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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 212 212
Rank change year-on-year -69 0 +30
Contract jobs citing Fintech 393 366 491
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.92% 1.21% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.34% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 290 408
10th Percentile £350 £412 £400
25th Percentile £425 £509 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £606 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% +1.04% +4.35%
75th Percentile £704 £713 £700
90th Percentile £850 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £425 £489
% change year-on-year -5.41% -13.09% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 5
10th Percentile £28.55 - £33.40
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £42.25
Median hourly rate £71.75 £47.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.05% -17.39% -
75th Percentile £87.50 £48.75 £73.75
90th Percentile £88.25 - £82.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £88.00

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 36,798 27,287 38,212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.45% 90.16% 86.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,332 17,120 24,896
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -2.03% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,175 894 2,252
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.62 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.11
Median hourly rate £28.00 £32.50 £32.85
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% -1.05% -6.16%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £73.63 £75.00 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £33.28
% change year-on-year -20.81% -4.57% -4.91%

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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 5 March 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 March 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 March 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 -62 358 £550 -12.00% 761
London -44 262 £625 - 409
Work from Home -78 113 £625 -3.85% 378
UK excluding London -33 101 £402 -5.41% 404
North of England -35 36 £389 -24.71% 90
South East -22 25 £300 - 142
Yorkshire -53 19 £368 -29.90% 29
Midlands -62 16 £385 -3.75% 56
North West -25 15 £444 +4.35% 52
East Midlands -31 13 £365 -8.88% 25
Scotland +13 9 £588 +17.50% 10
East of England -22 8 £358 -47.04% 52
South West -21 7 £450 -35.71% 43
West Midlands -54 3 £430 -16.50% 30
North East -9 2 - - 9
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 9

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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 (8.91%) Confluence
2 4 (1.02%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.25%) Apache
4 1 (0.25%) Appian
Applications
1 23 (5.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.53%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.76%) Notion
6 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.25%) Sketch
7 1 (0.25%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) BASE24
1 1 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.25%) Exchequer
1 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 98 (24.94%) AWS
2 64 (16.28%) Azure
3 43 (10.94%) GCP
4 34 (8.65%) Power Platform
5 23 (5.85%) GitHub
6 21 (5.34%) SaaS
7 15 (3.82%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (2.80%) Amazon Kinesis
8 11 (2.80%) Datadog
9 10 (2.54%) AWS Step Functions
10 9 (2.29%) Figma
11 6 (1.53%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (1.53%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.53%) Serverless
11 6 (1.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (1.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.27%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (1.02%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.02%) Network Security
2 2 (0.51%) DNS
2 2 (0.51%) Firewall
2 2 (0.51%) SSH
3 1 (0.25%) FTP
3 1 (0.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.62%) Power BI
2 25 (6.36%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (6.11%) Tableau
4 15 (3.82%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (3.56%) Apache Cassandra
6 13 (3.31%) Looker
7 12 (3.05%) MySQL
8 10 (2.54%) Hadoop
9 8 (2.04%) MongoDB
9 8 (2.04%) NoSQL
10 7 (1.78%) Mixpanel
11 6 (1.53%) Big Data
11 6 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.53%) Relational Database
12 5 (1.27%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.02%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.76%) Pinecone
14 3 (0.76%) Redis
14 3 (0.76%) Weaviate
15 2 (0.51%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 48 (12.21%) JIRA
2 28 (7.12%) Jenkins
3 12 (3.05%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (2.29%) Git
5 8 (2.04%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.02%) GitLab
6 4 (1.02%) JUnit
6 4 (1.02%) Selenium
7 3 (0.76%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.76%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.76%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.76%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.51%) Android Studio
8 2 (0.51%) Appium
8 2 (0.51%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.51%) MLflow
8 2 (0.51%) Postman
8 2 (0.51%) Sourcetree
8 2 (0.51%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.51%) Xcode
General
1 243 (61.83%) Finance
2 112 (28.50%) Social Skills
3 97 (24.68%) Banking
4 51 (12.98%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (8.91%) Front Office
6 16 (4.07%) Public Sector
7 14 (3.56%) Marketing
8 13 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (3.05%) Retail
10 11 (2.80%) Corporate Banking
10 11 (2.80%) Financial Institution
10 11 (2.80%) Legal
11 10 (2.54%) Retail Banking
12 9 (2.29%) Investment Banking
13 8 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.78%) Japanese Language
15 5 (1.27%) German Language
15 5 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (1.02%) Games
17 3 (0.76%) French Language
Job Titles
1 96 (24.43%) Developer
2 67 (17.05%) Senior
3 37 (9.41%) Analyst
4 36 (9.16%) Lead
5 30 (7.63%) Software Engineer
6 28 (7.12%) Senior Developer
7 25 (6.36%) Business Analyst
7 25 (6.36%) Java Developer
8 24 (6.11%) Python Developer
9 22 (5.60%) Project Manager
10 18 (4.58%) Product Manager
11 16 (4.07%) AWS Engineer
11 16 (4.07%) Java Engineer
11 16 (4.07%) Lead Developer
12 15 (3.82%) Architect
12 15 (3.82%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 13 (3.31%) Python Engineer
13 13 (3.31%) Technical Business Analyst
14 12 (3.05%) Lead Software Developer
14 12 (3.05%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (8.14%) React
2 30 (7.63%) Kafka
3 25 (6.36%) Node.js
4 24 (6.11%) REST
5 19 (4.83%) Redux
6 18 (4.58%) RESTful
7 15 (3.82%) .NET
8 14 (3.56%) AngularJS
9 11 (2.80%) Spring
10 10 (2.54%) Spring Boot
11 7 (1.78%) GraphQL
11 7 (1.78%) Pandas
11 7 (1.78%) TensorFlow
12 5 (1.27%) gRPC
12 5 (1.27%) Jest
12 5 (1.27%) React Native
12 5 (1.27%) scikit-learn
13 4 (1.02%) EDI
13 4 (1.02%) NumPy
13 4 (1.02%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.63%) Fixed Income
1 30 (7.63%) Product Ownership
2 29 (7.38%) Equities
3 25 (6.36%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (5.09%) Greenfield Project
4 20 (5.09%) Onboarding
5 19 (4.83%) Derivative
6 12 (3.05%) Virtual Team
7 10 (2.54%) Cloud Native
7 10 (2.54%) Mobile App
8 8 (2.04%) Hedge funds
8 8 (2.04%) PMI
9 7 (1.78%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.27%) Digital Wallet
11 5 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (1.02%) Learning Management System
12 4 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.02%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.07%) Linux
2 10 (2.54%) Unix
3 6 (1.53%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.51%) Android
5 1 (0.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (26.46%) Agile
2 92 (23.41%) Problem-Solving
3 70 (17.81%) Analytics
4 62 (15.78%) CI/CD
5 59 (15.01%) Software Engineering
6 46 (11.70%) Microservices
6 46 (11.70%) Stakeholder Management
7 42 (10.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 42 (10.69%) DevOps
8 36 (9.16%) AI
9 35 (8.91%) User Experience
10 33 (8.40%) Decision-Making
10 33 (8.40%) Mentoring
11 30 (7.63%) Project Management
11 30 (7.63%) Roadmaps
11 30 (7.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 29 (7.38%) Business Intelligence
13 27 (6.87%) Portfolio Management
14 26 (6.62%) Asset Management
15 24 (6.11%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 87 (22.14%) Python
2 69 (17.56%) Java
3 58 (14.76%) SQL
4 31 (7.89%) C#
4 31 (7.89%) TypeScript
5 28 (7.12%) JavaScript
6 21 (5.34%) Go
7 12 (3.05%) R
8 9 (2.29%) C++
8 9 (2.29%) Kotlin
9 7 (1.78%) Bash
10 6 (1.53%) Swift
11 4 (1.02%) Objective-C
11 4 (1.02%) Ruby
12 3 (0.76%) Perl
12 3 (0.76%) PHP
13 2 (0.51%) C
13 2 (0.51%) F#
13 2 (0.51%) Haskell
13 2 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (7.63%) Degree
2 22 (5.60%) PMP
3 19 (4.83%) PMI Certification
4 15 (3.82%) Master's Degree
5 10 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.54%) MBA
5 10 (2.54%) Security Cleared
6 8 (2.04%) SAFe Agilist
7 7 (1.78%) CISSP
8 6 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.53%) CISM
8 6 (1.53%) SC Cleared
9 5 (1.27%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.02%) APMP
10 4 (1.02%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.02%) OCP
10 4 (1.02%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.76%) CBAP
11 3 (0.76%) IIBA
11 3 (0.76%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.40%) QA
2 19 (4.83%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.54%) PMO
4 9 (2.29%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.04%) Basel III
6 7 (1.78%) NIST
7 6 (1.53%) GDPR
8 5 (1.27%) ISO 20022
8 5 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (1.02%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.76%) GRC
10 3 (0.76%) PSD2
10 3 (0.76%) SLA
11 2 (0.51%) COBIT
11 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.51%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.51%) SEPA
12 1 (0.25%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 42 (10.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (9.67%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.83%) Ansible
3 14 (3.56%) Terraform
4 8 (2.04%) Grafana
5 4 (1.02%) Kibana
6 3 (0.76%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.76%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.76%) RSA Archer
7 2 (0.51%) Puppet
7 2 (0.51%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 18 (4.58%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.05%) Databricks
2 12 (3.05%) Sonatype
3 9 (2.29%) Salesforce
4 8 (2.04%) Amplitude
5 7 (1.78%) Google
6 6 (1.53%) Oracle
6 6 (1.53%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.53%) Splunk
7 4 (1.02%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.76%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.76%) BiZZdesign
8 3 (0.76%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.76%) GoldenSource
8 3 (0.76%) HubSpot
8 3 (0.76%) Samsung
9 2 (0.51%) Adobe
9 2 (0.51%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.51%) Gemalto
9 2 (0.51%) Thales