Hedge funds Contracts in England

Hedge fund
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hedge funds in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Hedge funds over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 231 394 309
Rank change year-on-year +163 -85 +66
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 373 288 623
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.01% 0.57% 0.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.28% 1.69% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 245 447
10th Percentile £500 £450 £438
25th Percentile £588 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +26.09% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £850 £694 £725
90th Percentile £888 £838 £850
UK median daily rate £725 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +26.09% -4.17% -

All Generic Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,373 17,010 24,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.77% 33.65% 33.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,425 11,824 17,120
10th Percentile £263 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 818 598 643
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.16 £10.63 £16.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +1.24%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.15 £65.77
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%

Hedge funds
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Hedge funds in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Hedge funds in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hedge funds in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Hedge funds in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Hedge funds in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +190 369 £725 +20.83% 273
West Midlands -5 2 £300 -40.00%
Midlands -13 2 £300 -40.00%
North of England +10 1 £500 - 2
North West +10 1 £500 +270.37% 1
Hedge funds
UK

Hedge funds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 120 (32.17%) Apache Airflow
2 106 (28.42%) Apache
3 5 (1.34%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.27%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 11 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 18 (4.83%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.34%) SimCorp Dimension
3 2 (0.54%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.27%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 206 (55.23%) AWS
2 125 (33.51%) GCP
3 100 (26.81%) Azure
4 78 (20.91%) dbt
5 72 (19.30%) Snowflake
6 10 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (1.88%) Power Platform
8 3 (0.80%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.54%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.54%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.27%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (0.27%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.27%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.27%) Figma
10 1 (0.27%) Serverless
10 1 (0.27%) Supabase
10 1 (0.27%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.22%) VPN
2 10 (2.68%) Wireless
3 2 (0.54%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (0.54%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (0.54%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (0.54%) Network Security
3 2 (0.54%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.54%) WAN
4 1 (0.27%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.27%) Firewall
4 1 (0.27%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.27%) FTP
4 1 (0.27%) Internet
4 1 (0.27%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.27%) Skype
4 1 (0.27%) SSL
4 1 (0.27%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (28.42%) Apache Ignite
2 78 (20.91%) Amazon Athena
2 78 (20.91%) Apache Arrow
2 78 (20.91%) Dremio
3 71 (19.03%) Data Lake
4 48 (12.87%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (5.90%) SQL Server
6 19 (5.09%) Big Data
7 7 (1.88%) Power BI
7 7 (1.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (1.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (1.61%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.34%) Crystal Reports
9 5 (1.34%) Tableau
10 4 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (0.80%) MySQL
12 2 (0.54%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.54%) Relational Database
13 1 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 27 (7.24%) Cypress.io
2 7 (1.88%) JIRA
3 4 (1.07%) SpecFlow
4 3 (0.80%) Git
5 2 (0.54%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.54%) GitLab
5 2 (0.54%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 303 (81.23%) Finance
2 241 (64.61%) Front Office
3 179 (47.99%) Banking
4 84 (22.52%) Investment Banking
5 41 (10.99%) Back Office
6 27 (7.24%) Social Skills
7 26 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
8 18 (4.83%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.54%) Law
9 2 (0.54%) Marketing
9 2 (0.54%) Prime Brokerage
9 2 (0.54%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
10 1 (0.27%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.27%) Publishing
10 1 (0.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 174 (46.65%) Developer
2 104 (27.88%) Software Engineer
3 87 (23.32%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 72 (19.30%) Analyst
5 70 (18.77%) Python Developer
6 63 (16.89%) Python Engineer
7 61 (16.35%) Python Software Engineer
8 58 (15.55%) Finance Manager
9 52 (13.94%) Senior
10 47 (12.60%) React Developer
11 45 (12.06%) Financial Analyst
12 37 (9.92%) .NET Developer
13 35 (9.38%) Lead
14 33 (8.85%) Business Analyst
15 30 (8.04%) Full Stack Developer
16 27 (7.24%) AWS Engineer
17 26 (6.97%) .NET Software Developer
17 26 (6.97%) .NET Software Engineer
17 26 (6.97%) Software Asset Manager
17 26 (6.97%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (31.64%) gRPC
1 118 (31.64%) Protocol Buffers
2 86 (23.06%) React
3 71 (19.03%) Redux
4 67 (17.96%) Pandas
5 66 (17.69%) NumPy
6 65 (17.43%) SciPy
7 47 (12.60%) .NET
8 41 (10.99%) Material-UI
9 26 (6.97%) AngularJS
10 21 (5.63%) .NET Core
11 14 (3.75%) ASP.NET
11 14 (3.75%) ASP.NET Core
12 12 (3.22%) HTML
13 11 (2.95%) CSS
13 11 (2.95%) Vue
14 8 (2.14%) Kafka
15 5 (1.34%) HTML5
15 5 (1.34%) RabbitMQ
15 5 (1.34%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 193 (51.74%) Derivative
2 187 (50.13%) Fixed Income
3 166 (44.50%) Equities
4 123 (32.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 27 (7.24%) Product Ownership
6 20 (5.36%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (3.75%) Algorithms
8 10 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (2.68%) Clustering
8 10 (2.68%) Equity Derivative
9 6 (1.61%) Credit Derivative
10 4 (1.07%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.07%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.07%) Pricing Data
11 2 (0.54%) Animation
11 2 (0.54%) Market Risk
11 2 (0.54%) PKI
11 2 (0.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 1 (0.27%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.27%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.02%) Windows
2 12 (3.22%) Windows 10
3 9 (2.41%) Windows 7
4 5 (1.34%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.34%) Linux
5 3 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.27%) CentOS
6 1 (0.27%) Unix
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (63.27%) Asset Management
2 223 (59.79%) Investment Management
3 205 (54.96%) Agile
4 157 (42.09%) Software Engineering
5 81 (21.72%) Full Stack Development
6 74 (19.84%) Artificial Intelligence
7 68 (18.23%) Machine Learning
8 48 (12.87%) DevOps
9 44 (11.80%) Automated Trading
10 43 (11.53%) Mentoring
11 41 (10.99%) Fintech
12 34 (9.12%) TDD
13 32 (8.58%) Analytics
13 32 (8.58%) Line Management
14 22 (5.90%) Greeks
14 22 (5.90%) Roadmaps
15 21 (5.63%) Business Intelligence
15 21 (5.63%) Scrum
16 19 (5.09%) ITIL
17 17 (4.56%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 224 (60.05%) Python
2 139 (37.27%) TypeScript
3 116 (31.10%) JavaScript
4 108 (28.95%) SQL
5 104 (27.88%) C#
6 97 (26.01%) Java
7 23 (6.17%) C++
8 21 (5.63%) Scala
9 20 (5.36%) R
10 14 (3.75%) PowerShell
11 11 (2.95%) Go
12 6 (1.61%) Ruby
13 4 (1.07%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.80%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.54%) Bash
15 2 (0.54%) VBA
16 1 (0.27%) ANSI SQL
16 1 (0.27%) Clojure
16 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.27%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (2.95%) Degree
2 7 (1.88%) Numerate Degree
3 5 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.54%) CISSP
4 2 (0.54%) PMI Certification
4 2 (0.54%) PMP
5 1 (0.27%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (9.38%) QA
2 22 (5.90%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.68%) SLA
4 8 (2.14%) MiFID
5 1 (0.27%) EMIR
5 1 (0.27%) FATCA
5 1 (0.27%) GRC
System Software
1 9 (2.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (2.95%) Kubernetes
1 11 (2.95%) Terraform
2 10 (2.68%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.54%) Cisco CUCM
4 2 (0.54%) Stealthwatch
5 1 (0.27%) Ansible
5 1 (0.27%) PingFederate
5 1 (0.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 42 (11.26%) Google
2 32 (8.58%) Bloomberg
3 23 (6.17%) Microsoft
4 15 (4.02%) ServiceNow
5 11 (2.95%) BISAM
6 5 (1.34%) Oracle
6 5 (1.34%) SimCorp
7 4 (1.07%) Reuters
8 3 (0.80%) Cisco
9 2 (0.54%) Avaloq
9 2 (0.54%) Charles River
9 2 (0.54%) Murex
9 2 (0.54%) Splunk
9 2 (0.54%) Sybase
10 1 (0.27%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.27%) F5
10 1 (0.27%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.27%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.27%) Okta
10 1 (0.27%) Palo Alto