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 advertised in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Hedge funds over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 171 82
Rank change year-on-year +58 -89 +63
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 11 3 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.50% 0.082% 2.94%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.61% 0.23% 8.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 27
10th Percentile £685 £519 £412
25th Percentile £731 £528 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year +37.78% -2.17% -23.33%
75th Percentile £850 £603 £638
90th Percentile £900 £616 £665
Central London median daily rate £725 £700 £575
% change year-on-year +3.57% +21.74% -23.33%

All Generic Skills
City of London

Hedge funds is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 685 1,311 1,519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 30.97% 35.91% 35.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 886 1,117
10th Percentile £263 £350 £406
25th Percentile £425 £499 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £700
90th Percentile £840 £850 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 14 24
10th Percentile £12.75 £17.69 £20.53
25th Percentile £16.00 £35.00 £38.75
Median hourly rate £23.00 £52.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.77% +8.33% +167.04%
75th Percentile £27.50 £87.16 £61.75
90th Percentile £54.95 £88.30 £64.78
Central London median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £48.00
% change year-on-year -34.29% -27.08% +140.00%

Hedge funds
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 24 April 2024.

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 3 (27.27%) Data Lake
3 2 (18.18%) Power BI
4 1 (9.09%) Big Data
4 1 (9.09%) DB2
4 1 (9.09%) Sybase IQ
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Front Office
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Marketing
4 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Java Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) SQL Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) C# Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Data Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Financial Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Full Stack Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Power BI Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Quantitative Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Data Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Report Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Scala Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior C# .NET Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) SQL Reporting Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) .NET
1 4 (36.36%) AngularJS
2 2 (18.18%) .NET Core
2 2 (18.18%) React
2 2 (18.18%) REST
2 2 (18.18%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (18.18%) Market Risk
2 1 (9.09%) Equities
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Investment Management
2 2 (18.18%) Agile
2 2 (18.18%) Analytics
2 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
2 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis
2 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics
2 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
2 2 (18.18%) Data Science
2 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
2 2 (18.18%) Full Stack Development
2 2 (18.18%) Kanban
2 2 (18.18%) Microservices
2 2 (18.18%) Scrum
2 2 (18.18%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (9.09%) Fintech
3 1 (9.09%) Fund Management
3 1 (9.09%) Risk Management
3 1 (9.09%) SDLC
3 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) C#
1 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 5 (45.45%) Java
3 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
4 2 (18.18%) Python
4 2 (18.18%) Scala
4 2 (18.18%) T-SQL
5 1 (9.09%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Sybase