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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 140 186
Rank change year-on-year -132 +46 +60
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 110 262 239
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.75% 1.91% 1.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.98% 5.59% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 226 215
10th Percentile £425 £575 £500
25th Percentile £463 £638 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% +5.66%
75th Percentile £825 £938 £800
90th Percentile £1,000 - £938
England median daily rate £700 £725 £700
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% +12.00%

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 5,565 4,683 6,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.99% 34.15% 33.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,614 2,948 4,335
10th Percentile £350 £319 £300
25th Percentile £432 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £701
90th Percentile £800 £839 £809
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 58 159
10th Percentile £17.50 £21.81 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.82 £25.48 £19.99
Median hourly rate £27.61 £37.54 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.46% +30.56% -14.99%
75th Percentile £52.66 £63.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £81.49 £67.00
England median hourly rate £30.30 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -19.19% +7.14% +55.66%

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 27 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 27 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 -4 12 £530 +3.41% 32
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 15 (13.64%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (10.00%) Apache
3 7 (6.36%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.82%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.91%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.91%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.91%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 46 (41.82%) AWS
2 13 (11.82%) Azure
2 13 (11.82%) Snowflake
3 11 (10.00%) dbt
4 7 (6.36%) GCP
5 4 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.73%) GitHub
6 3 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.73%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.82%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.91%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.91%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.91%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.91%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.91%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.45%) WebEx
2 2 (1.82%) DHCP
2 2 (1.82%) DNS
2 2 (1.82%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.82%) VPN
3 1 (0.91%) NAS
3 1 (0.91%) Network Security
3 1 (0.91%) SAN
3 1 (0.91%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.91%) Amazon Athena
2 11 (10.00%) Apache Arrow
2 11 (10.00%) Apache Iceberg
2 11 (10.00%) Apache Ignite
2 11 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 11 (10.00%) Dremio
3 6 (5.45%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.73%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.73%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.73%) Power BI
5 2 (1.82%) Big Data
5 2 (1.82%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.82%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.91%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (13.64%) Git
2 5 (4.55%) GitLab
3 3 (2.73%) JIRA
3 3 (2.73%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.91%) Oracle Forms
General
1 85 (77.27%) Finance
2 45 (40.91%) Banking
3 35 (31.82%) Investment Banking
4 34 (30.91%) Front Office
5 28 (25.45%) Social Skills
6 23 (20.91%) Financial Institution
7 7 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.73%) Advertising
9 2 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.91%) Back Office
10 1 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.91%) Law
10 1 (0.91%) Legal
10 1 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (30.00%) Developer
2 28 (25.45%) Python Engineer
3 26 (23.64%) AWS Engineer
4 23 (20.91%) Python Developer
5 19 (17.27%) Senior
6 11 (10.00%) AWS Software Engineer
6 11 (10.00%) Java Engineer
6 11 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
6 11 (10.00%) Python Software Engineer
6 11 (10.00%) Software Engineer
7 10 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
7 10 (9.09%) AWS Developer
7 10 (9.09%) IP Network Engineer
7 10 (9.09%) JavaScript Developer
7 10 (9.09%) Network Engineer
7 10 (9.09%) Senior Java Engineer
7 10 (9.09%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 10 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
7 10 (9.09%) Switch Engineer
8 9 (8.18%) RAD Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (30.00%) NumPy
2 32 (29.09%) Pandas
3 23 (20.91%) SciPy
4 14 (12.73%) REST
5 13 (11.82%) AngularJS
5 13 (11.82%) React
6 11 (10.00%) gRPC
6 11 (10.00%) Protocol Buffers
7 10 (9.09%) FastAPI
7 10 (9.09%) Flask
7 10 (9.09%) Polars
7 10 (9.09%) Vue
8 9 (8.18%) COM
9 6 (5.45%) Dask
10 5 (4.55%) .NET
11 4 (3.64%) Kafka
11 4 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (3.64%) Web Services
12 3 (2.73%) Node.js
12 3 (2.73%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 38 (34.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 28 (25.45%) Equities
3 20 (18.18%) Derivative
4 18 (16.36%) Fixed Income
5 11 (10.00%) Pricing Data
6 7 (6.36%) Cloud Native
7 6 (5.45%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (3.64%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.73%) Data Fabric
10 2 (1.82%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.82%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Storage
11 1 (0.91%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.91%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.91%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.91%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.91%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 23 (20.91%) Linux
2 14 (12.73%) Windows
3 6 (5.45%) CentOS
3 6 (5.45%) Unix
4 5 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (4.55%) Windows 10
5 4 (3.64%) Windows Server
6 3 (2.73%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.82%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (27.27%) Software Engineering
2 22 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 21 (19.09%) Agile
3 21 (19.09%) Mathematics
3 21 (19.09%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (15.45%) Analytics
4 17 (15.45%) Risk Management
5 13 (11.82%) Data Analysis
6 12 (10.91%) Asset Management
6 12 (10.91%) Clean Code
6 12 (10.91%) Data Engineering
7 11 (10.00%) Investment Management
7 11 (10.00%) Systematic Trading
8 10 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
8 10 (9.09%) Structured Programming
9 9 (8.18%) DevOps
9 9 (8.18%) Physics
9 9 (8.18%) Pricing Analytics
9 9 (8.18%) Prototyping
9 9 (8.18%) Rapid Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 72 (65.45%) Python
2 29 (26.36%) Java
3 26 (23.64%) SQL
4 24 (21.82%) JavaScript
5 17 (15.45%) C#
6 12 (10.91%) C++
6 12 (10.91%) PowerShell
7 11 (10.00%) TypeScript
8 10 (9.09%) Rust
8 10 (9.09%) VBA
9 5 (4.55%) Bash
10 4 (3.64%) Perl
10 4 (3.64%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.73%) C
12 1 (0.91%) Groovy
12 1 (0.91%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (10.91%) Degree
2 10 (9.09%) Master's Degree
3 6 (5.45%) PhD
4 3 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.82%) RHCE
5 2 (1.82%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.64%) MiFID
2 3 (2.73%) GRC
2 3 (2.73%) QA
3 2 (1.82%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.82%) Dodd-Frank
3 2 (1.82%) EMIR
3 2 (1.82%) GDPR
3 2 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.82%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.91%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.91%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.91%) NIST
4 1 (0.91%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (16.36%) Docker
2 8 (7.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.73%) VMware Workstation
4 2 (1.82%) KVM
5 1 (0.91%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.91%) Firmware
5 1 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (12.73%) Ansible
2 13 (11.82%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.45%) SCCM
4 5 (4.55%) Terraform
5 2 (1.82%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.82%) Puppet
5 2 (1.82%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.91%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 10 (9.09%) Arista
1 10 (9.09%) Oracle
1 10 (9.09%) VMware
2 8 (7.27%) Red Hat
3 6 (5.45%) Citrix
4 4 (3.64%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.73%) GoldenSource
5 3 (2.73%) Reuters
6 2 (1.82%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.91%) Altiris
7 1 (0.91%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.91%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.91%) Cisco
7 1 (0.91%) Google
7 1 (0.91%) Portware
7 1 (0.91%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.91%) Vertica