Hedge funds Contracts in London

Hedge fund
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hedge funds in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Hedge funds over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 304 196
Rank change year-on-year +209 -108 +41
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 436 189 594
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.49% 0.73% 1.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.46% 2.02% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 161 462
10th Percentile £538 £450 £438
25th Percentile £600 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £850 £763 £750
90th Percentile £888 £850 £850
England median daily rate £738 £588 £625
% change year-on-year +25.53% -6.00% +4.17%

All Generic Skills
London

Hedge funds is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,841 9,345 14,187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.42% 35.92% 36.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,137 6,749 10,347
10th Percentile £313 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £713
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £571 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% +3.77% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 112 201
10th Percentile £15.49 £18.93 £17.99
25th Percentile £18.79 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -19.54% +33.85%
75th Percentile £50.25 £63.88 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.25 £84.88 £68.75
England median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +52.15% -15.15% +1.92%

Hedge funds
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Hedge funds as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Hedge funds in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hedge funds in London.

Daily rate trend for Hedge funds in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hedge funds in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Hedge funds in London

Hedge funds
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Hedge funds in London.

Hourly rate trend for Hedge funds in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hedge funds within the London region 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +48 27 £650 -8.77% 4
Hedge funds
England

Hedge funds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 183 (41.97%) Apache Airflow
2 163 (37.39%) Apache
3 8 (1.83%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.23%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 21 (4.82%) Aladdin
2 7 (1.61%) SimCorp Dimension
3 3 (0.69%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.46%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.23%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 278 (63.76%) AWS
2 159 (36.47%) GCP
3 121 (27.75%) Azure
4 119 (27.29%) dbt
5 109 (25.00%) Snowflake
6 9 (2.06%) Power Platform
7 8 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.15%) Entra ID
9 3 (0.69%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (0.46%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.23%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.23%) Figma
11 1 (0.23%) Sentry
11 1 (0.23%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.83%) VPN
2 7 (1.61%) Wireless
3 4 (0.92%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (0.92%) Firewall
3 4 (0.92%) Internet
4 1 (0.23%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.23%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.23%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.23%) FTP
4 1 (0.23%) Network Security
4 1 (0.23%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.23%) Skype
4 1 (0.23%) WAN
4 1 (0.23%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (36.93%) Apache Ignite
2 119 (27.29%) Apache Arrow
2 119 (27.29%) Dremio
3 117 (26.83%) Amazon Athena
4 110 (25.23%) Data Lake
5 70 (16.06%) PostgreSQL
6 29 (6.65%) Big Data
7 22 (5.05%) SQL Server
8 9 (2.06%) Power BI
8 9 (2.06%) Tableau
9 8 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (1.61%) Crystal Reports
11 6 (1.38%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (0.23%) Hadoop
14 1 (0.23%) MySQL
14 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 47 (10.78%) Cypress.io
2 10 (2.29%) JIRA
3 6 (1.38%) Git
4 4 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (0.92%) SpecFlow
5 3 (0.69%) GitLab
5 3 (0.69%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.46%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
General
1 369 (84.63%) Finance
2 299 (68.58%) Front Office
3 244 (55.96%) Banking
4 120 (27.52%) Investment Banking
5 41 (9.40%) Back Office
6 30 (6.88%) Social Skills
7 25 (5.73%) Analytical Skills
8 18 (4.13%) Financial Institution
9 4 (0.92%) Retail
10 3 (0.69%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.46%) Law
11 2 (0.46%) Prime Brokerage
11 2 (0.46%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.23%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.23%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 197 (45.18%) Developer
2 144 (33.03%) Software Engineer
3 115 (26.38%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 100 (22.94%) Python Engineer
5 98 (22.48%) Python Software Engineer
6 97 (22.25%) Python Developer
7 70 (16.06%) React Developer
8 69 (15.83%) Analyst
9 64 (14.68%) Senior
10 57 (13.07%) Finance Manager
11 48 (11.01%) AWS Engineer
12 47 (10.78%) Financial Analyst
13 45 (10.32%) Lead
14 42 (9.63%) Full Stack Developer
15 37 (8.49%) Java Engineer
16 36 (8.26%) Business Analyst
17 33 (7.57%) Full Stack Engineer
17 33 (7.57%) Full Stack Python Developer
17 33 (7.57%) Full Stack Software Engineer
17 33 (7.57%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (41.51%) gRPC
1 181 (41.51%) Protocol Buffers
2 108 (24.77%) React
3 98 (22.48%) Pandas
4 97 (22.25%) NumPy
5 96 (22.02%) SciPy
6 91 (20.87%) Redux
7 65 (14.91%) Material-UI
8 41 (9.40%) .NET
9 24 (5.50%) AngularJS
10 20 (4.59%) .NET Core
11 13 (2.98%) Kafka
12 12 (2.75%) HTML
13 11 (2.52%) CSS
14 10 (2.29%) ASP.NET
14 10 (2.29%) ASP.NET Core
15 7 (1.61%) SailPoint
15 7 (1.61%) Spark Streaming
15 7 (1.61%) Vue
16 6 (1.38%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 243 (55.73%) Fixed Income
2 222 (50.92%) Derivative
3 216 (49.54%) Equities
4 154 (35.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 34 (7.80%) Product Ownership
6 18 (4.13%) Clustering
7 15 (3.44%) Algorithms
7 15 (3.44%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (2.29%) Pricing Data
9 8 (1.83%) Equity Derivative
10 7 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.38%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.92%) Credit Derivative
12 4 (0.92%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.92%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.46%) Market Risk
13 2 (0.46%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Software
14 1 (0.23%) Legacy Systems
14 1 (0.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.44%) Windows
2 12 (2.75%) Linux
3 9 (2.06%) Windows 10
4 7 (1.61%) Windows 7
5 5 (1.15%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.92%) Unix
7 3 (0.69%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.23%) CentOS
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (69.27%) Asset Management
2 270 (61.93%) Investment Management
3 263 (60.32%) Agile
4 207 (47.48%) Software Engineering
5 104 (23.85%) Full Stack Development
6 102 (23.39%) Artificial Intelligence
7 95 (21.79%) Machine Learning
8 67 (15.37%) Automated Trading
9 55 (12.61%) DevOps
10 48 (11.01%) Line Management
11 43 (9.86%) Mentoring
12 35 (8.03%) Fintech
13 33 (7.57%) Analytics
14 31 (7.11%) Greeks
15 30 (6.88%) TDD
16 25 (5.73%) Roadmaps
17 22 (5.05%) Business Intelligence
18 21 (4.82%) Scrum
19 20 (4.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 19 (4.36%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 298 (68.35%) Python
2 187 (42.89%) TypeScript
3 150 (34.40%) JavaScript
4 143 (32.80%) Java
5 113 (25.92%) SQL
6 99 (22.71%) C#
7 25 (5.73%) C++
8 24 (5.50%) Scala
9 19 (4.36%) Go
10 18 (4.13%) R
11 13 (2.98%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.38%) Ruby
13 2 (0.46%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.23%) F#
14 1 (0.23%) Groovy
14 1 (0.23%) Perl
14 1 (0.23%) PHP
14 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (3.44%) Degree
2 7 (1.61%) Numerate Degree
3 5 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (0.92%) AWS Certification
4 4 (0.92%) CISSP
5 2 (0.46%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.46%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (7.57%) Data Quality
1 33 (7.57%) QA
2 8 (1.83%) MiFID
3 7 (1.61%) SLA
4 1 (0.23%) EMIR
4 1 (0.23%) FATCA
4 1 (0.23%) GRC
System Software
1 10 (2.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (4.59%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.36%) Prometheus
2 19 (4.36%) Terraform
3 4 (0.92%) Ansible
3 4 (0.92%) Puppet
4 3 (0.69%) PingFederate
4 3 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.23%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.23%) Grafana
5 1 (0.23%) Nagios
5 1 (0.23%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 65 (14.91%) Google
2 34 (7.80%) Bloomberg
3 18 (4.13%) Microsoft
4 17 (3.90%) ServiceNow
5 12 (2.75%) BISAM
6 7 (1.61%) SimCorp
7 6 (1.38%) Oracle
8 5 (1.15%) Cisco
9 4 (0.92%) F5
9 4 (0.92%) Fortinet
9 4 (0.92%) Juniper
9 4 (0.92%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.69%) Altiris
10 3 (0.69%) CyberArk
10 3 (0.69%) ForgeRock
10 3 (0.69%) Okta
10 3 (0.69%) Reuters
11 2 (0.46%) Avaloq
11 2 (0.46%) Charles River
11 2 (0.46%) Splunk