Fraud Detection Contracts

Fraud Detection
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Fraud Detection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fraud Detection over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 569 716
Rank change year-on-year +55 +147 +126
Contract jobs citing Fraud Detection 6 13 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.030% 0.003%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.023% 0.035% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 2
10th Percentile £209 £465 £504
25th Percentile £372 £550 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £588 £538
Median % change year-on-year -12.77% +9.30% +2.97%
75th Percentile £621 £594 £584
90th Percentile £705 - £601
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £588 £500
% change year-on-year -26.81% +17.50% +23.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Fraud Detection 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 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Fraud Detection
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Fraud Detection in the UK

Fraud Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Fraud Detection.

Daily rate trend for Fraud Detection in the UK

Fraud Detection
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fraud Detection over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fraud Detection in the UK

Fraud Detection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Fraud Detection.

Hourly rate trend for Fraud Detection in the UK

Fraud Detection
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fraud Detection within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +54 6 £513 -12.77% 67
UK excluding London +58 4 £430 -26.81% 25
London +38 2 £513 +41.38% 50
North of England +15 2 £100 -82.98% 7
North West - 2 £100 - 4
Work from Home +39 1 - - 27
East of England - 1 - - 2
South East - 1 £760 - 10

Fraud Detection
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 (16.67%) Confluence
1 1 (16.67%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (16.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database 12c
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) TestRail
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Legal
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Architect
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Solution Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) DBA
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Fraud Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Fraud Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Operations Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (16.67%) QA Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior QA Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Blockchain
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Analytics
1 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
1 2 (33.33%) User Stories
2 1 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Identity
2 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (16.67%) GitOps
2 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (16.67%) Impact Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
2 1 (16.67%) Observability
2 1 (16.67%) OSINT
2 1 (16.67%) RBAC
2 1 (16.67%) Red Team
2 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Data Guard
2 1 (16.67%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
1 1 (16.67%) VMware