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 29 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 124 112
Rank change year-on-year +12 -12 +40
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 17 10 40
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.87% 0.41% 1.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.21% 1.33% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 36
10th Percentile £433 £493 £400
25th Percentile £463 £550 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £725 £738
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% -1.69% +47.50%
75th Percentile £638 £900 £891
90th Percentile £776 £975 £1,013
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 770 754 925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.29% 31.17% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 565 484 624
10th Percentile £353 £363 £313
25th Percentile £438 £474 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% -1.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £675 £710 £725
90th Percentile £775 £838 £838
London median daily rate £550 £575 £595
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.28% -0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 13
10th Percentile £19.51 £25.72 £17.00
25th Percentile £26.15 £26.20 £18.93
Median hourly rate £31.00 £27.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% +3.85% -49.02%
75th Percentile £41.89 £59.75 £46.75
90th Percentile £67.89 £79.40 £65.60
London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year -28.65% +17.50% -1.64%

Hedge funds
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Hedge funds relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Hedge funds job vacancy trend in Central London

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hedge funds in Central London over the 6 months to 29 November 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

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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 29 November 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 +8 10 £481 -19.79%
City of London +8 7 £700 -17.65% 12
Hedge funds
London

Hedge funds
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
1 1 (5.88%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (5.88%) Big Data
1 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
General
1 12 (70.59%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Banking
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Advertising
3 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.88%) Front Office
3 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Business Analyst
1 4 (23.53%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) PowerShell Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) MiFID Business Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Python Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Python Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Business IT Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Business Operations Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Data Analytics Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Regulatory Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Regulatory Reporting Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) .NET
1 2 (11.76%) Blazor
2 1 (5.88%) NumPy
2 1 (5.88%) PyTorch
2 1 (5.88%) scikit-learn
2 1 (5.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
1 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
1 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Operational Technology
1 1 (5.88%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Windows
2 3 (17.65%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.88%) Linux
3 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
2 4 (23.53%) OO
3 2 (11.76%) Application Packaging
3 2 (11.76%) Asset Management
3 2 (11.76%) Business Analysis
3 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
3 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
3 2 (11.76%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (11.76%) Data Analysis
3 2 (11.76%) Data Science
3 2 (11.76%) Design Patterns
3 2 (11.76%) ETL
3 2 (11.76%) Migration
3 2 (11.76%) OOD
3 2 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (5.88%) AI
4 1 (5.88%) Data Management
4 1 (5.88%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (5.88%) MLOps
4 1 (5.88%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) SQL
2 7 (41.18%) Python
3 6 (35.29%) C#
4 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
5 2 (11.76%) C++
5 2 (11.76%) Java
6 1 (5.88%) C
6 1 (5.88%) Go
6 1 (5.88%) Perl
6 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
6 1 (5.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) MiFID
2 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) Dodd-Frank
2 1 (5.88%) EMIR
2 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (5.88%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) VMware
2 2 (11.76%) DevExpress
3 1 (5.88%) Citrix
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) Vertica