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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 208 103
Rank change year-on-year -178 -105 +115
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 68 165 401
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.34% 1.23% 2.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.88% 3.17% 7.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 101 354
10th Percentile - £463 £550
25th Percentile £513 £620 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £750 £825 £875
90th Percentile £888 £838 £888
England median daily rate £625 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -16.67% -6.25% +23.08%

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 7,757 5,199 5,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.34% 38.80% 33.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,936 3,341 3,511
10th Percentile £356 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 123 74
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.02 £17.33
25th Percentile £21.83 £23.23 £23.80
Median hourly rate £36.00 £26.50 £33.38
Median % change year-on-year +35.85% -20.60% +18.67%
75th Percentile £59.75 £46.88 £56.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £77.50 £78.65
England median hourly rate £33.99 £30.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year +13.30% -44.44% +16.93%

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 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Hedge funds in London

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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 October 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 -36 3 £700 +27.27% 24
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 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (8.82%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (8.82%) AWS
2 4 (5.88%) GitHub
2 4 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (4.41%) Amazon S3
3 3 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (4.41%) Serverless
4 2 (2.94%) Slack
4 2 (2.94%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.47%) Azure
5 1 (1.47%) Dagster
5 1 (1.47%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.47%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.35%) WebEx
2 3 (4.41%) Telepresence
3 2 (2.94%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (1.47%) VPN
4 1 (1.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.82%) MongoDB
2 4 (5.88%) Relational Database
2 4 (5.88%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.41%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.94%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Git
1 4 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.47%) GitLab
General
1 36 (52.94%) Finance
2 27 (39.71%) Front Office
3 18 (26.47%) Banking
4 15 (22.06%) Investment Banking
5 11 (16.18%) Financial Institution
6 10 (14.71%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (14.71%) Spanish Language
7 6 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (7.35%) Social Skills
9 4 (5.88%) Back Office
9 4 (5.88%) Publishing
10 3 (4.41%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (26.47%) Support Engineer
2 16 (23.53%) Developer
3 15 (22.06%) Analyst
4 14 (20.59%) Desktop Support
5 13 (19.12%) Business Analyst
5 13 (19.12%) Desktop Engineer
5 13 (19.12%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 8 (11.76%) Python Developer
6 8 (11.76%) Senior
7 5 (7.35%) Automation Consultant
7 5 (7.35%) Consultant
7 5 (7.35%) Process Consultant
7 5 (7.35%) Robotic Process Automation Consultant
8 4 (5.88%) C# Developer
8 4 (5.88%) Deployment Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Front Office Business Analyst
8 4 (5.88%) Front Office Developer
8 4 (5.88%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.88%) Windows Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.76%) .NET
1 8 (11.76%) Pandas
1 8 (11.76%) Polars
2 7 (10.29%) FastAPI
2 7 (10.29%) Flask
3 5 (7.35%) Kafka
3 5 (7.35%) NumPy
4 4 (5.88%) Apache Avro
4 4 (5.88%) Blazor
4 4 (5.88%) REST
5 3 (4.41%) RESTful
6 2 (2.94%) Next.js
6 2 (2.94%) React
6 2 (2.94%) Redux
6 2 (2.94%) WebSockets
7 1 (1.47%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.59%) Onboarding
2 13 (19.12%) Equities
3 12 (17.65%) Derivative
4 8 (11.76%) Fixed Income
4 8 (11.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (10.29%) Management Information System
6 4 (5.88%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (2.94%) Mobile Computing
7 2 (2.94%) OTC Derivatives
7 2 (2.94%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (1.47%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.47%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 1 (1.47%) Pricing Data
8 1 (1.47%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 18 (26.47%) Windows
2 7 (10.29%) Linux
3 3 (4.41%) Unix
4 2 (2.94%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (26.47%) Asset Management
2 10 (14.71%) Analytics
2 10 (14.71%) Software Engineering
3 9 (13.24%) CI/CD
4 8 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
4 8 (11.76%) Fintech
4 8 (11.76%) Mathematics
5 7 (10.29%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (8.82%) Computer Science
6 6 (8.82%) Containerisation
7 5 (7.35%) Benchmarking
7 5 (7.35%) Data Transformation
7 5 (7.35%) Physics
7 5 (7.35%) Quantitative Research
7 5 (7.35%) Risk Management
7 5 (7.35%) Robotic Process Automation
7 5 (7.35%) SDLC
7 5 (7.35%) Validation
8 4 (5.88%) Critical Thinking
8 4 (5.88%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 16 (23.53%) Python
2 13 (19.12%) C#
3 8 (11.76%) SQL
4 4 (5.88%) C++
5 3 (4.41%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.94%) Java
6 2 (2.94%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.47%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (23.53%) Degree
2 5 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.88%) Master's Degree
3 4 (5.88%) PhD
4 1 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.47%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 9 (13.24%) Docker
3 1 (1.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (7.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.47%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.35%) Cisco
3 4 (5.88%) Altiris
3 4 (5.88%) Bloomberg
3 4 (5.88%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.41%) Citrix
4 3 (4.41%) Google
5 2 (2.94%) Tradeweb
6 1 (1.47%) eFront
6 1 (1.47%) Refinitiv
6 1 (1.47%) Reuters