Fintech Job Trends in England

Financial Technology (FinTech)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Fintech skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 132 118
Rank change year-on-year -40 -14 -42
Permanent jobs citing Fintech 757 1,117 1,228
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.46% 2.24% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 2.49% 2.98%
Number of salaries quoted 605 878 1,130
10th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £71,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £88,750 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% +4.41% +13.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £130,000 £140,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £87,500 £84,288
% change year-on-year -8.57% +3.81% +12.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Fintech falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,784 44,895 41,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.28% 90.18% 91.26%
Number of salaries quoted 25,500 22,481 31,965
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Fintech
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Fintech relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Fintech job vacancy trend in England

Fintech
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Fintech.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Fintech

Fintech
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Fintech in England over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Fintech in England

Fintech
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Fintech within the England region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -15 548 £90,000 - 683
South East +36 75 £57,500 -26.98% 515
North of England +13 74 £75,000 +27.66% 428
North West +14 39 £75,000 +30.43% 240
Midlands +7 19 £85,000 +41.67% 272
Yorkshire +4 18 £70,000 +27.27% 152
North East +14 17 £70,000 -8.20% 36
South West -5 16 £57,500 -17.56% 160
West Midlands +21 15 £80,000 +45.45% 140
East of England +8 6 £65,000 -24.64% 227
East Midlands -18 4 £100,000 +66.67% 115
Fintech
UK

Fintech
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 46 (6.08%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (3.70%) Apache Spark
3 16 (2.11%) Apache
4 9 (1.19%) SAS
5 6 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.66%) Confluence
7 2 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 25 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.19%) SPSS
4 3 (0.40%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.26%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.26%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.40%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.26%) Relativity
5 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 184 (24.31%) AWS
2 138 (18.23%) SaaS
3 81 (10.70%) Azure
4 73 (9.64%) GCP
5 33 (4.36%) dbt
6 15 (1.98%) Amazon SQS
6 15 (1.98%) Serverless
7 13 (1.72%) Power Platform
8 12 (1.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 11 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (1.45%) Amazon EMR
9 11 (1.45%) Figma
10 10 (1.32%) GitHub
11 9 (1.19%) Dropbox
12 8 (1.06%) Azure Functions
12 8 (1.06%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (1.06%) Entra ID
12 8 (1.06%) PaaS
13 7 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (0.92%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.53%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.26%) Firewall
2 2 (0.26%) Multicast
3 1 (0.13%) BGP
3 1 (0.13%) DNS
3 1 (0.13%) HSRP
3 1 (0.13%) HTTP
3 1 (0.13%) IGMP
3 1 (0.13%) OSPF
3 1 (0.13%) PBX
3 1 (0.13%) VPN
3 1 (0.13%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (9.91%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (5.68%) MongoDB
3 32 (4.23%) Big Data
3 32 (4.23%) MySQL
4 29 (3.83%) Amazon Athena
4 29 (3.83%) Apache Arrow
4 29 (3.83%) Apache Iceberg
4 29 (3.83%) Dremio
5 27 (3.57%) Relational Database
6 22 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (2.38%) SQL Server
8 15 (1.98%) NoSQL
9 12 (1.59%) DynamoDB
9 12 (1.59%) Hadoop
10 11 (1.45%) Apache Cassandra
10 11 (1.45%) DataStage
10 11 (1.45%) Neo4j
10 11 (1.45%) Pentaho
10 11 (1.45%) Power BI
10 11 (1.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (2.51%) JIRA
2 15 (1.98%) Selenium
3 13 (1.72%) Git
3 13 (1.72%) Postman
4 11 (1.45%) Cucumber
5 10 (1.32%) Cypress.io
6 8 (1.06%) TeamCity
7 7 (0.92%) SoapUI
8 5 (0.66%) Appium
8 5 (0.66%) Jenkins
9 4 (0.53%) JUnit
10 3 (0.40%) GitLab
10 3 (0.40%) JBehave
11 2 (0.26%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.26%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.26%) Jaeger
11 2 (0.26%) JMeter
11 2 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.13%) NUnit
12 1 (0.13%) Xcode
General
1 478 (63.14%) Finance
2 168 (22.19%) Social Skills
3 99 (13.08%) Banking
4 80 (10.57%) Financial Institution
5 73 (9.64%) Marketing
6 63 (8.32%) Analytical Skills
7 52 (6.87%) Retail
8 45 (5.94%) Law
9 36 (4.76%) Front Office
10 34 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 31 (4.10%) Legal
12 19 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
13 17 (2.25%) Back Office
14 14 (1.85%) Billing
15 10 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (1.06%) Advertising
16 8 (1.06%) Games
16 8 (1.06%) Public Sector
17 6 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.79%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 144 (19.02%) Developer
2 123 (16.25%) Software Engineer
3 107 (14.13%) Senior
4 56 (7.40%) Python Engineer
5 55 (7.27%) Lead
6 49 (6.47%) Python Software Engineer
7 48 (6.34%) Python Developer
8 37 (4.89%) AWS Engineer
9 33 (4.36%) Analyst
9 33 (4.36%) Java Engineer
10 32 (4.23%) AWS Software Engineer
11 30 (3.96%) AWS Developer
12 29 (3.83%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 29 (3.83%) Senior Software Engineer
13 25 (3.30%) Java Software Engineer
14 24 (3.17%) Principal Engineer
15 22 (2.91%) Architect
16 20 (2.64%) Senior Developer
17 19 (2.51%) Product Manager
18 18 (2.38%) Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (10.30%) React
2 56 (7.40%) Kafka
3 50 (6.61%) Node.js
4 45 (5.94%) AngularJS
5 44 (5.81%) .NET
6 42 (5.55%) Pandas
6 42 (5.55%) Spring
6 42 (5.55%) Spring Boot
7 39 (5.15%) Vue
8 36 (4.76%) REST
9 30 (3.96%) NumPy
9 30 (3.96%) RESTful
10 29 (3.83%) SciPy
11 20 (2.64%) .NET Framework
11 20 (2.64%) CSS
11 20 (2.64%) RabbitMQ
12 16 (2.11%) Akka
12 16 (2.11%) Django
12 16 (2.11%) HTML
12 16 (2.11%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 60 (7.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 49 (6.47%) Onboarding
3 45 (5.94%) Cloud Native
4 37 (4.89%) Product Ownership
5 35 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
6 32 (4.23%) Equities
7 31 (4.10%) Fixed Income
8 16 (2.11%) Hedge funds
9 14 (1.85%) Blog
10 13 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (1.72%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 11 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
12 11 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.45%) Mobile App
12 11 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.19%) Cybercrime
14 7 (0.92%) Low-Code
15 6 (0.79%) Derivative
15 6 (0.79%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.42%) Linux
2 19 (2.51%) Windows
3 14 (1.85%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.45%) Android
5 5 (0.66%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.13%) CentOS
7 1 (0.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (25.10%) Software Engineering
2 161 (21.27%) Agile
3 100 (13.21%) CI/CD
4 92 (12.15%) Microservices
5 87 (11.49%) AI
6 76 (10.04%) Problem-Solving
7 72 (9.51%) Roadmaps
8 71 (9.38%) Analytics
9 66 (8.72%) DevOps
10 65 (8.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 59 (7.79%) B2B
11 59 (7.79%) Mentoring
12 56 (7.40%) Stakeholder Management
13 50 (6.61%) Decision-Making
14 49 (6.47%) Computer Science
15 48 (6.34%) Test Automation
16 47 (6.21%) Information Security
17 46 (6.08%) Risk Management
17 46 (6.08%) SDLC
18 44 (5.81%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 180 (23.78%) Python
2 115 (15.19%) Java
3 113 (14.93%) SQL
4 76 (10.04%) TypeScript
5 75 (9.91%) JavaScript
6 51 (6.74%) C#
7 23 (3.04%) C++
8 16 (2.11%) Go
9 11 (1.45%) C
9 11 (1.45%) PHP
10 10 (1.32%) Rust
11 9 (1.19%) Kotlin
12 8 (1.06%) Apex Code
13 5 (0.66%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.53%) Bash
14 4 (0.53%) VBA
15 3 (0.40%) Swift
16 2 (0.26%) Groovy
17 1 (0.13%) Ruby
17 1 (0.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 53 (7.00%) Degree
2 19 (2.51%) ACCA
3 16 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (1.59%) ICAEW
5 10 (1.32%) CIMA
5 10 (1.32%) Master's Degree
6 6 (0.79%) CISA
6 6 (0.79%) CREST Certified
6 6 (0.79%) OSCP
7 5 (0.66%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.53%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.53%) OSCE
9 3 (0.40%) APMP
9 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.40%) MBA
9 3 (0.40%) PhD
10 2 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.26%) CISSP
11 1 (0.13%) CCIE
11 1 (0.13%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.36%) QA
2 20 (2.64%) GDPR
3 14 (1.85%) IFRS
4 12 (1.59%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.59%) GAAP
4 12 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.59%) SEPA
5 11 (1.45%) ISO 20022
5 11 (1.45%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.92%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.92%) TARGET2
8 6 (0.79%) PMO
8 6 (0.79%) SLA
9 4 (0.53%) EU AI Act
9 4 (0.53%) MiFID
9 4 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.53%) WCAG
10 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 56 (7.40%) Docker
2 8 (1.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 71 (9.38%) Kubernetes
2 26 (3.43%) Terraform
3 12 (1.59%) Grafana
4 7 (0.92%) Ansible
4 7 (0.92%) EnCase
4 7 (0.92%) FTK
5 6 (0.79%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.66%) Kibana
7 3 (0.40%) Control-M
7 3 (0.40%) logstash
8 1 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (3.70%) Microsoft
2 21 (2.77%) Oracle
3 20 (2.64%) Salesforce
4 12 (1.59%) SAP
5 11 (1.45%) Google
5 11 (1.45%) Informatica
5 11 (1.45%) Talend
6 7 (0.92%) Cellebrite
7 6 (0.79%) Concur
8 5 (0.66%) Bloomberg
9 4 (0.53%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.53%) HubSpot
9 4 (0.53%) Sage
10 3 (0.40%) Ariba
10 3 (0.40%) Calypso
10 3 (0.40%) PagerDuty
10 3 (0.40%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.40%) Solace
10 3 (0.40%) VMware
10 3 (0.40%) Workday