Reinsurance Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Reinsurance
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reinsurance in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Reinsurance over the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 342 393
Rank change year-on-year -80 +51 +88
Contract jobs citing Reinsurance 5 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.016% 0.014%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.075% 0.047% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £426 £525 -
25th Percentile £442 £563 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £626 £475
Median % change year-on-year -20.70% +31.68% -
75th Percentile £558 £688 £488
90th Percentile £572 £726 -
UK median daily rate £575 £750 £613
% change year-on-year -23.33% +22.45% +6.52%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Reinsurance falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,682 4,214 6,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.82% 33.17% 29.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,157 2,588 3,748
10th Percentile £206 £204 £205
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £590
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 525 273 670
10th Percentile £14.72 £16.95 £12.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.05 £14.54
Median hourly rate £41.94 £31.08 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.94% +19.54% +16.80%
75th Percentile £68.75 £66.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £83.88 £66.36
UK median hourly rate £36.32 £32.50 £27.75
% change year-on-year +11.75% +17.12% +23.33%

Reinsurance
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Reinsurance job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Reinsurance
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Reinsurance
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reinsurance in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Reinsurance in the UK excluding London

Reinsurance
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Reinsurance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Reinsurance

Reinsurance
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 Reinsurance within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 March 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
North of England -57 5 £496 -0.80% 1
North West -32 4 £492 -1.60%
North East - 1 £500 -
Reinsurance
UK

Reinsurance
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (20.00%) dbt
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (40.00%) Delta Lake
1 2 (40.00%) Metadata
2 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) Spark SQL
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) NumPy
1 1 (20.00%) Pandas
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Analytics
1 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Data Lineage
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Product Backlog
2 2 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (40.00%) User Stories
3 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) FinOps
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Solvency II
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft