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 21 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 113 122
Rank change year-on-year -214 +9 +168
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 83 300 349
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.48% 2.36% 1.97%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.33% 6.61% 5.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 256 330
10th Percentile £430 £538 £500
25th Percentile £463 £638 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £725 £725
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% - +20.83%
75th Percentile £800 £888 £850
90th Percentile £975 £938 £888
England median daily rate £673 £725 £725
% change year-on-year -7.24% - +26.09%

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 6,243 4,540 5,867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.80% 35.71% 33.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,995 3,071 4,157
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £440 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £725
90th Percentile £800 £850 £850
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 72 162
10th Percentile £18.07 £15.84 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.83 £23.26 £18.83
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.75 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.72% +33.65% -25.71%
75th Percentile £60.75 £50.50 £46.77
90th Percentile £78.55 £80.52 £66.58
England median hourly rate £45.46 £36.48 £28.25
% change year-on-year +24.62% +29.13% +25.56%

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 21 April 2026.

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 21 April 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 -20 6 £600 +17.07% 36
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 4 (4.82%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (4.82%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.20%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 14 (16.87%) AWS
2 8 (9.64%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (7.23%) GitHub
3 6 (7.23%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (4.82%) Amazon S3
4 4 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (4.82%) Serverless
5 3 (3.61%) Azure
6 2 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.41%) GCP
6 2 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.41%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.20%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.20%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.20%) SaaS
7 1 (1.20%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.02%) WebEx
2 1 (1.20%) IP Telephony
2 1 (1.20%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.43%) Relational Database
2 4 (4.82%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (2.41%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.41%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.41%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.20%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (10.84%) Git
2 5 (6.02%) GitLab
2 5 (6.02%) JIRA
3 4 (4.82%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.61%) Selenium
5 2 (2.41%) Appium
5 2 (2.41%) JUnit
5 2 (2.41%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.41%) TestNG
General
1 48 (57.83%) Finance
2 26 (31.33%) Front Office
3 17 (20.48%) Banking
4 10 (12.05%) Social Skills
5 9 (10.84%) Investment Banking
6 7 (8.43%) Financial Institution
7 6 (7.23%) Publishing
8 4 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.20%) Billing
10 1 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (37.35%) Developer
2 24 (28.92%) Python Developer
3 21 (25.30%) Analyst
4 18 (21.69%) Business Analyst
5 8 (9.64%) Citrix Engineer
6 7 (8.43%) QA Engineer
6 7 (8.43%) RAD Developer
7 6 (7.23%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Kafka Developer
7 6 (7.23%) Python Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Senior
8 5 (6.02%) AWS Developer
8 5 (6.02%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (6.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (6.02%) Data Business Analyst
8 5 (6.02%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Derivatives Business Analyst
9 4 (4.82%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) QA Test Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Trade Floor Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (22.89%) Pandas
2 16 (19.28%) NumPy
3 14 (16.87%) REST
4 12 (14.46%) Polars
5 11 (13.25%) FastAPI
5 11 (13.25%) Flask
6 8 (9.64%) Kafka
7 7 (8.43%) COM
8 6 (7.23%) Apache Avro
8 6 (7.23%) RESTful
9 4 (4.82%) Dask
10 2 (2.41%) .NET
10 2 (2.41%) RabbitMQ
11 1 (1.20%) AngularJS
11 1 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
11 1 (1.20%) React
11 1 (1.20%) SciPy
11 1 (1.20%) SOAP
11 1 (1.20%) Web Services
11 1 (1.20%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 25 (30.12%) Equities
2 13 (15.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (13.25%) Derivative
4 8 (9.64%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.82%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.82%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (4.82%) Fixed Income
6 3 (3.61%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.61%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.41%) Data Fabric
7 2 (2.41%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.41%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (1.20%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.20%) Blackberry
8 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.20%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 13 (15.66%) Windows
2 11 (13.25%) Linux
3 4 (4.82%) Unix
3 4 (4.82%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (24.10%) CI/CD
2 17 (20.48%) Analytics
3 16 (19.28%) Data Pipeline
4 14 (16.87%) Data Analysis
5 11 (13.25%) Fintech
5 11 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (13.25%) Risk Management
6 8 (9.64%) Mathematics
6 8 (9.64%) SDLC
7 7 (8.43%) AI
7 7 (8.43%) Computer Science
7 7 (8.43%) Data Transformation
7 7 (8.43%) DevOps
7 7 (8.43%) Manual Testing
7 7 (8.43%) Performance Optimisation
7 7 (8.43%) Physics
7 7 (8.43%) RAD
7 7 (8.43%) Rapid Prototyping
7 7 (8.43%) Software Engineering
7 7 (8.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 44 (53.01%) Python
2 25 (30.12%) SQL
3 11 (13.25%) PowerShell
4 9 (10.84%) C#
5 8 (9.64%) VBA
6 7 (8.43%) Java
7 4 (4.82%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.41%) C++
9 1 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.20%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.20%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (10.84%) Degree
2 6 (7.23%) Master's Degree
3 4 (4.82%) PhD
4 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.20%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.64%) QA
2 2 (2.41%) MiFID
3 1 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 18 (21.69%) Docker
2 3 (3.61%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.20%) vSphere
3 1 (1.20%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (10.84%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.02%) Terraform
3 1 (1.20%) Ansible
3 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (10.84%) Citrix
2 5 (6.02%) Reuters
3 3 (3.61%) GoldenSource
4 2 (2.41%) Bloomberg
4 2 (2.41%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.20%) Altiris
5 1 (1.20%) Apple
5 1 (1.20%) Arista
5 1 (1.20%) Cisco
5 1 (1.20%) Databricks
5 1 (1.20%) FactSet
5 1 (1.20%) Oracle
5 1 (1.20%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.20%) VMware