Hedge fund
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hedge funds in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Hedge funds over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 405 447
Rank change year-on-year +62 +42 -122
Permanent jobs citing Hedge funds 831 804 1,293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.84% 0.79% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.39% 1.85% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 758 702 1,030
10th Percentile £72,500 £47,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £80,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £105,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £142,500 £150,000 £136,250
90th Percentile £165,000 £200,000 £171,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -4.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,801 43,406 74,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.34% 42.74% 47.58%
Number of salaries quoted 22,954 23,484 33,996
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Hedge funds
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Hedge funds in the UK

Hedge funds
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Hedge funds.

Salary trend for Hedge funds in the UK

Hedge funds
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Hedge funds over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Hedge funds in the UK

Hedge funds
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Hedge funds within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +85 819 £112,500 +7.14% 352
London +91 800 £112,500 +7.14% 332
Work from Home +145 482 £115,000 +15.00% 98
UK excluding London -45 31 £67,500 +8.00% 22
South West -33 16 £65,000 +26.83% 9
Scotland -60 11 £80,000 +14.29% 6
South East +1 2 £22,500 -64.00% 4
North West - 1 £82,500 - 1
Channel Islands - 1 £120,000 -
North of England - 1 £82,500 - 2

Hedge funds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 331 (39.83%) Apache Airflow
2 279 (33.57%) Apache
3 8 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.48%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.24%) Confluence
5 2 (0.24%) Ethereum
5 2 (0.24%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.24%) S-PLUS
2 2 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (2.53%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.84%) thinkFolio
3 3 (0.36%) Adaptiv
4 2 (0.24%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.24%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.12%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 551 (66.31%) AWS
2 319 (38.39%) GCP
3 245 (29.48%) Azure
4 239 (28.76%) dbt
5 216 (25.99%) Snowflake
6 9 (1.08%) Amazon S3
6 9 (1.08%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (0.96%) Serverless
8 7 (0.84%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (0.84%) AWS Step Functions
9 6 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (0.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (0.48%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (0.48%) GitHub
10 4 (0.48%) WhatsApp
11 3 (0.36%) SaaS
12 2 (0.24%) GitHub Actions
13 1 (0.12%) Amazon ECS
13 1 (0.12%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.32%) TCP/IP
2 10 (1.20%) WAN
3 9 (1.08%) VPN
4 7 (0.84%) Cisco Firepower
4 7 (0.84%) Cisco IOS
4 7 (0.84%) Cisco ISE
4 7 (0.84%) Network Security
4 7 (0.84%) SD-WAN
5 5 (0.60%) Firewall
6 3 (0.36%) BGP
6 3 (0.36%) FTP
6 3 (0.36%) OSPF
7 2 (0.24%) DHCP
7 2 (0.24%) DNS
8 1 (0.12%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.12%) LAN
8 1 (0.12%) SAN
8 1 (0.12%) SNMP
8 1 (0.12%) VRRP
8 1 (0.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 279 (33.57%) Apache Ignite
2 240 (28.88%) Dremio
3 239 (28.76%) Amazon Athena
3 239 (28.76%) Apache Arrow
4 216 (25.99%) Data Lake
5 103 (12.39%) PostgreSQL
6 46 (5.54%) Big Data
7 31 (3.73%) SQL Server
8 20 (2.41%) Relational Database
9 18 (2.17%) NoSQL
10 12 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 12 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.48%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.48%) Tick Data
12 3 (0.36%) Event Store
13 2 (0.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 2 (0.24%) SQLPlus
14 1 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 55 (6.62%) Cypress.io
2 14 (1.68%) Git
3 7 (0.84%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (0.48%) GitLab
5 4 (0.48%) JIRA
5 4 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (0.48%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.24%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.24%) Postman
6 2 (0.24%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.12%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
General
1 702 (84.48%) Finance
2 577 (69.43%) Front Office
3 390 (46.93%) Banking
4 231 (27.80%) Investment Banking
5 110 (13.24%) Back Office
6 90 (10.83%) Social Skills
7 31 (3.73%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (2.05%) Financial Institution
9 13 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.56%) Law
10 12 (1.44%) Billing
11 9 (1.08%) Games
11 9 (1.08%) Legal
11 9 (1.08%) Marketing
11 9 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.24%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.24%) Prime Brokerage
13 1 (0.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 380 (45.73%) Developer
2 288 (34.66%) Software Engineer
3 223 (26.84%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 183 (22.02%) Python Developer
5 158 (19.01%) Python Engineer
5 158 (19.01%) Senior
6 154 (18.53%) Python Software Engineer
7 120 (14.44%) Analyst
8 119 (14.32%) Lead
9 109 (13.12%) AWS Engineer
10 98 (11.79%) .NET Developer
11 96 (11.55%) Senior Software Engineer
12 95 (11.43%) Finance Manager
13 92 (11.07%) React Developer
14 85 (10.23%) .NET Software Engineer
15 84 (10.11%) .NET Software Developer
16 73 (8.78%) Quantitative Developer
17 71 (8.54%) Financial Analyst
18 65 (7.82%) Java Engineer
18 65 (7.82%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 328 (39.47%) gRPC
1 328 (39.47%) Protocol Buffers
2 208 (25.03%) React
3 199 (23.95%) Pandas
4 197 (23.71%) NumPy
5 187 (22.50%) SciPy
6 184 (22.14%) Redux
7 146 (17.57%) .NET
8 110 (13.24%) AngularJS
9 91 (10.95%) Material-UI
10 88 (10.59%) Vue
11 74 (8.90%) .NET Core
12 49 (5.90%) ASP.NET
13 48 (5.78%) ASP.NET Core
14 15 (1.81%) HTML
15 14 (1.68%) FIX Protocol
16 12 (1.44%) Kafka
17 11 (1.32%) .NET Framework
18 8 (0.96%) CSS
19 7 (0.84%) Unity DI Container
Miscellaneous
1 516 (62.09%) Fixed Income
2 450 (54.15%) Derivative
3 434 (52.23%) Equities
4 357 (42.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 52 (6.26%) Product Ownership
6 42 (5.05%) Clustering
7 35 (4.21%) Client/Server
8 18 (2.17%) Pricing Data
9 15 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (1.68%) Management Information System
11 13 (1.56%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.44%) Data Structures
12 12 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (1.32%) Credit Derivative
13 11 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (1.08%) Data Centre
14 9 (1.08%) Reference Data
15 8 (0.96%) Algorithms
15 8 (0.96%) PKI
16 7 (0.84%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 40 (4.81%) Linux
2 21 (2.53%) Windows
3 9 (1.08%) Unix
4 8 (0.96%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.84%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.36%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.12%) CentOS
8 1 (0.12%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.12%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 609 (73.29%) Asset Management
2 564 (67.87%) Investment Management
3 507 (61.01%) Agile
4 451 (54.27%) Software Engineering
5 161 (19.37%) Full Stack Development
6 145 (17.45%) Machine Learning
7 144 (17.33%) Artificial Intelligence
8 119 (14.32%) DevOps
9 107 (12.88%) Automated Trading
10 87 (10.47%) Line Management
11 82 (9.87%) Fintech
12 76 (9.15%) Greeks
13 75 (9.03%) Mentoring
14 70 (8.42%) Analytics
15 68 (8.18%) TDD
16 64 (7.70%) Quantitative Research
17 55 (6.62%) Portfolio Management
18 51 (6.14%) Problem-Solving
19 50 (6.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 48 (5.78%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 610 (73.41%) Python
2 393 (47.29%) TypeScript
3 353 (42.48%) JavaScript
4 281 (33.81%) Java
5 253 (30.45%) SQL
6 210 (25.27%) C#
7 48 (5.78%) C++
8 46 (5.54%) Go
9 43 (5.17%) R
10 17 (2.05%) Scala
11 15 (1.81%) PowerShell
12 14 (1.68%) Ruby
12 14 (1.68%) Rust
13 6 (0.72%) Bash
14 3 (0.36%) Clojure
14 3 (0.36%) F#
14 3 (0.36%) Groovy
14 3 (0.36%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.36%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 59 (7.10%) Degree
2 23 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (2.17%) Master's Degree
4 11 (1.32%) PhD
5 7 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (0.72%) CCIE
7 2 (0.24%) ISEB
8 1 (0.12%) CCNP
8 1 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (9.63%) Data Quality
2 54 (6.50%) QA
3 7 (0.84%) SOC 1
4 3 (0.36%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.36%) MiFID
4 3 (0.36%) SLA
5 2 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 14 (1.68%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.44%) Docker
2 12 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.48%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.24%) vSphere
5 1 (0.12%) Firmware
5 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 71 (8.54%) Kubernetes
2 56 (6.74%) Terraform
3 47 (5.66%) Prometheus
4 10 (1.20%) Ansible
5 7 (0.84%) Cisco CUCM
5 7 (0.84%) Stealthwatch
6 4 (0.48%) Control-M
6 4 (0.48%) Grafana
6 4 (0.48%) Rancher
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 3 (0.36%) SafeCom
8 2 (0.24%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.12%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.12%) Puppet
9 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 1 (0.12%) Salt
9 1 (0.12%) SCCM
9 1 (0.12%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
9 1 (0.12%) WSUS
9 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 91 (10.95%) Google
2 69 (8.30%) Bloomberg
3 19 (2.29%) VMware
4 17 (2.05%) Charles River
5 16 (1.93%) Oracle
6 14 (1.68%) BISAM
6 14 (1.68%) Microsoft
7 13 (1.56%) Cisco
8 7 (0.84%) Splunk
9 6 (0.72%) Citrix
10 5 (0.60%) Reuters
11 3 (0.36%) Juniper
11 3 (0.36%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.36%) SolarWinds
11 3 (0.36%) Veritas
12 2 (0.24%) Calypso
12 2 (0.24%) HubSpot
12 2 (0.24%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.24%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.24%) Sun