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 23 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 218 243
Rank change year-on-year -274 +25 +134
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 93 301 363
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 1.22% 0.97%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.72% 3.60% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 256 344
10th Percentile £440 £538 £500
25th Percentile £463 £638 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £673 £725 £725
Median % change year-on-year -7.24% - +26.09%
75th Percentile £800 £888 £850
90th Percentile £1,000 £938 £888
UK median daily rate £673 £725 £725
% change year-on-year -7.24% - +26.09%

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 12,951 8,370 11,548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.62% 34.06% 30.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,203 5,478 7,558
10th Percentile £304 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.44% -0.41% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.53% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 662 320 819
10th Percentile £16.10 £16.64 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £22.02 £15.13
Median hourly rate £45.46 £35.45 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +28.26% +25.47% +25.56%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £85.49 £85.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +39.88% +16.07% +24.44%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -198 87 £600 -17.24% 66
Yorkshire - 3 £673 -
Midlands - 3 £975 -
North of England - 3 £673 - 6
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 4 (4.30%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (4.30%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.23%) Confluence
3 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.08%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 15 (16.13%) AWS
2 9 (9.68%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (7.53%) GitHub
3 7 (7.53%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (5.38%) Amazon S3
4 5 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (5.38%) Serverless
5 3 (3.23%) Azure
5 3 (3.23%) SaaS
6 2 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.15%) GCP
6 2 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.15%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.08%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.08%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.08%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.38%) WebEx
2 3 (3.23%) Network Security
3 1 (1.08%) IP Telephony
3 1 (1.08%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (1.08%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.60%) Relational Database
2 5 (5.38%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (2.15%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.15%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.15%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.08%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (10.75%) Git
1 10 (10.75%) JIRA
2 5 (5.38%) GitLab
2 5 (5.38%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.23%) Selenium
4 2 (2.15%) Appium
4 2 (2.15%) JUnit
4 2 (2.15%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.15%) TestNG
General
1 55 (59.14%) Finance
2 29 (31.18%) Front Office
3 18 (19.35%) Banking
4 13 (13.98%) Social Skills
5 9 (9.68%) Investment Banking
6 7 (7.53%) Financial Institution
6 7 (7.53%) Publishing
7 4 (4.30%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.23%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.08%) Billing
10 1 (1.08%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (36.56%) Developer
2 26 (27.96%) Python Developer
3 23 (24.73%) Analyst
4 20 (21.51%) Business Analyst
5 8 (8.60%) Citrix Engineer
6 7 (7.53%) Kafka Developer
6 7 (7.53%) QA Engineer
6 7 (7.53%) RAD Developer
7 6 (6.45%) AWS Developer
7 6 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (6.45%) Python Engineer
7 6 (6.45%) Senior
8 5 (5.38%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (5.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Data Business Analyst
8 5 (5.38%) Derivatives Business Analyst
8 5 (5.38%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) SQL Developer
9 4 (4.30%) Front Office Business Analyst
9 4 (4.30%) QA Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (22.58%) Pandas
2 17 (18.28%) NumPy
3 15 (16.13%) REST
4 14 (15.05%) Polars
5 13 (13.98%) FastAPI
5 13 (13.98%) Flask
6 9 (9.68%) Kafka
7 7 (7.53%) Apache Avro
7 7 (7.53%) COM
7 7 (7.53%) RESTful
8 4 (4.30%) Dask
9 2 (2.15%) .NET
9 2 (2.15%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (1.08%) AngularJS
10 1 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
10 1 (1.08%) React
10 1 (1.08%) scikit-learn
10 1 (1.08%) SciPy
10 1 (1.08%) TensorFlow
10 1 (1.08%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 26 (27.96%) Equities
2 15 (16.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (12.90%) Derivative
4 9 (9.68%) Management Information System
5 5 (5.38%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (4.30%) Cloud Native
6 4 (4.30%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (4.30%) Fixed Income
7 3 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.15%) Data Fabric
8 2 (2.15%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.15%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (1.08%) AI Agents
9 1 (1.08%) Blackberry
9 1 (1.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.08%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 13 (13.98%) Windows
2 12 (12.90%) Linux
3 5 (5.38%) Unix
4 4 (4.30%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (23.66%) CI/CD
2 18 (19.35%) Analytics
2 18 (19.35%) Data Pipeline
3 15 (16.13%) Data Analysis
4 14 (15.05%) Fintech
5 12 (12.90%) Software Engineering
6 11 (11.83%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (11.83%) Risk Management
7 10 (10.75%) Computer Science
7 10 (10.75%) SDLC
8 8 (8.60%) Data Transformation
8 8 (8.60%) Mathematics
8 8 (8.60%) Performance Optimisation
9 7 (7.53%) Code Quality
9 7 (7.53%) Containerisation
9 7 (7.53%) DevOps
9 7 (7.53%) Microservices
9 7 (7.53%) Observability
9 7 (7.53%) Pricing Analytics
9 7 (7.53%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 46 (49.46%) Python
2 27 (29.03%) SQL
3 11 (11.83%) PowerShell
4 10 (10.75%) C#
5 9 (9.68%) Java
6 8 (8.60%) VBA
7 5 (5.38%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.15%) C++
9 1 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.08%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.08%) Rust
Qualifications
1 12 (12.90%) Degree
2 6 (6.45%) Master's Degree
3 4 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.30%) PhD
4 2 (2.15%) CISM
4 2 (2.15%) CISSP
4 2 (2.15%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.08%) CEH
5 1 (1.08%) CFA
5 1 (1.08%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.75%) QA
2 3 (3.23%) NIST
3 2 (2.15%) MiFID
4 1 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 20 (21.51%) Docker
2 3 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.08%) vSphere
3 1 (1.08%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (10.75%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.38%) Terraform
3 1 (1.08%) Ansible
3 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.08%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 9 (9.68%) Citrix
2 5 (5.38%) Reuters
3 3 (3.23%) BiZZdesign
3 3 (3.23%) GoldenSource
4 2 (2.15%) Bloomberg
4 2 (2.15%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.08%) Altiris
5 1 (1.08%) Apple
5 1 (1.08%) Arista
5 1 (1.08%) Charles River
5 1 (1.08%) Cisco
5 1 (1.08%) Databricks
5 1 (1.08%) FactSet
5 1 (1.08%) Oracle
5 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.08%) VMware