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 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 144 308
Rank change year-on-year +20 +164 -97
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 281 303 219
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.23% 1.68% 0.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.26% 5.15% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 284 180
10th Percentile £538 £500 £438
25th Percentile £638 £588 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +20.83% -
75th Percentile £928 £850 £788
90th Percentile £938 £888 £838
England median daily rate £750 £700 £588
% change year-on-year +7.14% +19.15% -2.08%

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 4,489 5,884 10,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.61% 32.59% 35.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,024 4,178 7,304
10th Percentile £325 £300 £380
25th Percentile £450 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +2.13%
75th Percentile £725 £713 £745
90th Percentile £850 £825 £838
England median daily rate £544 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.18% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 162 123
10th Percentile £16.02 £15.50 £18.45
25th Percentile £23.80 £18.83 £21.25
Median hourly rate £34.50 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -22.86% -21.35%
75th Percentile £53.75 £47.34 £64.00
90th Percentile £80.35 £64.95 £82.20
England median hourly rate £33.00 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +20.00% +22.22% -15.09%

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

Hedge funds
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hedge funds in London over the 6 months to 2 April 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

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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 2 April 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 -19 10 £531 -24.11% 17
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 37 (13.17%) Apache
1 37 (13.17%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (0.71%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.36%) Siemens NX
2 1 (0.36%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 24 (8.54%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.14%) thinkFolio
3 1 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 80 (28.47%) AWS
2 41 (14.59%) Snowflake
3 37 (13.17%) dbt
4 32 (11.39%) GCP
5 28 (9.96%) Azure
6 18 (6.41%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (6.05%) Amazon ECS
7 17 (6.05%) Amazon EKS
7 17 (6.05%) Dagster
8 3 (1.07%) Serverless
9 2 (0.71%) Azure AKS
9 2 (0.71%) Azure Functions
9 2 (0.71%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.36%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.36%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.36%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.36%) Collibra
10 1 (0.36%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.36%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.78%) BGP
1 5 (1.78%) Firewall
1 5 (1.78%) HSRP
1 5 (1.78%) IGMP
1 5 (1.78%) Multicast
1 5 (1.78%) OSPF
1 5 (1.78%) VRRP
2 1 (0.36%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (39.86%) Data Lake
2 37 (13.17%) Amazon Athena
2 37 (13.17%) Apache Arrow
2 37 (13.17%) Apache Iceberg
2 37 (13.17%) Dremio
3 21 (7.47%) Apache Ignite
4 6 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.42%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.71%) Power BI
6 2 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.36%) Big Data
7 1 (0.36%) DB2
7 1 (0.36%) KDB
7 1 (0.36%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.36%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.36%) OLAP
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle OLAP
7 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (4.98%) Git
2 8 (2.85%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.42%) GitLab
3 4 (1.42%) Terragrunt
4 2 (0.71%) JIRA
5 1 (0.36%) Ant
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Ivy
5 1 (0.36%) ERwin
5 1 (0.36%) Gradle
5 1 (0.36%) Maven
5 1 (0.36%) Qt Creator
5 1 (0.36%) TeamCity
General
1 239 (85.05%) Finance
2 200 (71.17%) Front Office
3 65 (23.13%) Banking
4 50 (17.79%) Investment Banking
5 19 (6.76%) Financial Institution
5 19 (6.76%) Social Skills
6 17 (6.05%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (2.85%) Back Office
8 3 (1.07%) Law
9 2 (0.71%) Legal
10 1 (0.36%) Advertising
10 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (24.91%) Developer
