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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 214 237
Rank change year-on-year -42 +23 0
Contract jobs citing Fintech 379 373 430
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.02% 1.17% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 1.32% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 305 358
10th Percentile £339 £404 £387
25th Percentile £409 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £675
90th Percentile £840 £825 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £447 £444 £489
% change year-on-year +0.73% -9.25% -6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 4
10th Percentile £49.75 £47.38 £31.93
25th Percentile £68.25 £49.06 £38.56
Median hourly rate £79.25 £53.75 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.44% +6.44% -
75th Percentile £87.50 £59.06 £62.50
90th Percentile £98.75 £61.13 £69.25
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 32,585 28,260 37,041
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.84% 88.76% 87.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,582 17,185 24,531
10th Percentile £304 £306 £304
25th Percentile £406 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £742 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,992 898 1,578
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.17
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.56 £18.04
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +15.71%
75th Percentile £55.89 £62.24 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.45 £43.33
% change year-on-year -21.76% -29.73% +46.88%

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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 15 January 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 15 January 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 15 January 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 -50 326 £550 -10.20% 1,053
London -49 234 £650 +4.00% 287
Work from Home -30 135 £588 -6.00% 492
UK excluding London +1 107 £447 +0.73% 871
North of England -19 34 £425 -19.05% 162
Midlands -26 21 £375 -6.25% 92
Scotland +15 20 £550 +37.50% 19
South East +1 20 £375 -26.83% 335
North West -8 19 £451 - 68
East Midlands -18 18 £375 -6.25% 61
Yorkshire -40 13 £375 -28.57% 68
South West -13 7 £450 -35.71% 100
East of England -20 5 £450 -33.33% 118
West Midlands -32 3 £430 - 28
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 21
North East -9 2 - - 26

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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 27 (7.12%) Confluence
2 9 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.06%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.26%) Appian
5 1 (0.26%) IIS
Applications
1 18 (4.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.11%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.85%) Chatbot
3 7 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.79%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.79%) Notion
5 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.26%) MadCap Flare
6 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.64%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.26%) BASE24
2 1 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.26%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 81 (21.37%) AWS
2 64 (16.89%) Azure
3 32 (8.44%) GCP
4 22 (5.80%) Power Platform
5 21 (5.54%) GitHub
6 19 (5.01%) SaaS
7 12 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (2.90%) Figma
8 11 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (2.64%) Datadog
10 9 (2.37%) dbt
11 8 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (2.11%) Amazon Kinesis
11 8 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.85%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (1.85%) Serverless
13 6 (1.58%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (1.58%) Amazon S3
14 5 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.06%) ATM
2 2 (0.53%) DNS
2 2 (0.53%) SSH
3 1 (0.26%) DHCP
3 1 (0.26%) Firewall
3 1 (0.26%) HTTP
3 1 (0.26%) Network Security
3 1 (0.26%) SSL
3 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.75%) PostgreSQL
1 18 (4.75%) Tableau
2 17 (4.49%) Power BI
3 13 (3.43%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (3.43%) Apache Cassandra
4 12 (3.17%) MongoDB
5 10 (2.64%) MySQL
6 8 (2.11%) Hadoop
7 7 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (1.85%) Apache Arrow
7 7 (1.85%) Apache Iceberg
7 7 (1.85%) Dremio
7 7 (1.85%) SQL Server
8 6 (1.58%) Looker
8 6 (1.58%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.32%) Big Data
10 4 (1.06%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.06%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.79%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.79%) Redis
Development Applications
1 42 (11.08%) JIRA
2 20 (5.28%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.69%) Cypress.io
4 11 (2.90%) Git
5 8 (2.11%) JUnit
6 7 (1.85%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.58%) GitLab
8 5 (1.32%) Selenium
8 5 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.06%) MLflow
9 4 (1.06%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.79%) Gatling
10 3 (0.79%) Storybook
11 2 (0.53%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.53%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.53%) JMeter
11 2 (0.53%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.53%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.53%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.53%) TestNG
General
1 239 (63.06%) Finance
2 127 (33.51%) Social Skills
3 116 (30.61%) Banking
4 57 (15.04%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (5.54%) Front Office
6 17 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (3.96%) Public Sector
8 13 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (3.17%) Legal
10 11 (2.90%) Financial Institution
10 11 (2.90%) Marketing
10 11 (2.90%) Retail
11 9 (2.37%) Retail Banking
12 8 (2.11%) Corporate Banking
12 8 (2.11%) Investment Banking
12 8 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.85%) Japanese Language
14 5 (1.32%) German Language
14 5 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 100 (26.39%) Developer
2 61 (16.09%) Senior
3 42 (11.08%) Analyst
4 33 (8.71%) Senior Developer
5 29 (7.65%) Java Developer
6 24 (6.33%) Product Manager
7 21 (5.54%) Python Developer
7 21 (5.54%) Software Engineer
8 20 (5.28%) Lead
8 20 (5.28%) Project Manager
9 19 (5.01%) Architect
9 19 (5.01%) Business Analyst
10 14 (3.69%) Java Engineer
10 14 (3.69%) Python Engineer
11 13 (3.43%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (3.17%) Product Owner
12 12 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (2.64%) Backend Developer
13 10 (2.64%) C# Developer
13 10 (2.64%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (11.08%) Kafka
2 30 (7.92%) React
3 28 (7.39%) RESTful
4 27 (7.12%) REST
5 24 (6.33%) AngularJS
6 20 (5.28%) Spring
7 18 (4.75%) .NET
7 18 (4.75%) Spring Boot
8 17 (4.49%) Node.js
9 12 (3.17%) Jest
9 12 (3.17%) Pandas
10 9 (2.37%) NumPy
11 8 (2.11%) TensorFlow
12 7 (1.85%) GraphQL
12 7 (1.85%) gRPC
12 7 (1.85%) SciPy
12 7 (1.85%) Vue
13 6 (1.58%) OAuth
13 6 (1.58%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (1.58%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.92%) Product Ownership
2 22 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (5.80%) Onboarding
3 19 (5.01%) Fixed Income
3 19 (5.01%) Greenfield Project
4 17 (4.49%) Equities
5 14 (3.69%) Cloud Native
6 12 (3.17%) Virtual Team
7 10 (2.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (2.37%) PMI
8 9 (2.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 8 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.85%) Hedge funds
10 7 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.85%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.58%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.06%) Digital Wallet
12 4 (1.06%) Learning Management System
12 4 (1.06%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.90%) Linux
2 8 (2.11%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.58%) Unix
4 5 (1.32%) Windows
5 3 (0.79%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (31.40%) Agile
2 92 (24.27%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (17.41%) CI/CD
4 57 (15.04%) Analytics
4 57 (15.04%) DevOps
4 57 (15.04%) Microservices
5 54 (14.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 50 (13.19%) Stakeholder Management
7 45 (11.87%) Software Engineering
8 38 (10.03%) AI
9 37 (9.76%) User Experience
10 35 (9.23%) Migration
10 35 (9.23%) Roadmaps
10 35 (9.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 32 (8.44%) Observability
12 30 (7.92%) Full-Stack Development
12 30 (7.92%) Project Management
12 30 (7.92%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 29 (7.65%) Decision-Making
14 26 (6.86%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 75 (19.79%) Python
2 72 (19.00%) Java
3 47 (12.40%) SQL
4 32 (8.44%) C#
5 23 (6.07%) TypeScript
6 22 (5.80%) Go
6 22 (5.80%) JavaScript
7 13 (3.43%) Kotlin
8 9 (2.37%) Bash
9 7 (1.85%) C++
10 6 (1.58%) R
11 5 (1.32%) Swift
12 4 (1.06%) Rust
13 3 (0.79%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.79%) Perl
13 3 (0.79%) Ruby
13 3 (0.79%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.53%) Haskell
14 2 (0.53%) PHP
14 2 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (8.71%) Degree
2 25 (6.60%) PMP
3 23 (6.07%) PMI Certification
4 14 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (3.69%) Master's Degree
5 8 (2.11%) MBA
5 8 (2.11%) SAFe Agilist
6 6 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.58%) Security Cleared
7 5 (1.32%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.32%) CBAP
7 5 (1.32%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.06%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.06%) OCP
8 4 (1.06%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (0.79%) APMP
9 3 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.79%) IIBA
9 3 (0.79%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (11.08%) QA
2 18 (4.75%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.90%) PCI DSS
4 10 (2.64%) PMO
4 10 (2.64%) PSD2
5 8 (2.11%) GDPR
6 7 (1.85%) Basel III
6 7 (1.85%) ISO 20022
7 5 (1.32%) ISO 8583
7 5 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.06%) NIST
8 4 (1.06%) SEPA
8 4 (1.06%) SLA
9 3 (0.79%) GRC
10 2 (0.53%) COBIT
10 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.53%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.26%) Data Quality
System Software
1 55 (14.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (10.82%) Kubernetes
2 23 (6.07%) Terraform
3 17 (4.49%) Ansible
4 7 (1.85%) Grafana
5 3 (0.79%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (0.79%) RSA Archer
6 2 (0.53%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.53%) Puppet
7 1 (0.26%) Istio
7 1 (0.26%) linkerd
Vendors
1 24 (6.33%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.69%) Databricks
3 9 (2.37%) Salesforce
4 8 (2.11%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.32%) Dynatrace
5 5 (1.32%) Sonatype
6 4 (1.06%) Google
7 3 (0.79%) Bloomberg
7 3 (0.79%) GoldenSource
7 3 (0.79%) New Relic
7 3 (0.79%) Oracle
7 3 (0.79%) Samsung
8 2 (0.53%) Alibaba
8 2 (0.53%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.53%) Amplitude
8 2 (0.53%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.53%) PagerDuty
8 2 (0.53%) Rapid7
8 2 (0.53%) Thales
8 2 (0.53%) VMware