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

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 118 314
Rank change year-on-year +3 +196 -113
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 305 367 196
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.39% 2.06% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.67% 6.22% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 345 163
10th Percentile £538 £500 £450
25th Percentile £638 £588 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £725 £600
Median % change year-on-year - +20.83% -
75th Percentile £888 £850 £781
90th Percentile £938 £888 £838
England median daily rate £725 £725 £575
% change year-on-year - +26.09% -4.17%

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 4,571 5,903 9,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.86% 33.06% 35.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,091 4,176 7,006
10th Percentile £325 £300 £375
25th Percentile £454 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £745
90th Percentile £850 £850 £838
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 162 120
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £18.88
25th Percentile £22.93 £18.93 £21.25
Median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -20.09%
75th Percentile £50.50 £46.77 £63.88
90th Percentile £79.81 £66.58 £83.08
England median hourly rate £33.91 £28.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +18.98% +26.67% -16.60%

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 25 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 25 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 -5 13 £513 -29.31% 16
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 43 (14.10%) Apache
1 43 (14.10%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.66%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.33%) Siemens NX
2 1 (0.33%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 35 (11.48%) Aladdin
2 13 (4.26%) thinkFolio
3 1 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 91 (29.84%) AWS
2 47 (15.41%) Snowflake
3 43 (14.10%) dbt
4 36 (11.80%) GCP
5 29 (9.51%) Azure
6 17 (5.57%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (5.57%) Amazon ECS
6 17 (5.57%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (5.57%) Dagster
7 3 (0.98%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.66%) Azure AKS
8 2 (0.66%) Azure Functions
8 2 (0.66%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.66%) SaaS
8 2 (0.66%) Serverless
9 1 (0.33%) Collibra
9 1 (0.33%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.33%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.97%) BGP
2 5 (1.64%) Firewall
2 5 (1.64%) HSRP
2 5 (1.64%) IGMP
2 5 (1.64%) Multicast
2 5 (1.64%) OSPF
2 5 (1.64%) VRRP
3 2 (0.66%) WAN
3 2 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.33%) HTTP
4 1 (0.33%) Modbus
4 1 (0.33%) Network Security
4 1 (0.33%) SSL
4 1 (0.33%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (38.69%) Data Lake
2 43 (14.10%) Amazon Athena
2 43 (14.10%) Apache Arrow
2 43 (14.10%) Apache Iceberg
2 43 (14.10%) Dremio
3 27 (8.85%) Apache Ignite
4 5 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.31%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.66%) Power BI
6 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.66%) Tableau
7 1 (0.33%) Big Data
7 1 (0.33%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.33%) DB2
7 1 (0.33%) KDB
7 1 (0.33%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.33%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.33%) OLTP
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 18 (5.90%) Git
2 7 (2.30%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.64%) GitLab
4 4 (1.31%) Terragrunt
5 3 (0.98%) JIRA
6 1 (0.33%) Ant
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Ivy
6 1 (0.33%) ERwin
6 1 (0.33%) Gradle
6 1 (0.33%) Maven
6 1 (0.33%) Qt Creator
6 1 (0.33%) TeamCity
General
1 262 (85.90%) Finance
2 219 (71.80%) Front Office
3 69 (22.62%) Banking
4 56 (18.36%) Investment Banking
5 21 (6.89%) Social Skills
6 18 (5.90%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (5.90%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.30%) Back Office
8 4 (1.31%) Law
9 2 (0.66%) Legal
10 1 (0.33%) Advertising
10 1 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (25.25%) Analyst
2 74 (24.26%) Developer
3 65 (21.31%) Business Analyst
4 64 (20.98%) Software Engineer
