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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 203 238
Rank change year-on-year -136 +35 -17
Contract jobs citing Fintech 406 455 385
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.74% 1.38% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.52% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 363 308
10th Percentile £269 £363 £421
25th Percentile £424 £441 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £678 £750 £731
90th Percentile £750 £875 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £570 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +20.00% +5.56% -13.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 2
10th Percentile £76.50 £45.88 £47.38
25th Percentile £78.75 £65.81 £49.06
Median hourly rate £82.50 £76.75 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +7.49% +42.79% -39.90%
75th Percentile £86.25 £87.50 £59.06
90th Percentile £88.50 £89.75 £61.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 46,126 29,916 32,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.57% 90.50% 85.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,740 18,573 19,640
10th Percentile £325 £295 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,322 1,863 1,307
10th Percentile £13.63 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.63% -7.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.21 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.95 £65.23 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.32 £42.50
% change year-on-year +68.05% -47.49% -

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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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -91 378 £550 -8.33% 3,330
London -79 296 £550 -12.52% 2,810
Work from Home -158 101 £520 -17.79% 1,330
UK excluding London -128 80 £570 +20.00% 650
South West -16 27 £700 +55.56% 88
North of England -67 27 £514 +20.94% 165
Yorkshire -25 16 £514 +2.80% 37
Midlands -55 11 - - 60
North West -56 10 £488 +18.18% 97
West Midlands -39 8 - - 37
East of England -29 6 £510 +13.33% 35
Scotland -50 5 £344 -34.52% 52
East Midlands -23 3 - - 23
South East -67 2 £231 -39.14% 171
Wales - 2 £525 - 28
North East -43 1 - - 32

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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 13 (3.20%) Confluence
2 4 (0.99%) Ethereum
3 3 (0.74%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.49%) Apache
4 2 (0.49%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.49%) Solana
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.25%) JBoss
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.25%) nginx
5 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (2.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.74%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.74%) Trello
4 2 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.49%) Notion
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.25%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (1.48%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.99%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.49%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.25%) Findur
4 1 (0.25%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.25%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 75 (18.47%) AWS
2 53 (13.05%) Azure
3 34 (8.37%) GCP
4 29 (7.14%) SaaS
5 19 (4.68%) GitHub
6 15 (3.69%) Figma
6 15 (3.69%) Power Platform
7 13 (3.20%) Snowflake
8 11 (2.71%) GitHub Copilot
8 11 (2.71%) Serverless
9 9 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (1.97%) dbt
11 7 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (1.72%) Amazon S3
11 7 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.48%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.48%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (1.23%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.23%) VPN
2 3 (0.74%) Network Security
3 2 (0.49%) DNS
3 2 (0.49%) Internet
3 2 (0.49%) NFC
4 1 (0.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.42%) NoSQL
2 21 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (5.17%) Tableau
3 19 (4.68%) MongoDB
4 15 (3.69%) Power BI
5 13 (3.20%) BigQuery
5 13 (3.20%) Relational Database
6 11 (2.71%) Looker
7 9 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (1.97%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (0.99%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.99%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.99%) Mixpanel
9 4 (0.99%) Redis
10 3 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.74%) Big Data
10 3 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 25 (6.16%) JIRA
2 17 (4.19%) GitLab
3 16 (3.94%) Git
4 11 (2.71%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.48%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.48%) Storybook
6 5 (1.23%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.74%) Gradle
8 2 (0.49%) Gemini Tracker
8 2 (0.49%) Maven
8 2 (0.49%) MLflow
9 1 (0.25%) Appium
9 1 (0.25%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.25%) Gerrit
9 1 (0.25%) JUnit
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%) Visual Studio
General
1 252 (62.07%) Finance
2 128 (31.53%) Banking
3 81 (19.95%) Social Skills
4 48 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (5.91%) Marketing
6 21 (5.17%) Financial Institution
7 15 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.96%) Front Office
9 8 (1.97%) Legal
10 7 (1.72%) Back Office
