PnL Attribution Contract Job Trends

P&L Attribution (Profit & Loss Explain)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring PnL Attribution skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 547 552 611
Rank change year-on-year +5 +59 +158
Contract jobs citing PnL Attribution 11 6 26
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.032% 0.017% 0.055%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.036% 0.019% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 11
10th Percentile £559 - £523
25th Percentile £570 £475 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £650 £534
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +21.72% -28.80%
75th Percentile £975 £850 £819
90th Percentile £1,000 £895 £875
UK excluding London median daily rate £590 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

PnL Attribution 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 30,906 31,244 41,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.14% 86.04% 88.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,304 18,785 28,083
10th Percentile £297 £310 £311
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,997 1,107 1,583
10th Percentile £14.39 £15.02 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.45 £20.00 £18.94
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% -19.64% +25.71%
75th Percentile £43.20 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £43.95
% change year-on-year -35.34% -20.36% +51.55%

PnL Attribution
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PnL Attribution relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

PnL Attribution job vacancy trend in the UK

PnL Attribution
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PnL Attribution

PnL Attribution
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PnL Attribution over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PnL Attribution in the UK

PnL Attribution
Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PnL Attribution within the UK over the 6 months to 3 November 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 0 10 £775 +19.23% 2
England -12 10 £775 +19.23% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £590 -
UK excluding London - 1 £590 - 1

PnL Attribution
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) GCP
1 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
1 1 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Visual Studio
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
1 7 (63.64%) Front Office
2 6 (54.55%) Banking
3 4 (36.36%) Back Office
3 4 (36.36%) Investment Banking
4 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Business Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Lead
3 2 (18.18%) Python Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Quantitative Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Team Leader
4 1 (9.09%) C++ Quantitative Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Endur Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Endur Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Fund Accounting Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Market Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Market Risk Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) OpenLink Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) OpenLink Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Qualitative Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Quantitative Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Risk Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Derivative
2 3 (27.27%) Market Risk
3 2 (18.18%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (18.18%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (18.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (18.18%) Reference Data
4 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (9.09%) Equities
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Data Analysis
1 4 (36.36%) Risk Management
2 3 (27.27%) Business Analysis
2 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
2 3 (27.27%) Mathematics
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Stress Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) Asset Management
3 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 2 (18.18%) Data Governance
3 2 (18.18%) Model Validation
3 2 (18.18%) Physics
3 2 (18.18%) Project Management
3 2 (18.18%) Quantitative Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (18.18%) Validation
4 1 (9.09%) Migration
4 1 (9.09%) Scrum
4 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Python
2 5 (45.45%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) C++
4 2 (18.18%) C#
5 1 (9.09%) Scala
5 1 (9.09%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Degree
2 3 (27.27%) Master's Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (9.09%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) Basel III
2 1 (9.09%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) OpenLink