UCITS Contracts

Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities Directives (UCITS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring UCITS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited UCITS 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 519 - 717
Rank change year-on-year - - +133
Contract jobs citing UCITS 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% - 0.002%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.022% - 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +57.89%
75th Percentile - - £775
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

UCITS falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 4,564 6,247 7,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.59% 14.34% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,922 3,954 5,483
10th Percentile £265 £296 £275
25th Percentile £400 £403 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 382 225
10th Percentile £18.04 £10.95 £13.21
25th Percentile £22.21 £13.18 £18.70
Median hourly rate £34.50 £20.80 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.85% -44.53% +33.93%
75th Percentile £65.00 £45.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £83.01 £67.14 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.78 £18.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year +126.53% -50.34% +72.21%

UCITS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for UCITS in the UK

UCITS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for UCITS in the UK

UCITS
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UCITS 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
London - 1 £500 - 3
England - 1 £500 - 3

UCITS
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Fund Accounting Business Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Economics
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Fund Accounting
1 1 (100.00%) Portfolio Management
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CFA
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) MiFID
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Advent
1 1 (100.00%) Bloomberg
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) SimCorp