FATCA Contract Job Trends

Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring FATCA skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 560 565 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Contract jobs citing FATCA 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.015% 0.003% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.089% 0.019% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £308 - -
25th Percentile £375 £813 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £825 -
Median % change year-on-year -37.88% - -
75th Percentile £609 £838 -
90th Percentile £626 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

FATCA 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 5,616 5,155 7,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.20% 13.43% 14.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,600 3,054 4,806
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £610 £630 £650
90th Percentile £712 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £500
% change year-on-year -0.73% -4.30% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 255 259
10th Percentile £13.60 £12.39 £14.02
25th Percentile £16.61 £15.22 £18.84
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -22.54% +54.35%
75th Percentile £60.00 £59.38 £62.50
90th Percentile £81.38 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.02 £27.50 £38.55
% change year-on-year -1.76% -28.66% +83.57%

FATCA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for FATCA in the UK

FATCA
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FATCA

FATCA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FATCA over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FATCA in the UK

FATCA
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 FATCA within the UK over the 6 months to 21 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 +24 4 £600 -27.27% 4
England +18 4 £600 -27.27% 4
Work from Home +27 3 £513 -37.88% 2

FATCA
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 (20.00%) Appian
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) FIS Private Capital Suite
1 1 (20.00%) MultiFonds
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Legal
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Front Office
3 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Compliance Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Data Compliance Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Product Owner
3 1 (20.00%) Service Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Product Owner
3 1 (20.00%) Technology Owner
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Business Analysis
1 4 (80.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
3 2 (40.00%) Data Lineage
3 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
3 2 (40.00%) KYC
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) User Stories
4 1 (20.00%) Client Onboarding
4 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Due Diligence
4 1 (20.00%) Epics
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Technology Transformation
4 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (20.00%) MiFID
2 1 (20.00%) UCITS
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) eFront
1 1 (20.00%) Pega
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce