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 1 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 244 322
Rank change year-on-year -190 +78 +35
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 109 258 253
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.97% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.96% 2.96% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 220 227
10th Percentile £420 £575 £490
25th Percentile £463 £638 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £686 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year -5.34% +3.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £825 £938 £800
90th Percentile £1,000 - £938
UK median daily rate £673 £725 £700
% change year-on-year -7.24% +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 11,376 8,720 11,899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.58% 32.91% 31.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,274 5,250 7,899
10th Percentile £275 £268 £253
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £631 £675 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 552 247 713
10th Percentile £15.26 £18.51 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.18 £17.46
Median hourly rate £31.18 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.85% +7.14% +55.66%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.97 £83.20 £72.40
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.14% - +55.66%

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 1 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

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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 1 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 -143 105 £700 -3.45% 96
Yorkshire - 2 £673 - 2
Midlands - 2 £975 -
North of England - 2 £673 - 8
West Midlands - 1 £975 -
East Midlands - 1 - -
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 13 (11.93%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (8.26%) Apache
3 7 (6.42%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.83%) Confluence
4 2 (1.83%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.92%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.92%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.92%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 42 (38.53%) AWS
2 14 (12.84%) Azure
3 11 (10.09%) Snowflake
4 9 (8.26%) dbt
5 7 (6.42%) GCP
6 4 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.75%) GitHub
7 3 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.75%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.83%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.92%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.92%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.92%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.92%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.92%) SaaS
9 1 (0.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.42%) WebEx
2 3 (2.75%) Network Security
3 1 (0.92%) DHCP
3 1 (0.92%) DNS
3 1 (0.92%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.92%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.17%) Amazon Athena
2 9 (8.26%) Apache Arrow
2 9 (8.26%) Apache Iceberg
2 9 (8.26%) Apache Ignite
2 9 (8.26%) Data Lake
2 9 (8.26%) Dremio
3 6 (5.50%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.75%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.75%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.75%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.75%) Power BI
5 2 (1.83%) Big Data
5 2 (1.83%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.83%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.92%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (12.84%) Git
2 6 (5.50%) JIRA
3 5 (4.59%) GitLab
4 3 (2.75%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.92%) Oracle Forms
General
1 83 (76.15%) Finance
2 42 (38.53%) Banking
3 33 (30.28%) Front Office
4 32 (29.36%) Investment Banking
5 30 (27.52%) Social Skills
6 22 (20.18%) Financial Institution
7 8 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.75%) Advertising
9 2 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.92%) Back Office
10 1 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.92%) Law
10 1 (0.92%) Legal
10 1 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (29.36%) Developer
2 25 (22.94%) Python Engineer
3 23 (21.10%) AWS Engineer
4 22 (20.18%) Python Developer
5 17 (15.60%) Senior
6 10 (9.17%) Java Engineer
7 9 (8.26%) Automation Engineer
7 9 (8.26%) AWS Developer
7 9 (8.26%) AWS Software Engineer
7 9 (8.26%) IP Network Engineer
7 9 (8.26%) Java Software Engineer
7 9 (8.26%) JavaScript Developer
7 9 (8.26%) Network Engineer
7 9 (8.26%) Python Software Engineer
7 9 (8.26%) RAD Developer
