Financial Technology (FinTech)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Fintech skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Fintech over the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 127 75
Rank change year-on-year -12 -52 -8
Permanent jobs citing Fintech 1,420 1,592 6,468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.88% 2.68% 4.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 2.84% 4.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,009 1,478 4,054
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,875 £45,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +17.24% +3.57%
75th Percentile £108,750 £112,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £121,500 £140,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 63,410 56,130 135,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.81% 94.41% 96.14%
Number of salaries quoted 31,055 40,211 76,155
10th Percentile £33,875 £32,500 £33,986
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £97,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £52,700 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.47% +0.38% +5.00%

Fintech
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Fintech as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Fintech in the UK

Fintech
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Fintech.

Salary trend for Fintech in the UK

Fintech
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Fintech over the 6 months to 23 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Fintech in the UK

Fintech
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Fintech within the UK over the 6 months to 23 October 2024. 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
England -31 1,216 £85,000 -2.86% 460
London -13 901 £87,500 -7.89% 335
Work from Home -38 534 £85,000 - 388
UK excluding London +20 477 £70,000 +7.69% 161
Scotland +57 140 £65,000 - 24
South East +13 112 £75,000 +15.38% 34
North of England -27 72 £60,000 -4.00% 46
Midlands -32 58 £60,000 +9.09% 18
North West -1 54 £60,000 +9.09% 29
South West -25 40 £73,750 +13.46% 17
East Midlands -1 32 £60,000 +20.00% 5
West Midlands -61 26 £70,000 +24.44% 12
Wales +53 25 £82,500 +50.00% 6
East of England -36 23 £78,750 +26.00% 13
North East -19 11 £57,500 +130.00% 8
Yorkshire -1 7 £57,500 -18.53% 9
Northern Ireland +14 4 £90,000 +28.57% 6
Channel Islands - 3 £60,000 -

Fintech
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 120 (8.45%) Apache Airflow
2 78 (5.49%) Apache
3 19 (1.34%) Confluence
4 15 (1.06%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.70%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.42%) Apache Pulsar
7 4 (0.28%) CMS
8 2 (0.14%) nginx
8 2 (0.14%) SAS
9 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.070%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 13 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.63%) Adobe XD
2 9 (0.63%) Sketch
3 5 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
3 5 (0.35%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.14%) SPSS
6 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.070%) S-PLUS
6 1 (0.070%) Trello
Business Applications
1 47 (3.31%) Aladdin
2 30 (2.11%) Ripple
3 4 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.14%) Relativity
4 2 (0.14%) Veritas eDiscovery
5 1 (0.070%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.070%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.070%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 608 (42.82%) AWS
2 370 (26.06%) Azure
3 305 (21.48%) GCP
4 140 (9.86%) SaaS
5 79 (5.56%) dbt
6 53 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
6 53 (3.73%) Dagster
7 52 (3.66%) Power Platform
7 52 (3.66%) Serverless
8 37 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
9 31 (2.18%) GitHub
10 30 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
10 30 (2.11%) Figma
11 27 (1.90%) Amazon S3
11 27 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
12 26 (1.83%) Amazon SQS
13 25 (1.76%) Amazon EC2
14 21 (1.48%) Amazon ECS
15 19 (1.34%) Entra ID
16 18 (1.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 36 (2.54%) Firewall
2 16 (1.13%) Network Security
3 13 (0.92%) DNS
4 12 (0.85%) Multicast
5 9 (0.63%) BGP
5 9 (0.63%) OSPF
6 8 (0.56%) HSRP
6 8 (0.56%) IGMP
6 8 (0.56%) VRRP
7 7 (0.49%) WAN
8 6 (0.42%) LAN
9 5 (0.35%) DHCP
9 5 (0.35%) FTP
9 5 (0.35%) HTTP
9 5 (0.35%) HTTPS
9 5 (0.35%) IP Telephony
9 5 (0.35%) PABX
9 5 (0.35%) VLAN
9 5 (0.35%) VPN
10 4 (0.28%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (6.13%) SQL Server
2 86 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
3 74 (5.21%) Amazon Athena
3 74 (5.21%) Dremio
4 66 (4.65%) Apache Ignite
5 64 (4.51%) Data Lake
6 43 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
6 43 (3.03%) Power BI
7 30 (2.11%) MySQL
8 29 (2.04%) NoSQL
9 27 (1.90%) Relational Database
10 25 (1.76%) MongoDB
11 22 (1.55%) Apache Arrow
12 21 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
13 20 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 17 (1.20%) Big Data
15 14 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (0.85%) BigQuery
16 12 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
17 9 (0.63%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 50 (3.52%) Jenkins
2 49 (3.45%) Git
3 31 (2.18%) JIRA
4 27 (1.90%) GitLab
5 23 (1.62%) TeamCity
6 18 (1.27%) Cypress.io
7 14 (0.99%) Selenium
8 13 (0.92%) Cucumber
9 10 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
10 9 (0.63%) Postman
11 8 (0.56%) MSTest
12 7 (0.49%) Snyk
13 6 (0.42%) Artifactory
14 5 (0.35%) Gradle
15 4 (0.28%) CircleCI
15 4 (0.28%) JUnit
15 4 (0.28%) SonarQube
15 4 (0.28%) webpack
16 3 (0.21%) JMeter
16 3 (0.21%) NUnit
General
1 793 (55.85%) Finance
2 282 (19.86%) Banking
3 243 (17.11%) Front Office
4 195 (13.73%) Social Skills
5 130 (9.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 121 (8.52%) Law
7 91 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
8 70 (4.93%) Legal
9 60 (4.23%) Investment Banking
10 52 (3.66%) Financial Institution
11 50 (3.52%) Marketing
12 33 (2.32%) Retail
13 12 (0.85%) Publishing
14 11 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (0.70%) Back Office
15 10 (0.70%) Games
16 8 (0.56%) Billing
17 5 (0.35%) Automotive
18 4 (0.28%) Advertising
18 4 (0.28%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 396 (27.89%) Developer
2 319 (22.46%) Software Engineer
3 257 (18.10%) Senior
4 169 (11.90%) Lead
5 119 (8.38%) Python Engineer
6 109 (7.68%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 102 (7.18%) Analyst
8 86 (6.06%) React Developer
9 80 (5.63%) DevOps Engineer
10 74 (5.21%) UI Developer
11 73 (5.14%) Java Developer
11 73 (5.14%) UI Engineer
12 67 (4.72%) Senior Developer
13 65 (4.58%) Senior Software Engineer
14 64 (4.51%) Data Engineer
15 60 (4.23%) AWS Engineer
16 59 (4.15%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 58 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
17 58 (4.08%) Python Data Engineer
18 56 (3.94%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 270 (19.01%) React
2 139 (9.79%) Node.js
3 132 (9.30%) .NET
4 102 (7.18%) Redux
5 95 (6.69%) Pandas
6 91 (6.41%) NumPy
7 86 (6.06%) SciPy
8 80 (5.63%) gRPC
9 79 (5.56%) Spring
10 78 (5.49%) AngularJS
11 76 (5.35%) Vue
12 67 (4.72%) CSS
13 66 (4.65%) Protocol Buffers
14 62 (4.37%) HTML
15 59 (4.15%) Kafka
15 59 (4.15%) Spring Boot
16 57 (4.01%) PySpark
17 43 (3.03%) RESTful
18 40 (2.82%) REST
19 37 (2.61%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 164 (11.55%) Fixed Income
2 85 (5.99%) Product Ownership
3 84 (5.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 73 (5.14%) Greenfield Project
5 69 (4.86%) Equities
6 62 (4.37%) Hedge funds
7 60 (4.23%) Derivative
8 57 (4.01%) Cloud Native
9 45 (3.17%) Blockchain
10 35 (2.46%) Onboarding
11 30 (2.11%) NFT
12 29 (2.04%) Public Cloud
13 28 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
14 25 (1.76%) Mobile App
15 23 (1.62%) Algorithms
16 18 (1.27%) Security Posture
17 17 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
17 17 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
18 15 (1.06%) Data Structures
19 13 (0.92%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 104 (7.32%) Linux
2 68 (4.79%) Windows
3 16 (1.13%) Windows Server
4 15 (1.06%) CentOS
5 13 (0.92%) Android
5 13 (0.92%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.85%) Unix
7 7 (0.49%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.42%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.35%) Debian
10 4 (0.28%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.14%) HPUX
11 2 (0.14%) Solaris
12 1 (0.070%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 472 (33.24%) Software Engineering
2 471 (33.17%) Agile
3 262 (18.45%) Asset Management
4 222 (15.63%) Investment Management
5 219 (15.42%) CI/CD
6 209 (14.72%) DevOps
7 166 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
8 161 (11.34%) Analytics
9 156 (10.99%) Full-Stack Development
10 148 (10.42%) Roadmaps
11 142 (10.00%) User Experience
12 131 (9.23%) Microservices
13 117 (8.24%) Infrastructure as Code
14 114 (8.03%) Artificial Intelligence
15 113 (7.96%) Computer Science
16 105 (7.39%) Low Latency
17 99 (6.97%) Machine Learning
18 94 (6.62%) Business Intelligence
19 91 (6.41%) Front End Development
20 88 (6.20%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 432 (30.42%) Python
2 349 (24.58%) Java
3 299 (21.06%) JavaScript
4 268 (18.87%) SQL
5 225 (15.85%) TypeScript
6 168 (11.83%) C#
7 88 (6.20%) Kotlin
8 74 (5.21%) PowerShell
9 46 (3.24%) Bash
10 45 (3.17%) C++
11 43 (3.03%) Go
12 42 (2.96%) Rust
13 38 (2.68%) Scala
14 30 (2.11%) PHP
14 30 (2.11%) Solidity
15 15 (1.06%) T-SQL
16 13 (0.92%) C
17 8 (0.56%) Dart
18 4 (0.28%) PL/SQL
19 3 (0.21%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 156 (10.99%) Degree
2 70 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 32 (2.25%) Master's Degree
4 15 (1.06%) AWS Certification
5 14 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (0.85%) Numerate Degree
7 8 (0.56%) CCNA
7 8 (0.56%) CCNP
8 7 (0.49%) Security Cleared
9 6 (0.42%) CCSP
9 6 (0.42%) PhD
10 5 (0.35%) CISSP
10 5 (0.35%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.35%) PMP
10 5 (0.35%) SC Cleared
11 4 (0.28%) CEH
11 4 (0.28%) CISM
11 4 (0.28%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.28%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (4.65%) QA
2 38 (2.68%) Accessibility
3 27 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (1.83%) NIST
4 26 (1.83%) PCI DSS
5 23 (1.62%) SOC 2
6 15 (1.06%) Data Quality
7 14 (0.99%) GDPR
8 6 (0.42%) MiFID
8 6 (0.42%) PMO
8 6 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.42%) SLA
8 6 (0.42%) UCITS
9 3 (0.21%) COSO
9 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.14%) ITGC
10 2 (0.14%) SEPA
10 2 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.070%) COBIT
11 1 (0.070%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 160 (11.27%) Docker
2 29 (2.04%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.070%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.070%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 239 (16.83%) Kubernetes
2 220 (15.49%) Terraform
3 73 (5.14%) Ansible
4 12 (0.85%) Grafana
4 12 (0.85%) ZABBIX
5 8 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.49%) CASB
6 7 (0.49%) CSIRT
7 6 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (0.35%) Argo
8 5 (0.35%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.35%) SCCM
9 3 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.21%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.21%) Puppet
10 2 (0.14%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.070%) Kibana
11 1 (0.070%) logstash
11 1 (0.070%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 91 (6.41%) Microsoft
2 50 (3.52%) Google
3 47 (3.31%) BISAM
3 47 (3.31%) Bloomberg
4 23 (1.62%) Salesforce
4 23 (1.62%) VMware
5 17 (1.20%) Cisco
6 15 (1.06%) Oracle
7 14 (0.99%) Adobe
7 14 (0.99%) Arista
7 14 (0.99%) Fortinet
8 13 (0.92%) Databricks
9 12 (0.85%) Palo Alto
9 12 (0.85%) Red Hat
10 9 (0.63%) Dell
11 8 (0.56%) Atlassian
11 8 (0.56%) F5
12 6 (0.42%) ServiceNow
13 5 (0.35%) Meraki
14 4 (0.28%) HubSpot