International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring IFRS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited IFRS over the 6 months leading up to 16 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 521 655 971
Rank change year-on-year +134 +316 +49
Permanent jobs citing IFRS 251 86 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.15% 0.035%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.32% 1.02% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 12 41 17
10th Percentile £58,575 - £29,000
25th Percentile £69,563 £50,172 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,606 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.87% - -
75th Percentile £88,368 £92,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £104,347 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,606 £51,528 £45,000
% change year-on-year +50.61% +14.51% -30.77%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

IFRS 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 10,812 8,428 20,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.60% 14.30% 19.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,281 5,964 10,507
10th Percentile £32,750 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,688 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.38% - +5.26%

IFRS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IFRS in the UK

IFRS
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for IFRS in the UK

IFRS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IFRS over the 6 months to 16 January 2025.

Salary histogram for IFRS in the UK

IFRS
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IFRS within the UK over the 6 months to 16 January 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 +118 230 £80,000 +5.14% 50
UK excluding London +39 135 £77,606 +50.61% 20
London +104 115 £72,500 -19.44% 32
Midlands +13 43 - - 1
South West +44 33 - - 2
West Midlands -12 28 - - 1
North of England -22 27 £94,637 +83.66% 6
Scotland +33 20 £77,606 +21.63% 2
Yorkshire +31 15 £94,637 +83.66% 6
East Midlands - 15 - -
South East -32 12 £80,000 +23.08% 4
North West -34 12 - -
Work from Home +26 10 £82,319 +17.60% 23

IFRS
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 10 (3.98%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) SAP CCM
1 1 (0.40%) SAP GRC
1 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (1.59%) GCP
2 1 (0.40%) AWS
2 1 (0.40%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.20%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.40%) Base SAS
2 1 (0.40%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Git
1 1 (0.40%) Gradle
1 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.40%) JUnit
1 1 (0.40%) Maven
1 1 (0.40%) Selenium
1 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (0.40%) Spinnaker
1 1 (0.40%) TestNG
General
1 194 (77.29%) Finance
2 79 (31.47%) Social Skills
3 67 (26.69%) Billing
4 39 (15.54%) Presentation Skills
5 33 (13.15%) Marketing
6 29 (11.55%) Banking
7 27 (10.76%) Retail
8 11 (4.38%) Local Government
8 11 (4.38%) Manufacturing
8 11 (4.38%) Public Sector
9 10 (3.98%) Financial Institution
10 8 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (2.79%) Analytical Skills
12 6 (2.39%) Social Housing
13 5 (1.99%) Retail Finance
14 2 (0.80%) Legal
14 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 143 (56.97%) Audit Manager
2 74 (29.48%) Senior
3 70 (27.89%) Senior Audit Manager
3 70 (27.89%) Senior Manager
4 30 (11.95%) Quality Manager
5 16 (6.37%) Analyst
6 15 (5.98%) Audit Support Manager
6 15 (5.98%) Senior Support Manager
6 15 (5.98%) Support Manager
7 13 (5.18%) Senior Service Manager
8 11 (4.38%) Infrastructure Manager
8 11 (4.38%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
9 10 (3.98%) Service Support Manager
10 8 (3.19%) Actuarial Analyst
11 6 (2.39%) Business Manager
12 5 (1.99%) Financial Analyst
13 4 (1.59%) Credit Risk Manager
13 4 (1.59%) Lead
13 4 (1.59%) Risk Manager
14 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Management Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.59%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.18%) Credit Risk
2 5 (1.99%) Virtual Team
3 4 (1.59%) Market Risk
3 4 (1.59%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.20%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.40%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (91.24%) Coaching
2 224 (89.24%) Agile
3 104 (41.43%) Project Management
4 101 (40.24%) Mentoring
5 97 (38.65%) Creative Thinking
6 77 (30.68%) Business Development
6 77 (30.68%) Problem-Solving
7 71 (28.29%) People Management
8 67 (26.69%) Performance Management
8 67 (26.69%) Service Management
9 59 (23.51%) Risk Management
10 35 (13.94%) Quality Management
11 16 (6.37%) Analytics
11 16 (6.37%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (5.98%) Innovative Thinking
13 13 (5.18%) Decision-Making
14 12 (4.78%) Content Development
15 10 (3.98%) Asset Management
16 9 (3.59%) Capital Modelling
17 8 (3.19%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 11 (4.38%) Python
2 8 (3.19%) SQL
3 4 (1.59%) R
4 1 (0.40%) Java
4 1 (0.40%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 181 (72.11%) ACCA
2 9 (3.59%) Degree
2 9 (3.59%) ICAEW
3 1 (0.40%) CIMA
3 1 (0.40%) CISA
3 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (70.52%) GAAP
2 37 (14.74%) IFRS 9
3 18 (7.17%) IFRS 17
4 10 (3.98%) QA
5 8 (3.19%) Solvency II
6 5 (1.99%) Basel III
7 4 (1.59%) CRD IV
7 4 (1.59%) GDPR
8 3 (1.20%) Basel II
8 3 (1.20%) Dodd-Frank
8 3 (1.20%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.40%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (0.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.40%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.40%) Terraform
Vendors
1 70 (27.89%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.40%) SAP