Financial Technology (FinTech)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Fintech skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Fintech over the 6 months to 4 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 134 77 68
Rank change year-on-year -57 -9 -20
Permanent jobs citing Fintech 1,371 5,065 5,763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.58% 4.09% 4.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 4.27% 4.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,274 3,639 4,334
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £112,500 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Fintech is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 50,088 118,671 122,416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.09% 95.74% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 36,209 72,079 81,851
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,492 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £99,025 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,219 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.35% +6.44% +4.17%

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 4 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Fintech in the UK

Fintech
Top 17 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 4 December 2023. 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 -53 1,225 £85,000 +13.33% 1,014
London -4 962 £91,250 +10.61% 744
Work from Home -56 628 £80,000 +8.11% 563
UK excluding London -136 330 £62,500 +4.17% 406
South East -101 64 £60,000 -11.11% 148
North of England -32 62 £62,500 +13.64% 80
Scotland -35 61 £65,000 +4.00% 22
South West -75 50 £65,000 +8.33% 69
Midlands +14 47 £55,000 +4.76% 39
West Midlands +55 39 £55,000 +7.32% 25
Yorkshire +53 32 £70,576 +34.43% 28
North West -13 29 £55,000 -4.35% 52
Northern Ireland +12 19 £70,000 +30.84% 11
East of England -7 17 £62,500 +8.70% 17
Wales 0 10 £55,000 -8.33% 21
East Midlands +1 8 £52,500 - 14
North East +1 1 £25,000 -54.55%

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 30 (2.19%) Apache Spark
2 21 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (1.53%) Confluence
3 11 (0.80%) IIS
4 8 (0.58%) Apache
5 7 (0.51%) nginx
6 6 (0.44%) Ethereum
6 6 (0.44%) WordPress
7 4 (0.29%) CMS
7 4 (0.29%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.22%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.15%) JBoss
9 2 (0.15%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.073%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.073%) Luigi
10 1 (0.073%) MS Exchange
10 1 (0.073%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.073%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 9 (0.66%) Sketch
4 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (0.29%) MadCap Flare
6 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.15%) InDesign
7 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.15%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.073%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.073%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (0.80%) Distributed Ledger
2 4 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.22%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.073%) Magento
5 1 (0.073%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 483 (35.23%) AWS
2 315 (22.98%) Azure
3 178 (12.98%) GCP
4 104 (7.59%) SaaS
5 35 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (2.26%) Figma
6 31 (2.26%) GitHub
7 24 (1.75%) PaaS
7 24 (1.75%) Serverless
8 22 (1.60%) Azure Service Bus
9 18 (1.31%) Microsoft 365
9 18 (1.31%) Snowflake
10 11 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (0.73%) Azure Pipelines
11 10 (0.73%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (0.66%) Power Platform
13 8 (0.58%) Amazon S3
13 8 (0.58%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (0.58%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.09%) Firewall
2 13 (0.95%) PBX
3 9 (0.66%) DNS
4 8 (0.58%) HTTP
5 5 (0.36%) OpenVPN
6 3 (0.22%) ATM
6 3 (0.22%) LAN
6 3 (0.22%) Multicast
7 2 (0.15%) BGP
7 2 (0.15%) OSPF
7 2 (0.15%) Softphone
7 2 (0.15%) VPN
7 2 (0.15%) WAN
8 1 (0.073%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.073%) DHCP
8 1 (0.073%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.073%) Junos
8 1 (0.073%) Network Security
8 1 (0.073%) SAN
8 1 (0.073%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (6.64%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (4.16%) NoSQL
3 45 (3.28%) Big Data
4 36 (2.63%) SQL Server
5 31 (2.26%) Redis
6 28 (2.04%) MySQL
7 27 (1.97%) Hadoop
8 25 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
9 23 (1.68%) MongoDB
10 21 (1.53%) Data Lake
11 20 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
12 19 (1.39%) Relational Database
13 14 (1.02%) DynamoDB
14 12 (0.88%) Apache Hive
14 12 (0.88%) BigQuery
15 10 (0.73%) Impala
15 10 (0.73%) Presto
16 9 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
16 9 (0.66%) Power BI
17 8 (0.58%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 72 (5.25%) Jenkins
2 47 (3.43%) Git
3 41 (2.99%) Selenium
4 40 (2.92%) Cucumber
5 39 (2.84%) Postman
6 36 (2.63%) JIRA
7 31 (2.26%) Maven
8 27 (1.97%) TeamCity
9 25 (1.82%) Octopus Deploy
10 19 (1.39%) Bitbucket
11 11 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (0.73%) GitLab
13 7 (0.51%) JUnit
14 6 (0.44%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.44%) webpack
15 5 (0.36%) Artifactory
15 5 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 5 (0.36%) Cypress.io
15 5 (0.36%) Gradle
16 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 611 (44.57%) Finance
2 247 (18.02%) Social Skills
3 167 (12.18%) Banking
4 122 (8.90%) Front Office
5 76 (5.54%) Analytical Skills
6 60 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 51 (3.72%) Marketing
8 43 (3.14%) Financial Institution
9 36 (2.63%) Retail
10 35 (2.55%) Law
11 24 (1.75%) Legal
12 16 (1.17%) Telecoms
13 13 (0.95%) Advertising
14 11 (0.80%) Investment Banking
15 10 (0.73%) Back Office
16 9 (0.66%) Public Sector
17 7 (0.51%) Automotive
17 7 (0.51%) Manufacturing
17 7 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
17 7 (0.51%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 473 (34.50%) Developer
2 255 (18.60%) Senior
3 232 (16.92%) Software Engineer
4 200 (14.59%) Lead
5 144 (10.50%) Java Developer
6 124 (9.04%) .NET Developer
6 124 (9.04%) Senior Developer
7 97 (7.08%) .NET Software Engineer
7 97 (7.08%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 87 (6.35%) Analyst
9 86 (6.27%) React Developer
10 82 (5.98%) Full Stack Developer
11 81 (5.91%) .NET Software Developer
12 65 (4.74%) DevOps Engineer
13 64 (4.67%) Architect
14 53 (3.87%) Full Stack Engineer
15 49 (3.57%) Software Manager
15 49 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
16 48 (3.50%) Full Stack Software Engineer
17 47 (3.43%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 251 (18.31%) React
2 233 (16.99%) .NET
3 143 (10.43%) AngularJS
4 120 (8.75%) Redux
5 119 (8.68%) Kafka
6 114 (8.32%) ASP.NET
7 102 (7.44%) Vue
8 99 (7.22%) Spring Boot
9 98 (7.15%) Spring
10 83 (6.05%) REST
11 81 (5.91%) ASP.NET Core
12 66 (4.81%) Node.js
13 65 (4.74%) RESTful
14 64 (4.67%) CSS
15 57 (4.16%) .NET Core
16 49 (3.57%) HTML
17 39 (2.84%) .NET Framework
18 34 (2.48%) GraphQL
19 29 (2.12%) ASP.NET Web API
20 27 (1.97%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 143 (10.43%) Greenfield Project
2 137 (9.99%) Fixed Income
3 119 (8.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 99 (7.22%) Hedge funds
5 95 (6.93%) Derivative
6 82 (5.98%) Equities
7 42 (3.06%) Product Ownership
8 41 (2.99%) Blockchain
9 37 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
10 30 (2.19%) Mobile App
11 28 (2.04%) Algorithms
11 28 (2.04%) Cloud Native
12 20 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
13 16 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
14 15 (1.09%) Data Structures
14 15 (1.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 14 (1.02%) Hackathon
15 14 (1.02%) Management Information System
15 14 (1.02%) Onboarding
15 14 (1.02%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 74 (5.40%) Linux
2 52 (3.79%) Windows
3 11 (0.80%) Apple iOS
4 10 (0.73%) Mac OS
5 8 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.51%) Android
6 7 (0.51%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.44%) CentOS
7 6 (0.44%) Unix
7 6 (0.44%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.36%) Debian
9 4 (0.29%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.073%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 456 (33.26%) Agile
2 333 (24.29%) Software Engineering
3 280 (20.42%) DevOps
4 199 (14.51%) CI/CD
5 184 (13.42%) Computer Science
6 180 (13.13%) TDD
7 174 (12.69%) Full Stack Development
8 161 (11.74%) Microservices
9 138 (10.07%) Mentoring
10 119 (8.68%) Investment Management
11 117 (8.53%) Analytics
12 114 (8.32%) Asset Management
13 113 (8.24%) Problem-Solving
14 94 (6.86%) Low Latency
15 88 (6.42%) User Experience
16 86 (6.27%) Roadmaps
17 74 (5.40%) Front End Development
17 74 (5.40%) Scrum
18 72 (5.25%) Infrastructure as Code
18 72 (5.25%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 363 (26.48%) Java
2 278 (20.28%) C#
3 221 (16.12%) JavaScript
4 216 (15.75%) TypeScript
5 203 (14.81%) SQL
6 195 (14.22%) Python
7 108 (7.88%) Kotlin
8 44 (3.21%) Scala
9 40 (2.92%) PowerShell
10 39 (2.84%) PHP
11 35 (2.55%) Go
12 34 (2.48%) Bash
13 32 (2.33%) C++
14 16 (1.17%) Ruby
15 13 (0.95%) T-SQL
16 9 (0.66%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.58%) R
17 8 (0.58%) Rust
18 6 (0.44%) Swift
19 5 (0.36%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 172 (12.55%) Degree
2 79 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 42 (3.06%) Master's Degree
4 17 (1.24%) CISMP
5 11 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (0.73%) CCNA
7 5 (0.36%) CISSP
8 4 (0.29%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.29%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.22%) CISM
9 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.22%) PhD
9 3 (0.22%) Security Cleared
10 2 (0.15%) GSEC
10 2 (0.15%) MCSA
10 2 (0.15%) MCSE
10 2 (0.15%) OSCP
10 2 (0.15%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.15%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (11.67%) QA
2 18 (1.31%) Data Quality
3 17 (1.24%) GRC
4 14 (1.02%) PCI DSS
5 13 (0.95%) SEPA
6 11 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.73%) Accessibility
7 10 (0.73%) SLA
8 8 (0.58%) GDPR
8 8 (0.58%) MiFID
9 7 (0.51%) NIST
9 7 (0.51%) PMO
9 7 (0.51%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.22%) SOC 1
11 1 (0.073%) IFRS
11 1 (0.073%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.073%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 222 (16.19%) Docker
2 32 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.29%) vSphere
6 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.15%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 241 (17.58%) Kubernetes
2 140 (10.21%) Terraform
3 58 (4.23%) Ansible
4 12 (0.88%) Grafana
4 12 (0.88%) Prometheus
5 10 (0.73%) Puppet
6 7 (0.51%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.22%) SCCM
9 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.15%) MIIS
9 2 (0.15%) Podman
9 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.073%) Argo
10 1 (0.073%) Control-M
10 1 (0.073%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.073%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.073%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.073%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 75 (5.47%) Microsoft
2 26 (1.90%) VMware
3 24 (1.75%) Finsemble
3 24 (1.75%) Google
4 20 (1.46%) Salesforce
5 19 (1.39%) Databricks
6 15 (1.09%) Adobe
7 14 (1.02%) Atlassian
8 10 (0.73%) IBM
9 9 (0.66%) Palo Alto
10 8 (0.58%) Oracle
10 8 (0.58%) Splunk
11 6 (0.44%) Cisco
11 6 (0.44%) Informatica
12 4 (0.29%) Citrix
12 4 (0.29%) Sonatype
13 3 (0.22%) Alteryx
13 3 (0.22%) Bloomberg
13 3 (0.22%) Darktrace
13 3 (0.22%) Solace