Due Diligence
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Due Diligence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Due Diligence over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 592 797
Rank change year-on-year +17 +205 -78
Permanent jobs citing Due Diligence 330 427 485
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.43% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.45% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 199 194 260
10th Percentile £31,114 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £38,625 £53,875 £52,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.05%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,438 £90,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% -4.17% +9.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Due Diligence is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Due Diligence
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Due Diligence in the UK

Due Diligence
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Due Diligence.

Salary trend for Due Diligence in the UK

Due Diligence
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Due Diligence over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Due Diligence in the UK

Due Diligence
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Due Diligence within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +30 297 £65,000 - 312
UK excluding London -59 158 £47,500 -17.39% 118
London +69 151 £80,000 +19.40% 213
Work from Home +45 114 £56,650 -12.85% 84
South East -7 58 £41,250 -28.26% 44
North of England +31 42 £60,000 -14.29% 34
North West +2 26 £58,750 -16.07% 16
Midlands -12 25 £37,000 -26.00% 16
East Midlands -11 13 £53,250 -29.00% 5
West Midlands +1 12 £32,882 -34.24% 11
East of England +8 11 - - 9
Yorkshire +67 9 £66,500 +2.31% 16
South West -19 9 £28,326 -50.74% 9
North East - 7 £90,000 - 2
Scotland -99 6 £50,000 - 8
Channel Islands - 5 - -
Wales - 1 £35,000 - 1
Isle of Man - 1 - -

Due Diligence
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 9 (2.73%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.21%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (0.61%) CMS
4 1 (0.30%) Confluence
4 1 (0.30%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 43 (13.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.12%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.61%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.30%) MicroStation
6 1 (0.30%) ProjectWise
6 1 (0.30%) Revit
Business Applications
1 8 (2.42%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.30%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 20 (6.06%) Azure
2 19 (5.76%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (5.45%) Power Platform
4 13 (3.94%) SaaS
5 7 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (1.82%) AWS
6 6 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (1.21%) GCP
8 3 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.61%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.30%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.30%) IaaS
10 1 (0.30%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.27%) 5G
1 24 (7.27%) Broadband
2 7 (2.12%) Firewall
3 5 (1.52%) Network Security
4 4 (1.21%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.21%) VPN
4 4 (1.21%) WAN
4 4 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.91%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.61%) DHCP
6 2 (0.61%) DNS
6 2 (0.61%) Extranet
6 2 (0.61%) Internet
6 2 (0.61%) Intranet
6 2 (0.61%) LAN
6 2 (0.61%) VLAN
6 2 (0.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.24%) Power BI
2 7 (2.12%) Spotfire
2 7 (2.12%) Tableau
3 4 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.21%) PowerPivot
4 3 (0.91%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.30%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.30%) MySQL
5 1 (0.30%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.30%) Power Query
5 1 (0.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (2.12%) RStudio
2 3 (0.91%) JIRA
3 1 (0.30%) Git
3 1 (0.30%) QADirector
General
1 200 (60.61%) Finance
2 145 (43.94%) Social Skills
3 70 (21.21%) Legal
4 61 (18.48%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (14.24%) Marketing
6 44 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 41 (12.42%) Law
8 23 (6.97%) Pharmaceutical
9 19 (5.76%) Banking
10 18 (5.45%) Retail
11 16 (4.85%) Aerospace
12 14 (4.24%) Manufacturing
12 14 (4.24%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (4.24%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (3.33%) Automotive
14 8 (2.42%) Aviation
14 8 (2.42%) Back Office
14 8 (2.42%) Investment Banking
15 6 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (1.21%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 46 (13.94%) Analyst
2 32 (9.70%) Senior
3 22 (6.67%) Project Manager
4 18 (5.45%) Consultant
5 17 (5.15%) IT Manager
6 16 (4.85%) Development Manager
7 14 (4.24%) Architect
7 14 (4.24%) Senior Manager
8 13 (3.94%) Business Development Manager
8 13 (3.94%) Business Manager
8 13 (3.94%) Security Manager
9 12 (3.64%) IT Security Manager
10 11 (3.33%) Management Consultant
10 11 (3.33%) Security Analyst
10 11 (3.33%) Transformation Consultant
11 10 (3.03%) Data Manager
12 9 (2.73%) Administrator
12 9 (2.73%) Finance Manager
12 9 (2.73%) Finance Project Manager
12 9 (2.73%) QA Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.91%) .NET
2 2 (0.61%) HTML
2 2 (0.61%) RESTful
2 2 (0.61%) XML
3 1 (0.30%) ADO
3 1 (0.30%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.30%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (0.30%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (0.30%) CSS
3 1 (0.30%) JSP
3 1 (0.30%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (0.30%) React
3 1 (0.30%) Servlets
3 1 (0.30%) SOAP
3 1 (0.30%) Web Services
3 1 (0.30%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.39%) Onboarding
2 24 (7.27%) PMI
3 20 (6.06%) Management Information System
4 18 (5.45%) Life Science
5 11 (3.33%) FMCG
5 11 (3.33%) Security Posture
6 10 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (3.03%) Biopharmaceutical
6 10 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (2.73%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.12%) IoT
9 6 (1.82%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.82%) Educational Technology
10 5 (1.52%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.91%) Marketing Technology
13 2 (0.61%) Culture of Ownership
13 2 (0.61%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.52%) Windows
2 2 (0.61%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.30%) AIX
3 1 (0.30%) Linux
3 1 (0.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (20.91%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (17.88%) Risk Management
3 56 (16.97%) Project Management
4 49 (14.85%) Stakeholder Management
5 45 (13.64%) Roadmaps
6 44 (13.33%) Mentoring
7 42 (12.73%) Information Security
8 36 (10.91%) Analytics
9 35 (10.61%) Agile
10 34 (10.30%) Collaborative Working
11 33 (10.00%) Market Research
12 32 (9.70%) Competitive Intelligence
13 29 (8.79%) Anti-Money Laundering
13 29 (8.79%) Regulatory Change
14 28 (8.48%) Collaborative Culture
14 28 (8.48%) Matrix Organization
15 26 (7.88%) Knowledge Transfer
15 26 (7.88%) Strategic Roadmap
15 26 (7.88%) Value Proposition
16 25 (7.58%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 9 (2.73%) Python
2 4 (1.21%) R
3 3 (0.91%) SQL
4 2 (0.61%) C#
4 2 (0.61%) Java
4 2 (0.61%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.30%) Bash
5 1 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 95 (28.79%) Degree
2 49 (14.85%) Master's Degree
3 34 (10.30%) MBA
4 24 (7.27%) ACCA
4 24 (7.27%) PMI Certification
5 21 (6.36%) CISSP
5 21 (6.36%) DBS Check
6 19 (5.76%) CIMA
7 11 (3.33%) CFA
8 10 (3.03%) PhD
9 8 (2.42%) CISM
10 6 (1.82%) CISA
11 5 (1.52%) ISACA
12 3 (0.91%) CRISC
13 2 (0.61%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.61%) CCNA
13 2 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.61%) GIAC
13 2 (0.61%) Security Cleared
14 1 (0.30%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (11.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (9.70%) QA
3 27 (8.18%) NIST
4 20 (6.06%) GDPR
5 19 (5.76%) GRC
6 9 (2.73%) PCI DSS
7 8 (2.42%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (2.42%) Data Quality
7 8 (2.42%) GAAP
7 8 (2.42%) GMP
8 7 (2.12%) ISO 9001
9 4 (1.21%) SLA
10 3 (0.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.91%) ITGC
10 3 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.30%) COBIT
11 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
System Software
1 4 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.61%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.61%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 57 (17.27%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.27%) Virgin Media
3 8 (2.42%) QAD
4 7 (2.12%) Alteryx
5 6 (1.82%) IBM
6 5 (1.52%) SAP
7 4 (1.21%) Ariba
7 4 (1.21%) Cisco
7 4 (1.21%) HP
7 4 (1.21%) VMware
8 2 (0.61%) Apple
8 2 (0.61%) Cadence
8 2 (0.61%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.61%) Google
8 2 (0.61%) NetApp
8 2 (0.61%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.61%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.30%) CA
9 1 (0.30%) Fiserv
9 1 (0.30%) ServiceNow