Due Diligence Contracts in England

Due Diligence
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Due Diligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Due Diligence 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 425 464 556
Rank change year-on-year +39 +92 +62
Contract jobs citing Due Diligence 60 78 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.21% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.24% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 53 71
10th Percentile £409 £338 £413
25th Percentile £513 £450 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year +15.24% -1.87% +1.90%
75th Percentile £744 £630 £663
90th Percentile £810 £735 £850
UK median daily rate £603 £518 £533
% change year-on-year +16.57% -2.82% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £24.25 -
25th Percentile £29.50 £30.63 -
Median hourly rate £32.00 £42.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.71% - -
75th Percentile £34.50 £55.63 -
90th Percentile - £62.75 -
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £42.50 -
% change year-on-year -24.71% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Due Diligence falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Due Diligence
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Due Diligence in England

Due Diligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Due Diligence in England

Due Diligence
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Due Diligence in England

Due Diligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Due Diligence in England

Due Diligence
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 Due Diligence 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 +19 33 £700 +33.33% 250
North of England +24 15 £602 +14.57% 43
North West +25 9 £618 +76.43% 17
Yorkshire +4 5 £520 -5.50% 25
South West +46 4 £217 -47.31% 24
Midlands - 4 £525 - 22
South East +37 1 £450 -35.71% 77
West Midlands - 1 £525 - 12
East of England - 1 - - 12
North East - 1 - - 1
Due Diligence
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Due Diligence
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 5 (8.33%) Confluence
2 3 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.33%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (11.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (3.33%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (3.33%) Adobe Premiere
3 2 (3.33%) InDesign
3 2 (3.33%) Photoshop
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.67%) Azure
2 4 (6.67%) GitHub
3 3 (5.00%) AWS
3 3 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (3.33%) Figma
4 2 (3.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.67%) Akamai
5 1 (1.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.67%) GCP
5 1 (1.67%) IaaS
5 1 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.67%) PaaS
5 1 (1.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.67%) Network Security
2 1 (1.67%) BGP
2 1 (1.67%) DHCP
2 1 (1.67%) DMVPN
2 1 (1.67%) DNS
2 1 (1.67%) DWDM
2 1 (1.67%) GLBP
2 1 (1.67%) HTTP
2 1 (1.67%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.67%) IGRP
2 1 (1.67%) Internet
2 1 (1.67%) LAN
2 1 (1.67%) MPLS
2 1 (1.67%) Multicast
2 1 (1.67%) NetScaler
2 1 (1.67%) OSPF
2 1 (1.67%) SNMP
2 1 (1.67%) SSL
2 1 (1.67%) VPN
2 1 (1.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.33%) Power BI
2 1 (1.67%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (8.33%) JIRA
2 4 (6.67%) Cucumber
2 4 (6.67%) Git
2 4 (6.67%) Gradle
2 4 (6.67%) HP UFT
2 4 (6.67%) IntelliJ
2 4 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.67%) JUnit
2 4 (6.67%) Maven
2 4 (6.67%) Selenium
3 1 (1.67%) AppScan
General
1 31 (51.67%) Finance
2 22 (36.67%) Social Skills
3 13 (21.67%) Legal
4 8 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.33%) Financial Institution
5 5 (8.33%) French Language
5 5 (8.33%) Local Government
5 5 (8.33%) Retail
6 3 (5.00%) Italian Language
6 3 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (5.00%) Spanish Language
7 2 (3.33%) Back Office
7 2 (3.33%) Banking
7 2 (3.33%) Law
7 2 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.67%) Billing
8 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.67%) Marketing
8 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (18.33%) Project Manager
2 9 (15.00%) Architect
3 6 (10.00%) Consultant
3 6 (10.00%) Senior
4 5 (8.33%) Lead
4 5 (8.33%) Technical Architect
5 4 (6.67%) Designer
5 4 (6.67%) IT Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) IT Security Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Procurement Manager
5 4 (6.67%) Security Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Security Manager
6 3 (5.00%) Analyst
6 3 (5.00%) Procurement Project Manager
6 3 (5.00%) Project Consultant
6 3 (5.00%) Relationships Manager
6 3 (5.00%) Test Manager
7 2 (3.33%) Account Manager
7 2 (3.33%) Business Analyst
7 2 (3.33%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.33%) Ajax
1 2 (3.33%) AngularJS
1 2 (3.33%) Bootstrap
1 2 (3.33%) LDAP
1 2 (3.33%) Node.js
1 2 (3.33%) Web Services
2 1 (1.67%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.67%) HTML
2 1 (1.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) Onboarding
1 7 (11.67%) Security Posture
2 6 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.33%) Animation
4 2 (3.33%) CMDB
4 2 (3.33%) Motion Graphics
4 2 (3.33%) Photography
4 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.67%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.67%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (28.33%) Risk Management
2 14 (23.33%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (15.00%) Information Security
5 7 (11.67%) Change Management
5 7 (11.67%) Penetration Testing
5 7 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (11.67%) Project Management
5 7 (11.67%) SIEM
5 7 (11.67%) Vulnerability Management
6 6 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (10.00%) Customer Service
6 6 (10.00%) Data Loss Prevention
6 6 (10.00%) Migration
6 6 (10.00%) Privileged Access Management
6 6 (10.00%) Security Operations
6 6 (10.00%) SOAR
6 6 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
6 6 (10.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (11.67%) Java
2 2 (3.33%) SQL
3 1 (1.67%) Python
3 1 (1.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (23.33%) Degree
2 10 (16.67%) CISSP
3 7 (11.67%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 6 (10.00%) CCSP
4 6 (10.00%) GCIH
4 6 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 6 (10.00%) Security Cleared
5 5 (8.33%) CISM
6 3 (5.00%) Chartered Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) CISA
6 3 (5.00%) CRISC
6 3 (5.00%) Master's Degree
6 3 (5.00%) MRICS
7 2 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (1.67%) ACCA
8 1 (1.67%) CCAB
8 1 (1.67%) CCDP
8 1 (1.67%) CIMA
8 1 (1.67%) CIPFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.67%) NIST
2 9 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (11.67%) SLA
4 4 (6.67%) QA
5 3 (5.00%) GDPR
6 2 (3.33%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.67%) EU AI Act
7 1 (1.67%) GMP
7 1 (1.67%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.67%) ISO 14001
7 1 (1.67%) ISO 9001
7 1 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.67%) HP Fortify
1 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.67%) SAP
3 4 (6.67%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.00%) Workday
5 2 (3.33%) Adobe
5 2 (3.33%) Ariba
5 2 (3.33%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.67%) Arista
6 1 (1.67%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.67%) Blue Coat
6 1 (1.67%) Cisco
6 1 (1.67%) Citrix
6 1 (1.67%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.67%) Databricks
6 1 (1.67%) F5
6 1 (1.67%) IBM
6 1 (1.67%) Juniper
6 1 (1.67%) Riverbed
6 1 (1.67%) Veracode
6 1 (1.67%) Zscaler