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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 289 197
Rank change year-on-year +196 -92 +40
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 455 198 584
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.58% 0.78% 1.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.76% 2.18% 4.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 168 459
10th Percentile £538 £450 £438
25th Percentile £622 £525 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £850 £766 £750
90th Percentile £888 £850 £850
England median daily rate £750 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +25.00% -7.69% +8.33%

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 5,864 9,092 14,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.23% 35.98% 36.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,129 6,602 10,387
10th Percentile £315 £374 £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 £719
90th Percentile £850 £838 £806
England median daily rate £550 £568 £550
% change year-on-year -3.08% +3.18% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 106 203
10th Percentile £15.46 £17.88 £17.21
25th Percentile £19.40 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.42 £33.66 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.53% -20.81% +21.43%
75th Percentile £50.63 £58.44 £51.75
90th Percentile £71.25 £84.38 £68.63
England median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +3.92%

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

Hedge funds
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 7 June 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 7 June 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 +42 24 £650 -7.14% 13
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
1 209 (45.93%) Apache Airflow
2 196 (43.08%) Apache
3 9 (1.98%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.22%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 21 (4.62%) Aladdin
2 7 (1.54%) SimCorp Dimension
3 3 (0.66%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.44%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.22%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 311 (68.35%) AWS
2 167 (36.70%) GCP
3 152 (33.41%) dbt
4 134 (29.45%) Snowflake
5 118 (25.93%) Azure
6 15 (3.30%) Power Platform
7 6 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (1.32%) Entra ID
7 6 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (0.88%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (0.88%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (0.66%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (0.44%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.44%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.22%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.22%) Figma
11 1 (0.22%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.32%) Cisco Nexus
1 6 (1.32%) Firewall
1 6 (1.32%) Internet
1 6 (1.32%) VPN
1 6 (1.32%) Wireless
2 1 (0.22%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.22%) FTP
2 1 (0.22%) Skype
2 1 (0.22%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (41.32%) Apache Ignite
2 152 (33.41%) Apache Arrow
2 152 (33.41%) Dremio
3 144 (31.65%) Amazon Athena
4 143 (31.43%) Data Lake
5 70 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
6 36 (7.91%) Big Data
7 22 (4.84%) SQL Server
8 15 (3.30%) Power BI
8 15 (3.30%) Tableau
9 10 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (1.54%) Crystal Reports
10 7 (1.54%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (0.44%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.44%) MySQL
15 1 (0.22%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 47 (10.33%) Cypress.io
2 10 (2.20%) JIRA
3 6 (1.32%) Git
3 6 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (0.66%) GitLab
4 3 (0.66%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.66%) SpecFlow
4 3 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.44%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
General
1 394 (86.59%) Finance
2 320 (70.33%) Front Office
3 266 (58.46%) Banking
4 152 (33.41%) Investment Banking
5 32 (7.03%) Social Skills
6 29 (6.37%) Back Office
7 25 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
8 19 (4.18%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.32%) Retail
10 3 (0.66%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.44%) Law
11 2 (0.44%) Prime Brokerage
11 2 (0.44%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.22%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 199 (43.74%) Developer
