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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 218 221 403
Rank change year-on-year +3 +182 -90
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 306 392 282
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.25% 1.06% 0.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.67% 3.42% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 369 242
10th Percentile £538 £500 £450
25th Percentile £638 £588 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £725 £588
Median % change year-on-year - +23.40% -6.00%
75th Percentile £888 £850 £698
90th Percentile £938 £888 £838
UK median daily rate £725 £725 £575
% change year-on-year - +26.09% -8.00%

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 8,332 11,451 16,953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.13% 30.82% 33.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,444 7,498 11,765
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 827 587
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.01 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.91 £30.16 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +12.43% +34.13% -16.72%
75th Percentile £64.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.20 £70.00 £75.20
UK median hourly rate £32.28 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +7.58% +33.42% -18.24%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hedge funds in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hedge funds in England

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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 2 May 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 -3 306 £725 - 424
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 45 (14.71%) Apache
1 45 (14.71%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.65%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.33%) Siemens NX
2 1 (0.33%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 38 (12.42%) Aladdin
2 15 (4.90%) thinkFolio
3 1 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 95 (31.05%) AWS
2 49 (16.01%) Snowflake
3 45 (14.71%) dbt
4 38 (12.42%) GCP
5 31 (10.13%) Azure
6 17 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
6 17 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (5.56%) Dagster
7 3 (0.98%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.65%) Azure AKS
8 2 (0.65%) Azure Functions
8 2 (0.65%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.65%) SaaS
8 2 (0.65%) SAP Fieldglass
8 2 (0.65%) Serverless
9 1 (0.33%) Collibra
9 1 (0.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.96%) BGP
2 5 (1.63%) Firewall
2 5 (1.63%) HSRP
2 5 (1.63%) IGMP
2 5 (1.63%) Multicast
2 5 (1.63%) OSPF
2 5 (1.63%) VRRP
3 2 (0.65%) WAN
3 2 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.33%) HTTP
4 1 (0.33%) Modbus
4 1 (0.33%) Network Security
4 1 (0.33%) SSL
4 1 (0.33%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (39.22%) Data Lake
2 45 (14.71%) Amazon Athena
2 45 (14.71%) Apache Arrow
2 45 (14.71%) Apache Iceberg
2 45 (14.71%) Dremio
3 29 (9.48%) Apache Ignite
4 5 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.31%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.65%) Power BI
6 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.65%) Tableau
7 1 (0.33%) Big Data
7 1 (0.33%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.33%) DB2
7 1 (0.33%) KDB
7 1 (0.33%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.33%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.33%) OLTP
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 18 (5.88%) Git
2 7 (2.29%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.63%) GitLab
4 4 (1.31%) Terragrunt
5 3 (0.98%) JIRA
6 1 (0.33%) Ant
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Ivy
6 1 (0.33%) ERwin
6 1 (0.33%) Gradle
6 1 (0.33%) Maven
6 1 (0.33%) Qt Creator
6 1 (0.33%) TeamCity
General
1 264 (86.27%) Finance
2 222 (72.55%) Front Office
3 71 (23.20%) Banking
4 58 (18.95%) Investment Banking
5 19 (6.21%) Social Skills
6 18 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (5.88%) Financial Institution
7 6 (1.96%) Back Office
8 4 (1.31%) Law
9 2 (0.65%) Legal
10 1 (0.33%) Advertising
10 1 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (24.84%) Analyst
2 75 (24.51%) Developer
3 68 (22.22%) Software Engineer
4 64 (20.92%) Business Analyst
5 53 (17.32%) Business Manager
6 48 (15.69%) AWS Engineer
7 45 (14.71%) AWS Software Engineer
8 37 (12.09%) Head of Finance
8 37 (12.09%) Senior
9 35 (11.44%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
10 34 (11.11%) Python Engineer
11 32 (10.46%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 31 (10.13%) Java Engineer
12 31 (10.13%) Java Software Engineer
12 31 (10.13%) Lead
13 30 (9.80%) Python Developer
14 27 (8.82%) Python Software Engineer
15 26 (8.50%) Product Manager
16 23 (7.52%) AWS Developer
17 22 (7.19%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (14.38%) NumPy
1 44 (14.38%) Pandas
2 38 (12.42%) SciPy
3 36 (11.76%) PySpark
4 30 (9.80%) gRPC
5 29 (9.48%) Protocol Buffers
6 26 (8.50%) AngularJS
6 26 (8.50%) React
7 25 (8.17%) Vue
8 16 (5.23%) Redux
9 10 (3.27%) Polars
10 9 (2.94%) FastAPI
10 9 (2.94%) Flask
11 4 (1.31%) Next.js
12 2 (0.65%) .NET
12 2 (0.65%) ARM Templates
13 1 (0.33%) DirectX
13 1 (0.33%) OAuth
13 1 (0.33%) OpenGL
13 1 (0.33%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 215 (70.26%) Fixed Income
2 198 (64.71%) Derivative
3 172 (56.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 164 (53.59%) Equities
5 50 (16.34%) Product Ownership
6 19 (6.21%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (3.92%) Pricing Data
7 12 (3.92%) Reference Data
8 10 (3.27%) Algorithms
9 9 (2.94%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.31%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.65%) Market Risk
12 2 (0.65%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.33%) Distributed Computing
13 1 (0.33%) Greenfield Project
13 1 (0.33%) Hybrid Cloud
13 1 (0.33%) Public Cloud
13 1 (0.33%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.50%) Linux
2 19 (6.21%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.63%) Rocky
4 3 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.65%) VMS
5 2 (0.65%) Windows
6 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (72.55%) Agile
2 185 (60.46%) Investment Management
3 124 (40.52%) Asset Management
4 118 (38.56%) Migration
5 113 (36.93%) Roadmaps
6 92 (30.07%) Data Governance
7 91 (29.74%) Regulatory Compliance
8 87 (28.43%) Software Engineering
9 78 (25.49%) Data Management
10 66 (21.57%) Analytics
11 53 (17.32%) Portfolio Management
12 41 (13.40%) Business Intelligence
13 36 (11.76%) Business Analysis
14 31 (10.13%) CI/CD
15 22 (7.19%) Machine Learning
16 21 (6.86%) Fintech
16 21 (6.86%) Full-Stack Development
17 20 (6.54%) Artificial Intelligence
18 19 (6.21%) Data Mapping
18 19 (6.21%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 162 (52.94%) Python
2 75 (24.51%) SQL
3 64 (20.92%) Java
4 55 (17.97%) JavaScript
5 46 (15.03%) TypeScript
6 20 (6.54%) C++
7 11 (3.59%) C#
8 7 (2.29%) Rust
9 6 (1.96%) C
10 4 (1.31%) Bash
11 3 (0.98%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.65%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.33%) Go
13 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (9.15%) Degree
2 8 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (2.61%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.65%) CCIE
3 2 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (0.65%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.33%) CAPM
4 1 (0.33%) CCNP
4 1 (0.33%) CISSP
4 1 (0.33%) ISEB
4 1 (0.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.82%) MiFID
2 2 (0.65%) Dodd-Frank
2 2 (0.65%) EMIR
2 2 (0.65%) HIPAA
2 2 (0.65%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.65%) QA
3 1 (0.33%) GDPR
3 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.33%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (5.23%) Docker
2 2 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (5.23%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.90%) Ansible
2 15 (4.90%) Terraform
3 8 (2.61%) Puppet
4 4 (1.31%) FortiGate
5 3 (0.98%) Consul
6 2 (0.65%) Packer
7 1 (0.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 38 (12.42%) BISAM
2 18 (5.88%) Charles River
3 15 (4.90%) Calypso
3 15 (4.90%) SimCorp
4 7 (2.29%) Arista
4 7 (2.29%) Cisco
5 6 (1.96%) Oracle
6 5 (1.63%) Fortinet
6 5 (1.63%) Microsoft
7 3 (0.98%) Bloomberg
7 3 (0.98%) Refinitiv
7 3 (0.98%) Reuters
8 2 (0.65%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.65%) Google
8 2 (0.65%) SAP
9 1 (0.33%) Apple
9 1 (0.33%) Informatica
9 1 (0.33%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.33%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.33%) Sun