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

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 225 245 184
Rank change year-on-year +20 -61 +71
Contract jobs citing Fintech 458 626 1,404
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.08% 1.10% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 1.22% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 466 1,199
10th Percentile £400 £413 £425
25th Percentile £494 £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 36,679 51,168 79,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.19% 89.82% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,608 35,479 55,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £479
% change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,436 1,692 1,900
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.94 £16.10 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%

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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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +28 421 £650 +8.33% 672
London +8 330 £650 +8.33% 496
Work from Home +29 216 £650 +8.33% 371
UK excluding London +63 60 £450 -10.00% 209
North of England +33 24 £435 -11.90% 61
North West +24 12 £475 -9.52% 45
Yorkshire +18 11 £425 -19.05% 14
South West +12 10 £398 -23.00% 20
East of England +17 8 £655 - 10
Midlands +30 6 £575 +6.98% 18
South East +11 6 £506 -38.64% 60
West Midlands +28 4 £535 +7.00% 7
Scotland +28 3 £450 -1.75% 23
Northern Ireland +3 3 - - 7
East Midlands +14 2 £575 +6.98% 11
North East +9 1 - - 2

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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 (3.49%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (3.28%) Apache
3 9 (1.97%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.75%) Confluence
5 6 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.31%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.87%) 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 (2.62%) Aladdin
2 10 (2.18%) Distributed Ledger
3 7 (1.53%) 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
1 156 (34.06%) AWS
2 67 (14.63%) GCP
3 63 (13.76%) Azure
4 12 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (2.18%) dbt
7 9 (1.97%) Serverless
8 8 (1.75%) GitHub
9 7 (1.53%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (1.53%) SaaS
10 6 (1.31%) OneDrive
10 6 (1.31%) Twilio
11 5 (1.09%) Azure Functions
12 4 (0.87%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (0.87%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (0.87%) Figma
13 3 (0.66%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (0.66%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (0.66%) Power Platform
13 3 (0.66%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.53%) Internet
1 7 (1.53%) VPN
2 5 (1.09%) 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 (9.83%) Apache Cassandra
2 16 (3.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 16 (3.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 15 (3.28%) Apache Ignite
4 12 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.40%) NoSQL
6 9 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
7 8 (1.75%) Apache Arrow
7 8 (1.75%) Dremio
8 7 (1.53%) Big Data
8 7 (1.53%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.31%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.09%) 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 (1.53%) Appium
4 6 (1.31%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.31%) Postman
5 4 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (0.87%) 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%) Darcs
8 1 (0.22%) MLflow
8 1 (0.22%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.22%) Storybook
8 1 (0.22%) TestRail
General
1 230 (50.22%) Finance
2 89 (19.43%) Social Skills
3 73 (15.94%) Front Office
4 62 (13.54%) Banking
5 40 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (5.68%) Investment Banking
7 19 (4.15%) Financial Institution
8 11 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.53%) Retail Banking
11 6 (1.31%) Corporate Banking
11 6 (1.31%) Marketing
11 6 (1.31%) Retail
12 5 (1.09%) Back Office
12 5 (1.09%) Legal
12 5 (1.09%) Public Sector
13 4 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.66%) Law
14 3 (0.66%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 176 (38.43%) Developer
2 114 (24.89%) Software Engineer
3 68 (14.85%) Senior
4 45 (9.83%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 43 (9.39%) .NET Developer
6 42 (9.17%) Architect
7 33 (7.21%) React Developer
8 32 (6.99%) Senior Software Engineer
9 29 (6.33%) Analyst
10 27 (5.90%) Software Manager
11 25 (5.46%) .NET Software Developer
12 24 (5.24%) .NET Software Engineer
12 24 (5.24%) Finance Manager
12 24 (5.24%) Solutions Architect
13 23 (5.02%) Software Asset Manager
14 21 (4.59%) Business Analyst
15 15 (3.28%) AWS Engineer
16 14 (3.06%) Data Business Analyst
16 14 (3.06%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 14 (3.06%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (14.85%) React
2 57 (12.45%) .NET
3 51 (11.14%) Kafka
4 46 (10.04%) Redux
5 32 (6.99%) Node.js
6 28 (6.11%) AngularJS
7 20 (4.37%) .NET Core
8 17 (3.71%) Vue
9 16 (3.49%) React Native
10 15 (3.28%) GraphQL
11 14 (3.06%) gRPC
11 14 (3.06%) Protocol Buffers
12 10 (2.18%) ASP.NET
13 9 (1.97%) ASP.NET Core
13 9 (1.97%) REST
14 8 (1.75%) Material-UI
14 8 (1.75%) Next.js
15 7 (1.53%) NumPy
15 7 (1.53%) Pandas
15 7 (1.53%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 59 (12.88%) Fixed Income
2 44 (9.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 37 (8.08%) Derivative
3 37 (8.08%) Equities
4 36 (7.86%) Hedge funds
5 28 (6.11%) Product Ownership
6 26 (5.68%) Greenfield Project
7 17 (3.71%) Mobile App
8 13 (2.84%) Blockchain
9 9 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.31%) CBDC
11 5 (1.09%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.09%) Web3
12 4 (0.87%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.87%) IoT
12 4 (0.87%) Social Media
12 4 (0.87%) Wiki
13 3 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.66%) iSeries
13 3 (0.66%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.06%) Android
2 12 (2.62%) Apple iOS
3 11 (2.40%) Windows
4 7 (1.53%) Unix
5 6 (1.31%) Linux
6 5 (1.09%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.87%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.66%) VMS
9 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (37.77%) Agile
2 152 (33.19%) Software Engineering
3 72 (15.72%) DevOps
4 67 (14.63%) User Experience
5 59 (12.88%) Asset Management
6 58 (12.66%) Investment Management
7 55 (12.01%) Full Stack Development
8 52 (11.35%) UX Design
9 47 (10.26%) User Research
9 47 (10.26%) UX Research
10 41 (8.95%) Problem-Solving
11 40 (8.73%) TDD
12 38 (8.30%) Roadmaps
13 29 (6.33%) CI/CD
14 28 (6.11%) Computer Science
14 28 (6.11%) Machine Learning
15 25 (5.46%) Test Automation
16 23 (5.02%) Artificial Intelligence
17 22 (4.80%) Performance Attribution
18 21 (4.59%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 79 (17.25%) C#
2 77 (16.81%) Python
3 75 (16.38%) SQL
4 72 (15.72%) JavaScript
5 66 (14.41%) TypeScript
6 62 (13.54%) Java
7 54 (11.79%) Go
8 19 (4.15%) Scala
9 18 (3.93%) Kotlin
10 9 (1.97%) PL/SQL
11 8 (1.75%) PHP
12 7 (1.53%) C++
12 7 (1.53%) Swift
13 5 (1.09%) C
13 5 (1.09%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.87%) R
14 4 (0.87%) Ruby
15 3 (0.66%) RPG
15 3 (0.66%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.44%) Perl
Qualifications
1 39 (8.52%) Degree
2 26 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (2.84%) SC Cleared
3 13 (2.84%) Security Cleared
4 4 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (0.87%) 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%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (9.61%) QA
2 5 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.87%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.87%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.66%) NIST
5 2 (0.44%) GRC
5 2 (0.44%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.44%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.22%) MiFID
6 1 (0.22%) SEPA
System Software
1 48 (10.48%) 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 (13.10%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.62%) Terraform
3 5 (1.09%) SCCM
4 4 (0.87%) 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 (3.28%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.06%) Google
3 13 (2.84%) Bloomberg
3 13 (2.84%) Oracle
4 12 (2.62%) BISAM
5 10 (2.18%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.09%) IBM
7 4 (0.87%) Apple
7 4 (0.87%) Freshdesk
7 4 (0.87%) 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