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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 89 229
Rank change year-on-year -97 +140 -45
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 185 455 226
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.38% 2.79% 1.04%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.60% 8.28% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 413 199
10th Percentile £463 £550 £470
25th Percentile £613 £644 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% +3.70%
75th Percentile £825 £875 £788
90th Percentile £838 £888 £863
England median daily rate £750 £800 £650
% change year-on-year -6.25% +23.08% -

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 5,139 5,495 7,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.22% 33.73% 35.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,330 3,640 5,539
10th Percentile £335 £325 £350
25th Percentile £438 £450 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £738 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 67 84
10th Percentile £16.30 £17.25 £17.27
25th Percentile £23.71 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £27.50 £31.62 £29.75
Median % change year-on-year -13.03% +6.29% -2.46%
75th Percentile £46.55 £54.38 £53.38
90th Percentile £70.88 £71.50 £74.60
England median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.37% +25.00% +76.46%

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
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 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hedge funds in London

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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 18 September 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 0 15 £550 -24.14% 50
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 48 (25.95%) Apache
1 48 (25.95%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 28 (15.14%) Aladdin
2 19 (10.27%) thinkFolio
3 4 (2.16%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.54%) Eikon
4 1 (0.54%) Eze OMS
Cloud Services
1 106 (57.30%) AWS
2 49 (26.49%) Snowflake
3 48 (25.95%) dbt
4 31 (16.76%) Azure
5 21 (11.35%) GCP
6 4 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.16%) GitHub
6 4 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (1.62%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (1.62%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (1.62%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.62%) Serverless
8 2 (1.08%) SAP Fieldglass
9 1 (0.54%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.54%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.62%) WAN
1 3 (1.62%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.08%) BGP
2 2 (1.08%) DHCP
2 2 (1.08%) DNS
2 2 (1.08%) HTTP
2 2 (1.08%) Network Security
2 2 (1.08%) SSL
2 2 (1.08%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.08%) VPN
3 1 (0.54%) NAS
3 1 (0.54%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.54%) SAN
3 1 (0.54%) VLAN
3 1 (0.54%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (26.49%) Amazon Athena
2 48 (25.95%) Apache Arrow
2 48 (25.95%) Apache Iceberg
2 48 (25.95%) Apache Ignite
2 48 (25.95%) Data Lake
2 48 (25.95%) Dremio
3 10 (5.41%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.16%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.16%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.62%) Tableau
6 2 (1.08%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.08%) Power BI
7 1 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.54%) Big Data
7 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.54%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 25 (13.51%) Git
2 4 (2.16%) TeamCity
3 3 (1.62%) JIRA
3 3 (1.62%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.54%) GitLab
General
1 165 (89.19%) Finance
2 98 (52.97%) Front Office
3 77 (41.62%) Banking
4 72 (38.92%) Investment Banking
5 38 (20.54%) Social Skills
6 17 (9.19%) Financial Institution
7 8 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.16%) Back Office
9 3 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.08%) Law
11 1 (0.54%) Legal
11 1 (0.54%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 67 (36.22%) Software Engineer
2 65 (35.14%) Python Engineer
3 62 (33.51%) AWS Engineer
4 56 (30.27%) Developer
4 56 (30.27%) Senior
5 49 (26.49%) Python Software Engineer
