Hedge funds Jobs

Hedge fund
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hedge funds in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Hedge funds over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 318 386 453
Rank change year-on-year +68 +67 -111
Permanent jobs citing Hedge funds 926 817 1,360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.88% 0.86% 0.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.58% 2.00% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 848 722 1,032
10th Percentile £75,000 £48,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £85,000 £75,625 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £105,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £142,500 £150,000 £136,250
90th Percentile £165,000 £187,500 £171,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,250 £61,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.33% +2.08% -4.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

Hedge funds is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,876 40,905 81,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.09% 43.15% 48.47%
Number of salaries quoted 23,224 22,549 34,301
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,116 £46,350 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Hedge funds
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Hedge funds as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Hedge funds in the UK

Hedge funds
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Hedge funds.

Salary trend for Hedge funds in the UK

Hedge funds
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Hedge funds over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Hedge funds in the UK

Hedge funds
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Hedge funds within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +88 914 £112,500 +7.14% 353
London +83 894 £115,000 +4.55% 323
Work from Home +165 581 £115,000 +9.52% 93
UK excluding London -71 32 £71,250 +16.33% 39
South West -27 19 £62,500 +25.00% 7
Scotland -65 11 £80,000 +14.29% 3
North of England - 1 £82,500 - 9
Channel Islands - 1 £120,000 -
North West - 1 £82,500 - 8

Hedge funds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 439 (47.41%) Apache Airflow
2 387 (41.79%) Apache
3 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.22%) Confluence
4 2 (0.22%) Ethereum
4 2 (0.22%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.11%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.32%) S-PLUS
3 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 20 (2.16%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.65%) thinkFolio
3 2 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.22%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.11%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 672 (72.57%) AWS
2 351 (37.90%) dbt
3 339 (36.61%) GCP
4 316 (34.13%) Snowflake
5 245 (26.46%) Azure
6 13 (1.40%) Amazon S3
7 12 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (1.30%) Power Platform
7 12 (1.30%) Serverless
8 11 (1.19%) Amazon SQS
8 11 (1.19%) AWS Step Functions
9 10 (1.08%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (0.54%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (0.54%) WhatsApp
12 4 (0.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (0.32%) SaaS
14 1 (0.11%) Entra ID
14 1 (0.11%) GitHub
14 1 (0.11%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.86%) TCP/IP
2 7 (0.76%) WAN
3 4 (0.43%) FTP
3 4 (0.43%) VPN
4 3 (0.32%) Cisco Firepower
4 3 (0.32%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (0.32%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (0.32%) DHCP
4 3 (0.32%) DNS
4 3 (0.32%) Firewall
4 3 (0.32%) Network Security
4 3 (0.32%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.22%) BGP
5 2 (0.22%) LAN
5 2 (0.22%) OSPF
5 2 (0.22%) SNMP
6 1 (0.11%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.11%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.11%) NAS
6 1 (0.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 375 (40.50%) Apache Ignite
2 352 (38.01%) Dremio
3 351 (37.90%) Apache Arrow
4 339 (36.61%) Amazon Athena
5 328 (35.42%) Data Lake
6 113 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
7 70 (7.56%) Big Data
8 32 (3.46%) SQL Server
9 23 (2.48%) NoSQL
10 22 (2.38%) Relational Database
11 12 (1.30%) Power BI
11 12 (1.30%) Tableau
12 9 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.54%) MongoDB
14 4 (0.43%) Tick Data
15 3 (0.32%) Event Store
16 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 2 (0.22%) SQLPlus
17 1 (0.11%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 63 (6.80%) Cypress.io
2 16 (1.73%) Git
3 7 (0.76%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (0.54%) JIRA
6 4 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (0.43%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.32%) GitLab
8 2 (0.22%) Postman
9 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.11%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.11%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.11%) SpecFlow
General
1 804 (86.83%) Finance
2 680 (73.43%) Front Office
3 485 (52.38%) Banking
4 326 (35.21%) Investment Banking
5 101 (10.91%) Back Office
6 79 (8.53%) Social Skills
7 24 (2.59%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (1.84%) Law
9 10 (1.08%) Financial Institution
9 10 (1.08%) Games
10 9 (0.97%) Billing
10 9 (0.97%) Legal
10 9 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (0.76%) Marketing
12 2 (0.22%) Prime Brokerage
13 1 (0.11%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 386 (41.68%) Developer
2 351 (37.90%) Software Engineer
3 239 (25.81%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 206 (22.25%) Python Engineer
5 202 (21.81%) Python Software Engineer
6 197 (21.27%) Senior
7 185 (19.98%) Python Developer
8 165 (17.82%) AWS Engineer
9 141 (15.23%) Lead
10 139 (15.01%) Senior Software Engineer
11 124 (13.39%) Analyst
12 105 (11.34%) Java Engineer
13 103 (11.12%) Java Software Engineer
14 100 (10.80%) AWS Software Engineer
14 100 (10.80%) React Developer
15 99 (10.69%) Finance Manager
16 96 (10.37%) .NET Developer
17 81 (8.75%) .NET Software Engineer
18 80 (8.64%) .NET Software Developer
19 79 (8.53%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 436 (47.08%) gRPC
1 436 (47.08%) Protocol Buffers
2 286 (30.89%) Pandas
3 284 (30.67%) NumPy
4 275 (29.70%) SciPy
5 219 (23.65%) React
6 188 (20.30%) Redux
7 147 (15.87%) .NET
8 113 (12.20%) AngularJS
9 99 (10.69%) Material-UI
10 85 (9.18%) Vue
11 82 (8.86%) .NET Core
12 45 (4.86%) ASP.NET
13 44 (4.75%) ASP.NET Core
14 16 (1.73%) .NET Framework
15 15 (1.62%) FIX Protocol
16 13 (1.40%) Kafka
17 12 (1.30%) HTML
18 11 (1.19%) Unity DI Container
19 9 (0.97%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 606 (65.44%) Fixed Income
2 534 (57.67%) Equities
3 530 (57.24%) Derivative
4 448 (48.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 70 (7.56%) Product Ownership
6 54 (5.83%) Clustering
7 42 (4.54%) Pricing Data
8 35 (3.78%) Client/Server
9 13 (1.40%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.19%) Blog
10 11 (1.19%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.19%) Private Cloud
11 10 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (0.97%) Management Information System
12 9 (0.97%) Reference Data
13 8 (0.86%) Algorithms
13 8 (0.86%) Data Centre
13 8 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 42 (4.54%) Linux
2 20 (2.16%) Windows
3 9 (0.97%) Unix
4 4 (0.43%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.43%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.32%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.22%) CentOS
6 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.11%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 715 (77.21%) Asset Management
2 648 (69.98%) Investment Management
3 610 (65.87%) Agile
4 537 (57.99%) Software Engineering
5 173 (18.68%) Full Stack Development
6 154 (16.63%) Machine Learning
7 152 (16.41%) Artificial Intelligence
8 124 (13.39%) DevOps
9 116 (12.53%) Greeks
10 113 (12.20%) Automated Trading
11 111 (11.99%) Line Management
12 93 (10.04%) Analytics
13 77 (8.32%) Fintech
14 69 (7.45%) TDD
15 67 (7.24%) Mentoring
16 61 (6.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 57 (6.16%) Portfolio Management
18 52 (5.62%) Quantitative Research
19 47 (5.08%) Problem-Solving
20 46 (4.97%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 724 (78.19%) Python
2 491 (53.02%) TypeScript
3 453 (48.92%) JavaScript
4 386 (41.68%) Java
5 276 (29.81%) SQL
6 199 (21.49%) C#
7 58 (6.26%) Go
8 41 (4.43%) C++
9 35 (3.78%) R
10 17 (1.84%) Scala
11 15 (1.62%) Rust
12 14 (1.51%) PowerShell
13 13 (1.40%) Ruby
14 7 (0.76%) Bash
15 4 (0.43%) Clojure
15 4 (0.43%) Groovy
16 3 (0.32%) F#
16 3 (0.32%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.32%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 55 (5.94%) Degree
2 17 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (1.73%) Master's Degree
4 11 (1.19%) PhD
5 3 (0.32%) CCIE
5 3 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.22%) ISEB
7 1 (0.11%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (13.61%) Data Quality
2 54 (5.83%) QA
3 7 (0.76%) SOC 1
4 5 (0.54%) MiFID
5 2 (0.22%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 12 (1.30%) Docker
2 10 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.76%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.22%) vSphere
5 1 (0.11%) Firmware
5 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 82 (8.86%) Kubernetes
2 68 (7.34%) Terraform
3 59 (6.37%) Prometheus
4 10 (1.08%) Ansible
5 4 (0.43%) Grafana
5 4 (0.43%) Rancher
6 3 (0.32%) Cisco CUCM
6 3 (0.32%) Stealthwatch
7 2 (0.22%) Control-M
7 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 1 (0.11%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.11%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.11%) Nmap
8 1 (0.11%) Norton AntiVirus
8 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.11%) SCCM
8 1 (0.11%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
8 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 99 (10.69%) Google
2 77 (8.32%) Bloomberg
3 17 (1.84%) VMware
4 15 (1.62%) Oracle
5 14 (1.51%) BISAM
6 13 (1.40%) Charles River
7 11 (1.19%) Microsoft
8 7 (0.76%) Cisco
9 6 (0.65%) Citrix
9 6 (0.65%) Reuters
10 5 (0.54%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.32%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.32%) Splunk
12 2 (0.22%) Calypso
12 2 (0.22%) F5
12 2 (0.22%) Juniper
12 2 (0.22%) NetApp
12 2 (0.22%) Sun
13 1 (0.11%) Altiris
13 1 (0.11%) RightFax