IFRS Contracts

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring IFRS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IFRS over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 476 508 625
Rank change year-on-year +32 +117 +102
Contract jobs citing IFRS 91 59 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.15% 0.086%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.63% 1.11% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 23 31
10th Percentile £325 £513 £525
25th Percentile £425 £538 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £684 £688 -
90th Percentile £775 £740 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £600 £534
% change year-on-year -12.50% +12.41% +6.22%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

IFRS 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 5,580 5,333 7,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.83% 13.59% 13.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,594 3,304 5,033
10th Percentile £281 £296 £306
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -4.67% -
75th Percentile £606 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 325 248
10th Percentile £13.60 £11.22 £14.02
25th Percentile £17.43 £14.48 £18.74
Median hourly rate £26.93 £25.60 £39.51
Median % change year-on-year +5.18% -35.21% +58.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.37 £70.00 £78.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.83 £25.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -0.68% -29.58% +64.47%

IFRS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IFRS in the UK

IFRS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IFRS in the UK

IFRS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IFRS over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IFRS in the UK

IFRS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IFRS in the UK

IFRS
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IFRS within the UK over the 6 months to 2 August 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 +60 85 £525 -17.65% 101
London +47 60 £525 -19.23% 74
Work from Home +29 26 £399 -27.55% 38
UK excluding London -4 24 £525 -12.50% 45
South East +13 10 £650 +8.33% 25
South West - 6 £525 -
North of England - 3 £108 - 7
East of England +4 2 - - 4
East Midlands -1 2 £447 -31.23% 3
Midlands -10 2 £447 -31.23% 3
North West - 2 - - 4
Yorkshire - 1 £108 - 2
Scotland - 1 - - 3

IFRS
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 14 (15.38%) SAS
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 17 (18.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (15.38%) NetSuite
3 12 (13.19%) SAP FI
4 11 (12.09%) SAP CO
4 11 (12.09%) SAP FI/CO
5 5 (5.49%) SAP PS
6 4 (4.40%) SAP MDG
7 2 (2.20%) SAP Bank Analyzer
8 1 (1.10%) Elite 3E
8 1 (1.10%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (1.10%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (1.10%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (1.10%) Oracle FAH
8 1 (1.10%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (1.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (1.10%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 1 (1.10%) SAP GRC
8 1 (1.10%) SAP SD
8 1 (1.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 18 (19.78%) SaaS
2 13 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 5 (5.49%) AWS
3 5 (5.49%) Azure
4 4 (4.40%) GCP
5 2 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.10%) Collibra
6 1 (1.10%) IaaS
6 1 (1.10%) PaaS
6 1 (1.10%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.29%) Power BI
2 6 (6.59%) Tableau
3 5 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.40%) SAP HANA
5 3 (3.30%) SAP BW
6 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.10%) Metadata
6 1 (1.10%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.10%) ERwin
1 1 (1.10%) PowerDesigner
General
1 68 (74.73%) Finance
2 23 (25.27%) Banking
3 13 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 11 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.79%) General Ledger
6 6 (6.59%) Billing
6 6 (6.59%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.30%) Legal
7 3 (3.30%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.20%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.20%) Retail
9 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.10%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.10%) International Banking
9 1 (1.10%) Law
9 1 (1.10%) Local Government
9 1 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (26.37%) Consultant
2 20 (21.98%) SAP Consultant
3 13 (14.29%) Analyst
3 13 (14.29%) Report Manager
4 7 (7.69%) Accountant
5 6 (6.59%) SAP Technical Consultant
5 6 (6.59%) Technical Consultant
6 5 (5.49%) Risk Analyst
7 4 (4.40%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.40%) Business Data Analyst
7 4 (4.40%) Credit Analyst
7 4 (4.40%) Credit Risk Analyst
7 4 (4.40%) Data Analyst
7 4 (4.40%) Project Consultant
7 4 (4.40%) SAP PS Consultant
7 4 (4.40%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
8 3 (3.30%) Data Modeller
8 3 (3.30%) Functional Consultant
8 3 (3.30%) Project Manager
8 3 (3.30%) SAP Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.79%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.10%) Middleware
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.10%) REST
2 1 (1.10%) XML
2 1 (1.10%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.29%) Credit Risk
2 5 (5.49%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.30%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.30%) PMI
4 2 (2.20%) Reinsurance
4 2 (2.20%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (27.47%) Analytics
1 25 (27.47%) Revenue Recognition
2 18 (19.78%) Validation
3 17 (18.68%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 12 (13.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 12 (13.19%) Stress Testing
6 10 (10.99%) Portfolio Management
6 10 (10.99%) User Acceptance Testing
7 9 (9.89%) Budgeting
7 9 (9.89%) Data Governance
7 9 (9.89%) Data Modelling
8 8 (8.79%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
8 8 (8.79%) Data Validation
8 8 (8.79%) Process Improvement
9 7 (7.69%) Budgeting and Forecasting
10 6 (6.59%) ETL
10 6 (6.59%) Procure-to-Pay
10 6 (6.59%) Project Delivery
10 6 (6.59%) Work Breakdown Structure
Programming Languages
1 16 (17.58%) SQL
2 4 (4.40%) Python
3 2 (2.20%) ABAP
3 2 (2.20%) R
4 1 (1.10%) Groovy
4 1 (1.10%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (21.98%) ACCA
2 16 (17.58%) CIMA
3 5 (5.49%) Degree
4 3 (3.30%) CBAP
4 3 (3.30%) CCAB
4 3 (3.30%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.20%) CFA
5 2 (2.20%) CISA
5 2 (2.20%) CISM
6 1 (1.10%) AAT
6 1 (1.10%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (31.87%) IFRS 9
2 20 (21.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 9 (9.89%) Basel III
4 8 (8.79%) IFRS 17
5 7 (7.69%) GAAP
6 5 (5.49%) MiFID
7 4 (4.40%) QA
8 3 (3.30%) GDPR
9 2 (2.20%) GxP
9 2 (2.20%) Solvency II
10 1 (1.10%) CRD IV
10 1 (1.10%) Data Quality
10 1 (1.10%) GRC
10 1 (1.10%) ISO 20022
10 1 (1.10%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 28 (30.77%) SAP
2 4 (4.40%) Alteryx
2 4 (4.40%) Oracle
3 2 (2.20%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.10%) Adaptive Insights
4 1 (1.10%) Aderant
4 1 (1.10%) Ariba
4 1 (1.10%) IBM
4 1 (1.10%) Murex
4 1 (1.10%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.10%) Sparx
4 1 (1.10%) Tagetik
4 1 (1.10%) Workday