Financial Technology (FinTech)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Fintech skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Fintech over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 225 241 187
Rank change year-on-year +16 -54 +60
Contract jobs citing Fintech 465 663 1,383
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.07% 1.11% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.23% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 501 1,197
10th Percentile £400 £405 £425
25th Percentile £475 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £750 £688 £681
90th Percentile £800 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £458 £500
% change year-on-year +0.98% -8.40% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £34.88 - £36.00
25th Percentile £45.44 - £37.50
Median hourly rate £56.25 - £40.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - £42.50
90th Percentile £80.88 - £44.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £88.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Fintech is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Fintech as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Fintech in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Fintech.

Daily rate trend for Fintech in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fintech over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Fintech in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Fintech.

Hourly rate trend for Fintech in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Fintech over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Fintech in the UK

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Top 16 Contract 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 27 April 2024. 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 +44 428 £650 +8.33% 657
London +8 336 £650 +8.33% 468
Work from Home +32 225 £650 +8.33% 345
UK excluding London +64 60 £463 +0.98% 217
North of England +38 24 £425 -8.11% 45
North West +20 12 £475 +2.70% 28
Yorkshire +24 11 £425 -19.05% 12
South West +22 11 £398 -23.00% 29
Midlands +27 9 £575 +27.78% 33
East of England +24 8 £655 - 11
West Midlands +33 5 £475 -5.00% 21
East Midlands +19 4 £663 +55.88% 12
South East +21 3 £625 -24.24% 55
Northern Ireland +4 3 - - 6
Scotland +25 2 £475 +3.71% 23
North East +17 1 - - 5

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (2.58%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (2.37%) Apache
3 8 (1.72%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.72%) Confluence
4 6 (1.29%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.65%) CMS
7 2 (0.43%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.43%) nginx
8 1 (0.22%) Drupal
8 1 (0.22%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.22%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 11 (2.37%) Aladdin
2 10 (2.15%) Distributed Ledger
2 10 (2.15%) Loan IQ
3 3 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.65%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 156 (33.55%) AWS
2 67 (14.41%) GCP
3 65 (13.98%) Azure
4 11 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (2.15%) SaaS
6 9 (1.94%) Serverless
7 8 (1.72%) dbt
7 8 (1.72%) GitHub
8 6 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (1.29%) Figma
8 6 (1.29%) OneDrive
8 6 (1.29%) Twilio
9 5 (1.08%) Azure Functions
10 4 (0.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (0.86%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (0.86%) Azure Machine Learning
11 3 (0.65%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.65%) Snowflake
11 3 (0.65%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.51%) Internet
1 7 (1.51%) VPN
2 4 (0.86%) Firewall
3 3 (0.65%) BIG-IP
3 3 (0.65%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 3 (0.65%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (0.43%) DNS
4 2 (0.43%) NetScaler
4 2 (0.43%) Network Security
4 2 (0.43%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.22%) HTTP
5 1 (0.22%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (10.11%) Apache Cassandra
2 16 (3.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 16 (3.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 13 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (2.37%) Apache Ignite
4 11 (2.37%) NoSQL
5 7 (1.51%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (1.51%) Big Data
5 7 (1.51%) MongoDB
5 7 (1.51%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.29%) Apache Arrow
6 6 (1.29%) Dremio
7 5 (1.08%) SQL Server
8 3 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (0.65%) Looker
8 3 (0.65%) Tableau
9 2 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.43%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.43%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (1.72%) Git
1 8 (1.72%) JIRA
1 8 (1.72%) Postman
2 7 (1.51%) Appium
2 7 (1.51%) Selenium
3 6 (1.29%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.86%) Cucumber
4 4 (0.86%) Cypress.io
4 4 (0.86%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (0.86%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.65%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.43%) Android Studio
6 2 (0.43%) Fiddler
6 2 (0.43%) git-flow
6 2 (0.43%) SoapUI
6 2 (0.43%) XCTest
6 2 (0.43%) XCUITest
7 1 (0.22%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.22%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
General
1 226 (48.60%) Finance
2 97 (20.86%) Social Skills
3 73 (15.70%) Front Office
4 59 (12.69%) Banking
5 40 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (5.16%) Investment Banking
7 21 (4.52%) Financial Institution
8 14 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.94%) Marketing
10 6 (1.29%) Retail Banking
11 5 (1.08%) Back Office
11 5 (1.08%) Corporate Banking
11 5 (1.08%) Legal
11 5 (1.08%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.08%) Retail
12 4 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.65%) Law
13 3 (0.65%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 178 (38.28%) Developer
2 117 (25.16%) Software Engineer
3 71 (15.27%) Senior
4 46 (9.89%) .NET Developer
4 46 (9.89%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 45 (9.68%) Architect
6 34 (7.31%) Senior Software Engineer
7 33 (7.10%) React Developer
8 30 (6.45%) Software Manager
9 29 (6.24%) Solutions Architect
10 28 (6.02%) .NET Software Developer
10 28 (6.02%) Analyst
11 27 (5.81%) .NET Software Engineer
12 26 (5.59%) Finance Manager
12 26 (5.59%) Software Asset Manager
13 20 (4.30%) Business Analyst
14 18 (3.87%) Full Stack Developer
15 14 (3.01%) Senior Developer
16 13 (2.80%) C# Developer
16 13 (2.80%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (15.27%) React
2 61 (13.12%) .NET
3 53 (11.40%) Kafka
4 47 (10.11%) Redux
5 33 (7.10%) Node.js
6 30 (6.45%) AngularJS
7 20 (4.30%) .NET Core
8 19 (4.09%) GraphQL
9 18 (3.87%) React Native
10 17 (3.66%) Vue
11 14 (3.01%) ASP.NET
12 13 (2.80%) ASP.NET Core
13 10 (2.15%) gRPC
13 10 (2.15%) Material-UI
13 10 (2.15%) Protocol Buffers
13 10 (2.15%) REST
14 8 (1.72%) CSS
14 8 (1.72%) Next.js
15 7 (1.51%) Jest
15 7 (1.51%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 59 (12.69%) Fixed Income
2 47 (10.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 41 (8.82%) Hedge funds
4 39 (8.39%) Derivative
4 39 (8.39%) Equities
5 26 (5.59%) Product Ownership
6 25 (5.38%) Greenfield Project
7 17 (3.66%) Mobile App
8 14 (3.01%) Blockchain
9 9 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.29%) CBDC
10 6 (1.29%) Social Media
11 5 (1.08%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.08%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.08%) Web3
12 4 (0.86%) IoT
12 4 (0.86%) Wiki
13 3 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.65%) PKI
13 3 (0.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.58%) Android
2 10 (2.15%) Apple iOS
2 10 (2.15%) Windows
3 7 (1.51%) Unix
4 6 (1.29%) Linux
5 5 (1.08%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.86%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.65%) VMS
8 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (36.56%) Agile
2 156 (33.55%) Software Engineering
3 72 (15.48%) DevOps
4 68 (14.62%) User Experience
5 59 (12.69%) Asset Management
6 58 (12.47%) Full Stack Development
6 58 (12.47%) Investment Management
7 55 (11.83%) UX Design
8 49 (10.54%) User Research
8 49 (10.54%) UX Research
9 46 (9.89%) Problem-Solving
10 42 (9.03%) TDD
11 33 (7.10%) Roadmaps
12 32 (6.88%) CI/CD
13 29 (6.24%) Computer Science
14 26 (5.59%) Machine Learning
14 26 (5.59%) Test Automation
15 22 (4.73%) Continuous Integration
16 20 (4.30%) Performance Attribution
17 19 (4.09%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 81 (17.42%) C#
2 78 (16.77%) Python
3 76 (16.34%) SQL
4 74 (15.91%) JavaScript
5 71 (15.27%) TypeScript
6 59 (12.69%) Java
7 57 (12.26%) Go
8 20 (4.30%) Kotlin
8 20 (4.30%) Scala
9 10 (2.15%) PL/SQL
10 9 (1.94%) PHP
11 7 (1.51%) C++
12 6 (1.29%) Swift
13 5 (1.08%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.86%) C
14 4 (0.86%) R
14 4 (0.86%) Ruby
15 2 (0.43%) Perl
15 2 (0.43%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.22%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 41 (8.82%) Degree
2 26 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (2.80%) SC Cleared
3 13 (2.80%) Security Cleared
4 4 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (0.86%) Master's Degree
4 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (0.86%) PhD
5 3 (0.65%) MBA
6 2 (0.43%) CCNA
6 2 (0.43%) CCNP
6 2 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.43%) MCSA
7 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (10.75%) QA
2 5 (1.08%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.86%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.43%) GRC
4 2 (0.43%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.43%) NIST
4 2 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 53 (11.40%) Docker
2 2 (0.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.43%) Squid
2 2 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 64 (13.76%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.01%) Terraform
3 5 (1.08%) SCCM
4 4 (0.86%) Ansible
5 2 (0.43%) HAProxy
5 2 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.22%) Grafana
6 1 (0.22%) Istio
6 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.22%) Kibana
6 1 (0.22%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.22%) logstash
6 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (3.44%) Google
2 14 (3.01%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.01%) Oracle
3 12 (2.58%) Bloomberg
4 11 (2.37%) BISAM
4 11 (2.37%) Salesforce
5 4 (0.86%) Freshdesk
5 4 (0.86%) ION Trading
6 3 (0.65%) Apple
6 3 (0.65%) CA
6 3 (0.65%) Checkmarx
6 3 (0.65%) Citrix
6 3 (0.65%) Databricks
6 3 (0.65%) F5
7 2 (0.43%) Cisco
7 2 (0.43%) CyberArk
7 2 (0.43%) Fortinet
7 2 (0.43%) IBM
7 2 (0.43%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.43%) Virgin Media