Basel II Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Basel II
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Basel II skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 403 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Basel II 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.006% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.033% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate - - £713
% change year-on-year - - -17.39%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,002 2,286 3,069
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.70% 15.25% 15.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,899 1,307 1,888
10th Percentile £278 £212 £260
25th Percentile £400 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £599
90th Percentile £675 £650 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 148 181
10th Percentile £13.51 £14.70 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.77 £16.91 £17.72
Median hourly rate £20.72 £26.75 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.54% -24.65% +69.05%
75th Percentile £63.18 £62.24 £72.00
90th Percentile £74.88 £66.18 £83.40
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £27.50 £35.25
% change year-on-year -8.55% -21.99% +56.03%

Basel II
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Basel II job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Basel II
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Basel II.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Basel II

Basel II
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Basel II.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Basel II

Basel II
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 December 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
North East - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -
Basel II
UK

Basel II
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Basel III
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks