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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 226 252 185
Rank change year-on-year +26 -67 +66
Contract jobs citing Fintech 461 651 1,378
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.07% 1.10% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.23% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 490 1,187
10th Percentile £400 £406 £425
25th Percentile £475 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £750 £688 £684
90th Percentile £800 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £500
% change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £33.40 - £36.00
25th Percentile £42.25 - £37.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £40.00
75th Percentile £58.75 - £42.50
90th Percentile £76.30 - £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 37,268 53,074 80,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,016 36,805 56,451
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,749 1,911
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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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 5 May 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 5 May 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 5 May 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 +28 424 £650 +8.33% 855
London +1 333 £650 +8.33% 650
Work from Home +31 221 £650 +8.33% 384
UK excluding London +59 59 £450 -2.70% 231
North of England +38 24 £425 -13.92% 60
North West +32 12 £475 -3.80% 39
Yorkshire +24 11 £425 -19.05% 18
South West +22 10 £398 -23.00% 27
Midlands +32 8 £575 +27.78% 32
East of England +24 8 £655 - 9
West Midlands +26 5 £475 -5.00% 19
South East +18 4 £625 -24.24% 60
East Midlands +19 3 £575 +35.29% 13
Northern Ireland +5 3 - - 6
Scotland +33 2 £475 +3.71% 25
North East +14 1 - - 3

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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 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (2.39%) Apache
3 9 (1.95%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.74%) Confluence
5 6 (1.30%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.87%) CMS
8 3 (0.65%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.43%) nginx
10 1 (0.22%) Drupal
10 1 (0.22%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.22%) Sketch
1 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (2.60%) Aladdin
2 10 (2.17%) Distributed Ledger
3 8 (1.74%) Loan IQ
4 3 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.65%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 156 (33.84%) AWS
2 66 (14.32%) GCP
3 64 (13.88%) Azure
4 11 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (1.95%) SaaS
5 9 (1.95%) Serverless
6 8 (1.74%) dbt
6 8 (1.74%) GitHub
7 7 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (1.30%) OneDrive
8 6 (1.30%) Twilio
9 5 (1.08%) Azure Functions
9 5 (1.08%) Figma
10 4 (0.87%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (0.87%) Azure Machine Learning
11 3 (0.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (0.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (0.65%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (0.65%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.52%) Internet
1 7 (1.52%) VPN
2 4 (0.87%) 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 (10.20%) Apache Cassandra
2 16 (3.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 16 (3.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 14 (3.04%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (2.39%) Apache Ignite
5 11 (2.39%) NoSQL
6 7 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (1.52%) Big Data
6 7 (1.52%) MongoDB
7 6 (1.30%) Apache Arrow
7 6 (1.30%) Dremio
7 6 (1.30%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.08%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.65%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.65%) Looker
9 3 (0.65%) Tableau
10 2 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.43%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.43%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (1.95%) JIRA
2 8 (1.74%) Git
2 8 (1.74%) Postman
3 7 (1.52%) Appium
3 7 (1.52%) Selenium
4 6 (1.30%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (0.87%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.65%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.65%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.65%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.43%) Android Studio
7 2 (0.43%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.43%) git-flow
7 2 (0.43%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.43%) XCTest
7 2 (0.43%) XCUITest
8 1 (0.22%) Darcs
8 1 (0.22%) MLflow
8 1 (0.22%) TestRail
General
1 223 (48.37%) Finance
