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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 200 228
Rank change year-on-year -93 +28 +10
Contract jobs citing Fintech 437 457 464
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.83% 1.41% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 1.56% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 371 379
10th Percentile £281 £366 £400
25th Percentile £448 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £750 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £446 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -6.05% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 3
10th Percentile - £52.75 £48.00
25th Percentile £22.25 £60.63 £50.63
Median hourly rate £53.75 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% +18.18% -38.51%
75th Percentile £78.75 £68.75 £71.50
90th Percentile £90.00 £75.50 £81.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £88.00
% change year-on-year - - -1.61%

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 45,068 29,357 36,726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 90.46% 85.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,042 18,505 23,449
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.40% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,667 1,497 2,458
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.01 £17.45 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.45% -35.31% -2.91%

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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 11 July 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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -73 407 £550 -8.33% 645
London -48 324 £560 -10.40% 510
Work from Home -133 117 £569 -15.74% 223
UK excluding London -87 86 £446 -6.05% 194
North of England -69 30 £475 +18.75% 59
South East -42 23 £280 - 88
Yorkshire -36 18 £514 +40.53% 13
South West -23 12 £570 -12.31% 11
North West -56 11 £446 +11.56% 32
Scotland -23 8 £463 -11.90% 3
West Midlands -62 8 - - 14
Midlands -68 8 - - 23
East of England - 5 £415 - 1
North East -37 1 - - 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 22 (5.03%) Confluence
2 3 (0.69%) Apache
2 3 (0.69%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.23%) CMS
4 1 (0.23%) nginx
Applications
1 14 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.69%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.46%) Notion
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.23%) Sketch
6 1 (0.23%) Trello
6 1 (0.23%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 4 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.46%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.46%) SAP EHS
2 2 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.23%) Findur
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.23%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 99 (22.65%) AWS
2 68 (15.56%) Azure
3 47 (10.76%) GCP
4 28 (6.41%) GitHub
5 23 (5.26%) SaaS
6 21 (4.81%) Power Platform
7 17 (3.89%) Figma
8 14 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (2.52%) Snowflake
10 10 (2.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (1.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (1.37%) Serverless
13 5 (1.14%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (1.14%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.14%) Anthropic Claude
13 5 (1.14%) GitHub Copilot
14 4 (0.92%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.14%) Network Security
1 5 (1.14%) VPN
2 4 (0.92%) Firewall
3 2 (0.46%) DNS
3 2 (0.46%) FTP
3 2 (0.46%) Internet
3 2 (0.46%) NFC
4 1 (0.23%) DHCP
4 1 (0.23%) HTTP
4 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (5.95%) Tableau
3 18 (4.12%) NoSQL
3 18 (4.12%) Power BI
4 15 (3.43%) MongoDB
5 13 (2.97%) Relational Database
6 12 (2.75%) Looker
7 11 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (2.52%) Data Lake
8 10 (2.29%) BigQuery
9 9 (2.06%) SQL Server
10 8 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.60%) Mixpanel
12 6 (1.37%) MySQL
13 5 (1.14%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.92%) Big Data
14 4 (0.92%) Hadoop
15 3 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
15 3 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (8.01%) JIRA
2 24 (5.49%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.75%) Git
4 8 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (1.14%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.92%) GitLab
7 3 (0.69%) MLflow
7 3 (0.69%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.69%) Storybook
8 2 (0.46%) Android Studio
8 2 (0.46%) Appium
8 2 (0.46%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.46%) Gemini Tracker
8 2 (0.46%) Postman
8 2 (0.46%) Selenium
8 2 (0.46%) Sourcetree
8 2 (0.46%) Xcode
9 1 (0.23%) JUnit
9 1 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 261 (59.73%) Finance
2 112 (25.63%) Banking
3 88 (20.14%) Social Skills
4 55 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (7.09%) Front Office
6 25 (5.72%) Financial Institution
7 23 (5.26%) Marketing
8 12 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.06%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.06%) Publishing
10 7 (1.60%) Games
10 7 (1.60%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.60%) Legal
10 7 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.92%) Corporate Banking
11 4 (0.92%) Retail
11 4 (0.92%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.69%) Advertising
12 3 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 85 (19.45%) Developer
2 76 (17.39%) Senior
3 44 (10.07%) Analyst
4 39 (8.92%) Lead
5 37 (8.47%) Software Engineer
6 26 (5.95%) Designer
7 24 (5.49%) Consultant
8 21 (4.81%) Data Engineer
8 21 (4.81%) Python Developer
9 20 (4.58%) Business Analyst
10 19 (4.35%) Architect
10 19 (4.35%) Java Engineer
11 16 (3.66%) Java Developer
11 16 (3.66%) Lead Developer
11 16 (3.66%) Senior Developer
12 15 (3.43%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (3.43%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 14 (3.20%) Senior Manager
14 12 (2.75%) Product Manager
14 12 (2.75%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (8.47%) React
2 33 (7.55%) Kafka
3 32 (7.32%) REST
4 26 (5.95%) Node.js
5 21 (4.81%) .NET
6 19 (4.35%) Spring
7 18 (4.12%) Redux
7 18 (4.12%) Spring Boot
8 13 (2.97%) React Native
8 13 (2.97%) RESTful
9 11 (2.52%) FastAPI
9 11 (2.52%) Flask
9 11 (2.52%) NumPy
9 11 (2.52%) Pandas
10 10 (2.29%) Polars
11 9 (2.06%) Apache Avro
12 7 (1.60%) AngularJS
12 7 (1.60%) GraphQL
12 7 (1.60%) OAuth
12 7 (1.60%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.32%) Equities
2 26 (5.95%) Onboarding
3 25 (5.72%) Derivative
4 23 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 23 (5.26%) Fixed Income
4 23 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 22 (5.03%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (4.12%) Mobile App
7 17 (3.89%) Hedge funds
8 15 (3.43%) Data Structures
9 13 (2.97%) Management Information System
10 10 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (2.06%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.83%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (1.60%) Market Risk
14 5 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (1.14%) Data Centre
14 5 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.35%) Linux
2 13 (2.97%) Unix
3 11 (2.52%) Android
4 7 (1.60%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (19.68%) CI/CD
2 78 (17.85%) Software Engineering
3 77 (17.62%) AI
4 76 (17.39%) Agile
5 71 (16.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 60 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (12.59%) DevOps
8 52 (11.90%) Analytics
9 40 (9.15%) Microservices
10 39 (8.92%) Mentoring
11 37 (8.47%) User Experience
12 36 (8.24%) Data Pipeline
13 33 (7.55%) Continuous Improvement
13 33 (7.55%) Decision-Making
14 31 (7.09%) Machine Learning
15 29 (6.64%) Generative AI
15 29 (6.64%) Roadmaps
16 28 (6.41%) Observability
17 26 (5.95%) Event-Driven
17 26 (5.95%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 89 (20.37%) SQL
2 84 (19.22%) Python
3 64 (14.65%) Java
4 39 (8.92%) TypeScript
5 29 (6.64%) JavaScript
6 27 (6.18%) C#
7 19 (4.35%) Go
8 16 (3.66%) R
9 12 (2.75%) Kotlin
10 10 (2.29%) PowerShell
11 9 (2.06%) C++
12 8 (1.83%) PHP
13 6 (1.37%) Korn
14 5 (1.14%) Bash
15 2 (0.46%) Bicep
15 2 (0.46%) F#
15 2 (0.46%) Groovy
15 2 (0.46%) Perl
15 2 (0.46%) Swift
16 1 (0.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 37 (8.47%) Degree
2 20 (4.58%) Security Cleared
3 16 (3.66%) SC Cleared
4 13 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (2.97%) Master's Degree
5 8 (1.83%) PMP
6 7 (1.60%) CISM
6 7 (1.60%) CISSP
6 7 (1.60%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.14%) MBA
8 4 (0.92%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.92%) PhD
8 4 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.69%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.46%) CCSK
10 2 (0.46%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.49%) QA
2 11 (2.52%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.60%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.14%) GDPR
4 5 (1.14%) NIST
5 4 (0.92%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.92%) PMO
6 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.69%) SLA
7 2 (0.46%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.46%) PSD2
7 2 (0.46%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.23%) Basel III
8 1 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.23%) GRC
8 1 (0.23%) IFRS
8 1 (0.23%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.23%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (8.01%) Docker
2 4 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (10.07%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.20%) Terraform
3 12 (2.75%) Ansible
4 9 (2.06%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.83%) Grafana
6 5 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.92%) Kibana
8 3 (0.69%) SCCM
9 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.46%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.23%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.23%) linkerd
10 1 (0.23%) Puppet
10 1 (0.23%) QRadar
Vendors
1 27 (6.18%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.89%) Google
3 11 (2.52%) Databricks
4 10 (2.29%) Informatica
5 8 (1.83%) Amplitude
5 8 (1.83%) Oracle
5 8 (1.83%) Salesforce
5 8 (1.83%) Sonatype
6 7 (1.60%) Splunk
7 5 (1.14%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.14%) SAP
8 4 (0.92%) Adobe
8 4 (0.92%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.92%) PagerDuty
9 3 (0.69%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.69%) BiZZdesign
9 3 (0.69%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.69%) Citrix
9 3 (0.69%) Reuters
10 2 (0.46%) Ariba