Hedge funds Contracts 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 89 283
Rank change year-on-year -55 +194 -84
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 250 492 211
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.88% 2.79% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.11% 8.36% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 460 180
10th Percentile £525 £538 £450
25th Percentile £588 £650 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £800 £613
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +30.61% -5.77%
75th Percentile £838 £875 £788
90th Percentile £875 £888 £863
England median daily rate £725 £800 £600
% change year-on-year -9.38% +33.33% -7.69%

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 4,897 5,884 9,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.87% 33.39% 35.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,225 4,129 6,620
10th Percentile £331 £315 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £738 £738 £743
90th Percentile £838 £850 £838
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 141 98
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £17.93
25th Percentile £22.50 £21.00 £22.49
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -20.00% -13.58%
75th Percentile £47.81 £50.25 £58.44
90th Percentile £65.03 £71.25 £85.99
England median hourly rate £32.72 £37.50 £25.58
% change year-on-year -12.74% +46.60% -3.47%

Hedge funds
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Hedge funds as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Hedge funds in London

Hedge funds
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hedge funds in London.

Daily rate trend for Hedge funds in London

Hedge funds
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hedge funds in London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hedge funds in London

Hedge funds
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Hedge funds in London.

Hourly rate trend for Hedge funds in London

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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 5 July 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
Central London +2 18 £550 -15.38% 211
Hedge funds
England

Hedge funds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 51 (20.40%) Apache
1 51 (20.40%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.80%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.40%) Siemens NX
2 1 (0.40%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 40 (16.00%) Aladdin
2 20 (8.00%) thinkFolio
3 1 (0.40%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 115 (46.00%) AWS
2 53 (21.20%) Snowflake
3 51 (20.40%) dbt
4 34 (13.60%) Azure
5 32 (12.80%) GCP
6 5 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (2.00%) Dagster
7 4 (1.60%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.80%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.80%) SaaS
8 2 (0.80%) SAP Fieldglass
8 2 (0.80%) Serverless
9 1 (0.40%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.40%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.40%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.40%) Collibra
9 1 (0.40%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.40%) BGP
2 4 (1.60%) Firewall
2 4 (1.60%) HSRP
2 4 (1.60%) IGMP
2 4 (1.60%) Multicast
2 4 (1.60%) OSPF
2 4 (1.60%) VRRP
3 3 (1.20%) WAN
3 3 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.80%) HTTP
4 2 (0.80%) Network Security
4 2 (0.80%) SSL
5 1 (0.40%) Modbus
5 1 (0.40%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.40%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (25.20%) Data Lake
2 51 (20.40%) Amazon Athena
2 51 (20.40%) Apache Arrow
2 51 (20.40%) Apache Iceberg
2 51 (20.40%) Dremio
3 35 (14.00%) Apache Ignite
4 5 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.00%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.20%) Power BI
5 3 (1.20%) Tableau
6 2 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.40%) Big Data
7 1 (0.40%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.40%) KDB
7 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.40%) OLAP
7 1 (0.40%) OLTP
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle OLAP
7 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (9.60%) Git
2 5 (2.00%) GitLab
3 4 (1.60%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.60%) JIRA
3 4 (1.60%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.40%) ERwin
4 1 (0.40%) Qt Creator
General
1 212 (84.80%) Finance
2 153 (61.20%) Front Office
3 86 (34.40%) Banking
4 72 (28.80%) Investment Banking
5 33 (13.20%) Social Skills
6 19 (7.60%) Financial Institution
7 18 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.60%) Back Office
9 2 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.80%) Legal
9 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Advertising
10 1 (0.40%) Law
Job Titles
1 83 (33.20%) Developer
2 81 (32.40%) Software Engineer
3 59 (23.60%) AWS Engineer
4 55 (22.00%) Analyst
5 51 (20.40%) AWS Software Engineer
5 51 (20.40%) Python Engineer
6 46 (18.40%) Business Analyst
7 44 (17.60%) Senior
8 43 (17.20%) Business Manager
8 43 (17.20%) Java Engineer
8 43 (17.20%) Java Software Engineer
9 41 (16.40%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
10 40 (16.00%) Python Software Engineer
11 38 (15.20%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 34 (13.60%) Senior Software Engineer
13 33 (13.20%) Python Developer
13 33 (13.20%) Senior Java Engineer
13 33 (13.20%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 30 (12.00%) AWS Developer
15 26 (10.40%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (21.60%) NumPy
1 54 (21.60%) Pandas
2 51 (20.40%) SciPy
3 40 (16.00%) React
4 38 (15.20%) AngularJS
4 38 (15.20%) Vue
5 36 (14.40%) gRPC
6 35 (14.00%) Protocol Buffers
7 22 (8.80%) Redux
8 21 (8.40%) PySpark
9 17 (6.80%) Polars
10 16 (6.40%) FastAPI
10 16 (6.40%) Flask
11 6 (2.40%) .NET
12 4 (1.60%) .NET Core
12 4 (1.60%) Next.js
13 2 (0.80%) Blazor
13 2 (0.80%) REST
14 1 (0.40%) QML
14 1 (0.40%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 150 (60.00%) Fixed Income
2 122 (48.80%) Derivative
3 113 (45.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 96 (38.40%) Equities
5 30 (12.00%) Pricing Data
6 23 (9.20%) Onboarding
7 14 (5.60%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (4.80%) Reference Data
9 11 (4.40%) Algorithms
10 10 (4.00%) Data Structures
11 5 (2.00%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.60%) Product Ownership
13 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
14 2 (0.80%) Virtual Team
15 1 (0.40%) Cloud Native
15 1 (0.40%) Distributed Applications
15 1 (0.40%) Distributed Computing
15 1 (0.40%) Operational Technology
15 1 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
15 1 (0.40%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 33 (13.20%) Linux
2 5 (2.00%) Rocky
3 3 (1.20%) Windows
4 2 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.80%) VMS
5 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (63.20%) Agile
2 127 (50.80%) Investment Management
3 122 (48.80%) Asset Management
4 109 (43.60%) Software Engineering
5 48 (19.20%) Analytics
6 44 (17.60%) Business Analysis
7 43 (17.20%) Business Intelligence
7 43 (17.20%) Migration
8 42 (16.80%) Data Management
9 41 (16.40%) Portfolio Management
10 36 (14.40%) CI/CD
11 33 (13.20%) Roadmaps
12 29 (11.60%) Data Governance
13 28 (11.20%) Regulatory Compliance
14 27 (10.80%) Full-Stack Development
15 26 (10.40%) Fintech
16 24 (9.60%) Data Mapping
17 22 (8.80%) TDD
18 21 (8.40%) User Acceptance Testing
19 20 (8.00%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 183 (73.20%) Python
2 81 (32.40%) SQL
3 78 (31.20%) Java
4 73 (29.20%) JavaScript
5 57 (22.80%) TypeScript
6 28 (11.20%) C++
7 24 (9.60%) C#
8 14 (5.60%) Rust
9 7 (2.80%) C
10 3 (1.20%) Bash
11 2 (0.80%) Go
11 2 (0.80%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.80%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (3.60%) Degree
2 8 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (3.20%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.80%) CCIE
3 2 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.40%) CAPM
4 1 (0.40%) CCNP
4 1 (0.40%) CISSP
4 1 (0.40%) ISEB
4 1 (0.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.60%) MiFID
2 3 (1.20%) EMIR
3 2 (0.80%) Dodd-Frank
3 2 (0.80%) HIPAA
3 2 (0.80%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.40%) GDPR
4 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.40%) NIST
4 1 (0.40%) QA
System Software
1 23 (9.20%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (8.80%) Kubernetes
2 21 (8.40%) Ansible
3 12 (4.80%) Terraform
4 6 (2.40%) Puppet
5 3 (1.20%) Consul
5 3 (1.20%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.80%) Packer
7 1 (0.40%) Podman
7 1 (0.40%) SCCM
Vendors
1 39 (15.60%) BISAM
2 22 (8.80%) Charles River
3 19 (7.60%) Calypso
3 19 (7.60%) SimCorp
4 14 (5.60%) Arista
5 7 (2.80%) Cisco
6 6 (2.40%) Oracle
7 5 (2.00%) Microsoft
8 4 (1.60%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.80%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.80%) DevExpress
9 2 (0.80%) Google
9 2 (0.80%) Meraki
9 2 (0.80%) SAP
9 2 (0.80%) Sun
10 1 (0.40%) Concur
10 1 (0.40%) Okta
10 1 (0.40%) Ping Identity
10 1 (0.40%) Portware
10 1 (0.40%) Sparx