COREP Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Common Reporting (COREP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring COREP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 373 -
Rank change year-on-year +8 - -
Contract jobs citing COREP 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.032% 0.006% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.19% 0.041% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £358 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £375 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% - -
75th Percentile £421 - -
90th Percentile £426 - -
UK median daily rate £420 £495 £800
% change year-on-year -15.15% -38.13% +14.29%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

COREP 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 2,660 2,430 3,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.23% 13.55% 15.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,685 1,333 2,048
10th Percentile £250 £225 £263
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £594
90th Percentile £650 £669 £691
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 209 217
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.24 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.50 £14.73 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.53 £27.50 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -30.56% +88.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.00 £78.36
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £35.63
% change year-on-year +9.09% -22.82% +54.91%

COREP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for COREP in the UK excluding London

COREP
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

COREP
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 COREP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Scotland - 3 £416 - 2
North West -11 2 £358 -4.53%
North of England -28 2 £358 -4.53%
East Midlands - 2 £358 -
Midlands - 2 £358 -
COREP
UK

COREP
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 (20.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau
General
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
1 4 (80.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) SAS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) User Stories
2 2 (40.00%) Business Case
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Backlog Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Change
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SAS Macro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) FINREP
2 2 (40.00%) Basel III
3 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (20.00%) IFRS
3 1 (20.00%) IFRS 9