Basel II Contracts in England

Basel II
UK > England

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 540 636
Rank change year-on-year +63 +96 +145
Contract jobs citing Basel II 8 2 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.033% 0.005% 0.034%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.21% 0.038% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 6
10th Percentile £620 £643 £363
25th Percentile £637 £669 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £755 £725 £635
Median % change year-on-year +4.14% +14.17% -
75th Percentile £884 £769 £953
90th Percentile £963 £788 £988
UK median daily rate £755 £725 £635
% change year-on-year +4.14% +14.17% -

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 3,865 5,295 6,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.87% 14.24% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,481 3,378 4,585
10th Percentile £270 £300 £276
25th Percentile £400 £408 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -
75th Percentile £635 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 347 206
10th Percentile £17.78 £10.95 £13.94
25th Percentile £22.27 £13.09 £19.50
Median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%
75th Percentile £65.00 £45.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £79.11 £67.38 £79.88
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £20.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.85% -44.53% +33.93%

Basel II
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Basel II in England

Basel II
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Basel II in England

Basel II
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Basel II in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Basel II in England

Basel II
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Basel II in England

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 1 May 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 +44 8 £755 +4.14% 8
Basel II
UK

Basel II
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:

Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) SaaS
2 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Data Mining
1 3 (37.50%) Power BI
2 2 (25.00%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Ant
General
1 6 (75.00%) Banking
2 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 5 (62.50%) Investment Banking
3 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Consultant
1 4 (50.00%) Risk Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Murex Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Implementation Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) IT Director
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Director
3 1 (12.50%) Qualitative Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Quantitative Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Quantitative Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Market Risk
2 4 (50.00%) Credit Risk
3 2 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) Analytics
1 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 4 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
1 4 (50.00%) SDLC
2 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Scrum
2 3 (37.50%) Stress Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (25.00%) Collateral Management
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Mathematical Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) Mathematics
3 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Credit Risk Management
4 1 (12.50%) Credit Risk Modelling
4 1 (12.50%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Basel III
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Calypso
1 2 (25.00%) Murex