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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 205 229
Rank change year-on-year -117 +24 -7
Contract jobs citing Fintech 407 455 384
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 1.38% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 1.52% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 364 308
10th Percentile £270 £363 £421
25th Percentile £419 £443 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £754 £731
90th Percentile £750 £875 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £560 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +17.89% +5.56% -13.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 2
10th Percentile £67.50 £45.88 £47.38
25th Percentile £71.25 £65.81 £49.06
Median hourly rate £80.00 £76.75 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% +42.79% -39.90%
75th Percentile £86.25 £87.50 £59.06
90th Percentile £88.50 £89.75 £61.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 45,930 29,887 32,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.45% 90.55% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,618 18,553 19,727
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £635 £623 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,299 1,876 1,335
10th Percentile £13.65 £14.31 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.12 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £38.25 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.09% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.22 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.60 £65.00 £74.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.72 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.52% -48.10% +1.18%

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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 5 October 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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -108 381 £550 -8.33% 3,461
London -72 300 £550 -12.00% 2,690
Work from Home -155 100 £517 -18.26% 1,714
UK excluding London -127 79 £560 +17.89% 1,021
South West -14 28 £700 +55.56% 118
North of England -81 25 £514 +20.94% 228
Yorkshire -27 15 £514 +12.47% 63
Midlands -47 11 - - 119
North West -58 9 £488 +18.18% 118
West Midlands -42 8 - - 65
East of England -18 6 £510 +13.33% 84
Scotland -47 5 £344 -34.52% 116
East Midlands -21 3 - - 54
South East -62 2 £231 -39.14% 245
Wales - 2 £525 - 64
North East -42 1 - - 48

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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 13 (3.19%) Confluence
2 4 (0.98%) Ethereum
3 3 (0.74%) Apache
3 3 (0.74%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.49%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.49%) Solana
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.25%) JBoss
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.25%) nginx
5 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.74%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.74%) Trello
4 2 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.49%) Notion
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.25%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (1.47%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.98%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.49%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.25%) Findur
4 1 (0.25%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.25%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.25%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 76 (18.67%) AWS
2 52 (12.78%) Azure
3 34 (8.35%) GCP
4 27 (6.63%) SaaS
5 19 (4.67%) GitHub
6 15 (3.69%) Figma
6 15 (3.69%) Power Platform
7 14 (3.44%) Snowflake
8 11 (2.70%) GitHub Copilot
9 10 (2.46%) Serverless
10 9 (2.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (1.97%) Amazon S3
11 8 (1.97%) dbt
12 7 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (1.23%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.23%) VPN
2 3 (0.74%) Network Security
3 2 (0.49%) DNS
3 2 (0.49%) Internet
3 2 (0.49%) NFC
4 1 (0.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.41%) NoSQL
2 21 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (5.16%) Tableau
3 17 (4.18%) MongoDB
4 15 (3.69%) Power BI
5 13 (3.19%) BigQuery
5 13 (3.19%) Relational Database
6 11 (2.70%) Looker
7 9 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (1.97%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.98%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.98%) Mixpanel
9 4 (0.98%) Redis
10 3 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.74%) Big Data
10 3 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 25 (6.14%) JIRA
2 17 (4.18%) GitLab
3 16 (3.93%) Git
4 11 (2.70%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.47%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.47%) Storybook
6 5 (1.23%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.74%) Gradle
8 2 (0.49%) Gemini Tracker
8 2 (0.49%) Maven
8 2 (0.49%) MLflow
9 1 (0.25%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.25%) Gerrit
9 1 (0.25%) JUnit
9 1 (0.25%) Mocha
9 1 (0.25%) Mockito
9 1 (0.25%) Postman
9 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.25%) XCUITest
General
1 250 (61.43%) Finance
2 130 (31.94%) Banking
3 82 (20.15%) Social Skills
4 47 (11.55%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (5.90%) Marketing
6 23 (5.65%) Financial Institution
7 15 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.95%) Front Office
9 8 (1.97%) Legal
10 7 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.72%) Public Sector
11 6 (1.47%) Back Office
11 6 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.47%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.47%) Private Banking
12 5 (1.23%) Health Technology
12 5 (1.23%) Publishing
13 4 (0.98%) Retail
14 3 (0.74%) Dutch Language
14 3 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 78 (19.16%) Senior
2 74 (18.18%) Developer
3 50 (12.29%) Analyst
4 26 (6.39%) Software Engineer
5 25 (6.14%) Lead
6 23 (5.65%) Designer
7 20 (4.91%) Java Engineer
8 18 (4.42%) Consultant
9 16 (3.93%) Architect
9 16 (3.93%) Senior Developer
10 15 (3.69%) Data Engineer
10 15 (3.69%) Report Analyst
11 14 (3.44%) Infrastructure Manager
12 13 (3.19%) Java Developer
12 13 (3.19%) Network Infrastructure Manager
12 13 (3.19%) Network Manager
13 12 (2.95%) Product Designer
13 12 (2.95%) Product Manager
13 12 (2.95%) Senior Manager
14 11 (2.70%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (8.85%) Kafka
2 33 (8.11%) REST
3 27 (6.63%) Spring
4 23 (5.65%) Spring Boot
5 20 (4.91%) React
5 20 (4.91%) Terraform
6 19 (4.67%) .NET
7 15 (3.69%) RESTful
8 11 (2.70%) OAuth
9 10 (2.46%) OAuth2
9 10 (2.46%) React Native
10 9 (2.21%) JWT
10 9 (2.21%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (1.97%) Node.js
12 7 (1.72%) CSS
12 7 (1.72%) Jest
12 7 (1.72%) NumPy
12 7 (1.72%) Pandas
12 7 (1.72%) Playwright
13 6 (1.47%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.62%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.37%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (5.41%) Onboarding
4 20 (4.91%) AI Agents
5 18 (4.42%) Mobile App
5 18 (4.42%) Product Ownership
6 14 (3.44%) Equities
7 11 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (2.70%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.70%) Derivative
8 10 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (2.21%) Data Centre
9 9 (2.21%) Hedge funds
9 9 (2.21%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.97%) Fixed Income
10 8 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.47%) Equity Derivative
12 5 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.23%) Blockchain
12 5 (1.23%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.91%) Linux
2 15 (3.69%) Android
3 9 (2.21%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.72%) Unix
5 4 (0.98%) Windows
6 2 (0.49%) CentOS
6 2 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (26.29%) AI
2 84 (20.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 80 (19.66%) CI/CD
4 72 (17.69%) Software Engineering
5 60 (14.74%) Agile
6 53 (13.02%) Analytics
7 50 (12.29%) Microservices
8 46 (11.30%) Problem-Solving
9 42 (10.32%) DevOps
10 41 (10.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 39 (9.58%) Generative AI
12 34 (8.35%) Decision-Making
12 34 (8.35%) Observability
12 34 (8.35%) User Experience
13 33 (8.11%) Event-Driven
14 31 (7.62%) Containerisation
15 30 (7.37%) Roadmaps
16 28 (6.88%) Machine Learning
17 25 (6.14%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 25 (6.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 84 (20.64%) SQL
2 68 (16.71%) Python
3 60 (14.74%) Java
4 27 (6.63%) TypeScript
5 18 (4.42%) C#
5 18 (4.42%) Go
6 16 (3.93%) JavaScript
7 11 (2.70%) Kotlin
8 10 (2.46%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.21%) Bash
9 9 (2.21%) R
10 7 (1.72%) PHP
11 5 (1.23%) C++
11 5 (1.23%) Korn
12 2 (0.49%) Groovy
12 2 (0.49%) Solidity
13 1 (0.25%) Bicep
13 1 (0.25%) CQL
13 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (7.37%) Degree
2 11 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (2.46%) Security Cleared
4 9 (2.21%) SC Cleared
5 8 (1.97%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.47%) PMP
7 5 (1.23%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.23%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.98%) PhD
9 3 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.74%) CISM
9 3 (0.74%) CISSP
10 2 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.49%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.49%) CCSK
10 2 (0.49%) CCSP
10 2 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.91%) QA
2 11 (2.70%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.46%) PMO
4 7 (1.72%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.47%) GDPR
5 6 (1.47%) PSD2
6 3 (0.74%) GRC
6 3 (0.74%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.49%) NIST
7 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.25%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.25%) IFRS
8 1 (0.25%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.25%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.25%) SLA
8 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 43 (10.57%) Docker
2 4 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 52 (12.78%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.44%) Prometheus
3 9 (2.21%) Grafana
4 4 (0.98%) Ansible
4 4 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.49%) Puppet
5 2 (0.49%) SCCM
6 1 (0.25%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.25%) Istio
6 1 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.25%) linkerd
6 1 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 26 (6.39%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.42%) Google
3 12 (2.95%) Databricks
4 7 (1.72%) Amplitude
4 7 (1.72%) Braze
5 6 (1.47%) Oracle
5 6 (1.47%) Salesforce
5 6 (1.47%) SAP
6 5 (1.23%) Adobe
6 5 (1.23%) Dynatrace
7 4 (0.98%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.98%) PagerDuty
8 3 (0.74%) Informatica
8 3 (0.74%) NetApp
8 3 (0.74%) VMware
9 2 (0.49%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.49%) ION Trading
9 2 (0.49%) Reuters
9 2 (0.49%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.49%) Splunk