International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for IFRS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IFRS over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 528 677 687
Rank change year-on-year +149 +10 -94
Contract jobs citing IFRS 63 41 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.069% 0.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.02% 0.52% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 23 118
10th Percentile £475 £426 £475
25th Percentile £513 £513 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile - £725 £725
90th Percentile £700 £775 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £588 £473 £613
% change year-on-year +24.34% -22.86% +18.07%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

IFRS is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,171 7,924 11,796
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.30% 13.40% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,916 5,449 8,078
10th Percentile £297 £280 £299
25th Percentile £403 £411 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £623
90th Percentile £750 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £479 £450
% change year-on-year +1.77% +6.44% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 384 235 300
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.29 £12.02
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.60 £16.50
Median hourly rate £20.80 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.56% +27.27% +30.95%
75th Percentile £45.00 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.50 £77.50 £67.04
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £33.39 £21.05
% change year-on-year -46.08% +58.60% +0.12%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IFRS.

Daily rate trend for IFRS in the UK

IFRS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IFRS over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IFRS in the UK

IFRS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IFRS.

Hourly rate trend for IFRS in the UK

IFRS
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IFRS within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +135 60 £600 -7.69% 102
UK excluding London +89 31 £588 +24.34% 48
London +98 27 £589 -15.93% 57
Work from Home +144 26 £600 +9.09% 36
South East +44 24 £600 +72.66% 17
Scotland +41 2 £415 -27.83% 4
Midlands +29 2 £650 - 5
East of England - 2 £550 - 4
West Midlands +24 1 - - 3
Yorkshire - 1 £525 - 3
East Midlands - 1 £650 - 2
North of England - 1 £525 - 13

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 8 (12.70%) SAS
2 2 (3.17%) Confluence
3 1 (1.59%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) SAP SD
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.59%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.59%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.59%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.59%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.59%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 5 (7.94%) Azure
2 3 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (4.76%) Snowflake
3 1 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (1.59%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.59%) AWS
3 1 (1.59%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (1.59%) GCP
3 1 (1.59%) Google Workspace
3 1 (1.59%) OCI
3 1 (1.59%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.59%) SaaS
3 1 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (6.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 4 (6.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (4.76%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.17%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.59%) Data Mart
5 1 (1.59%) Power BI
5 1 (1.59%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.59%) SAP BW
5 1 (1.59%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Eclipse
2 2 (3.17%) JIRA
3 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 54 (85.71%) Finance
2 9 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.70%) Banking
4 5 (7.94%) Retail
5 4 (6.35%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (6.35%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.76%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.17%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.17%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.59%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.59%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (25.40%) Analyst
2 10 (15.87%) Consultant
2 10 (15.87%) Financial Analyst
2 10 (15.87%) SAP Consultant
3 7 (11.11%) Data Modeller
3 7 (11.11%) Finance Manager
4 6 (9.52%) Project Manager
5 5 (7.94%) Developer
6 4 (6.35%) Finance Project Manager
7 3 (4.76%) Data Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Functional Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) Report Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) SAS Modeller
8 2 (3.17%) Architect
8 2 (3.17%) Business Analyst
8 2 (3.17%) Credit Risk Modeller
8 2 (3.17%) SAS Developer
8 2 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.59%) IT Manager
9 1 (1.59%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.59%) JSON
1 1 (1.59%) Middleware
1 1 (1.59%) XML
1 1 (1.59%) XML Messaging
1 1 (1.59%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.87%) Credit Risk
2 5 (7.94%) Derivative
2 5 (7.94%) Equities
3 3 (4.76%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.59%) Clustering
4 1 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.59%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (20.63%) Analytics
1 13 (20.63%) Data Modelling
2 10 (15.87%) Revenue Recognition
3 9 (14.29%) Stress Testing
4 8 (12.70%) Data Analysis
5 7 (11.11%) Project Management
5 7 (11.11%) Risk Management
6 6 (9.52%) Portfolio Management
7 5 (7.94%) ERP
7 5 (7.94%) Migration
7 5 (7.94%) Requirements Workshops
7 5 (7.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (7.94%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (7.94%) Validation
8 4 (6.35%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (6.35%) ETL
8 4 (6.35%) SDLC
9 3 (4.76%) Data Cleansing
9 3 (4.76%) Data Governance
9 3 (4.76%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 12 (19.05%) SQL
2 2 (3.17%) Java
2 2 (3.17%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.59%) Python
3 1 (1.59%) XPath
Qualifications
1 9 (14.29%) ACCA
1 9 (14.29%) ICAEW
2 6 (9.52%) CIMA
3 2 (3.17%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.17%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.59%) CCA
4 1 (1.59%) Degree
4 1 (1.59%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.59%) OCP
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.59%) SAP Certification
4 1 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (23.81%) IFRS 9
2 12 (19.05%) IFRS 17
3 9 (14.29%) GAAP
4 7 (11.11%) Solvency II
5 5 (7.94%) Basel III
5 5 (7.94%) QA
6 3 (4.76%) Data Quality
7 2 (3.17%) COREP
7 2 (3.17%) Dodd-Frank
7 2 (3.17%) FINREP
8 1 (1.59%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (1.59%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (1.59%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 11 (17.46%) SAP
2 3 (4.76%) Guidewire
3 2 (3.17%) Google
3 2 (3.17%) Oracle
3 2 (3.17%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.17%) Workday
4 1 (1.59%) IBM
4 1 (1.59%) Xero