Hedge funds Contracts in Central London

Hedge fund
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hedge funds in contract job vacancies advertised in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Hedge funds over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 161 84
Rank change year-on-year +60 -77 +69
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 31 15 133
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.28% 0.40% 2.95%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.12% 1.11% 8.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 14 30
10th Percentile £425 £463 £400
25th Percentile £500 £575 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £800 £588
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +36.17% -14.55%
75th Percentile £825 £859 £638
90th Percentile £938 £938 £831
London median daily rate £725 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +20.83% -4.00% +4.17%

All Generic Skills
Central London

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 contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 753 1,357 1,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 31.05% 35.98% 35.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 931 1,181
10th Percentile £263 £325 £400
25th Percentile £425 £475 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £615 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% +6.96% +4.55%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £700
90th Percentile £849 £850 £800
London median daily rate £588 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.08% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 17 24
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.78 £18.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £25.00 £37.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -24.73% +158.69%
75th Percentile £27.00 £83.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £32.05 £88.30 £64.78
London median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £43.80
% change year-on-year -25.71% -20.09% +32.73%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Hedge funds in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hedge funds in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Hedge funds in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hedge funds in Central London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Hedge funds in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Hedge funds in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Hedge funds in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of Westminster +4 21 £700 -12.50%
City of London +46 8 £775 -1.59% 1
Hedge funds
London

Hedge funds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 1 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.23%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (29.03%) AWS
2 4 (12.90%) Azure
3 2 (6.45%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (6.45%) Entra ID
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.45%) Power Platform
3 2 (6.45%) Snowflake
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.23%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) Skype
1 1 (3.23%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (19.35%) SQL Server
2 3 (9.68%) Big Data
2 3 (9.68%) Data Lake
2 3 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.45%) MongoDB
3 2 (6.45%) Power BI
3 2 (6.45%) RDBMS
3 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.23%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.23%) MySQL
4 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) GitLab
1 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (38.71%) Finance
2 9 (29.03%) Front Office
2 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (54.84%) Developer
2 6 (19.35%) Analyst
3 4 (12.90%) Java Developer
3 4 (12.90%) Quantitative Developer
3 4 (12.90%) SQL Analyst
4 3 (9.68%) Business Analyst
4 3 (9.68%) C# Developer
4 3 (9.68%) ETL Developer
4 3 (9.68%) Python Developer
4 3 (9.68%) SQL Data Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) AWS Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Data Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (6.45%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
5 2 (6.45%) Full Stack Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Report Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) SQL Reporting Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Support Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) UI Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (22.58%) AngularJS
2 6 (19.35%) React
3 5 (16.13%) .NET
4 4 (12.90%) Kafka
5 3 (9.68%) .NET Core
6 2 (6.45%) CSS
6 2 (6.45%) CSS3
6 2 (6.45%) HTML
6 2 (6.45%) HTML5
6 2 (6.45%) Pandas
6 2 (6.45%) Web Services
7 1 (3.23%) NumPy
7 1 (3.23%) PySpark
7 1 (3.23%) REST
7 1 (3.23%) SciPy
7 1 (3.23%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (29.03%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (12.90%) Fixed Income
3 3 (9.68%) Equities
4 2 (6.45%) Market Risk
5 1 (3.23%) Derivative
5 1 (3.23%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Windows
2 2 (6.45%) Windows 10
2 2 (6.45%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.23%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (19.35%) Microservices
2 4 (12.90%) ETL
2 4 (12.90%) Re-Platforming
2 4 (12.90%) Systematic Trading
3 3 (9.68%) Analytics
3 3 (9.68%) Data Analysis
3 3 (9.68%) DevOps
3 3 (9.68%) Full Stack Development
3 3 (9.68%) Investment Management
4 2 (6.45%) CI/CD
4 2 (6.45%) Computer Science
4 2 (6.45%) Data Analytics
4 2 (6.45%) Data Science
4 2 (6.45%) Front End Development
4 2 (6.45%) Open Source
4 2 (6.45%) User Experience
4 2 (6.45%) UX Design
4 2 (6.45%) Visualisation
4 2 (6.45%) Wealth Management
4 2 (6.45%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) SQL
2 9 (29.03%) Python
3 7 (22.58%) C#
4 6 (19.35%) Java
4 6 (19.35%) JavaScript
5 5 (16.13%) PowerShell
6 3 (9.68%) Scala
7 2 (6.45%) T-SQL
7 2 (6.45%) VBA
8 1 (3.23%) C++
8 1 (3.23%) Kotlin
8 1 (3.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (6.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) MiFID
2 2 (6.45%) QA
3 1 (3.23%) EMIR
3 1 (3.23%) FATCA
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Grafana
1 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.23%) Nagios
1 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (6.45%) Bloomberg
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
1 2 (6.45%) Reuters
2 1 (3.23%) Citrix
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle
2 1 (3.23%) Splunk
2 1 (3.23%) Sybase