Fintech Job Trends in the North of England

Financial Technology (FinTech)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Fintech skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 191 212
Rank change year-on-year +18 +21 +8
Permanent jobs citing Fintech 110 87 122
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.90% 1.08% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 1.18% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 97 66 97
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,313 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,822 £68,750
90th Percentile - £100,000 £76,600
England median annual salary £82,500 £87,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.71% +9.38% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,495 7,399 10,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 77.73% 92.10% 86.34%
Number of salaries quoted 5,234 3,463 8,699
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £66,250 £69,914 £66,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,143
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +12.73% -12.00%

Fintech
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Fintech job vacancy trend in the North of England

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Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Fintech.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Fintech

Fintech
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Fintech in the North of England over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Fintech in the North of England

Fintech
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Fintech within the North of England region over the 6 months to 10 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
North West +21 58 £75,000 +11.11% 40
Yorkshire -24 29 £52,500 +16.67% 11
North East +9 23 £70,000 -8.20% 12
Fintech
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (0.91%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.82%) Adobe XD
2 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.82%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 21 (19.09%) SaaS
2 18 (16.36%) AWS
3 7 (6.36%) Azure
4 3 (2.73%) GCP
5 2 (1.82%) Figma
5 2 (1.82%) GitHub
5 2 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (1.82%) Intacct
5 2 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.82%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.82%) Workato
6 1 (0.91%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (0.91%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.91%) ChatGPT
6 1 (0.91%) Collibra
6 1 (0.91%) Datadog
6 1 (0.91%) Google Gemini
6 1 (0.91%) Serverless
6 1 (0.91%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.91%) Firewall
1 1 (0.91%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.82%) Power BI
2 2 (1.82%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.91%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.91%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (3.64%) Postman
2 2 (1.82%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.91%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.91%) GitLab
3 1 (0.91%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.91%) JIRA
3 1 (0.91%) Selenium
3 1 (0.91%) SoapUI
General
1 71 (64.55%) Finance
2 21 (19.09%) Financial Institution
3 20 (18.18%) Banking
4 10 (9.09%) Social Skills
5 4 (3.64%) Billing
5 4 (3.64%) Marketing
5 4 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.82%) Automotive
6 2 (1.82%) Digital Economy
6 2 (1.82%) Legal
7 1 (0.91%) Electronics
7 1 (0.91%) Games
7 1 (0.91%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.91%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (31.82%) Software Engineer
2 23 (20.91%) Senior
3 20 (18.18%) Developer
4 14 (12.73%) Software Developer
5 11 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 9 (8.18%) Senior Developer
7 6 (5.45%) Java Developer
7 6 (5.45%) Lead
7 6 (5.45%) Senior Software Developer
7 6 (5.45%) Technologist
8 5 (4.55%) .NET Software Engineer
8 5 (4.55%) Architect
8 5 (4.55%) Python Engineer
9 4 (3.64%) Graduate
9 4 (3.64%) Graduate Software Engineer
9 4 (3.64%) Junior
9 4 (3.64%) Junior Developer
9 4 (3.64%) Junior Java Developer
9 4 (3.64%) Lead Software Engineer
9 4 (3.64%) Payments Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.91%) Micronaut
2 11 (10.00%) .NET
3 5 (4.55%) .NET Core
3 5 (4.55%) React
3 5 (4.55%) Spring
3 5 (4.55%) Spring Boot
4 4 (3.64%) Next.js
5 3 (2.73%) CSS
6 2 (1.82%) Framer.js
6 2 (1.82%) Jest
6 2 (1.82%) Middleware
6 2 (1.82%) Node.js
6 2 (1.82%) RESTful
7 1 (0.91%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.91%) Celery
7 1 (0.91%) CSS3
7 1 (0.91%) HTML5
7 1 (0.91%) Kafka
7 1 (0.91%) OpenID
7 1 (0.91%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.55%) Hedge funds
2 6 (5.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (3.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 3 (2.73%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.73%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.82%) Animation
5 2 (1.82%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.82%) Social Media
6 1 (0.91%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.91%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.91%) Contactless
6 1 (0.91%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.91%) Derivative
6 1 (0.91%) EMV
6 1 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.91%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.91%) PMI
6 1 (0.91%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.91%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.91%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (50.91%) Software Engineering
2 23 (20.91%) AI
3 16 (14.55%) DevOps
4 14 (12.73%) CI/CD
4 14 (12.73%) Digital Banking
4 14 (12.73%) Technology Transformation
5 11 (10.00%) Agile
5 11 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
6 10 (9.09%) Collaborative Culture
6 10 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (8.18%) Clean Code
8 8 (7.27%) Front End Development
8 8 (7.27%) People Management
8 8 (7.27%) Roadmaps
9 7 (6.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (6.36%) Logistics
9 7 (6.36%) OO
9 7 (6.36%) OOP
9 7 (6.36%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (6.36%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (11.82%) Java
2 12 (10.91%) TypeScript
3 10 (9.09%) Python
4 9 (8.18%) C#
5 3 (2.73%) SQL
6 2 (1.82%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.91%) Bash
7 1 (0.91%) Go
7 1 (0.91%) PHP
7 1 (0.91%) Scala
7 1 (0.91%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (5.45%) Degree
2 4 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.91%) ACCA
3 1 (0.91%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.91%) CIMA
3 1 (0.91%) PMI Certification
3 1 (0.91%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.36%) QA
2 6 (5.45%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.64%) ISO 20022
3 4 (3.64%) SEPA
3 4 (3.64%) TARGET2
4 2 (1.82%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (8.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (7.27%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.73%) Terraform
3 1 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (1.82%) Concur
1 2 (1.82%) Microsoft
1 2 (1.82%) Sage
2 1 (0.91%) Okta
2 1 (0.91%) OpenAI
2 1 (0.91%) Palo Alto
2 1 (0.91%) SAP
2 1 (0.91%) Trend Micro