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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 206 237 221
Rank change year-on-year +31 -16 -3
Contract jobs citing Fintech 460 385 543
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.38% 1.02% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 1.19% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 304 443
10th Percentile £363 £425 £425
25th Percentile £436 £500 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% - -
75th Percentile £750 £731 £688
90th Percentile £875 £825 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £520
% change year-on-year +2.78% -13.46% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 1
10th Percentile £45.88 £47.38 -
25th Percentile £65.81 £49.06 -
Median hourly rate £76.75 £53.75 £89.44
Median % change year-on-year +42.79% -39.90% -
75th Percentile £87.50 £59.06 -
90th Percentile £89.75 £61.13 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £89.44

All Process and 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 30,120 32,351 42,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.53% 86.01% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,720 19,487 28,729
10th Percentile £296 £308 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,911 1,239 1,585
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +36.92%
75th Percentile £42.79 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.27 £40.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -44.34% -8.88% +65.99%

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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 16 October 2025.

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 16 October 2025.

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 16 October 2025. 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 +21 382 £600 - 1,011
London +5 300 £625 +3.09% 653
Work from Home +63 211 £625 - 488
UK excluding London +40 110 £463 +2.78% 595
Scotland +32 37 £525 +31.25% 7
North of England -12 35 £425 -22.73% 68
North West -7 23 £413 -25.00% 41
Midlands -8 19 £401 +45.82% 23
East Midlands 0 14 £414 +50.36% 11
South East +11 8 £380 -25.85% 427
South West +17 7 £450 -30.77% 36
Yorkshire -29 7 £500 +25.00% 12
North East -4 5 £450 - 15
West Midlands -13 5 £400 - 12
East of England 0 3 £450 -43.75% 19
Northern Ireland -4 2 - - 6

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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 35 (7.61%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (3.48%) Confluence
3 9 (1.96%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.30%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.09%) Apache
6 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.43%) IIS
7 2 (0.43%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.22%) nginx
Applications
1 13 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.09%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.65%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.22%) MadCap Flare
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.17%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.43%) Kondor
3 1 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 146 (31.74%) AWS
2 86 (18.70%) GCP
3 80 (17.39%) Azure
4 33 (7.17%) dbt
5 22 (4.78%) GitHub
6 19 (4.13%) SaaS
7 17 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (3.04%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (2.61%) Serverless
10 11 (2.39%) Amazon Kinesis
10 11 (2.39%) AWS Step Functions
10 11 (2.39%) Datadog
10 11 (2.39%) Figma
10 11 (2.39%) Power Platform
11 10 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (1.74%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (1.74%) Amazon S3
13 7 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.96%) Firewall
2 4 (0.87%) ATM
2 4 (0.87%) DNS
2 4 (0.87%) VPN
3 3 (0.65%) DHCP
4 2 (0.43%) HTTP
4 2 (0.43%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.22%) BGP
5 1 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.22%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.22%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.22%) OSPF
5 1 (0.22%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.22%) SSL
5 1 (0.22%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (13.91%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (6.52%) Amazon Athena
3 29 (6.30%) Apache Arrow
3 29 (6.30%) Apache Iceberg
3 29 (6.30%) Dremio
4 19 (4.13%) MySQL
5 18 (3.91%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (3.70%) SQL Server
7 16 (3.48%) Apache Cassandra
7 16 (3.48%) MongoDB
8 15 (3.26%) NoSQL
9 14 (3.04%) Tableau
10 10 (2.17%) Hadoop
11 9 (1.96%) Power BI
12 8 (1.74%) BigQuery
12 8 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
14 6 (1.30%) Oracle Database
14 6 (1.30%) Relational Database
15 5 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 28 (6.09%) JIRA
2 14 (3.04%) Git
3 13 (2.83%) Cypress.io
4 11 (2.39%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.74%) Cucumber
6 7 (1.52%) GitLab
7 6 (1.30%) JUnit
8 5 (1.09%) MLflow
8 5 (1.09%) Postman
9 4 (0.87%) Selenium
9 4 (0.87%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.65%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.65%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.65%) Storybook
11 2 (0.43%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.43%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.43%) Gatling
11 2 (0.43%) Snyk
11 2 (0.43%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.43%) TestNG
General
1 303 (65.87%) Finance
2 149 (32.39%) Banking
3 123 (26.74%) Social Skills
4 64 (13.91%) Front Office
5 56 (12.17%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (5.87%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (3.04%) Financial Institution
8 12 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (2.39%) Legal
10 10 (2.17%) Marketing
11 8 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.74%) Public Sector
11 8 (1.74%) Retail
12 7 (1.52%) Back Office
12 7 (1.52%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.30%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.09%) Japanese Language
14 5 (1.09%) Retail Banking
15 4 (0.87%) German Language
Job Titles
1 136 (29.57%) Developer
2 74 (16.09%) Software Engineer
3 60 (13.04%) Analyst
4 59 (12.83%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 45 (9.78%) Senior
6 35 (7.61%) AWS Engineer
7 31 (6.74%) AWS Developer
8 30 (6.52%) AWS Software Engineer
9 28 (6.09%) Java Engineer
10 26 (5.65%) Python Engineer
11 25 (5.43%) Java Developer
12 24 (5.22%) Python Developer
12 24 (5.22%) Senior Developer
13 22 (4.78%) Lead
13 22 (4.78%) React Developer
14 20 (4.35%) Java Software Engineer
14 20 (4.35%) Python Software Engineer
15 18 (3.91%) Full-Stack Developer
15 18 (3.91%) Product Manager
16 15 (3.26%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (17.61%) React
2 58 (12.61%) Node.js
3 50 (10.87%) AngularJS
4 39 (8.48%) Vue
5 37 (8.04%) Kafka
6 31 (6.74%) Redux
7 30 (6.52%) Pandas
8 29 (6.30%) NumPy
8 29 (6.30%) SciPy
9 24 (5.22%) REST
9 24 (5.22%) RESTful
10 19 (4.13%) .NET
11 16 (3.48%) Spring
12 15 (3.26%) Spring Boot
13 10 (2.17%) Jest
14 8 (1.74%) CSS
14 8 (1.74%) HTML
15 7 (1.52%) Middleware
15 7 (1.52%) RabbitMQ
15 7 (1.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 63 (13.70%) Fixed Income
2 53 (11.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 49 (10.65%) Equities
4 28 (6.09%) Product Ownership
5 21 (4.57%) Onboarding
6 20 (4.35%) Cloud Native
7 19 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (3.48%) Greenfield Project
8 16 (3.48%) Virtual Team
9 14 (3.04%) Hedge funds
10 10 (2.17%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 7 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (1.30%) Public Cloud
13 6 (1.30%) Replication
14 5 (1.09%) Clustering
14 5 (1.09%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.00%) Windows
2 17 (3.70%) Linux
3 15 (3.26%) Apple iOS
4 12 (2.61%) Android
5 10 (2.17%) Unix
6 1 (0.22%) VMS
6 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (37.17%) Agile
2 110 (23.91%) Software Engineering
3 80 (17.39%) CI/CD
4 78 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
5 67 (14.57%) DevOps
6 59 (12.83%) Asset Management
6 59 (12.83%) Microservices
7 58 (12.61%) Investment Management
7 58 (12.61%) Migration
7 58 (12.61%) User Experience
8 55 (11.96%) Analytics
9 54 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 47 (10.22%) Stakeholder Management
11 45 (9.78%) Risk Management
11 45 (9.78%) Roadmaps
12 33 (7.17%) Digital Banking
13 32 (6.96%) Full-Stack Development
14 31 (6.74%) AI
14 31 (6.74%) Test Automation
15 29 (6.30%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 110 (23.91%) Python
2 79 (17.17%) JavaScript
3 74 (16.09%) Java
4 70 (15.22%) TypeScript
5 45 (9.78%) SQL
6 34 (7.39%) C#
7 23 (5.00%) Go
8 17 (3.70%) Kotlin
9 9 (1.96%) Bash
10 8 (1.74%) C++
11 6 (1.30%) Swift
12 5 (1.09%) Objective-C
13 4 (0.87%) Rust
13 4 (0.87%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.65%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.43%) Dart
15 2 (0.43%) Perl
15 2 (0.43%) PHP
15 2 (0.43%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 41 (8.91%) Degree
2 20 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (2.83%) PMI Certification
3 13 (2.83%) PMP
4 9 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (1.74%) Azure Certification
5 8 (1.74%) CISM
5 8 (1.74%) CISSP
6 7 (1.52%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.87%) CISA
7 4 (0.87%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 3 (0.65%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (0.65%) OCP
8 3 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (0.65%) PgMP
8 3 (0.65%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 2 (0.43%) CBAP
9 2 (0.43%) CSSLP
9 2 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (7.17%) QA
2 22 (4.78%) PCI DSS
3 18 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (3.70%) GDPR
5 14 (3.04%) Accessibility
5 14 (3.04%) PMO
6 12 (2.61%) NIST
7 11 (2.39%) PSD2
8 8 (1.74%) GRC
9 5 (1.09%) ISO 20022
9 5 (1.09%) NIST 800
9 5 (1.09%) SEPA
9 5 (1.09%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.87%) COBIT
10 4 (0.87%) ISO 8583
10 4 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.65%) MiFID
11 3 (0.65%) SLA
12 2 (0.43%) Basel III
System Software
1 38 (8.26%) Docker
2 6 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 38 (8.26%) Kubernetes
2 33 (7.17%) Terraform
3 11 (2.39%) Ansible
4 5 (1.09%) Grafana
4 5 (1.09%) RSA Archer
5 3 (0.65%) Istio
5 3 (0.65%) linkerd
5 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.65%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.65%) QRadar
6 2 (0.43%) SCCM
6 2 (0.43%) WSUS
7 1 (0.22%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.22%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.22%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 18 (3.91%) Google
3 13 (2.83%) Databricks
4 10 (2.17%) Oracle
5 7 (1.52%) Darktrace
5 7 (1.52%) Salesforce
5 7 (1.52%) ServiceNow
5 7 (1.52%) Zscaler
6 5 (1.09%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.09%) VMware
7 4 (0.87%) Alteryx
7 4 (0.87%) Rapid7
7 4 (0.87%) SolarWinds
8 3 (0.65%) Alibaba
8 3 (0.65%) CA Agile Central
8 3 (0.65%) OneTrust
8 3 (0.65%) Samsung
8 3 (0.65%) Varonis
9 2 (0.43%) Checkmarx
9 2 (0.43%) Optimizely