Financial Technology (FinTech)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 219 241 179
Rank change year-on-year +22 -62 +86
Contract jobs citing Fintech 456 629 1,423
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.07% 1.10% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 1.22% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 474 1,207
10th Percentile £400 £413 £425
25th Percentile £500 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £750 £688 £681
90th Percentile £800 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £46.08 - £36.00
25th Percentile £51.81 - £37.50
Median hourly rate £56.25 - £40.00
75th Percentile £66.06 - £42.50
90th Percentile £79.23 - £44.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £88.00 - -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Fintech as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Fintech in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Fintech.

Daily rate trend for Fintech in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fintech over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Fintech in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Fintech.

Hourly rate trend for Fintech in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Fintech over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Fintech in the UK

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Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 20 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
England +30 419 £650 +8.33% 923
London +7 330 £650 +8.33% 704
Work from Home +25 216 £650 +8.33% 461
UK excluding London +59 59 £450 -10.00% 404
North of England +36 23 £425 -13.92% 79
North West +21 12 £475 -9.52% 52
South West +12 11 £398 -23.56% 29
Yorkshire +22 10 £425 -19.05% 23
East of England +17 7 £675 - 15
Midlands +21 6 £575 +6.98% 19
South East +19 6 £506 -38.64% 223
West Midlands +23 4 £535 +7.00% 8
Scotland +33 3 £450 -1.75% 20
Northern Ireland +2 3 - - 7
East Midlands +18 2 £575 +6.98% 11
North East +11 1 - - 4

