Fintech Job Trends in London

Financial Technology (FinTech)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Fintech skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 57 47
Rank change year-on-year +6 -10 +1
Permanent jobs citing Fintech 672 758 1,044
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.39% 5.05% 4.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.07% 5.30% 5.38%
Number of salaries quoted 499 634 957
10th Percentile £55,000 £60,375 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £76,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.88%
75th Percentile £105,000 £117,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £142,500
England median annual salary £82,500 £87,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.71% +9.38% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,265 14,314 19,411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 86.63% 95.34% 91.81%
Number of salaries quoted 8,548 7,825 15,642
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,450 £39,085
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £116,250 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%

Fintech
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Fintech job vacancy trend in London

Fintech
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Fintech.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Fintech

Fintech
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Fintech in London over the 6 months to 11 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Fintech in London

Fintech
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Fintech within the London region over the 6 months to 11 February 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
Central London -3 107 £90,000 +12.50% 115
South London +35 1 £105,000 +27.27% 2
West London -1 1 £82,500 +106.25% 6
Fintech
England

Fintech
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 30 (4.46%) Apache Spark
2 24 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (1.49%) SAS
4 9 (1.34%) Apache
5 4 (0.60%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.45%) Confluence
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.15%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.15%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
Applications
1 28 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.49%) SPSS
4 8 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.45%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.74%) Distributed Ledger
1 5 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.30%) Relativity
5 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.15%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 159 (23.66%) AWS
2 137 (20.39%) SaaS
3 81 (12.05%) GCP
4 77 (11.46%) Azure
5 32 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
6 23 (3.42%) dbt
7 11 (1.64%) Datadog
8 10 (1.49%) Amazon EMR
8 10 (1.49%) Dropbox
8 10 (1.49%) Figma
8 10 (1.49%) Power Platform
8 10 (1.49%) Serverless
9 9 (1.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 8 (1.19%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (1.19%) Azure Event Grid
10 8 (1.19%) GitHub
11 6 (0.89%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (0.89%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (0.74%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (0.74%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.60%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.45%) Firewall
2 3 (0.45%) Network Security
3 2 (0.30%) Multicast
4 1 (0.15%) BGP
4 1 (0.15%) DNS
4 1 (0.15%) HSRP
4 1 (0.15%) IGMP
4 1 (0.15%) OSPF
4 1 (0.15%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (5.21%) Big Data
3 33 (4.91%) MongoDB
4 26 (3.87%) MySQL
5 22 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (3.27%) Relational Database
6 17 (2.53%) NoSQL
7 16 (2.38%) SQL Server
8 14 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
8 14 (2.08%) Apache Arrow
8 14 (2.08%) Apache Iceberg
8 14 (2.08%) Dremio
9 11 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (1.64%) DynamoDB
9 11 (1.64%) Hadoop
10 10 (1.49%) Apache Cassandra
10 10 (1.49%) DataStage
10 10 (1.49%) Neo4j
10 10 (1.49%) Pentaho
10 10 (1.49%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (3.72%) TeamCity
2 18 (2.68%) JIRA
3 8 (1.19%) Git
4 7 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.04%) Selenium
5 6 (0.89%) CircleCI
5 6 (0.89%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.74%) GitLab
7 4 (0.60%) Appium
7 4 (0.60%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.45%) JBehave
8 3 (0.45%) JUnit
9 2 (0.30%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.30%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.30%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.30%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.15%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.15%) Crashlytics
10 1 (0.15%) Postman
General
1 455 (67.71%) Finance
2 145 (21.58%) Social Skills
3 120 (17.86%) Banking
4 76 (11.31%) Retail
5 75 (11.16%) Law
6 74 (11.01%) Financial Institution
7 73 (10.86%) Marketing
8 70 (10.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 56 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
10 41 (6.10%) Legal
11 31 (4.61%) Back Office
12 23 (3.42%) Front Office
13 19 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
14 15 (2.23%) Advertising
15 13 (1.93%) Polish Language
16 11 (1.64%) Billing
17 9 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
18 7 (1.04%) German Language
19 6 (0.89%) Digital Economy
19 6 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 129 (19.20%) Senior
2 123 (18.30%) Developer
3 102 (15.18%) Software Engineer
4 57 (8.48%) Lead
5 39 (5.80%) Python Developer
5 39 (5.80%) Python Engineer
6 33 (4.91%) Python Software Engineer
7 31 (4.61%) Senior Software Engineer
8 28 (4.17%) Java Engineer
9 27 (4.02%) Analyst
10 24 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
10 24 (3.57%) Data Engineer
11 23 (3.42%) Senior Developer
12 22 (3.27%) Accountant
13 21 (3.13%) Architect
13 21 (3.13%) C++ Developer
13 21 (3.13%) Java Software Engineer
14 20 (2.98%) Principal Engineer
15 18 (2.68%) Product Manager
16 17 (2.53%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (7.89%) React
2 51 (7.59%) Kafka
3 44 (6.55%) REST
4 39 (5.80%) Node.js
5 37 (5.51%) .NET
6 26 (3.87%) Spring Boot
7 25 (3.72%) RESTful
7 25 (3.72%) Spring
8 23 (3.42%) AngularJS
9 20 (2.98%) Vue
10 19 (2.83%) Pandas
11 18 (2.68%) RabbitMQ
12 15 (2.23%) NumPy
13 14 (2.08%) Django
13 14 (2.08%) SciPy
14 11 (1.64%) .NET Framework
15 10 (1.49%) ActiveMQ
15 10 (1.49%) Akka
15 10 (1.49%) JMS
15 10 (1.49%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 60 (8.93%) Cloud Native
2 49 (7.29%) Onboarding
3 40 (5.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 38 (5.65%) Distributed Systems
4 38 (5.65%) Product Ownership
5 28 (4.17%) Blog
6 22 (3.27%) Fixed Income
7 19 (2.83%) Equities
8 14 (2.08%) Derivative
8 14 (2.08%) Management Information System
9 11 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (1.49%) Cybercrime
11 9 (1.34%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 8 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (0.89%) OTC Derivatives
14 5 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (0.74%) Blockchain
14 5 (0.74%) Client/Server
14 5 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
15 4 (0.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 38 (5.65%) Linux
2 13 (1.93%) Windows
3 12 (1.79%) Android
3 12 (1.79%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.74%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (25.30%) Software Engineering
2 116 (17.26%) Agile
3 98 (14.58%) Microservices
4 97 (14.43%) CI/CD
5 73 (10.86%) AI
6 67 (9.97%) Analytics
7 66 (9.82%) Roadmaps
8 61 (9.08%) Test Automation
9 60 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 60 (8.93%) Problem-Solving
10 59 (8.78%) Mentoring
11 56 (8.33%) Decision-Making
12 53 (7.89%) Stakeholder Management
13 49 (7.29%) Information Security
14 48 (7.14%) SDLC
15 47 (6.99%) B2B
15 47 (6.99%) Computer Science
16 40 (5.95%) Business Intelligence
16 40 (5.95%) Data Engineering
16 40 (5.95%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 164 (24.40%) Python
2 113 (16.82%) Java
2 113 (16.82%) SQL
3 56 (8.33%) TypeScript
4 50 (7.44%) JavaScript
5 33 (4.91%) C#
6 29 (4.32%) C++
7 17 (2.53%) Go
8 15 (2.23%) C
9 10 (1.49%) Rust
10 8 (1.19%) Apex Code
11 7 (1.04%) Bash
12 5 (0.74%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.60%) PHP
13 4 (0.60%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.30%) Groovy
15 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.15%) Ruby
15 1 (0.15%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 58 (8.63%) Degree
2 22 (3.27%) ACCA
3 16 (2.38%) CIMA
4 14 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (2.08%) ICAEW
5 9 (1.34%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.19%) CREST Certified
6 8 (1.19%) OSCP
7 6 (0.89%) CISA
8 5 (0.74%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.60%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.60%) OSCE
10 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.45%) MBA
11 2 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.30%) CISSP
11 2 (0.30%) PhD
12 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.15%) PMP
12 1 (0.15%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.13%) QA
2 20 (2.98%) GDPR
3 16 (2.38%) IFRS
4 14 (2.08%) GAAP
4 14 (2.08%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.79%) Accessibility
6 11 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
7 10 (1.49%) MiFID
7 10 (1.49%) SEPA
8 9 (1.34%) ISO 20022
8 9 (1.34%) SOC 2
9 7 (1.04%) Data Quality
10 5 (0.74%) EMIR
10 5 (0.74%) TARGET2
11 4 (0.60%) EU AI Act
11 4 (0.60%) WCAG
12 3 (0.45%) PMO
12 3 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.45%) SOC 1
System Software
1 36 (5.36%) Docker
2 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 81 (12.05%) Kubernetes
2 51 (7.59%) Terraform
3 34 (5.06%) Grafana
4 11 (1.64%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.49%) Ansible
6 8 (1.19%) EnCase
6 8 (1.19%) FTK
7 5 (0.74%) Kibana
8 3 (0.45%) logstash
9 1 (0.15%) Argo
9 1 (0.15%) Istio
9 1 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 24 (3.57%) Salesforce
2 18 (2.68%) Microsoft
3 15 (2.23%) Oracle
4 13 (1.93%) Google
5 10 (1.49%) Informatica
5 10 (1.49%) Talend
6 8 (1.19%) Cellebrite
6 8 (1.19%) SAP
7 6 (0.89%) OpenAI
8 5 (0.74%) HubSpot
9 4 (0.60%) Concur
9 4 (0.60%) Revolut
10 3 (0.45%) Apple
10 3 (0.45%) Ariba
10 3 (0.45%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.45%) PagerDuty
10 3 (0.45%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.45%) Solace
10 3 (0.45%) VMware
10 3 (0.45%) Workday