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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 208 218
Rank change year-on-year -77 +10 +24
Contract jobs citing Fintech 392 378 472
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.84% 1.28% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.41% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 298 404
10th Percentile £307 £375 £400
25th Percentile £428 £475 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £630
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.76% +9.57%
75th Percentile £694 £725 £750
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £384 £446 £475
% change year-on-year -13.95% -6.05% +3.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 6
10th Percentile - - £34.88
25th Percentile £22.25 - £45.44
Median hourly rate £53.75 £65.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% +15.56% -
75th Percentile £78.75 - £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 - £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 39,369 26,799 37,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.81% 90.74% 86.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,829 17,326 24,410
10th Percentile £318 £307 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £485 £500
% change year-on-year - -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,359 1,054 2,423
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.88 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £29.90 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.11% -14.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.25 £58.70
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.00 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.56 £28.18 £35.00
% change year-on-year +47.46% -19.49% -6.17%

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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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -81 358 £550 -10.20% 508
London -46 266 £600 -4.00% 361
Work from Home -103 106 £594 -12.04% 239
UK excluding London -48 97 £384 -13.95% 231
North of England -42 35 £425 +2.66% 59
South East -24 31 £280 - 100
Yorkshire -39 18 £372 -26.73% 13
North West -27 15 £446 +4.82% 32
East Midlands -33 10 £340 -15.00% 9
Midlands -64 10 £340 -15.00% 14
Scotland +6 9 £588 +17.50% 6
South West - 7 £384 - 20
East of England -22 6 £358 -35.00% 13
North East -20 2 - - 14
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 18

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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 31 (7.91%) Confluence
2 4 (1.02%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.77%) Apache
4 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.26%) Appian
4 1 (0.26%) CMS
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.26%) nginx
4 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (4.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.77%) Notion
6 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.26%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.26%) Sketch
7 1 (0.26%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.51%) SAP EHS
1 2 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.26%) BASE24
2 1 (0.26%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.26%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.26%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 96 (24.49%) AWS
2 64 (16.33%) Azure
3 40 (10.20%) GCP
4 30 (7.65%) Power Platform
5 26 (6.63%) GitHub
6 19 (4.85%) SaaS
7 11 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (2.81%) Figma
8 8 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 8 (2.04%) Datadog
8 8 (2.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (1.79%) Serverless
10 6 (1.53%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (1.53%) Amazon S3
10 6 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.28%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (1.28%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.02%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.28%) Firewall
2 4 (1.02%) Network Security
3 3 (0.77%) VPN
4 2 (0.51%) DNS
4 2 (0.51%) FTP
4 2 (0.51%) SSH
5 1 (0.26%) DHCP
5 1 (0.26%) HTTP
5 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.65%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (6.12%) Power BI
3 19 (4.85%) Tableau
4 13 (3.32%) Looker
5 12 (3.06%) Relational Database
6 11 (2.81%) Data Lake
6 11 (2.81%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (1.79%) Mixpanel
9 6 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.53%) MySQL
10 5 (1.28%) Big Data
10 5 (1.28%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.02%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.02%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.77%) Pinecone
12 3 (0.77%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 40 (10.20%) JIRA
2 28 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.55%) Git
3 10 (2.55%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (1.28%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.02%) GitLab
6 3 (0.77%) JUnit
6 3 (0.77%) REST Assured
6 3 (0.77%) Selenium
6 3 (0.77%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.51%) Android Studio
7 2 (0.51%) Appium
7 2 (0.51%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.51%) MLflow
7 2 (0.51%) Postman
7 2 (0.51%) Sourcetree
7 2 (0.51%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.51%) Xcode
8 1 (0.26%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.26%) Gatling
General
1 238 (60.71%) Finance
2 100 (25.51%) Banking
3 95 (24.23%) Social Skills
4 53 (13.52%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (8.16%) Front Office
6 15 (3.83%) Marketing
7 14 (3.57%) Public Sector
8 11 (2.81%) Corporate Banking
8 11 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.81%) Retail
8 11 (2.81%) Retail Banking
9 10 (2.55%) Financial Institution
10 9 (2.30%) Investment Banking
11 8 (2.04%) Legal
12 7 (1.79%) Publishing
13 6 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.02%) Games
15 3 (0.77%) Advertising
15 3 (0.77%) Retail Finance
15 3 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 97 (24.74%) Developer
2 71 (18.11%) Senior
3 36 (9.18%) Lead
4 33 (8.42%) Analyst
5 31 (7.91%) Software Engineer
6 27 (6.89%) Python Developer
7 25 (6.38%) Senior Developer
8 24 (6.12%) Java Developer
9 22 (5.61%) Project Manager
10 21 (5.36%) Architect
10 21 (5.36%) Business Analyst
11 16 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
11 16 (4.08%) Lead Developer
12 15 (3.83%) Consultant
12 15 (3.83%) Data Engineer
12 15 (3.83%) Designer
13 14 (3.57%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 12 (3.06%) Lead Software Developer
14 12 (3.06%) Lead Software Engineer
14 12 (3.06%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (8.93%) REST
2 34 (8.67%) Kafka
2 34 (8.67%) React
3 26 (6.63%) Node.js
4 18 (4.59%) Redux
4 18 (4.59%) RESTful
5 15 (3.83%) Spring
5 15 (3.83%) Spring Boot
6 12 (3.06%) AngularJS
6 12 (3.06%) Pandas
7 10 (2.55%) .NET
8 9 (2.30%) FastAPI
8 9 (2.30%) Flask
8 9 (2.30%) GraphQL
8 9 (2.30%) NumPy
8 9 (2.30%) React Native
9 8 (2.04%) Polars
9 8 (2.04%) TensorFlow
10 7 (1.79%) Apache Avro
10 7 (1.79%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.42%) Equities
2 26 (6.63%) Fixed Income
3 25 (6.38%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.85%) Derivative
4 19 (4.85%) Onboarding
5 18 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (4.08%) Cloud Native
7 15 (3.83%) Hedge funds
8 14 (3.57%) Data Structures
8 14 (3.57%) Mobile App
9 13 (3.32%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (2.81%) Management Information System
11 9 (2.30%) PMI
11 9 (2.30%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.28%) Market Risk
14 4 (1.02%) Digital Wallet
14 4 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
15 3 (0.77%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.85%) Linux
2 11 (2.81%) Unix
3 4 (1.02%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.77%) Android
5 2 (0.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (19.90%) Agile
2 73 (18.62%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (17.35%) CI/CD
4 55 (14.03%) Analytics
4 55 (14.03%) Software Engineering
5 52 (13.27%) Stakeholder Management
6 47 (11.99%) DevOps
7 43 (10.97%) AI
8 38 (9.69%) Microservices
9 35 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (8.67%) Mentoring
11 31 (7.91%) Decision-Making
12 30 (7.65%) User Experience
13 29 (7.40%) Business Intelligence
13 29 (7.40%) Data Pipeline
14 28 (7.14%) Observability
14 28 (7.14%) Project Management
15 27 (6.89%) Full-Stack Development
16 25 (6.38%) Process Improvement
17 24 (6.12%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 86 (21.94%) Python
2 72 (18.37%) SQL
3 66 (16.84%) Java
4 38 (9.69%) TypeScript
5 26 (6.63%) JavaScript
6 23 (5.87%) C#
7 21 (5.36%) Go
8 12 (3.06%) R
9 9 (2.30%) C++
9 9 (2.30%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.02%) Bash
10 4 (1.02%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.02%) Swift
11 3 (0.77%) Ruby
12 2 (0.51%) F#
12 2 (0.51%) Haskell
12 2 (0.51%) Korn
12 2 (0.51%) Perl
12 2 (0.51%) PHP
12 2 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (8.42%) Degree
2 19 (4.85%) Security Cleared
3 17 (4.34%) PMP
4 15 (3.83%) Master's Degree
4 15 (3.83%) PMI Certification
5 14 (3.57%) SC Cleared
6 10 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.55%) MBA
7 8 (2.04%) SAFe Agilist
8 7 (1.79%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.53%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.28%) CISSP
11 4 (1.02%) APMP
11 4 (1.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (1.02%) CISM
11 4 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.77%) CBAP
12 3 (0.77%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.67%) QA
2 13 (3.32%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.04%) Basel III
3 8 (2.04%) PMO
4 7 (1.79%) GDPR
4 7 (1.79%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.02%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.02%) NIST
6 3 (0.77%) ISO 20022
6 3 (0.77%) SLA
7 2 (0.51%) GRC
7 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.51%) PSD2
8 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.26%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.26%) SEPA
8 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (11.22%) Docker
2 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (10.20%) Kubernetes
2 16 (4.08%) Ansible
2 16 (4.08%) Terraform
3 6 (1.53%) Grafana
4 4 (1.02%) Kibana
5 3 (0.77%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (0.77%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.51%) Puppet
6 2 (0.51%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.26%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.26%) linkerd
7 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.26%) SCCM
7 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (5.87%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.55%) Salesforce
2 10 (2.55%) Sonatype
3 8 (2.04%) Amplitude
3 8 (2.04%) Databricks
4 7 (1.79%) Informatica
5 6 (1.53%) Splunk
6 5 (1.28%) Google
6 5 (1.28%) Oracle
7 4 (1.02%) SAP
7 4 (1.02%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.77%) BiZZdesign
8 3 (0.77%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.77%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.77%) GoldenSource
9 2 (0.51%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.51%) Gemalto
9 2 (0.51%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.51%) Thales
9 2 (0.51%) Workday