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 21 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 134 187
Rank change year-on-year -167 +53 +70
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 94 263 235
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.60% 1.95% 1.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.62% 5.63% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 217 214
10th Percentile £425 £538 £500
25th Percentile £463 £638 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year -8.62% +3.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £825 £938 £809
90th Percentile £1,000 - £938
England median daily rate £674 £725 £700
% change year-on-year -7.07% +3.57% +16.67%

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 5,790 4,670 6,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.97% 34.57% 32.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,764 2,990 4,252
10th Percentile £350 £320 £300
25th Percentile £431 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -5.35%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £800 £850 £813
England median daily rate £510 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.56% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 64 178
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.54 £16.00
25th Percentile £19.72 £24.66 £19.60
Median hourly rate £28.55 £38.00 £28.88
Median % change year-on-year -24.87% +31.60% -17.50%
75th Percentile £54.25 £59.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.75 £66.83
England median hourly rate £33.00 £36.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year -8.97% +11.54% +44.44%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -5 10 £575 +12.20% 38
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 9 (9.57%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (7.45%) Apache Spark
3 5 (5.32%) Apache
4 2 (2.13%) Jupyter
5 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 32 (34.04%) AWS
2 9 (9.57%) Azure
3 7 (7.45%) Snowflake
4 6 (6.38%) GCP
5 5 (5.32%) dbt
6 4 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.13%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.13%) GitHub
7 2 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.13%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.06%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.45%) WebEx
2 1 (1.06%) DHCP
2 1 (1.06%) DNS
2 1 (1.06%) IP Telephony
2 1 (1.06%) Network Security
2 1 (1.06%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.06%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.32%) Amazon Athena
1 5 (5.32%) Apache Arrow
1 5 (5.32%) Apache Iceberg
1 5 (5.32%) Apache Ignite
1 5 (5.32%) Data Lake
1 5 (5.32%) Dremio
2 3 (3.19%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (3.19%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.13%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.13%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.13%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.13%) Power BI
3 2 (2.13%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.06%) Big Data
4 1 (1.06%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 11 (11.70%) Git
2 5 (5.32%) GitLab
3 4 (4.26%) JIRA
4 2 (2.13%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.06%) Oracle Forms
General
1 68 (72.34%) Finance
2 34 (36.17%) Banking
3 29 (30.85%) Front Office
4 24 (25.53%) Investment Banking
5 23 (24.47%) Social Skills
6 19 (20.21%) Financial Institution
7 10 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.19%) Advertising
9 2 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.06%) Back Office
10 1 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (30.85%) Developer
2 20 (21.28%) Python Developer
3 19 (20.21%) Python Engineer
4 17 (18.09%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (11.70%) Senior
6 9 (9.57%) Analyst
6 9 (9.57%) RAD Developer
7 7 (7.45%) Automation Engineer
7 7 (7.45%) AWS Developer
7 7 (7.45%) Business Analyst
7 7 (7.45%) IP Network Engineer
7 7 (7.45%) JavaScript Developer
7 7 (7.45%) Network Engineer
7 7 (7.45%) Switch Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (5.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) AWS Software Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (25.53%) NumPy
2 23 (24.47%) Pandas
3 14 (14.89%) SciPy
4 13 (13.83%) REST
5 10 (10.64%) AngularJS
5 10 (10.64%) React
6 9 (9.57%) COM
7 7 (7.45%) FastAPI
7 7 (7.45%) Flask
7 7 (7.45%) Polars
7 7 (7.45%) Vue
8 6 (6.38%) Dask
9 5 (5.32%) gRPC
9 5 (5.32%) Protocol Buffers
10 4 (4.26%) Web Services
11 3 (3.19%) CSS
11 3 (3.19%) HTML
11 3 (3.19%) JNI
11 3 (3.19%) Kafka
11 3 (3.19%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 28 (29.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 23 (24.47%) Equities
3 14 (14.89%) Derivative
4 11 (11.70%) Fixed Income
5 6 (6.38%) Cloud Native
5 6 (6.38%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (5.32%) Pricing Data
7 3 (3.19%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.13%) AI Agents
8 2 (2.13%) Data Fabric
8 2 (2.13%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.13%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.13%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (1.06%) Blackberry
9 1 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.06%) Market Risk
9 1 (1.06%) Taxonomies
9 1 (1.06%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 19 (20.21%) Linux
2 11 (11.70%) Windows
3 5 (5.32%) Unix
3 5 (5.32%) Windows 10
4 4 (4.26%) CentOS
5 3 (3.19%) Mac OS
5 3 (3.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.19%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (22.34%) Software Engineering
2 20 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (19.15%) Mathematics
4 17 (18.09%) Analytics
4 17 (18.09%) CI/CD
4 17 (18.09%) Risk Management
5 13 (13.83%) Data Analysis
6 12 (12.77%) Agile
7 11 (11.70%) Data Pipeline
8 9 (9.57%) AI
8 9 (9.57%) Clean Code
8 9 (9.57%) Data Engineering
8 9 (9.57%) Physics
8 9 (9.57%) Pricing Analytics
8 9 (9.57%) Prototyping
8 9 (9.57%) RAD
8 9 (9.57%) Rapid Prototyping
9 8 (8.51%) Computer Science
9 8 (8.51%) Systematic Trading
9 8 (8.51%) Time Series Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 60 (63.83%) Python
2 24 (25.53%) SQL
3 21 (22.34%) Java
4 15 (15.96%) JavaScript
5 11 (11.70%) C#
6 10 (10.64%) VBA
7 9 (9.57%) C++
7 9 (9.57%) PowerShell
8 7 (7.45%) Rust
9 5 (5.32%) TypeScript
10 3 (3.19%) Bash
10 3 (3.19%) C
10 3 (3.19%) Perl
10 3 (3.19%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.06%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 10 (10.64%) Degree
2 8 (8.51%) Master's Degree
3 6 (6.38%) PhD
4 2 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.06%) RHCE
5 1 (1.06%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.26%) QA
2 3 (3.19%) MiFID
3 2 (2.13%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.13%) Dodd-Frank
3 2 (2.13%) EMIR
3 2 (2.13%) GRC
3 2 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.06%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.06%) ISO 22301
4 1 (1.06%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (14.89%) Docker
2 4 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.13%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.06%) Firmware
4 1 (1.06%) KVM
4 1 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.06%) vSphere
4 1 (1.06%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (10.64%) Ansible
2 9 (9.57%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.32%) Terraform
4 3 (3.19%) SCCM
5 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.06%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.06%) Puppet
6 1 (1.06%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (1.06%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 8 (8.51%) Oracle
2 7 (7.45%) Arista
3 6 (6.38%) Red Hat
3 6 (6.38%) VMware
4 5 (5.32%) Citrix
5 4 (4.26%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.26%) Reuters
6 3 (3.19%) GoldenSource
7 2 (2.13%) Dataiku
7 2 (2.13%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.06%) Altiris
8 1 (1.06%) Apple
8 1 (1.06%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.06%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.06%) Cisco
8 1 (1.06%) Google