Hybrid/Remote Fintech Contract Job Trends

Financial Technology (FinTech)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Fintech skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 155 174
Rank change year-on-year -8 +19 +14
Contract jobs citing Fintech 163 176 239
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.60% 1.45% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 1.64% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 148 199
10th Percentile £375 £425 £355
25th Percentile £421 £513 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -7.76%
75th Percentile £747 £788 £663
90th Percentile £875 £850 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £80.75 - -
25th Percentile £81.88 £57.50 £56.25
Median hourly rate £85.00 £60.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £87.50 £62.50 £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £53.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year +48.84% -6.52% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,282 10,741 15,802
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.14% 88.53% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,142 6,773 10,840
10th Percentile £325 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £724 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 222 384
10th Percentile £15.18 £17.58 £19.99
25th Percentile £20.25 £22.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £41.59 £37.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% -28.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

Fintech
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Fintech and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Fintech job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Fintech
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Fintech.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Fintech

Fintech
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Fintech over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Fintech daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Fintech
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Fintech.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Fintech

Fintech
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 16 (9.82%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (4.29%) Confluence
3 4 (2.45%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.23%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.61%) Apache
5 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.84%) Chatbot
1 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.61%) MadCap Flare
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.45%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.23%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 53 (32.52%) AWS
2 34 (20.86%) Azure
3 32 (19.63%) GCP
4 15 (9.20%) dbt
5 9 (5.52%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (4.91%) SaaS
7 7 (4.29%) Datadog
7 7 (4.29%) GitHub
8 6 (3.68%) Amazon Kinesis
8 6 (3.68%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (3.07%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (3.07%) Entra ID
9 5 (3.07%) Figma
9 5 (3.07%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (2.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.45%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.45%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (2.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.68%) Firewall
2 3 (1.84%) VPN
3 2 (1.23%) DNS
3 2 (1.23%) SSH
3 2 (1.23%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.61%) ATM
4 1 (0.61%) DHCP
4 1 (0.61%) HTTP
4 1 (0.61%) Network Security
4 1 (0.61%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (16.56%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (9.82%) Amazon Athena
3 15 (9.20%) Apache Arrow
3 15 (9.20%) Apache Iceberg
3 15 (9.20%) Dremio
4 9 (5.52%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (4.91%) MySQL
6 7 (4.29%) Tableau
7 4 (2.45%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (2.45%) Hadoop
7 4 (2.45%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.84%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.84%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.23%) Big Data
9 2 (1.23%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.23%) Event Store
9 2 (1.23%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.23%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.23%) Power BI
10 1 (0.61%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (7.98%) Cypress.io
2 11 (6.75%) JIRA
3 9 (5.52%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.29%) JUnit
5 5 (3.07%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.45%) Git
6 4 (2.45%) GitLab
7 3 (1.84%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.84%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.84%) Storybook
8 2 (1.23%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.23%) Gatling
8 2 (1.23%) JMeter
8 2 (1.23%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.23%) Selenium
8 2 (1.23%) Snyk
8 2 (1.23%) TestNG
9 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.61%) MLflow
9 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 111 (68.10%) Finance
2 49 (30.06%) Banking
3 40 (24.54%) Social Skills
4 23 (14.11%) Front Office
5 15 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.45%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.84%) Legal
