Basel II Contract Job Trends

Basel II
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Basel II skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 551 - 637
Rank change year-on-year - - +184
Contract jobs citing Basel II 10 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.030% - 0.006%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.17% - 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 3
10th Percentile £670 - £663
25th Percentile £673 - £738
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £755 - £875
75th Percentile £884 - £888
90th Percentile £900 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

Basel II 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,844 5,051 6,753
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.60% 13.41% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,746 2,935 4,562
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £400 £398 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £612 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 240 253
10th Percentile £13.60 £13.49 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.61 £17.91 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.67 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -23.14% +44.61%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £79.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.08 £27.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year -8.82% -29.03% +72.22%

Basel II
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Basel II relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Basel II job vacancy trend in the UK

Basel II
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Basel II.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Basel II

Basel II
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Basel II over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Basel II in the UK

Basel II
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Basel II.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Basel II

Basel II
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Basel II within the UK over the 6 months to 15 October 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
England - 10 £755 -
London - 10 £755 -
Work from Home - 9 £755 -

Basel II
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) SaaS
2 6 (60.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (90.00%) Data Mining
2 6 (60.00%) Power BI
3 1 (10.00%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Ant
General
1 9 (90.00%) Banking
1 9 (90.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (60.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Consultant
2 6 (60.00%) Risk Consultant
2 6 (60.00%) Senior
2 6 (60.00%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Murex Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Market Risk
2 4 (40.00%) Credit Risk
3 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
1 9 (90.00%) Analytics
1 9 (90.00%) Scrum
1 9 (90.00%) SDLC
2 7 (70.00%) Scenario Testing
3 6 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (60.00%) Service Delivery
3 6 (60.00%) Stress Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 3 (30.00%) Risk Assessment
4 3 (30.00%) Risk Management
5 1 (10.00%) Collateral Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Basel III
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Calypso
1 1 (10.00%) Murex