Basel III Contracts

Basel III
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Basel III skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Basel III over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 587 692
Rank change year-on-year +92 +105 +154
Contract jobs citing Basel III 24 13 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.030% 0.035%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.53% 0.21% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 9 14
10th Percentile £417 £577 £372
25th Percentile £447 £658 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £725 £783
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% -7.35% +23.76%
75th Percentile £650 £813 £899
90th Percentile £743 £942 £966
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £415 £375
% change year-on-year +18.55% +10.67% -

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 4,558 6,250 7,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.59% 14.34% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,921 3,951 5,482
10th Percentile £265 £295 £275
25th Percentile £400 £402 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 383 225
10th Percentile £18.04 £10.95 £13.21
25th Percentile £22.21 £13.18 £18.70
Median hourly rate £34.50 £21.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -44.00% +33.93%
75th Percentile £65.00 £45.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £83.01 £67.38 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.78 £18.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year +126.53% -50.34% +72.21%

Basel III
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Basel III in the UK

Basel III
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Basel III.

Daily rate trend for Basel III in the UK

Basel III
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Basel III over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Basel III in the UK

Basel III
Top 10 Contract 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 30 April 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 +72 21 £594 -18.07% 13
UK excluding London +65 12 £492 +18.55% 1
London +37 12 £650 -10.34% 12
Work from Home +55 6 £525 +26.51% 6
North of England - 5 £585 - 1
North West - 5 £585 - 1
Scotland +11 3 £416 +0.24%
East Midlands - 2 £445 -
Midlands - 2 £445 -
South West - 2 £525 -

Basel III
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.17%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Kondor
2 3 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) AWS
1 7 (29.17%) Azure
1 7 (29.17%) GCP
2 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
2 3 (12.50%) SAP HANA
2 3 (12.50%) Tableau
3 2 (8.33%) Data Mart
3 2 (8.33%) Power BI
3 2 (8.33%) SAP BW
4 1 (4.17%) Data Mining
4 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Ant
2 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 21 (87.50%) Finance
2 16 (66.67%) Banking
3 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
4 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Investment Banking
5 2 (8.33%) Retail Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Front Office
6 1 (4.17%) General Ledger
6 1 (4.17%) Legal
6 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Analyst
2 6 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 5 (20.83%) Consultant
4 3 (12.50%) Lead
4 3 (12.50%) SAP Consultant
4 3 (12.50%) SAP Technical Consultant
4 3 (12.50%) Technical Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) Finance Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Murex Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) Project Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Report Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Risk Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Risk Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) Banking Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Business Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Business Project Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Implementation Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) Market Risk Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Project Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) REST
1 5 (20.83%) SOAP
2 2 (8.33%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (20.83%) Derivative
3 3 (12.50%) Credit Risk
3 3 (12.50%) Market Risk
4 2 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (4.17%) Equities
5 1 (4.17%) Fixed Income
5 1 (4.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Linux
1 5 (20.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Risk Management
2 4 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
2 4 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
3 3 (12.50%) Analytics
3 3 (12.50%) Change Management
3 3 (12.50%) Data Analysis
3 3 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 3 (12.50%) Economics
3 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (12.50%) Project Management
3 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (12.50%) Stress Testing
4 2 (8.33%) Agile
4 2 (8.33%) Business Analysis
4 2 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (8.33%) ETL
4 2 (8.33%) Migration
4 2 (8.33%) Quantitative Risk Management
4 2 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (8.33%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (62.50%) SQL
2 8 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (8.33%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.17%) R
4 1 (4.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) CFA
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) MiFID
2 5 (20.83%) IFRS
3 4 (16.67%) IFRS 9
4 3 (12.50%) Basel II
5 2 (8.33%) FINREP
5 2 (8.33%) IFRS 17
5 2 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (4.17%) COREP
6 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
6 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
6 1 (4.17%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Control-M
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Oracle
1 5 (20.83%) Sybase
2 4 (16.67%) Calypso
2 4 (16.67%) Murex
3 3 (12.50%) SAP
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.17%) Planview