Hedge funds Contract Job Trends in London

Hedge fund
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hedge funds in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hedge funds over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 127 96
Rank change year-on-year -223 -31 +189
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 72 266 458
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.39% 2.17% 2.59%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.08% 5.97% 7.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 212 431
10th Percentile £435 £538 £538
25th Percentile £513 £617 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £725 £750
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% -3.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £800 £875 £850
90th Percentile £875 £938 £888
England median daily rate £675 £725 £750
% change year-on-year -6.90% -3.33% +25.00%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,682 4,457 5,883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.87% 36.40% 33.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,251 2,971 4,140
10th Percentile £358 £333 £315
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £725
90th Percentile £800 £838 £850
England median daily rate £525 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -0.18% -4.38% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 88 146
10th Percentile £19.03 £15.84 £15.46
25th Percentile £22.91 £22.50 £19.40
Median hourly rate £35.00 £33.70 £27.42
Median % change year-on-year +3.87% +22.88% -21.66%
75th Percentile £61.00 £49.56 £50.63
90th Percentile £88.75 £78.88 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £33.91 £36.27
% change year-on-year +29.64% -6.51% +61.32%

Hedge funds
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Hedge funds relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Hedge funds job vacancy trend in London

Hedge funds
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Hedge funds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Hedge funds

Hedge funds
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hedge funds in London over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Hedge funds in London

Hedge funds
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Hedge funds.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Hedge funds

Hedge funds
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
Central London -25 1 £600 +12.94% 37
Hedge funds
England

Hedge funds
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.39%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.39%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 9 (12.50%) AWS
2 8 (11.11%) GitHub
2 8 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
3 7 (9.72%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (9.72%) Amazon S3
3 7 (9.72%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (9.72%) Serverless
4 2 (2.78%) Azure
4 2 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.39%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.39%) GCP
5 1 (1.39%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.39%) SaaS
5 1 (1.39%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.39%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.78%) WebEx
2 1 (1.39%) IP Telephony
2 1 (1.39%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.89%) Relational Database
2 7 (9.72%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 4 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.39%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.39%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (13.89%) Git
2 7 (9.72%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.17%) JIRA
3 3 (4.17%) Selenium
4 2 (2.78%) Appium
4 2 (2.78%) JUnit
4 2 (2.78%) TestNG
5 1 (1.39%) TeamCity
General
1 40 (55.56%) Finance
2 25 (34.72%) Front Office
3 9 (12.50%) Banking
3 9 (12.50%) Publishing
4 8 (11.11%) Financial Institution
4 8 (11.11%) Investment Banking
5 6 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (8.33%) Social Skills
5 6 (8.33%) Spanish Language
6 1 (1.39%) Billing
6 1 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (40.28%) Developer
2 27 (37.50%) Analyst
3 25 (34.72%) Business Analyst
4 21 (29.17%) Python Developer
5 9 (12.50%) Kafka Developer
6 8 (11.11%) Support Engineer
7 7 (9.72%) AWS Developer
7 7 (9.72%) Desktop Engineer
7 7 (9.72%) Desktop Support
7 7 (9.72%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 7 (9.72%) SQL Developer
8 6 (8.33%) Front Office Business Analyst
9 5 (6.94%) C# Developer
9 5 (6.94%) Citrix Engineer
9 5 (6.94%) Derivatives Business Analyst
10 4 (5.56%) Data Analyst
10 4 (5.56%) Data Business Analyst
10 4 (5.56%) Junior
10 4 (5.56%) QA Engineer
10 4 (5.56%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (23.61%) Pandas
1 17 (23.61%) Polars
2 16 (22.22%) FastAPI
2 16 (22.22%) Flask
3 10 (13.89%) Kafka
3 10 (13.89%) NumPy
4 9 (12.50%) Apache Avro
4 9 (12.50%) REST
5 8 (11.11%) RESTful
6 4 (5.56%) .NET
7 1 (1.39%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.39%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 18 (25.00%) Equities
2 10 (13.89%) Derivative
3 9 (12.50%) Management Information System
4 7 (9.72%) Onboarding
5 4 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (4.17%) Fixed Income
6 3 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.78%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (1.39%) Blackberry
8 1 (1.39%) Data Fabric
8 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.39%) OTC Derivatives
8 1 (1.39%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.06%) Windows
2 8 (11.11%) Linux
3 7 (9.72%) Unix
4 2 (2.78%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (26.39%) CI/CD
2 17 (23.61%) Data Pipeline
3 14 (19.44%) Fintech
4 12 (16.67%) Analytics
5 10 (13.89%) SDLC
6 9 (12.50%) Containerisation
6 9 (12.50%) Data Transformation
6 9 (12.50%) Observability
6 9 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
6 9 (12.50%) Release Management
6 9 (12.50%) Test Strategy
7 8 (11.11%) Asset Management
7 8 (11.11%) Benchmarking
7 8 (11.11%) Code Quality
7 8 (11.11%) Data Analysis
7 8 (11.11%) Microservices
8 5 (6.94%) Computer Science
8 5 (6.94%) Mathematics
8 5 (6.94%) Physics
9 4 (5.56%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 30 (41.67%) Python
2 20 (27.78%) SQL
3 12 (16.67%) C#
4 7 (9.72%) PowerShell
4 7 (9.72%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.78%) Java
6 1 (1.39%) C++
6 1 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 11 (15.28%) Degree
2 4 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (5.56%) Master's Degree
3 3 (4.17%) PhD
4 1 (1.39%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.94%) QA
2 1 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 17 (23.61%) Docker
2 7 (9.72%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.39%) vSphere
4 1 (1.39%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (13.89%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (8.33%) Citrix
2 2 (2.78%) Bloomberg
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.78%) Reuters
3 1 (1.39%) Apple
3 1 (1.39%) Cisco
3 1 (1.39%) Databricks
3 1 (1.39%) FactSet
3 1 (1.39%) GoldenSource
3 1 (1.39%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.39%) VMware