7 9 (8.26%) Software Engineer
7 9 (8.26%) Switch Engineer
8 8 (7.34%) Senior Java Engineer
8 8 (7.34%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 8 (7.34%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (27.52%) NumPy
2 29 (26.61%) Pandas
3 20 (18.35%) SciPy
4 14 (12.84%) REST
5 12 (11.01%) AngularJS
5 12 (11.01%) React
6 9 (8.26%) COM
6 9 (8.26%) FastAPI
6 9 (8.26%) Flask
6 9 (8.26%) gRPC
6 9 (8.26%) Polars
6 9 (8.26%) Protocol Buffers
6 9 (8.26%) Vue
7 6 (5.50%) Dask
8 5 (4.59%) .NET
9 4 (3.67%) Kafka
9 4 (3.67%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (3.67%) Web Services
10 3 (2.75%) Node.js
10 3 (2.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 36 (33.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 26 (23.85%) Equities
3 18 (16.51%) Derivative
4 16 (14.68%) Fixed Income
5 9 (8.26%) Pricing Data
6 7 (6.42%) Cloud Native
7 6 (5.50%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (3.67%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.75%) Data Fabric
9 3 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.83%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.83%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.83%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.92%) Blackberry
11 1 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.92%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.92%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.92%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.92%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 22 (20.18%) Linux
2 14 (12.84%) Windows
3 6 (5.50%) Unix
3 6 (5.50%) Windows 10
4 5 (4.59%) CentOS
5 4 (3.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.75%) Mac OS
6 3 (2.75%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.83%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (27.52%) Software Engineering
2 21 (19.27%) CI/CD
2 21 (19.27%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (18.35%) Mathematics
4 19 (17.43%) Agile
5 17 (15.60%) Analytics
5 17 (15.60%) Risk Management
6 13 (11.93%) Data Analysis
7 11 (10.09%) Asset Management
7 11 (10.09%) Clean Code
7 11 (10.09%) Computer Science
7 11 (10.09%) Data Engineering
8 10 (9.17%) Data Pipeline
8 10 (9.17%) Investment Management
8 10 (9.17%) Systematic Trading
9 9 (8.26%) AI
9 9 (8.26%) Physics
9 9 (8.26%) RAD
9 9 (8.26%) Rapid Prototyping
9 9 (8.26%) Structured Programming
Programming Languages
1 68 (62.39%) Python
2 27 (24.77%) Java
3 26 (23.85%) SQL
4 21 (19.27%) JavaScript
5 16 (14.68%) C#
6 12 (11.01%) PowerShell
7 11 (10.09%) C++
8 10 (9.17%) VBA
9 9 (8.26%) Rust
9 9 (8.26%) TypeScript
10 4 (3.67%) Bash
10 4 (3.67%) Perl
10 4 (3.67%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.75%) C
12 1 (0.92%) Groovy
12 1 (0.92%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (12.84%) Degree
2 10 (9.17%) Master's Degree
3 6 (5.50%) PhD
4 5 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.83%) CISM
5 2 (1.83%) CISSP
5 2 (1.83%) RHCE
5 2 (1.83%) RHCSA
5 2 (1.83%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.67%) MiFID
1 4 (3.67%) QA
2 3 (2.75%) GRC
2 3 (2.75%) NIST
3 2 (1.83%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.83%) Dodd-Frank
3 2 (1.83%) EMIR
3 2 (1.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.92%) GDPR
4 1 (0.92%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.92%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.92%) PMO
4 1 (0.92%) Solvency II
System Software
1 17 (15.60%) Docker
2 8 (7.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.75%) VMware Workstation
4 2 (1.83%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.83%) KVM
5 1 (0.92%) Firmware
5 1 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.92%) vSphere
5 1 (0.92%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 13 (11.93%) Ansible
2 12 (11.01%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.50%) SCCM
4 5 (4.59%) Terraform
5 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.83%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.83%) Puppet
5 2 (1.83%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.92%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 10 (9.17%) Oracle
1 10 (9.17%) VMware
2 9 (8.26%) Arista
3 7 (6.42%) Citrix
3 7 (6.42%) Red Hat
4 5 (4.59%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.67%) Reuters
6 3 (2.75%) GoldenSource
7 2 (1.83%) BiZZdesign
7 2 (1.83%) Dataiku
7 2 (1.83%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.92%) Altiris
8 1 (0.92%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.92%) Apple
8 1 (0.92%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.92%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.92%) Charles River
8 1 (0.92%) Cisco
8 1 (0.92%) Google
8 1 (0.92%) Portware