Hedge funds Contracts 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 262 184 375
Rank change year-on-year -78 +191 -59
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 257 496 287
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.98% 1.33% 0.61%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.83% 4.33% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 465 251
10th Percentile £525 £538 £450
25th Percentile £588 £650 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £800 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +33.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £838 £875 £750
90th Percentile £931 £888 £850
UK median daily rate £725 £800 £600
% change year-on-year -9.38% +33.33% -7.69%

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 9,076 11,447 15,742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.76% 30.63% 33.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,792 7,375 10,973
10th Percentile £305 £281 £313
25th Percentile £408 £414 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 832 523
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.39 £11.87
Median hourly rate £32.77 £37.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +59.57% -11.32%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £62.98
90th Percentile £80.40 £72.50 £77.25
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £36.05 £22.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% +60.20% -16.60%

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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hedge funds in England.

Daily rate trend for Hedge funds in England

Hedge funds
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hedge funds in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hedge funds in England

Hedge funds
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Hedge funds in England.

Hourly rate trend for Hedge funds in England

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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 July 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 -57 256 £725 -9.38% 1,381
North of England +7 1 - - 61
Yorkshire - 1 - - 18
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 51 (19.84%) Apache
1 51 (19.84%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.78%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.39%) Siemens NX
2 1 (0.39%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 41 (15.95%) Aladdin
2 20 (7.78%) thinkFolio
3 1 (0.39%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 114 (44.36%) AWS
2 54 (21.01%) Snowflake
3 51 (19.84%) dbt
4 35 (13.62%) Azure
5 32 (12.45%) GCP
6 5 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (1.95%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (1.95%) Dagster
7 4 (1.56%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.78%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.78%) SaaS
8 2 (0.78%) SAP Fieldglass
8 2 (0.78%) Serverless
9 1 (0.39%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.39%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.39%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.39%) Collibra
9 1 (0.39%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.39%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.33%) BGP
2 4 (1.56%) Firewall
2 4 (1.56%) HSRP
2 4 (1.56%) IGMP
2 4 (1.56%) Multicast
2 4 (1.56%) OSPF
2 4 (1.56%) VRRP
3 3 (1.17%) WAN
3 3 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.78%) HTTP
4 2 (0.78%) Network Security
4 2 (0.78%) SSL
5 1 (0.39%) Modbus
5 1 (0.39%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.39%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (27.63%) Data Lake
2 51 (19.84%) Amazon Athena
2 51 (19.84%) Apache Arrow
2 51 (19.84%) Apache Iceberg
2 51 (19.84%) Dremio
3 35 (13.62%) Apache Ignite
4 5 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.95%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.17%) Power BI
5 3 (1.17%) Tableau
6 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.39%) Big Data
7 1 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.39%) KDB
7 1 (0.39%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.39%) OLAP
7 1 (0.39%) OLTP
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 23 (8.95%) Git
2 5 (1.95%) GitLab
3 4 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.56%) JIRA
3 4 (1.56%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.39%) ERwin
4 1 (0.39%) Qt Creator
General
1 219 (85.21%) Finance
2 162 (63.04%) Front Office
3 85 (33.07%) Banking
4 71 (27.63%) Investment Banking
5 33 (12.84%) Social Skills
6 20 (7.78%) Financial Institution
7 18 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.56%) Back Office
