Reinsurance Contracts

Reinsurance
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reinsurance in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Reinsurance over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 489 553
Rank change year-on-year +19 +64 +161
Contract jobs citing Reinsurance 52 87 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.20% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.52% 0.68% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 71 98
10th Percentile £408 £513 £475
25th Percentile £513 £563 £551
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +22.92% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £838 £638 £699
90th Percentile £943 £675 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 -
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Reinsurance falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,997 12,887 18,981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.97% 30.28% 33.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,301 13,047
10th Percentile £300 £268 £313
25th Percentile £411 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £650 £668 £676
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 399 895 627
10th Percentile £16.11 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.45 £15.15 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.76 £31.50 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +40.09% -19.70%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.20 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.53 £30.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -1.58% +36.36% +3.53%

Reinsurance
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Reinsurance in the UK

Reinsurance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Reinsurance in the UK

Reinsurance
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reinsurance over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Reinsurance in the UK

Reinsurance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Reinsurance in the UK

Reinsurance
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Reinsurance within the UK over the 6 months to 17 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 +21 43 £750 +25.00% 118
London -6 40 £751 +25.08% 106
Work from Home +19 17 £650 +10.64% 48
UK excluding London +47 3 £500 +5.26% 21
East of England +26 1 £751 +58.11% 1
North West - 1 £500 - 3
South West - 1 £225 - 4
North of England - 1 £500 - 5

Reinsurance
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 1 (1.92%) Confluence
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (28.85%) Azure
2 7 (13.46%) GCP
3 6 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (9.62%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (9.62%) Entra ID
5 4 (7.69%) AWS
5 4 (7.69%) Azure AKS
5 4 (7.69%) IaaS
5 4 (7.69%) PaaS
5 4 (7.69%) SaaS
6 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.77%) Azure Event Grid
6 3 (5.77%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (5.77%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (5.77%) dbt
6 3 (5.77%) Serverless
7 2 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (3.85%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) Firewall
1 1 (1.92%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.77%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (5.77%) BigQuery
2 2 (3.85%) Data Mart
2 2 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.85%) Looker
2 2 (3.85%) Power BI
2 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.92%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.92%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Eclipse
1 3 (5.77%) JIRA
2 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (46.15%) Finance
2 18 (34.62%) Social Skills
3 10 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Billing
6 1 (1.92%) French Language
6 1 (1.92%) German Language
6 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Italian Language
6 1 (1.92%) Marketing
6 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 17 (32.69%) Analyst
2 10 (19.23%) Senior
3 9 (17.31%) Business Analyst
4 6 (11.54%) Lead
4 6 (11.54%) Project Manager
5 5 (9.62%) Data Analyst
6 4 (7.69%) Architect
6 4 (7.69%) Azure Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Chief Product Officer
7 3 (5.77%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Microsoft 365 Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Senior Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Senior Cloud Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Senior Manager
7 3 (5.77%) Senior Project Manager
8 2 (3.85%) Consultant
8 2 (3.85%) Customer Experience Manager
8 2 (3.85%) IT Manager
8 2 (3.85%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (3.85%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.69%) ARM Templates
2 3 (5.77%) .NET
2 3 (5.77%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (1.92%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (1.92%) LDAP
3 1 (1.92%) PySpark
3 1 (1.92%) pytest
3 1 (1.92%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (5.77%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.92%) CMDB
4 1 (1.92%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.92%) Pricing Data
4 1 (1.92%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.92%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.69%) Linux
1 4 (7.69%) Windows
2 3 (5.77%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (19.23%) Agile
3 9 (17.31%) Project Management
4 8 (15.38%) Migration
5 7 (13.46%) DevOps
6 6 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (11.54%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (9.62%) Analytics
7 5 (9.62%) Cloud Security
7 5 (9.62%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (9.62%) User Stories
7 5 (9.62%) Zero Trust
8 4 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (7.69%) Business Analysis
8 4 (7.69%) Data Analysis
8 4 (7.69%) Data Migration
8 4 (7.69%) Data Visualisation
8 4 (7.69%) High Availability
8 4 (7.69%) Roadmaps
8 4 (7.69%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (25.00%) SQL
2 8 (15.38%) Python
3 4 (7.69%) Bicep
3 4 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.85%) Bash
4 2 (3.85%) Java
5 1 (1.92%) C#
5 1 (1.92%) Go
5 1 (1.92%) LookML
5 1 (1.92%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
1 1 (1.92%) CISA
1 1 (1.92%) CISM
1 1 (1.92%) CISSP
1 1 (1.92%) Degree
1 1 (1.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.62%) SOC 2
2 4 (7.69%) GDPR
3 2 (3.85%) IFRS
3 2 (3.85%) IFRS 17
3 2 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.85%) NIST
4 1 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.92%) GAAP
4 1 (1.92%) GRC
4 1 (1.92%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (9.62%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.77%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (13.46%) Terraform
2 2 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.92%) Ansible
3 1 (1.92%) Grafana
3 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.92%) Puppet
3 1 (1.92%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (21.15%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.69%) Databricks
3 2 (3.85%) TOWER Software
3 2 (3.85%) Workday
4 1 (1.92%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.92%) Google
4 1 (1.92%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.92%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.92%) SAP