Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for FATCA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited FATCA over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 - 838
Rank change year-on-year - - -133
Contract jobs citing FATCA 2 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% - 0.007%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.033% - 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £509 - -
25th Percentile £559 - £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.50%
75th Percentile £759 - £618
90th Percentile £806 - £877
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £310
% change year-on-year - - -51.56%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

FATCA 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 6,035 7,620 11,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.17% 13.38% 13.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,836 5,206 7,963
10th Percentile £281 £281 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £743 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £480 £450
% change year-on-year +0.73% +6.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 381 239 306
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.29 £12.02
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.73 £16.31
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +12.90% +47.62%
75th Percentile £45.00 £61.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £77.50 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.27 £31.27 £22.29
% change year-on-year -41.57% +40.29% +6.14%

FATCA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for FATCA in the UK

FATCA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for FATCA in the UK

FATCA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FATCA over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for FATCA in the UK

FATCA
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FATCA within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
London - 2 £663 - 4
England - 2 £663 - 5
Work from Home - 2 £663 - 1

FATCA
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Asset Management Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Data Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) ETL Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Perl Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Report Developer
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hedge funds
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Data Extraction
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Investment Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) EMIR
1 1 (50.00%) MiFID
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Sybase