9 2 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.78%) Law
9 2 (0.78%) Legal
9 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.39%) Advertising
10 1 (0.39%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 82 (31.91%) Developer
2 81 (31.52%) Software Engineer
3 58 (22.57%) AWS Engineer
4 56 (21.79%) Analyst
5 51 (19.84%) AWS Software Engineer
6 50 (19.46%) Python Engineer
7 46 (17.90%) Business Analyst
8 45 (17.51%) Senior
9 43 (16.73%) Business Manager
9 43 (16.73%) Java Engineer
9 43 (16.73%) Java Software Engineer
10 41 (15.95%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
11 40 (15.56%) Python Software Engineer
12 38 (14.79%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 34 (13.23%) Senior Software Engineer
14 33 (12.84%) Python Developer
14 33 (12.84%) Senior Java Engineer
14 33 (12.84%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 29 (11.28%) AWS Developer
16 26 (10.12%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (21.01%) NumPy
1 54 (21.01%) Pandas
2 50 (19.46%) SciPy
3 39 (15.18%) React
4 37 (14.40%) AngularJS
4 37 (14.40%) Vue
5 36 (14.01%) gRPC
6 35 (13.62%) Protocol Buffers
7 22 (8.56%) PySpark
7 22 (8.56%) Redux
8 16 (6.23%) Polars
9 15 (5.84%) FastAPI
9 15 (5.84%) Flask
10 4 (1.56%) .NET
10 4 (1.56%) .NET Core
10 4 (1.56%) Next.js
11 2 (0.78%) REST
12 1 (0.39%) Express.js
12 1 (0.39%) OAuth2
12 1 (0.39%) QML
Miscellaneous
1 159 (61.87%) Fixed Income
2 131 (50.97%) Derivative
3 120 (46.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 104 (40.47%) Equities
5 30 (11.67%) Pricing Data
6 23 (8.95%) Onboarding
7 14 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (4.67%) Reference Data
9 11 (4.28%) Algorithms
10 10 (3.89%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.95%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.95%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.78%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.78%) Virtual Team
14 1 (0.39%) 3D Graphics
14 1 (0.39%) Data Protection Act
14 1 (0.39%) iPad
14 1 (0.39%) iPhone
14 1 (0.39%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.45%) Linux
2 5 (1.95%) Rocky
3 3 (1.17%) Windows
4 2 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.78%) VMS
5 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (65.37%) Agile
2 137 (53.31%) Investment Management
3 121 (47.08%) Asset Management
4 106 (41.25%) Software Engineering
5 51 (19.84%) Migration
6 49 (19.07%) Analytics
6 49 (19.07%) Data Management
7 45 (17.51%) Business Intelligence
8 44 (17.12%) Business Analysis
9 41 (15.95%) Portfolio Management
9 41 (15.95%) Roadmaps
10 37 (14.40%) Data Governance
11 36 (14.01%) Regulatory Compliance
12 35 (13.62%) CI/CD
13 27 (10.51%) Full-Stack Development
14 26 (10.12%) Fintech
15 25 (9.73%) Data Mapping
16 22 (8.56%) TDD
17 21 (8.17%) User Acceptance Testing
18 20 (7.78%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 183 (71.21%) Python
2 82 (31.91%) SQL
3 77 (29.96%) Java
4 72 (28.02%) JavaScript
5 57 (22.18%) TypeScript
6 27 (10.51%) C++
7 21 (8.17%) C#
8 13 (5.06%) Rust
9 7 (2.72%) C
10 3 (1.17%) Bash
11 2 (0.78%) Go
11 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.78%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (3.50%) Degree
2 8 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (3.11%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.78%) CCIE
3 2 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.39%) CAPM
4 1 (0.39%) CCNP
4 1 (0.39%) CISSP
4 1 (0.39%) ISEB
4 1 (0.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (0.39%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.23%) MiFID
2 3 (1.17%) EMIR
3 2 (0.78%) Dodd-Frank
3 2 (0.78%) HIPAA
3 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.39%) GDPR
4 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.39%) NIST
4 1 (0.39%) QA
System Software
1 22 (8.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (8.17%) Kubernetes
2 20 (7.78%) Ansible
3 12 (4.67%) Terraform
4 6 (2.33%) Puppet
5 3 (1.17%) Consul
5 3 (1.17%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.78%) Packer
7 1 (0.39%) Podman
7 1 (0.39%) SCCM
Vendors
1 40 (15.56%) BISAM
2 22 (8.56%) Charles River
3 19 (7.39%) Calypso
3 19 (7.39%) SimCorp
4 13 (5.06%) Arista
5 7 (2.72%) Cisco
5 7 (2.72%) Oracle
6 5 (1.95%) Microsoft
7 4 (1.56%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.78%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.78%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.78%) Google
8 2 (0.78%) Meraki
8 2 (0.78%) SAP
8 2 (0.78%) Sun
9 1 (0.39%) Concur
9 1 (0.39%) Okta
9 1 (0.39%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.39%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.39%) Sparx