Hedge funds Contract Job Trends in England

Hedge fund
UK > England

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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 248 321
Rank change year-on-year -223 +73 +41
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 105 255 246
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.98% 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.88% 2.94% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 212 224
10th Percentile £425 £538 £483
25th Percentile £463 £638 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £674 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year -7.07% +3.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £825 £938 £800
90th Percentile £1,000 - £926
UK median daily rate £674 £725 £700
% change year-on-year -7.07% +3.57% +16.67%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,886 8,682 11,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.12% 33.46% 30.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,545 5,329 7,651
10th Percentile £280 £275 £256
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £627 £663 £660
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 595 259 756
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.13 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £16.98
Median hourly rate £33.50 £35.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.63% +9.23% +44.54%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.25 £58.71
90th Percentile £76.55 £83.24 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.83 £32.91 £32.50
% change year-on-year -3.28% +1.25% +44.54%

Hedge funds
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Hedge funds job vacancy trend in England

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Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Hedge funds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Hedge funds

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hedge funds in England over the 6 months to 20 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Hedge funds in England

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Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Hedge funds.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Hedge funds

Hedge funds
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 20 February 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
London -165 99 £663 -8.62% 150
Yorkshire - 3 £673 - 3
Midlands - 3 £975 -
North of England - 3 £673 - 10
East Midlands - 2 - -
West Midlands - 1 £975 -
Hedge funds
UK

Hedge funds
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (8.57%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (6.67%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.76%) Apache
4 3 (2.86%) Confluence
5 2 (1.90%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.95%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.95%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.95%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 34 (32.38%) AWS
2 11 (10.48%) Azure
3 7 (6.67%) Snowflake
4 6 (5.71%) GCP
5 5 (4.76%) dbt
6 4 (3.81%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.86%) SaaS
8 2 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.90%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.90%) GitHub
8 2 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.90%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.95%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.95%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.95%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.95%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.67%) WebEx
2 4 (3.81%) Network Security
3 1 (0.95%) DHCP
3 1 (0.95%) DNS
3 1 (0.95%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.95%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.95%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.95%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
1 5 (4.76%) Apache Arrow
1 5 (4.76%) Apache Iceberg
1 5 (4.76%) Apache Ignite
1 5 (4.76%) Data Lake
1 5 (4.76%) Dremio
1 5 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.90%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.90%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.90%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.90%) Power BI
3 2 (1.90%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.95%) Big Data
4 1 (0.95%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 12 (11.43%) Git
2 9 (8.57%) JIRA
3 5 (4.76%) GitLab
4 2 (1.90%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.95%) Oracle Forms
General
1 77 (73.33%) Finance
2 37 (35.24%) Banking
3 30 (28.57%) Front Office
4 29 (27.62%) Social Skills
5 26 (24.76%) Investment Banking
6 20 (19.05%) Financial Institution
7 9 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.86%) Advertising
8 3 (2.86%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.95%) Back Office
10 1 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.95%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (30.48%) Developer
2 21 (20.00%) Python Developer
3 20 (19.05%) Python Engineer
4 18 (17.14%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (11.43%) Senior
6 9 (8.57%) Analyst
6 9 (8.57%) RAD Developer
7 8 (7.62%) Automation Engineer
7 8 (7.62%) AWS Developer
7 8 (7.62%) IP Network Engineer
7 8 (7.62%) JavaScript Developer
7 8 (7.62%) Network Engineer
7 8 (7.62%) Switch Engineer
8 7 (6.67%) Business Analyst
9 6 (5.71%) Java Engineer
9 6 (5.71%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 5 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
10 5 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.76%) AWS Software Engineer
10 5 (4.76%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (23.81%) NumPy
2 24 (22.86%) Pandas
3 15 (14.29%) SciPy
4 14 (13.33%) REST
5 11 (10.48%) AngularJS
5 11 (10.48%) React
6 9 (8.57%) COM
7 8 (7.62%) FastAPI
7 8 (7.62%) Flask
7 8 (7.62%) Polars
7 8 (7.62%) Vue
8 6 (5.71%) Dask
9 5 (4.76%) gRPC
9 5 (4.76%) Protocol Buffers
10 4 (3.81%) .NET
10 4 (3.81%) Web Services
11 3 (2.86%) CSS
11 3 (2.86%) HTML
11 3 (2.86%) JNI
11 3 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 33 (31.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 23 (21.90%) Equities
3 15 (14.29%) Derivative
4 12 (11.43%) Fixed Income
5 7 (6.67%) Cloud Native
6 6 (5.71%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (4.76%) Pricing Data
8 2 (1.90%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.90%) Data Fabric
8 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.90%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.90%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.95%) Blackberry
9 1 (0.95%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.95%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 21 (20.00%) Linux
2 11 (10.48%) Windows
3 5 (4.76%) CentOS
3 5 (4.76%) Unix
3 5 (4.76%) Windows 10
4 4 (3.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.86%) Mac OS
5 3 (2.86%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.90%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (26.67%) Software Engineering
2 21 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (18.10%) CI/CD
3 19 (18.10%) Mathematics
4 17 (16.19%) Analytics
4 17 (16.19%) Risk Management
5 14 (13.33%) Agile
6 13 (12.38%) Data Analysis
7 11 (10.48%) Computer Science
8 10 (9.52%) Clean Code
8 10 (9.52%) Data Engineering
8 10 (9.52%) Data Pipeline
9 9 (8.57%) AI
9 9 (8.57%) Physics
9 9 (8.57%) Pricing Analytics
9 9 (8.57%) Prototyping
9 9 (8.57%) RAD
9 9 (8.57%) Rapid Prototyping
9 9 (8.57%) Systematic Trading
10 8 (7.62%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (60.00%) Python
2 24 (22.86%) Java
2 24 (22.86%) SQL
3 16 (15.24%) JavaScript
4 14 (13.33%) C#
5 10 (9.52%) C++
5 10 (9.52%) VBA
6 9 (8.57%) PowerShell
7 8 (7.62%) Rust
8 5 (4.76%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.81%) Bash
9 4 (3.81%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.86%) C
10 3 (2.86%) Perl
11 1 (0.95%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 13 (12.38%) Degree
2 8 (7.62%) Master's Degree
3 6 (5.71%) PhD
4 4 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.90%) CISM
5 2 (1.90%) CISSP
5 2 (1.90%) RHCE
5 2 (1.90%) RHCSA
5 2 (1.90%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.95%) CEH
6 1 (0.95%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.71%) QA
2 4 (3.81%) MiFID
2 4 (3.81%) NIST
3 2 (1.90%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.90%) Dodd-Frank
3 2 (1.90%) EMIR
3 2 (1.90%) GRC
3 2 (1.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.95%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.95%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 15 (14.29%) Docker
2 5 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.90%) KVM
4 1 (0.95%) Firmware
4 1 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.95%) vSphere
4 1 (0.95%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 12 (11.43%) Ansible
2 10 (9.52%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.76%) Terraform
4 3 (2.86%) SCCM
5 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.90%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.90%) Puppet
5 2 (1.90%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.95%) Network Intrusion Detection System
6 1 (0.95%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 8 (7.62%) Arista
1 8 (7.62%) Oracle
2 7 (6.67%) Red Hat
2 7 (6.67%) VMware
3 5 (4.76%) Citrix
3 5 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.81%) Reuters
5 3 (2.86%) BiZZdesign
5 3 (2.86%) GoldenSource
6 2 (1.90%) Dataiku
6 2 (1.90%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.95%) Altiris
7 1 (0.95%) Apple
7 1 (0.95%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.95%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.95%) Charles River
7 1 (0.95%) Cisco
7 1 (0.95%) Google
7 1 (0.95%) Portware