Hedge funds Contracts with Work from Home Options

Hedge fund
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hedge funds in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hedge funds over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 373 395
Rank change year-on-year +245 +22 +14
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 254 84 237
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.72% 0.35% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.90% 1.11% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 82 159
10th Percentile £588 £500 £435
25th Percentile £688 £525 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% - -
75th Percentile £888 £763 £750
90th Percentile - £861 £850
UK median daily rate £750 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +25.00% -7.69% +8.33%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,304 7,539 13,934
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 29.17% 31.58% 31.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,923 5,349 10,060
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £435 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £835 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 147 225
10th Percentile £15.95 £19.00 £15.13
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.36 £21.00
Median hourly rate £51.00 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +17.98% +27.98%
75th Percentile £68.75 £69.38 £62.25
90th Percentile £73.50 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Hedge funds
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Hedge funds as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Hedge funds trend for jobs with a WFH option

Hedge funds
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Hedge funds.

Hedge funds daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Hedge funds
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Hedge funds over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hedge funds daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Hedge funds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 139 (54.72%) Apache Airflow
2 126 (49.61%) Apache
3 2 (0.79%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.39%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.18%) Orchestrade
2 1 (0.39%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 186 (73.23%) AWS
2 147 (57.87%) dbt
3 130 (51.18%) Snowflake
4 72 (28.35%) GCP
5 20 (7.87%) Azure
6 8 (3.15%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (3.15%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (3.15%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (3.15%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.18%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.39%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.39%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.39%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.39%) Sentry
9 1 (0.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.79%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (0.79%) Firewall
1 2 (0.79%) Internet
2 1 (0.39%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.39%) Skype
2 1 (0.39%) SSL
2 1 (0.39%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (57.87%) Apache Arrow
1 147 (57.87%) Dremio
2 139 (54.72%) Amazon Athena
3 138 (54.33%) Data Lake
4 118 (46.46%) Apache Ignite
5 28 (11.02%) Big Data
6 8 (3.15%) Power BI
6 8 (3.15%) Tableau
7 3 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.79%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.39%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.39%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.39%) Git
2 1 (0.39%) GitLab
2 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.39%) JIRA
General
1 232 (91.34%) Finance
2 186 (73.23%) Front Office
3 159 (62.60%) Banking
4 129 (50.79%) Investment Banking
5 24 (9.45%) Back Office
6 9 (3.54%) Social Skills
7 7 (2.76%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.18%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.79%) Retail
10 1 (0.39%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 80 (31.50%) Software Engineer
2 76 (29.92%) Developer
3 69 (27.17%) Senior
4 66 (25.98%) AWS Engineer
5 58 (22.83%) Lead
6 54 (21.26%) Java Engineer
7 49 (19.29%) Python Engineer
8 48 (18.90%) Java Software Engineer
8 48 (18.90%) Python Software Engineer
9 46 (18.11%) AWS Software Engineer
10 44 (17.32%) Senior Software Engineer
11 40 (15.75%) Analyst
12 38 (14.96%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 38 (14.96%) Software Developer
13 37 (14.57%) Team Leader
14 36 (14.17%) Lead Developer
14 36 (14.17%) Lead Software Developer
14 36 (14.17%) Lead Software Engineer
14 36 (14.17%) Senior Java Engineer
14 36 (14.17%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (54.72%) gRPC
1 139 (54.72%) Protocol Buffers
2 119 (46.85%) Pandas
3 118 (46.46%) NumPy
3 118 (46.46%) SciPy
4 14 (5.51%) React
5 11 (4.33%) AngularJS
6 8 (3.15%) .NET
7 6 (2.36%) PySpark
8 4 (1.57%) Kafka
9 3 (1.18%) ASP.NET
9 3 (1.18%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (1.18%) Redux
9 3 (1.18%) Web Services
10 2 (0.79%) CSS
10 2 (0.79%) CSS3
10 2 (0.79%) HTML
10 2 (0.79%) HTML5
10 2 (0.79%) Spark Streaming
11 1 (0.39%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 190 (74.80%) Derivative
2 164 (64.57%) Equities
3 159 (62.60%) Fixed Income
4 141 (55.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 23 (9.06%) Product Ownership
6 18 (7.09%) Clustering
7 16 (6.30%) Pricing Data
8 9 (3.54%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.36%) Equity Derivative
10 5 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.57%) Credit Derivative
12 1 (0.39%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.39%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.97%) Linux
2 4 (1.57%) Windows
3 3 (1.18%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.79%) Unix
5 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (79.13%) Asset Management
2 164 (64.57%) Investment Management
3 156 (61.42%) Agile
4 139 (54.72%) Software Engineering
5 53 (20.87%) Line Management
6 43 (16.93%) Greeks
7 36 (14.17%) Analytics
8 30 (11.81%) Mentoring
9 24 (9.45%) DevOps
10 21 (8.27%) Product Management
11 20 (7.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 15 (5.91%) Artificial Intelligence
12 15 (5.91%) Machine Learning
13 11 (4.33%) Full Stack Development
14 10 (3.94%) Migration
14 10 (3.94%) Quantitative Research
15 9 (3.54%) Business Analysis
16 8 (3.15%) Algorithmic Trading
17 7 (2.76%) Mathematics
17 7 (2.76%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 211 (83.07%) Python
2 149 (58.66%) Java
3 144 (56.69%) JavaScript
4 122 (48.03%) TypeScript
5 58 (22.83%) SQL
6 36 (14.17%) C#
7 22 (8.66%) C++
8 19 (7.48%) Go
9 14 (5.51%) R
10 9 (3.54%) Scala
11 6 (2.36%) Ruby
12 4 (1.57%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.39%) Bash
13 1 (0.39%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.39%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (2.76%) Degree
2 4 (1.57%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (0.79%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (16.93%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.36%) QA
3 4 (1.57%) MiFID
4 1 (0.39%) EMIR
4 1 (0.39%) FATCA
System Software
1 4 (1.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (7.87%) Kubernetes
2 19 (7.48%) Prometheus
2 19 (7.48%) Terraform
3 2 (0.79%) Ansible
3 2 (0.79%) Puppet
4 1 (0.39%) Grafana
4 1 (0.39%) Nagios
4 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (7.48%) Bloomberg
2 9 (3.54%) Reuters
3 5 (1.97%) Microsoft
4 2 (0.79%) Cisco
4 2 (0.79%) F5
4 2 (0.79%) Fortinet
4 2 (0.79%) Juniper
4 2 (0.79%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.39%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.39%) Citrix
5 1 (0.39%) OpenLink
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle
5 1 (0.39%) Splunk
5 1 (0.39%) Sybase