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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 50 45
Rank change year-on-year -16 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing Fintech 543 863 955
As % of all permanent jobs in London 3.96% 5.46% 5.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.48% 5.79% 5.82%
Number of salaries quoted 418 704 870
10th Percentile £55,000 £60,690 £60,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £76,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £90,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -2.70% +11.45%
75th Percentile £108,750 £117,813 £115,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £142,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £87,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -8.57% +2.94% +13.33%

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 12,117 14,907 16,420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 88.36% 94.37% 92.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,725 8,332 13,201
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £41,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 1 January 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 1 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
Central London -19 77 £90,000 +7.46% 320
South London +32 3 £95,000 +1.33% 3
West London - 1 £82,500 - 4
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 39 (7.18%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (5.16%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.66%) Apache
3 9 (1.66%) SAS
4 5 (0.92%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.74%) Confluence
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.66%) SPSS
4 3 (0.55%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.37%) Relativity
4 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 141 (25.97%) AWS
2 102 (18.78%) SaaS
3 68 (12.52%) GCP
4 59 (10.87%) Azure
5 33 (6.08%) dbt
6 11 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (2.03%) Amazon EMR
7 10 (1.84%) Power Platform
8 9 (1.66%) Dropbox
9 8 (1.47%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (1.47%) GitHub
10 7 (1.29%) Datadog
10 7 (1.29%) Figma
10 7 (1.29%) Serverless
11 5 (0.92%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (0.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (0.92%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (0.74%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.74%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.37%) Multicast
3 1 (0.18%) BGP
3 1 (0.18%) DNS
3 1 (0.18%) Firewall
3 1 (0.18%) HSRP
3 1 (0.18%) HTTP
3 1 (0.18%) IGMP
3 1 (0.18%) OSPF
3 1 (0.18%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (11.42%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (6.63%) MongoDB
3 32 (5.89%) Big Data
4 29 (5.34%) Amazon Athena
4 29 (5.34%) Apache Arrow
4 29 (5.34%) Apache Iceberg
4 29 (5.34%) Dremio
5 26 (4.79%) MySQL
6 22 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (3.68%) Relational Database
8 14 (2.58%) SQL Server
9 13 (2.39%) NoSQL
10 12 (2.21%) DynamoDB
10 12 (2.21%) Hadoop
11 11 (2.03%) Apache Cassandra
11 11 (2.03%) DataStage
11 11 (2.03%) Neo4j
11 11 (2.03%) Pentaho
11 11 (2.03%) RDBMS
12 10 (1.84%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 18 (3.31%) JIRA
2 8 (1.47%) TeamCity
3 7 (1.29%) Git
4 5 (0.92%) Appium
4 5 (0.92%) Cypress.io
4 5 (0.92%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.92%) Selenium
5 4 (0.74%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.55%) GitLab
6 3 (0.55%) JBehave
6 3 (0.55%) JUnit
7 2 (0.37%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.37%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.37%) Jaeger
7 2 (0.37%) Postman
7 2 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.18%) CMake
8 1 (0.18%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.18%) SoapUI
General
1 371 (68.32%) Finance
2 129 (23.76%) Social Skills
3 74 (13.63%) Banking
4 54 (9.94%) Marketing
5 53 (9.76%) Financial Institution
6 52 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
7 42 (7.73%) Law
8 39 (7.18%) Retail
9 35 (6.45%) Front Office
10 33 (6.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (5.16%) Legal
12 15 (2.76%) Back Office
12 15 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (1.84%) Billing
14 9 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (1.47%) Advertising
16 6 (1.10%) Digital Economy
17 5 (0.92%) German Language
17 5 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
18 4 (0.74%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 110 (20.26%) Developer
2 87 (16.02%) Software Engineer
3 80 (14.73%) Senior
4 48 (8.84%) Python Developer
4 48 (8.84%) Python Engineer
5 46 (8.47%) Lead
6 44 (8.10%) Python Software Engineer
7 35 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
8 32 (5.89%) AWS Software Engineer
9 30 (5.52%) AWS Developer
10 29 (5.34%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 27 (4.97%) Java Engineer
12 21 (3.87%) Principal Engineer
13 20 (3.68%) Java Software Engineer
14 19 (3.50%) Analyst
14 19 (3.50%) Senior Software Engineer
15 17 (3.13%) Accountant
15 17 (3.13%) Data Engineer
16 16 (2.95%) Architect
16 16 (2.95%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (10.87%) React
2 48 (8.84%) Node.js
3 44 (8.10%) Kafka
4 41 (7.55%) AngularJS
5 36 (6.63%) Vue
6 35 (6.45%) Pandas
7 32 (5.89%) REST
8 30 (5.52%) NumPy
9 29 (5.34%) SciPy
10 25 (4.60%) Spring
10 25 (4.60%) Spring Boot
11 23 (4.24%) .NET
12 19 (3.50%) RESTful
13 16 (2.95%) RabbitMQ
14 14 (2.58%) Django
15 13 (2.39%) .NET Framework
16 12 (2.21%) Akka
16 12 (2.21%) RxJava
16 12 (2.21%) Spring WebFlux
17 10 (1.84%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 55 (10.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 42 (7.73%) Onboarding
3 31 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (5.71%) Equities
3 31 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 30 (5.52%) Fixed Income
5 29 (5.34%) Cloud Native
6 14 (2.58%) Blog
7 13 (2.39%) Management Information System
8 12 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (1.66%) Cybercrime
10 8 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (0.92%) Client/Server
11 5 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.74%) Augmented Reality
12 4 (0.74%) Derivative
12 4 (0.74%) Hedge funds
12 4 (0.74%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.74%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 35 (6.45%) Linux
2 13 (2.39%) Apple iOS
3 12 (2.21%) Windows
4 10 (1.84%) Android
5 5 (0.92%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.18%) CentOS
7 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (25.41%) Software Engineering
2 129 (23.76%) Agile
3 72 (13.26%) Microservices
4 70 (12.89%) CI/CD
5 66 (12.15%) AI
6 63 (11.60%) Roadmaps
7 60 (11.05%) Analytics
8 53 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 51 (9.39%) Problem-Solving
10 46 (8.47%) Stakeholder Management
11 45 (8.29%) Risk Management
12 44 (8.10%) Information Security
13 42 (7.73%) Decision-Making
13 42 (7.73%) Mentoring
14 41 (7.55%) SDLC
15 40 (7.37%) Computer Science
16 39 (7.18%) Asset Management
16 39 (7.18%) Product Strategy
17 38 (7.00%) Business Intelligence
18 37 (6.81%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 153 (28.18%) Python
2 94 (17.31%) SQL
3 81 (14.92%) Java
4 61 (11.23%) JavaScript
4 61 (11.23%) TypeScript
5 29 (5.34%) C#
6 20 (3.68%) C++
7 11 (2.03%) C
8 10 (1.84%) Go
8 10 (1.84%) Rust
9 8 (1.47%) Apex Code
10 7 (1.29%) Kotlin
11 5 (0.92%) PHP
11 5 (0.92%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.74%) Bash
13 3 (0.55%) Swift
14 2 (0.37%) Groovy
14 2 (0.37%) VBA
15 1 (0.18%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 44 (8.10%) Degree
2 17 (3.13%) ACCA
3 12 (2.21%) ICAEW
4 11 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.84%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.47%) CIMA
7 6 (1.10%) CISA
7 6 (1.10%) CREST Certified
7 6 (1.10%) OSCP
8 5 (0.92%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.74%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.74%) OSCE
10 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.55%) MBA
10 3 (0.55%) PhD
11 2 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.37%) CISSP
12 1 (0.18%) CCIE
12 1 (0.18%) CCSP
12 1 (0.18%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.31%) QA
2 16 (2.95%) GDPR
3 14 (2.58%) IFRS
4 12 (2.21%) GAAP
5 10 (1.84%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.66%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.47%) SEPA
8 7 (1.29%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.29%) ISO 20022
8 7 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.92%) PMO
11 4 (0.74%) EU AI Act
11 4 (0.74%) MiFID
11 4 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.74%) WCAG
12 3 (0.55%) EMIR
12 3 (0.55%) SOC 1
12 3 (0.55%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.55%) TARGET2
System Software
1 31 (5.71%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 48 (8.84%) Kubernetes
2 22 (4.05%) Terraform
3 12 (2.21%) Grafana
4 7 (1.29%) Ansible
4 7 (1.29%) EnCase
4 7 (1.29%) FTK
5 6 (1.10%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.92%) Kibana
7 3 (0.55%) logstash
8 2 (0.37%) Control-M
9 1 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 20 (3.68%) Salesforce
2 19 (3.50%) Microsoft
3 16 (2.95%) Oracle
4 11 (2.03%) Google
4 11 (2.03%) Informatica
4 11 (2.03%) Talend
5 8 (1.47%) SAP
6 7 (1.29%) Cellebrite
7 4 (0.74%) Atlassian
7 4 (0.74%) Bloomberg
7 4 (0.74%) Concur
7 4 (0.74%) HubSpot
8 3 (0.55%) Ariba
8 3 (0.55%) PagerDuty
8 3 (0.55%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.55%) Solace
8 3 (0.55%) VMware
8 3 (0.55%) Workday
9 2 (0.37%) CyberSource
9 2 (0.37%) Nuix