Basel II Contract Job Trends in England

Basel II
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Basel II skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 - 590
Rank change year-on-year - - +170
Contract jobs citing Basel II 8 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.028% - 0.007%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.16% - 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 3
10th Percentile £666 - £663
25th Percentile £673 - £738
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £755 - £875
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.90%
75th Percentile £853 - £888
90th Percentile £900 - -
UK median daily rate £755 - £875
% change year-on-year - - +12.90%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

Basel II 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,080 4,113 5,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.81% 13.07% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,297 2,405 3,912
10th Percentile £304 £291 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £651
90th Percentile £713 £750 £766
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 182 240
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.42 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.55 £18.06 £20.07
Median hourly rate £31.49 £35.00 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -10.03% -4.76% +51.55%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £83.12
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £27.50 £36.75
% change year-on-year +1.82% -25.17% +48.73%

Basel II
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Basel II relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Basel II job vacancy trend in England

Basel II
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Basel II.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Basel II

Basel II
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Basel II in England over the 6 months to 25 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Basel II in England

Basel II
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Basel II.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Basel II

Basel II
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 Basel II within the England region over the 6 months to 25 October 2025. 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 - 8 £755 -
Basel II
UK

Basel II
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) SaaS
2 5 (62.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) Data Mining
2 5 (62.50%) Power BI
3 1 (12.50%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Ant
General
1 7 (87.50%) Banking
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Investment Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Consultant
2 5 (62.50%) Risk Consultant
2 5 (62.50%) Senior
2 5 (62.50%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Murex Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Market Risk
2 3 (37.50%) Credit Risk
3 1 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
1 7 (87.50%) Analytics
1 7 (87.50%) Scrum
1 7 (87.50%) SDLC
2 6 (75.00%) Scenario Testing
3 5 (62.50%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (62.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (62.50%) Service Delivery
3 5 (62.50%) Stress Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
5 1 (12.50%) Collateral Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Basel III
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Control-M
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Calypso
1 1 (12.50%) Murex