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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 194 209
Rank change year-on-year -80 +15 +36
Contract jobs citing Fintech 425 398 470
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.87% 1.37% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.50% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 314 391
10th Percentile £300 £363 £400
25th Percentile £440 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £750
90th Percentile £850 £846 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £446 £450
% change year-on-year -9.92% -0.83% -13.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 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 - £71.50
90th Percentile £90.00 - £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 41,434 26,510 36,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.66% 90.99% 85.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,895 16,942 23,625
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £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 2,481 1,120 2,526
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.85 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £27.97 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.98% -23.38% -0.11%
75th Percentile £67.84 £57.50 £60.71
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +8.91%

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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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -72 395 £550 -8.33% 1,029
London -41 308 £575 -8.00% 844
Work from Home -123 105 £588 -12.96% 455
UK excluding London -52 88 £402 -9.92% 294
South East -34 30 £280 - 110
North of England -62 30 £450 +12.50% 77
Yorkshire -43 18 £514 +32.39% 19
North West -46 10 £446 +11.56% 47
South West - 9 £477 - 25
Midlands -61 8 £340 -15.00% 26
Scotland -9 7 £475 -5.00% 14
East Midlands -32 7 £340 -15.00% 4
East of England - 5 £415 - 13
North East -29 2 - - 11
West Midlands -58 1 - - 22

Fintech
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 28 (6.59%) Confluence
2 4 (0.94%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.71%) Apache
4 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.47%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.24%) Appian
5 1 (0.24%) CMS
5 1 (0.24%) nginx
Applications
1 16 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.65%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.94%) Notion
4 4 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.71%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.24%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.24%) Sketch
6 1 (0.24%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 4 (0.94%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.47%) SAP EHS
2 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.24%) BASE24
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.24%) Findur
3 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.24%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 95 (22.35%) AWS
2 62 (14.59%) Azure
3 44 (10.35%) GCP
4 31 (7.29%) Power Platform
5 26 (6.12%) GitHub
6 20 (4.71%) SaaS
7 14 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (2.59%) Snowflake
9 10 (2.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 9 (2.12%) Figma
11 6 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (1.18%) Anthropic Claude
12 5 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.18%) Serverless
13 4 (0.94%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (0.94%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (0.94%) AWS Step Functions
13 4 (0.94%) Datadog
13 4 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.18%) Network Security
2 4 (0.94%) Firewall
3 3 (0.71%) VPN
4 2 (0.47%) DNS
4 2 (0.47%) FTP
5 1 (0.24%) DHCP
5 1 (0.24%) HTTP
5 1 (0.24%) NFC
5 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (7.06%) Tableau
3 27 (6.35%) Power BI
4 18 (4.24%) NoSQL
5 16 (3.76%) Looker
6 14 (3.29%) Relational Database
7 12 (2.82%) Data Lake
7 12 (2.82%) MongoDB
8 11 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (2.35%) BigQuery
10 9 (2.12%) Mixpanel
11 7 (1.65%) Apache Cassandra
12 6 (1.41%) MySQL
12 6 (1.41%) SQL Server
13 5 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (1.18%) Big Data
13 5 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.94%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.94%) Pinecone
14 4 (0.94%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 39 (9.18%) JIRA
2 21 (4.94%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.82%) Git
4 8 (1.88%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.71%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.71%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.47%) Android Studio
6 2 (0.47%) Appium
6 2 (0.47%) GitLab
6 2 (0.47%) JUnit
6 2 (0.47%) MLflow
6 2 (0.47%) Postman
6 2 (0.47%) Selenium
6 2 (0.47%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.47%) Sourcetree
6 2 (0.47%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.47%) Xcode
7 1 (0.24%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.24%) Mockito
7 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 250 (58.82%) Finance
2 107 (25.18%) Banking
3 92 (21.65%) Social Skills
4 56 (13.18%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (7.29%) Front Office
6 20 (4.71%) Financial Institution
7 19 (4.47%) Marketing
8 13 (3.06%) Public Sector
9 11 (2.59%) Retail
