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This report provides a comprehensive view of how hiring, workforce strategy, and talent priorities are evolving across Europe’s fintech sector. Covering Payments, Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL), Open Banking, and Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS), it combines workforce data from more than 50 fintech companies with market and funding insights from Q1 2024 to Q1 2025.
Against a backdrop of funding slowdowns, restructuring, and growing regulatory pressure, the analysis shows a clear shift away from growth-driven hiring toward leaner, performance-focused teams. Engineering remains the most in-demand function across all segments, while compliance, risk, and regulatory roles continue to gain importance, especially in payments and BNPL. At the same time, product hiring has slowed, signalling that many platforms have moved beyond early experimentation.
The report also maps talent dynamics across Europe’s key fintech hubs, including London, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Vilnius, and Dublin, highlighting where hiring remains competitive, where attrition is highest, and how companies are adapting through remote and decentralized teams. For fintech leaders, investors, recruiters, and professionals, this report offers a data-driven view of where the market stands, and how talent strategy is becoming a core pillar of long-term resilience.
