FINRA Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc (FINRA)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring FINRA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing FINRA 11 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.056% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.35% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £461 - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £558 - -
90th Percentile £615 - -
UK median daily rate £550 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

FINRA 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 3,175 2,130 3,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.25% 15.66% 15.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,000 1,224 2,009
10th Percentile £300 £210 £253
25th Percentile £400 £356 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% -3.06% +3.16%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £675 £663 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 132 263
10th Percentile £14.01 £14.70 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.10 £14.16
Median hourly rate £24.85 £29.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.33% +16.00% -
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.79 £50.79
90th Percentile £69.65 £73.63 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £27.04 £30.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -9.88% +20.00% -5.89%

FINRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

FINRA job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

FINRA
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

FINRA
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FINRA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for FINRA in the UK excluding London

FINRA
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 FINRA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 February 2026. 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
Yorkshire - 11 £550 - 2
North of England - 11 £550 - 2
FINRA
UK

FINRA
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 11 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 11 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 11 (100.00%) OneDrive
General
1 11 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Architect
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (90.91%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 11 (100.00%) E-Discovery
1 11 (100.00%) Information Governance
1 11 (100.00%) Records Management
2 9 (81.82%) Case Management
2 9 (81.82%) Data Architecture
2 9 (81.82%) Runbook
3 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
3 8 (72.73%) Incident Response
3 8 (72.73%) Internal Audit
4 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
4 1 (9.09%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) PowerShell
2 9 (81.82%) Kusto Query Language
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (100.00%) GDPR
1 11 (100.00%) MiFID
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft