Hedge funds Contracts in the City of London

Hedge fund
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hedge funds in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hedge funds over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 118 156
Rank change year-on-year +7 +38 -74
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 5 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.29% 0.28% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.83% 0.89% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 7
10th Percentile £360 - £565
25th Percentile £506 £763 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £838 £750
Median % change year-on-year -38.81% +11.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £519 £900 £913
90th Percentile £601 - £973
Central London median daily rate £513 £675 £750
% change year-on-year -24.07% -10.00% +25.00%

All Generic Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 603 677 1,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.52% 31.30% 35.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 378 457 841
10th Percentile £354 £263 £363
25th Percentile £475 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +7.30%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £750
90th Percentile £816 £838 £850
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £613
% change year-on-year - -6.12% +6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 14
10th Percentile £23.80 £12.75 £17.69
25th Percentile £26.50 £14.38 £35.00
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £37.42
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -38.53% -19.54%
75th Percentile £65.50 £27.25 £87.16
90th Percentile £86.20 £36.60 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £27.76 £23.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.70% -34.29% -24.73%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Hedge funds in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hedge funds in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Hedge funds in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hedge funds in the City of London over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hedge funds in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Hedge funds in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Hedge funds in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Advertising
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (20.00%) Law
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (20.00%) iPad
1 1 (20.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Rocky
3 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Algorithmic Trading
3 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Information Security
3 1 (20.00%) Investment Management
3 1 (20.00%) ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) Consul
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Apple
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce