IFRS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring IFRS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IFRS 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 289 320 465
Rank change year-on-year +31 +145 +91
Contract jobs citing IFRS 15 25 12
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.15% 0.16% 0.046%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.01% 1.12% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 6
10th Percentile £489 £513 £475
25th Percentile £500 £563 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £631
90th Percentile £730 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £650 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +8.33%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

IFRS 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%

IFRS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

IFRS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

IFRS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

IFRS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IFRS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

IFRS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IFRS
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 (6.67%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (13.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (6.67%) SAP BPC
2 1 (6.67%) SAP FI
2 1 (6.67%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (6.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.67%) SAP BW
1 1 (6.67%) SAP HANA
1 1 (6.67%) Tableau
General
1 13 (86.67%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) General Ledger
3 3 (20.00%) Retail
4 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Banking
4 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
5 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Consultant
1 4 (26.67%) SAP Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) Accountant
2 3 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Functional Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Process Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Risk Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) SAP Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) SAP Functional Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (6.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (13.33%) Accounts Payable
2 2 (13.33%) Accounts Receivable
2 2 (13.33%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (13.33%) GAP Analysis
2 2 (13.33%) Migration
2 2 (13.33%) Programme Management
2 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (6.67%) Analytics
3 1 (6.67%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 1 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (6.67%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (6.67%) Data Transformation
3 1 (6.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (6.67%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (6.67%) Revenue Recognition
3 1 (6.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) Groovy
2 1 (6.67%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) ACCA
1 2 (13.33%) CIMA
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) AAT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) IFRS 17
2 3 (20.00%) GAAP
2 3 (20.00%) IFRS 9
3 2 (13.33%) Basel III
4 1 (6.67%) QA
4 1 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (6.67%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) SAP
2 1 (6.67%) Cognos
2 1 (6.67%) JD Edwards
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle