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Average salaries for financial technology professionals revealed in new guide from Selby Jennings

The financial sciences & services industry is experiencing a technological revolution, and the race is on for firms to best utilize emerging technologies such as AI, blockchain, IoT, and SaaS to change the future of finance.

But progress cannot be made without the right expertise, and as these fields are so new, companies are all vying for the same small pool of financial technology professionals with specialist, sought-after skillsets and experience.

To help employers understand the latest compensation movements and position themselves to attract the very best financial technology talent, Selby Jennings, Phaidon International’s specialist financial sciences & services talent partner, has produced a new global salary guide.

Covering a variety of fintech functions across the USA, Europe, and APAC, Selby Jennings’ ‘Financial Technology Salary Guide – 2024’ includes base salary and bonus benchmarks for positions within sell side, hedge fund, prep trading, and fintech firms including:

  • Data Engineer / Scientist

  • Software Engineer

  • Cyber Security Engineer

  • Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer

  • Site Reliability Engineer

  • Network / Infrastructure

  • Change Management / Transformation

To provide even more accurate guidance, each role is broken down further by job title, years of experience, and variations in compensation between key cities in each region.

The guide is also an invaluable tool for fintech professionals, providing salary and bonus benchmarks for their current compensation or new job offers, so they can understand how their compensation compares to their and can make their next career move with confidence.

Download the ‘Financial Technology Salary Guide – 2024’ exclusively on the Selby Jennings website.

About Selby Jennings

Selby Jennings is an award-winning, established financial sciences and services talent partner.  

Whether that be quantitative analytics, research & trading professionals developing complex financial models to improve a firm’s bottom line, or investment management specialists leading the charge on sustainable investments and greener assets to make an impact, we are here to build the right team for you, and have been doing so for 20 years.  

Working with the world’s largest financial institutions to revolutionary fintech start-ups with all their hiring needs, we have developed relationships with the brightest and boldest minds in banking and finance, and deliver this talent to leading, innovative businesses around the world.  

As part of Phaidon International, we are a trusted talent partner working with leading firms and organizations to solve their hiring challenges. 

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