Hedge funds Contract Job Trends in Central London

Hedge fund
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hedge funds in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hedge funds over the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 113 124
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 -14
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 16 17 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.82% 0.73% 1.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.20% 2.36% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 38
10th Percentile £384 £373 £425
25th Percentile £434 £508 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £725 £663
Median % change year-on-year -26.90% +9.43% +35.90%
75th Percentile £609 £900 £850
90th Percentile £694 £1,076 £938
London median daily rate £750 £800 £700
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% +3.70%

All Generic Skills
Central London

Hedge funds falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 727 719 1,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 37.44% 30.92% 33.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 454 725
10th Percentile £350 £357 £313
25th Percentile £446 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £591 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% -1.46% +3.00%
75th Percentile £688 £723 £731
90th Percentile £800 £838 £839
London median daily rate £560 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 10
10th Percentile £17.08 £19.60 £16.96
25th Percentile £20.89 £22.90 £19.25
Median hourly rate £26.45 £25.79 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -17.47% -36.22%
75th Percentile £50.79 £27.00 £40.87
90th Percentile £88.75 £53.20 £54.58
London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.62 £29.50
% change year-on-year -13.03% +7.19% -0.42%

Hedge funds
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Hedge funds in Central London

Hedge funds
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Hedge funds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Hedge funds

Hedge funds
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hedge funds in Central London over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hedge funds in Central London

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Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Hedge funds.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Hedge funds

Hedge funds
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 19 September 2025. 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
City of Westminster +2 11 £475 -30.91%
City of London +8 5 £625 -30.56% 48
Hedge funds
London

Hedge funds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) BGP
1 2 (12.50%) HTTP
1 2 (12.50%) Network Security
1 2 (12.50%) SSL
1 2 (12.50%) WAN
1 2 (12.50%) WebEx
1 2 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (6.25%) Big Data
1 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
1 1 (6.25%) Terragrunt
General
1 12 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Advertising
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
3 1 (6.25%) Front Office
3 1 (6.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Developer
1 4 (25.00%) PowerShell Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Python Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Python Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) .NET Developer
4 1 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Front Office Developer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Project Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Support Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) .NET
1 2 (12.50%) Blazor
2 1 (6.25%) gRPC
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (6.25%) Next.js
2 1 (6.25%) NumPy
2 1 (6.25%) OAuth
2 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
2 1 (6.25%) OpenID
2 1 (6.25%) Pandas
2 1 (6.25%) Polars
2 1 (6.25%) React
2 1 (6.25%) REST
2 1 (6.25%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Fixed Income
2 1 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (6.25%) iPad
2 1 (6.25%) iPhone
2 1 (6.25%) Operational Technology
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
2 1 (6.25%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Windows 10
3 2 (12.50%) Linux
4 1 (6.25%) Apple iOS
4 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Software Engineering
2 3 (18.75%) Asset Management
3 2 (12.50%) Application Packaging
3 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 2 (12.50%) Configuration Management
3 2 (12.50%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (12.50%) Design Patterns
3 2 (12.50%) Load Balancing
3 2 (12.50%) Network Performance Management
3 2 (12.50%) OO
3 2 (12.50%) OOD
3 2 (12.50%) Performance Management
3 2 (12.50%) Process Improvement
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (6.25%) Analytics
4 1 (6.25%) API Development
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (6.25%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Python
2 5 (31.25%) SQL
3 4 (25.00%) C#
3 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.25%) C
4 1 (6.25%) C++
4 1 (6.25%) Go
4 1 (6.25%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) Perl
4 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
1 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (6.25%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Ansible
1 3 (18.75%) SCCM
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Cisco
1 3 (18.75%) VMware
2 2 (12.50%) Arista
2 2 (12.50%) DevExpress
2 2 (12.50%) Meraki
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Apple
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.25%) Vertica