Basel III Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Basel III
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Basel III skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Basel III 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 298 344 472
Rank change year-on-year +46 +128 +156
Contract jobs citing Basel III 6 1 5
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.061% 0.007% 0.019%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.40% 0.045% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £465 - £512
25th Percentile £492 £383 £568
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £415 £660
Median % change year-on-year +26.51% -37.15% +7.45%
75th Percentile £650 £448 £728
90th Percentile £800 - £747
UK median daily rate £575 £725 £783
% change year-on-year -20.69% -7.35% +23.76%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

Basel III 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 III
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Basel III
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 III.

Basel III daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Basel III
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Basel III daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Basel III
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Kondor
1 1 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Tableau
2 1 (16.67%) Data Mining
2 1 (16.67%) SAP BW
2 1 (16.67%) SAP HANA
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Retail Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Consultant
1 1 (16.67%) Lead
1 1 (16.67%) Monitoring Specialist
1 1 (16.67%) Report Specialist
1 1 (16.67%) Risk Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) SAP Consultant
1 1 (16.67%) SAP Technical Consultant
1 1 (16.67%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (16.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (16.67%) Credit Risk
2 1 (16.67%) Derivative
2 1 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
1 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Benchmarking
2 1 (16.67%) Business Case
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
2 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
2 1 (16.67%) Economics
2 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) Quantitative Risk Management
2 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) SDLC
2 1 (16.67%) Stress Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CFA
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) IFRS
1 2 (33.33%) IFRS 9
2 1 (16.67%) Basel II
2 1 (16.67%) IFRS 17
2 1 (16.67%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Calypso
1 1 (16.67%) Murex
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) Planview
1 1 (16.67%) SAP
1 1 (16.67%) Sybase