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 22 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 221 279
Rank change year-on-year -267 +58 +115
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 102 280 297
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 1.14% 0.79%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.81% 3.35% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 234 278
10th Percentile £456 £538 £500
25th Percentile £463 £638 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £674 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year -7.07% +3.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £806 £934 £850
90th Percentile £1,000 £938 £888
UK median daily rate £674 £725 £700
% change year-on-year -7.07% +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 12,608 8,369 11,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.62% 33.93% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,009 5,430 7,607
10th Percentile £300 £300 £257
25th Percentile £412 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £543 £545
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% -0.46% -5.22%
75th Percentile £625 £673 £663
90th Percentile £741 £786 £775
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 628 309 792
10th Percentile £15.62 £16.91 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.72 £15.39
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +25.45% +15.59%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.12 £84.20 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

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 22 March 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

Hedge funds
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 22 March 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 -176 96 £663 -8.62% 114
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 7 (6.86%) Apache Spark
2 6 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.94%) Confluence
4 2 (1.96%) Apache
4 2 (1.96%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.98%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 24 (23.53%) AWS
2 6 (5.88%) Azure
3 5 (4.90%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (4.90%) Snowflake
4 3 (2.94%) GCP
4 3 (2.94%) GitHub
4 3 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (2.94%) Power Platform
4 3 (2.94%) SaaS
5 2 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.96%) Azure Pipelines
5 2 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (1.96%) dbt
5 2 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.98%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.98%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.98%) Serverless
6 1 (0.98%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.88%) WebEx
2 4 (3.92%) Network Security
3 1 (0.98%) DHCP
3 1 (0.98%) DNS
3 1 (0.98%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.98%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.98%) SMS
3 1 (0.98%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.98%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.90%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.94%) Power BI
2 3 (2.94%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (1.96%) Apache Arrow
3 2 (1.96%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (1.96%) Apache Ignite
3 2 (1.96%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.96%) Dremio
3 2 (1.96%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.96%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.98%) Big Data
4 1 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.98%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 12 (11.76%) Git
2 11 (10.78%) JIRA
3 5 (4.90%) GitLab
4 3 (2.94%) Selenium
5 2 (1.96%) Appium
5 2 (1.96%) JUnit
5 2 (1.96%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.96%) TestNG
6 1 (0.98%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.98%) Oracle Forms
General
1 66 (64.71%) Finance
2 32 (31.37%) Banking
3 29 (28.43%) Front Office
4 21 (20.59%) Social Skills
5 20 (19.61%) Investment Banking
6 14 (13.73%) Financial Institution
7 8 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.94%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.96%) Publishing
10 1 (0.98%) Advertising
10 1 (0.98%) Billing
10 1 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.98%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (33.33%) Developer
2 25 (24.51%) Python Developer
3 15 (14.71%) Analyst
4 13 (12.75%) Python Engineer
5 12 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (11.76%) Business Analyst
6 10 (9.80%) Senior
7 9 (8.82%) RAD Developer
8 8 (7.84%) Citrix Engineer
9 7 (6.86%) QA Engineer
10 6 (5.88%) AWS Developer
10 6 (5.88%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 5 (4.90%) Automation Engineer
11 5 (4.90%) AWS DevOps
11 5 (4.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.90%) Data Business Analyst
11 5 (4.90%) IP Network Engineer
11 5 (4.90%) JavaScript Developer
11 5 (4.90%) Network Engineer
11 5 (4.90%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (21.57%) NumPy
1 22 (21.57%) Pandas
2 15 (14.71%) REST
3 9 (8.82%) COM
3 9 (8.82%) Polars
3 9 (8.82%) SciPy
4 8 (7.84%) FastAPI
4 8 (7.84%) Flask
5 6 (5.88%) Dask
6 5 (4.90%) AngularJS
6 5 (4.90%) Kafka
6 5 (4.90%) React
6 5 (4.90%) Vue
7 4 (3.92%) Web Services
8 3 (2.94%) RESTful
8 3 (2.94%) scikit-learn
9 2 (1.96%) gRPC
9 2 (1.96%) Plotly
9 2 (1.96%) Protocol Buffers
9 2 (1.96%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 26 (25.49%) Equities
2 25 (24.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (11.76%) Derivative
4 8 (7.84%) Fixed Income
5 6 (5.88%) Cloud Native
5 6 (5.88%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (4.90%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.92%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.96%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.96%) Data Fabric
9 2 (1.96%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.96%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.96%) Pricing Data
9 2 (1.96%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.98%) Blackberry
10 1 (0.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.98%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.98%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 14 (13.73%) Windows
2 12 (11.76%) Linux
3 4 (3.92%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.94%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (19.61%) Analytics
1 20 (19.61%) Software Engineering
2 17 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 17 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 16 (15.69%) Mathematics
3 16 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (14.71%) Data Analysis
5 14 (13.73%) Data Pipeline
6 12 (11.76%) Computer Science
7 10 (9.80%) Agile
7 10 (9.80%) AI
8 9 (8.82%) Fintech
8 9 (8.82%) Physics
8 9 (8.82%) Pricing Analytics
8 9 (8.82%) Prototyping
8 9 (8.82%) RAD
8 9 (8.82%) Rapid Prototyping
9 8 (7.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (7.84%) Time Series Forecasting
10 7 (6.86%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 56 (54.90%) Python
2 26 (25.49%) SQL
3 15 (14.71%) Java
4 12 (11.76%) PowerShell
5 11 (10.78%) C#
6 10 (9.80%) VBA
7 7 (6.86%) C++
7 7 (6.86%) JavaScript
8 5 (4.90%) Rust
9 2 (1.96%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.98%) Groovy
10 1 (0.98%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (13.73%) Degree
2 8 (7.84%) Master's Degree
3 6 (5.88%) PhD
4 4 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.96%) CISM
5 2 (1.96%) CISSP
5 2 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.98%) CEH
6 1 (0.98%) CFA
6 1 (0.98%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.80%) QA
2 4 (3.92%) NIST
3 3 (2.94%) MiFID
4 2 (1.96%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.96%) Dodd-Frank
4 2 (1.96%) EMIR
4 2 (1.96%) GRC
4 2 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.98%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.98%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 15 (14.71%) Docker
2 3 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.96%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.98%) Firmware
4 1 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.98%) vSphere
4 1 (0.98%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (8.82%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.90%) Ansible
2 5 (4.90%) Terraform
3 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.98%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (0.98%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.98%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (8.82%) Citrix
2 5 (4.90%) Arista
2 5 (4.90%) Reuters
3 4 (3.92%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.94%) BiZZdesign
4 3 (2.94%) GoldenSource
4 3 (2.94%) Oracle
5 2 (1.96%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.96%) Dataiku
5 2 (1.96%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.98%) Altiris
6 1 (0.98%) Apple
6 1 (0.98%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.98%) Charles River
6 1 (0.98%) Cisco
6 1 (0.98%) Databricks
6 1 (0.98%) FactSet
6 1 (0.98%) Google
6 1 (0.98%) VMware