PnL Attribution Contracts

P&L Attribution (Profit & Loss Explain)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring PnL Attribution skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PnL Attribution over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 578 681
Rank change year-on-year +84 +103 +119
Contract jobs citing PnL Attribution 19 8 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.019% 0.029%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.072% 0.022% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 6 9
10th Percentile £602 - £610
25th Percentile £675 £668 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £685 £700
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% -2.14% -
75th Percentile £868 £888 -
90th Percentile £980 £950 £728
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 26,416 37,097 52,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.93% 86.26% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,973 23,888 36,212
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £627 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.40% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,082 2,438 1,719
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.15 £16.00 £16.23
Median hourly rate £28.30 £36.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.48% +1.39% +40.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.23 £38.06 £35.00
% change year-on-year -33.72% +8.74% +75.00%

PnL Attribution
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PnL Attribution in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for PnL Attribution in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PnL Attribution over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PnL Attribution in the UK

PnL Attribution
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 PnL Attribution within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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 +77 18 £713 +4.01% 16
London +46 18 £713 +4.01% 16
Work from Home - 3 £1,000 - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £590 - 1
UK excluding London - 1 £590 - 7

PnL Attribution
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 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Bankmaster
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (68.42%) Front Office
2 11 (57.89%) Banking
3 10 (52.63%) Finance
4 7 (36.84%) Investment Banking
5 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Analyst
2 7 (36.84%) Qualitative Analyst
2 7 (36.84%) Quantitative Analyst
3 6 (31.58%) Data Analyst
3 6 (31.58%) Developer
4 5 (26.32%) Risk Analyst
5 3 (15.79%) Python Developer
5 3 (15.79%) Quantitative Risk Analyst
6 2 (10.53%) Lead
6 2 (10.53%) Quantitative Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Risk Data Analyst
6 2 (10.53%) Team Leader
7 1 (5.26%) .NET Developer
7 1 (5.26%) C# .NET Developer
7 1 (5.26%) C++ Quantitative Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Quantitative Analyst Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Quantitative Risk Manager
7 1 (5.26%) React Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Risk Business Analyst
7 1 (5.26%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) .NET
1 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
1 1 (5.26%) Protocol Buffers
1 1 (5.26%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Derivative
1 5 (26.32%) Market Risk
2 4 (21.05%) Equities
2 4 (21.05%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (10.53%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (10.53%) Reference Data
4 1 (5.26%) Credit Risk
4 1 (5.26%) Fixed Income
4 1 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (5.26%) Hedge funds
4 1 (5.26%) Interest Rate Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Validation
2 7 (36.84%) Greeks
2 7 (36.84%) Mathematics
2 7 (36.84%) Quantitative Research
3 6 (31.58%) Data Analysis
3 6 (31.58%) Physics
3 6 (31.58%) Risk Management
4 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
4 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (21.05%) Stress Testing
5 3 (15.79%) Analytics
5 3 (15.79%) Numerical Analysis
5 3 (15.79%) Quantitative Finance
6 2 (10.53%) Business Analysis
6 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
6 2 (10.53%) Data Governance
6 2 (10.53%) Project Management
6 2 (10.53%) RAD
6 2 (10.53%) Software Engineering
6 2 (10.53%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (89.47%) Python
2 7 (36.84%) VBA
3 5 (26.32%) C++
4 4 (21.05%) SQL
5 2 (10.53%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) Degree
2 4 (21.05%) Master's Degree
2 4 (21.05%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (5.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) Basel III
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) Google