Hedge funds Contract Job Trends 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 27 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 122 131
Rank change year-on-year +3 +9 +26
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 7 7 14
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.39% 0.32% 0.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.99% 1.05% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 10
10th Percentile £593 £583 £550
25th Percentile £613 £706 £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £850 £663
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +28.30% +39.47%
75th Percentile £785 £956 £747
90th Percentile £850 £1,013 £789
Central London median daily rate £575 £725 £738
% change year-on-year -20.69% -1.69% +47.50%

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 707 666 827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.15% 30.75% 31.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 417 543
10th Percentile £345 £363 £312
25th Percentile £425 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £684 £713 £725
90th Percentile £775 £838 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £593 £600
% change year-on-year -7.17% -1.25% +1.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 10
10th Percentile £17.02 £32.05 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.40 £39.63 £17.48
Median hourly rate £31.00 £56.00 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year -44.64% +76.38% -38.35%
75th Percentile £41.89 £76.13 £51.44
90th Percentile £67.89 £85.95 £69.25
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £27.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -49.02%

Hedge funds
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Hedge funds job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Hedge funds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Hedge funds

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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 27 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hedge funds in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Hedge funds.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Hedge funds

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
3 1 (14.29%) Front Office
3 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Python Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Architect
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Business IT Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) IT Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Quantitative Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) Blazor
2 1 (14.29%) NumPy
2 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
2 1 (14.29%) scikit-learn
2 1 (14.29%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
1 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Software Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) OO
3 2 (28.57%) Asset Management
3 2 (28.57%) Business Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 2 (28.57%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (28.57%) Data Science
3 2 (28.57%) Design Patterns
3 2 (28.57%) OOD
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (14.29%) AI
4 1 (14.29%) Algorithmic Trading
4 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
4 1 (14.29%) MLOps
4 1 (14.29%) People Management
4 1 (14.29%) Proprietary Trading
4 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) C#
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) C++
2 2 (28.57%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) C
3 1 (14.29%) Go
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) Dodd-Frank
1 1 (14.29%) EMIR
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) DevExpress
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft