Hedge funds Contracts with Work from Home Options

Hedge fund
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hedge funds in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Hedge funds over the 6 months to 10 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 364 394
Rank change year-on-year +241 +30 +10
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 251 85 237
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.70% 0.36% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.83% 1.13% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 83 159
10th Percentile £588 £500 £435
25th Percentile £688 £525 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% - -
75th Percentile £888 £763 £750
90th Percentile - £860 £850
UK median daily rate £750 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +25.00% -7.69% +8.33%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,308 7,539 13,938
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 29.15% 31.58% 31.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,931 5,341 10,063
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £433 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £825 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 145 224
10th Percentile £15.88 £19.00 £15.10
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.00 £20.94
Median hourly rate £51.00 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +17.98% +28.91%
75th Percentile £69.38 £70.00 £62.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +59.51% -17.57% +8.00%

Hedge funds
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Hedge funds as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Hedge funds trend for jobs with a WFH option

Hedge funds
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Hedge funds.

Hedge funds daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Hedge funds
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Hedge funds over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Hedge funds daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Hedge funds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 132 (52.59%) Apache Airflow
2 119 (47.41%) Apache
3 2 (0.80%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.40%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Orchestrade
2 1 (0.40%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 180 (71.71%) AWS
2 140 (55.78%) dbt
3 123 (49.00%) Snowflake
4 69 (27.49%) GCP
5 21 (8.37%) Azure
6 8 (3.19%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (1.20%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.40%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.40%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.40%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.40%) Sentry
10 1 (0.40%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.80%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (0.80%) Firewall
1 2 (0.80%) Internet
2 1 (0.40%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.40%) Skype
2 1 (0.40%) SSL
2 1 (0.40%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (55.78%) Apache Arrow
1 140 (55.78%) Dremio
2 132 (52.59%) Amazon Athena
3 131 (52.19%) Data Lake
4 111 (44.22%) Apache Ignite
5 28 (11.16%) Big Data
6 8 (3.19%) Power BI
6 8 (3.19%) Tableau
7 3 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.80%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.40%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.40%) Git
2 1 (0.40%) GitLab
2 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.40%) JIRA
General
1 228 (90.84%) Finance
2 182 (72.51%) Front Office
3 154 (61.35%) Banking
4 122 (48.61%) Investment Banking
5 26 (10.36%) Back Office
6 9 (3.59%) Social Skills
7 7 (2.79%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.20%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 76 (30.28%) Developer
1 76 (30.28%) Software Engineer
2 68 (27.09%) Senior
3 62 (24.70%) AWS Engineer
4 56 (22.31%) Lead
5 52 (20.72%) Java Engineer
6 47 (18.73%) Python Engineer
7 46 (18.33%) Java Software Engineer
7 46 (18.33%) Python Software Engineer
8 42 (16.73%) Analyst
8 42 (16.73%) AWS Software Engineer
8 42 (16.73%) Senior Software Engineer
9 36 (14.34%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 36 (14.34%) Software Developer
10 35 (13.94%) Financial Analyst
10 35 (13.94%) Senior Java Engineer
10 35 (13.94%) Team Leader
11 34 (13.55%) Lead Software Developer
11 34 (13.55%) Lead Software Engineer
11 34 (13.55%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (52.59%) gRPC
1 132 (52.59%) Protocol Buffers
2 112 (44.62%) Pandas
3 111 (44.22%) NumPy
3 111 (44.22%) SciPy
4 14 (5.58%) React
5 11 (4.38%) AngularJS
6 8 (3.19%) .NET
7 4 (1.59%) Kafka
8 3 (1.20%) ASP.NET
8 3 (1.20%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (1.20%) PySpark
8 3 (1.20%) Redux
8 3 (1.20%) Web Services
9 2 (0.80%) CSS
9 2 (0.80%) CSS3
9 2 (0.80%) HTML
9 2 (0.80%) HTML5
9 2 (0.80%) Spark Streaming
10 1 (0.40%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 187 (74.50%) Derivative
2 159 (63.35%) Equities
3 153 (60.96%) Fixed Income
4 134 (53.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 23 (9.16%) Product Ownership
6 18 (7.17%) Clustering
7 16 (6.37%) Pricing Data
8 10 (3.98%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.79%) Equity Derivative
10 5 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.59%) Credit Derivative
12 1 (0.40%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.99%) Linux
2 4 (1.59%) Windows
3 3 (1.20%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.80%) Unix
5 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (78.49%) Asset Management
2 163 (64.94%) Investment Management
3 150 (59.76%) Agile
4 133 (52.99%) Software Engineering
5 49 (19.52%) Line Management
6 40 (15.94%) Greeks
7 37 (14.74%) Analytics
8 32 (12.75%) Mentoring
9 24 (9.56%) DevOps
10 21 (8.37%) Product Management
11 20 (7.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 15 (5.98%) Artificial Intelligence
12 15 (5.98%) Machine Learning
13 11 (4.38%) Full Stack Development
13 11 (4.38%) Quantitative Research
14 9 (3.59%) Algorithmic Trading
14 9 (3.59%) Business Analysis
15 8 (3.19%) Systematic Trading
16 7 (2.79%) Low Latency
16 7 (2.79%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 207 (82.47%) Python
2 142 (56.57%) Java
3 137 (54.58%) JavaScript
4 115 (45.82%) TypeScript
5 56 (22.31%) SQL
6 38 (15.14%) C#
7 23 (9.16%) C++
8 19 (7.57%) Go
9 15 (5.98%) R
10 9 (3.59%) Scala
11 6 (2.39%) Ruby
12 4 (1.59%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.40%) Bash
13 1 (0.40%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.40%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (2.79%) Degree
2 4 (1.59%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (0.80%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (15.94%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.79%) QA
3 4 (1.59%) MiFID
4 1 (0.40%) EMIR
4 1 (0.40%) FATCA
System Software
1 4 (1.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (7.97%) Kubernetes
2 19 (7.57%) Prometheus
2 19 (7.57%) Terraform
3 2 (0.80%) Ansible
3 2 (0.80%) Puppet
4 1 (0.40%) Grafana
4 1 (0.40%) Nagios
4 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (6.37%) Bloomberg
2 5 (1.99%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.99%) Reuters
3 2 (0.80%) Cisco
3 2 (0.80%) F5
3 2 (0.80%) Fortinet
3 2 (0.80%) Juniper
3 2 (0.80%) Palo Alto
4 1 (0.40%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.40%) Citrix
4 1 (0.40%) OpenLink
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle
4 1 (0.40%) Splunk
4 1 (0.40%) Sybase