Fund Management Contract Job Trends

Fund Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Fund Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 513 580
Rank change year-on-year -63 +67 +174
Contract jobs citing Fund Management 5 7 17
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.022% 0.040%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% 0.025% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 14
10th Percentile £545 £580 £500
25th Percentile £575 £606 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £613 £638
Median % change year-on-year +4.08% -3.92% -16.67%
75th Percentile £713 £738 £700
90th Percentile £750 £745 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Fund Management 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 32,128 27,808 37,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.80% 88.68% 87.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,262 16,883 24,972
10th Percentile £304 £306 £304
25th Percentile £406 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £720 £743 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,977 884 1,589
10th Percentile £14.52 £15.62 £14.17
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £18.16
Median hourly rate £25.15 £31.69 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.64% -21.75% +15.71%
75th Percentile £56.00 £61.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.39 £74.66 £76.62
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -20.58% -31.43% +51.38%

Fund Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Fund Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Fund Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Fund Management
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Fund Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Fund Management

Fund Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fund Management over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Fund Management in the UK

Fund Management
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Fund Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Fund Management

Fund Management
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fund Management within the UK over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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 -72 5 £638 +4.08% 2
London -36 4 £638 +4.08%
Work from Home -7 1 £525 - 2
UK excluding London - 1 - - 2
South East - 1 - - 2

Fund Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Administration Assistant
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Charles River Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Charles River Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Assistant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ADO
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
1 1 (20.00%) Swagger
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Agile
1 1 (20.00%) AI
1 1 (20.00%) Analytics
1 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (20.00%) B2B
1 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (20.00%) DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Investment Management
1 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (20.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (20.00%) Time Management
1 1 (20.00%) Use Case
1 1 (20.00%) User Stories
1 1 (20.00%) Validation
1 1 (20.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Charles River
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) NetApp
1 1 (20.00%) VMware