2 159 (34.95%) Software Engineer
3 119 (26.15%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 112 (24.62%) Python Engineer
5 110 (24.18%) Python Software Engineer
6 100 (21.98%) Python Developer
7 70 (15.38%) Analyst
7 70 (15.38%) React Developer
7 70 (15.38%) Senior
8 62 (13.63%) AWS Engineer
9 54 (11.87%) Lead
10 53 (11.65%) Finance Manager
11 51 (11.21%) Java Engineer
12 48 (10.55%) Financial Analyst
13 45 (9.89%) Java Software Engineer
14 43 (9.45%) Full Stack Developer
15 42 (9.23%) AWS Software Engineer
15 42 (9.23%) Senior Software Engineer
16 39 (8.57%) Business Analyst
17 35 (7.69%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (45.71%) gRPC
1 208 (45.71%) Protocol Buffers
2 126 (27.69%) Pandas
3 125 (27.47%) NumPy
4 124 (27.25%) SciPy
5 107 (23.52%) React
6 88 (19.34%) Redux
7 65 (14.29%) Material-UI
8 38 (8.35%) .NET
9 23 (5.05%) AngularJS
10 19 (4.18%) .NET Core
11 15 (3.30%) Kafka
12 11 (2.42%) CSS
12 11 (2.42%) HTML
13 8 (1.76%) ASP.NET
13 8 (1.76%) ASP.NET Core
14 7 (1.54%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (1.54%) SailPoint
14 7 (1.54%) Spark Streaming
15 6 (1.32%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 277 (60.88%) Fixed Income
2 243 (53.41%) Equities
3 237 (52.09%) Derivative
4 184 (40.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 43 (9.45%) Product Ownership
6 18 (3.96%) Clustering
7 16 (3.52%) Pricing Data
8 14 (3.08%) Algorithms
8 14 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.54%) Equity Derivative
10 6 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.32%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.88%) Credit Derivative
11 4 (0.88%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.66%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 1 (0.22%) Enterprise Software
14 1 (0.22%) Legacy Systems
14 1 (0.22%) Renewable Energy
14 1 (0.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.52%) Linux
2 15 (3.30%) Windows
3 7 (1.54%) Windows 10
4 6 (1.32%) Unix
4 6 (1.32%) Windows 7
5 5 (1.10%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.66%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.44%) CentOS
7 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (70.33%) Asset Management
2 293 (64.40%) Agile
3 276 (60.66%) Investment Management
4 230 (50.55%) Software Engineering
5 104 (22.86%) Full Stack Development
6 102 (22.42%) Artificial Intelligence
7 95 (20.88%) Machine Learning
8 67 (14.73%) Automated Trading
9 60 (13.19%) Line Management
10 54 (11.87%) DevOps
11 44 (9.67%) Analytics
12 40 (8.79%) Greeks
13 35 (7.69%) Mentoring
14 33 (7.25%) Fintech
15 28 (6.15%) TDD
16 27 (5.93%) Roadmaps
17 22 (4.84%) Business Intelligence
18 21 (4.62%) Portfolio Management
18 21 (4.62%) Product Management
18 21 (4.62%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 325 (71.43%) Python
2 211 (46.37%) TypeScript
3 174 (38.24%) JavaScript
4 169 (37.14%) Java
5 115 (25.27%) SQL
6 81 (17.80%) C#
7 27 (5.93%) C++
8 24 (5.27%) Scala
9 19 (4.18%) Go
10 15 (3.30%) R
11 13 (2.86%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.32%) Ruby
13 2 (0.44%) Bash
13 2 (0.44%) PHP
13 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.44%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.44%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.22%) Clojure
14 1 (0.22%) Perl
14 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (3.30%) Degree
2 7 (1.54%) Numerate Degree
3 6 (1.32%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (0.88%) CISSP
6 2 (0.44%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.44%) PMP
7 1 (0.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (9.89%) Data Quality
2 31 (6.81%) QA
3 8 (1.76%) MiFID
4 6 (1.32%) SLA
5 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.22%) EMIR
5 1 (0.22%) FATCA
5 1 (0.22%) GRC
System Software
1 10 (2.20%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (4.40%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.18%) Prometheus
2 19 (4.18%) Terraform
3 6 (1.32%) Ansible
3 6 (1.32%) Puppet
4 3 (0.66%) PingFederate
4 3 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.22%) Grafana
5 1 (0.22%) Nagios
Vendors
1 66 (14.51%) Google
2 37 (8.13%) Bloomberg
3 18 (3.96%) Microsoft
4 16 (3.52%) ServiceNow
5 12 (2.64%) BISAM
6 7 (1.54%) SimCorp
7 6 (1.32%) Cisco
7 6 (1.32%) F5
7 6 (1.32%) Fortinet
7 6 (1.32%) Juniper
7 6 (1.32%) Oracle
7 6 (1.32%) Palo Alto
7 6 (1.32%) Reuters
8 3 (0.66%) Altiris
8 3 (0.66%) CyberArk
8 3 (0.66%) ForgeRock
8 3 (0.66%) Okta
9 2 (0.44%) Avaloq
9 2 (0.44%) Charles River
9 2 (0.44%) Red Hat