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 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 11 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 82 289
Rank change year-on-year -71 +207 -99
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 246 491 210
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.82% 2.80% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.93% 8.37% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 458 181
10th Percentile £525 £538 £450
25th Percentile £588 £650 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £800 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +28.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £838 £875 £788
90th Percentile £875 £888 £863
England median daily rate £725 £800 £600
% change year-on-year -9.38% +33.33% -7.69%

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 4,988 5,863 9,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.87% 33.44% 35.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,282 4,102 6,604
10th Percentile £333 £315 £363
25th Percentile £446 £450 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £729 £738 £738
90th Percentile £838 £850 £838
England median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 130 98
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £18.65
25th Percentile £22.50 £19.34 £22.81
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.92 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.45% -20.23% -12.50%
75th Percentile £46.63 £49.88 £64.88
90th Percentile £64.48 £71.25 £85.99
England median hourly rate £32.89 £38.50 £31.28
% change year-on-year -14.57% +23.10% +18.02%

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

Hedge funds
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hedge funds in London over the 6 months to 11 July 2025.

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

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 11 July 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
Central London -4 18 £550 -15.38% 35
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 53 (21.54%) Apache
1 53 (21.54%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.81%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.41%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.41%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 40 (16.26%) Aladdin
2 21 (8.54%) thinkFolio
3 3 (1.22%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.41%) Eikon
4 1 (0.41%) Eze OMS
4 1 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 119 (48.37%) AWS
2 55 (22.36%) Snowflake
3 53 (21.54%) dbt
4 36 (14.63%) Azure
5 32 (13.01%) GCP
6 5 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (2.03%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (2.03%) Dagster
7 4 (1.63%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.22%) Serverless
9 2 (0.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (0.81%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (0.81%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (0.81%) SaaS
9 2 (0.81%) SAP Fieldglass
10 1 (0.41%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.41%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.41%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.44%) BGP
2 4 (1.63%) Firewall
2 4 (1.63%) HSRP
2 4 (1.63%) IGMP
2 4 (1.63%) Multicast
2 4 (1.63%) OSPF
2 4 (1.63%) VRRP
3 3 (1.22%) WAN
3 3 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.81%) HTTP
4 2 (0.81%) Network Security
4 2 (0.81%) SSL
5 1 (0.41%) DHCP
5 1 (0.41%) DNS
5 1 (0.41%) Modbus
5 1 (0.41%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.41%) VPN
5 1 (0.41%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (22.36%) Data Lake
2 53 (21.54%) Amazon Athena
2 53 (21.54%) Apache Arrow
2 53 (21.54%) Apache Iceberg
2 53 (21.54%) Dremio
3 37 (15.04%) Apache Ignite
4 7 (2.85%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.22%) Power BI
6 3 (1.22%) Tableau
7 2 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.41%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.41%) KDB
8 1 (0.41%) Kdb+
8 1 (0.41%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.41%) OLAP
8 1 (0.41%) OLTP
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle OLAP
8 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (10.16%) Git
2 5 (2.03%) GitLab
3 4 (1.63%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.63%) JIRA
3 4 (1.63%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.41%) ERwin
4 1 (0.41%) Qt Creator
General
1 207 (84.15%) Finance
2 146 (59.35%) Front Office
3 90 (36.59%) Banking
4 76 (30.89%) Investment Banking
5 36 (14.63%) Social Skills
6 19 (7.72%) Financial Institution
7 18 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.63%) Back Office
9 2 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.81%) Legal
9 2 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Advertising
10 1 (0.41%) Law
Job Titles
1 85 (34.55%) Developer
2 83 (33.74%) Software Engineer
3 62 (25.20%) AWS Engineer
4 54 (21.95%) Analyst
4 54 (21.95%) Python Engineer
5 53 (21.54%) AWS Software Engineer
6 46 (18.70%) Business Analyst
6 46 (18.70%) Senior
7 45 (18.29%) Java Engineer
7 45 (18.29%) Java Software Engineer
8 43 (17.48%) Business Manager
9 42 (17.07%) Python Software Engineer
10 41 (16.67%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
11 38 (15.45%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 36 (14.63%) Senior Software Engineer
13 35 (14.23%) Senior Java Engineer
13 35 (14.23%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 34 (13.82%) Python Developer
15 31 (12.60%) AWS Developer
16 26 (10.57%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (23.17%) NumPy
1 57 (23.17%) Pandas
2 54 (21.95%) SciPy
3 41 (16.67%) React
4 39 (15.85%) AngularJS
4 39 (15.85%) Vue
5 38 (15.45%) gRPC
6 37 (15.04%) Protocol Buffers
7 22 (8.94%) Redux
8 21 (8.54%) PySpark
9 18 (7.32%) Polars
10 17 (6.91%) FastAPI
10 17 (6.91%) Flask
11 8 (3.25%) .NET
12 6 (2.44%) .NET Core
13 4 (1.63%) Next.js
14 3 (1.22%) REST
15 2 (0.81%) .NET Framework
15 2 (0.81%) FIX Protocol
15 2 (0.81%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 142 (57.72%) Fixed Income
2 114 (46.34%) Derivative
3 108 (43.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 88 (35.77%) Equities
5 32 (13.01%) Pricing Data
6 23 (9.35%) Onboarding
7 15 (6.10%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (4.88%) Reference Data
9 11 (4.47%) Algorithms
10 10 (4.07%) Data Structures
11 5 (2.03%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.63%) Product Ownership
13 3 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
14 2 (0.81%) Cloud Native
14 2 (0.81%) Virtual Team
15 1 (0.41%) Distributed Applications
15 1 (0.41%) Distributed Computing
15 1 (0.41%) Hybrid Cloud
15 1 (0.41%) Operational Technology
15 1 (0.41%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (13.82%) Linux
2 5 (2.03%) Rocky
3 4 (1.63%) Windows
4 2 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.81%) VMS
4 2 (0.81%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (61.38%) Agile
2 123 (50.00%) Asset Management
3 118 (47.97%) Investment Management
4 113 (45.93%) Software Engineering
5 47 (19.11%) Analytics
6 44 (17.89%) Business Analysis
7 42 (17.07%) Business Intelligence
8 41 (16.67%) Portfolio Management
9 38 (15.45%) CI/CD
10 33 (13.41%) Data Management
10 33 (13.41%) Migration
11 27 (10.98%) Full-Stack Development
12 26 (10.57%) Fintech
13 24 (9.76%) Data Mapping
14 23 (9.35%) Roadmaps
15 22 (8.94%) TDD
16 21 (8.54%) User Acceptance Testing
17 20 (8.13%) Problem-Solving
17 20 (8.13%) Quantitative Research
18 19 (7.72%) Performance Attribution
Programming Languages
1 186 (75.61%) Python
2 81 (32.93%) Java
3 80 (32.52%) SQL
4 76 (30.89%) JavaScript
5 59 (23.98%) TypeScript
6 29 (11.79%) C++
7 27 (10.98%) C#
8 15 (6.10%) Rust
9 7 (2.85%) C
10 3 (1.22%) Bash
10 3 (1.22%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.81%) Go
11 2 (0.81%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (3.66%) Degree
2 8 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (3.25%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.81%) CCIE
3 2 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.41%) CAPM
4 1 (0.41%) CCNP
4 1 (0.41%) CISSP
4 1 (0.41%) ISEB
4 1 (0.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.47%) MiFID
2 3 (1.22%) EMIR
3 2 (0.81%) Dodd-Frank
3 2 (0.81%) HIPAA
3 2 (0.81%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.41%) GDPR
4 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.41%) NIST
4 1 (0.41%) QA
System Software
1 24 (9.76%) Docker
2 2 (0.81%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (9.35%) Kubernetes
2 22 (8.94%) Ansible
3 12 (4.88%) Terraform
4 6 (2.44%) Puppet
5 3 (1.22%) Consul
5 3 (1.22%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.81%) Packer
6 2 (0.81%) SCCM
7 1 (0.41%) Podman
Vendors
1 38 (15.45%) BISAM
2 22 (8.94%) Charles River
3 19 (7.72%) Calypso
3 19 (7.72%) SimCorp
4 15 (6.10%) Arista
5 7 (2.85%) Cisco
5 7 (2.85%) Microsoft
6 6 (2.44%) Oracle
7 4 (1.63%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.81%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.81%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.81%) DevExpress
8 2 (0.81%) Google
8 2 (0.81%) Meraki
8 2 (0.81%) Portware
8 2 (0.81%) SAP
8 2 (0.81%) Sun
9 1 (0.41%) Concur
9 1 (0.41%) Eze Software Group
9 1 (0.41%) Ping Identity