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 3 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 222 355
Rank change year-on-year -156 +133 -51
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 157 330 240
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 1.07% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.48% 3.42% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 288 210
10th Percentile £434 £550 £450
25th Percentile £591 £638 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £675
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +18.52% -
75th Percentile £825 £875 £788
90th Percentile £838 £888 £938
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £675
% change year-on-year -6.25% +18.52% -

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 10,595 9,650 12,941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.35% 31.21% 32.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,608 5,783 8,847
10th Percentile £290 £296 £285
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £782
UK median daily rate £513 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -2.57% -4.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 581 292 462
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.73 £17.13
25th Percentile £18.25 £23.80 £21.27
Median hourly rate £28.13 £47.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.79% +6.74% +64.94%
75th Percentile £52.50 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.16 £77.95
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £40.00 £43.92
% change year-on-year -31.98% -8.93% +62.79%

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 3 November 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 3 November 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 -101 156 £750 -6.25% 195
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 - - 11
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 37 (23.57%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (22.93%) Apache
3 5 (3.18%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.27%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (5.10%) Aladdin
2 6 (3.82%) thinkFolio
3 4 (2.55%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.64%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.64%) Eikon
4 1 (0.64%) Eze OMS
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 92 (58.60%) AWS
2 38 (24.20%) Snowflake
3 36 (22.93%) dbt
4 25 (15.92%) Azure
5 14 (8.92%) GCP
6 4 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.55%) GitHub
6 4 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (2.55%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (1.91%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (1.91%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (1.91%) Serverless
8 2 (1.27%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.64%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.64%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.64%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.64%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.91%) DHCP
1 3 (1.91%) DNS
1 3 (1.91%) TCP/IP
1 3 (1.91%) VPN
1 3 (1.91%) WebEx
2 1 (0.64%) NAS
2 1 (0.64%) NetScaler
2 1 (0.64%) Network Security
2 1 (0.64%) SAN
2 1 (0.64%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (23.57%) Amazon Athena
2 36 (22.93%) Apache Arrow
2 36 (22.93%) Apache Iceberg
2 36 (22.93%) Apache Ignite
2 36 (22.93%) Data Lake
2 36 (22.93%) Dremio
3 11 (7.01%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.55%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.55%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.55%) Power BI
5 3 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.91%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.27%) Big Data
6 2 (1.27%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.27%) Tableau
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.64%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.64%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.64%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 25 (15.92%) Git
2 4 (2.55%) TeamCity
3 3 (1.91%) JIRA
4 1 (0.64%) GitLab
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
General
1 139 (88.54%) Finance
2 80 (50.96%) Banking
3 70 (44.59%) Investment Banking
4 66 (42.04%) Front Office
5 45 (28.66%) Social Skills
6 25 (15.92%) Financial Institution
7 7 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.91%) Advertising
8 3 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Back Office
9 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.64%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Law
9 1 (0.64%) Legal
9 1 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (37.58%) Python Engineer
2 56 (35.67%) AWS Engineer
3 48 (30.57%) Developer
4 44 (28.03%) Senior
5 43 (27.39%) Software Engineer
6 37 (23.57%) Python Software Engineer
7 36 (22.93%) AWS Software Engineer
7 36 (22.93%) Java Engineer
7 36 (22.93%) Java Software Engineer
7 36 (22.93%) Senior Software Engineer
8 35 (22.29%) Senior Java Engineer
8 35 (22.29%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 27 (17.20%) Python Developer
10 19 (12.10%) Automation Engineer
10 19 (12.10%) AWS Developer
10 19 (12.10%) IP Network Engineer
10 19 (12.10%) JavaScript Developer
10 19 (12.10%) Network Engineer
10 19 (12.10%) Switch Engineer
11 11 (7.01%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (39.49%) NumPy
1 62 (39.49%) Pandas
2 57 (36.31%) SciPy
3 36 (22.93%) gRPC
3 36 (22.93%) Protocol Buffers
4 29 (18.47%) React
5 28 (17.83%) AngularJS
6 25 (15.92%) Vue
7 19 (12.10%) FastAPI
7 19 (12.10%) Flask
7 19 (12.10%) Polars
8 13 (8.28%) .NET
9 11 (7.01%) REST
10 7 (4.46%) .NET Core
10 7 (4.46%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (3.82%) Redux
12 5 (3.18%) COM
12 5 (3.18%) Kafka
13 4 (2.55%) Node.js
13 4 (2.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 78 (49.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 57 (36.31%) Fixed Income
3 53 (33.76%) Equities
4 48 (30.57%) Derivative
5 36 (22.93%) Pricing Data
6 7 (4.46%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.18%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.55%) Data Fabric
8 4 (2.55%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.55%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.91%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.64%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.64%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Storage
11 1 (0.64%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.64%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.64%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.64%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 29 (18.47%) Linux
2 12 (7.64%) Windows
3 7 (4.46%) Windows 10
4 6 (3.82%) CentOS
4 6 (3.82%) Unix
5 5 (3.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.91%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.27%) Solaris
8 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (46.50%) Software Engineering
2 59 (37.58%) Agile
3 53 (33.76%) Asset Management
4 48 (30.57%) Investment Management
5 31 (19.75%) CI/CD
6 29 (18.47%) Mathematics
7 22 (14.01%) Analytics
7 22 (14.01%) Clean Code
8 21 (13.38%) Data Engineering
9 20 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (12.10%) Structured Programming
10 19 (12.10%) Systematic Trading
11 12 (7.64%) Business Analysis
12 11 (7.01%) Risk Management
13 10 (6.37%) Business Intelligence
13 10 (6.37%) Computer Science
13 10 (6.37%) Design Patterns
13 10 (6.37%) Fintech
13 10 (6.37%) Full-Stack Development
14 9 (5.73%) AOP
Programming Languages
1 115 (73.25%) Python
2 64 (40.76%) JavaScript
3 60 (38.22%) Java
4 42 (26.75%) TypeScript
5 36 (22.93%) C#
6 28 (17.83%) SQL
7 21 (13.38%) C++
8 19 (12.10%) Rust
9 9 (5.73%) PowerShell
10 5 (3.18%) Bash
10 5 (3.18%) VBA
11 4 (2.55%) C
11 4 (2.55%) Perl
11 4 (2.55%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.64%) Go
12 1 (0.64%) Groovy
12 1 (0.64%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (7.01%) Degree
2 9 (5.73%) Master's Degree
3 4 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.55%) PhD
4 2 (1.27%) RHCE
4 2 (1.27%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.18%) MiFID
2 3 (1.91%) EMIR
2 3 (1.91%) GRC
3 2 (1.27%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.27%) Dodd-Frank
3 2 (1.27%) GDPR
3 2 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.27%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.64%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.64%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.64%) NIST
4 1 (0.64%) PMO
System Software
1 24 (15.29%) Docker
2 8 (5.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.55%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.91%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (1.27%) KVM
6 1 (0.64%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (14.65%) Ansible
1 23 (14.65%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.10%) SCCM
3 2 (1.27%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.27%) Puppet
3 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.64%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (12.10%) Arista
2 10 (6.37%) Oracle
2 10 (6.37%) VMware
3 8 (5.10%) Red Hat
4 6 (3.82%) Microsoft
5 5 (3.18%) BISAM
6 4 (2.55%) Citrix
7 3 (1.91%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.91%) Calypso
7 3 (1.91%) Charles River
7 3 (1.91%) Portware
7 3 (1.91%) SimCorp
8 2 (1.27%) Dataiku
8 2 (1.27%) DevExpress
8 2 (1.27%) Reuters
9 1 (0.64%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.64%) Cisco
9 1 (0.64%) Concur
9 1 (0.64%) Eze Software Group
9 1 (0.64%) ServiceNow