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 2 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 150 195
Rank change year-on-year -95 +45 +21
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 131 249 225
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.91% 1.72% 1.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.37% 5.02% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 212 202
10th Percentile £438 £575 £500
25th Percentile £463 £638 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £825 £888 £800
90th Percentile £1,000 £938 £938
England median daily rate £750 £725 £700
% change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% +5.66%

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 5,531 4,959 6,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.36% 34.22% 33.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,582 3,145 4,348
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £435 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £719
90th Percentile £800 £838 £819
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 63 111
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.30 £18.57
25th Percentile £20.00 £24.15 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.11 £34.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.32% +15.00% -11.30%
75th Percentile £46.88 £59.75 £49.48
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £65.11
England median hourly rate £29.00 £36.25 £42.92
% change year-on-year -20.00% -15.53% +29.07%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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 +9 14 £563 -6.25% 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 24 (18.32%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (15.27%) Apache
3 7 (5.34%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.53%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.29%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.53%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.53%) Cloudability
2 2 (1.53%) thinkFolio
3 1 (0.76%) Eikon
3 1 (0.76%) Eze OMS
Cloud Services
1 63 (48.09%) AWS
2 22 (16.79%) Snowflake
3 20 (15.27%) dbt
4 18 (13.74%) Azure
5 9 (6.87%) GCP
6 5 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.82%) GitHub
6 5 (3.82%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.29%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.53%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.53%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (1.53%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (1.53%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.53%) Serverless
10 1 (0.76%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.76%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.58%) WebEx
2 3 (2.29%) DHCP
2 3 (2.29%) DNS
2 3 (2.29%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.29%) VPN
3 1 (0.76%) NAS
3 1 (0.76%) Network Security
3 1 (0.76%) SAN
3 1 (0.76%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (16.03%) Amazon Athena
2 20 (15.27%) Apache Arrow
2 20 (15.27%) Apache Iceberg
2 20 (15.27%) Apache Ignite
2 20 (15.27%) Data Lake
2 20 (15.27%) Dremio
3 10 (7.63%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.82%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.82%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.29%) Power BI
6 2 (1.53%) Big Data
6 2 (1.53%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.53%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.76%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (15.27%) Git
2 5 (3.82%) GitLab
2 5 (3.82%) TeamCity
3 3 (2.29%) JIRA
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle Forms
General
1 105 (80.15%) Finance
2 61 (46.56%) Banking
3 50 (38.17%) Investment Banking
4 46 (35.11%) Front Office
5 32 (24.43%) Social Skills
6 22 (16.79%) Financial Institution
7 7 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.29%) Advertising
9 2 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Back Office
10 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Law
10 1 (0.76%) Legal
10 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (30.53%) Developer
1 40 (30.53%) Python Engineer
2 38 (29.01%) AWS Engineer
3 30 (22.90%) Senior
4 26 (19.85%) Python Developer
5 20 (15.27%) AWS Software Engineer
5 20 (15.27%) Java Engineer
5 20 (15.27%) Java Software Engineer
5 20 (15.27%) Python Software Engineer
5 20 (15.27%) Software Engineer
6 19 (14.50%) Senior Java Engineer
6 19 (14.50%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 19 (14.50%) Senior Software Engineer
7 13 (9.92%) Automation Engineer
7 13 (9.92%) AWS Developer
7 13 (9.92%) IP Network Engineer
7 13 (9.92%) JavaScript Developer
7 13 (9.92%) Network Engineer
7 13 (9.92%) Switch Engineer
8 9 (6.87%) RAD Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (34.35%) NumPy
2 44 (33.59%) Pandas
3 35 (26.72%) SciPy
4 20 (15.27%) gRPC
4 20 (15.27%) Protocol Buffers
5 16 (12.21%) AngularJS
5 16 (12.21%) React
6 15 (11.45%) REST
7 13 (9.92%) FastAPI
7 13 (9.92%) Flask
7 13 (9.92%) Polars
7 13 (9.92%) Vue
8 11 (8.40%) .NET
9 9 (6.87%) COM
10 7 (5.34%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (4.58%) Dask
11 6 (4.58%) Kafka
12 5 (3.82%) RESTful
13 4 (3.05%) .NET Core
13 4 (3.05%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 52 (39.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 37 (28.24%) Equities
3 30 (22.90%) Derivative
4 28 (21.37%) Fixed Income
5 20 (15.27%) Pricing Data
6 8 (6.11%) Cloud Native
7 6 (4.58%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (3.82%) Data Fabric
9 4 (3.05%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.53%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.53%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.53%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Storage
11 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.76%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.76%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 26 (19.85%) Linux
2 15 (11.45%) Windows
3 6 (4.58%) CentOS
3 6 (4.58%) Unix
3 6 (4.58%) Windows 10
4 5 (3.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (3.05%) Windows Server
6 3 (2.29%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.53%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (34.35%) Software Engineering
2 32 (24.43%) Agile
3 28 (21.37%) CI/CD
4 26 (19.85%) Mathematics
5 24 (18.32%) Asset Management
6 23 (17.56%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (15.27%) Investment Management
8 19 (14.50%) Analytics
9 17 (12.98%) Risk Management
10 16 (12.21%) Clean Code
11 15 (11.45%) Data Engineering
12 14 (10.69%) Systematic Trading
13 13 (9.92%) Data Analysis
13 13 (9.92%) Structured Programming
14 12 (9.16%) DevOps
15 11 (8.40%) Computer Science
15 11 (8.40%) Physics
16 10 (7.63%) Data Pipeline
17 9 (6.87%) Design Patterns
17 9 (6.87%) Pricing Analytics
Programming Languages
1 86 (65.65%) Python
2 41 (31.30%) Java
3 36 (27.48%) JavaScript
4 26 (19.85%) C#
4 26 (19.85%) SQL
5 20 (15.27%) TypeScript
6 15 (11.45%) C++
7 13 (9.92%) Rust
8 12 (9.16%) PowerShell
9 10 (7.63%) VBA
10 5 (3.82%) Bash
11 4 (3.05%) Perl
11 4 (3.05%) Shell Script
12 3 (2.29%) C
13 1 (0.76%) Groovy
13 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (10.69%) Degree
2 12 (9.16%) Master's Degree
3 6 (4.58%) PhD
4 5 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.53%) RHCE
5 2 (1.53%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.82%) MiFID
2 3 (2.29%) GRC
2 3 (2.29%) QA
3 2 (1.53%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.53%) Dodd-Frank
3 2 (1.53%) EMIR
3 2 (1.53%) GDPR
3 2 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.53%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.76%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.76%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.76%) NIST
4 1 (0.76%) PMO
System Software
1 23 (17.56%) Docker
2 8 (6.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.29%) VMware Workstation
4 2 (1.53%) KVM
5 1 (0.76%) Firmware
5 1 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (13.74%) Kubernetes
2 17 (12.98%) Ansible
3 7 (5.34%) SCCM
4 5 (3.82%) Terraform
5 2 (1.53%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.53%) Puppet
5 2 (1.53%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.76%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 13 (9.92%) Arista
2 10 (7.63%) Oracle
2 10 (7.63%) VMware
3 8 (6.11%) Red Hat
4 6 (4.58%) Citrix
5 5 (3.82%) Microsoft
5 5 (3.82%) Reuters
6 3 (2.29%) GoldenSource
7 2 (1.53%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.53%) Dataiku
7 2 (1.53%) DevExpress
7 2 (1.53%) Portware
8 1 (0.76%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.76%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.76%) Cisco
8 1 (0.76%) Eze Software Group
8 1 (0.76%) Google
8 1 (0.76%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.76%) Trayport
8 1 (0.76%) Vertica