Regtech Contracts

Regulatory Technology (RegTech)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Regtech skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Regtech over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 567 676
Rank change year-on-year +50 +109 +111
Contract jobs citing Regtech 4 11 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.026% 0.011%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% 0.030% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 3
10th Percentile £665 £573 £370
25th Percentile £686 £575 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £745 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.20% +25.00% -35.48%
75th Percentile £768 £688 £638
90th Percentile - £740 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Regtech 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 26,091 36,498 50,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.03% 86.03% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,724 23,542 35,172
10th Percentile £303 £300 £325
25th Percentile £409 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.29%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,059 2,447 1,685
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.97 £15.99
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.05 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.71% -2.58% +44.08%
75th Percentile £58.63 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%

Regtech
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Regtech in the UK

Regtech
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Regtech in the UK

Regtech
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Regtech within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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 4 £745 +19.20% 446
London +49 4 £745 +19.20% 87
Work from Home +46 1 - - 263

Regtech
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 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Back Office
2 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Regulatory Business Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) IAM Project Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) JSON
3 1 (25.00%) FpML
3 1 (25.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) DTCC
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Regulatory Change
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Matrix Organization
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (25.00%) Emotional Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) EMIR
1 3 (75.00%) MiFID
2 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle