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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 113 72
Rank change year-on-year -46 -41 -16
Permanent jobs citing Fintech 1,856 3,044 8,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.86% 3.07% 5.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 3.21% 5.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,482 2,602 4,679
10th Percentile £42,750 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £82,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% +13.79% +3.57%
75th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £117,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% +4.76%

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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 18 May 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 18 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -47 1,627 £77,500 -8.82% 852
London -10 1,080 £85,000 -5.56% 660
Work from Home -55 833 £75,000 -9.09% 446
UK excluding London -48 692 £60,000 -7.69% 352
North of England +66 187 £55,000 -4.35% 70
South West -5 132 £65,000 -1.89% 25
North West +26 129 £60,000 +4.35% 45
South East -130 97 £67,500 -10.00% 191
Scotland -64 92 £65,000 - 20
Midlands -40 74 £55,000 -4.35% 16
Wales +25 47 £47,500 -44.12% 13
West Midlands -32 45 £45,000 -21.74% 7
East of England -21 43 £62,500 +13.64% 12
Yorkshire +78 38 £50,000 -16.67% 21
East Midlands 0 29 £65,000 +23.81% 9
North East -6 20 £53,750 -2.27% 4
Northern Ireland +20 19 £77,500 - 7
Channel Islands - 1 £120,000 -

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 61 (3.29%) Confluence
2 36 (1.94%) Apache
3 34 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (1.02%) SAS
5 17 (0.92%) CMS
6 16 (0.86%) nginx
7 11 (0.59%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.48%) Drupal
9 8 (0.43%) WordPress
10 7 (0.38%) Apache Spark
11 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
13 3 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
13 3 (0.16%) Ethereum
13 3 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2013
14 2 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.11%) Hyperledger
14 2 (0.11%) Umbraco
15 1 (0.054%) MQSeries
15 1 (0.054%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 28 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (0.81%) SPSS
4 14 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.32%) UserZoom
6 4 (0.22%) Sketch
7 3 (0.16%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.16%) InVision
7 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.16%) S-PLUS
8 1 (0.054%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (0.75%) Aladdin
2 13 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
3 7 (0.38%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.22%) Relativity
5 2 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.11%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.11%) R3 Corda
5 2 (0.11%) Veritas eDiscovery
6 1 (0.054%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.054%) Ringtail
6 1 (0.054%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 689 (37.12%) AWS
2 372 (20.04%) Azure
3 222 (11.96%) GCP
4 141 (7.60%) SaaS
5 85 (4.58%) Serverless
6 58 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
7 57 (3.07%) Figma
8 48 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
9 38 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
10 32 (1.72%) SurveyMonkey
11 28 (1.51%) Amazon S3
12 26 (1.40%) GitHub
13 25 (1.35%) dbt
14 21 (1.13%) npm
15 20 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
15 20 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
16 19 (1.02%) Amazon ECS
17 18 (0.97%) AWS CloudFormation
18 16 (0.86%) Entra ID
18 16 (0.86%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (2.48%) Firewall
2 21 (1.13%) DNS
2 21 (1.13%) TCP/IP
3 19 (1.02%) LAN
4 17 (0.92%) WAN
5 16 (0.86%) PBX
6 15 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (0.65%) Network Security
8 10 (0.54%) Internet
9 7 (0.38%) OpenVPN
9 7 (0.38%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.32%) AMQP
10 6 (0.32%) BGP
10 6 (0.32%) Multicast
10 6 (0.32%) OSPF
11 5 (0.27%) VPN
12 4 (0.22%) Intranet
12 4 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.22%) VoIP
13 3 (0.16%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (7.44%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (5.28%) SQL Server
3 59 (3.18%) MySQL
4 56 (3.02%) MongoDB
5 49 (2.64%) Big Data
6 46 (2.48%) NoSQL
7 44 (2.37%) Relational Database
8 30 (1.62%) Apache Ignite
9 29 (1.56%) Redis
10 26 (1.40%) BigQuery
11 24 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
11 24 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
12 16 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
12 16 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
12 16 (0.86%) Apache Arrow
12 16 (0.86%) Dremio
13 15 (0.81%) EDRMS
14 13 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (0.70%) Power BI
15 12 (0.65%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 121 (6.52%) Git
2 100 (5.39%) Jenkins
3 93 (5.01%) JIRA
4 56 (3.02%) Selenium
5 44 (2.37%) Cucumber
5 44 (2.37%) Postman
6 32 (1.72%) TeamCity
7 31 (1.67%) GitLab
8 19 (1.02%) Maven
9 16 (0.86%) Bitbucket
10 14 (0.75%) Cypress.io
11 13 (0.70%) Storybook
12 12 (0.65%) Visual Studio
13 11 (0.59%) Appium
14 10 (0.54%) JMeter
15 9 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
16 8 (0.43%) CircleCI
17 7 (0.38%) git-flow
17 7 (0.38%) SonarQube
18 6 (0.32%) Mocha
General
1 898 (48.38%) Finance
2 381 (20.53%) Social Skills
3 266 (14.33%) Banking
4 192 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 164 (8.84%) Law
6 130 (7.00%) Front Office
7 129 (6.95%) Analytical Skills
8 121 (6.52%) Marketing
9 95 (5.12%) Retail
10 65 (3.50%) Financial Institution
11 60 (3.23%) Legal
12 44 (2.37%) Investment Banking
13 35 (1.89%) Games
14 32 (1.72%) Social Science
15 21 (1.13%) Turkish Language
16 19 (1.02%) Publishing
17 12 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
17 12 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
18 10 (0.54%) Retail Banking
18 10 (0.54%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 639 (34.43%) Developer
2 351 (18.91%) Senior
3 259 (13.95%) Lead
4 239 (12.88%) Software Engineer
5 171 (9.21%) Senior Developer
6 136 (7.33%) Java Developer
7 135 (7.27%) Analyst
8 133 (7.17%) .NET Developer
9 98 (5.28%) Full Stack Developer
10 89 (4.80%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 89 (4.80%) Software Developer
11 68 (3.66%) C# Developer
12 65 (3.50%) Lead Developer
13 61 (3.29%) .NET Software Developer
14 59 (3.18%) Architect
15 57 (3.07%) React Developer
16 55 (2.96%) DevOps Engineer
17 52 (2.80%) Senior Software Engineer
18 51 (2.75%) Data Engineer
18 51 (2.75%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 301 (16.22%) React
2 280 (15.09%) .NET
3 199 (10.72%) AngularJS
4 136 (7.33%) Vue
5 131 (7.06%) Node.js
6 121 (6.52%) CSS
7 116 (6.25%) REST
8 112 (6.03%) HTML
9 110 (5.93%) Redux
10 107 (5.77%) Spring
11 105 (5.66%) Spring Boot
12 89 (4.80%) Kafka
13 88 (4.74%) ASP.NET
14 86 (4.63%) .NET Core
15 76 (4.09%) .NET Framework
16 53 (2.86%) ASP.NET Web API
17 52 (2.80%) RESTful
18 49 (2.64%) JSON
18 49 (2.64%) Laravel
19 46 (2.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 119 (6.41%) Product Ownership
2 118 (6.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 112 (6.03%) Fixed Income
4 93 (5.01%) Greenfield Project
5 81 (4.36%) Hedge funds
6 76 (4.09%) Equities
7 74 (3.99%) Derivative
8 59 (3.18%) Onboarding
9 51 (2.75%) Cloud Native
10 45 (2.42%) Blog
11 40 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
12 39 (2.10%) Management Information System
13 35 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
14 34 (1.83%) Blockchain
15 32 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
16 27 (1.45%) Market Risk
17 26 (1.40%) Public Cloud
18 24 (1.29%) Data Centre
18 24 (1.29%) Data Structures
18 24 (1.29%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 101 (5.44%) Linux
2 81 (4.36%) Windows
3 41 (2.21%) Android
4 35 (1.89%) Apple iOS
5 24 (1.29%) Mac OS
5 24 (1.29%) Unix
6 11 (0.59%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.38%) CentOS
8 5 (0.27%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 554 (29.85%) Agile
2 364 (19.61%) Software Engineering
3 292 (15.73%) DevOps
4 285 (15.36%) CI/CD
5 247 (13.31%) Full Stack Development
6 237 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
7 221 (11.91%) Microservices
8 190 (10.24%) TDD
9 178 (9.59%) Asset Management
10 167 (9.00%) Roadmaps
11 164 (8.84%) Computer Science
12 157 (8.46%) User Experience
13 154 (8.30%) Test Automation
14 150 (8.08%) Analytics
15 143 (7.70%) Mentoring
16 133 (7.17%) SDLC
17 128 (6.90%) Artificial Intelligence
18 108 (5.82%) Investment Management
19 105 (5.66%) Scrum
20 95 (5.12%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 469 (25.27%) Java
2 353 (19.02%) JavaScript
3 326 (17.56%) Python
4 312 (16.81%) SQL
5 310 (16.70%) C#
6 262 (14.12%) TypeScript
7 169 (9.11%) Kotlin
8 70 (3.77%) PHP
9 57 (3.07%) PowerShell
10 49 (2.64%) Scala
11 42 (2.26%) R
12 33 (1.78%) Bash
13 32 (1.72%) C++
13 32 (1.72%) Go
14 19 (1.02%) T-SQL
15 15 (0.81%) Swift
16 14 (0.75%) PL/SQL
17 12 (0.65%) Rust
18 8 (0.43%) Ruby
18 8 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 331 (17.83%) Degree
2 104 (5.60%) Master's Degree
3 92 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 61 (3.29%) PhD
5 30 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
6 24 (1.29%) AWS Certification
7 18 (0.97%) CISSP
8 17 (0.92%) CCNA
9 13 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (0.65%) CISM
11 11 (0.59%) CISA
11 11 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
12 10 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 9 (0.48%) CCSP
14 8 (0.43%) OSCP
14 8 (0.43%) PMI Certification
15 6 (0.32%) CRISC
15 6 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (7.54%) QA
2 40 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (1.51%) Accessibility
4 18 (0.97%) GDPR
4 18 (0.97%) SLA
5 14 (0.75%) Data Quality
6 11 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (0.59%) PCI DSS
7 10 (0.54%) NIST
8 8 (0.43%) COBIT
8 8 (0.43%) PSD2
8 8 (0.43%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.32%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.27%) MiFID
11 4 (0.22%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.22%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.22%) SEPA
11 4 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
11 4 (0.22%) UCITS
11 4 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 217 (11.69%) Docker
2 40 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.32%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.16%) VMware Server
7 3 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
7 3 (0.16%) vSphere
8 2 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.11%) Firmware
9 1 (0.054%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 220 (11.85%) Kubernetes
2 205 (11.05%) Terraform
3 59 (3.18%) Ansible
4 30 (1.62%) Grafana
5 15 (0.81%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.38%) Kibana
7 6 (0.32%) logstash
7 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.27%) CASB
8 5 (0.27%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.22%) Istio
10 3 (0.16%) CSIRT
10 3 (0.16%) Puppet
10 3 (0.16%) SCCM
11 2 (0.11%) Core Impact
11 2 (0.11%) Nmap
12 1 (0.054%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.054%) HP SiteScope
12 1 (0.054%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 170 (9.16%) Microsoft
2 60 (3.23%) Google
3 38 (2.05%) Qualtrics
4 35 (1.89%) Oracle
5 34 (1.83%) Atlassian
6 27 (1.45%) VMware
7 19 (1.02%) Palo Alto
8 17 (0.92%) Salesforce
9 16 (0.86%) Bloomberg
9 16 (0.86%) Cisco
10 14 (0.75%) BISAM
11 13 (0.70%) Meraki
11 13 (0.70%) Splunk
12 11 (0.59%) Apple
13 10 (0.54%) Adobe
14 8 (0.43%) Murex
15 7 (0.38%) Fortinet
16 6 (0.32%) AppDynamics
16 6 (0.32%) F5
16 6 (0.32%) ForgeRock