IFRS Contracts in England

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for IFRS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IFRS over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 489 634 624
Rank change year-on-year +145 -10 -83
Contract jobs citing IFRS 59 34 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.067% 0.22%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.11% 0.50% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 21 104
10th Percentile £475 £420 £479
25th Percentile £513 £513 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £615
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% +10.31%
75th Percentile - £750 £725
90th Percentile £723 £775 £850
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £613
% change year-on-year -7.69% +6.12% +11.36%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

IFRS is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,302 6,761 9,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.24% 13.33% 13.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,378 4,579 6,385
10th Percentile £300 £275 £288
25th Percentile £410 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year - +0.38% +10.11%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 214 258
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.84 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.00 £19.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.59% +54.55% +31.26%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.90 £79.08 £68.40
UK median hourly rate £20.49 £37.75 £28.25
% change year-on-year -45.74% +33.63% +34.36%

IFRS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing IFRS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for IFRS in England

IFRS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for IFRS in England

IFRS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IFRS in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IFRS in England

IFRS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for IFRS in England

IFRS
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IFRS within the England region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
London +104 26 £600 -14.29% 59
South East +34 24 £600 +72.66% 18
Midlands +25 2 £650 +8.33% 5
East of England - 2 £550 - 4
West Midlands +26 1 - - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £525 - 2
East Midlands - 1 £650 - 3
North of England - 1 £525 - 10
IFRS
UK

IFRS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (13.56%) SAS
2 2 (3.39%) Confluence
3 1 (1.69%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) SAP SD
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.69%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.69%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.69%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.69%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.69%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.47%) Azure
2 3 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (5.08%) Snowflake
3 1 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (1.69%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.69%) AWS
3 1 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (1.69%) GCP
3 1 (1.69%) Google Workspace
3 1 (1.69%) OCI
3 1 (1.69%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.69%) SaaS
3 1 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.56%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (5.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 3 (5.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (3.39%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.69%) Data Mart
4 1 (1.69%) Power BI
4 1 (1.69%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.69%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.69%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Eclipse
2 2 (3.39%) JIRA
3 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 51 (86.44%) Finance
2 8 (13.56%) Banking
3 7 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (11.86%) Social Skills
4 5 (8.47%) Retail
5 4 (6.78%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (6.78%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.39%) General Ledger
6 2 (3.39%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.69%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.69%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 17 (28.81%) Analyst
2 12 (20.34%) Financial Analyst
3 9 (15.25%) Consultant
3 9 (15.25%) SAP Consultant
4 7 (11.86%) Data Modeller
5 5 (8.47%) Developer
5 5 (8.47%) Finance Manager
5 5 (8.47%) Report Analyst
6 4 (6.78%) Project Manager
7 3 (5.08%) Business Analyst
7 3 (5.08%) Finance Project Manager
7 3 (5.08%) Functional Analyst
7 3 (5.08%) SAS Modeller
8 2 (3.39%) Architect
8 2 (3.39%) Credit Risk Modeller
8 2 (3.39%) Data Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Finance Business Analyst
8 2 (3.39%) Financial Business Analyst
8 2 (3.39%) SAS Developer
8 2 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.69%) JSON
1 1 (1.69%) Middleware
1 1 (1.69%) XML
1 1 (1.69%) XML Messaging
1 1 (1.69%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.95%) Credit Risk
2 5 (8.47%) Derivative
2 5 (8.47%) Equities
3 3 (5.08%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.69%) Clustering
4 1 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.69%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (23.73%) Data Modelling
2 12 (20.34%) Analytics
3 10 (16.95%) Revenue Recognition
4 9 (15.25%) Stress Testing
5 8 (13.56%) Data Analysis
6 7 (11.86%) Risk Management
7 6 (10.17%) Portfolio Management
7 6 (10.17%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (8.47%) Epics
8 5 (8.47%) ERP
8 5 (8.47%) Migration
8 5 (8.47%) Requirements Workshops
8 5 (8.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (8.47%) User Stories
8 5 (8.47%) Validation
9 4 (6.78%) Agile
9 4 (6.78%) Project Management
9 4 (6.78%) SDLC
10 3 (5.08%) DevOps
10 3 (5.08%) Internal Audit
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.64%) SQL
2 2 (3.39%) Java
2 2 (3.39%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.69%) Python
3 1 (1.69%) XPath
Qualifications
1 9 (15.25%) ACCA
1 9 (15.25%) ICAEW
2 6 (10.17%) CIMA
3 3 (5.08%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.08%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.69%) CCA
4 1 (1.69%) Degree
4 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.69%) OCP
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.69%) SAP Certification
4 1 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (27.12%) IFRS 9
2 13 (22.03%) IFRS 17
3 9 (15.25%) GAAP
4 6 (10.17%) Solvency II
5 5 (8.47%) QA
6 2 (3.39%) Basel III
6 2 (3.39%) Data Quality
7 1 (1.69%) COREP
7 1 (1.69%) FINREP
7 1 (1.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (1.69%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (1.69%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 10 (16.95%) SAP
2 3 (5.08%) Guidewire
3 2 (3.39%) Google
3 2 (3.39%) Oracle
3 2 (3.39%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.39%) Workday
4 1 (1.69%) IBM
4 1 (1.69%) Xero