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 22 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 186 234
Rank change year-on-year +57 +48 +2
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 268 231 365
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.92% 1.28% 1.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.65% 3.86% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 207 310
10th Percentile £575 £500 £438
25th Percentile £638 £588 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £700 £663
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +5.66% +10.42%
75th Percentile £888 £800 £750
90th Percentile £938 £938 £838
England median daily rate £725 £700 £625
% change year-on-year +3.57% +12.00% +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 4,741 5,977 11,464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.92% 33.05% 36.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,985 4,240 7,991
10th Percentile £325 £313 £400
25th Percentile £450 £456 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £580 £613
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -5.31% +6.52%
75th Percentile £713 £710 £750
90th Percentile £850 £813 £850
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 142 132
10th Percentile £20.75 £16.30 £17.82
25th Percentile £25.75 £19.99 £21.24
Median hourly rate £38.07 £28.88 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.84% +1.32% -35.96%
75th Percentile £63.75 £47.50 £55.19
90th Percentile £83.20 £64.95 £73.38
England median hourly rate £38.07 £35.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +6.79% +58.44% -11.76%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 -18 7 £600 -20.00% 15
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 34 (12.69%) Apache
1 34 (12.69%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 29 (10.82%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 82 (30.60%) AWS
2 37 (13.81%) Snowflake
3 34 (12.69%) Amazon ECS
3 34 (12.69%) dbt
4 26 (9.70%) GCP
5 25 (9.33%) Amazon EC2
6 24 (8.96%) Amazon EKS
7 20 (7.46%) Azure
8 13 (4.85%) Serverless
9 12 (4.48%) Dagster
10 11 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (3.73%) Amazon SQS
11 10 (3.73%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (1.12%) Power Platform
13 2 (0.75%) Azure AKS
13 2 (0.75%) Azure Functions
13 2 (0.75%) GitHub
14 1 (0.37%) Amazon S3
14 1 (0.37%) AWS CloudFormation
14 1 (0.37%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.87%) Firewall
2 3 (1.12%) Network Security
3 2 (0.75%) BGP
3 2 (0.75%) HSRP
3 2 (0.75%) IGMP
3 2 (0.75%) Multicast
3 2 (0.75%) OSPF
3 2 (0.75%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (44.40%) Data Lake
2 34 (12.69%) Amazon Athena
2 34 (12.69%) Apache Arrow
2 34 (12.69%) Apache Iceberg
2 34 (12.69%) Apache Ignite
2 34 (12.69%) Dremio
3 9 (3.36%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.12%) Power BI
4 3 (1.12%) Tableau
5 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.37%) Big Data
5 1 (0.37%) DB2
5 1 (0.37%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (1.87%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.75%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.37%) Ant
3 1 (0.37%) Apache Ivy
3 1 (0.37%) Git
3 1 (0.37%) Gradle
3 1 (0.37%) JIRA
3 1 (0.37%) Maven
3 1 (0.37%) TeamCity
General
1 238 (88.81%) Finance
2 202 (75.37%) Front Office
3 78 (29.10%) Banking
4 70 (26.12%) Investment Banking
5 15 (5.60%) Financial Institution
6 12 (4.48%) Social Skills
7 7 (2.61%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (2.61%) Back Office
8 4 (1.49%) Publishing
9 3 (1.12%) Law
10 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (26.49%) Analyst
2 54 (20.15%) Developer
3 52 (19.40%) Business Analyst
4 45 (16.79%) Senior
5 44 (16.42%) Software Engineer
6 38 (14.18%) Business Manager
7 36 (13.43%) AWS Engineer
7 36 (13.43%) Python Engineer
8 34 (12.69%) Lead
9 32 (11.94%) AWS Software Engineer
9 32 (11.94%) Head of Finance
10 30 (11.19%) Product Manager
11 27 (10.07%) Java Engineer
11 27 (10.07%) Java Software Engineer
11 27 (10.07%) Python Software Engineer
12 26 (9.70%) Senior Software Engineer
13 24 (8.96%) Angular Developer
13 24 (8.96%) Python Developer
14 22 (8.21%) Product Analyst
14 22 (8.21%) Product Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (13.81%) NumPy
1 37 (13.81%) Pandas
2 34 (12.69%) gRPC
2 34 (12.69%) Protocol Buffers
2 34 (12.69%) SciPy
3 27 (10.07%) PySpark
4 22 (8.21%) AngularJS
5 10 (3.73%) CSS
5 10 (3.73%) HTML
5 10 (3.73%) Lambda Expressions
5 10 (3.73%) RESTful
5 10 (3.73%) WebSockets
6 2 (0.75%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.37%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 196 (73.13%) Fixed Income
2 184 (68.66%) Derivative
3 174 (64.93%) Equities
4 171 (63.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 76 (28.36%) Product Ownership
6 15 (5.60%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (3.73%) Pricing Data
8 7 (2.61%) Reference Data
9 4 (1.49%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.12%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.75%) Market Risk
11 2 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.75%) Solar Panel
12 1 (0.37%) Equity Derivative
12 1 (0.37%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.21%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.87%) Linux
3 3 (1.12%) Unix
4 2 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.37%) Rocky
5 1 (0.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (69.03%) Agile
2 154 (57.46%) Investment Management
3 132 (49.25%) Roadmaps
4 119 (44.40%) Migration
5 101 (37.69%) Asset Management
6 85 (31.72%) Data Governance
6 85 (31.72%) Regulatory Compliance
7 57 (21.27%) Data Management
8 49 (18.28%) Software Engineering
9 45 (16.79%) Analytics
10 42 (15.67%) Machine Learning
11 41 (15.30%) Artificial Intelligence
12 35 (13.06%) Portfolio Management
13 33 (12.31%) Business Intelligence
13 33 (12.31%) Fintech
14 23 (8.58%) Front End Development
15 22 (8.21%) Order Management
16 19 (7.09%) Risk Analytics
17 18 (6.72%) Quantitative Analysis
18 15 (5.60%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 115 (42.91%) Python
2 79 (29.48%) SQL
3 55 (20.52%) JavaScript
3 55 (20.52%) TypeScript
4 46 (17.16%) Java
5 5 (1.87%) C#
6 4 (1.49%) Bash
6 4 (1.49%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.12%) C
7 3 (1.12%) C++
8 1 (0.37%) R
8 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (7.84%) Degree
2 2 (0.75%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.37%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.33%) MiFID
2 9 (3.36%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.75%) QA
4 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.37%) NIST
4 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (2.99%) Terraform
2 4 (1.49%) Ansible
2 4 (1.49%) Puppet
3 3 (1.12%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.75%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.37%) Packer
Vendors
1 29 (10.82%) BISAM
2 27 (10.07%) Bloomberg
3 8 (2.99%) Databricks
4 5 (1.87%) Fortinet
5 3 (1.12%) Juniper
5 3 (1.12%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.12%) Palo Alto
5 3 (1.12%) Refinitiv
5 3 (1.12%) Reuters
6 2 (0.75%) Arista
6 2 (0.75%) Cisco
7 1 (0.37%) Google
7 1 (0.37%) Okta
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle
7 1 (0.37%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.37%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.37%) Sybase
7 1 (0.37%) Workday