Due Diligence Contracts

Due Diligence
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Due Diligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Due Diligence over the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 452 478 571
Rank change year-on-year +26 +93 +77
Contract jobs citing Due Diligence 100 93 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.23% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.26% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 63 83
10th Percentile £354 £338 £413
25th Percentile £494 £438 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £650 £641 £600
90th Percentile £780 £748 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £463 £465
% change year-on-year +13.51% -0.54% +1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £21.18 - £41.78
25th Percentile £22.56 £62.50 £42.19
Median hourly rate £26.25 £65.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.62% +44.44% -6.74%
75th Percentile £31.06 £67.50 £49.94
90th Percentile £33.13 - £51.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.25 £65.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year -59.62% +34.02% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Due Diligence falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,491 35,299 49,281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.34% 85.41% 89.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,487 22,643 33,875
10th Percentile £300 £306 £323
25th Percentile £405 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.11% -0.45%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,574 2,188 1,620
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.31 £16.86 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -10.31% +60.38%
75th Percentile £50.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £73.58 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.50 £40.00 £40.59
% change year-on-year -41.25% -1.45% +88.79%

Due Diligence
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Due Diligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Due Diligence in the UK

Due Diligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Due Diligence.

Daily rate trend for Due Diligence in the UK

Due Diligence
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Due Diligence over the 6 months to 21 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Due Diligence in the UK

Due Diligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Due Diligence.

Hourly rate trend for Due Diligence in the UK

Due Diligence
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Due Diligence within the UK over the 6 months to 21 July 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 +27 76 £603 +9.68% 337
UK excluding London +44 52 £525 +13.51% 138
London +25 44 £650 +13.04% 222
Scotland +21 21 £525 - 7
Work from Home +16 18 £575 +9.52% 142
North of England +6 17 £525 +13.82% 40
North West +7 10 £602 +71.86% 25
Yorkshire +8 6 £520 -5.50% 12
South West +40 5 £396 -3.96% 13
Midlands -7 4 £650 +44.44% 19
West Midlands +8 3 £650 +67.74% 12
South East +29 2 £450 -25.00% 46
East of England +9 2 £575 - 11
East Midlands 0 1 - - 7
North East - 1 - - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £450 - 1

Due Diligence
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 6 (6.00%) Confluence
2 5 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.00%) Appian
Applications
1 12 (12.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (7.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (2.00%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (2.00%) Adobe Premiere
3 2 (2.00%) InDesign
3 2 (2.00%) Photoshop
4 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.00%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 10 (10.00%) Azure
2 5 (5.00%) AWS
2 5 (5.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (4.00%) GitHub
4 3 (3.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (2.00%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (2.00%) Anthropic Claude
5 2 (2.00%) Azure AKS
5 2 (2.00%) Figma
5 2 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.00%) SaaS
5 2 (2.00%) Vertex AI
6 1 (1.00%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (1.00%) Azure AI
6 1 (1.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.00%) GCP
6 1 (1.00%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.00%) IaaS
6 1 (1.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.00%) Network Security
2 2 (2.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.00%) Power BI
2 2 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.00%) SAP HANA
3 1 (1.00%) Big Data
3 1 (1.00%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.00%) SAP BW
3 1 (1.00%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 6 (6.00%) JIRA
2 4 (4.00%) Cucumber
2 4 (4.00%) Git
2 4 (4.00%) Gradle
2 4 (4.00%) HP UFT
2 4 (4.00%) IntelliJ
2 4 (4.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.00%) JUnit
2 4 (4.00%) Maven
2 4 (4.00%) Selenium
3 1 (1.00%) AppScan
General
1 61 (61.00%) Finance
2 31 (31.00%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 26 (26.00%) Banking
5 18 (18.00%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (14.00%) Legal
7 5 (5.00%) Financial Institution
7 5 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.00%) Retail
8 4 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (3.00%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.00%) Back Office
10 2 (2.00%) French Language
10 2 (2.00%) Local Government
10 2 (2.00%) Marketing
10 2 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (1.00%) Front Office
11 1 (1.00%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.00%) Publishing
11 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (29.00%) Analyst
2 13 (13.00%) Architect
3 11 (11.00%) Lead
4 10 (10.00%) Fraud Analyst
5 8 (8.00%) Project Manager
5 8 (8.00%) Senior
6 7 (7.00%) Business Analyst
7 5 (5.00%) Security Manager
7 5 (5.00%) Technical Architect
8 4 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) IT Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) IT Security Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Procurement Manager
8 4 (4.00%) Security Engineer
9 3 (3.00%) Consultant
9 3 (3.00%) Information Specialist
9 3 (3.00%) Integration Manager
9 3 (3.00%) IT Manager
9 3 (3.00%) Procurement Project Manager
9 3 (3.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.00%) Gradio
1 2 (2.00%) Hugging Face
1 2 (2.00%) LangChain
1 2 (2.00%) OpenCV
1 2 (2.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (2.00%) Regular Expression
1 2 (2.00%) SpaCy
1 2 (2.00%) Streamlit
1 2 (2.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (1.00%) EDI
2 1 (1.00%) SAP Basis
2 1 (1.00%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.00%) Security Posture
2 9 (9.00%) Onboarding
3 8 (8.00%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.00%) Animation
6 2 (2.00%) Motion Graphics
6 2 (2.00%) Photography
7 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.00%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.00%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.00%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.00%) Linux
1 1 (1.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (27.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 22 (22.00%) Case Management
3 20 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 20 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 19 (19.00%) Migration
4 19 (19.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 19 (19.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 18 (18.00%) Fintech
5 18 (18.00%) Scenario Testing
6 17 (17.00%) Digital Banking
7 13 (13.00%) Information Security
7 13 (13.00%) Project Management
8 12 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (11.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
10 10 (10.00%) Fraud Detection
10 10 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
11 9 (9.00%) Agile
11 9 (9.00%) Collaborative Working
12 8 (8.00%) Change Management
12 8 (8.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.00%) Java
2 4 (4.00%) Python
3 1 (1.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (12.00%) CISSP
2 11 (11.00%) Degree
3 7 (7.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 7 (7.00%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (7.00%) CISM
3 7 (7.00%) GCIH
4 6 (6.00%) CCSP
4 6 (6.00%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.00%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.00%) CISA
6 3 (3.00%) CEH
6 3 (3.00%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.00%) CRISC
7 2 (2.00%) PMP
7 2 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (1.00%) CISMP
8 1 (1.00%) CSSLP
8 1 (1.00%) GIAC
8 1 (1.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 1 (1.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.00%) NIST
2 12 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (8.00%) SLA
4 7 (7.00%) QA
5 6 (6.00%) GDPR
6 3 (3.00%) GRC
6 3 (3.00%) PCI DSS
7 2 (2.00%) COBIT
7 2 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (2.00%) ISO 9001
7 2 (2.00%) PMO
8 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
8 1 (1.00%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (1.00%) EU AI Act
8 1 (1.00%) GMP
8 1 (1.00%) ISO 14001
8 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (1.00%) NCSC
8 1 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (1.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (1.00%) HP Fortify
1 1 (1.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.00%) Salesforce
3 6 (6.00%) SAP
4 3 (3.00%) Foundry
4 3 (3.00%) Google
4 3 (3.00%) Workday
5 2 (2.00%) Adobe
5 2 (2.00%) Ariba
5 2 (2.00%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.00%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.00%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.00%) Databricks
6 1 (1.00%) IBM
6 1 (1.00%) Pega
6 1 (1.00%) Veracode