Fintech Contracts in the UK excluding London

Financial Technology (FinTech)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Fintech skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Fintech over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 387 341
Rank change year-on-year +67 -46 +15
Contract jobs citing Fintech 58 48 168
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.21% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.23% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 34 133
10th Percentile £372 £380 £375
25th Percentile £411 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.06% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £570 £638
90th Percentile £675 £650 £698
UK median daily rate £650 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £88.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - +247.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,095 20,476 27,091
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.93% 89.37% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,219 14,070 18,908
10th Percentile £250 £260 £235
25th Percentile £377 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year - +3.63% +9.66%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,090 1,248 1,358
10th Percentile £12.37 £10.63 £12.29
25th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.63 £62.18
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Fintech as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Fintech in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Fintech in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Fintech in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fintech in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Fintech in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Fintech in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Fintech in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fintech within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +34 23 £425 -13.92% 67
North West +28 12 £475 -9.52% 46
Yorkshire +21 10 £425 -19.05% 18
South West +15 10 £398 -23.56% 22
East of England +18 7 £675 - 10
Midlands +37 6 £575 +6.98% 19
South East +15 6 £506 -38.64% 67
West Midlands +19 4 £535 +7.00% 6
Scotland +38 3 £450 -1.75% 18
Northern Ireland +1 3 - - 7
East Midlands +17 2 £575 +6.98% 13
North East +10 1 - - 3
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (1.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.72%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (17.24%) AWS
2 9 (15.52%) Azure
3 7 (12.07%) GCP
4 6 (10.34%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.45%) Miro
6 2 (3.45%) SaaS
6 2 (3.45%) Serverless
7 1 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.72%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.72%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.72%) Azure Service Fabric
7 1 (1.72%) Figma
7 1 (1.72%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.17%) BIG-IP
1 3 (5.17%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 3 (5.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.72%) MySQL
1 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
1 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Selenium
2 3 (5.17%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (5.17%) TeamCity
3 2 (3.45%) Android Studio
3 2 (3.45%) Git
3 2 (3.45%) JIRA
4 1 (1.72%) PyCharm
4 1 (1.72%) Terragrunt
General
1 32 (55.17%) Finance
2 13 (22.41%) Social Skills
3 11 (18.97%) Banking
4 9 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.17%) Law
7 2 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Automotive
8 1 (1.72%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.72%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.72%) Front Office
8 1 (1.72%) Legal
8 1 (1.72%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 18 (31.03%) Developer
2 9 (15.52%) Architect
3 7 (12.07%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (8.62%) Automation Tester
4 5 (8.62%) Senior
4 5 (8.62%) Senior Developer
4 5 (8.62%) Tester
5 4 (6.90%) .NET Developer
5 4 (6.90%) Software Developer
6 3 (5.17%) Administrator
6 3 (5.17%) C# Developer
6 3 (5.17%) Consultant
6 3 (5.17%) Enterprise Architect
6 3 (5.17%) Full Stack Developer
6 3 (5.17%) Network Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Salesforce Administrator
6 3 (5.17%) Scala Developer
6 3 (5.17%) Senior Scala Developer
7 2 (3.45%) Developer in Test
7 2 (3.45%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.62%) .NET
2 4 (6.90%) React
3 3 (5.17%) Next.js
3 3 (5.17%) Node.js
4 2 (3.45%) Android SDK
4 2 (3.45%) GraphQL
4 2 (3.45%) RESTful
5 1 (1.72%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.72%) Angular 2
5 1 (1.72%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.72%) Blazor
5 1 (1.72%) CSS
5 1 (1.72%) Jest
5 1 (1.72%) NgRx
5 1 (1.72%) OAuth
5 1 (1.72%) OpenID
5 1 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.72%) Redux
5 1 (1.72%) RxJS
5 1 (1.72%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.79%) Product Ownership
2 7 (12.07%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.45%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.45%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.45%) Android
1 2 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (41.38%) Agile
2 18 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (24.14%) DevOps
4 10 (17.24%) Computer Science
4 10 (17.24%) Migration
4 10 (17.24%) Roadmaps
5 9 (15.52%) Test Automation
6 7 (12.07%) Business Strategy
6 7 (12.07%) CI/CD
6 7 (12.07%) Data Science
6 7 (12.07%) Enterprise Architecture
6 7 (12.07%) Technical Leadership
6 7 (12.07%) TOGAF
6 7 (12.07%) Zachman Framework
7 6 (10.34%) Identity Management
7 6 (10.34%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 6 (10.34%) Technology Transformation
8 5 (8.62%) Manual Testing
8 5 (8.62%) Scrum
8 5 (8.62%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (22.41%) Java
2 10 (17.24%) JavaScript
3 7 (12.07%) C#
3 7 (12.07%) SQL
4 5 (8.62%) Python
5 3 (5.17%) PowerShell
5 3 (5.17%) Scala
6 2 (3.45%) Kotlin
6 2 (3.45%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.72%) Go
7 1 (1.72%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (17.24%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (17.24%) Degree
2 1 (1.72%) PMI Certification
2 1 (1.72%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.79%) QA
2 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.72%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (1.72%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (8.62%) Terraform
2 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (13.79%) Google
2 4 (6.90%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.90%) Salesforce
3 3 (5.17%) CA
3 3 (5.17%) F5
4 1 (1.72%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.72%) Databricks
4 1 (1.72%) Dynatrace