Hedge funds Contracts 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 112 149
Rank change year-on-year +2 +37 -61
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 18 25 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.90% 1.05% 0.74%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.57% 3.32% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 23 27
10th Percentile £363 £365 £485
25th Percentile £427 £475 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £725
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -10.34% +38.10%
75th Percentile £628 £811 £850
90th Percentile £681 £900 £884
London median daily rate £725 £800 £613
% change year-on-year -9.38% +30.61% -5.77%

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 701 754 1,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 34.88% 31.76% 34.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 512 879
10th Percentile £352 £313 £313
25th Percentile £469 £444 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -6.12% +6.52%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £750
90th Percentile £800 £850 £850
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 17
10th Percentile £17.08 £12.75 £18.78
25th Percentile £23.52 £15.19 £35.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £23.40 £39.83
Median % change year-on-year +24.23% -41.25% -14.34%
75th Percentile £50.79 £27.00 £83.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £33.98 £88.30
London median hourly rate £30.00 £28.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% -20.00% -13.58%

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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hedge funds in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Hedge funds in Central London

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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 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hedge funds in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Hedge funds in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Hedge funds in Central London

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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 5 July 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 London +11 9 £575 -34.29% 206
City of Westminster -2 9 £550 -12.00% 1
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 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) GCP
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) BGP
1 2 (11.11%) HTTP
1 2 (11.11%) Network Security
1 2 (11.11%) SSL
1 2 (11.11%) WAN
1 2 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (5.56%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) GitLab
1 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.11%) JIRA
3 1 (5.56%) Git
3 1 (5.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 10 (55.56%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.56%) Advertising
5 1 (5.56%) Front Office
5 1 (5.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) Analyst
1 3 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
1 3 (16.67%) Developer
1 3 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Lead
2 2 (11.11%) Network Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Python Developer
2 2 (11.11%) Python Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) .NET Developer
3 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (5.56%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Data Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Front Office Developer
3 1 (5.56%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Junior Project Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) .NET
1 2 (11.11%) Blazor
2 1 (5.56%) gRPC
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (5.56%) Next.js
2 1 (5.56%) NumPy
2 1 (5.56%) OAuth
2 1 (5.56%) OAuth2
2 1 (5.56%) OpenID
2 1 (5.56%) Pandas
2 1 (5.56%) Polars
2 1 (5.56%) React
2 1 (5.56%) REST
2 1 (5.56%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Fixed Income
2 1 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.56%) iPad
2 1 (5.56%) iPhone
2 1 (5.56%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.56%) Reference Data
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Linux
2 3 (16.67%) Rocky
3 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
3 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 6 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 4 (22.22%) DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) Asset Management
3 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (16.67%) OO
3 3 (16.67%) OOD
3 3 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (11.11%) Agile
4 2 (11.11%) Algorithmic Trading
4 2 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis
4 2 (11.11%) Design Patterns
4 2 (11.11%) Performance Management
4 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (11.11%) Project Management
4 2 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) C#
3 2 (11.11%) C++
3 2 (11.11%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) C
4 1 (5.56%) Go
4 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) CAPM
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.56%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.56%) PMP
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Ansible
2 4 (22.22%) Terraform
3 3 (16.67%) Consul
3 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Cisco
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Arista
2 2 (11.11%) DevExpress
2 2 (11.11%) Meraki
2 2 (11.11%) Sun
3 1 (5.56%) Apple
3 1 (5.56%) Salesforce