5 54 (17.70%) Business Manager
6 46 (15.08%) AWS Engineer
7 43 (14.10%) AWS Software Engineer
8 37 (12.13%) Head of Finance
9 34 (11.15%) Senior
10 33 (10.82%) Lead
10 33 (10.82%) Python Engineer
11 32 (10.49%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
12 30 (9.84%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 30 (9.84%) Product Manager
12 30 (9.84%) Python Developer
13 29 (9.51%) Java Engineer
13 29 (9.51%) Java Software Engineer
14 25 (8.20%) Python Software Engineer
15 23 (7.54%) AWS Developer
16 22 (7.21%) Data Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (13.77%) NumPy
1 42 (13.77%) Pandas
2 36 (11.80%) PySpark
2 36 (11.80%) SciPy
3 28 (9.18%) gRPC
4 27 (8.85%) Protocol Buffers
5 24 (7.87%) AngularJS
5 24 (7.87%) React
6 23 (7.54%) Vue
7 14 (4.59%) Redux
8 10 (3.28%) Polars
9 9 (2.95%) FastAPI
9 9 (2.95%) Flask
10 4 (1.31%) Next.js
11 2 (0.66%) .NET
11 2 (0.66%) ARM Templates
12 1 (0.33%) DirectX
12 1 (0.33%) OAuth
12 1 (0.33%) OpenGL
12 1 (0.33%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 212 (69.51%) Fixed Income
2 197 (64.59%) Derivative
3 172 (56.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 164 (53.77%) Equities
5 54 (17.70%) Product Ownership
6 17 (5.57%) Onboarding
7 13 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (3.93%) Reference Data
9 10 (3.28%) Algorithms
9 10 (3.28%) Pricing Data
10 9 (2.95%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.31%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.66%) Market Risk
13 2 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
13 2 (0.66%) Solar Panel
13 2 (0.66%) Virtual Team
14 1 (0.33%) Distributed Applications
14 1 (0.33%) iPad
14 1 (0.33%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.18%) Linux
2 23 (7.54%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.64%) Rocky
4 3 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.66%) Windows
6 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.33%) Unix
6 1 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (71.48%) Agile
2 182 (59.67%) Investment Management
3 121 (39.67%) Asset Management
4 118 (38.69%) Migration
5 117 (38.36%) Roadmaps
6 92 (30.16%) Data Governance
7 91 (29.84%) Regulatory Compliance
8 84 (27.54%) Software Engineering
9 78 (25.57%) Data Management
10 63 (20.66%) Analytics
11 54 (17.70%) Portfolio Management
12 38 (12.46%) Business Intelligence
13 33 (10.82%) Business Analysis
14 32 (10.49%) CI/CD
15 26 (8.52%) Machine Learning
16 24 (7.87%) Artificial Intelligence
17 22 (7.21%) Order Management
18 19 (6.23%) Fintech
18 19 (6.23%) Full-Stack Development
19 18 (5.90%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 158 (51.80%) Python
2 71 (23.28%) SQL
3 62 (20.33%) Java
4 51 (16.72%) JavaScript
5 42 (13.77%) TypeScript
6 22 (7.21%) C++
7 11 (3.61%) C#
8 8 (2.62%) C
9 7 (2.30%) Rust
10 4 (1.31%) Bash
11 3 (0.98%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.66%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.33%) Go
13 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (9.18%) Degree
2 8 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (2.62%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.66%) CCIE
3 2 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.33%) CAPM
4 1 (0.33%) CCNP
4 1 (0.33%) CISSP
4 1 (0.33%) ISEB
4 1 (0.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.85%) MiFID
2 2 (0.66%) Dodd-Frank
2 2 (0.66%) EMIR
2 2 (0.66%) HIPAA
2 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.66%) QA
3 1 (0.33%) GDPR
3 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.33%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (5.25%) Docker
2 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (5.25%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.92%) Ansible
2 15 (4.92%) Terraform
3 8 (2.62%) Puppet
4 4 (1.31%) FortiGate
5 3 (0.98%) Consul
6 2 (0.66%) Packer
7 1 (0.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 35 (11.48%) BISAM
2 16 (5.25%) Charles River
3 13 (4.26%) Calypso
3 13 (4.26%) SimCorp
4 7 (2.30%) Arista
4 7 (2.30%) Cisco
5 5 (1.64%) Fortinet
5 5 (1.64%) Microsoft
5 5 (1.64%) Oracle
6 3 (0.98%) Bloomberg
6 3 (0.98%) Refinitiv
6 3 (0.98%) Reuters
7 2 (0.66%) Alteryx
7 2 (0.66%) Google
8 1 (0.33%) Apple
8 1 (0.33%) Informatica
8 1 (0.33%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.33%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.33%) SAP
8 1 (0.33%) Sun