Fintech Contracts

Financial Technology (FinTech)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Fintech skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fintech over the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 196 223 230
Rank change year-on-year +27 +7 -33
Contract jobs citing Fintech 462 465 634
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.42% 1.09% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.28% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 379 481
10th Percentile £368 £400 £415
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £750 £750 £700
90th Percentile £850 £805 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £525
% change year-on-year -2.56% -7.14% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile £54.50 £48.00 -
25th Percentile - £50.63 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £89.44
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -38.51% +123.60%
75th Percentile £80.00 £71.50 -
90th Percentile £84.50 £81.40 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £88.00 £89.44
% change year-on-year - -1.61% -

All Process and 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 29,386 36,470 50,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.40% 85.31% 89.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,477 23,291 34,799
10th Percentile £300 £304 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,524 2,447 1,694
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.45 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -4.70% +50.94%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.34 £38.12 £38.50
% change year-on-year -36.15% -0.99% +79.07%

Fintech
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 15 July 2025.

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 15 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Fintech in the UK

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Top 14 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 15 July 2025. 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 +16 389 £600 -4.00% 1,422
London +5 328 £625 - 1,173
Work from Home +53 241 £675 +3.85% 731
UK excluding London +47 72 £475 -2.56% 382
North of England +1 26 £400 -23.81% 82
Scotland +16 24 £525 +10.53% 27
Midlands +20 18 £400 -25.23% 29
North West +11 16 £400 -27.27% 60
East Midlands - 13 £400 - 7
North East +4 6 £200 - 12
West Midlands +9 5 £400 -25.23% 22
Yorkshire -3 4 £366 -8.56% 12
South East +41 3 - - 171
South West +30 1 £650 +63.52% 22

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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 44 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (3.46%) Confluence
3 11 (2.38%) Apache
3 11 (2.38%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.16%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.43%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.22%) IIS
6 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.22%) nginx
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.43%) Kondor
2 2 (0.43%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.22%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 163 (35.28%) AWS
2 122 (26.41%) GCP
3 83 (17.97%) Azure
4 44 (9.52%) dbt
5 23 (4.98%) GitHub
6 19 (4.11%) SaaS
7 16 (3.46%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (3.46%) Serverless
8 13 (2.81%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (2.16%) Power Platform
10 9 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (1.95%) Datadog
11 8 (1.73%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (1.73%) Snowflake
12 7 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.52%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.03%) Firewall
2 6 (1.30%) HTTP
2 6 (1.30%) VPN
3 3 (0.65%) BGP
3 3 (0.65%) DNS
3 3 (0.65%) Network Security
3 3 (0.65%) OSPF
4 2 (0.43%) DHCP
4 2 (0.43%) HSRP
4 2 (0.43%) IGMP
4 2 (0.43%) Multicast
4 2 (0.43%) VRRP
5 1 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.22%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.22%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.22%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.22%) SSL
5 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (8.44%) Amazon Athena
3 38 (8.23%) Apache Iceberg
3 38 (8.23%) Dremio
4 34 (7.36%) Apache Arrow
5 18 (3.90%) SQL Server
6 16 (3.46%) MySQL
7 13 (2.81%) NoSQL
8 12 (2.60%) MongoDB
9 11 (2.38%) BigQuery
9 11 (2.38%) Relational Database
10 10 (2.16%) Big Data
10 10 (2.16%) Power BI
10 10 (2.16%) Tableau
11 9 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (1.73%) DynamoDB
12 8 (1.73%) Looker
13 7 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (1.52%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 22 (4.76%) JIRA
2 18 (3.90%) Git
3 14 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.16%) GitLab
5 8 (1.73%) Postman
6 5 (1.08%) git-flow
7 4 (0.87%) MLflow
8 3 (0.65%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.65%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.65%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.43%) Ant
9 2 (0.43%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.43%) Babel
9 2 (0.43%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.43%) webpack
10 1 (0.22%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.22%) GoogleTest
10 1 (0.22%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.22%) Snyk
10 1 (0.22%) Terragrunt
General
1 328 (71.00%) Finance
2 144 (31.17%) Banking
3 101 (21.86%) Social Skills
4 100 (21.65%) Front Office
5 56 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (1.95%) Retail
9 8 (1.73%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.73%) Legal
10 7 (1.52%) Back Office
10 7 (1.52%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.30%) Law
11 6 (1.30%) Retail Banking
12 5 (1.08%) Marketing
13 4 (0.87%) Corporate Banking
13 4 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.43%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 171 (37.01%) Developer
2 103 (22.29%) Software Engineer
3 90 (19.48%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 54 (11.69%) Analyst
5 38 (8.23%) AWS Developer
5 38 (8.23%) AWS Engineer
6 36 (7.79%) AWS Software Engineer
6 36 (7.79%) React Developer
7 32 (6.93%) Full-Stack Developer
8 28 (6.06%) Python Engineer
9 27 (5.84%) Java Engineer
10 26 (5.63%) Python Developer
10 26 (5.63%) Senior
11 23 (4.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 22 (4.76%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 22 (4.76%) Python Software Engineer
13 21 (4.55%) Java Developer
14 17 (3.68%) Lead
15 15 (3.25%) Architect
15 15 (3.25%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (24.03%) React
2 81 (17.53%) Node.js
3 66 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 65 (14.07%) Redux
5 57 (12.34%) Vue
6 40 (8.66%) Pandas
7 39 (8.44%) NumPy
8 38 (8.23%) SciPy
9 22 (4.76%) RESTful
10 17 (3.68%) Kafka
10 17 (3.68%) REST
10 17 (3.68%) Web Services
11 14 (3.03%) .NET
12 12 (2.60%) Spring
13 11 (2.38%) CSS
13 11 (2.38%) HTML
14 9 (1.95%) OAuth
14 9 (1.95%) Spring Boot
15 8 (1.73%) Middleware
15 8 (1.73%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 93 (20.13%) Fixed Income
2 57 (12.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 52 (11.26%) Equities
4 27 (5.84%) Hedge funds
5 19 (4.11%) Product Ownership
6 15 (3.25%) Cloud Native
7 13 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (2.60%) Mobile App
9 11 (2.38%) Onboarding
10 10 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.95%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.73%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (1.30%) Credit Risk
14 6 (1.30%) Data Structures
14 6 (1.30%) Derivative
15 5 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
15 5 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.98%) Windows
2 22 (4.76%) Linux
3 12 (2.60%) Unix
4 10 (2.16%) Android
4 10 (2.16%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.43%) VMS
6 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (38.53%) Agile
2 126 (27.27%) Software Engineering
3 96 (20.78%) Asset Management
4 95 (20.56%) Investment Management
5 62 (13.42%) CI/CD
6 61 (13.20%) User Experience
7 58 (12.55%) Analytics
7 58 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
8 55 (11.90%) Risk Management
9 51 (11.04%) DevOps
10 44 (9.52%) Migration
11 42 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
12 38 (8.23%) Microservices
13 35 (7.58%) Full-Stack Development
14 34 (7.36%) Continuous Improvement
14 34 (7.36%) Performance Attribution
15 33 (7.14%) Order Management
15 33 (7.14%) Roadmaps
16 26 (5.63%) Decision-Making
16 26 (5.63%) Digital Banking
Programming Languages
1 140 (30.30%) Python
2 113 (24.46%) JavaScript
3 111 (24.03%) TypeScript
4 65 (14.07%) Java
5 50 (10.82%) SQL
6 23 (4.98%) C#
7 20 (4.33%) Go
8 12 (2.60%) Kotlin
9 10 (2.16%) C++
10 9 (1.95%) PHP
11 8 (1.73%) Shell Script
12 7 (1.52%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.30%) Scala
14 5 (1.08%) Bash
14 5 (1.08%) Rust
15 4 (0.87%) Perl
16 3 (0.65%) C
16 3 (0.65%) PowerShell
16 3 (0.65%) Swift
17 2 (0.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (11.04%) Degree
2 16 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
2 16 (3.46%) Master's Degree
3 10 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (1.95%) PMI Certification
5 8 (1.73%) Azure Certification
5 8 (1.73%) PMP
6 7 (1.52%) CISSP
7 6 (1.30%) CISM
8 3 (0.65%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (0.65%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 2 (0.43%) CISA
9 2 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.43%) CSSLP
9 2 (0.43%) GCIA
9 2 (0.43%) GCIH
9 2 (0.43%) GIAC
9 2 (0.43%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 2 (0.43%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.11%) PCI DSS
2 16 (3.46%) PMO
3 15 (3.25%) GDPR
3 15 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (3.25%) QA
4 10 (2.16%) NIST
5 9 (1.95%) PSD2
6 7 (1.52%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.52%) GRC
7 6 (1.30%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.87%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.87%) MiFID
8 4 (0.87%) SEPA
9 3 (0.65%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.65%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.43%) Basel III
10 2 (0.43%) COBIT
10 2 (0.43%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 23 (4.98%) Docker
2 7 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (6.71%) Kubernetes
2 28 (6.06%) Terraform
3 5 (1.08%) Ansible
4 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.87%) SCCM
4 4 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.65%) QRadar
5 3 (0.65%) WSUS
6 2 (0.43%) Istio
6 2 (0.43%) linkerd
6 2 (0.43%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.43%) RSA Archer
6 2 (0.43%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.22%) CASB
7 1 (0.22%) Grafana
7 1 (0.22%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.22%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.22%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.22%) logstash
7 1 (0.22%) SCOM
Vendors
1 41 (8.87%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.19%) Google
3 23 (4.98%) Oracle
4 10 (2.16%) Databricks
5 7 (1.52%) Darktrace
5 7 (1.52%) Zscaler
6 6 (1.30%) Sybase
7 4 (0.87%) Cisco
7 4 (0.87%) Fortinet
7 4 (0.87%) SolarWinds
8 3 (0.65%) CA Agile Central
8 3 (0.65%) IBM
8 3 (0.65%) SAP
8 3 (0.65%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.65%) Varonis
8 3 (0.65%) VMware
9 2 (0.43%) CyberArk
9 2 (0.43%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.43%) ForgeRock
9 2 (0.43%) Rapid7