Hedge funds Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Hedge fund
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hedge funds in contract job vacancies in the City of Westminster. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hedge funds over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 12 1
Rank change year-on-year +10 -11 0
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 9 2 26
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 21.43% 3.64% 61.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 39.13% 12.50% 86.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 26
10th Percentile £435 £493 £388
25th Percentile £463 £511 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £556 £750
Median % change year-on-year -12.36% -25.83% +25.00%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £938
90th Percentile £600 £594 £1,088
Central London median daily rate £530 £600 £700
% change year-on-year -11.67% -14.29% +40.00%

All Generic Skills
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 23 16 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 54.76% 29.09% 71.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 8 29
10th Percentile £394 £398 £395
25th Percentile £444 £422 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £750
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% -34.17% +25.00%
75th Percentile £560 £581 £938
90th Percentile £604 £628 £1,088
Central London median daily rate £550 £591 £600
% change year-on-year -6.86% -1.58% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
Median hourly rate £26.11 - £26.00
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £25.79 £24.00
% change year-on-year +1.24% +7.46% -42.51%

Hedge funds
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Hedge funds job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

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

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

Hedge funds
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of Westminster

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hedge funds in the City of Westminster over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Hedge funds in the City of Westminster

Hedge funds
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

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 City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
Mayfair 0 9 £488 -12.36%
Hedge funds
Central London

Hedge funds
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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 (11.11%) Amazon S3
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (11.11%) Big Data
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) PowerShell Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Business Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) MiFID Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Citrix Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse Developer
3 1 (11.11%) ETL Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle ETL Developer
3 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
3 1 (11.11%) QA Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Regulatory Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Regulatory Reporting Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) SCCM Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Writer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Application Packaging
1 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
1 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
2 1 (11.11%) Data Management
2 1 (11.11%) Data Mapping
2 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
2 1 (11.11%) ETL
2 1 (11.11%) Manual Testing
2 1 (11.11%) Migration
2 1 (11.11%) OO
2 1 (11.11%) Regression Testing
2 1 (11.11%) SDLC
2 1 (11.11%) Security Testing
2 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (22.22%) Python
4 1 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) Perl
4 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
4 1 (11.11%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) MiFID
2 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Citrix
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Vertica