Basel III Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Basel III
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Basel III skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 394 346 -
Rank change year-on-year -48 - -
Contract jobs citing Basel III 10 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.054% 0.041% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.33% 0.26% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 0
10th Percentile £324 £431 -
25th Percentile £338 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £378 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.42% - -
75th Percentile £432 £488 -
90th Percentile £440 £495 -
UK median daily rate £448 £500 £725
% change year-on-year -10.50% -31.03% +20.74%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

Basel III 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 3,042 2,269 3,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.52% 15.40% 15.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,921 1,299 1,882
10th Percentile £300 £210 £260
25th Percentile £400 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £651 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 145 181
10th Percentile £13.58 £14.70 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.49 £20.00 £17.14
Median hourly rate £20.60 £29.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.98% -12.12% +57.14%
75th Percentile £63.18 £63.75 £70.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £73.25 £83.40
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -13.28% -12.12% +46.67%

Basel III
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Basel III job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Basel III
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Basel III
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 III within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 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
East Midlands - 5 £340 -
Midlands - 5 £340 -
North of England - 5 £402 - 2
North West - 3 £402 - 2
Scotland +2 2 £425 -10.53%
North East - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Basel III
UK

Basel III
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (90.00%) Finance
2 8 (80.00%) Banking
3 5 (50.00%) Corporate Banking
3 5 (50.00%) Retail Banking
4 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Banking Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Compliance Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Data Compliance Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Governance Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Data Governance Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Finance Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Finance Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) GCP Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Governance Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Junior
3 1 (10.00%) Junior Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Scrum Master
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) PMI
1 5 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
2 7 (70.00%) Regulatory Change
2 7 (70.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 6 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (60.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 6 (60.00%) Scrum
3 6 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (50.00%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
4 5 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (50.00%) Change Management
4 5 (50.00%) Fintech
4 5 (50.00%) Kanban
4 5 (50.00%) Lean Six Sigma
4 5 (50.00%) Process Improvement
4 5 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
4 5 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 5 (50.00%) Six Sigma
4 5 (50.00%) Wealth Management
5 4 (40.00%) Digital Banking
5 4 (40.00%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
1 5 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 5 (50.00%) MBA
1 5 (50.00%) PMI Certification
1 5 (50.00%) PMP
1 5 (50.00%) SAFe Agilist
2 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Basel II
2 1 (10.00%) COREP
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) FINREP
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) IBM