10 7 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.48%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.48%) Private Banking
12 5 (1.23%) Health Technology
12 5 (1.23%) Public Sector
12 5 (1.23%) Publishing
12 5 (1.23%) Retail
13 3 (0.74%) Dutch Language
13 3 (0.74%) Games
Job Titles
1 79 (19.46%) Senior
2 74 (18.23%) Developer
3 50 (12.32%) Analyst
4 26 (6.40%) Software Engineer
5 24 (5.91%) Lead
6 22 (5.42%) Designer
7 20 (4.93%) Java Engineer
8 19 (4.68%) Architect
9 17 (4.19%) Consultant
10 16 (3.94%) Senior Developer
11 15 (3.69%) Data Engineer
11 15 (3.69%) Report Analyst
12 14 (3.45%) Infrastructure Manager
13 13 (3.20%) Java Developer
13 13 (3.20%) Network Infrastructure Manager
13 13 (3.20%) Network Manager
14 12 (2.96%) Product Designer
15 11 (2.71%) Product Manager
15 11 (2.71%) React Developer
15 11 (2.71%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (8.87%) Kafka
2 34 (8.37%) REST
3 27 (6.65%) Spring
4 23 (5.67%) Spring Boot
5 19 (4.68%) .NET
5 19 (4.68%) React
5 19 (4.68%) Terraform
6 14 (3.45%) RESTful
7 11 (2.71%) OAuth
8 10 (2.46%) OAuth2
9 9 (2.22%) JWT
9 9 (2.22%) Node.js
9 9 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
9 9 (2.22%) React Native
10 7 (1.72%) CSS
10 7 (1.72%) Jest
10 7 (1.72%) NumPy
10 7 (1.72%) Pandas
10 7 (1.72%) Playwright
11 6 (1.48%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.64%) Distributed Systems
2 30 (7.39%) Cloud Native
3 22 (5.42%) Onboarding
4 21 (5.17%) AI Agents
5 18 (4.43%) Product Ownership
6 17 (4.19%) Mobile App
7 14 (3.45%) Equities
8 11 (2.71%) Data Structures
8 11 (2.71%) Derivative
9 10 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (2.46%) Management Information System
10 9 (2.22%) Data Centre
10 9 (2.22%) Hedge funds
11 8 (1.97%) Fixed Income
11 8 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (1.48%) Equity Derivative
13 5 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.23%) Blockchain
13 5 (1.23%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.68%) Linux
2 16 (3.94%) Android
3 9 (2.22%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.72%) Unix
5 4 (0.99%) Windows
6 2 (0.49%) CentOS
6 2 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (26.60%) AI
2 86 (21.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 79 (19.46%) CI/CD
4 72 (17.73%) Software Engineering
5 59 (14.53%) Agile
6 53 (13.05%) Analytics
7 50 (12.32%) Microservices
8 46 (11.33%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (10.10%) Continuous Improvement
9 41 (10.10%) DevOps
10 39 (9.61%) Generative AI
11 35 (8.62%) Decision-Making
12 34 (8.37%) Observability
13 33 (8.13%) Event-Driven
13 33 (8.13%) User Experience
14 31 (7.64%) Containerisation
15 29 (7.14%) Roadmaps
16 28 (6.90%) Machine Learning
17 26 (6.40%) LLM
17 26 (6.40%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 84 (20.69%) SQL
2 67 (16.50%) Python
3 60 (14.78%) Java
4 27 (6.65%) TypeScript
5 18 (4.43%) C#
5 18 (4.43%) Go
6 16 (3.94%) JavaScript
7 11 (2.71%) Kotlin
8 10 (2.46%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.22%) Bash
9 9 (2.22%) R
10 7 (1.72%) PHP
11 5 (1.23%) C++
11 5 (1.23%) Korn
12 2 (0.49%) Groovy
12 2 (0.49%) Solidity
13 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.25%) Bicep
13 1 (0.25%) C
13 1 (0.25%) CQL
Qualifications
1 30 (7.39%) Degree
2 11 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.97%) Master's Degree
3 8 (1.97%) SC Cleared
3 8 (1.97%) Security Cleared
4 6 (1.48%) PMP
5 5 (1.23%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.23%) PMI Certification
6 4 (0.99%) PhD
7 3 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (0.74%) CISM
7 3 (0.74%) CISSP
8 2 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.49%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.49%) CCSK
8 2 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.49%) MBA
8 2 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.93%) QA
2 11 (2.71%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.46%) PMO
4 8 (1.97%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.72%) GDPR
6 6 (1.48%) PSD2
7 4 (0.99%) GRC
8 3 (0.74%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.49%) NIST
9 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.25%) Dodd-Frank
10 1 (0.25%) IFRS
10 1 (0.25%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.25%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.25%) SLA
10 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 43 (10.59%) Docker
2 4 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 52 (12.81%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.45%) Prometheus
3 9 (2.22%) Grafana
4 4 (0.99%) Ansible
4 4 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.49%) Puppet
5 2 (0.49%) SCCM
6 1 (0.25%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.25%) Istio
6 1 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.25%) linkerd
6 1 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 26 (6.40%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.43%) Google
3 11 (2.71%) Databricks
4 7 (1.72%) Amplitude
4 7 (1.72%) Braze
4 7 (1.72%) Salesforce
5 6 (1.48%) Oracle
6 5 (1.23%) Adobe
6 5 (1.23%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.23%) SAP
7 4 (0.99%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.99%) PagerDuty
8 3 (0.74%) Informatica
8 3 (0.74%) NetApp
8 3 (0.74%) VMware
9 2 (0.49%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.49%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.49%) ION Trading
9 2 (0.49%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.49%) Splunk