Fintech Jobs in the City of London

Financial Technology (FinTech)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Fintech skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Fintech over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 39 28
Rank change year-on-year +10 -11 -6
Permanent jobs citing Fintech 240 330 580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 7.18% 7.13% 8.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.79% 7.48% 8.52%
Number of salaries quoted 219 327 565
10th Percentile - £55,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -3.03%
75th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £118,950 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Fintech is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,079 4,409 6,805
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 92.13% 95.25% 95.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,440 3,687 5,582
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,515 £45,501
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £57,451
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £94,264
90th Percentile £113,750 £112,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Fintech as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Fintech in the City of London

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Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Fintech in the City of London.

Salary trend for Fintech in the City of London

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Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Fintech in the City of London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Fintech in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 5 (2.08%) CMS
1 5 (2.08%) Drupal
2 1 (0.42%) Apache
2 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.42%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 140 (58.33%) AWS
2 38 (15.83%) Azure
3 21 (8.75%) GCP
4 8 (3.33%) GitHub
5 7 (2.92%) SaaS
6 4 (1.67%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.67%) WhatsApp
7 3 (1.25%) Azure AKS
7 3 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.25%) Datadog
7 3 (1.25%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (1.25%) IaaS
7 3 (1.25%) PaaS
8 2 (0.83%) BrowserStack
8 2 (0.83%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.83%) Serverless
8 2 (0.83%) Smartsheet
9 1 (0.42%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.42%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (5.42%) NoSQL
3 9 (3.75%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.08%) MySQL
5 4 (1.67%) Power BI
6 3 (1.25%) Big Data
7 2 (0.83%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.42%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.42%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.42%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.42%) Flink
8 1 (0.42%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.42%) Impala
8 1 (0.42%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.42%) Presto
8 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (11.67%) Cucumber
2 26 (10.83%) Selenium
3 24 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 24 (10.00%) Postman
4 9 (3.75%) Git
5 5 (2.08%) JIRA
6 4 (1.67%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (1.67%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.83%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.83%) GitLab
7 2 (0.83%) JBehave
7 2 (0.83%) Metasploit
7 2 (0.83%) Moq
7 2 (0.83%) MSTest
8 1 (0.42%) Appium
8 1 (0.42%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.42%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.42%) GDB
8 1 (0.42%) Mockito
8 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
General
1 58 (24.17%) Finance
2 18 (7.50%) Social Skills
3 11 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (4.17%) Banking
5 4 (1.67%) Legal
5 4 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (1.25%) Advertising
6 3 (1.25%) Financial Institution
6 3 (1.25%) Health Technology
7 2 (0.83%) Back Office
7 2 (0.83%) Front Office
7 2 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (0.83%) Investment Banking
7 2 (0.83%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.42%) Digital Economy
8 1 (0.42%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 96 (40.00%) Developer
2 46 (19.17%) Lead
3 42 (17.50%) Senior
4 40 (16.67%) Java Developer
5 23 (9.58%) Software Developer
5 23 (9.58%) Software Engineer
6 18 (7.50%) Java Developer - Fintech
6 18 (7.50%) Lead Developer
6 18 (7.50%) Senior Developer
7 16 (6.67%) Full Stack Developer
8 14 (5.83%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (5.83%) Senior DevOps
8 14 (5.83%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 11 (4.58%) C# Developer
10 9 (3.75%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (3.75%) Lead C# Developer
11 8 (3.33%) Analyst
11 8 (3.33%) Lead Full Stack Developer
11 8 (3.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (14.17%) REST
2 25 (10.42%) .NET
3 20 (8.33%) Spring Boot
4 13 (5.42%) Kafka
5 12 (5.00%) React
6 9 (3.75%) Spring
7 8 (3.33%) CSS
7 8 (3.33%) HTML
8 7 (2.92%) AngularJS
8 7 (2.92%) Web Services
9 6 (2.50%) ASP.NET
9 6 (2.50%) ASP.NET MVC
9 6 (2.50%) RESTful
10 5 (2.08%) jQuery
10 5 (2.08%) JSON
10 5 (2.08%) Razor View Engine
10 5 (2.08%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 5 (2.08%) XML
11 3 (1.25%) Entity Framework
11 3 (1.25%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.83%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (3.75%) Private Cloud
3 6 (2.50%) Derivative
3 6 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (1.67%) Algorithms
4 4 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.25%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.83%) Equities
6 2 (0.83%) Tandem
7 1 (0.42%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.42%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.42%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.42%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (0.42%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.42%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.42%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.42%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.42%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.42%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.92%) Linux
2 6 (2.50%) Windows
3 4 (1.67%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.25%) Android
4 3 (1.25%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.42%) Unix
5 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 64 (26.67%) Agile
3 56 (23.33%) Software Engineering
4 42 (17.50%) TDD
5 37 (15.42%) Clean Code
6 33 (13.75%) DevOps
7 27 (11.25%) API Testing
8 24 (10.00%) BDD
8 24 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
9 23 (9.58%) SDET
10 20 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (7.92%) Infrastructure as Code
12 18 (7.50%) Line Management
13 15 (6.25%) Computer Science
14 14 (5.83%) Microservices
15 13 (5.42%) SDLC
16 12 (5.00%) Mentoring
17 11 (4.58%) Low Latency
17 11 (4.58%) Platform Engineering
17 11 (4.58%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 137 (57.08%) Java
2 80 (33.33%) Kotlin
3 36 (15.00%) Scala
4 33 (13.75%) Python
5 27 (11.25%) C#
6 18 (7.50%) SQL
7 17 (7.08%) JavaScript
8 9 (3.75%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.92%) C++
9 7 (2.92%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.08%) PHP
10 5 (2.08%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.42%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.42%) Dart
11 1 (0.42%) Go
11 1 (0.42%) Ruby
11 1 (0.42%) Swift
Qualifications
1 20 (8.33%) Degree
2 13 (5.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.50%) Master's Degree
4 4 (1.67%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.42%) CISA
5 1 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.42%) CISM
5 1 (0.42%) CISSP
5 1 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.42%) QA
2 4 (1.67%) ISO 9001
2 4 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.83%) SLA
4 1 (0.42%) PMO
System Software
1 45 (18.75%) Docker
2 2 (0.83%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 100 (41.67%) Terraform
2 57 (23.75%) Kubernetes
3 36 (15.00%) Ansible
4 2 (0.83%) Istio
4 2 (0.83%) Nmap
5 1 (0.42%) Kibana
5 1 (0.42%) logstash
5 1 (0.42%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 16 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.75%) Google
3 2 (0.83%) F5
3 2 (0.83%) Temenos
4 1 (0.42%) Brio
4 1 (0.42%) Cisco
4 1 (0.42%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.42%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.42%) Solace
4 1 (0.42%) Sun
4 1 (0.42%) VMware