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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 218 230
Rank change year-on-year -57 +12 +4
Contract jobs citing Fintech 379 375 446
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.00% 1.18% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 1.33% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 304 368
10th Percentile £338 £411 £387
25th Percentile £408 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £713 £675
90th Percentile £850 £821 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £442 £444 £489
% change year-on-year -0.45% -9.25% -5.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 4
10th Percentile £54.88 £47.38 £31.93
25th Percentile £67.44 £49.06 £38.56
Median hourly rate £79.25 £53.75 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.44% +6.44% -
75th Percentile £88.13 £59.06 £62.50
90th Percentile £96.00 £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 33,128 28,199 37,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.64% 88.95% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,004 17,123 24,892
10th Percentile £305 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £645
90th Percentile £720 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,016 901 1,818
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £17.08
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -13.33% +17.19%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £30.78 £40.00
% change year-on-year -22.03% -23.05% +53.85%

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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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -47 329 £550 -8.33% 1,357
London -56 232 £633 +1.20% 307
Work from Home -38 131 £588 -6.00% 648
UK excluding London -6 109 £442 -0.45% 1,199
North of England -33 39 £444 -15.52% 208
North West -11 21 £447 - 73
Midlands -40 21 £375 -6.25% 133
South East -14 20 £375 -25.00% 433
Scotland +8 18 £550 +10.00% 33
East Midlands -14 18 £375 -6.25% 90
Yorkshire -42 16 £400 -23.81% 93
South West -6 7 £450 -35.71% 141
East of England -18 4 - - 185
West Midlands -43 3 £430 - 41
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 31
North East -11 2 - - 42

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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 (8.18%) Confluence
2 8 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.06%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.26%) Appian
Applications
1 20 (5.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.11%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.85%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.79%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.79%) Notion
6 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.26%) MadCap Flare
7 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (2.37%) 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 83 (21.90%) AWS
2 62 (16.36%) Azure
3 29 (7.65%) GCP
4 22 (5.80%) GitHub
4 22 (5.80%) Power Platform
5 20 (5.28%) SaaS
6 16 (4.22%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (3.17%) Amazon Kinesis
8 11 (2.90%) AWS Step Functions
8 11 (2.90%) Figma
8 11 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (2.64%) Datadog
10 8 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.11%) dbt
11 7 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (1.85%) Serverless
12 6 (1.58%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (1.58%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.06%) ATM
2 3 (0.79%) Network Security
3 2 (0.53%) DNS
3 2 (0.53%) SSH
4 1 (0.26%) DHCP
4 1 (0.26%) Firewall
4 1 (0.26%) HTTP
4 1 (0.26%) SSL
4 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.75%) Tableau
2 17 (4.49%) Power BI
3 16 (4.22%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (3.96%) Apache Cassandra
5 14 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (3.17%) MongoDB
6 12 (3.17%) MySQL
7 11 (2.90%) Hadoop
8 7 (1.85%) Looker
9 6 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (1.58%) Apache Arrow
9 6 (1.58%) Apache Iceberg
9 6 (1.58%) Dremio
9 6 (1.58%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.58%) SQL Server
10 5 (1.32%) Big Data
11 4 (1.06%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.06%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.79%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.79%) Redis
Development Applications
1 46 (12.14%) JIRA
2 22 (5.80%) Jenkins
3 13 (3.43%) Cypress.io
4 10 (2.64%) Git
5 8 (2.11%) JUnit
6 7 (1.85%) Cucumber
6 7 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.58%) GitLab
8 5 (1.32%) Selenium
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
1 236 (62.27%) Finance
2 132 (34.83%) Social Skills
3 116 (30.61%) Banking
4 54 (14.25%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (5.01%) Front Office
6 16 (4.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (3.96%) Public Sector
8 12 (3.17%) Legal
9 11 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (2.90%) Financial Institution
9 11 (2.90%) Marketing
10 10 (2.64%) Retail
11 9 (2.37%) Corporate Banking
11 9 (2.37%) Retail 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
15 3 (0.79%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 98 (25.86%) Developer
2 60 (15.83%) Senior
3 41 (10.82%) Analyst
4 32 (8.44%) Senior Developer
5 28 (7.39%) Java Developer
6 24 (6.33%) Product Manager
7 23 (6.07%) Software Engineer
8 21 (5.54%) Business Analyst
9 20 (5.28%) Project Manager
9 20 (5.28%) Python Developer
10 19 (5.01%) Lead
11 18 (4.75%) Architect
12 17 (4.49%) Java Engineer
13 13 (3.43%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (3.17%) Product Owner
15 11 (2.90%) AWS Engineer
15 11 (2.90%) Python Engineer
16 10 (2.64%) Backend Developer
16 10 (2.64%) C# Developer
16 10 (2.64%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (10.29%) Kafka
2 27 (7.12%) REST
3 26 (6.86%) RESTful
4 25 (6.60%) React
5 23 (6.07%) AngularJS
6 18 (4.75%) .NET
6 18 (4.75%) Spring
7 16 (4.22%) Spring Boot
8 15 (3.96%) Node.js
9 11 (2.90%) Jest
9 11 (2.90%) Pandas
10 8 (2.11%) NumPy
10 8 (2.11%) TensorFlow
11 7 (1.85%) GraphQL
12 6 (1.58%) gRPC
12 6 (1.58%) scikit-learn
12 6 (1.58%) SciPy
12 6 (1.58%) Vue
13 5 (1.32%) OAuth2
13 5 (1.32%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.92%) Product Ownership
2 26 (6.86%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (6.07%) Onboarding
4 18 (4.75%) Fixed Income
4 18 (4.75%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (4.22%) Equities
6 14 (3.69%) Virtual Team
7 13 (3.43%) Cloud Native
8 9 (2.37%) Hedge funds
8 9 (2.37%) PMI
8 9 (2.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 8 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.85%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.85%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.06%) Blockchain
12 4 (1.06%) Learning Management System
12 4 (1.06%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.90%) Linux
2 7 (1.85%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.58%) Unix
4 4 (1.06%) Windows
5 2 (0.53%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (30.34%) Agile
2 92 (24.27%) Problem-Solving
3 67 (17.68%) CI/CD
4 60 (15.83%) Analytics
5 59 (15.57%) Microservices
6 58 (15.30%) DevOps
7 52 (13.72%) Stakeholder Management
8 51 (13.46%) Continuous Improvement
9 48 (12.66%) Software Engineering
10 37 (9.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 37 (9.76%) User Experience
11 36 (9.50%) Roadmaps
12 35 (9.23%) AI
12 35 (9.23%) Migration
13 32 (8.44%) Observability
14 30 (7.92%) Project Management
14 30 (7.92%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 28 (7.39%) Decision-Making
16 27 (7.12%) Full-Stack Development
17 26 (6.86%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 72 (19.00%) Python
2 71 (18.73%) Java
3 45 (11.87%) SQL
4 31 (8.18%) C#
5 24 (6.33%) Go
6 20 (5.28%) JavaScript
6 20 (5.28%) TypeScript
7 11 (2.90%) 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%) Ruby
12 4 (1.06%) Rust
13 3 (0.79%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.79%) Perl
13 3 (0.79%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.53%) C
14 2 (0.53%) PHP
14 2 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (8.97%) Degree
2 25 (6.60%) PMP
3 23 (6.07%) PMI Certification
4 15 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (3.96%) Master's Degree
5 9 (2.37%) MBA
6 8 (2.11%) SAFe Agilist
7 7 (1.85%) Security Cleared
8 6 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.58%) CISSP
9 5 (1.32%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.32%) CBAP
9 5 (1.32%) CISM
9 5 (1.32%) SC Cleared
10 4 (1.06%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.06%) OCP
10 4 (1.06%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.79%) APMP
11 3 (0.79%) IIBA
11 3 (0.79%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (10.82%) QA
2 17 (4.49%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.17%) 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 6 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.58%) NIST
8 5 (1.32%) ISO 8583
9 4 (1.06%) SEPA
10 3 (0.79%) GRC
10 3 (0.79%) SLA
11 2 (0.53%) COBIT
11 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.53%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.26%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 54 (14.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (10.82%) Kubernetes
2 21 (5.54%) Terraform
3 19 (5.01%) 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 23 (6.07%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.43%) Databricks
3 9 (2.37%) Salesforce
4 8 (2.11%) ServiceNow
5 7 (1.85%) Sonatype
6 5 (1.32%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.06%) Google
8 3 (0.79%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.79%) GoldenSource
8 3 (0.79%) New Relic
8 3 (0.79%) Oracle
8 3 (0.79%) Samsung
9 2 (0.53%) Alibaba
9 2 (0.53%) Amplitude
9 2 (0.53%) BiZZdesign
9 2 (0.53%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.53%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.53%) Rapid7
9 2 (0.53%) Thales
9 2 (0.53%) VMware