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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 222 212
Rank change year-on-year -53 -10 +37
Contract jobs citing Fintech 402 360 488
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.93% 1.23% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 1.36% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 288 408
10th Percentile £340 £400 £399
25th Percentile £425 £507 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £713 £700
90th Percentile £850 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £478 £489
% change year-on-year -16.32% -2.25% +6.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 5
10th Percentile - - £33.40
25th Percentile £22.25 £46.25 £42.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £47.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -17.39% -
75th Percentile £81.25 £48.75 £73.75
90th Percentile £88.50 - £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 37,265 26,485 38,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.97% 90.43% 86.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 17,037 25,025
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £723 £744 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,203 922 2,327
10th Percentile £14.97 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.20% -8.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.52 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.76 £30.91
% change year-on-year -13.41% +2.74% -11.68%

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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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -67 361 £550 -12.00% 579
London -42 259 £625 - 423
UK excluding London -17 108 £400 -16.32% 217
Work from Home -86 108 £600 -9.09% 287
North of England -48 35 £402 -22.09% 61
South East -21 32 £280 - 95
Yorkshire -45 18 £359 -31.62% 11
Midlands -67 16 £385 -3.75% 20
North West -23 15 £446 -6.80% 35
East Midlands -35 13 £365 -8.88% 8
Scotland +6 9 £588 +17.50% 6
South West -13 8 £450 -35.71% 21
East of England -16 8 £358 -47.04% 13
West Midlands -58 3 £430 -16.50% 12
North East - 2 - - 15
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 2

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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 34 (8.46%) Confluence
2 4 (1.00%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.50%) Apache
4 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.25%) Appian
Applications
1 21 (5.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.99%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.75%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.75%) Notion
6 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
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 97 (24.13%) AWS
2 67 (16.67%) Azure
3 41 (10.20%) GCP
4 34 (8.46%) Power Platform
5 27 (6.72%) GitHub
6 21 (5.22%) SaaS
7 12 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (2.74%) Datadog
9 9 (2.24%) Figma
10 8 (1.99%) Amazon Kinesis
10 8 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.74%) AWS Step Functions
11 7 (1.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (1.49%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.49%) Serverless
13 5 (1.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.00%) Firewall
1 4 (1.00%) Network Security
2 2 (0.50%) DNS
2 2 (0.50%) FTP
2 2 (0.50%) SSH
3 1 (0.25%) HTTP
3 1 (0.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.47%) Power BI
2 25 (6.22%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (5.97%) Tableau
4 13 (3.23%) Looker
5 12 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (2.99%) Apache Cassandra
6 10 (2.49%) MySQL
6 10 (2.49%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.99%) Data Lake
7 8 (1.99%) Hadoop
7 8 (1.99%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.74%) Mixpanel
8 7 (1.74%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.24%) Big Data
10 5 (1.24%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.75%) Pinecone
11 3 (0.75%) Redis
11 3 (0.75%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 48 (11.94%) JIRA
2 31 (7.71%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.99%) Sonatype Nexus
4 10 (2.49%) Git
5 7 (1.74%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.00%) GitLab
6 4 (1.00%) JUnit
6 4 (1.00%) Selenium
7 3 (0.75%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.75%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.75%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.50%) Android Studio
8 2 (0.50%) Appium
8 2 (0.50%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.50%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.50%) MLflow
8 2 (0.50%) Postman
8 2 (0.50%) Sourcetree
8 2 (0.50%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.50%) Xcode
General
1 245 (60.95%) Finance
2 106 (26.37%) Social Skills
3 95 (23.63%) Banking
4 53 (13.18%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (7.96%) Front Office
6 16 (3.98%) Public Sector
7 15 (3.73%) Marketing
8 13 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.99%) Financial Institution
9 12 (2.99%) Retail
10 11 (2.74%) Corporate Banking
10 11 (2.74%) Legal
10 11 (2.74%) Retail Banking
11 9 (2.24%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.74%) Japanese Language
12 7 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.00%) Games
14 4 (1.00%) German Language
15 3 (0.75%) French Language
Job Titles
1 95 (23.63%) Developer
2 69 (17.16%) Senior
3 36 (8.96%) Lead
4 34 (8.46%) Analyst
5 28 (6.97%) Software Engineer
6 27 (6.72%) Java Developer
6 27 (6.72%) Senior Developer
7 24 (5.97%) Python Developer
8 23 (5.72%) Business Analyst
9 21 (5.22%) Project Manager
10 18 (4.48%) Architect
10 18 (4.48%) Product Manager
11 17 (4.23%) AWS Engineer
12 16 (3.98%) Lead Developer
13 14 (3.48%) Consultant
13 14 (3.48%) Data Engineer
13 14 (3.48%) Java Engineer
14 13 (3.23%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 13 (3.23%) Technical Business Analyst
15 12 (2.99%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (7.96%) Kafka
2 30 (7.46%) React
3 29 (7.21%) REST
4 24 (5.97%) Node.js
5 19 (4.73%) Redux
5 19 (4.73%) RESTful
6 13 (3.23%) .NET
6 13 (3.23%) AngularJS
7 12 (2.99%) Spring
7 12 (2.99%) Spring Boot
8 8 (1.99%) GraphQL
8 8 (1.99%) React Native
9 7 (1.74%) Pandas
9 7 (1.74%) TensorFlow
10 5 (1.24%) gRPC
10 5 (1.24%) Jest
10 5 (1.24%) scikit-learn
11 4 (1.00%) NumPy
11 4 (1.00%) PyTorch
11 4 (1.00%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.21%) Equities
2 27 (6.72%) Product Ownership
3 26 (6.47%) Fixed Income
4 22 (5.47%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (4.98%) Onboarding
6 19 (4.73%) Derivative
7 17 (4.23%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (3.23%) Mobile App
9 12 (2.99%) Cloud Native
10 10 (2.49%) Hedge funds
10 10 (2.49%) Virtual Team
11 9 (2.24%) PMI
12 8 (1.99%) Data Structures
13 5 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.24%) Digital Wallet
14 4 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
14 4 (1.00%) Learning Management System
14 4 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (1.00%) Management Information System
14 4 (1.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.73%) Linux
2 11 (2.74%) Unix
3 7 (1.74%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.50%) Android
5 1 (0.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (23.13%) Agile
2 91 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
3 67 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 62 (15.42%) Analytics
5 55 (13.68%) Software Engineering
6 51 (12.69%) DevOps
7 48 (11.94%) Stakeholder Management
8 44 (10.95%) Microservices
9 42 (10.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (8.46%) User Experience
11 32 (7.96%) AI
12 31 (7.71%) Decision-Making
12 31 (7.71%) Mentoring
13 30 (7.46%) Roadmaps
14 29 (7.21%) Business Intelligence
15 28 (6.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 27 (6.72%) Portfolio Management
16 27 (6.72%) Project Management
17 26 (6.47%) Process Improvement
18 24 (5.97%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 85 (21.14%) Python
2 70 (17.41%) Java
3 64 (15.92%) SQL
4 30 (7.46%) TypeScript
5 28 (6.97%) C#
6 25 (6.22%) JavaScript
7 23 (5.72%) Go
8 12 (2.99%) R
9 10 (2.49%) Kotlin
10 9 (2.24%) C++
11 7 (1.74%) Bash
11 7 (1.74%) Swift
12 4 (1.00%) Objective-C
12 4 (1.00%) Perl
12 4 (1.00%) Ruby
13 3 (0.75%) PHP
14 2 (0.50%) C
14 2 (0.50%) F#
14 2 (0.50%) Haskell
14 2 (0.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 30 (7.46%) Degree
2 21 (5.22%) PMP
3 19 (4.73%) PMI Certification
4 15 (3.73%) Master's Degree
4 15 (3.73%) Security Cleared
5 11 (2.74%) SC Cleared
6 10 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.49%) MBA
7 8 (1.99%) SAFe Agilist
8 7 (1.74%) CISSP
9 6 (1.49%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.49%) CISM
10 4 (1.00%) APMP
10 4 (1.00%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.00%) OCP
10 4 (1.00%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.75%) CBAP
11 3 (0.75%) IIBA
11 3 (0.75%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (8.96%) QA
2 18 (4.48%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.49%) PMO
4 8 (1.99%) Basel III
4 8 (1.99%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.49%) GDPR
5 6 (1.49%) NIST
6 4 (1.00%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.00%) SLA
7 3 (0.75%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.50%) COBIT
8 2 (0.50%) GRC
8 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.50%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.25%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.25%) PSD2
9 1 (0.25%) SEPA
9 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 43 (10.70%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (9.45%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.73%) Ansible
3 16 (3.98%) Terraform
4 8 (1.99%) Grafana
5 4 (1.00%) Kibana
6 3 (0.75%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.75%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.50%) Puppet
7 2 (0.50%) RSA Archer
7 2 (0.50%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 22 (5.47%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.99%) Sonatype
3 11 (2.74%) Databricks
4 9 (2.24%) Salesforce
5 8 (1.99%) Amplitude
6 7 (1.74%) Google
7 6 (1.49%) Oracle
7 6 (1.49%) Splunk
8 5 (1.24%) Informatica
8 5 (1.24%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.75%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.75%) BiZZdesign
9 3 (0.75%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.75%) GoldenSource
9 3 (0.75%) Samsung
10 2 (0.50%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.50%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.50%) Gemalto
10 2 (0.50%) Rapid7
10 2 (0.50%) Thales