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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 589 - 603
Rank change year-on-year - - +162
Contract jobs citing Basel II 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.005% - 0.002%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.030% - 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £358 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 - £800
Median % change year-on-year - - +36.75%
75th Percentile £373 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 6,665 4,541 6,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.20% 14.44% 14.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,292 2,666 4,264
10th Percentile £322 £257 £300
25th Percentile £411 £375 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 174 321
10th Percentile £15.28 £15.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.08 £21.05 £14.50
Median hourly rate £26.34 £29.00 £27.17
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +6.76% +4.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.93 £53.50
90th Percentile £69.83 £75.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.27 £29.00 £25.89
% change year-on-year -9.41% +12.02% +3.55%

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
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 6 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 31 January 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
England - 2 £365 - 1
Work from Home - 1 - -
UK excluding London - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -
London - 1 £365 - 1
North East - 1 - -

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Front Office
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Change Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Budget Management
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lineage
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Map
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Basel III
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks