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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 555 - 661
Rank change year-on-year - - +189
DemandTrendContract jobs citing UCITS 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% - 0.004%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.054% - 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £629
25th Percentile £413 - £645
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £694
Median % change year-on-year - - +46.05%
75th Percentile £438 - £745
90th Percentile - - £763
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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,577 5,235 7,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.99% 13.45% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,574 3,219 4,891
10th Percentile £285 £290 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.19% -2.63% -
75th Percentile £611 £625 £650
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 311 239
10th Percentile £13.60 £11.07 £14.02
25th Percentile £17.24 £14.42 £18.50
Median hourly rate £28.59 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.36% -28.57% +47.37%
75th Percentile £62.24 £55.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £85.60 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £25.00 £34.75
% change year-on-year +0.60% -28.06% +65.48%

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
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing UCITS

UCITS
Top 1 DemandTrendContract 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 21 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Work from Home - 3 £425 -

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 (33.33%) FIS Private Capital Suite
1 1 (33.33%) MultiFonds
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Service Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Hedge funds
2 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Business Case
2 2 (66.67%) Investment Management
2 2 (66.67%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) Anti-Money Laundering
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Fund Accounting
3 1 (33.33%) KYC
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) AIFMD
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) MiFID
2 1 (33.33%) FATCA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) eFront