Fintech Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Financial Technology (FinTech)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 144 180
Rank change year-on-year +27 +36 +11
Contract jobs citing Fintech 217 221 362
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.20% 1.45% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 1.65% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 190 285
10th Percentile £461 £400 £413
25th Percentile £550 £503 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £806 £750 £688
90th Percentile £850 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -

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 8,994 13,387 22,922
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.19% 87.93% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,179 8,971 16,192
10th Percentile £338 £325 £363
25th Percentile £415 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 576 528
10th Percentile £13.85 £15.08 £18.68
25th Percentile £19.00 £24.25 £30.00
Median hourly rate £39.04 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.14% -22.73% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £60.00 £68.81
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.13 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.96 £36.00
% change year-on-year -19.35% -0.11% +44.00%

Fintech
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Fintech as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Fintech trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Fintech
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Fintech.

Fintech daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Fintech
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Fintech over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Fintech daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Fintech.

Fintech hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 38 (17.51%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (5.99%) Apache
3 4 (1.84%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.38%) CMS
4 3 (1.38%) Confluence
4 3 (1.38%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 1 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 115 (53.00%) AWS
2 90 (41.47%) GCP
3 44 (20.28%) Azure
4 38 (17.51%) dbt
5 16 (7.37%) Serverless
6 15 (6.91%) Amazon SQS
6 15 (6.91%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
8 13 (5.99%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (5.07%) Amazon S3
10 9 (4.15%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (4.15%) GitHub
11 8 (3.69%) Dagster
11 8 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (2.30%) Figma
12 5 (2.30%) SaaS
13 4 (1.84%) Apigee
13 4 (1.84%) Snowflake
14 3 (1.38%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (1.38%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.30%) HTTP
2 4 (1.84%) Firewall
3 2 (0.92%) Network Security
4 1 (0.46%) DNS
4 1 (0.46%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.46%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.46%) SSL
4 1 (0.46%) tcpdump
4 1 (0.46%) VPN
4 1 (0.46%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (24.88%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (17.05%) Amazon Athena
2 37 (17.05%) Apache Iceberg
2 37 (17.05%) Dremio
3 27 (12.44%) Apache Arrow
4 12 (5.53%) Data Lake
5 10 (4.61%) Apache Ignite
6 9 (4.15%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (3.69%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (3.23%) DynamoDB
9 6 (2.76%) Looker
9 6 (2.76%) MySQL
10 4 (1.84%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.38%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.38%) Metadata
12 2 (0.92%) Big Data
12 2 (0.92%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.92%) Power BI
12 2 (0.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (5.07%) Git
2 6 (2.76%) GitLab
3 5 (2.30%) git-flow
4 4 (1.84%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.92%) JIRA
5 2 (0.92%) PHPUnit
5 2 (0.92%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.46%) Ant
6 1 (0.46%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.46%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.46%) Postman
6 1 (0.46%) Selenium
6 1 (0.46%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.46%) webpack
General
1 150 (69.12%) Finance
2 91 (41.94%) Front Office
3 76 (35.02%) Banking
4 31 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 9 (4.15%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.23%) Retail
7 6 (2.76%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.30%) Retail Banking
9 4 (1.84%) Marketing
10 3 (1.38%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.38%) Automotive
10 3 (1.38%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.46%) Back Office
12 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.46%) Legal
Job Titles
1 109 (50.23%) Developer
2 80 (36.87%) Software Engineer
3 73 (33.64%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 38 (17.51%) AWS Engineer
5 37 (17.05%) Python Engineer
6 33 (15.21%) React Developer
7 30 (13.82%) AWS Developer
8 27 (12.44%) AWS Software Engineer
9 22 (10.14%) Python Developer
10 21 (9.68%) Python Software Engineer
11 19 (8.76%) Full-Stack Developer
11 19 (8.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 18 (8.29%) Java Engineer
13 16 (7.37%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 14 (6.45%) Senior
15 13 (5.99%) DevOps Engineer
16 12 (5.53%) Data Engineer
17 11 (5.07%) Analyst
17 11 (5.07%) AWS DevOps
17 11 (5.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (40.55%) React
2 66 (30.41%) Node.js
3 62 (28.57%) Redux
4 46 (21.20%) AngularJS
5 43 (19.82%) Vue
6 35 (16.13%) NumPy
6 35 (16.13%) Pandas
6 35 (16.13%) SciPy
7 10 (4.61%) gRPC
7 10 (4.61%) Protocol Buffers
8 8 (3.69%) JSON
8 8 (3.69%) OAuth
8 8 (3.69%) PySpark
8 8 (3.69%) Spring
8 8 (3.69%) Spring Boot
9 7 (3.23%) Kafka
9 7 (3.23%) RESTful
10 6 (2.76%) CSS
10 6 (2.76%) HTML
10 6 (2.76%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 73 (33.64%) Fixed Income
2 24 (11.06%) Equities
2 24 (11.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 20 (9.22%) Hedge funds
4 6 (2.76%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.30%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.30%) Credit Risk
5 5 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.84%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.84%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.84%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.38%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.38%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.92%) Blockchain
8 2 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.92%) Mobile Banking
8 2 (0.92%) PMI
8 2 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.69%) Windows
2 7 (3.23%) Linux
3 6 (2.76%) Android
4 4 (1.84%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.46%) Unix
5 1 (0.46%) VMS
5 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (56.68%) Agile
2 102 (47.00%) Software Engineering
3 91 (41.94%) Asset Management
4 81 (37.33%) Investment Management
5 35 (16.13%) User Experience
6 31 (14.29%) Analytics
7 27 (12.44%) CI/CD
7 27 (12.44%) Performance Attribution
8 24 (11.06%) DevOps
8 24 (11.06%) Risk Management
9 22 (10.14%) Full-Stack Development
10 19 (8.76%) TDD
11 17 (7.83%) Order Management
11 17 (7.83%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (5.53%) Data Engineering
12 12 (5.53%) Visualisation
13 11 (5.07%) Credit Risk Analysis
13 11 (5.07%) Mentoring
14 10 (4.61%) Migration
15 9 (4.15%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 102 (47.00%) Python
2 92 (42.40%) JavaScript
3 89 (41.01%) TypeScript
4 38 (17.51%) Java
5 18 (8.29%) SQL
6 9 (4.15%) Go
7 7 (3.23%) Kotlin
8 6 (2.76%) PHP
9 5 (2.30%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.84%) C++
11 3 (1.38%) C#
12 2 (0.92%) Ruby
12 2 (0.92%) Rust
12 2 (0.92%) Scala
13 1 (0.46%) Bash
13 1 (0.46%) C
13 1 (0.46%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.46%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (5.07%) Degree
2 6 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.84%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.84%) PMI Certification
4 3 (1.38%) PMP
5 2 (0.92%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.92%) CISSP
6 1 (0.46%) CISM
6 1 (0.46%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.23%) PMO
2 3 (1.38%) QA
3 2 (0.92%) GDPR
4 1 (0.46%) GRC
4 1 (0.46%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (9.22%) Docker
2 2 (0.92%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (6.91%) Kubernetes
1 15 (6.91%) Terraform
2 3 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.46%) Ansible
3 1 (0.46%) CASB
3 1 (0.46%) Grafana
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.46%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.46%) SCCM
3 1 (0.46%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (4.61%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.76%) Google
2 6 (2.76%) Oracle
3 2 (0.92%) Cribl.io
3 2 (0.92%) CyberArk
3 2 (0.92%) Darktrace
3 2 (0.92%) ServiceNow
3 2 (0.92%) Varonis
4 1 (0.46%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (0.46%) Calypso
4 1 (0.46%) Dell
4 1 (0.46%) IBM
4 1 (0.46%) OneTrust
4 1 (0.46%) Optimizely
4 1 (0.46%) Pega
4 1 (0.46%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.46%) SAP
4 1 (0.46%) SolarWinds
4 1 (0.46%) SunGard
4 1 (0.46%) Zscaler