Basel III Job Trends

Basel III
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Basel III skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 649 693 714
Rank change year-on-year +44 +21 +294
Permanent jobs citing Basel III 4 6 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.007% 0.011% 0.013%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.051% 0.069% 0.087%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 7
10th Percentile £85,500 £60,160 -
25th Percentile £93,750 £71,650 £90,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £94,637 £92,625
Median % change year-on-year +21.52% +2.17% -3.77%
75th Percentile £133,750 £141,737 £95,063
90th Percentile £140,500 £167,695 £98,737
UK excluding London median annual salary - £94,637 £92,625
% change year-on-year - +2.17% +32.32%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 7,842 8,646 8,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.07% 16.16% 14.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4,375 3,830 5,921
10th Percentile £30,370 £31,925 £30,318
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +3.51% +0.81%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £76,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

Basel III
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Basel III relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Basel III job vacancy trend in the UK

Basel III
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Basel III.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Basel III

Basel III
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Basel III over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Basel III in the UK

Basel III
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Basel III within the UK over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +59 3 £115,000 +21.52% 4
London +55 3 £115,000 +2.22% 4
Work from Home +65 2 £90,000 -4.90% 1
UK excluding London +54 1 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

Basel III
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
1 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Banking
3 2 (50.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (25.00%) Legal
4 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 2 (50.00%) IT Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (50.00%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
2 2 (50.00%) IT Manager
2 2 (50.00%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Architect
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Architect
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Business Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Business Project Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Business Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Project Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Project Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (50.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (75.00%) Regulatory Change
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (25.00%) Business Case
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Data Security
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) CAPM
1 1 (25.00%) CBAP
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (25.00%) MBA
1 1 (25.00%) PgMP
1 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (25.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) MiFID
2 1 (25.00%) EMIR
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Bloomberg
1 1 (25.00%) Refinitiv