IFRS Contracts in the UK excluding London

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring IFRS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IFRS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 313 367 455
Rank change year-on-year +54 +88 +32
Contract jobs citing IFRS 23 32 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.15% 0.029%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.12% 1.02% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 4
10th Percentile £463 £403 £330
25th Percentile £500 £513 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £473
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +21.69% -22.86%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £591
90th Percentile - - £619
UK median daily rate £650 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +8.33%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

IFRS 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 2,060 3,142 3,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.14% 15.13% 14.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,297 1,830 2,400
10th Percentile £209 £252 £213
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £665 £680 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 309 180
10th Percentile £17.28 £10.95 £12.50
25th Percentile £24.18 £12.63 £18.21
Median hourly rate £40.78 £18.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +126.53% -50.34% +72.21%
75th Percentile £67.03 £43.75 £62.00
90th Percentile £79.92 £67.38 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £20.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.85% -44.53% +33.93%

IFRS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IFRS in the UK excluding London

IFRS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for IFRS in the UK excluding London

IFRS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IFRS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IFRS in the UK excluding London

IFRS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IFRS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for IFRS in the UK excluding London

IFRS
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 IFRS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
South East +35 13 £650 +8.33% 12
Midlands +24 4 £500 -23.08% 7
East Midlands +13 4 £500 -23.08% 1
South West - 4 £525 - 2
East of England +29 1 - - 4
Scotland +12 1 - - 3
IFRS
UK

IFRS
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 10 (43.48%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (21.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (8.70%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (4.35%) SAP CO
3 1 (4.35%) SAP FI
3 1 (4.35%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.70%) AWS
1 2 (8.70%) Azure
1 2 (8.70%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) SAP BW
1 2 (8.70%) SAP HANA
2 1 (4.35%) Tableau
General
1 14 (60.87%) Finance
2 8 (34.78%) Banking
3 6 (26.09%) Retail
4 5 (21.74%) General Ledger
5 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Consultant
2 4 (17.39%) Risk Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) SAP Consultant
3 3 (13.04%) Credit Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Credit Risk Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Credit Risk Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Data Modeller
4 2 (8.70%) Finance Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Report Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Risk Manager
4 2 (8.70%) SAP Financial Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) SAP Technical Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Accountant
5 1 (4.35%) Financial Accountant
5 1 (4.35%) Lead
5 1 (4.35%) SAP Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 10 (43.48%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Analytics
2 9 (39.13%) Stress Testing
3 8 (34.78%) Portfolio Management
4 7 (30.43%) Internal Audit
5 5 (21.74%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 5 (21.74%) Credit Risk Management
5 5 (21.74%) Validation
6 4 (17.39%) Data Modelling
7 3 (13.04%) Budgeting
8 2 (8.70%) Budget Management
8 2 (8.70%) Credit Risk Modelling
8 2 (8.70%) Decision-Making
8 2 (8.70%) Record to Report
8 2 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 2 (8.70%) User Acceptance Testing
9 1 (4.35%) Data Analysis
9 1 (4.35%) Data Cleansing
9 1 (4.35%) Data Conversion
9 1 (4.35%) Data Extraction
9 1 (4.35%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) SQL
2 1 (4.35%) Python
2 1 (4.35%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) ACCA
2 4 (17.39%) CIMA
3 1 (4.35%) AAT
3 1 (4.35%) CCAB
3 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (56.52%) IFRS 9
2 4 (17.39%) GAAP
3 3 (13.04%) Basel III
4 2 (8.70%) IFRS 17
4 2 (8.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (4.35%) CRD IV
5 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) SAP
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) Cognos
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft