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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 196 215
Rank change year-on-year -80 +19 +21
Contract jobs citing Fintech 433 417 475
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.86% 1.40% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.54% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 332 391
10th Percentile £285 £363 £400
25th Percentile £439 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £750 £750
90th Percentile £850 £849 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £429 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +1.00% -10.53% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 3
10th Percentile - - £48.00
25th Percentile £22.25 - £50.63
Median hourly rate £53.75 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £78.75 £72.50 £71.50
90th Percentile £90.00 £77.00 £81.40
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 42,679 27,009 37,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.81% 91.00% 85.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,607 17,137 23,609
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,567 1,242 2,598
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.87 £16.03
Median hourly rate £43.96 £26.27 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year +67.37% -29.66% +6.69%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +76.94% -34.02% +17.29%

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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 17 June 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 17 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Fintech in the UK

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Top 15 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 17 June 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 -67 402 £550 -8.33% 745
London -47 312 £575 -8.00% 551
Work from Home -125 113 £581 -13.89% 337
UK excluding London -65 93 £429 +1.00% 296
South East -30 30 £280 - 103
North of England -58 30 £450 +12.50% 92
Yorkshire -40 18 £514 +32.39% 21
South West -16 12 £570 -12.31% 20
North West -42 10 £446 +5.00% 51
Scotland -19 8 £475 -5.00% 17
Midlands -67 8 £336 -15.94% 23
East of England - 5 £415 - 15
East Midlands -29 4 £336 -15.94% 9
West Midlands -55 4 - - 14
North East -35 2 - - 20

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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 26 (6.00%) Confluence
2 3 (0.69%) Apache
2 3 (0.69%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.23%) CMS
4 1 (0.23%) nginx
Applications
1 15 (3.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.69%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.46%) Notion
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.23%) Sketch
7 1 (0.23%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 4 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.46%) SAP EHS
2 2 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.23%) Findur
3 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.23%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 94 (21.71%) AWS
2 60 (13.86%) Azure
3 44 (10.16%) GCP
4 25 (5.77%) Power Platform
5 23 (5.31%) GitHub
6 20 (4.62%) SaaS
7 13 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (2.77%) Snowflake
9 10 (2.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 9 (2.08%) Figma
11 7 (1.62%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (1.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (1.39%) Serverless
13 5 (1.15%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (1.15%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.15%) Anthropic Claude
14 4 (0.92%) Amazon Kinesis
14 4 (0.92%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.15%) Network Security
1 5 (1.15%) VPN
2 4 (0.92%) Firewall
3 2 (0.46%) DNS
3 2 (0.46%) FTP
3 2 (0.46%) Internet
4 1 (0.23%) DHCP
4 1 (0.23%) HTTP
4 1 (0.23%) NFC
4 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (8.31%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (6.47%) Tableau
3 22 (5.08%) Power BI
4 18 (4.16%) NoSQL
5 14 (3.23%) Looker
5 14 (3.23%) MongoDB
6 13 (3.00%) Relational Database
7 11 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (2.54%) BigQuery
7 11 (2.54%) Data Lake
8 8 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (1.85%) SQL Server
9 7 (1.62%) Mixpanel
10 6 (1.39%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (1.39%) MySQL
11 5 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.92%) Big Data
12 4 (0.92%) Hadoop
13 3 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (8.55%) JIRA
2 22 (5.08%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.54%) Git
4 8 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.69%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.69%) GitLab
5 3 (0.69%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.46%) Android Studio
6 2 (0.46%) Appium
6 2 (0.46%) Gemini Tracker
6 2 (0.46%) JUnit
6 2 (0.46%) MLflow
6 2 (0.46%) Postman
6 2 (0.46%) Selenium
6 2 (0.46%) Sourcetree
6 2 (0.46%) Xcode
7 1 (0.23%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.23%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 254 (58.66%) Finance
2 107 (24.71%) Banking
3 91 (21.02%) Social Skills
4 55 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (7.39%) Front Office
6 24 (5.54%) Financial Institution
7 20 (4.62%) Marketing
8 12 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.77%) Public Sector
9 10 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (2.31%) Retail
10 9 (2.08%) Publishing
11 8 (1.85%) Corporate Banking
11 8 (1.85%) Retail Banking
12 7 (1.62%) Games
12 7 (1.62%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.39%) Legal
14 3 (0.69%) Advertising
14 3 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 96 (22.17%) Developer
2 72 (16.63%) Senior
3 42 (9.70%) Analyst
3 42 (9.70%) Lead
4 36 (8.31%) Software Engineer
5 25 (5.77%) Java Developer
6 22 (5.08%) Data Engineer
6 22 (5.08%) Python Developer
7 20 (4.62%) Project Manager
8 19 (4.39%) Business Analyst
8 19 (4.39%) Designer
8 19 (4.39%) Senior Developer
9 18 (4.16%) Consultant
9 18 (4.16%) Java Engineer
10 16 (3.70%) Architect
10 16 (3.70%) Lead Developer
11 15 (3.46%) AWS Engineer
11 15 (3.46%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 12 (2.77%) Lead Software Developer
12 12 (2.77%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (8.08%) React
2 33 (7.62%) Kafka
3 31 (7.16%) REST
4 26 (6.00%) Node.js
5 19 (4.39%) .NET
5 19 (4.39%) Spring
5 19 (4.39%) Spring Boot
6 18 (4.16%) Redux
7 12 (2.77%) React Native
7 12 (2.77%) RESTful
8 11 (2.54%) FastAPI
8 11 (2.54%) Flask
8 11 (2.54%) NumPy
8 11 (2.54%) Pandas
9 10 (2.31%) Polars
10 9 (2.08%) AngularJS
10 9 (2.08%) Apache Avro
11 7 (1.62%) GraphQL
11 7 (1.62%) Next.js
11 7 (1.62%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.16%) Equities
2 27 (6.24%) Product Ownership
3 24 (5.54%) Fixed Income
4 23 (5.31%) Derivative
4 23 (5.31%) Onboarding
5 22 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
6 20 (4.62%) Cloud Native
7 17 (3.93%) Hedge funds
8 16 (3.70%) Mobile App
9 14 (3.23%) Data Structures
10 13 (3.00%) Management Information System
11 11 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 9 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (2.08%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.85%) AI Agents
14 7 (1.62%) Market Risk
15 6 (1.39%) PMI
16 5 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
16 5 (1.15%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.39%) Linux
2 13 (3.00%) Unix
3 10 (2.31%) Android
4 7 (1.62%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (18.48%) CI/CD
2 75 (17.32%) Software Engineering
3 74 (17.09%) Agile
4 72 (16.63%) Stakeholder Management
5 67 (15.47%) AI
6 60 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
7 52 (12.01%) Analytics
8 49 (11.32%) DevOps
9 38 (8.78%) Microservices
10 37 (8.55%) Data Pipeline
10 37 (8.55%) Mentoring
11 35 (8.08%) Continuous Improvement
12 32 (7.39%) User Experience
13 31 (7.16%) Decision-Making
14 30 (6.93%) Business Intelligence
15 28 (6.47%) Project Management
16 27 (6.24%) Machine Learning
16 27 (6.24%) Roadmaps
17 26 (6.00%) Full-Stack Development
17 26 (6.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 92 (21.25%) SQL
2 81 (18.71%) Python
3 70 (16.17%) Java
4 37 (8.55%) TypeScript
5 26 (6.00%) C#
5 26 (6.00%) JavaScript
6 20 (4.62%) Go
7 16 (3.70%) R
8 10 (2.31%) Kotlin
9 9 (2.08%) C++
10 8 (1.85%) PHP
10 8 (1.85%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.39%) Korn
12 3 (0.69%) Bash
13 2 (0.46%) Bicep
13 2 (0.46%) F#
13 2 (0.46%) Perl
13 2 (0.46%) Swift
14 1 (0.23%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (9.24%) Degree
2 22 (5.08%) Security Cleared
3 18 (4.16%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.70%) Master's Degree
5 14 (3.23%) PMP
6 13 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.77%) PMI Certification
8 8 (1.85%) MBA
9 6 (1.39%) CISM
9 6 (1.39%) CISSP
10 5 (1.15%) SAFe Agilist
11 4 (0.92%) APMP
11 4 (0.92%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.92%) PhD
11 4 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.69%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.46%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (7.62%) QA
2 10 (2.31%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.85%) PMO
4 7 (1.62%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.15%) Basel III
6 4 (0.92%) GDPR
6 4 (0.92%) NIST
7 3 (0.69%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.69%) SLA
8 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.46%) PSD2
9 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.23%) GRC
9 1 (0.23%) IFRS
9 1 (0.23%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.23%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.23%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (7.85%) Docker
2 4 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (9.24%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.00%) Ansible
2 13 (3.00%) Terraform
3 5 (1.15%) Grafana
3 5 (1.15%) Prometheus
3 5 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.92%) Kibana
5 3 (0.69%) SCCM
6 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.46%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.23%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.23%) linkerd
7 1 (0.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (5.31%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.23%) Google
3 11 (2.54%) Databricks
4 10 (2.31%) Informatica
5 9 (2.08%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.85%) Amplitude
6 8 (1.85%) Oracle
6 8 (1.85%) Sonatype
7 6 (1.39%) Splunk
8 5 (1.15%) SAP
9 4 (0.92%) Bloomberg
9 4 (0.92%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.92%) PagerDuty
10 3 (0.69%) Adobe
10 3 (0.69%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (0.69%) Citrix
10 3 (0.69%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.69%) Reuters
10 3 (0.69%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.46%) Ariba