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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 541 562 654
Rank change year-on-year +21 +92 +201
Contract jobs citing Basel II 12 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.003% 0.010%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.21% 0.019% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 3
10th Percentile - - £663
25th Percentile £673 £625 £738
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £755 £650 £875
Median % change year-on-year +16.15% -25.71% -
75th Percentile £869 £675 £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 5,600 5,146 7,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.13% 13.40% 14.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,584 3,077 4,815
10th Percentile £300 £282 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £509 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -3.14% -
75th Percentile £606 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 262 249
10th Percentile £13.60 £12.37 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.92 £15.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.09 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.74% -22.60% +41.64%
75th Percentile £58.13 £58.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.83 £70.00 £78.52
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.54 £26.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +3.91% -24.29% +66.47%

Basel II
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Basel II as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Basel II 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 14 September 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 14 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
London +28 12 £755 +16.15% 3
England +21 12 £755 +16.15% 4
Work from Home - 10 £755 -

Basel II
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) SaaS
2 8 (66.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (83.33%) Data Mining
2 8 (66.67%) Power BI
3 1 (8.33%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Ant
General
1 11 (91.67%) Banking
2 10 (83.33%) Social Skills
3 8 (66.67%) Investment Banking
4 2 (16.67%) Finance
5 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Consultant
2 7 (58.33%) Risk Consultant
2 7 (58.33%) Senior
2 7 (58.33%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) IT Director
3 1 (8.33%) Murex Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Programme Director
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Market Risk
2 5 (41.67%) Credit Risk
3 1 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Agile
1 11 (91.67%) Analytics
1 11 (91.67%) SDLC
2 10 (83.33%) Scrum
3 8 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
4 7 (58.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (58.33%) Service Delivery
4 7 (58.33%) Stress Testing
5 4 (33.33%) Risk Management
6 3 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
6 3 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
7 1 (8.33%) Architecture Roadmap
7 1 (8.33%) Backlog Management
7 1 (8.33%) Change Management
7 1 (8.33%) Collateral Management
7 1 (8.33%) Product Backlog
7 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
7 1 (8.33%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) Basel III
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Control-M
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Calypso
1 1 (8.33%) Murex