Hedge funds Contracts in London

Hedge fund
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hedge funds in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Hedge funds over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 304 192
Rank change year-on-year +201 -112 +42
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 421 189 587
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.40% 0.72% 1.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.22% 2.00% 4.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 397 161 460
10th Percentile £538 £450 £438
25th Percentile £600 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £850 £775 £741
90th Percentile £888 £850 £850
England median daily rate £725 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +26.09% -8.00% +4.17%

All Generic Skills
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 London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,829 9,472 14,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.22% 35.90% 36.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,130 6,814 10,354
10th Percentile £313 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £713
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 116 202
10th Percentile £15.49 £19.22 £18.50
25th Percentile £17.64 £22.29 £23.91
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £43.78
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -20.05% +25.50%
75th Percentile £49.88 £64.63 £54.22
90th Percentile £69.00 £84.38 £71.19
England median hourly rate £33.50 £22.49 £26.98
% change year-on-year +48.99% -16.66% +1.24%

Hedge funds
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Hedge funds in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Hedge funds in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hedge funds in London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Hedge funds in London

Hedge funds
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Hedge funds in London

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Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 13 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
Central London +58 30 £700 -6.67% 3
Hedge funds
England

Hedge funds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 168 (39.90%) Apache Airflow
2 148 (35.15%) Apache
3 8 (1.90%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.24%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 20 (4.75%) Aladdin
2 6 (1.43%) SimCorp Dimension
3 3 (0.71%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.48%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.24%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 261 (62.00%) AWS
2 153 (36.34%) GCP
3 117 (27.79%) Azure
4 106 (25.18%) dbt
5 99 (23.52%) Snowflake
6 8 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (1.90%) Power Platform
7 4 (0.95%) Entra ID
8 3 (0.71%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (0.48%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.48%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.24%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.24%) Figma
10 1 (0.24%) Sentry
10 1 (0.24%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.90%) VPN
2 7 (1.66%) Wireless
3 3 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (0.71%) Firewall
3 3 (0.71%) Internet
4 1 (0.24%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (0.24%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.24%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.24%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.24%) FTP
4 1 (0.24%) Network Security
4 1 (0.24%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.24%) Skype
4 1 (0.24%) WAN
4 1 (0.24%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (35.15%) Apache Ignite
2 106 (25.18%) Amazon Athena
2 106 (25.18%) Apache Arrow
2 106 (25.18%) Dremio
3 99 (23.52%) Data Lake
4 67 (15.91%) PostgreSQL
5 25 (5.94%) Big Data
6 22 (5.23%) SQL Server
7 8 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (1.90%) Power BI
8 7 (1.66%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.43%) Crystal Reports
9 6 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (1.43%) Tableau
10 4 (0.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.48%) MySQL
12 2 (0.48%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.48%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 43 (10.21%) Cypress.io
2 8 (1.90%) JIRA
3 5 (1.19%) Git
4 4 (0.95%) SpecFlow
5 3 (0.71%) GitLab
5 3 (0.71%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.48%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 353 (83.85%) Finance
2 286 (67.93%) Front Office
3 227 (53.92%) Banking
4 109 (25.89%) Investment Banking
5 41 (9.74%) Back Office
6 29 (6.89%) Social Skills
7 25 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (3.80%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.71%) Retail
10 2 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.48%) Law
10 2 (0.48%) Marketing
10 2 (0.48%) Prime Brokerage
10 2 (0.48%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.24%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.24%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 194 (46.08%) Developer
2 135 (32.07%) Software Engineer
3 110 (26.13%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 93 (22.09%) Python Developer
5 92 (21.85%) Python Engineer
6 90 (21.38%) Python Software Engineer
7 72 (17.10%) Analyst
8 66 (15.68%) React Developer
9 59 (14.01%) Senior
10 57 (13.54%) Finance Manager
11 48 (11.40%) Financial Analyst
12 43 (10.21%) Lead
13 42 (9.98%) AWS Engineer
14 40 (9.50%) Full Stack Developer
15 36 (8.55%) Business Analyst
16 33 (7.84%) .NET Developer
17 32 (7.60%) Java Engineer
18 31 (7.36%) Full Stack Engineer
18 31 (7.36%) Full Stack Python Developer
18 31 (7.36%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (39.43%) gRPC
1 166 (39.43%) Protocol Buffers
2 104 (24.70%) React
3 89 (21.14%) Pandas
4 88 (20.90%) NumPy
4 88 (20.90%) Redux
5 87 (20.67%) SciPy
6 61 (14.49%) Material-UI
7 42 (9.98%) .NET
8 24 (5.70%) AngularJS
9 20 (4.75%) .NET Core
10 13 (3.09%) Kafka
11 12 (2.85%) HTML
12 11 (2.61%) ASP.NET
12 11 (2.61%) ASP.NET Core
12 11 (2.61%) CSS
13 8 (1.90%) Vue
14 7 (1.66%) Spark Streaming
15 6 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
15 6 (1.43%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 231 (54.87%) Fixed Income
2 213 (50.59%) Derivative
3 203 (48.22%) Equities
4 144 (34.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 31 (7.36%) Product Ownership
6 19 (4.51%) Greenfield Project
7 16 (3.80%) Clustering
8 15 (3.56%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.90%) Equity Derivative
9 8 (1.90%) Pricing Data
10 7 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.19%) Credit Derivative
12 4 (0.95%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.95%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.48%) Market Risk
13 2 (0.48%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 1 (0.24%) Enterprise Software
14 1 (0.24%) Reference Data
14 1 (0.24%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.85%) Windows
2 9 (2.14%) Linux
2 9 (2.14%) Windows 10
3 7 (1.66%) Windows 7
4 5 (1.19%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.71%) Unix
5 3 (0.71%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.24%) CentOS
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (67.93%) Asset Management
2 260 (61.76%) Investment Management
3 248 (58.91%) Agile
4 195 (46.32%) Software Engineering
5 100 (23.75%) Full Stack Development
6 97 (23.04%) Artificial Intelligence
7 91 (21.62%) Machine Learning
8 63 (14.96%) Automated Trading
9 53 (12.59%) DevOps
10 44 (10.45%) Line Management
11 43 (10.21%) Mentoring
12 36 (8.55%) Fintech
13 32 (7.60%) Analytics
14 31 (7.36%) TDD
15 28 (6.65%) Greeks
16 24 (5.70%) Roadmaps
17 23 (5.46%) Business Intelligence
18 21 (4.99%) Scrum
19 19 (4.51%) Product Management
20 18 (4.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 281 (66.75%) Python
2 175 (41.57%) TypeScript
3 140 (33.25%) JavaScript
4 130 (30.88%) Java
5 114 (27.08%) SQL
6 100 (23.75%) C#
7 24 (5.70%) C++
7 24 (5.70%) Scala
8 19 (4.51%) R
9 17 (4.04%) Go
10 14 (3.33%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.43%) Ruby
12 3 (0.71%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.48%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.48%) VBA
14 1 (0.24%) F#
14 1 (0.24%) Groovy
14 1 (0.24%) Perl
14 1 (0.24%) PHP
14 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (3.33%) Degree
2 7 (1.66%) Numerate Degree
3 5 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (0.71%) AWS Certification
4 3 (0.71%) CISSP
5 2 (0.48%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.48%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (7.84%) QA
2 29 (6.89%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.90%) MiFID
4 7 (1.66%) SLA
5 1 (0.24%) EMIR
5 1 (0.24%) FATCA
5 1 (0.24%) GRC
System Software
1 9 (2.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (4.28%) Kubernetes
2 17 (4.04%) Prometheus
2 17 (4.04%) Terraform
3 3 (0.71%) Ansible
3 3 (0.71%) Puppet
4 2 (0.48%) PingFederate
4 2 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.24%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.24%) Grafana
5 1 (0.24%) Nagios
5 1 (0.24%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 61 (14.49%) Google
2 34 (8.08%) Bloomberg
3 18 (4.28%) Microsoft
4 13 (3.09%) ServiceNow
5 12 (2.85%) BISAM
6 6 (1.43%) SimCorp
7 5 (1.19%) Oracle
8 4 (0.95%) Cisco
8 4 (0.95%) Reuters
9 3 (0.71%) F5
9 3 (0.71%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.71%) Juniper
9 3 (0.71%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.48%) Avaloq
10 2 (0.48%) Charles River
10 2 (0.48%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.48%) ForgeRock
10 2 (0.48%) Okta
10 2 (0.48%) Splunk
11 1 (0.24%) OpenLink