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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 99 159
Rank change year-on-year -18 +60 -74
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 13 32 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.65% 1.31% 0.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.93% 4.25% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 28 14
10th Percentile £363 £425 £463
25th Percentile £400 £497 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £700 £800
Median % change year-on-year -26.79% -12.50% +36.17%
75th Percentile £580 £831 £859
90th Percentile £645 £956 £938
London median daily rate £725 £725 £600
% change year-on-year - +20.83% -4.00%

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 672 753 1,382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 33.80% 30.92% 36.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 529 950
10th Percentile £356 £265 £318
25th Percentile £475 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year - -6.12% +6.52%
75th Percentile £695 £700 £750
90th Percentile £800 £850 £850
London median daily rate £575 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -0.86% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 17
10th Percentile £23.78 £12.75 £18.78
25th Percentile £26.45 £16.73 £25.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.39% -34.29% -24.73%
75th Percentile £31.00 £26.25 £83.75
90th Percentile £72.40 £29.78 £88.30
London median hourly rate £35.45 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +36.33% -25.71% -20.09%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -3 8 £550 -18.52% 2
City of London +2 5 £513 -33.87% 21
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 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) GCP
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) BGP
1 2 (15.38%) HTTP
1 2 (15.38%) Network Security
1 2 (15.38%) SSL
1 2 (15.38%) WAN
1 2 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (7.69%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) GitLab
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) JIRA
3 1 (7.69%) Git
3 1 (7.69%) Terragrunt
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Advertising
4 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
4 1 (7.69%) Front Office
4 1 (7.69%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Project Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Python Developer
3 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (7.69%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Front Office Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Fund Data Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Junior
3 1 (7.69%) Junior Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Project Office Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) gRPC
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (7.69%) Next.js
1 1 (7.69%) NumPy
1 1 (7.69%) OAuth
1 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
1 1 (7.69%) OpenID
1 1 (7.69%) Pandas
1 1 (7.69%) Polars
1 1 (7.69%) React
1 1 (7.69%) REST
1 1 (7.69%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (7.69%) Fixed Income
2 1 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (7.69%) iPad
2 1 (7.69%) iPhone
2 1 (7.69%) Reference Data
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
2 3 (23.08%) Rocky
3 1 (7.69%) Apple iOS
3 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 4 (30.77%) DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
3 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Agile
4 2 (15.38%) Data Analysis
4 2 (15.38%) Load Balancing
4 2 (15.38%) Network Performance Management
4 2 (15.38%) Performance Management
4 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) Process Improvement
4 2 (15.38%) Scrum
4 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) Algorithmic Trading
5 1 (7.69%) Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) Computer Science
5 1 (7.69%) Low Latency
5 1 (7.69%) Mobile Device Management
5 1 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) C++
2 1 (7.69%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
2 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) CAPM
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
1 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
1 1 (7.69%) PMP
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Ansible
2 4 (30.77%) Terraform
3 3 (23.08%) Consul
3 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Cisco
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Arista
2 2 (15.38%) Meraki
2 2 (15.38%) Sun
3 1 (7.69%) Apple
3 1 (7.69%) Salesforce