10 10 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (2.12%) Corporate Banking
11 9 (2.12%) Investment Banking
11 9 (2.12%) Publishing
11 9 (2.12%) Retail Banking
12 8 (1.88%) Legal
13 6 (1.41%) Games
13 6 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.94%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.71%) Advertising
16 2 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 97 (22.82%) Developer
2 74 (17.41%) Senior
3 39 (9.18%) Lead
4 37 (8.71%) Analyst
5 36 (8.47%) Software Engineer
6 25 (5.88%) Java Developer
7 22 (5.18%) Data Engineer
7 22 (5.18%) Python Developer
8 21 (4.94%) Business Analyst
8 21 (4.94%) Project Manager
9 20 (4.71%) Senior Developer
10 19 (4.47%) Designer
11 18 (4.24%) Consultant
12 17 (4.00%) Java Engineer
13 16 (3.76%) Architect
13 16 (3.76%) AWS Engineer
13 16 (3.76%) Lead Developer
14 15 (3.53%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 12 (2.82%) Kafka Developer
15 12 (2.82%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (8.47%) Kafka
2 35 (8.24%) React
3 34 (8.00%) REST
4 27 (6.35%) Node.js
5 18 (4.24%) Redux
5 18 (4.24%) Spring
5 18 (4.24%) Spring Boot
6 15 (3.53%) RESTful
7 13 (3.06%) .NET
7 13 (3.06%) Pandas
8 11 (2.59%) AngularJS
8 11 (2.59%) FastAPI
8 11 (2.59%) Flask
8 11 (2.59%) NumPy
8 11 (2.59%) React Native
9 10 (2.35%) Polars
10 9 (2.12%) Apache Avro
10 9 (2.12%) TensorFlow
11 8 (1.88%) Next.js
12 7 (1.65%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.06%) Equities
2 27 (6.35%) Product Ownership
3 22 (5.18%) Fixed Income
3 22 (5.18%) Onboarding
4 21 (4.94%) Derivative
4 21 (4.94%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (4.71%) Cloud Native
6 17 (4.00%) Hedge funds
7 16 (3.76%) Data Structures
8 14 (3.29%) Management Information System
8 14 (3.29%) Mobile App
9 11 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (2.35%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.65%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.65%) Market Risk
11 7 (1.65%) PMI
12 6 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 5 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.24%) Linux
2 13 (3.06%) Unix
3 8 (1.88%) Android
4 6 (1.41%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (18.59%) Agile
2 77 (18.12%) CI/CD
3 70 (16.47%) Software Engineering
4 64 (15.06%) AI
5 63 (14.82%) Stakeholder Management
6 61 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
7 59 (13.88%) Analytics
8 49 (11.53%) DevOps
9 40 (9.41%) Microservices
10 38 (8.94%) Data Pipeline
11 34 (8.00%) Business Intelligence
11 34 (8.00%) Mentoring
12 33 (7.76%) Continuous Improvement
13 32 (7.53%) Decision-Making
14 30 (7.06%) Machine Learning
14 30 (7.06%) User Experience
15 29 (6.82%) Project Management
16 28 (6.59%) Data Science
16 28 (6.59%) Visualisation
17 27 (6.35%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 95 (22.35%) SQL
2 85 (20.00%) Python
3 68 (16.00%) Java
4 41 (9.65%) TypeScript
5 27 (6.35%) JavaScript
6 24 (5.65%) C#
7 23 (5.41%) Go
8 19 (4.47%) R
9 10 (2.35%) C++
10 8 (1.88%) Kotlin
11 7 (1.65%) PHP
12 6 (1.41%) Korn
12 6 (1.41%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.47%) Bash
13 2 (0.47%) Bicep
13 2 (0.47%) F#
13 2 (0.47%) Haskell
13 2 (0.47%) Rust
13 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.47%) Swift
Qualifications
1 39 (9.18%) Degree
2 23 (5.41%) Security Cleared
3 18 (4.24%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.76%) Master's Degree
5 15 (3.53%) PMP
6 13 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (3.06%) PMI Certification
7 9 (2.12%) MBA
8 6 (1.41%) CISM
8 6 (1.41%) CISSP
8 6 (1.41%) SAFe Agilist
9 5 (1.18%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.94%) APMP
10 4 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.71%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.47%) CBAP
12 2 (0.47%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.00%) QA
2 9 (2.12%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.88%) PMO
4 7 (1.65%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.41%) Basel III
6 5 (1.18%) GDPR
7 4 (0.94%) NIST
7 4 (0.94%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.94%) SLA
8 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.24%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.24%) GRC
9 1 (0.24%) IFRS
9 1 (0.24%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.24%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (8.94%) Docker
2 2 (0.47%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 42 (9.88%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.29%) Terraform
3 13 (3.06%) Ansible
4 6 (1.41%) Grafana
5 4 (0.94%) Kibana
5 4 (0.94%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.47%) Puppet
6 2 (0.47%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.24%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.24%) linkerd
7 1 (0.24%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (5.18%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.82%) Databricks
3 11 (2.59%) Google
4 10 (2.35%) Amplitude
4 10 (2.35%) Informatica
4 10 (2.35%) Salesforce
5 8 (1.88%) Oracle
5 8 (1.88%) Sonatype
6 6 (1.41%) Splunk
7 5 (1.18%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.94%) SAP
9 3 (0.71%) BiZZdesign
9 3 (0.71%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.47%) Adobe
10 2 (0.47%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.47%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.47%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.47%) Workday
11 1 (0.24%) GoldenSource
11 1 (0.24%) OpenLink