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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 423 463 516
Rank change year-on-year +40 +53 +106
Contract jobs citing Due Diligence 80 70 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.29% 0.21% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.24% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 46 64
10th Percentile £362 £339 £415
25th Percentile £444 £472 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £600 £540
Median % change year-on-year +0.54% +11.21% -6.17%
75th Percentile £744 £686 £639
90th Percentile £789 £785 £743
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £539
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.32% -6.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £21.18 - £41.78
25th Percentile £22.56 £62.50 £42.19
Median hourly rate £26.25 £65.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.62% +44.44% +69.81%
75th Percentile £31.06 £67.50 £49.94
90th Percentile £33.13 - £51.63
UK median hourly rate £26.25 £65.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -59.62% +44.44% -6.74%

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 25,197 28,779 40,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.72% 85.84% 89.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,128 18,858 28,367
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £405 £419 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £650 £666
90th Percentile £738 £756 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,394 1,701 1,412
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.16 £18.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%
75th Percentile £51.21 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.11 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.90% -4.71% +62.40%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 +22 49 £650 +4.84% 253
North of England +3 15 £520 +39.53% 43
North West +3 9 £588 +68.67% 23
South West +26 6 £396 -3.96% 12
Yorkshire -2 5 £520 -5.50% 16
Midlands -8 4 £650 +36.84% 18
West Midlands -6 3 £650 +44.44% 11
South East +11 2 £450 -25.00% 43
East of England +5 2 £575 - 15
East Midlands -2 1 - - 7
North East - 1 - - 4
Due Diligence
UK

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 (6.25%) Confluence
2 2 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.25%) Appian
3 1 (1.25%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (13.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (1.25%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (1.25%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (1.25%) InDesign
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.25%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.25%) Oracle FAH
1 1 (1.25%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (1.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 1 (1.25%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.25%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 9 (11.25%) Azure
2 5 (6.25%) AWS
2 5 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 3 (3.75%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (3.75%) GitHub
4 2 (2.50%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (2.50%) Anthropic Claude
4 2 (2.50%) Azure AKS
4 2 (2.50%) SaaS
4 2 (2.50%) Vertex AI
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (1.25%) Azure AI
5 1 (1.25%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.25%) Figma
5 1 (1.25%) GCP
5 1 (1.25%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.25%) IaaS
5 1 (1.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.75%) Network Security
2 2 (2.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.25%) Power BI
2 2 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.50%) SAP HANA
3 1 (1.25%) Big Data
3 1 (1.25%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.25%) SAP BW
3 1 (1.25%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 5 (6.25%) JIRA
2 3 (3.75%) Cucumber
2 3 (3.75%) Git
2 3 (3.75%) Gradle
2 3 (3.75%) HP UFT
2 3 (3.75%) IntelliJ
2 3 (3.75%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.75%) JUnit
2 3 (3.75%) Maven
2 3 (3.75%) Selenium
3 1 (1.25%) AppScan
General
1 44 (55.00%) Finance
2 33 (41.25%) Social Skills
3 13 (16.25%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (16.25%) Legal
4 12 (15.00%) Banking
5 5 (6.25%) Financial Institution
6 4 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (5.00%) Retail
7 3 (3.75%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.50%) French Language
8 2 (2.50%) Local Government
8 2 (2.50%) Marketing
8 2 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.50%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Law
9 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Publishing
9 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (16.25%) Analyst
2 11 (13.75%) Architect
3 10 (12.50%) Project Manager
4 9 (11.25%) Lead
5 7 (8.75%) Business Analyst
6 5 (6.25%) Consultant
6 5 (6.25%) Security Manager
6 5 (6.25%) Senior
7 4 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Integration Manager
7 4 (5.00%) IT Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) IT Security Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Procurement Manager
7 4 (5.00%) Security Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Technical Architect
8 3 (3.75%) Integration Project Manager
8 3 (3.75%) IT Manager
8 3 (3.75%) Procurement Project Manager
8 3 (3.75%) Test Manager
9 2 (2.50%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.50%) Gradio
1 2 (2.50%) Hugging Face
1 2 (2.50%) LangChain
1 2 (2.50%) OpenCV
1 2 (2.50%) PyTorch
1 2 (2.50%) Regular Expression
1 2 (2.50%) SpaCy
1 2 (2.50%) Streamlit
1 2 (2.50%) TensorFlow
2 1 (1.25%) EDI
2 1 (1.25%) SAP Basis
2 1 (1.25%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.25%) XML
2 1 (1.25%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.25%) Security Posture
2 11 (13.75%) Management Information System
3 7 (8.75%) Onboarding
4 5 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.25%) Animation
7 1 (1.25%) CMDB
7 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.25%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (1.25%) Motion Graphics
7 1 (1.25%) Photography
7 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.25%) PropTech
7 1 (1.25%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.25%) Linux
1 1 (1.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (27.50%) Risk Management
2 18 (22.50%) Cybersecurity
3 17 (21.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (20.00%) Information Security
5 13 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (15.00%) Project Management
7 11 (13.75%) Agile
8 10 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
9 9 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
10 8 (10.00%) Change Management
10 8 (10.00%) Cloud Security
10 8 (10.00%) CRM
10 8 (10.00%) Process Improvement
10 8 (10.00%) TOGAF
11 7 (8.75%) Analytics
11 7 (8.75%) Business Intelligence
11 7 (8.75%) Collaborative Working
11 7 (8.75%) KYC
11 7 (8.75%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.50%) Java
2 4 (5.00%) Python
3 1 (1.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (17.50%) CISSP
2 11 (13.75%) Degree
3 7 (8.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 7 (8.75%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (8.75%) GCIH
4 6 (7.50%) CCSP
4 6 (7.50%) CISM
5 5 (6.25%) SC Cleared
5 5 (6.25%) Security Cleared
6 3 (3.75%) CEH
6 3 (3.75%) CISA
6 3 (3.75%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.50%) PMP
7 2 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (1.25%) CISMP
8 1 (1.25%) CRISC
8 1 (1.25%) CSSLP
8 1 (1.25%) GIAC
8 1 (1.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 1 (1.25%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.00%) NIST
2 11 (13.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (10.00%) GDPR
3 8 (10.00%) SLA
4 7 (8.75%) QA
5 4 (5.00%) GRC
6 2 (2.50%) COBIT
6 2 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (2.50%) ISO 9001
6 2 (2.50%) PCI DSS
6 2 (2.50%) PMO
7 1 (1.25%) FATCA
7 1 (1.25%) GAAP
7 1 (1.25%) GMP
7 1 (1.25%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.25%) IFRS
7 1 (1.25%) ISO 14001
7 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (1.25%) MiFID
7 1 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.25%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (1.25%) HP Fortify
1 1 (1.25%) SCOM
1 1 (1.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.50%) SAP
3 5 (6.25%) Salesforce
4 4 (5.00%) Workday
5 3 (3.75%) Foundry
5 3 (3.75%) Google
6 2 (2.50%) Ariba
6 2 (2.50%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.25%) Adobe
7 1 (1.25%) BMC
7 1 (1.25%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.25%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.25%) Databricks
7 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.25%) IBM
7 1 (1.25%) Murex
7 1 (1.25%) Oracle
7 1 (1.25%) Remedy
7 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.25%) Veracode