IFRS 17 Contracts

IFRS 17
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring IFRS 17 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IFRS 17 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 513 568 697
Rank change year-on-year +55 +129 +66
Contract jobs citing IFRS 17 7 14 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.032% 0.035%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.15% 0.22% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 13
10th Percentile £569 £508 £503
25th Percentile £616 £583 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -14.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £744 £694 £775
90th Percentile £838 £776 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £625
% change year-on-year +10.53% -24.00% -7.41%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

IFRS 17 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 4,564 6,247 7,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.59% 14.34% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,922 3,954 5,483
10th Percentile £265 £296 £275
25th Percentile £400 £403 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £625 £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 179 382 225
10th Percentile £18.04 £10.95 £13.21
25th Percentile £22.21 £13.18 £18.70
Median hourly rate £34.50 £20.80 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.85% -44.53% +33.93%
75th Percentile £65.00 £45.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £83.01 £67.14 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.78 £18.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year +126.53% -50.34% +72.21%

IFRS 17
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing IFRS 17 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IFRS 17 in the UK

IFRS 17
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IFRS 17.

Daily rate trend for IFRS 17 in the UK

IFRS 17
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IFRS 17 over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IFRS 17 in the UK

IFRS 17
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IFRS 17 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 +51 7 £675 +12.50% 7
London +32 5 £700 +16.67% 6
Work from Home +41 4 £663 +8.16% 3
UK excluding London +63 2 £525 +10.53%
South West - 2 £525 -

IFRS 17
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:

Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (28.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SAP BW
1 2 (28.57%) SAP HANA
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) General Ledger
3 2 (28.57%) Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Accountant
1 2 (28.57%) Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) SAP Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) SAP Technical Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
1 2 (28.57%) Senior Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Actuary
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Product Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Reinsurance Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Report Manager
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Financial Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Warehouse Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Warehouse Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Test Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
1 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (28.57%) Project Management
2 1 (14.29%) Agile
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (14.29%) Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (14.29%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (14.29%) Data Transformation
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) ETL
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
2 1 (14.29%) Programme Management
2 1 (14.29%) Scrum
2 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
2 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
2 1 (14.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
2 1 (14.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) IFRS
2 3 (42.86%) IFRS 9
3 2 (28.57%) Basel III
4 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
4 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (14.29%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) SAP