Hedge funds Contracts in England

Hedge fund
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hedge funds in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Hedge funds over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 226 381 317
Rank change year-on-year +155 -64 +49
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 384 287 626
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.03% 0.57% 0.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.35% 1.69% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 244 452
10th Percentile £500 £450 £438
25th Percentile £591 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £588 £625
Median % change year-on-year +23.40% -6.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £850 £695 £738
90th Percentile £888 £838 £850
UK median daily rate £725 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +26.09% -8.00% +4.17%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,457 16,977 24,063
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.78% 33.64% 33.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,496 11,796 17,103
10th Percentile £263 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 822 591 644
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +2.08%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.77
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +33.42% -18.24% +3.19%

Hedge funds
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Hedge funds as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Hedge funds in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hedge funds in England.

Daily rate trend for Hedge funds in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hedge funds in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Hedge funds in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Hedge funds in England.

Hourly rate trend for Hedge funds in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
London +196 380 £725 +20.83% 293
West Midlands -9 2 £300 -40.00%
Midlands -10 2 £300 -40.00%
North West +18 1 £500 +270.37% 1
North of England +6 1 £500 - 2
Hedge funds
UK

Hedge funds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 130 (33.85%) Apache Airflow
2 114 (29.69%) Apache
3 5 (1.30%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.26%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 11 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 18 (4.69%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.30%) SimCorp Dimension
3 2 (0.52%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.26%) Endur
4 1 (0.26%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 216 (56.25%) AWS
2 133 (34.64%) GCP
3 104 (27.08%) Azure
4 84 (21.88%) dbt
5 78 (20.31%) Snowflake
6 10 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (1.82%) Power Platform
8 3 (0.78%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.52%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.52%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.26%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (0.26%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.26%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.26%) Figma
10 1 (0.26%) Serverless
10 1 (0.26%) Supabase
10 1 (0.26%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.13%) VPN
2 10 (2.60%) Wireless
3 2 (0.52%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (0.52%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (0.52%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (0.52%) Network Security
3 2 (0.52%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.52%) WAN
4 1 (0.26%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.26%) Firewall
4 1 (0.26%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.26%) FTP
4 1 (0.26%) Internet
4 1 (0.26%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.26%) Skype
4 1 (0.26%) SSL
4 1 (0.26%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (29.69%) Apache Ignite
2 84 (21.88%) Amazon Athena
2 84 (21.88%) Apache Arrow
2 84 (21.88%) Dremio
3 77 (20.05%) Data Lake
4 52 (13.54%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (5.73%) SQL Server
6 21 (5.47%) Big Data
7 7 (1.82%) Power BI
7 7 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (1.56%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.30%) Crystal Reports
9 5 (1.30%) Tableau
10 4 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (0.78%) MySQL
12 2 (0.52%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.52%) Relational Database
13 1 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 31 (8.07%) Cypress.io
2 7 (1.82%) JIRA
3 4 (1.04%) SpecFlow
4 3 (0.78%) Git
5 2 (0.52%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.52%) GitLab
5 2 (0.52%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 313 (81.51%) Finance
2 249 (64.84%) Front Office
3 187 (48.70%) Banking
4 88 (22.92%) Investment Banking
5 41 (10.68%) Back Office
6 27 (7.03%) Social Skills
7 26 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
8 18 (4.69%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.52%) Law
9 2 (0.52%) Marketing
9 2 (0.52%) Prime Brokerage
9 2 (0.52%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
10 1 (0.26%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.26%) Publishing
10 1 (0.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 180 (46.88%) Developer
2 110 (28.65%) Software Engineer
3 93 (24.22%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 75 (19.53%) Python Developer
5 72 (18.75%) Analyst
6 68 (17.71%) Python Engineer
7 66 (17.19%) Python Software Engineer
8 58 (15.10%) Finance Manager
9 52 (13.54%) Senior
10 51 (13.28%) React Developer
11 45 (11.72%) Financial Analyst
12 37 (9.64%) .NET Developer
12 37 (9.64%) Lead
13 33 (8.59%) Business Analyst
14 32 (8.33%) Full Stack Developer
15 29 (7.55%) AWS Engineer
16 26 (6.77%) .NET Software Developer
16 26 (6.77%) .NET Software Engineer
16 26 (6.77%) Software Asset Manager
16 26 (6.77%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (33.33%) gRPC
1 128 (33.33%) Protocol Buffers
2 90 (23.44%) React
3 75 (19.53%) Redux
4 71 (18.49%) Pandas
5 70 (18.23%) NumPy
6 69 (17.97%) SciPy
7 47 (12.24%) .NET
8 45 (11.72%) Material-UI
9 26 (6.77%) AngularJS
10 21 (5.47%) .NET Core
11 14 (3.65%) ASP.NET
11 14 (3.65%) ASP.NET Core
12 12 (3.13%) HTML
13 11 (2.86%) CSS
13 11 (2.86%) Vue
14 8 (2.08%) Kafka
15 5 (1.30%) RabbitMQ
15 5 (1.30%) REST
15 5 (1.30%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 197 (51.30%) Derivative
2 195 (50.78%) Fixed Income
3 174 (45.31%) Equities
4 127 (33.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 27 (7.03%) Product Ownership
6 20 (5.21%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (3.65%) Algorithms
8 12 (3.13%) Clustering
9 10 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (2.60%) Equity Derivative
10 6 (1.56%) Credit Derivative
11 4 (1.04%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.04%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.04%) Pricing Data
12 2 (0.52%) Animation
12 2 (0.52%) Market Risk
12 2 (0.52%) PKI
12 2 (0.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 1 (0.26%) Data Protection Act
13 1 (0.26%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.91%) Windows
2 12 (3.13%) Windows 10
3 9 (2.34%) Windows 7
4 5 (1.30%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.30%) Linux
5 3 (0.78%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.26%) CentOS
6 1 (0.26%) Unix
6 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (64.06%) Asset Management
2 229 (59.64%) Investment Management
3 213 (55.47%) Agile
4 165 (42.97%) Software Engineering
5 85 (22.14%) Full Stack Development
6 78 (20.31%) Artificial Intelligence
7 72 (18.75%) Machine Learning
8 50 (13.02%) DevOps
9 48 (12.50%) Automated Trading
10 43 (11.20%) Mentoring
11 41 (10.68%) Fintech
12 36 (9.38%) Line Management
13 34 (8.85%) TDD
14 32 (8.33%) Analytics
15 22 (5.73%) Greeks
15 22 (5.73%) Roadmaps
16 21 (5.47%) Business Intelligence
16 21 (5.47%) Scrum
17 19 (4.95%) ITIL
18 17 (4.43%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 234 (60.94%) Python
2 147 (38.28%) TypeScript
3 122 (31.77%) JavaScript
4 108 (28.13%) SQL
5 104 (27.08%) C#
5 104 (27.08%) Java
6 23 (5.99%) C++
7 21 (5.47%) Scala
8 20 (5.21%) R
9 14 (3.65%) PowerShell
10 13 (3.39%) Go
11 6 (1.56%) Ruby
12 4 (1.04%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.78%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.52%) Bash
14 2 (0.52%) VBA
15 1 (0.26%) Clojure
15 1 (0.26%) F#
15 1 (0.26%) Groovy
15 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (2.86%) Degree
2 7 (1.82%) Numerate Degree
3 5 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.52%) CISSP
4 2 (0.52%) PMI Certification
4 2 (0.52%) PMP
5 1 (0.26%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (9.11%) QA
2 22 (5.73%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.60%) SLA
4 8 (2.08%) MiFID
5 1 (0.26%) EMIR
5 1 (0.26%) FATCA
5 1 (0.26%) GRC
System Software
1 9 (2.34%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (3.39%) Kubernetes
1 13 (3.39%) Terraform
2 12 (3.13%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.52%) Cisco CUCM
4 2 (0.52%) Stealthwatch
5 1 (0.26%) Ansible
5 1 (0.26%) PingFederate
5 1 (0.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 46 (11.98%) Google
2 32 (8.33%) Bloomberg
3 23 (5.99%) Microsoft
4 15 (3.91%) ServiceNow
5 11 (2.86%) BISAM
6 5 (1.30%) Oracle
6 5 (1.30%) SimCorp
7 4 (1.04%) Reuters
8 3 (0.78%) Cisco
9 2 (0.52%) Avaloq
9 2 (0.52%) Charles River
9 2 (0.52%) Murex
9 2 (0.52%) Splunk
9 2 (0.52%) Sybase
10 1 (0.26%) Citrix
10 1 (0.26%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.26%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.26%) Juniper
10 1 (0.26%) Okta
10 1 (0.26%) Palo Alto