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 12 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 220 133 216
Rank change year-on-year -87 +83 -21
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 155 309 217
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.11% 1.99% 1.08%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.83% 5.90% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 267 188
10th Percentile £433 £550 £468
25th Percentile £550 £638 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% +3.70%
75th Percentile £825 £881 £788
90th Percentile £838 £888 £941
England median daily rate £750 £800 £675
% change year-on-year -6.25% +18.52% -

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 5,478 5,240 6,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.22% 33.78% 34.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,490 3,346 4,933
10th Percentile £335 £325 £330
25th Percentile £440 £450 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £688 £714 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 61 104
10th Percentile £17.06 £17.25 £18.63
25th Percentile £20.41 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.10% +15.00% +16.69%
75th Percentile £44.47 £56.00 £48.83
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.75 £67.13
England median hourly rate £28.00 £45.59 £44.50
% change year-on-year -38.58% +2.45% +64.81%

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 12 November 2025.

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 12 November 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 +9 15 £575 -4.17% 100
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 36 (23.23%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (21.94%) Apache
3 6 (3.87%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.29%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (3.23%) Aladdin
2 4 (2.58%) Fidessa
2 4 (2.58%) thinkFolio
3 1 (0.65%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.65%) Eikon
3 1 (0.65%) Eze OMS
Cloud Services
1 89 (57.42%) AWS
2 36 (23.23%) Snowflake
3 34 (21.94%) dbt
4 24 (15.48%) Azure
5 13 (8.39%) GCP
6 4 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.58%) GitHub
6 4 (2.58%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (2.58%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (1.94%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (1.94%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (1.94%) Serverless
8 2 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.29%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.29%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.65%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.65%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.94%) DHCP
1 3 (1.94%) DNS
1 3 (1.94%) TCP/IP
1 3 (1.94%) VPN
1 3 (1.94%) WebEx
2 1 (0.65%) NAS
2 1 (0.65%) NetScaler
2 1 (0.65%) Network Security
2 1 (0.65%) SAN
2 1 (0.65%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (22.58%) Amazon Athena
2 34 (21.94%) Apache Arrow
2 34 (21.94%) Apache Iceberg
2 34 (21.94%) Apache Ignite
2 34 (21.94%) Data Lake
2 34 (21.94%) Dremio
3 11 (7.10%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.58%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.58%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.58%) Power BI
5 3 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.94%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.29%) Big Data
6 2 (1.29%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.29%) Tableau
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.65%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.65%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 24 (15.48%) Git
2 4 (2.58%) TeamCity
3 3 (1.94%) GitLab
3 3 (1.94%) JIRA
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
General
1 135 (87.10%) Finance
2 80 (51.61%) Banking
3 68 (43.87%) Investment Banking
4 63 (40.65%) Front Office
5 43 (27.74%) Social Skills
6 25 (16.13%) Financial Institution
7 7 (4.52%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.94%) Advertising
8 3 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Back Office
9 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Law
9 1 (0.65%) Legal
9 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 58 (37.42%) Python Engineer
2 55 (35.48%) AWS Engineer
3 48 (30.97%) Developer
4 42 (27.10%) Senior
5 40 (25.81%) Software Engineer
6 35 (22.58%) Python Software Engineer
7 34 (21.94%) AWS Software Engineer
7 34 (21.94%) Java Engineer
7 34 (21.94%) Java Software Engineer
7 34 (21.94%) Senior Software Engineer
8 33 (21.29%) Senior Java Engineer
8 33 (21.29%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 28 (18.06%) Python Developer
10 18 (11.61%) Automation Engineer
10 18 (11.61%) AWS Developer
10 18 (11.61%) IP Network Engineer
10 18 (11.61%) JavaScript Developer
10 18 (11.61%) Network Engineer
10 18 (11.61%) Switch Engineer
11 9 (5.81%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (39.35%) NumPy
1 61 (39.35%) Pandas
2 54 (34.84%) SciPy
3 34 (21.94%) gRPC
3 34 (21.94%) Protocol Buffers
4 27 (17.42%) React
5 26 (16.77%) AngularJS
6 23 (14.84%) Vue
7 18 (11.61%) FastAPI
7 18 (11.61%) Flask
7 18 (11.61%) Polars
8 13 (8.39%) .NET
8 13 (8.39%) REST
9 7 (4.52%) .NET Core
9 7 (4.52%) COM
9 7 (4.52%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (3.23%) Dask
10 5 (3.23%) Kafka
10 5 (3.23%) Redux
11 4 (2.58%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 77 (49.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 53 (34.19%) Equities
3 52 (33.55%) Fixed Income
4 44 (28.39%) Derivative
5 34 (21.94%) Pricing Data
6 8 (5.16%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.23%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (2.58%) Data Fabric
8 4 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.94%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.94%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.94%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.65%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Storage
11 1 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.65%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.65%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.65%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.65%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 29 (18.71%) Linux
2 12 (7.74%) Windows
3 7 (4.52%) Windows 10
4 6 (3.87%) CentOS
4 6 (3.87%) Unix
5 5 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.94%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.29%) Solaris
8 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (45.16%) Software Engineering
2 53 (34.19%) Agile
3 47 (30.32%) Asset Management
4 42 (27.10%) Investment Management
5 32 (20.65%) CI/CD
6 29 (18.71%) Mathematics
7 22 (14.19%) Analytics
7 22 (14.19%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (13.55%) Clean Code
9 20 (12.90%) Data Engineering
10 19 (12.26%) Systematic Trading
11 18 (11.61%) Structured Programming
12 14 (9.03%) Risk Management
13 11 (7.10%) Computer Science
13 11 (7.10%) Data Analysis
14 10 (6.45%) Design Patterns
14 10 (6.45%) DevOps
15 9 (5.81%) Fintech
15 9 (5.81%) Full-Stack Development
15 9 (5.81%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 112 (72.26%) Python
2 60 (38.71%) JavaScript
3 58 (37.42%) Java
4 39 (25.16%) TypeScript
5 35 (22.58%) C#
6 28 (18.06%) SQL
7 20 (12.90%) C++
8 18 (11.61%) Rust
9 9 (5.81%) PowerShell
10 8 (5.16%) VBA
11 5 (3.23%) Bash
12 4 (2.58%) C
12 4 (2.58%) Perl
12 4 (2.58%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.65%) Go
13 1 (0.65%) Groovy
13 1 (0.65%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (7.74%) Degree
2 10 (6.45%) Master's Degree
3 5 (3.23%) PhD
4 4 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.29%) RHCE
5 2 (1.29%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.87%) MiFID
2 3 (1.94%) EMIR
2 3 (1.94%) GRC
3 2 (1.29%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.29%) Dodd-Frank
3 2 (1.29%) GDPR
3 2 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.29%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.65%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.65%) NIST
4 1 (0.65%) PMO
System Software
1 25 (16.13%) Docker
2 8 (5.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.58%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.94%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (1.29%) KVM
6 1 (0.65%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (14.19%) Ansible
1 22 (14.19%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.16%) SCCM
3 3 (1.94%) Terraform
4 2 (1.29%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.29%) Puppet
4 2 (1.29%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.65%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 18 (11.61%) Arista
2 10 (6.45%) VMware
3 9 (5.81%) Oracle
4 8 (5.16%) Red Hat
5 6 (3.87%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.58%) Citrix
7 3 (1.94%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.94%) Portware
8 2 (1.29%) BISAM
8 2 (1.29%) Dataiku
8 2 (1.29%) DevExpress
8 2 (1.29%) Reuters
9 1 (0.65%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.65%) Calypso
9 1 (0.65%) Charles River
9 1 (0.65%) Cisco
9 1 (0.65%) Concur
9 1 (0.65%) Eze Software Group
9 1 (0.65%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.65%) Vertica