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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 135 176
Rank change year-on-year -164 +41 +78
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 93 262 234
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.60% 1.95% 1.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.62% 5.64% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 215 213
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 £800
90th Percentile £1,000 - £930
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 5,734 4,649 6,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.91% 34.67% 32.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,736 2,971 4,232
10th Percentile £350 £320 £300
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -5.74%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £800 £844 £813
England median daily rate £510 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -6.42% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 62 180
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.80 £15.50
25th Percentile £19.72 £24.93 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.55 £39.02 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.83% +48.65% -21.06%
75th Percentile £54.25 £60.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.75 £65.18
England median hourly rate £32.50 £37.00 £32.12
% change year-on-year -12.16% +15.21% +42.73%

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 23 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 23 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 -4 10 £575 +12.20% 32
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 (9.68%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (7.53%) Apache Spark
3 5 (5.38%) Apache
4 2 (2.15%) Jupyter
5 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 32 (34.41%) AWS
2 9 (9.68%) Azure
3 7 (7.53%) Snowflake
4 6 (6.45%) GCP
5 5 (5.38%) dbt
6 4 (4.30%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.15%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (2.15%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.15%) GitHub
7 2 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.15%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.08%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.53%) WebEx
2 1 (1.08%) DHCP
2 1 (1.08%) DNS
2 1 (1.08%) IP Telephony
2 1 (1.08%) Network Security
2 1 (1.08%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.38%) Amazon Athena
1 5 (5.38%) Apache Arrow
1 5 (5.38%) Apache Iceberg
1 5 (5.38%) Apache Ignite
1 5 (5.38%) Data Lake
1 5 (5.38%) Dremio
2 3 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (3.23%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.15%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.15%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.15%) Power BI
3 2 (2.15%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.08%) Big Data
4 1 (1.08%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.08%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (11.83%) Git
2 5 (5.38%) GitLab
3 4 (4.30%) JIRA
4 2 (2.15%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.08%) Oracle Forms
General
1 67 (72.04%) Finance
2 34 (36.56%) Banking
3 29 (31.18%) Front Office
4 24 (25.81%) Investment Banking
5 22 (23.66%) Social Skills
6 18 (19.35%) Financial Institution
7 9 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.23%) Advertising
9 2 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.08%) Back Office
10 1 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (31.18%) Developer
2 20 (21.51%) Python Developer
3 19 (20.43%) Python Engineer
4 17 (18.28%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (11.83%) Senior
6 9 (9.68%) Analyst
6 9 (9.68%) RAD Developer
7 7 (7.53%) Automation Engineer
7 7 (7.53%) AWS Developer
7 7 (7.53%) Business Analyst
7 7 (7.53%) IP Network Engineer
7 7 (7.53%) JavaScript Developer
7 7 (7.53%) Network Engineer
7 7 (7.53%) Switch Engineer
8 6 (6.45%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 5 (5.38%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (5.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.38%) AWS Software Engineer
9 5 (5.38%) Java Engineer
9 5 (5.38%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (25.81%) NumPy
2 23 (24.73%) Pandas
3 14 (15.05%) SciPy
4 13 (13.98%) REST
5 10 (10.75%) AngularJS
5 10 (10.75%) React
6 9 (9.68%) COM
7 7 (7.53%) FastAPI
7 7 (7.53%) Flask
7 7 (7.53%) Polars
7 7 (7.53%) Vue
8 6 (6.45%) Dask
9 5 (5.38%) gRPC
9 5 (5.38%) Protocol Buffers
10 4 (4.30%) Web Services
11 3 (3.23%) CSS
11 3 (3.23%) HTML
11 3 (3.23%) JNI
11 3 (3.23%) Kafka
11 3 (3.23%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 28 (30.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 23 (24.73%) Equities
3 14 (15.05%) Derivative
4 11 (11.83%) Fixed Income
5 6 (6.45%) Cloud Native
5 6 (6.45%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (5.38%) Pricing Data
7 3 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.15%) AI Agents
8 2 (2.15%) Data Fabric
8 2 (2.15%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.15%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.15%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.15%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (1.08%) Blackberry
9 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.08%) Market Risk
9 1 (1.08%) Taxonomies
9 1 (1.08%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 18 (19.35%) Linux
2 11 (11.83%) Windows
3 5 (5.38%) Windows 10
4 4 (4.30%) CentOS
4 4 (4.30%) Unix
5 3 (3.23%) Mac OS
5 3 (3.23%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.08%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (22.58%) Software Engineering
2 20 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (19.35%) Mathematics
4 17 (18.28%) Analytics
4 17 (18.28%) CI/CD
4 17 (18.28%) Risk Management
5 13 (13.98%) Data Analysis
6 12 (12.90%) Agile
7 11 (11.83%) Data Pipeline
8 9 (9.68%) AI
8 9 (9.68%) Clean Code
8 9 (9.68%) Data Engineering
8 9 (9.68%) Physics
8 9 (9.68%) Pricing Analytics
8 9 (9.68%) Prototyping
8 9 (9.68%) RAD
8 9 (9.68%) Rapid Prototyping
9 8 (8.60%) Computer Science
9 8 (8.60%) Systematic Trading
9 8 (8.60%) Time Series Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 59 (63.44%) Python
2 24 (25.81%) SQL
3 21 (22.58%) Java
4 15 (16.13%) JavaScript
5 11 (11.83%) C#
6 10 (10.75%) VBA
7 9 (9.68%) C++
7 9 (9.68%) PowerShell
8 7 (7.53%) Rust
9 5 (5.38%) TypeScript
10 3 (3.23%) C
10 3 (3.23%) Perl
11 2 (2.15%) Bash
11 2 (2.15%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.08%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 10 (10.75%) Degree
2 8 (8.60%) Master's Degree
3 6 (6.45%) PhD
4 2 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.08%) RHCE
5 1 (1.08%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.30%) QA
2 3 (3.23%) MiFID
3 2 (2.15%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.15%) Dodd-Frank
3 2 (2.15%) EMIR
3 2 (2.15%) GRC
3 2 (2.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.08%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.08%) ISO 22301
4 1 (1.08%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (15.05%) Docker
2 3 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.15%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.08%) Firmware
4 1 (1.08%) KVM
4 1 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.08%) vSphere
4 1 (1.08%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (9.68%) Ansible
1 9 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.38%) Terraform
3 3 (3.23%) SCCM
4 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.08%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.08%) Puppet
5 1 (1.08%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (1.08%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 7 (7.53%) Arista
1 7 (7.53%) Oracle
2 5 (5.38%) Citrix
2 5 (5.38%) Red Hat
2 5 (5.38%) VMware
3 4 (4.30%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.30%) Reuters
4 3 (3.23%) GoldenSource
5 2 (2.15%) Dataiku
5 2 (2.15%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.08%) Altiris
6 1 (1.08%) Apple
6 1 (1.08%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.08%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.08%) Cisco
6 1 (1.08%) Google