Fintech Job Trends in the Midlands

Financial Technology (FinTech)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Fintech skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 205 172
Rank change year-on-year +4 -33 +30
Permanent jobs citing Fintech 19 38 50
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.24% 0.58% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.65% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 19 20 50
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,150 £21,990
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,875 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £68,125 £68,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £70,000 £73,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +9.68%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,360 5,857 4,615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.47% 89.85% 88.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,509 2,562 3,797
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,920
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,309
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Fintech job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Fintech.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Fintech

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Fintech in the Midlands over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Fintech in the Midlands

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Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Fintech within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 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
West Midlands +17 15 £80,000 +28.00% 59
East Midlands -16 4 £100,000 +66.67% 48
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) Azure
1 3 (15.79%) SaaS
2 1 (5.26%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (36.84%) Public Sector
2 6 (31.58%) Marketing
3 3 (15.79%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Head of Marketing
2 4 (21.05%) Software Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Bid Writer
3 3 (15.79%) Python Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Python Software Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Sales Representative
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) .NET Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Business Development Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Business Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Data Scientist
5 1 (5.26%) Development Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Product Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) Products Support Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Business Development Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Business Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Scientist
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Development Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) PySpark
2 1 (5.26%) .NET
2 1 (5.26%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (21.05%) Software Engineering
2 3 (15.79%) Analytics
2 3 (15.79%) Data Analytics
2 3 (15.79%) Deadline-Driven
2 3 (15.79%) Value Proposition
3 1 (5.26%) AI
3 1 (5.26%) B2B
3 1 (5.26%) Business Development
3 1 (5.26%) CI/CD
3 1 (5.26%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) C#
2 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) APMP