Hedge funds Contract Job Trends in London

Hedge fund
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hedge funds in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hedge funds over the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 139 179
Rank change year-on-year -139 +40 +66
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 104 255 241
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.70% 1.88% 1.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.87% 5.49% 3.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 217 218
10th Percentile £400 £575 £500
25th Percentile £463 £638 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year -8.62% +3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £825 £938 £822
90th Percentile £1,000 - £941
England median daily rate £673 £725 £700
% change year-on-year -7.24% +3.57% +16.67%

All Generic Skills
London

Hedge funds falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,574 4,647 6,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.76% 34.21% 32.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,622 2,915 4,344
10th Percentile £343 £325 £300
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £800 £838 £813
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 59 176
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.06 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £25.57 £19.34
Median hourly rate £27.71 £39.00 £28.88
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +35.06% -14.62%
75th Percentile £53.13 £62.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £73.00 £81.24 £65.88
England median hourly rate £31.51 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -15.99% +15.38% +44.54%

Hedge funds
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Hedge funds relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Hedge funds job vacancy trend in London

Hedge funds
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Hedge funds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Hedge funds

Hedge funds
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hedge funds in London over the 6 months to 3 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Hedge funds in London

Hedge funds
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Hedge funds.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Hedge funds

Hedge funds
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 3 February 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
Central London -5 12 £530 +3.41% 39
Hedge funds
England

Hedge funds
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (11.54%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (7.69%) Apache
3 7 (6.73%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.92%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.96%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.96%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.96%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 41 (39.42%) AWS
2 14 (13.46%) Azure
3 10 (9.62%) Snowflake
4 8 (7.69%) dbt
5 7 (6.73%) GCP
6 4 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.88%) GitHub
7 3 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.88%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.92%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.96%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.96%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.96%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.96%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.73%) WebEx
2 1 (0.96%) DHCP
2 1 (0.96%) DNS
2 1 (0.96%) IP Telephony
2 1 (0.96%) Network Security
2 1 (0.96%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.96%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.65%) Amazon Athena
2 8 (7.69%) Apache Arrow
2 8 (7.69%) Apache Iceberg
2 8 (7.69%) Apache Ignite
2 8 (7.69%) Data Lake
2 8 (7.69%) Dremio
3 6 (5.77%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.88%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.88%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.88%) Power BI
5 2 (1.92%) Big Data
5 2 (1.92%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.92%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.96%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (13.46%) Git
2 5 (4.81%) GitLab
3 3 (2.88%) JIRA
3 3 (2.88%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.96%) Oracle Forms
General
1 79 (75.96%) Finance
2 41 (39.42%) Banking
3 31 (29.81%) Front Office
3 31 (29.81%) Investment Banking
4 28 (26.92%) Social Skills
5 22 (21.15%) Financial Institution
6 8 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.88%) Advertising
8 2 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.96%) Back Office
9 1 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.96%) Law
9 1 (0.96%) Legal
9 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (30.77%) Developer
2 24 (23.08%) Python Engineer
3 22 (21.15%) AWS Engineer
3 22 (21.15%) Python Developer
4 16 (15.38%) Senior
5 9 (8.65%) Automation Engineer
5 9 (8.65%) AWS Developer
5 9 (8.65%) IP Network Engineer
5 9 (8.65%) JavaScript Developer
5 9 (8.65%) Network Engineer
5 9 (8.65%) RAD Developer
5 9 (8.65%) Switch Engineer
6 8 (7.69%) AWS Software Engineer
6 8 (7.69%) Java Engineer
6 8 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
6 8 (7.69%) Python Software Engineer
6 8 (7.69%) Software Engineer
7 7 (6.73%) Senior Java Engineer
7 7 (6.73%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 7 (6.73%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (27.88%) NumPy
2 28 (26.92%) Pandas
3 19 (18.27%) SciPy
4 14 (13.46%) REST
5 12 (11.54%) AngularJS
5 12 (11.54%) React
6 9 (8.65%) COM
6 9 (8.65%) FastAPI
6 9 (8.65%) Flask
6 9 (8.65%) Polars
6 9 (8.65%) Vue
7 8 (7.69%) gRPC
7 8 (7.69%) Protocol Buffers
8 6 (5.77%) Dask
9 5 (4.81%) .NET
10 4 (3.85%) Kafka
10 4 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (3.85%) Web Services
11 3 (2.88%) Node.js
11 3 (2.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 34 (32.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 25 (24.04%) Equities
3 17 (16.35%) Derivative
4 15 (14.42%) Fixed Income
5 8 (7.69%) Pricing Data
6 7 (6.73%) Cloud Native
7 6 (5.77%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (3.85%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.88%) Data Fabric
10 2 (1.92%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.92%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.92%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.96%) Blackberry
11 1 (0.96%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.96%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.96%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.96%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 22 (21.15%) Linux
2 14 (13.46%) Windows
3 6 (5.77%) Unix
3 6 (5.77%) Windows 10
4 5 (4.81%) CentOS
5 4 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.88%) Mac OS
6 3 (2.88%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.92%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 21 (20.19%) CI/CD
2 21 (20.19%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (19.23%) Mathematics
4 18 (17.31%) Agile
5 17 (16.35%) Analytics
5 17 (16.35%) Risk Management
6 13 (12.50%) Data Analysis
7 11 (10.58%) Clean Code
7 11 (10.58%) Data Engineering
8 10 (9.62%) Data Pipeline
8 10 (9.62%) Systematic Trading
9 9 (8.65%) AI
9 9 (8.65%) Asset Management
9 9 (8.65%) Computer Science
9 9 (8.65%) DevOps
9 9 (8.65%) Physics
9 9 (8.65%) Prototyping
9 9 (8.65%) Rapid Prototyping
9 9 (8.65%) Structured Programming
Programming Languages
1 67 (64.42%) Python
2 26 (25.00%) SQL
3 25 (24.04%) Java
4 20 (19.23%) JavaScript
5 16 (15.38%) C#
6 12 (11.54%) PowerShell
7 11 (10.58%) C++
8 10 (9.62%) VBA
9 9 (8.65%) Rust
10 8 (7.69%) TypeScript
11 4 (3.85%) Bash
11 4 (3.85%) Perl
11 4 (3.85%) Shell Script
12 3 (2.88%) C
13 1 (0.96%) Groovy
13 1 (0.96%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (11.54%) Degree
2 10 (9.62%) Master's Degree
3 6 (5.77%) PhD
4 3 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.92%) RHCE
5 2 (1.92%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.85%) MiFID
2 3 (2.88%) GRC
2 3 (2.88%) QA
3 2 (1.92%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.92%) Dodd-Frank
3 2 (1.92%) EMIR
3 2 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.96%) GDPR
4 1 (0.96%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.96%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.96%) NIST
4 1 (0.96%) PMO
4 1 (0.96%) Solvency II
System Software
1 17 (16.35%) Docker
2 8 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.88%) VMware Workstation
4 2 (1.92%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.92%) KVM
5 1 (0.96%) Firmware
5 1 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.96%) vSphere
5 1 (0.96%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 13 (12.50%) Ansible
2 12 (11.54%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.77%) SCCM
4 5 (4.81%) Terraform
5 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.92%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.92%) Puppet
5 2 (1.92%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.96%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 10 (9.62%) Oracle
1 10 (9.62%) VMware
2 9 (8.65%) Arista
3 7 (6.73%) Citrix
3 7 (6.73%) Red Hat
4 5 (4.81%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.85%) Reuters
6 3 (2.88%) GoldenSource
7 2 (1.92%) Dataiku
7 2 (1.92%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.96%) Altiris
8 1 (0.96%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.96%) Apple
8 1 (0.96%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.96%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.96%) Cisco
8 1 (0.96%) Google
8 1 (0.96%) Portware
8 1 (0.96%) Vertica