Hedge funds Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Hedge fund
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hedge funds in contract job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hedge funds over the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.11% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £700 £725 £700
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% +12.00%

All Generic Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 323 142 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 34.77% 26.01% 21.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 66 122
10th Percentile £185 £180 £172
25th Percentile £333 £275 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £450 £445
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +1.12% -1.11%
75th Percentile £511 £538 £536
90th Percentile £625 £575 £670
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 11
10th Percentile £12.95 £16.69 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £22.34 £15.71
Median hourly rate £18.87 £31.76 £17.95
Median % change year-on-year -40.59% +76.99% +2.19%
75th Percentile £25.15 £43.38 £25.11
90th Percentile £25.83 £50.35 £26.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £39.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% +11.43% +51.48%

Hedge funds
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hedge funds job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Hedge funds
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Hedge funds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Hedge funds

Hedge funds
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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
Nottinghamshire - 1 - - 1
Hedge funds
England

Hedge funds
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA