Fintech Job Trends in Kent

Financial Technology (FinTech)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Kent requiring Fintech skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 74 63
Rank change year-on-year -10 -11 +19
Permanent jobs citing Fintech 2 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 0.20% 0.14% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.15% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £42,375 - -
25th Percentile £47,813 £103,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £107,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -45.35% +65.38% -31.58%
75th Percentile £67,813 £111,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,125 - -
South East median annual salary £57,500 £77,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -25.81% +29.17% -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 841 646 478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 82.53% 88.61% 79.53%
Number of salaries quoted 440 213 379
10th Percentile £27,475 £30,500 £23,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £38,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £68,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £79,350 £67,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +8.49% -3.64%

Fintech
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Fintech job vacancy trend in Kent

Fintech
Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Fintech.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Fintech

Fintech
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Fintech in Kent over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Fintech in Kent

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Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Fintech within the Kent region over the 6 months to 6 January 2026. 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
Sevenoaks - 2 £58,750 -
Fintech
South East

Fintech
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) n8n
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Credit Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Credit Risk Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (50.00%) Junior
1 1 (50.00%) Junior Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Junior Data Scientist
1 1 (50.00%) Junior Risk Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Credit Risk
1 1 (50.00%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Credit Risk Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Acquisition
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) Economics
1 1 (50.00%) LLM
1 1 (50.00%) Logistic Regression
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (50.00%) Physics
1 1 (50.00%) Predictive Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Scorecard
1 1 (50.00%) Statistics
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Numerate Degree
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAI