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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 319 383 443
Rank change year-on-year +64 +60 -98
Permanent jobs citing Hedge funds 919 825 1,356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.90% 0.85% 0.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.60% 1.98% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 839 726 1,041
10th Percentile £75,000 £48,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
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 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +14.00% +4.17% -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 35,381 41,658 80,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.48% 42.79% 48.24%
Number of salaries quoted 23,078 22,714 34,326
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,738 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,070 £46,350 £45,625
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 £86,250 £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 28 May 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 28 May 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 +78 907 £112,500 +7.14% 339
London +85 887 £115,000 +9.52% 316
Work from Home +172 569 £115,000 +9.52% 105
UK excluding London -56 32 £71,250 +14.00% 30
South West -26 19 £62,500 +21.95% 5
Scotland -54 11 £80,000 +14.29% 3
North of England - 1 £82,500 - 7
Channel Islands - 1 £120,000 -
North West - 1 £82,500 - 6

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
1 429 (46.68%) Apache Airflow
2 373 (40.59%) Apache
3 5 (0.54%) 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 10 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.33%) S-PLUS
3 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 20 (2.18%) 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
1 658 (71.60%) AWS
2 340 (37.00%) GCP
3 337 (36.67%) dbt
4 306 (33.30%) Snowflake
5 245 (26.66%) Azure
6 13 (1.41%) Amazon S3
7 12 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (1.31%) Serverless
8 11 (1.20%) Amazon SQS
8 11 (1.20%) AWS Step Functions
9 9 (0.98%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (0.87%) Power Platform
11 6 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (0.54%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (0.54%) WhatsApp
13 4 (0.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 3 (0.33%) SaaS
15 1 (0.11%) Datadog
15 1 (0.11%) GitHub
15 1 (0.11%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.98%) TCP/IP
2 8 (0.87%) WAN
3 5 (0.54%) VPN
4 4 (0.44%) Cisco Firepower
4 4 (0.44%) Cisco IOS
4 4 (0.44%) Cisco ISE
4 4 (0.44%) FTP
4 4 (0.44%) Network Security
4 4 (0.44%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.33%) DHCP
5 3 (0.33%) DNS
5 3 (0.33%) Firewall
6 2 (0.22%) BGP
6 2 (0.22%) LAN
6 2 (0.22%) OSPF
6 2 (0.22%) SNMP
7 1 (0.11%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.11%) SAN
7 1 (0.11%) VPLS
7 1 (0.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 365 (39.72%) Apache Ignite
2 338 (36.78%) Dremio
3 337 (36.67%) Apache Arrow
4 329 (35.80%) Amazon Athena
5 314 (34.17%) Data Lake
6 113 (12.30%) PostgreSQL
7 66 (7.18%) Big Data
8 33 (3.59%) SQL Server
9 23 (2.50%) NoSQL
10 22 (2.39%) Relational Database
11 10 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.87%) Power BI
12 8 (0.87%) Tableau
13 5 (0.54%) MongoDB
14 4 (0.44%) Tick Data
15 3 (0.33%) 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 (6.86%) Cypress.io
2 16 (1.74%) Git
3 7 (0.76%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (0.54%) JIRA
6 4 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (0.44%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.33%) 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
1 796 (86.62%) Finance
2 669 (72.80%) Front Office
3 473 (51.47%) Banking
4 313 (34.06%) Investment Banking
5 104 (11.32%) Back Office
6 82 (8.92%) Social Skills
7 26 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (1.85%) Law
9 11 (1.20%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.09%) Billing
10 10 (1.09%) Games
11 9 (0.98%) Legal
11 9 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (0.76%) Marketing
13 2 (0.22%) Prime Brokerage
14 1 (0.11%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 388 (42.22%) Developer
2 342 (37.21%) Software Engineer
3 240 (26.12%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 199 (21.65%) Python Engineer
5 195 (21.22%) Python Software Engineer
6 192 (20.89%) Senior
7 186 (20.24%) Python Developer
8 157 (17.08%) AWS Engineer
9 141 (15.34%) Lead
10 130 (14.15%) Senior Software Engineer
11 126 (13.71%) Analyst
12 100 (10.88%) React Developer
13 98 (10.66%) Java Engineer
14 97 (10.55%) .NET Developer
14 97 (10.55%) Finance Manager
15 96 (10.45%) Java Software Engineer
16 92 (10.01%) AWS Software Engineer
17 82 (8.92%) .NET Software Engineer
18 81 (8.81%) .NET Software Developer
19 77 (8.38%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 426 (46.35%) gRPC
1 426 (46.35%) Protocol Buffers
2 277 (30.14%) Pandas
3 275 (29.92%) NumPy
4 265 (28.84%) SciPy
5 219 (23.83%) React
6 189 (20.57%) Redux
7 149 (16.21%) .NET
8 113 (12.30%) AngularJS
9 99 (10.77%) Material-UI
10 86 (9.36%) Vue
11 82 (8.92%) .NET Core
12 46 (5.01%) ASP.NET
13 45 (4.90%) ASP.NET Core
14 16 (1.74%) .NET Framework
15 15 (1.63%) FIX Protocol
16 13 (1.41%) HTML
16 13 (1.41%) Kafka
17 11 (1.20%) Unity DI Container
18 9 (0.98%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 597 (64.96%) Fixed Income
2 523 (56.91%) Derivative
3 522 (56.80%) Equities
4 437 (47.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 68 (7.40%) Product Ownership
6 54 (5.88%) Clustering
7 36 (3.92%) Pricing Data
8 35 (3.81%) Client/Server
9 13 (1.41%) Onboarding
10 12 (1.31%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.20%) Blog
11 11 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (1.20%) Private Cloud
12 10 (1.09%) Management Information System
13 9 (0.98%) Algorithms
13 9 (0.98%) Reference Data
13 9 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (0.87%) Data Centre
15 7 (0.76%) Credit Derivative
15 7 (0.76%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 41 (4.46%) Linux
2 21 (2.29%) Windows
3 8 (0.87%) Unix
4 6 (0.65%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.54%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.33%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.22%) CentOS
7 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.11%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 707 (76.93%) Asset Management
2 640 (69.64%) Investment Management
3 599 (65.18%) Agile
4 527 (57.34%) Software Engineering
5 173 (18.82%) Full Stack Development
6 156 (16.97%) Machine Learning
7 154 (16.76%) Artificial Intelligence
8 126 (13.71%) DevOps
9 113 (12.30%) Automated Trading
10 112 (12.19%) Greeks
11 111 (12.08%) Line Management
12 90 (9.79%) Analytics
13 78 (8.49%) Fintech
14 70 (7.62%) Mentoring
14 70 (7.62%) TDD
15 61 (6.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 58 (6.31%) Portfolio Management
17 53 (5.77%) Quantitative Research
18 49 (5.33%) Problem-Solving
19 48 (5.22%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 712 (77.48%) Python
2 481 (52.34%) TypeScript
3 444 (48.31%) JavaScript
4 375 (40.81%) Java
5 275 (29.92%) SQL
6 203 (22.09%) C#
7 58 (6.31%) Go
8 42 (4.57%) C++
9 35 (3.81%) R
10 17 (1.85%) Scala
11 14 (1.52%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.52%) Rust
12 13 (1.41%) Ruby
13 7 (0.76%) Bash
14 4 (0.44%) Clojure
14 4 (0.44%) Groovy
15 3 (0.33%) F#
15 3 (0.33%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.33%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 55 (5.98%) Degree
2 18 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (1.74%) Master's Degree
4 11 (1.20%) PhD
5 4 (0.44%) CCIE
5 4 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.22%) ISEB
7 1 (0.11%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (13.28%) Data Quality
2 55 (5.98%) 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 (1.31%) Docker
2 11 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.87%) 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 (8.92%) Kubernetes
2 68 (7.40%) Terraform
3 59 (6.42%) Prometheus
4 10 (1.09%) Ansible
5 4 (0.44%) Cisco CUCM
5 4 (0.44%) Grafana
5 4 (0.44%) Rancher
5 4 (0.44%) Stealthwatch
6 2 (0.22%) Control-M
6 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 1 (0.11%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.11%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.11%) Nmap
7 1 (0.11%) Norton AntiVirus
7 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.11%) Salt
7 1 (0.11%) SCCM
7 1 (0.11%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
7 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 99 (10.77%) Google
2 77 (8.38%) Bloomberg
3 18 (1.96%) VMware
4 15 (1.63%) Oracle
5 14 (1.52%) BISAM
5 14 (1.52%) Charles River
6 12 (1.31%) Microsoft
7 8 (0.87%) Cisco
8 6 (0.65%) Citrix
8 6 (0.65%) Reuters
9 5 (0.54%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.44%) Splunk
11 3 (0.33%) Red Hat
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%) 3PAR
13 1 (0.11%) RightFax