Capital Requirements Directive IV (CDR 4)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring CRD IV skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited CRD IV over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 710 883 942
Rank change year-on-year +173 +59 +278
Permanent jobs citing CRD IV 2 18 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.004% 0.018% 0.018%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.022% 0.13% 0.094%
Number of salaries quoted 2 17 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75,563 £50,172 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,606 £51,528 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.61% -42.75% +33.32%
75th Percentile £79,648 £52,884 £97,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,606 £51,528 £90,000
% change year-on-year +50.61% -42.75% +30.63%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

CRD IV 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 9,233 13,648 19,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.68% 13.75% 18.85%
Number of salaries quoted 4,731 9,277 8,888
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £43,270 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,000 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +4.39%

CRD IV
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CRD IV in the UK

CRD IV
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CRD IV.

Salary trend for CRD IV in the UK

CRD IV
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CRD IV within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +169 2 £77,606 +50.61%
Scotland +123 2 £77,606 +50.61%

CRD IV
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 2 (100.00%) SAS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Credit Risk Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Credit Risk Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Insight
1 2 (100.00%) Decision Science
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Impact Assessments
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 2 (100.00%) People Management
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) IFRS
1 2 (100.00%) IFRS 9