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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 433 501 548
Rank change year-on-year +68 +47 +79
Contract jobs citing Regulatory Change 121 69 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.18% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.21% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 48 99
10th Percentile £363 £454 £460
25th Percentile £419 £500 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £600 £638
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -5.88% +15.91%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £713
90th Percentile £780 £775 £844
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £570
% change year-on-year +5.00% -12.28% +16.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £71.94
25th Percentile £61.25 - £74.86
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £79.72
75th Percentile £63.75 - £84.58
90th Percentile - - £87.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 - £79.72
% change year-on-year - - +51.27%

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 29,778 33,530 47,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.41% 85.52% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,631 21,488 32,626
10th Percentile £300 £310 £322
25th Percentile £404 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £731 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,664 1,872 1,558
10th Percentile £14.15 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.14 £18.57
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +60.38%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.95 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £40.94 £40.00
% change year-on-year -43.82% +2.35% +85.19%

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 4 August 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 4 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 +52 97 £578 -3.75% 186
London +32 69 £628 -3.46% 145
UK excluding London +27 42 £525 +5.00% 58
Work from Home +37 33 £600 +14.29% 72
North of England +1 17 £600 +19.90% 14
Yorkshire +1 9 £600 +36.67% 5
North West +5 8 £550 +15.79% 9
Northern Ireland -6 8 £525 +133.33% 4
Scotland - 8 £398 - 8
South West +26 4 £575 +21.05% 6
Midlands -6 3 £450 -10.00% 4
East Midlands - 2 £419 -
East of England - 2 £538 - 2
West Midlands -4 1 £450 -10.00% 4

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 4 (3.31%) Confluence
2 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (7.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.96%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (2.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.48%) SAP GTS
2 2 (1.65%) BASE24
2 2 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.83%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 5 (4.13%) Azure
1 5 (4.13%) Power Platform
2 2 (1.65%) AWS
3 1 (0.83%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (0.83%) Azure AKS
3 1 (0.83%) Azure Functions
3 1 (0.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (0.83%) ChatGPT
3 1 (0.83%) Collibra
3 1 (0.83%) GCP
3 1 (0.83%) IaaS
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (0.83%) PaaS
3 1 (0.83%) SaaS
3 1 (0.83%) Serverless
3 1 (0.83%) Smartsheet
3 1 (0.83%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.65%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.13%) Power BI
2 4 (3.31%) Tableau
3 3 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.48%) MS Access
4 2 (1.65%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (0.83%) Metadata
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 10 (8.26%) JIRA
2 2 (1.65%) Git
3 1 (0.83%) ERwin
3 1 (0.83%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (0.83%) VersaTest
General
1 81 (66.94%) Finance
2 49 (40.50%) Social Skills
3 40 (33.06%) Banking
4 25 (20.66%) Legal
5 24 (19.83%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (13.22%) Investment Banking
7 10 (8.26%) Front Office
8 9 (7.44%) Retail
9 8 (6.61%) Back Office
10 5 (4.13%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (4.13%) Financial Institution
10 5 (4.13%) Games
10 5 (4.13%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (2.48%) Law
12 3 (2.48%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.65%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.83%) Advertising
14 1 (0.83%) Billing
14 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (44.63%) Analyst
2 53 (43.80%) Business Analyst
3 17 (14.05%) Project Manager
4 14 (11.57%) Regulatory Business Analyst
5 9 (7.44%) Consultant
6 8 (6.61%) Banking Analyst
6 8 (6.61%) Programme Manager
6 8 (6.61%) Senior
7 7 (5.79%) Change Analyst
8 6 (4.96%) Banking Business Analyst
8 6 (4.96%) Regulatory Change Business Analyst
9 5 (4.13%) Information Security Consultant
9 5 (4.13%) Security Consultant
9 5 (4.13%) Technical Analyst
10 4 (3.31%) Compliance Executive
10 4 (3.31%) Data Analyst
10 4 (3.31%) Lead
10 4 (3.31%) Product Analyst
10 4 (3.31%) Product Business Analyst
10 4 (3.31%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.96%) XML
2 4 (3.31%) FpML
3 2 (1.65%) JSON
4 1 (0.83%) .NET
4 1 (0.83%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.83%) Murex MxML
4 1 (0.83%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.44%) DTCC
2 6 (4.96%) Derivative
2 6 (4.96%) Market Risk
2 6 (4.96%) Security Posture
3 5 (4.13%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.31%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.48%) Equities
5 3 (2.48%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.48%) PMI
5 3 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.48%) Taxonomies
6 2 (1.65%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.65%) EMV
6 2 (1.65%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.65%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 1 (0.83%) Life Science
7 1 (0.83%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (28.93%) Agile
2 31 (25.62%) Project Management
3 28 (23.14%) Risk Management
3 28 (23.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 25 (20.66%) Regulatory Compliance
5 17 (14.05%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (14.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 17 (14.05%) User Acceptance Testing
6 16 (13.22%) Business Analysis
7 12 (9.92%) Project Delivery
8 11 (9.09%) Incident Response
8 11 (9.09%) PRINCE2
9 10 (8.26%) Analytics
9 10 (8.26%) Data Protection
9 10 (8.26%) Process Improvement
9 10 (8.26%) User Stories
9 10 (8.26%) Workshop Facilitation
10 9 (7.44%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (7.44%) GAP Analysis
10 9 (7.44%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 17 (14.05%) SQL
2 2 (1.65%) COBOL
3 1 (0.83%) C#
3 1 (0.83%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
3 1 (0.83%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (9.09%) Degree
2 10 (8.26%) PMI Certification
2 10 (8.26%) PMP
3 7 (5.79%) CISM
3 7 (5.79%) CISSP
4 6 (4.96%) CRISC
5 5 (4.13%) Master's Degree
6 4 (3.31%) CBAP
7 3 (2.48%) FFIEC
8 2 (1.65%) SAP Certification
8 2 (1.65%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.83%) CISA
9 1 (0.83%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (0.83%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (19.83%) MiFID
2 17 (14.05%) GDPR
3 13 (10.74%) EMIR
4 11 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (8.26%) NIST
6 6 (4.96%) HIPAA
6 6 (4.96%) PCI DSS
6 6 (4.96%) PMO
7 5 (4.13%) Basel III
7 5 (4.13%) COREP
7 5 (4.13%) SOC 2
8 4 (3.31%) IFRS
8 4 (3.31%) IFRS 9
9 3 (2.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (2.48%) GRC
9 3 (2.48%) PERC
10 2 (1.65%) Data Quality
10 2 (1.65%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (1.65%) EU AI Act
10 2 (1.65%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.83%) Functional Safety
1 1 (0.83%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (6.61%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.13%) SAP
3 4 (3.31%) Murex
3 4 (3.31%) OneTrust
3 4 (3.31%) Oracle
4 3 (2.48%) Alteryx
5 2 (1.65%) HP
5 2 (1.65%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.83%) Calypso
6 1 (0.83%) IBM
6 1 (0.83%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.83%) Siemens
6 1 (0.83%) Sparx
6 1 (0.83%) Workday