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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 16 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (3.29%) Apache
3 9 (1.97%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.75%) Confluence
5 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.32%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.88%) MQSeries
7 3 (0.66%) CMS
7 3 (0.66%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.44%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.22%) Sketch
1 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (2.63%) Aladdin
2 10 (2.19%) Distributed Ledger
3 7 (1.54%) Loan IQ
4 3 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.66%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.22%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 155 (33.99%) AWS
2 66 (14.47%) GCP
3 60 (13.16%) Azure
4 12 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (2.19%) dbt
7 9 (1.97%) Serverless
8 8 (1.75%) GitHub
9 7 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (1.54%) SaaS
10 6 (1.32%) OneDrive
10 6 (1.32%) Twilio
11 5 (1.10%) Azure Functions
12 4 (0.88%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (0.88%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (0.88%) Figma
13 3 (0.66%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (0.66%) Miro
13 3 (0.66%) Power Platform
13 3 (0.66%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.54%) Internet
1 7 (1.54%) VPN
2 5 (1.10%) Firewall
3 3 (0.66%) BIG-IP
3 3 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 3 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (0.44%) DNS
4 2 (0.44%) NetScaler
4 2 (0.44%) Network Security
4 2 (0.44%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.22%) HTTP
5 1 (0.22%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (9.87%) Apache Cassandra
2 16 (3.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 16 (3.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 15 (3.29%) Apache Ignite
4 12 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.41%) NoSQL
6 9 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
7 8 (1.75%) Apache Arrow
7 8 (1.75%) Dremio
8 7 (1.54%) Big Data
8 7 (1.54%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.32%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.10%) SQL Server
11 3 (0.66%) Data Mining
11 3 (0.66%) Looker
11 3 (0.66%) Power BI
11 3 (0.66%) Tableau
12 2 (0.44%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.44%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (1.97%) JIRA
2 8 (1.75%) Git
2 8 (1.75%) Selenium
3 7 (1.54%) Appium
4 6 (1.32%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.32%) Postman
5 4 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (0.88%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.66%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.66%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.66%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.44%) Android Studio
7 2 (0.44%) git-flow
7 2 (0.44%) XCTest
7 2 (0.44%) XCUITest
8 1 (0.22%) JMeter
8 1 (0.22%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.22%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.22%) Mocha
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
General
1 230 (50.44%) Finance
2 91 (19.96%) Social Skills
3 72 (15.79%) Front Office
4 60 (13.16%) Banking
5 41 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (5.48%) Investment Banking
7 19 (4.17%) Financial Institution
8 11 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.54%) Retail Banking
11 6 (1.32%) Corporate Banking
11 6 (1.32%) Marketing
11 6 (1.32%) Retail
12 5 (1.10%) Back Office
12 5 (1.10%) Legal
12 5 (1.10%) Public Sector
13 4 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.66%) Law
14 3 (0.66%) Private Banking
14 3 (0.66%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 174 (38.16%) Developer
2 113 (24.78%) Software Engineer
3 68 (14.91%) Senior
4 44 (9.65%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 42 (9.21%) .NET Developer
5 42 (9.21%) Architect
6 33 (7.24%) React Developer
7 32 (7.02%) Senior Software Engineer
8 28 (6.14%) Analyst
9 26 (5.70%) Software Manager
10 24 (5.26%) .NET Software Developer
10 24 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
11 23 (5.04%) .NET Software Engineer
11 23 (5.04%) Finance Manager
12 22 (4.82%) Software Asset Manager
13 20 (4.39%) Business Analyst
14 15 (3.29%) AWS Engineer
15 14 (3.07%) Data Business Analyst
15 14 (3.07%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 14 (3.07%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (14.69%) React
2 56 (12.28%) .NET
3 51 (11.18%) Kafka
4 45 (9.87%) Redux
5 32 (7.02%) Node.js
6 27 (5.92%) AngularJS
7 20 (4.39%) .NET Core
8 16 (3.51%) React Native
8 16 (3.51%) Vue
9 15 (3.29%) GraphQL
10 14 (3.07%) gRPC
10 14 (3.07%) Protocol Buffers
11 9 (1.97%) ASP.NET
11 9 (1.97%) REST
12 8 (1.75%) ASP.NET Core
12 8 (1.75%) Material-UI
12 8 (1.75%) Next.js
13 7 (1.54%) CSS
13 7 (1.54%) Pandas
13 7 (1.54%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 58 (12.72%) Fixed Income
2 42 (9.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 36 (7.89%) Derivative
3 36 (7.89%) Equities
4 35 (7.68%) Hedge funds
5 28 (6.14%) Product Ownership
6 25 (5.48%) Greenfield Project
7 17 (3.73%) Mobile App
8 13 (2.85%) Blockchain
9 9 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.32%) CBDC
10 6 (1.32%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.10%) Web3
12 4 (0.88%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.88%) IoT
12 4 (0.88%) Social Media
12 4 (0.88%) Wiki
13 3 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.66%) iSeries
13 3 (0.66%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.07%) Android
2 12 (2.63%) Apple iOS
2 12 (2.63%) Windows
3 7 (1.54%) Linux
3 7 (1.54%) Unix
4 5 (1.10%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.88%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.66%) VMS
7 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (37.72%) Agile
2 151 (33.11%) Software Engineering
3 70 (15.35%) DevOps
4 67 (14.69%) User Experience
5 58 (12.72%) Asset Management
6 57 (12.50%) Investment Management
7 54 (11.84%) Full Stack Development
8 52 (11.40%) UX Design
9 47 (10.31%) User Research
9 47 (10.31%) UX Research
10 43 (9.43%) Problem-Solving
11 38 (8.33%) Roadmaps
11 38 (8.33%) TDD
12 30 (6.58%) CI/CD
13 28 (6.14%) Computer Science
14 27 (5.92%) Machine Learning
15 24 (5.26%) Test Automation
16 23 (5.04%) Artificial Intelligence
17 22 (4.82%) Performance Attribution
18 21 (4.61%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 78 (17.11%) C#
2 76 (16.67%) Python
3 75 (16.45%) SQL
4 71 (15.57%) JavaScript
5 64 (14.04%) TypeScript
6 62 (13.60%) Java
7 54 (11.84%) Go
8 19 (4.17%) Scala
9 18 (3.95%) Kotlin
10 9 (1.97%) PL/SQL
11 8 (1.75%) PHP
12 7 (1.54%) C++
12 7 (1.54%) Swift
13 5 (1.10%) C
13 5 (1.10%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.88%) R
14 4 (0.88%) Ruby
15 3 (0.66%) RPG
15 3 (0.66%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.44%) Perl
Qualifications
1 39 (8.55%) Degree
2 26 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (2.85%) SC Cleared
3 13 (2.85%) Security Cleared
4 4 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (0.66%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.66%) MBA
5 3 (0.66%) PhD
6 2 (0.44%) CCNA
6 2 (0.44%) CCNP
6 2 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.44%) MCSA
7 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.22%) CISM
7 1 (0.22%) CISSP
7 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (9.21%) QA
2 6 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.88%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.88%) NIST
3 4 (0.88%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.44%) GRC
4 2 (0.44%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.44%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.22%) MiFID
5 1 (0.22%) SEPA
System Software
1 48 (10.53%) Docker
2 3 (0.66%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.44%) Squid
3 2 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 60 (13.16%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.63%) Terraform
3 5 (1.10%) SCCM
4 4 (0.88%) Ansible
5 3 (0.66%) Control-M
6 2 (0.44%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.22%) Cilium
7 1 (0.22%) Grafana
7 1 (0.22%) Istio
7 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.22%) Kibana
7 1 (0.22%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.22%) logstash
7 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.22%) Puppet
7 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (3.29%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.07%) Google
3 13 (2.85%) Bloomberg
3 13 (2.85%) Oracle
4 12 (2.63%) BISAM
5 10 (2.19%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.10%) IBM
7 4 (0.88%) Apple
7 4 (0.88%) Freshdesk
7 4 (0.88%) ION Trading
8 3 (0.66%) CA
8 3 (0.66%) Checkmarx
8 3 (0.66%) Citrix
8 3 (0.66%) Databricks
8 3 (0.66%) F5
9 2 (0.44%) Cisco
9 2 (0.44%) CyberArk
9 2 (0.44%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.44%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.44%) Virgin Media