Fund Accounting Contracts

Fund Accounting
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Fund Accounting skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fund Accounting over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 565 701
Rank change year-on-year +58 +136 +107
Contract jobs citing Fund Accounting 13 17 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.039% 0.028%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.049% 0.045% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 12
10th Percentile £413 £523 £162
25th Percentile £531 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% +4.55% -21.43%
75th Percentile £738 £726 £686
90th Percentile £925 £805 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £600 £125
% change year-on-year -4.17% +380.00% -74.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Fund Accounting falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Fund Accounting
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Fund Accounting in the UK

Fund Accounting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Fund Accounting in the UK

Fund Accounting
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fund Accounting over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fund Accounting in the UK

Fund Accounting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Fund Accounting in the UK

Fund Accounting
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fund Accounting within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +52 11 £675 +17.39% 16
London +35 10 £688 +19.57% 14
Work from Home +43 6 £775 +37.78% 7
UK excluding London +61 1 £575 -4.17% 5
South West - 1 £575 -

Fund Accounting
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:

Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (7.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Aladdin
2 1 (7.69%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (7.69%) PeopleSoft Financials
2 1 (7.69%) SAP CO
2 1 (7.69%) SAP FI
2 1 (7.69%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (7.69%) SAP FI-FM
2 1 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (7.69%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Power Platform
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Snowflake
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub
3 2 (15.38%) PowerApps
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Lucidchart
4 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Power BI
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 9 (69.23%) Finance
2 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
3 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (23.08%) Back Office
5 2 (15.38%) Financial Institution
5 2 (15.38%) Front Office
5 2 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (7.69%) Banking
6 1 (7.69%) General Ledger
6 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Analyst
2 6 (46.15%) Business Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Data Business Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Applications Support
4 2 (15.38%) Applications Support Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Support Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Data Manager
5 1 (7.69%) PeopleSoft Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
5 1 (7.69%) SAP Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Support Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Support
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Support Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Equities
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Pricing Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Agile
1 5 (38.46%) Asset Management
1 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (38.46%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (30.77%) Decision-Making
2 4 (30.77%) Investment Management
2 4 (30.77%) Portfolio Management
2 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (30.77%) User Stories
3 3 (23.08%) Data Analysis
3 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Project Management
3 3 (23.08%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (15.38%) Business Analysis
4 2 (15.38%) Data Management
4 2 (15.38%) Migration
4 2 (15.38%) Robotic Process Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) PeopleCode
2 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) CFA
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.69%) GAAP
1 1 (7.69%) MiFID
1 1 (7.69%) QA
1 1 (7.69%) UCITS
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) eFront
1 2 (15.38%) Salesforce
1 2 (15.38%) SimCorp
1 2 (15.38%) UiPath
2 1 (7.69%) Advent
2 1 (7.69%) Bloomberg
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) PeopleSoft
2 1 (7.69%) SAP