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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 195 243
Rank change year-on-year -128 +48 -25
Contract jobs citing Fintech 401 478 383
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.74% 1.45% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.60% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 383 313
10th Percentile £269 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £439 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £573 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.30% -4.58% -
75th Percentile £638 £794 £731
90th Percentile £750 £875 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £468 £463
% change year-on-year +17.65% +1.08% -11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile £30.80 £45.88 £48.00
25th Percentile £43.63 £65.00 £50.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +33.64% -38.51%
75th Percentile £82.50 £85.63 £58.75
90th Percentile £87.00 £89.75 £61.00
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 45,937 29,792 32,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.50% 90.51% 85.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,939 18,514 20,418
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,060 1,790 1,498
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.23 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.44 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.94 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.10 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.13 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +78.36% -47.67% +7.50%

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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 13 September 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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -106 375 £527 -12.17% 2,147
London -79 297 £525 -16.00% 1,854
Work from Home -161 106 £520 -20.00% 1,234
UK excluding London -117 76 £550 +17.65% 429
South West -22 23 £700 +7.69% 58
North of England -84 23 £514 +28.50% 111
Yorkshire -32 14 £514 +24.15% 24
Midlands -46 11 - - 36
West Midlands -40 8 - - 22
North West -72 8 £475 +18.75% 66
South East -59 7 £265 -29.80% 123
East of England -16 6 £510 +13.33% 28
Scotland -57 4 £475 -9.52% 48
East Midlands -25 3 - - 14
Wales - 2 £525 - 12
North East -47 1 - - 23

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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 10 (2.49%) Confluence
2 3 (0.75%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.75%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.50%) Apache
3 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.25%) CMS
4 1 (0.25%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (2.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.75%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.75%) Trello
5 2 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.50%) Notion
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.25%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (1.50%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.00%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.50%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.25%) Findur
5 1 (0.25%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.25%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 64 (15.96%) AWS
2 50 (12.47%) Azure
3 29 (7.23%) GCP
4 24 (5.99%) GitHub
4 24 (5.99%) SaaS
5 17 (4.24%) Figma
6 15 (3.74%) Power Platform
7 14 (3.49%) Snowflake
8 12 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (2.74%) GitHub Copilot
10 9 (2.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 9 (2.24%) Serverless
11 8 (2.00%) Amazon S3
11 8 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (1.75%) dbt
13 6 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.25%) VPN
2 3 (0.75%) Firewall
3 2 (0.50%) Internet
3 2 (0.50%) Network Security
3 2 (0.50%) NFC
4 1 (0.25%) DHCP
4 1 (0.25%) DNS
4 1 (0.25%) FTP
4 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.74%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (5.24%) Tableau
3 16 (3.99%) MongoDB
3 16 (3.99%) NoSQL
4 15 (3.74%) Power BI
5 12 (2.99%) BigQuery
5 12 (2.99%) Relational Database
6 10 (2.49%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (2.49%) Data Lake
6 10 (2.49%) Looker
7 8 (2.00%) SQL Server
8 7 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.00%) Mixpanel
10 3 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.75%) Big Data
10 3 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.75%) Redis
11 2 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (5.74%) JIRA
2 15 (3.74%) Git
3 13 (3.24%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.74%) GitLab
5 6 (1.50%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.50%) Storybook
6 4 (1.00%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.75%) Gradle
8 2 (0.50%) Gemini Tracker
8 2 (0.50%) Maven
8 2 (0.50%) MLflow
9 1 (0.25%) Appium
9 1 (0.25%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.25%) JUnit
9 1 (0.25%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.25%) Mocha
9 1 (0.25%) Mockito
9 1 (0.25%) Postman
9 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.25%) XCUITest
General
1 239 (59.60%) Finance
2 129 (32.17%) Banking
3 82 (20.45%) Social Skills
4 48 (11.97%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (6.73%) Marketing
6 22 (5.49%) Financial Institution
7 14 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.99%) Front Office
9 8 (2.00%) Publishing
10 7 (1.75%) Legal
11 6 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.25%) Private Banking
