Basel III Contract Job Trends

Basel III
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Basel III skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 642 513 572
Rank change year-on-year -129 +59 +89
Contract jobs citing Basel III 17 37 21
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.032% 0.11% 0.049%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.19% 0.69% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 31 16
10th Percentile £396 £400 £436
25th Percentile £408 £470 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £594 £658
Median % change year-on-year -11.62% -9.66% -12.91%
75th Percentile £629 £700 £728
90th Percentile £720 £875 £837
UK excluding London median daily rate £403 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -23.33% +10.53% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

Basel III 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 8,933 5,381 5,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.96% 16.47% 13.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,729 3,457 3,634
10th Percentile £339 £280 £280
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £610 £620
90th Percentile £700 £717 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £475
% change year-on-year +6.38% -1.05% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 552 234 421
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.65 £11.66
25th Percentile £19.30 £18.15 £13.52
Median hourly rate £36.07 £30.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +20.23% +24.07% -37.54%
75th Percentile £68.75 £62.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.71 £82.99 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.72 £27.35 £24.18
% change year-on-year +41.57% +13.11% -31.40%

Basel III
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Basel III job vacancy trend in the UK

Basel III
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Basel III
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Basel III over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Basel III in the UK

Basel III
Top 9 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 III within the UK over the 6 months to 13 July 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 -132 14 £525 -14.22% 6
London -76 8 £620 -11.46% 6
UK excluding London -102 8 £403 -23.33% 1
Midlands -48 3 £402 -9.61%
North West -57 3 £525 -11.62%
Work from Home -61 3 £509 -13.36% 3
North of England -81 3 £525 -11.62%
West Midlands - 3 £402 -
Scotland -13 2 £450 +9.22% 1

Basel III
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) SAS
2 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (5.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.88%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Base SAS
1 3 (17.65%) Power BI
1 3 (17.65%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
General
1 12 (70.59%) Finance
2 7 (41.18%) Banking
3 3 (17.65%) Front Office
4 2 (11.76%) Financial Institution
4 2 (11.76%) Prime Brokerage
4 2 (11.76%) Retail Banking
4 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (5.88%) International Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Legal
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Analyst
1 8 (47.06%) Business Analyst
2 5 (29.41%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Regulatory Business Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) SAS Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Report Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.88%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Lead
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Regulatory Reporting Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Risk Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Scrum Master
5 1 (5.88%) Senior .NET Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) .NET
1 2 (11.76%) .NET Core
1 2 (11.76%) JSON
1 2 (11.76%) REST
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Credit Risk
2 4 (23.53%) Product Ownership
3 3 (17.65%) Derivative
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (5.88%) Market Risk
4 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.88%) PMI
4 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (23.53%) Agile
2 4 (23.53%) Regulatory Change
2 4 (23.53%) Risk Management
2 4 (23.53%) Scrum
2 4 (23.53%) SDLC
2 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (17.65%) Migration
3 3 (17.65%) Process Improvement
3 3 (17.65%) Quality Management
3 3 (17.65%) Regulatory Compliance
3 3 (17.65%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (11.76%) Business Analysis
4 2 (11.76%) Change Management
4 2 (11.76%) Data Analysis
4 2 (11.76%) Integration Testing
4 2 (11.76%) OOP
4 2 (11.76%) Project Management
4 2 (11.76%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) C#
3 1 (5.88%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.88%) FFIEC
2 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.88%) MBA
2 1 (5.88%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.88%) PMP
2 1 (5.88%) SAFe Agilist
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) COREP
2 1 (5.88%) FINREP
2 1 (5.88%) PMO
2 1 (5.88%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Alteryx
1 1 (5.88%) CA Agile Central
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft