IFRS Contracts in the City of London

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring IFRS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IFRS over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 116 163
Rank change year-on-year +1 +47 +15
Contract jobs citing IFRS 5 7 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.28% 0.33% 0.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.54% 1.92% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £481 £623 £567
25th Percentile £509 £638 £620
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +3.85% +6.12%
75th Percentile £609 £738 £659
90th Percentile £634 £768 £676
Central London median daily rate £650 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +6.12%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
City of London

IFRS falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 324 365 482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 18.38% 17.25% 13.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 256 356
10th Percentile £372 £363 £388
25th Percentile £456 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £708 £650 £713
90th Percentile £800 £770 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £28.05 £16.78 -
25th Percentile £37.13 £17.96 -
Median hourly rate £54.50 £20.61 -
Median % change year-on-year +164.50% - -
75th Percentile £72.75 £22.65 -
90th Percentile £82.35 £23.46 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.48 £23.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +47.35% -6.40% -50.98%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing IFRS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for IFRS in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IFRS in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for IFRS in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IFRS in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IFRS in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 3 (60.00%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) IaaS
1 1 (20.00%) PaaS
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) General Ledger
3 1 (20.00%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Credit Risk Modeller
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Financial Controller
1 1 (20.00%) Head of Technology
1 1 (20.00%) SAS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Analytics
1 3 (60.00%) Portfolio Management
1 3 (60.00%) Stress Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Internal Audit
2 2 (40.00%) Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (20.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 1 (20.00%) Cash Management
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Credit Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Credit Risk Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) ACCA
2 1 (20.00%) CCAB
2 1 (20.00%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) IFRS 9
2 2 (40.00%) GAAP
3 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle