The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hedge funds in IT jobs advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Hedge funds over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Canary Wharf region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Hedge fund
Rank 39 47 -
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -
Permanent jobs citing Hedge funds 4 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 1.389% 0.291% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.985% 1.099% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
Average salary £100,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £42,000 £47,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year
-11.57% -20.83%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Canary Wharf
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
134 91 82
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 46.53% 26.45% 42.05%
Number of salaries quoted 97 68 56
Average salary £80,000 £81,250 £70,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.53% +16.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £57,500 £41,200
10% offered a salary of more than £110,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Hedge funds
London

Hedge funds
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Hedge funds across the Canary Wharf region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Canary Wharf Hedge funds Jobs Demand Trend

Hedge funds
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Hedge funds across the Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Hedge funds Salary Trend

Hedge funds
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Hedge funds across the Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Canary Wharf Hedge funds Salary Histogram

Hedge funds
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing Hedge funds also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Hedge funds.

1 5 (83.33%) C++
1 5 (83.33%) Computer Science
2 4 (66.67%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 4 (66.67%) STL
2 4 (66.67%) UNIX
3 3 (50.00%) Linux
3 3 (50.00%) C
3 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 3 (50.00%) Tandem
4 1 (16.67%) Equities
4 1 (16.67%) C#
4 1 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) OO
4 1 (16.67%) Python
4 1 (16.67%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (16.67%) MVVM
4 1 (16.67%) SciPy
4 1 (16.67%) NumPy
4 1 (16.67%) PyQt
4 1 (16.67%) Cython
4 1 (16.67%) WCF
4 1 (16.67%) WPF
4 1 (16.67%) Silverlight
4 1 (16.67%) Multithreading
4 1 (16.67%) F#

Hedge funds
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing Hedge funds also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Hedge funds. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (66.67%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 4 (66.67%) STL
2 1 (16.67%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (16.67%) SciPy
2 1 (16.67%) NumPy
2 1 (16.67%) PyQt
2 1 (16.67%) WCF
2 1 (16.67%) WPF
2 1 (16.67%) Silverlight
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) C++ Developer
2 1 (16.67%) C Developer
2 1 (16.67%) C Programmer
2 1 (16.67%) C++ Programmer
2 1 (16.67%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Computer Science
2 3 (50.00%) Tandem
3 1 (16.67%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) UNIX
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) OO
1 1 (16.67%) MVVM
1 1 (16.67%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) C++
2 3 (50.00%) C
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Cython
3 1 (16.67%) F#