Regulatory Change Contracts

Regulatory Change
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Regulatory Change skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Regulatory Change 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 431 508 597
Rank change year-on-year +77 +89 +25
Contract jobs citing Regulatory Change 89 74 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.17% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.20% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 56 93
10th Percentile £363 £380 £435
25th Percentile £500 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% -7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £738 £750 £788
90th Percentile £863 £850 £856
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £538
% change year-on-year +10.53% -11.63% +17.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - - £11.30
25th Percentile £61.25 £20.50 £12.13
Median hourly rate £62.50 £21.00 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +197.62% +50.00% -63.57%
75th Percentile £63.75 £21.50 £42.25
90th Percentile - - £58.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £21.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year +197.62% +50.00% -63.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Regulatory Change 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 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Regulatory Change
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Regulatory Change in the UK

Regulatory Change
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Regulatory Change in the UK

Regulatory Change
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Regulatory Change over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Regulatory Change in the UK

Regulatory Change
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Regulatory Change in the UK

Regulatory Change
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Regulatory Change 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 +60 71 £625 +4.17% 173
London +44 52 £650 -5.45% 124
UK excluding London +68 29 £525 +10.53% 77
Work from Home +47 29 £638 +13.33% 80
North of England +19 9 £600 +20.00% 10
South West +49 5 £538 +13.16% 14
Scotland +17 5 £400 -3.61% 4
Yorkshire +9 5 £600 +36.67% 4
Northern Ireland -4 5 £525 +133.33% 2
North West +18 4 £650 +18.18% 6
Midlands +23 3 £375 -25.10% 8
East Midlands - 2 £375 - 5
East of England - 2 £525 - 2
West Midlands +13 1 - - 3

Regulatory Change
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 3 (3.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (13.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (11.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.37%) BASE24
2 2 (2.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.12%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (1.12%) Loan IQ
3 1 (1.12%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.12%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 3 (3.37%) Power Platform
2 2 (2.25%) AWS
2 2 (2.25%) Azure
2 2 (2.25%) SaaS
3 1 (1.12%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (1.12%) Azure AKS
3 1 (1.12%) Azure Functions
3 1 (1.12%) ChatGPT
3 1 (1.12%) GCP
3 1 (1.12%) IaaS
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (1.12%) PaaS
3 1 (1.12%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.37%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.37%) NonStop SQL
1 3 (3.37%) Power BI
1 3 (3.37%) Tableau
2 1 (1.12%) Data Mart
2 1 (1.12%) MS Access
2 1 (1.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 8 (8.99%) JIRA
2 2 (2.25%) VersaTest
3 1 (1.12%) Jenkins
General
1 64 (71.91%) Finance
2 37 (41.57%) Social Skills
3 25 (28.09%) Banking
4 19 (21.35%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (19.10%) Legal
6 9 (10.11%) Front Office
7 8 (8.99%) Investment Banking
8 7 (7.87%) Back Office
9 5 (5.62%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (4.49%) Financial Institution
10 4 (4.49%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (4.49%) Retail
11 3 (3.37%) Games
11 3 (3.37%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (2.25%) Law
12 2 (2.25%) Marketing
13 1 (1.12%) Automotive
13 1 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (1.12%) Private Banking
13 1 (1.12%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (35.96%) Analyst
2 30 (33.71%) Business Analyst
3 17 (19.10%) Project Manager
4 11 (12.36%) Consultant
5 7 (7.87%) Regulatory Business Analyst
5 7 (7.87%) Senior
6 5 (5.62%) Banking Analyst
6 5 (5.62%) Information Security Consultant
6 5 (5.62%) Security Consultant
7 4 (4.49%) Lead
7 4 (4.49%) Programme Manager
7 4 (4.49%) Senior Manager
7 4 (4.49%) Senior Project Manager
8 3 (3.37%) Change Analyst
8 3 (3.37%) Compliance Analyst
8 3 (3.37%) Compliance Executive
8 3 (3.37%) Developer
8 3 (3.37%) Financial Analyst
8 3 (3.37%) Regulatory Change Business Analyst
8 3 (3.37%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.25%) FpML
1 2 (2.25%) Murex MxML
1 2 (2.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.62%) Derivative
1 5 (5.62%) Security Posture
2 3 (3.37%) DTCC
2 3 (3.37%) EMV
2 3 (3.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (3.37%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.25%) Market Risk
3 2 (2.25%) Mobile Banking
3 2 (2.25%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.25%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.12%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.12%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.12%) Life Science
4 1 (1.12%) OTC Derivatives
4 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.12%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (33.71%) Project Management
2 25 (28.09%) Agile
3 24 (26.97%) Stakeholder Management
4 22 (24.72%) Risk Management
5 20 (22.47%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (17.98%) Regulatory Compliance
7 13 (14.61%) Business Analysis
8 12 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (11.24%) Analytics
9 10 (11.24%) Project Delivery
9 10 (11.24%) Thought Leadership
10 9 (10.11%) GAP Analysis
10 9 (10.11%) Impact Assessments
11 8 (8.99%) Incident Response
11 8 (8.99%) Process Improvement
12 7 (7.87%) Information Security
12 7 (7.87%) Requirements Gathering
12 7 (7.87%) User Stories
13 6 (6.74%) Data Analysis
13 6 (6.74%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.24%) SQL
2 3 (3.37%) COBOL
3 1 (1.12%) C#
3 1 (1.12%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (11.24%) Degree
2 6 (6.74%) CISM
2 6 (6.74%) CISSP
2 6 (6.74%) CRISC
3 5 (5.62%) Master's Degree
3 5 (5.62%) PMI Certification
3 5 (5.62%) PMP
4 2 (2.25%) CFA
4 2 (2.25%) SAP Certification
5 1 (1.12%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.12%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (19.10%) MiFID
2 9 (10.11%) GDPR
3 7 (7.87%) EMIR
4 6 (6.74%) HIPAA
4 6 (6.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (6.74%) NIST
4 6 (6.74%) PCI DSS
5 5 (5.62%) PMO
5 5 (5.62%) SOC 2
6 4 (4.49%) QA
7 2 (2.25%) Dodd-Frank
7 2 (2.25%) EU AI Act
7 2 (2.25%) GRC
7 2 (2.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (1.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (1.12%) HAZOP
8 1 (1.12%) IFRS
8 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (1.12%) PERC
8 1 (1.12%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (1.12%) Functional Safety
1 1 (1.12%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (7.87%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.37%) HP
3 2 (2.25%) Bloomberg
3 2 (2.25%) Murex
3 2 (2.25%) Planview
3 2 (2.25%) SAP
4 1 (1.12%) Advent
4 1 (1.12%) IBM
4 1 (1.12%) OneTrust
4 1 (1.12%) Oracle
4 1 (1.12%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.12%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.12%) Siemens
4 1 (1.12%) SimCorp
4 1 (1.12%) Tradeweb
4 1 (1.12%) Workday