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 19 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 302 161
Rank change year-on-year -238 -141 +198
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 82 213 493
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.77% 1.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.53% 2.18% 4.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 151 458
10th Percentile £513 £538 £550
25th Percentile £600 £594 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £725 £800
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -9.38% +28.00%
75th Percentile £838 £825 £888
90th Percentile £881 £838 -
UK median daily rate £700 £725 £800
% change year-on-year -3.45% -9.38% +28.00%

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 15,362 9,774 10,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.60% 35.43% 30.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,425 6,154 6,623
10th Percentile £325 £306 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £687
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 923 499 523
10th Percentile £14.89 £15.45 £12.55
25th Percentile £19.34 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £31.36 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.74% -33.98% +8.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.96 £29.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +42.24% -34.44% +10.86%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -188 81 £700 -3.45% 306
Hedge funds
UK

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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 1 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.22%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (14.63%) AWS
2 9 (10.98%) GitHub
2 9 (10.98%) GitHub Actions
3 7 (8.54%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (8.54%) Amazon S3
3 7 (8.54%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (8.54%) Serverless
4 3 (3.66%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.22%) Azure
5 1 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.22%) Dagster
5 1 (1.22%) GCP
5 1 (1.22%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.22%) Prefect
5 1 (1.22%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.88%) WebEx
2 3 (3.66%) Telepresence
3 1 (1.22%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.20%) Relational Database
2 7 (8.54%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (8.54%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.10%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.66%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (13.41%) Git
2 8 (9.76%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.66%) Selenium
4 2 (2.44%) Appium
4 2 (2.44%) JIRA
4 2 (2.44%) JUnit
4 2 (2.44%) TestNG
5 1 (1.22%) GitLab
5 1 (1.22%) TeamCity
General
1 46 (56.10%) Finance
2 29 (35.37%) Front Office
3 16 (19.51%) Banking
4 14 (17.07%) Investment Banking
5 11 (13.41%) Financial Institution
6 10 (12.20%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (12.20%) Spanish Language
7 9 (10.98%) Publishing
8 6 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (6.10%) Social Skills
10 3 (3.66%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.22%) Billing
Job Titles
1 28 (34.15%) Developer
2 23 (28.05%) Analyst
3 22 (26.83%) Business Analyst
4 21 (25.61%) Python Developer
5 16 (19.51%) Support Engineer
6 11 (13.41%) Desktop Engineer
6 11 (13.41%) Desktop Support
6 11 (13.41%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 9 (10.98%) Kafka Developer
8 7 (8.54%) AWS Developer
8 7 (8.54%) SQL Developer
9 6 (7.32%) C# Developer
9 6 (7.32%) Front Office Business Analyst
10 5 (6.10%) Derivatives Business Analyst
10 5 (6.10%) Windows Engineer
11 4 (4.88%) Citrix Engineer
11 4 (4.88%) QA Engineer
11 4 (4.88%) Senior
11 4 (4.88%) Windows Deployment Engineer
11 4 (4.88%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (20.73%) Pandas
1 17 (20.73%) Polars
2 16 (19.51%) FastAPI
2 16 (19.51%) Flask
3 11 (13.41%) Kafka
4 10 (12.20%) NumPy
5 9 (10.98%) Apache Avro
5 9 (10.98%) REST
6 8 (9.76%) RESTful
7 5 (6.10%) .NET
8 2 (2.44%) Next.js
8 2 (2.44%) React
8 2 (2.44%) Redux
8 2 (2.44%) WebSockets
9 1 (1.22%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (1.22%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 20 (24.39%) Equities
2 13 (15.85%) Derivative
2 13 (15.85%) Onboarding
3 10 (12.20%) Management Information System
4 8 (9.76%) Fixed Income
4 8 (9.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.44%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (2.44%) OTC Derivatives
6 2 (2.44%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (1.22%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.22%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.22%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.22%) Pricing Data
7 1 (1.22%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.22%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.22%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 19 (23.17%) Windows
2 11 (13.41%) Linux
3 7 (8.54%) Unix
4 1 (1.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (25.61%) CI/CD
2 18 (21.95%) Data Pipeline
3 15 (18.29%) Analytics
3 15 (18.29%) Asset Management
4 14 (17.07%) Fintech
5 11 (13.41%) Containerisation
5 11 (13.41%) SDLC
6 10 (12.20%) Data Transformation
7 9 (10.98%) Benchmarking
7 9 (10.98%) Data Analysis
7 9 (10.98%) Observability
7 9 (10.98%) Performance Optimisation
7 9 (10.98%) Release Management
7 9 (10.98%) Test Strategy
8 8 (9.76%) Code Quality
8 8 (9.76%) Microservices
9 7 (8.54%) Computer Science
10 6 (7.32%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (6.10%) Mathematics
11 5 (6.10%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 30 (36.59%) Python
2 18 (21.95%) SQL
3 15 (18.29%) C#
4 7 (8.54%) Shell Script
5 5 (6.10%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.44%) C++
6 2 (2.44%) Java
6 2 (2.44%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 17 (20.73%) Degree
2 6 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (6.10%) Master's Degree
4 4 (4.88%) PhD
5 1 (1.22%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.88%) QA
2 2 (2.44%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 19 (23.17%) Docker
2 10 (12.20%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (13.41%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (6.10%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.88%) Altiris
2 4 (4.88%) Bloomberg
2 4 (4.88%) Citrix
2 4 (4.88%) ServiceNow
3 3 (3.66%) Cisco
3 3 (3.66%) Google
4 2 (2.44%) Tradeweb
5 1 (1.22%) Databricks
5 1 (1.22%) eFront
5 1 (1.22%) FactSet
5 1 (1.22%) Refinitiv
5 1 (1.22%) Reuters