Basel III Contracts in the UK excluding London

Basel III
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Basel III skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Basel III over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 383 444
Rank change year-on-year +56 +61 -
Contract jobs citing Basel III 13 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.010% 0.013%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.62% 0.067% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 3
10th Percentile £410 £385 -
25th Percentile £428 £389 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £418 £375
Median % change year-on-year +21.80% +11.33% -
75th Percentile £572 £443 £393
90th Percentile £600 £446 £396
UK median daily rate £585 £700 £701
% change year-on-year -16.50% -0.18% +14.12%

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 2,108 2,969 3,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.23% 14.61% 14.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,336 1,750 2,255
10th Percentile £224 £240 £223
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £483 £480
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +0.73% +6.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £676 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 308 189
10th Percentile £15.48 £10.95 £13.16
25th Percentile £23.00 £12.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £46.30 £18.27 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +153.42% -43.78% +45.81%
75th Percentile £67.50 £45.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £79.74 £68.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £21.06 £35.00
% change year-on-year +63.84% -39.84% +12.90%

Basel III
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Basel III as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Basel III in the UK excluding London

Basel III
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Basel III in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Basel III in the UK excluding London

Basel III
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Basel III in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Basel III in the UK excluding London

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 18 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
North West - 5 £585 - 2
North of England - 5 £585 - 2
Scotland +6 3 £416 -0.36%
South West - 3 £525 -
East Midlands - 2 £445 -
Midlands - 2 £445 -
Basel III
UK

Basel III
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (7.69%) SAS
Business Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Kondor
2 3 (23.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) AWS
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
1 8 (61.54%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
2 3 (23.08%) SAP BW
2 3 (23.08%) SAP HANA
3 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 12 (92.31%) Finance
2 10 (76.92%) Banking
3 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
4 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (7.69%) General Ledger
5 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
5 1 (7.69%) Legal
5 1 (7.69%) Retail
5 1 (7.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Analyst
1 3 (23.08%) Consultant
1 3 (23.08%) SAP Consultant
1 3 (23.08%) SAP Technical Consultant
1 3 (23.08%) Technical Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Product Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Risk Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) SAP Financial Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) REST
1 5 (38.46%) SOAP
2 3 (23.08%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Derivative
1 5 (38.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
1 5 (38.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Risk Management
2 4 (30.77%) Knowledge Transfer
3 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
4 2 (15.38%) Data Transformation
4 2 (15.38%) Project Management
5 1 (7.69%) Agile
5 1 (7.69%) Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) Benchmarking
5 1 (7.69%) Business Case
5 1 (7.69%) Business Strategy
5 1 (7.69%) Data Extraction
5 1 (7.69%) ETL
5 1 (7.69%) Migration
5 1 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (7.69%) PRINCE2
5 1 (7.69%) Project Delivery
5 1 (7.69%) Project Governance
5 1 (7.69%) Regulatory Compliance
5 1 (7.69%) Waterfall
5 1 (7.69%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) SQL
2 6 (46.15%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) MiFID
2 4 (30.77%) IFRS
2 4 (30.77%) IFRS 9
3 3 (23.08%) IFRS 17
4 2 (15.38%) FINREP
4 2 (15.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (7.69%) COREP
5 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle
1 5 (38.46%) Sybase
2 3 (23.08%) SAP
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Planview