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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 155 114 70
Rank change year-on-year -41 -44 -13
Permanent jobs citing Fintech 1,938 2,805 8,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.79% 3.01% 5.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.15% 3.16% 5.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,529 2,481 4,771
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £82,500 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% +14.58% +2.86%
75th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £115,250 £120,000 £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 89,994 88,841 164,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.43% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,089 53,798 83,455
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,848 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -52 1,689 £77,500 -8.82% 675
London -12 1,097 £85,000 -5.56% 487
Work from Home -53 865 £75,000 -11.76% 372
UK excluding London -34 748 £60,000 -7.69% 215
North of England +62 194 £57,500 - 66
South West +2 135 £65,000 - 19
North West +35 132 £60,000 +7.14% 53
South East -99 126 £67,500 -10.00% 65
Scotland -48 100 £70,000 +7.69% 20
Midlands -57 81 £58,750 +2.17% 24
Wales +37 52 £47,500 -37.70% 10
East Midlands -7 42 £65,000 +23.81% 14
East of England -20 42 £62,500 +17.92% 13
Yorkshire +63 41 £50,000 -16.67% 9
West Midlands -62 39 £46,250 -22.92% 10
North East -13 21 £42,500 +3.03% 4
Northern Ireland +15 17 £90,000 +16.13% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £120,000 - 1

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 57 (2.94%) Confluence
2 54 (2.79%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (2.53%) Apache
4 19 (0.98%) SAS
5 18 (0.93%) CMS
6 15 (0.77%) nginx
7 10 (0.52%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.46%) Drupal
9 8 (0.41%) WordPress
10 7 (0.36%) Apache Spark
11 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
13 4 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
14 3 (0.15%) Ethereum
14 3 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
15 2 (0.10%) Cloud Foundry
15 2 (0.10%) Hyperledger
15 2 (0.10%) Umbraco
16 1 (0.052%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 28 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (0.77%) SPSS
4 14 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.31%) UserZoom
6 4 (0.21%) Sketch
7 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.15%) InVision
7 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.15%) S-PLUS
8 2 (0.10%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.052%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (0.72%) Aladdin
2 11 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
3 8 (0.41%) Ripple
4 7 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
4 7 (0.36%) Fidessa
5 4 (0.21%) Relativity
6 2 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.10%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.10%) R3 Corda
6 2 (0.10%) Veritas eDiscovery
7 1 (0.052%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.052%) Ringtail
7 1 (0.052%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 721 (37.20%) AWS
2 394 (20.33%) Azure
3 241 (12.44%) GCP
4 141 (7.28%) SaaS
5 86 (4.44%) Serverless
6 57 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
7 55 (2.84%) Figma
8 44 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
9 40 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
9 40 (2.06%) dbt
10 32 (1.65%) SurveyMonkey
11 29 (1.50%) Amazon S3
12 25 (1.29%) GitHub
13 21 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
13 21 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
13 21 (1.08%) npm
14 20 (1.03%) Amazon ECS
14 20 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
15 16 (0.83%) Entra ID
15 16 (0.83%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (2.22%) Firewall
2 21 (1.08%) TCP/IP
3 20 (1.03%) DNS
4 19 (0.98%) LAN
4 19 (0.98%) WAN
5 15 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
6 13 (0.67%) Network Security
7 10 (0.52%) Internet
8 9 (0.46%) PBX
9 7 (0.36%) BGP
9 7 (0.36%) OSPF
9 7 (0.36%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.31%) AMQP
10 6 (0.31%) Multicast
10 6 (0.31%) OpenVPN
11 5 (0.26%) VPN
12 4 (0.21%) Intranet
12 4 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.21%) VoIP
13 3 (0.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (6.71%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (5.16%) SQL Server
3 54 (2.79%) MongoDB
4 48 (2.48%) MySQL
5 47 (2.43%) Big Data
6 46 (2.37%) Relational Database
7 42 (2.17%) Apache Ignite
8 39 (2.01%) NoSQL
9 31 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
9 31 (1.60%) Dremio
10 28 (1.44%) Redis
11 27 (1.39%) BigQuery
12 23 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
12 23 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
13 22 (1.14%) Apache Arrow
14 18 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (0.77%) EDRMS
16 14 (0.72%) Data Lake
17 13 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
18 12 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 116 (5.99%) Git
2 90 (4.64%) Jenkins
3 89 (4.59%) JIRA
4 45 (2.32%) Selenium
5 39 (2.01%) Postman
6 36 (1.86%) GitLab
7 33 (1.70%) Cucumber
8 29 (1.50%) TeamCity
9 16 (0.83%) Cypress.io
10 14 (0.72%) Maven
10 14 (0.72%) Storybook
11 12 (0.62%) JMeter
12 11 (0.57%) Appium
12 11 (0.57%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.52%) Visual Studio
14 8 (0.41%) CircleCI
15 7 (0.36%) git-flow
15 7 (0.36%) Mocha
16 6 (0.31%) SoapUI
16 6 (0.31%) SonarQube
General
1 923 (47.63%) Finance
2 371 (19.14%) Social Skills
3 278 (14.34%) Banking
4 195 (10.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 178 (9.18%) Law
6 138 (7.12%) Front Office
7 117 (6.04%) Marketing
8 116 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
9 96 (4.95%) Retail
10 71 (3.66%) Financial Institution
11 70 (3.61%) Legal
12 43 (2.22%) Investment Banking
13 34 (1.75%) Games
14 32 (1.65%) Social Science
15 21 (1.08%) Turkish Language
16 19 (0.98%) Publishing
17 13 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
18 12 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
18 12 (0.62%) Retail Finance
19 10 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 660 (34.06%) Developer
2 363 (18.73%) Senior
3 274 (14.14%) Software Engineer
4 266 (13.73%) Lead
5 168 (8.67%) Senior Developer
6 138 (7.12%) Java Developer
7 137 (7.07%) .NET Developer
8 131 (6.76%) Analyst
9 95 (4.90%) Software Developer
10 92 (4.75%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 86 (4.44%) Full Stack Developer
12 66 (3.41%) C# Developer
13 65 (3.35%) DevOps Engineer
13 65 (3.35%) Senior Software Engineer
14 62 (3.20%) Lead Developer
15 61 (3.15%) Architect
16 57 (2.94%) .NET Software Developer
16 57 (2.94%) Data Engineer
17 55 (2.84%) Python Developer
18 51 (2.63%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 305 (15.74%) React
2 289 (14.91%) .NET
3 200 (10.32%) AngularJS
4 140 (7.22%) Vue
5 137 (7.07%) Node.js
6 112 (5.78%) Redux
7 111 (5.73%) CSS
8 107 (5.52%) REST
9 105 (5.42%) Spring
10 104 (5.37%) HTML
11 99 (5.11%) Spring Boot
12 87 (4.49%) .NET Core
13 85 (4.39%) Kafka
14 84 (4.33%) ASP.NET
15 78 (4.02%) .NET Framework
16 56 (2.89%) ASP.NET Web API
17 55 (2.84%) gRPC
18 52 (2.68%) RESTful
19 47 (2.43%) Laravel
20 45 (2.32%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 119 (6.14%) Product Ownership
2 114 (5.88%) Fixed Income
3 111 (5.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 92 (4.75%) Greenfield Project
5 76 (3.92%) Hedge funds
6 74 (3.82%) Equities
7 70 (3.61%) Derivative
8 58 (2.99%) Cloud Native
8 58 (2.99%) Onboarding
9 45 (2.32%) Blog
10 41 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
11 40 (2.06%) Management Information System
12 37 (1.91%) Blockchain
13 33 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
14 27 (1.39%) Market Risk
14 27 (1.39%) Public Cloud
15 26 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
16 25 (1.29%) Data Centre
16 25 (1.29%) Data Structures
16 25 (1.29%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 102 (5.26%) Linux
2 73 (3.77%) Windows
3 38 (1.96%) Android
4 32 (1.65%) Apple iOS
5 26 (1.34%) Unix
6 18 (0.93%) Mac OS
7 11 (0.57%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.41%) CentOS
9 4 (0.21%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.10%) Debian
12 1 (0.052%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 581 (29.98%) Agile
2 407 (21.00%) Software Engineering
3 290 (14.96%) DevOps
4 284 (14.65%) CI/CD
5 252 (13.00%) Full Stack Development
6 239 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
7 230 (11.87%) Microservices
8 196 (10.11%) Asset Management
9 178 (9.18%) TDD
10 167 (8.62%) Roadmaps
11 165 (8.51%) Computer Science
12 154 (7.95%) User Experience
13 151 (7.79%) Analytics
14 149 (7.69%) Test Automation
15 140 (7.22%) Mentoring
16 138 (7.12%) SDLC
17 124 (6.40%) Artificial Intelligence
18 119 (6.14%) Investment Management
19 103 (5.31%) Scrum
20 101 (5.21%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 477 (24.61%) Java
2 365 (18.83%) JavaScript
3 349 (18.01%) Python
4 321 (16.56%) C#
5 305 (15.74%) SQL
6 264 (13.62%) TypeScript
7 167 (8.62%) Kotlin
8 68 (3.51%) PHP
9 51 (2.63%) PowerShell
10 49 (2.53%) Scala
11 42 (2.17%) R
12 35 (1.81%) Bash
13 34 (1.75%) Go
14 29 (1.50%) C++
15 20 (1.03%) Rust
16 18 (0.93%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.83%) T-SQL
18 12 (0.62%) Swift
19 8 (0.41%) Solidity
20 7 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 313 (16.15%) Degree
2 102 (5.26%) Master's Degree
3 95 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 61 (3.15%) PhD
5 27 (1.39%) AWS Certification
6 23 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
7 19 (0.98%) CISSP
8 16 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 13 (0.67%) CISM
10 12 (0.62%) CISA
11 11 (0.57%) CCNA
11 11 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
12 9 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 9 (0.46%) CCSP
13 8 (0.41%) OSCP
13 8 (0.41%) PMI Certification
14 6 (0.31%) CRISC
14 6 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (6.71%) QA
2 43 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (1.50%) Accessibility
4 20 (1.03%) GDPR
5 18 (0.93%) SLA
6 14 (0.72%) PCI DSS
7 13 (0.67%) Data Quality
8 11 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.52%) NIST
9 10 (0.52%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.41%) COBIT
10 8 (0.41%) PSD2
11 7 (0.36%) MiFID
12 6 (0.31%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.31%) UCITS
13 4 (0.21%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.21%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
13 4 (0.21%) WCAG
14 3 (0.15%) PMO
System Software
1 217 (11.20%) Docker
2 33 (1.70%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.31%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.15%) VMware Server
7 3 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
7 3 (0.15%) vSphere
8 2 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.10%) Firmware
9 1 (0.052%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 223 (11.51%) Kubernetes
2 220 (11.35%) Terraform
3 62 (3.20%) Ansible
4 29 (1.50%) Grafana
5 15 (0.77%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.36%) Kibana
6 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.31%) CASB
7 6 (0.31%) logstash
7 6 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.26%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.21%) Istio
9 4 (0.21%) Puppet
10 3 (0.15%) CSIRT
10 3 (0.15%) SCCM
11 2 (0.10%) Core Impact
11 2 (0.10%) Nmap
12 1 (0.052%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.052%) HP SiteScope
12 1 (0.052%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 167 (8.62%) Microsoft
2 60 (3.10%) Google
3 40 (2.06%) Oracle
4 38 (1.96%) Qualtrics
5 28 (1.44%) Atlassian
6 21 (1.08%) Salesforce
6 21 (1.08%) VMware
7 16 (0.83%) Bloomberg
8 15 (0.77%) Cisco
9 14 (0.72%) BISAM
9 14 (0.72%) Palo Alto
10 13 (0.67%) Meraki
10 13 (0.67%) Splunk
11 11 (0.57%) Apple
12 8 (0.41%) Fortinet
12 8 (0.41%) Murex
13 6 (0.31%) Adobe
13 6 (0.31%) AppDynamics
13 6 (0.31%) F5
13 6 (0.31%) ForgeRock