Fintech Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Financial Technology (FinTech)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Fintech skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 242 250
Rank change year-on-year -67 +8 -76
Permanent jobs citing Fintech 209 399 398
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.50% 1.11% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 1.25% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 186 217 362
10th Percentile £28,000 £42,500 £38,875
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.57% +9.38% +6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,128 31,909 30,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.51% 88.95% 88.65%
Number of salaries quoted 19,079 14,313 22,914
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Fintech
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Fintech job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Fintech
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Fintech.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Fintech

Fintech
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Fintech in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Fintech in the UK excluding London

Fintech
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Fintech within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
North of England +35 83 £70,000 +16.67% 140
South East +27 73 £57,500 -25.81% 303
North West +20 46 £75,000 +25.00% 64
Yorkshire +3 21 £58,750 +6.82% 56
Midlands +7 19 £85,000 +41.67% 81
South West -9 17 £57,500 -20.14% 82
North East +8 16 £70,000 -8.20% 20
West Midlands +16 15 £80,000 +28.00% 25
Scotland -90 10 £55,000 +19.57% 15
East of England +8 5 £65,000 -35.00% 88
East Midlands -19 4 £100,000 +66.67% 55
Wales -15 2 £48,250 -44.86% 33
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Fintech
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (0.48%) Confluence
1 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.96%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.96%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.96%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 42 (20.10%) SaaS
2 28 (13.40%) AWS
3 22 (10.53%) Azure
4 9 (4.31%) Entra ID
5 7 (3.35%) Serverless
6 6 (2.87%) Azure App Service
6 6 (2.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 6 (2.87%) Azure Functions
6 6 (2.87%) Azure Logic Apps
6 6 (2.87%) PaaS
7 5 (2.39%) GCP
8 4 (1.91%) Figma
8 4 (1.91%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.44%) BigCommerce
9 3 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.44%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.96%) GitHub
10 2 (0.96%) Intacct
10 2 (0.96%) Workato
11 1 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.48%) Firewall
1 1 (0.48%) PBX
1 1 (0.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.74%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.87%) Relational Database
3 5 (2.39%) MySQL
4 4 (1.91%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.91%) Power BI
4 4 (1.91%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.96%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (4.31%) Postman
2 8 (3.83%) Selenium
3 6 (2.87%) Cucumber
3 6 (2.87%) Git
4 5 (2.39%) SoapUI
5 3 (1.44%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.96%) JIRA
7 1 (0.48%) Gatling
7 1 (0.48%) JMeter
7 1 (0.48%) JUnit
7 1 (0.48%) NUnit
7 1 (0.48%) TestNG
General
1 95 (45.45%) Finance
2 35 (16.75%) Social Skills
3 21 (10.05%) Banking
3 21 (10.05%) Financial Institution
4 18 (8.61%) Marketing
5 13 (6.22%) Retail
6 9 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.83%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.35%) Legal
9 6 (2.87%) Games
10 5 (2.39%) Health Technology
10 5 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.91%) Billing
11 4 (1.91%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.44%) Multimedia
13 2 (0.96%) Automotive
13 2 (0.96%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.96%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.48%) Electronics
14 1 (0.48%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (16.75%) Software Engineer
2 32 (15.31%) Senior
3 30 (14.35%) Developer
4 13 (6.22%) Analyst
5 11 (5.26%) Support Engineer
6 10 (4.78%) Account Executive
6 10 (4.78%) IT Engineer
6 10 (4.78%) IT Support
6 10 (4.78%) IT Support Engineer
6 10 (4.78%) Python Engineer
6 10 (4.78%) Senior Software Engineer
6 10 (4.78%) Software Developer
7 9 (4.31%) Lead
8 8 (3.83%) QA Engineer
8 8 (3.83%) Support Analyst
9 7 (3.35%) Account Manager
9 7 (3.35%) Java Developer
9 7 (3.35%) Python Software Engineer
9 7 (3.35%) QA Automation Engineer
9 7 (3.35%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (11.48%) .NET
2 16 (7.66%) React
3 12 (5.74%) Micronaut
4 9 (4.31%) CSS
5 8 (3.83%) Next.js
6 6 (2.87%) .NET Framework
6 6 (2.87%) ARM Templates
6 6 (2.87%) HTML
6 6 (2.87%) Spring
6 6 (2.87%) Spring Boot
7 5 (2.39%) pytest
7 5 (2.39%) SOAP
8 3 (1.44%) .NET Core
8 3 (1.44%) Node.js
8 3 (1.44%) PySpark
8 3 (1.44%) RESTful
8 3 (1.44%) Vue
9 2 (0.96%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.96%) Flask
9 2 (0.96%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.78%) Hedge funds
2 9 (4.31%) Onboarding
3 7 (3.35%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.35%) Mobile App
3 7 (3.35%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.87%) Low-Code
5 4 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (1.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (1.44%) Learning Management System
6 3 (1.44%) Reinsurance
6 3 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.96%) Animation
7 2 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.48%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.48%) Derivative
8 1 (0.48%) Device Driver
8 1 (0.48%) EMV
8 1 (0.48%) IVR
8 1 (0.48%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.48%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.35%) Windows
2 6 (2.87%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.39%) Linux
4 1 (0.48%) Android
4 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (25.36%) Software Engineering
2 31 (14.83%) Agile
2 31 (14.83%) B2B
3 26 (12.44%) DevOps
4 22 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (9.57%) AI
6 19 (9.09%) CI/CD
7 15 (7.18%) Mentoring
8 14 (6.70%) Collaborative Culture
8 14 (6.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (5.26%) Clean Code
9 11 (5.26%) Digital Banking
9 11 (5.26%) Technical Leadership
9 11 (5.26%) User Experience
10 10 (4.78%) Technology Transformation
11 9 (4.31%) Coaching
11 9 (4.31%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (4.31%) Test Automation
12 8 (3.83%) Computer Science
12 8 (3.83%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (10.53%) C#
2 20 (9.57%) Java
3 18 (8.61%) Python
3 18 (8.61%) SQL
4 14 (6.70%) TypeScript
5 9 (4.31%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.87%) PHP
7 5 (2.39%) Go
8 3 (1.44%) C++
9 2 (0.96%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.48%) Bash
10 1 (0.48%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.48%) Scala
10 1 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (3.83%) Degree
2 5 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.44%) APMP
4 2 (0.96%) ACCA
4 2 (0.96%) CIMA
5 1 (0.48%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.74%) QA
2 6 (2.87%) SLA
3 5 (2.39%) GDPR
3 5 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.39%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.91%) ISO 20022
4 4 (1.91%) SEPA
4 4 (1.91%) TARGET2
5 2 (0.96%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.96%) PMO
6 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (6.22%) Docker
2 8 (3.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (4.78%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.91%) Terraform
3 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (5.74%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.39%) Oracle
3 2 (0.96%) Adobe
3 2 (0.96%) Concur
3 2 (0.96%) Okta
3 2 (0.96%) Sage
4 1 (0.48%) LexisNexis
4 1 (0.48%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.48%) Palo Alto
4 1 (0.48%) SAP
4 1 (0.48%) Trend Micro