Fintech Contracts with Work from Home Options

Financial Technology (FinTech)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 147 180 176
Rank change year-on-year +33 -4 +84
Contract jobs citing Fintech 217 343 688
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.49% 1.42% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 1.58% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 272 574
10th Percentile £409 £425 £416
25th Percentile £513 £498 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £716 £688 £681
90th Percentile £800 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £625 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £36.00
25th Percentile - - £37.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £40.00
75th Percentile - - £42.50
90th Percentile - - £44.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - +247.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,743 21,731 40,495
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.55% 89.66% 91.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,582 15,423 29,469
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 503 524
10th Percentile £14.79 £18.49 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.85 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £58.47
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.60 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +10.45%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Fintech as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Fintech trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Fintech.

Fintech daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Fintech over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Fintech daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Fintech.

Fintech hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 20 (9.22%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (8.29%) Apache
3 4 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.84%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.38%) CMS
4 3 (1.38%) Confluence
4 3 (1.38%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.92%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.92%) nginx
5 2 (0.92%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.46%) MQSeries
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.30%) Distributed Ledger
2 4 (1.84%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.46%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 81 (37.33%) AWS
2 34 (15.67%) GCP
3 21 (9.68%) Azure
4 11 (5.07%) dbt
5 6 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (2.76%) Twilio
6 4 (1.84%) OneDrive
6 4 (1.84%) SaaS
7 3 (1.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (1.38%) Figma
7 3 (1.38%) GitHub
8 2 (0.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.92%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (0.92%) Bitrise
8 2 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.92%) Dagster
8 2 (0.92%) Serverless
9 1 (0.46%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.84%) Firewall
1 4 (1.84%) VPN
2 2 (0.92%) Network Security
2 2 (0.92%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.46%) HTTP
3 1 (0.46%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (12.90%) Apache Cassandra
2 18 (8.29%) Apache Ignite
3 12 (5.53%) Amazon Athena
4 11 (5.07%) Dremio
5 9 (4.15%) Apache Arrow
6 7 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (2.76%) Big Data
7 6 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.38%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.38%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.92%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.92%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.46%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.46%) Oracle ODI
10 1 (0.46%) Redis
10 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (2.76%) Git
2 3 (1.38%) Appium
3 2 (0.92%) Android Studio
3 2 (0.92%) git-flow
3 2 (0.92%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.92%) JIRA
3 2 (0.92%) XCTest
3 2 (0.92%) XCUITest
4 1 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.46%) Postman
4 1 (0.46%) PyCharm
4 1 (0.46%) Selenium
4 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.46%) Storybook
4 1 (0.46%) TeamCity
General
1 115 (53.00%) Finance
2 40 (18.43%) Front Office
3 37 (17.05%) Social Skills
4 23 (10.60%) Banking
5 13 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.69%) Financial Institution
7 7 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.76%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.30%) Retail Banking
10 4 (1.84%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (1.84%) Retail
11 2 (0.92%) Back Office
11 2 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.92%) Marketing
11 2 (0.92%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.92%) Publishing
12 1 (0.46%) Billing
12 1 (0.46%) Military
12 1 (0.46%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 94 (43.32%) Developer
2 64 (29.49%) Software Engineer
3 41 (18.89%) Senior
4 25 (11.52%) React Developer
5 24 (11.06%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 16 (7.37%) Architect
7 14 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
8 13 (5.99%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 12 (5.53%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (5.53%) C# Developer
9 12 (5.53%) Python Engineer
10 11 (5.07%) AWS Developer
10 11 (5.07%) Python Developer
11 10 (4.61%) AWS Software Engineer
11 10 (4.61%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 10 (4.61%) Python Software Engineer
11 10 (4.61%) Senior Developer
11 10 (4.61%) UI Developer
12 9 (4.15%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (4.15%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (17.51%) React
2 31 (14.29%) Kafka
3 28 (12.90%) Node.js
4 24 (11.06%) Redux
5 18 (8.29%) gRPC
5 18 (8.29%) Protocol Buffers
6 11 (5.07%) .NET
6 11 (5.07%) GraphQL
6 11 (5.07%) NumPy
6 11 (5.07%) Pandas
6 11 (5.07%) SciPy
7 9 (4.15%) AngularJS
7 9 (4.15%) Vue
8 6 (2.76%) Material-UI
9 5 (2.30%) CSS
9 5 (2.30%) Next.js
9 5 (2.30%) PySpark
9 5 (2.30%) React Native
10 4 (1.84%) RESTful
10 4 (1.84%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.06%) Fixed Income
2 20 (9.22%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (5.07%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.76%) Blockchain
5 3 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.38%) PKI
5 3 (1.38%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (0.92%) Blog
6 2 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (0.92%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (0.46%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.46%) CBDC
7 1 (0.46%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.46%) Equities
7 1 (0.46%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.46%) Replication
7 1 (0.46%) Web3
7 1 (0.46%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.69%) Android
2 6 (2.76%) Apple iOS
2 6 (2.76%) Windows
3 3 (1.38%) Linux
4 2 (0.92%) VMS
4 2 (0.92%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.92%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 87 (40.09%) Agile
3 46 (21.20%) User Experience
4 30 (13.82%) UX Design
5 29 (13.36%) UX Research
6 27 (12.44%) User Research
7 26 (11.98%) Asset Management
7 26 (11.98%) Investment Management
8 24 (11.06%) Performance Attribution
9 21 (9.68%) DevOps
10 18 (8.29%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (7.37%) Full Stack Development
12 15 (6.91%) Front End Development
13 13 (5.99%) CI/CD
14 11 (5.07%) Computer Science
14 11 (5.07%) Low Latency
15 9 (4.15%) Credit Risk Analysis
16 8 (3.69%) Analytics
16 8 (3.69%) Cybersecurity
16 8 (3.69%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 37 (17.05%) Python
2 35 (16.13%) TypeScript
3 34 (15.67%) JavaScript
4 33 (15.21%) Go
5 30 (13.82%) Java
6 26 (11.98%) C#
7 15 (6.91%) SQL
8 13 (5.99%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.76%) Scala
10 5 (2.30%) PHP
11 3 (1.38%) Swift
12 2 (0.92%) Perl
12 2 (0.92%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.92%) R
13 1 (0.46%) Bash
13 1 (0.46%) Groovy
13 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.46%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (8.29%) Degree
2 11 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.23%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.23%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.92%) CCNA
5 2 (0.92%) CCNP
5 2 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (0.92%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.92%) MBA
5 2 (0.92%) MCSA
5 2 (0.92%) PhD
6 1 (0.46%) CISM
6 1 (0.46%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.30%) QA
3 4 (1.84%) NIST
3 4 (1.84%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.92%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.92%) GRC
System Software
1 30 (13.82%) Docker
2 2 (0.92%) Squid
2 2 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.46%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 35 (16.13%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.76%) Terraform
3 2 (0.92%) Ansible
3 2 (0.92%) HAProxy
3 2 (0.92%) SCCM
4 1 (0.46%) Cilium
4 1 (0.46%) Grafana
4 1 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.46%) Kibana
4 1 (0.46%) logstash
4 1 (0.46%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.46%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.46%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (3.69%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.76%) Google
3 4 (1.84%) ION Trading
4 3 (1.38%) Apple
5 2 (0.92%) Cisco
5 2 (0.92%) CyberArk
5 2 (0.92%) Fortinet
5 2 (0.92%) Oracle
5 2 (0.92%) Palo Alto
5 2 (0.92%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.46%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.46%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.46%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.46%) Freshdesk
6 1 (0.46%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.46%) IBM
6 1 (0.46%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.46%) SAP
6 1 (0.46%) Solace
6 1 (0.46%) Splunk