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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 127 162
Rank change year-on-year +8 +35 +18
Contract jobs citing IFRS 3 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.046% 0.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.00% 0.27% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £570
25th Percentile - £763 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £775 £650
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +19.23% +10.87%
75th Percentile - £788 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £775 £775 £650
% change year-on-year - +19.23% +10.87%

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 299 369 469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.22% 17.04% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 267 341
10th Percentile £375 £367 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -8.33% +6.67%
75th Percentile £713 £650 £725
90th Percentile £824 £750 £838
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +7.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.61 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.77% - -
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £23.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% -6.40% -39.76%

IFRS
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

IFRS
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

IFRS
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 2 (66.67%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) IaaS
1 1 (33.33%) PaaS
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) General Ledger
2 1 (33.33%) International Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Head of Technology
1 1 (33.33%) SAS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Portfolio Management
1 2 (66.67%) Stress Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cash Management
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Credit Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Expense Management
2 1 (33.33%) Internal Audit
2 1 (33.33%) Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) IFRS 9
2 1 (33.33%) GAAP
2 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle