7 16 (3.86%) Data Structures
7 16 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (3.38%) Management Information System
8 14 (3.38%) Mobile App
9 11 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (2.66%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (2.42%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.93%) PMI
12 7 (1.69%) Market Risk
13 6 (1.45%) AI Agents
14 5 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
15 4 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
16 3 (0.72%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.59%) Linux
2 14 (3.38%) Unix
3 8 (1.93%) Android
4 6 (1.45%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (19.57%) Agile
2 67 (16.18%) CI/CD
3 64 (15.46%) Software Engineering
4 62 (14.98%) Stakeholder Management
5 59 (14.25%) Analytics
5 59 (14.25%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (13.29%) AI
7 43 (10.39%) DevOps
8 37 (8.94%) Microservices
9 36 (8.70%) Data Pipeline
10 34 (8.21%) Business Intelligence
11 33 (7.97%) Mentoring
12 31 (7.49%) Decision-Making
13 30 (7.25%) Continuous Improvement
14 29 (7.00%) Project Management
14 29 (7.00%) User Experience
15 27 (6.52%) Full-Stack Development
15 27 (6.52%) Machine Learning
16 26 (6.28%) Roadmaps
17 25 (6.04%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 95 (22.95%) SQL
2 85 (20.53%) Python
3 59 (14.25%) Java
4 40 (9.66%) TypeScript
5 26 (6.28%) C#
5 26 (6.28%) JavaScript
6 20 (4.83%) Go
7 17 (4.11%) R
8 11 (2.66%) C++
9 8 (1.93%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.21%) PHP
10 5 (1.21%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.97%) Korn
12 2 (0.48%) C
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 35 (8.45%) Degree
2 22 (5.31%) Security Cleared
3 17 (4.11%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.86%) PMP
5 15 (3.62%) Master's Degree
6 14 (3.38%) PMI Certification
7 10 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.42%) MBA
8 7 (1.69%) SAFe Agilist
9 6 (1.45%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.45%) CISM
9 6 (1.45%) CISSP
10 4 (0.97%) APMP
10 4 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.72%) CBAP
11 3 (0.72%) IIBA
12 2 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.48%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.48%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (8.70%) QA
2 9 (2.17%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.93%) PMO
4 7 (1.69%) Basel III
4 7 (1.69%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.21%) GDPR
6 4 (0.97%) NIST
6 4 (0.97%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.97%) 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 9
8 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.24%) PSD2
8 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (9.66%) Docker
2 2 (0.48%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (9.90%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.90%) Ansible
3 10 (2.42%) Terraform
4 6 (1.45%) Grafana
5 4 (0.97%) 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 (5.80%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.66%) Databricks
2 11 (2.66%) Salesforce
3 10 (2.42%) Amplitude
3 10 (2.42%) Informatica
4 8 (1.93%) Sonatype
5 7 (1.69%) Google
5 7 (1.69%) Oracle
6 6 (1.45%) Splunk
7 4 (0.97%) SAP
7 4 (0.97%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.72%) BiZZdesign
8 3 (0.72%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.48%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.48%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.48%) Gemalto
9 2 (0.48%) GoldenSource
9 2 (0.48%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.48%) Thales
9 2 (0.48%) Workday