IFRS 9 Financial Instruments
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring IFRS 9 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited IFRS 9 over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 659 806 977
Rank change year-on-year +147 +171 +182
Permanent jobs citing IFRS 9 25 79 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.080% 0.010%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.28% 0.58% 0.050%
Number of salaries quoted 12 22 5
10th Percentile £70,556 £40,800 -
25th Percentile £75,563 £43,143 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,121 £51,528 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +67.13% -20.73% -48.00%
75th Percentile £105,418 £52,884 £71,250
90th Percentile £126,250 - £73,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,606 £51,528 -
% change year-on-year +50.61% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

IFRS 9 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 8,850 13,541 19,961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.97% 13.77% 19.19%
Number of salaries quoted 4,598 9,268 9,195
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £73,750 £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% +5.04%

IFRS 9
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing IFRS 9 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IFRS 9 in the UK

IFRS 9
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IFRS 9.

Salary trend for IFRS 9 in the UK

IFRS 9
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IFRS 9 over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for IFRS 9 in the UK

IFRS 9
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IFRS 9 within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +143 21 £94,637 +83.66% 21
Work from Home +181 13 £94,637 +83.66% 10
London +93 13 £117,500 +171.99% 19
UK excluding London +164 12 £77,606 +50.61% 2
North of England +61 8 £94,637 +83.66%
Yorkshire +61 8 £94,637 +83.66%
Scotland +124 4 £77,606 +63.85%

IFRS 9
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 15 (60.00%) SAS
Business Applications
1 4 (16.00%) SAP CO
1 4 (16.00%) SAP FI
1 4 (16.00%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) GCP
2 1 (4.00%) AWS
2 1 (4.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.00%) Base SAS
2 1 (4.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Git
1 1 (4.00%) Gradle
1 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.00%) JUnit
1 1 (4.00%) Maven
1 1 (4.00%) Selenium
1 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (4.00%) Spinnaker
1 1 (4.00%) TestNG
General
1 22 (88.00%) Finance
2 14 (56.00%) Banking
2 14 (56.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (32.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.00%) Retail
6 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Lead
2 7 (28.00%) Architect
2 7 (28.00%) Enterprise Management Architect
2 7 (28.00%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
2 7 (28.00%) Lead Architect
2 7 (28.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
2 7 (28.00%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (24.00%) Analyst
4 5 (20.00%) Consultant
5 4 (16.00%) Credit Risk Manager
5 4 (16.00%) Risk Manager
5 4 (16.00%) SAP CO Consultant
5 4 (16.00%) SAP Consultant
5 4 (16.00%) SAP FI Consultant
5 4 (16.00%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
6 2 (8.00%) Qualitative Analyst
6 2 (8.00%) Quantitative Analyst
6 2 (8.00%) Senior
7 1 (4.00%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (4.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 16 (64.00%) Credit Risk
2 8 (32.00%) Market Risk
2 8 (32.00%) Product Ownership
3 7 (28.00%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (28.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) Analytics
1 16 (64.00%) Stress Testing
2 14 (56.00%) Risk Management
3 13 (52.00%) Agile
4 11 (44.00%) Model Validation
5 9 (36.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (36.00%) Regulatory Compliance
5 9 (36.00%) Scenario Testing
5 9 (36.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (32.00%) CI/CD
6 8 (32.00%) Containerisation
6 8 (32.00%) Continuous Deployment
6 8 (32.00%) Data Management
6 8 (32.00%) Data Protection
6 8 (32.00%) DevOps
6 8 (32.00%) Risk Analytics
6 8 (32.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 8 (32.00%) Test Automation
7 7 (28.00%) API Management
7 7 (28.00%) Architecture Governance
Programming Languages
1 19 (76.00%) Python
2 15 (60.00%) R
3 12 (48.00%) SQL
4 5 (20.00%) C
5 1 (4.00%) Java
5 1 (4.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (100.00%) IFRS
2 9 (36.00%) Basel III
3 8 (32.00%) GDPR
4 7 (28.00%) Basel II
4 7 (28.00%) Dodd-Frank
4 7 (28.00%) PCI DSS
5 4 (16.00%) CRD IV
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) SAP
2 2 (8.00%) CA Agile Central