FFIEC Contract Job Trends

Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for FFIEC qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 550 553 620
Rank change year-on-year +3 +67 +197
Contract jobs citing FFIEC 12 4 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.036% 0.010% 0.048%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.12% 0.036% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 17
10th Percentile £300 - £465
25th Percentile £350 £575 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £750
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% -20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £636 £625 £775
90th Percentile £660 - £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

FFIEC falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 10,357 11,257 14,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.48% 29.22% 28.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,472 6,913 9,030
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +2.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 839 651 744
10th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £16.61
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £25.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £49.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.67% -9.26% +20.00%
75th Percentile £43.88 £68.00 £68.97
90th Percentile £71.00 £76.25 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -52.10% +1.18% +15.52%

FFIEC
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for FFIEC in the UK

FFIEC
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

FFIEC
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FFIEC over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FFIEC in the UK

FFIEC
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FFIEC within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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
England +20 11 £465 -22.50% 3
London +21 10 £465 -22.50% 3
Work from Home +34 4 £350 - 4
UK excluding London - 2 £575 - 4
North of England - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Wales - 1 £575 - 2

FFIEC
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 (8.33%) TPMS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) SNMP
2 1 (8.33%) SSH
2 1 (8.33%) SSL
General
1 5 (41.67%) Banking
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
1 5 (41.67%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Banking Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Banking Business Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) ICT Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) ICT Business Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Security Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Auditor
3 1 (8.33%) Contracts Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Cryptography Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Auditor
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (83.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (58.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 6 (50.00%) Cloud Security
4 6 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 6 (50.00%) Digital Engineering
4 6 (50.00%) IT Audit
4 6 (50.00%) Project Management
4 6 (50.00%) Risk Management
4 6 (50.00%) SIEM
4 6 (50.00%) Test Strategy
5 3 (25.00%) Business Analysis
5 3 (25.00%) Regulatory Change
6 2 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 2 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
7 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (8.33%) Observability
7 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
7 1 (8.33%) Security Auditing
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) CISA
1 1 (8.33%) CISM
1 1 (8.33%) CISSP
1 1 (8.33%) CRISC
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (75.00%) NIST
2 8 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (66.67%) PCI DSS
3 6 (50.00%) GRC
3 6 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (8.33%) GDPR
4 1 (8.33%) GLBA
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Splunk