5 49 (26.49%) Senior Software Engineer
6 48 (25.95%) AWS Software Engineer
6 48 (25.95%) Java Engineer
6 48 (25.95%) Java Software Engineer
6 48 (25.95%) Senior Java Engineer
6 48 (25.95%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 32 (17.30%) Analyst
8 28 (15.14%) Business Analyst
9 27 (14.59%) Business Manager
10 25 (13.51%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
10 25 (13.51%) Python Developer
11 20 (10.81%) Full-Stack Developer
12 17 (9.19%) AWS Developer
12 17 (9.19%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (36.22%) NumPy
1 67 (36.22%) Pandas
2 65 (35.14%) SciPy
3 49 (26.49%) gRPC
4 48 (25.95%) Protocol Buffers
5 36 (19.46%) React
6 34 (18.38%) AngularJS
7 31 (16.76%) Vue
8 18 (9.73%) Polars
9 17 (9.19%) FastAPI
9 17 (9.19%) Flask
10 14 (7.57%) .NET
10 14 (7.57%) Redux
11 8 (4.32%) .NET Core
12 7 (3.78%) RabbitMQ
13 4 (2.16%) Kafka
13 4 (2.16%) Node.js
13 4 (2.16%) REST
13 4 (2.16%) RESTful
14 3 (1.62%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 96 (51.89%) Fixed Income
2 88 (47.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 76 (41.08%) Derivative
4 65 (35.14%) Equities
5 48 (25.95%) Pricing Data
6 17 (9.19%) Onboarding
7 8 (4.32%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.70%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.70%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.16%) Data Fabric
10 3 (1.62%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.62%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.62%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.62%) Product Ownership
11 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Storage
12 1 (0.54%) iPad
12 1 (0.54%) iPhone
12 1 (0.54%) Operational Technology
12 1 (0.54%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 31 (16.76%) Linux
2 11 (5.95%) Windows
3 6 (3.24%) CentOS
3 6 (3.24%) Unix
3 6 (3.24%) Windows 10
4 5 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.62%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.08%) Solaris
6 2 (1.08%) VMS
7 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (55.14%) Agile
2 93 (50.27%) Asset Management
3 92 (49.73%) Investment Management
3 92 (49.73%) Software Engineering
4 34 (18.38%) CI/CD
5 31 (16.76%) Analytics
5 31 (16.76%) Business Analysis
6 27 (14.59%) Business Intelligence
7 26 (14.05%) Portfolio Management
8 22 (11.89%) Fintech
9 21 (11.35%) Full-Stack Development
9 21 (11.35%) Mathematics
10 20 (10.81%) Clean Code
11 17 (9.19%) Data Engineering
11 17 (9.19%) Data Mapping
11 17 (9.19%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (9.19%) Structured Programming
11 17 (9.19%) Systematic Trading
12 14 (7.57%) TDD
13 10 (5.41%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 151 (81.62%) Python
2 82 (44.32%) JavaScript
3 74 (40.00%) Java
4 62 (33.51%) TypeScript
5 40 (21.62%) SQL
6 34 (18.38%) C#
7 22 (11.89%) C++
8 17 (9.19%) Rust
9 8 (4.32%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.70%) Bash
11 4 (2.16%) C
11 4 (2.16%) Perl
11 4 (2.16%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.54%) Go
12 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (5.41%) Degree
2 9 (4.86%) Master's Degree
3 8 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.08%) RHCE
4 2 (1.08%) RHCSA
5 1 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.16%) MiFID
2 2 (1.08%) GDPR
2 2 (1.08%) Solvency II
3 1 (0.54%) EMIR
3 1 (0.54%) GRC
3 1 (0.54%) PMO
System Software
1 22 (11.89%) Docker
2 8 (4.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.62%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.62%) VMware Workstation
4 2 (1.08%) KVM
Systems Management
1 22 (11.89%) Ansible
2 21 (11.35%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.78%) SCCM
4 3 (1.62%) Terraform
5 2 (1.08%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.08%) Puppet
5 2 (1.08%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 25 (13.51%) BISAM
2 17 (9.19%) Arista
3 16 (8.65%) Calypso
3 16 (8.65%) Charles River
3 16 (8.65%) SimCorp
4 10 (5.41%) VMware
5 9 (4.86%) Oracle
6 8 (4.32%) Red Hat
7 6 (3.24%) Microsoft
8 4 (2.16%) Cisco
8 4 (2.16%) Citrix
9 3 (1.62%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.62%) Portware
10 2 (1.08%) DevExpress
10 2 (1.08%) Meraki
10 2 (1.08%) Reuters
10 2 (1.08%) SAP
11 1 (0.54%) Anaplan
11 1 (0.54%) Apple
11 1 (0.54%) Salesforce