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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 179 339
Rank change year-on-year -151 +160 -47
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 186 456 264
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.67% 1.38% 0.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.87% 4.49% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 414 231
10th Percentile £463 £550 £450
25th Percentile £613 £644 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +23.08% -
75th Percentile £825 £875 £788
90th Percentile £838 £888 £863
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £650
% change year-on-year -6.25% +23.08% -

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 9,971 10,152 13,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.88% 30.82% 32.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,272 6,271 9,491
10th Percentile £300 £300 £300
25th Percentile £408 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £792
UK median daily rate £515 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.63% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 500 414 412
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.61 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -42.37% +25.00% +76.46%
75th Percentile £58.75 £70.00 £67.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.16 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +11.11% +69.81%

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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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 18 September 2025.

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

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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 18 September 2025. 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 -97 185 £750 -6.25% 167
Yorkshire - 1 - - 4
North of England - 1 - - 13
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 48 (25.81%) Apache
1 48 (25.81%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 28 (15.05%) Aladdin
2 19 (10.22%) thinkFolio
3 4 (2.15%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.54%) Eikon
4 1 (0.54%) Eze OMS
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 106 (56.99%) AWS
2 49 (26.34%) Snowflake
3 48 (25.81%) dbt
4 31 (16.67%) Azure
5 21 (11.29%) GCP
6 4 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.15%) GitHub
6 4 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (1.61%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.61%) Serverless
8 2 (1.08%) SAP Fieldglass
9 1 (0.54%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.54%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.54%) OCI
9 1 (0.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.61%) WAN
1 3 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.08%) BGP
2 2 (1.08%) DHCP
2 2 (1.08%) DNS
2 2 (1.08%) HTTP
2 2 (1.08%) Network Security
2 2 (1.08%) SSL
2 2 (1.08%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.08%) VPN
3 1 (0.54%) NAS
3 1 (0.54%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.54%) SAN
3 1 (0.54%) VLAN
3 1 (0.54%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (26.34%) Amazon Athena
2 48 (25.81%) Apache Arrow
2 48 (25.81%) Apache Iceberg
2 48 (25.81%) Apache Ignite
2 48 (25.81%) Data Lake
2 48 (25.81%) Dremio
3 10 (5.38%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.15%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.15%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.61%) Tableau
6 2 (1.08%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.08%) Power BI
7 1 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.54%) Big Data
7 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.54%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.54%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 25 (13.44%) Git
2 4 (2.15%) TeamCity
3 3 (1.61%) JIRA
3 3 (1.61%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.54%) GitLab
General
1 166 (89.25%) Finance
2 98 (52.69%) Front Office
3 77 (41.40%) Banking
4 72 (38.71%) Investment Banking
5 39 (20.97%) Social Skills
6 18 (9.68%) Financial Institution
7 8 (4.30%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.15%) Back Office
9 3 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.08%) Law
11 1 (0.54%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.54%) Legal
11 1 (0.54%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 67 (36.02%) Software Engineer
2 65 (34.95%) Python Engineer
3 62 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
4 56 (30.11%) Developer
4 56 (30.11%) Senior
5 49 (26.34%) Python Software Engineer
5 49 (26.34%) Senior Software Engineer
6 48 (25.81%) AWS Software Engineer
6 48 (25.81%) Java Engineer
6 48 (25.81%) Java Software Engineer
6 48 (25.81%) Senior Java Engineer
6 48 (25.81%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 32 (17.20%) Analyst
8 28 (15.05%) Business Analyst
9 27 (14.52%) Business Manager
10 25 (13.44%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
10 25 (13.44%) Python Developer
11 20 (10.75%) Full-Stack Developer
12 17 (9.14%) AWS Developer
12 17 (9.14%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (36.02%) NumPy
1 67 (36.02%) Pandas
2 65 (34.95%) SciPy
3 49 (26.34%) gRPC
4 48 (25.81%) Protocol Buffers
5 36 (19.35%) React
6 34 (18.28%) AngularJS
7 31 (16.67%) Vue
8 18 (9.68%) Polars
9 17 (9.14%) FastAPI
9 17 (9.14%) Flask
10 14 (7.53%) .NET
10 14 (7.53%) Redux
11 8 (4.30%) .NET Core
12 7 (3.76%) RabbitMQ
13 4 (2.15%) Kafka
13 4 (2.15%) Node.js
13 4 (2.15%) REST
13 4 (2.15%) RESTful
14 3 (1.61%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 96 (51.61%) Fixed Income
2 88 (47.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 76 (40.86%) Derivative
4 65 (34.95%) Equities
5 48 (25.81%) Pricing Data
6 17 (9.14%) Onboarding
7 8 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.69%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.69%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.15%) Data Fabric
9 4 (2.15%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.61%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.61%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.61%) Product Ownership
11 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Storage
12 1 (0.54%) iPad
12 1 (0.54%) iPhone
12 1 (0.54%) Operational Technology
12 1 (0.54%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 31 (16.67%) Linux
2 11 (5.91%) Windows
3 6 (3.23%) CentOS
3 6 (3.23%) Unix
3 6 (3.23%) Windows 10
4 5 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.61%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.08%) Solaris
6 2 (1.08%) VMS
7 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (55.38%) Agile
2 93 (50.00%) Asset Management
3 92 (49.46%) Investment Management
3 92 (49.46%) Software Engineering
4 34 (18.28%) CI/CD
5 31 (16.67%) Analytics
5 31 (16.67%) Business Analysis
6 28 (15.05%) Business Intelligence
7 26 (13.98%) Portfolio Management
8 22 (11.83%) Fintech
9 21 (11.29%) Full-Stack Development
9 21 (11.29%) Mathematics
10 20 (10.75%) Clean Code
11 18 (9.68%) Data Mapping
11 18 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (9.14%) Data Engineering
12 17 (9.14%) Structured Programming
12 17 (9.14%) Systematic Trading
13 14 (7.53%) TDD
14 10 (5.38%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 151 (81.18%) Python
2 82 (44.09%) JavaScript
3 74 (39.78%) Java
4 62 (33.33%) TypeScript
5 40 (21.51%) SQL
6 34 (18.28%) C#
7 22 (11.83%) C++
8 17 (9.14%) Rust
9 8 (4.30%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.69%) Bash
11 4 (2.15%) C
11 4 (2.15%) Perl
11 4 (2.15%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.54%) Go
12 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (5.38%) Degree
2 9 (4.84%) Master's Degree
3 8 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.08%) RHCE
4 2 (1.08%) RHCSA
5 1 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.15%) MiFID
2 2 (1.08%) GDPR
2 2 (1.08%) Solvency II
3 1 (0.54%) EMIR
3 1 (0.54%) GRC
3 1 (0.54%) PMO
System Software
1 22 (11.83%) Docker
2 8 (4.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.61%) VMware Workstation
4 2 (1.08%) KVM
Systems Management
1 22 (11.83%) Ansible
2 21 (11.29%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.76%) SCCM
4 3 (1.61%) Terraform
5 2 (1.08%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.08%) Puppet
5 2 (1.08%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 25 (13.44%) BISAM
2 17 (9.14%) Arista
3 16 (8.60%) Calypso
3 16 (8.60%) Charles River
3 16 (8.60%) SimCorp
4 10 (5.38%) Oracle
4 10 (5.38%) VMware
5 8 (4.30%) Red Hat
6 6 (3.23%) Microsoft
7 4 (2.15%) Cisco
7 4 (2.15%) Citrix
8 3 (1.61%) Bloomberg
8 3 (1.61%) Portware
9 2 (1.08%) DevExpress
9 2 (1.08%) Meraki
9 2 (1.08%) Reuters
9 2 (1.08%) SAP
10 1 (0.54%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.54%) Concur
10 1 (0.54%) Eze Software Group