2 93 (20.17%) Social Skills
3 72 (15.62%) Front Office
4 60 (13.02%) Banking
5 40 (8.68%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (5.64%) Investment Banking
7 19 (4.12%) Financial Institution
8 12 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.74%) Marketing
11 7 (1.52%) Retail Banking
12 6 (1.30%) Corporate Banking
12 6 (1.30%) Retail
13 5 (1.08%) Back Office
13 5 (1.08%) Legal
13 5 (1.08%) Public Sector
14 4 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.65%) Law
15 3 (0.65%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 178 (38.61%) Developer
2 115 (24.95%) Software Engineer
3 70 (15.18%) Senior
4 45 (9.76%) .NET Developer
5 44 (9.54%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 43 (9.33%) Architect
7 34 (7.38%) Senior Software Engineer
8 33 (7.16%) React Developer
9 29 (6.29%) Software Manager
10 28 (6.07%) Analyst
11 27 (5.86%) .NET Software Developer
12 26 (5.64%) .NET Software Engineer
12 26 (5.64%) Finance Manager
12 26 (5.64%) Solutions Architect
13 25 (5.42%) Software Asset Manager
14 21 (4.56%) Business Analyst
15 17 (3.69%) Full Stack Developer
16 14 (3.04%) Data Business Analyst
16 14 (3.04%) Senior Developer
17 13 (2.82%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (15.18%) React
2 60 (13.02%) .NET
3 53 (11.50%) Kafka
4 45 (9.76%) Redux
5 32 (6.94%) Node.js
6 30 (6.51%) AngularJS
7 20 (4.34%) .NET Core
8 19 (4.12%) GraphQL
9 17 (3.69%) React Native
9 17 (3.69%) Vue
10 13 (2.82%) ASP.NET
11 12 (2.60%) ASP.NET Core
12 10 (2.17%) gRPC
12 10 (2.17%) Protocol Buffers
12 10 (2.17%) REST
13 9 (1.95%) Material-UI
14 8 (1.74%) CSS
14 8 (1.74%) Next.js
15 7 (1.52%) RESTful
16 6 (1.30%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 58 (12.58%) Fixed Income
2 47 (10.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 40 (8.68%) Hedge funds
4 39 (8.46%) Derivative
4 39 (8.46%) Equities
5 28 (6.07%) Product Ownership
6 26 (5.64%) Greenfield Project
7 17 (3.69%) Mobile App
8 14 (3.04%) Blockchain
9 9 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.30%) CBDC
10 6 (1.30%) Social Media
11 5 (1.08%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.08%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.08%) Web3
12 4 (0.87%) IoT
12 4 (0.87%) Wiki
13 3 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.65%) PKI
13 3 (0.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.60%) Android
2 10 (2.17%) Apple iOS
2 10 (2.17%) Windows
3 7 (1.52%) Unix
4 6 (1.30%) Linux
5 5 (1.08%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.87%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.65%) VMS
8 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (37.31%) Agile
2 156 (33.84%) Software Engineering
3 74 (16.05%) DevOps
4 67 (14.53%) User Experience
5 58 (12.58%) Asset Management
6 57 (12.36%) Full Stack Development
6 57 (12.36%) Investment Management
7 54 (11.71%) UX Design
8 49 (10.63%) UX Research
9 48 (10.41%) User Research
10 44 (9.54%) Problem-Solving
11 42 (9.11%) TDD
12 36 (7.81%) Roadmaps
13 32 (6.94%) CI/CD
14 29 (6.29%) Computer Science
15 28 (6.07%) Machine Learning
16 25 (5.42%) Test Automation
17 23 (4.99%) Continuous Integration
18 22 (4.77%) Artificial Intelligence
19 20 (4.34%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 82 (17.79%) C#
2 78 (16.92%) Python
3 74 (16.05%) SQL
4 71 (15.40%) JavaScript
5 70 (15.18%) TypeScript
6 59 (12.80%) Java
7 58 (12.58%) Go
8 20 (4.34%) Scala
9 19 (4.12%) Kotlin
10 9 (1.95%) PHP
10 9 (1.95%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.52%) C++
12 6 (1.30%) Swift
13 5 (1.08%) C
13 5 (1.08%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.87%) R
14 4 (0.87%) Ruby
15 3 (0.65%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.43%) Perl
17 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (8.68%) Degree
2 26 (5.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (2.82%) SC Cleared
3 13 (2.82%) Security Cleared
4 4 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (0.87%) Master's Degree
4 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (0.87%) 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 48 (10.41%) QA
2 4 (0.87%) Accessibility
2 4 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (0.87%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.43%) GRC
3 2 (0.43%) ISO 20022
3 2 (0.43%) NIST
3 2 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 53 (11.50%) 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 65 (14.10%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.82%) Terraform
3 5 (1.08%) SCCM
4 4 (0.87%) 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 14 (3.04%) Google
1 14 (3.04%) Microsoft
2 13 (2.82%) Bloomberg
2 13 (2.82%) Oracle
3 12 (2.60%) BISAM
4 11 (2.39%) Salesforce
5 4 (0.87%) Freshdesk
5 4 (0.87%) 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