8 3 (1.84%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.23%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.61%) Advertising
10 1 (0.61%) Arabic Language
10 1 (0.61%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.61%) Games
10 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (36.20%) Developer
2 32 (19.63%) Software Engineer
3 23 (14.11%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 23 (14.11%) Python Developer
4 22 (13.50%) Senior
5 19 (11.66%) Python Engineer
6 16 (9.82%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (9.20%) AWS Developer
7 15 (9.20%) AWS Software Engineer
8 13 (7.98%) Java Engineer
8 13 (7.98%) Python Software Engineer
9 12 (7.36%) Senior Developer
10 11 (6.75%) Java Developer
11 10 (6.13%) Backend Developer
11 10 (6.13%) Java Software Engineer
11 10 (6.13%) Lead
12 8 (4.91%) Analyst
13 7 (4.29%) Quantitative Developer
13 7 (4.29%) Senior Python Developer
14 6 (3.68%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (22.09%) React
2 26 (15.95%) AngularJS
2 26 (15.95%) Node.js
3 23 (14.11%) Kafka
4 17 (10.43%) Vue
5 16 (9.82%) Pandas
6 15 (9.20%) NumPy
6 15 (9.20%) SciPy
7 14 (8.59%) .NET
8 13 (7.98%) RESTful
9 10 (6.13%) Jest
9 10 (6.13%) Spring
9 10 (6.13%) Spring Boot
10 6 (3.68%) Redux
11 4 (2.45%) EDI
11 4 (2.45%) OpenID
11 4 (2.45%) REST
12 3 (1.84%) CSS
12 3 (1.84%) HTML5
12 3 (1.84%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 29 (17.79%) Fixed Income
2 25 (15.34%) Equities
3 20 (12.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 13 (7.98%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (6.13%) Cloud Native
6 9 (5.52%) Onboarding
7 8 (4.91%) Product Ownership
8 5 (3.07%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (2.45%) Learning Management System
9 4 (2.45%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.84%) Replication
11 2 (1.23%) Clustering
11 2 (1.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 2 (1.23%) EPoS
11 2 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.23%) Security Posture
11 2 (1.23%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.45%) Apple iOS
1 4 (2.45%) Windows
2 3 (1.84%) Linux
3 2 (1.23%) Android
3 2 (1.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (44.17%) Agile
2 47 (28.83%) Software Engineering
3 42 (25.77%) CI/CD
4 34 (20.86%) DevOps
5 29 (17.79%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (16.56%) Microservices
7 21 (12.88%) Asset Management
7 21 (12.88%) Collaborative Culture
7 21 (12.88%) Investment Management
8 19 (11.66%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (11.04%) Observability
10 17 (10.43%) DevSecOps
10 17 (10.43%) Risk Management
11 16 (9.82%) Event-Driven
12 15 (9.20%) Analytics
12 15 (9.20%) Containerisation
12 15 (9.20%) Order Management
12 15 (9.20%) Performance Attribution
12 15 (9.20%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (9.20%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 55 (33.74%) Python
2 32 (19.63%) Java
3 30 (18.40%) JavaScript
4 26 (15.95%) TypeScript
5 18 (11.04%) C#
6 13 (7.98%) SQL
7 12 (7.36%) Go
8 9 (5.52%) Bash
9 3 (1.84%) Perl
10 2 (1.23%) Dart
10 2 (1.23%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.23%) Objective-C
10 2 (1.23%) Swift
10 2 (1.23%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.61%) C++
11 1 (0.61%) PHP
11 1 (0.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (5.52%) Degree
1 9 (5.52%) PMI Certification
2 8 (4.91%) PMP
3 6 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.07%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.45%) CISSP
5 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.84%) CISM
7 2 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.23%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.23%) CCSP
7 2 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.23%) GCIA
7 2 (1.23%) GCIH
7 2 (1.23%) GIAC
7 2 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.23%) OCP
7 2 (1.23%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (1.23%) PgMP
7 2 (1.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.66%) QA
2 15 (9.20%) PCI DSS
3 11 (6.75%) Accessibility
4 8 (4.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (4.91%) NIST
5 7 (4.29%) GDPR
6 5 (3.07%) GRC
6 5 (3.07%) SOC 2
7 4 (2.45%) PSD2
8 3 (1.84%) ISO 20022
9 2 (1.23%) PMO
9 2 (1.23%) SEPA
10 1 (0.61%) Basel III
10 1 (0.61%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.61%) NIST 800
System Software
1 24 (14.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (13.50%) Terraform
2 20 (12.27%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.75%) Ansible
4 5 (3.07%) Grafana
5 3 (1.84%) QRadar
6 2 (1.23%) Istio
6 2 (1.23%) linkerd
7 1 (0.61%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.61%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (4.91%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.29%) Google
3 5 (3.07%) Salesforce
3 5 (3.07%) Zscaler
4 4 (2.45%) Darktrace
5 3 (1.84%) Oracle
5 3 (1.84%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.23%) Checkmarx
6 2 (1.23%) Databricks
6 2 (1.23%) Gemalto
6 2 (1.23%) New Relic
6 2 (1.23%) Samsung
6 2 (1.23%) Splunk
6 2 (1.23%) Thales
7 1 (0.61%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.61%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.61%) F5
7 1 (0.61%) Infoblox
7 1 (0.61%) OneTrust
7 1 (0.61%) Workday