Basel II Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Basel II
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Basel II skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Basel II 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 299 344 -
Rank change year-on-year +45 - -
Contract jobs citing Basel II 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.050% 0.007% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.34% 0.045% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £673 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £828 £800 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% - -
75th Percentile £931 - -
90th Percentile £988 - -
UK median daily rate £755 £725 £635
% change year-on-year +4.14% +14.17% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

Basel II falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,488 2,240 3,140
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.02% 14.60% 12.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,005 1,532 2,292
10th Percentile £281 £313 £325
25th Percentile £400 £420 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.97% +3.00%
75th Percentile £603 £623 £625
90th Percentile £713 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 79 63
10th Percentile £17.98 £12.75 £18.54
25th Percentile £23.13 £14.00 £25.50
Median hourly rate £39.00 £22.87 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.53% -46.81% -2.16%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.38 £61.88
90th Percentile £87.15 £65.00 £72.35
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £20.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.85% -44.53% +33.93%

Basel II
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Basel II as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Basel II trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Basel II
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Basel II.

Basel II daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Basel II
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Basel II over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Basel II daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Basel II
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) SaaS
2 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Data Mining
2 2 (40.00%) Power BI
General
1 5 (100.00%) Banking
2 4 (80.00%) Investment Banking
3 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) Risk Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Qualitative Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Quantitative Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Quantitative Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Market Risk
2 2 (40.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (20.00%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Analytics
1 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (60.00%) Scrum
1 3 (60.00%) SDLC
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Mathematical Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Stress Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Basel III