2 66 (23.49%) Analyst
3 54 (19.22%) Business Analyst
4 52 (18.51%) Software Engineer
5 43 (15.30%) Business Manager
6 41 (14.59%) AWS Engineer
7 37 (13.17%) AWS Software Engineer
7 37 (13.17%) Head of Finance
8 34 (12.10%) Lead
9 30 (10.68%) Product Manager
9 30 (10.68%) Senior
10 29 (10.32%) Python Engineer
11 27 (9.61%) Python Developer
12 26 (9.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 23 (8.19%) Java Engineer
13 23 (8.19%) Java Software Engineer
14 22 (7.83%) Data Governance Manager
14 22 (7.83%) Governance Manager
14 22 (7.83%) Product Analyst
14 22 (7.83%) Product Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (12.81%) PySpark
2 34 (12.10%) NumPy
2 34 (12.10%) Pandas
3 28 (9.96%) SciPy
4 22 (7.83%) gRPC
5 21 (7.47%) Protocol Buffers
6 18 (6.41%) AngularJS
6 18 (6.41%) React
7 17 (6.05%) Vue
8 10 (3.56%) Redux
9 8 (2.85%) Polars
10 7 (2.49%) FastAPI
10 7 (2.49%) Flask
11 4 (1.42%) Next.js
12 2 (0.71%) .NET
12 2 (0.71%) ARM Templates
13 1 (0.36%) DirectX
13 1 (0.36%) OAuth2
13 1 (0.36%) OpenGL
13 1 (0.36%) QML
Miscellaneous
1 190 (67.62%) Fixed Income
2 180 (64.06%) Derivative
3 160 (56.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 153 (54.45%) Equities
5 54 (19.22%) Product Ownership
6 15 (5.34%) Reference Data
7 11 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (3.20%) Onboarding
9 8 (2.85%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.49%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.42%) Pricing Data
13 3 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
14 2 (0.71%) Data Centre
14 2 (0.71%) Market Risk
14 2 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
14 2 (0.71%) Solar Panel
14 2 (0.71%) Virtual Team
15 1 (0.36%) Distributed Applications
15 1 (0.36%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.54%) Linux
2 22 (7.83%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.78%) Rocky
4 3 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.36%) Unix
5 1 (0.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (69.04%) Agile
2 159 (56.58%) Investment Management
3 119 (42.35%) Migration
4 116 (41.28%) Roadmaps
5 99 (35.23%) Asset Management
6 92 (32.74%) Data Governance
7 91 (32.38%) Regulatory Compliance
8 78 (27.76%) Data Management
9 70 (24.91%) Software Engineering
10 54 (19.22%) Analytics
11 43 (15.30%) Portfolio Management
12 30 (10.68%) CI/CD
13 28 (9.96%) Business Intelligence
14 26 (9.25%) Machine Learning
15 24 (8.54%) Artificial Intelligence
16 22 (7.83%) Order Management
17 21 (7.47%) Business Analysis
18 18 (6.41%) Front End Development
18 18 (6.41%) Quantitative Analysis
18 18 (6.41%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 132 (46.98%) Python
2 64 (22.78%) SQL
3 52 (18.51%) Java
4 39 (13.88%) JavaScript
5 32 (11.39%) TypeScript
6 18 (6.41%) C++
7 9 (3.20%) C#
8 8 (2.85%) C
9 5 (1.78%) Bash
9 5 (1.78%) Rust
10 3 (1.07%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.71%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.36%) Go
12 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (9.25%) Degree
2 6 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (2.14%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.71%) CCIE
3 2 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (0.71%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.36%) CAPM
4 1 (0.36%) CCNP
4 1 (0.36%) CISSP
4 1 (0.36%) ISEB
4 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.36%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.25%) MiFID
2 2 (0.71%) Dodd-Frank
2 2 (0.71%) EMIR
2 2 (0.71%) HIPAA
2 2 (0.71%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.71%) QA
3 1 (0.36%) GDPR
3 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.36%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (4.98%) Docker
2 2 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (6.05%) Terraform
2 14 (4.98%) Kubernetes
3 13 (4.63%) Ansible
4 8 (2.85%) Puppet
5 4 (1.42%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.07%) Consul
7 2 (0.71%) Packer
8 1 (0.36%) Podman
Vendors
1 24 (8.54%) BISAM
2 9 (3.20%) Charles River
3 6 (2.14%) Calypso
3 6 (2.14%) SimCorp
4 5 (1.78%) Arista
4 5 (1.78%) Cisco
4 5 (1.78%) Fortinet
5 4 (1.42%) Microsoft
5 4 (1.42%) Oracle
6 3 (1.07%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.07%) Databricks
6 3 (1.07%) Refinitiv
6 3 (1.07%) Reuters
7 2 (0.71%) Alteryx
7 2 (0.71%) Google
8 1 (0.36%) Informatica
8 1 (0.36%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.36%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.36%) Sparx
8 1 (0.36%) Workday