12 5 (1.25%) Public Sector
13 4 (1.00%) Advertising
13 4 (1.00%) Games
13 4 (1.00%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.00%) Retail
14 3 (0.75%) Dutch Language
14 3 (0.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 76 (18.95%) Senior
2 67 (16.71%) Developer
3 53 (13.22%) Analyst
4 25 (6.23%) Designer
5 24 (5.99%) Software Engineer
6 22 (5.49%) Lead
7 20 (4.99%) Consultant
8 17 (4.24%) Data Engineer
8 17 (4.24%) Java Engineer
9 15 (3.74%) Architect
10 14 (3.49%) Senior Manager
11 13 (3.24%) Report Analyst
11 13 (3.24%) Senior Developer
12 12 (2.99%) Infrastructure Manager
12 12 (2.99%) Product Designer
13 11 (2.74%) Business Analyst
13 11 (2.74%) Network Infrastructure Manager
13 11 (2.74%) Network Manager
13 11 (2.74%) Product Manager
13 11 (2.74%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (8.73%) REST
2 31 (7.73%) Kafka
3 21 (5.24%) Spring
4 19 (4.74%) .NET
5 18 (4.49%) React
6 17 (4.24%) Spring Boot
6 17 (4.24%) Terraform
7 14 (3.49%) RESTful
8 12 (2.99%) React Native
9 10 (2.49%) FastAPI
9 10 (2.49%) Flask
9 10 (2.49%) NumPy
9 10 (2.49%) OAuth
9 10 (2.49%) Pandas
10 9 (2.24%) Node.js
10 9 (2.24%) OAuth2
10 9 (2.24%) Polars
11 8 (2.00%) Apache Avro
11 8 (2.00%) JWT
12 7 (1.75%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 25 (6.23%) Cloud Native
2 24 (5.99%) Onboarding
3 21 (5.24%) Mobile App
4 19 (4.74%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (4.24%) Product Ownership
6 16 (3.99%) Equities
7 14 (3.49%) AI Agents
7 14 (3.49%) Data Structures
8 13 (3.24%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (2.99%) Hedge funds
10 11 (2.74%) Management Information System
11 9 (2.24%) Data Centre
11 9 (2.24%) Derivative
12 8 (2.00%) Fixed Income
12 8 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (1.75%) Market Risk
14 5 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (1.25%) Equity Derivative
14 5 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.49%) Linux
2 14 (3.49%) Android
3 10 (2.49%) Apple iOS
4 9 (2.24%) Unix
5 5 (1.25%) Windows
6 2 (0.50%) CentOS
6 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (25.19%) AI
2 77 (19.20%) Stakeholder Management
3 74 (18.45%) CI/CD
4 61 (15.21%) Software Engineering
5 52 (12.97%) Agile
6 48 (11.97%) Analytics
7 47 (11.72%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (11.47%) DevOps
9 40 (9.98%) Microservices
10 39 (9.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (8.98%) User Experience
12 35 (8.73%) Generative AI
13 33 (8.23%) Containerisation
13 33 (8.23%) Observability
14 32 (7.98%) Decision-Making
15 29 (7.23%) Data Pipeline
16 28 (6.98%) Event-Driven
16 28 (6.98%) Roadmaps
17 26 (6.48%) Machine Learning
18 23 (5.74%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 83 (20.70%) SQL
2 65 (16.21%) Python
3 51 (12.72%) Java
4 25 (6.23%) TypeScript
5 19 (4.74%) Go
6 18 (4.49%) C#
7 15 (3.74%) JavaScript
7 15 (3.74%) Kotlin
8 10 (2.49%) R
9 9 (2.24%) Bash
9 9 (2.24%) PowerShell
10 7 (1.75%) PHP
11 6 (1.50%) C++
12 5 (1.25%) Korn
13 2 (0.50%) Groovy
14 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.25%) C
14 1 (0.25%) CQL
14 1 (0.25%) Perl
14 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (7.98%) Degree
2 15 (3.74%) Security Cleared
3 14 (3.49%) SC Cleared
4 11 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.00%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.75%) PMP
7 6 (1.50%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.25%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.00%) PhD
10 3 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.75%) CISM
10 3 (0.75%) CISSP
11 2 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.50%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.50%) CCSK
11 2 (0.50%) CCSP
11 2 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.50%) MBA
11 2 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.23%) QA
2 10 (2.49%) PMO
3 7 (1.75%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.50%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.50%) PSD2
5 3 (0.75%) GDPR
6 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.50%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.50%) NIST
6 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.25%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
7 1 (0.25%) IFRS
7 1 (0.25%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.25%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.25%) SLA
7 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 41 (10.22%) Docker
2 4 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (11.97%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.99%) Prometheus
3 7 (1.75%) Grafana
4 5 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.75%) Ansible
5 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.75%) SCCM
6 2 (0.50%) Puppet
7 1 (0.25%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.25%) Istio
7 1 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.25%) linkerd
7 1 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 28 (6.98%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.49%) Google
3 11 (2.74%) Databricks
4 9 (2.24%) Informatica
5 7 (1.75%) Amplitude
5 7 (1.75%) Braze
5 7 (1.75%) SAP
6 6 (1.50%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.25%) Adobe
7 5 (1.25%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.25%) Oracle
8 4 (1.00%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.00%) PagerDuty
9 3 (0.75%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.75%) Citrix
9 3 (0.75%) NetApp
9 3 (0.75%) Reuters
9 3 (0.75%) VMware
10 2 (0.50%) Ariba
10 2 (0.50%) ION Trading