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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 226 133 224
Rank change year-on-year -93 +91 -28
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 156 299 213
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.11% 1.90% 1.05%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.84% 5.62% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 257 184
10th Percentile £434 £565 £475
25th Percentile £553 £638 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% +3.70%
75th Percentile £825 £888 £788
90th Percentile £838 - £946
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 5,499 5,322 6,928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.20% 33.84% 34.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,504 3,398 4,958
10th Percentile £335 £325 £325
25th Percentile £438 £450 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £594
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.20% -1.00%
75th Percentile £688 £713 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
England median daily rate £520 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -4.15% -1.36% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 62 104
10th Percentile £17.42 £17.28 £18.63
25th Percentile £20.41 £23.98 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% +13.01% +19.60%
75th Percentile £44.47 £56.00 £49.28
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.75 £67.13
England median hourly rate £27.50 £46.18 £44.50
% change year-on-year -40.45% +3.78% +50.85%

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 15 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 15 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 +15 15 £575 -4.17% 90
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 37 (23.72%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (21.79%) Apache
3 6 (3.85%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.28%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.56%) Aladdin
1 4 (2.56%) Fidessa
1 4 (2.56%) thinkFolio
2 1 (0.64%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.64%) Eikon
2 1 (0.64%) Eze OMS
Cloud Services
1 90 (57.69%) AWS
2 36 (23.08%) Snowflake
3 34 (21.79%) dbt
4 24 (15.38%) Azure
5 13 (8.33%) GCP
6 4 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.56%) GitHub
6 4 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (1.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (1.92%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (1.92%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.92%) Serverless
8 2 (1.28%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.64%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.64%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.92%) DHCP
1 3 (1.92%) DNS
1 3 (1.92%) TCP/IP
1 3 (1.92%) VPN
1 3 (1.92%) WebEx
2 1 (0.64%) NAS
2 1 (0.64%) NetScaler
2 1 (0.64%) Network Security
2 1 (0.64%) SAN
2 1 (0.64%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (22.44%) Amazon Athena
2 34 (21.79%) Apache Arrow
2 34 (21.79%) Apache Iceberg
2 34 (21.79%) Apache Ignite
2 34 (21.79%) Data Lake
2 34 (21.79%) Dremio
3 11 (7.05%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.56%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.56%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.92%) Power BI
6 2 (1.28%) Big Data
6 2 (1.28%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.28%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.28%) Tableau
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.64%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.64%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 24 (15.38%) Git
2 4 (2.56%) GitLab
2 4 (2.56%) TeamCity
3 3 (1.92%) JIRA
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
General
1 136 (87.18%) Finance
2 80 (51.28%) Banking
3 68 (43.59%) Investment Banking
4 64 (41.03%) Front Office
5 44 (28.21%) Social Skills
6 25 (16.03%) Financial Institution
7 7 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.92%) Advertising
8 3 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Back Office
9 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Law
9 1 (0.64%) Legal
9 1 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (37.82%) Python Engineer
2 56 (35.90%) AWS Engineer
3 49 (31.41%) Developer
4 43 (27.56%) Senior
5 40 (25.64%) Software Engineer
6 35 (22.44%) Python Software Engineer
7 34 (21.79%) AWS Software Engineer
7 34 (21.79%) Java Engineer
7 34 (21.79%) Java Software Engineer
7 34 (21.79%) Senior Software Engineer
8 33 (21.15%) Senior Java Engineer
8 33 (21.15%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 29 (18.59%) Python Developer
10 18 (11.54%) Automation Engineer
10 18 (11.54%) AWS Developer
10 18 (11.54%) IP Network Engineer
10 18 (11.54%) JavaScript Developer
10 18 (11.54%) Network Engineer
10 18 (11.54%) Switch Engineer
11 9 (5.77%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (39.74%) NumPy
1 62 (39.74%) Pandas
2 54 (34.62%) SciPy
3 34 (21.79%) gRPC
3 34 (21.79%) Protocol Buffers
4 27 (17.31%) React
5 26 (16.67%) AngularJS
6 23 (14.74%) Vue
7 18 (11.54%) FastAPI
7 18 (11.54%) Flask
7 18 (11.54%) Polars
8 14 (8.97%) REST
9 13 (8.33%) .NET
10 8 (5.13%) COM
11 7 (4.49%) .NET Core
11 7 (4.49%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (3.21%) Dask
12 5 (3.21%) Kafka
12 5 (3.21%) Redux
13 4 (2.56%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 77 (49.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 53 (33.97%) Equities
3 50 (32.05%) Fixed Income
4 43 (27.56%) Derivative
5 34 (21.79%) Pricing Data
6 8 (5.13%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.21%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (2.56%) Data Fabric
8 4 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.92%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.92%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.92%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.64%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.64%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Storage
11 1 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.64%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.64%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.64%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 30 (19.23%) Linux
2 12 (7.69%) Windows
3 7 (4.49%) Windows 10
4 6 (3.85%) CentOS
4 6 (3.85%) Unix
5 5 (3.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.92%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.28%) Solaris
8 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (44.87%) Software Engineering
2 53 (33.97%) Agile
3 46 (29.49%) Asset Management
4 40 (25.64%) Investment Management
5 33 (21.15%) CI/CD
6 29 (18.59%) Mathematics
7 23 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (14.10%) Analytics
9 21 (13.46%) Clean Code
10 20 (12.82%) Data Engineering
11 19 (12.18%) Systematic Trading
12 18 (11.54%) Structured Programming
13 15 (9.62%) Risk Management
14 12 (7.69%) Data Analysis
15 11 (7.05%) Computer Science
15 11 (7.05%) DevOps
16 10 (6.41%) Design Patterns
16 10 (6.41%) Fintech
17 9 (5.77%) Full-Stack Development
17 9 (5.77%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 114 (73.08%) Python
2 60 (38.46%) JavaScript
3 59 (37.82%) Java
4 39 (25.00%) TypeScript
5 35 (22.44%) C#
6 28 (17.95%) SQL
7 20 (12.82%) C++
8 18 (11.54%) Rust
9 9 (5.77%) PowerShell
9 9 (5.77%) VBA
10 5 (3.21%) Bash
11 4 (2.56%) C
11 4 (2.56%) Perl
11 4 (2.56%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.64%) Go
12 1 (0.64%) Groovy
12 1 (0.64%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (7.69%) Degree
2 10 (6.41%) Master's Degree
3 5 (3.21%) PhD
4 4 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.28%) RHCE
5 2 (1.28%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.85%) MiFID
2 3 (1.92%) EMIR
2 3 (1.92%) GRC
3 2 (1.28%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.28%) Dodd-Frank
3 2 (1.28%) GDPR
3 2 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.28%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.64%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.64%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.64%) NIST
4 1 (0.64%) PMO
System Software
1 26 (16.67%) Docker
2 8 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.56%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.92%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (1.28%) KVM
6 1 (0.64%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (14.10%) Ansible
1 22 (14.10%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.13%) SCCM
3 4 (2.56%) Terraform
4 2 (1.28%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.28%) Puppet
4 2 (1.28%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.64%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 18 (11.54%) Arista
2 10 (6.41%) VMware
3 9 (5.77%) Oracle
4 8 (5.13%) Red Hat
5 6 (3.85%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.56%) Citrix
7 3 (1.92%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.92%) Portware
8 2 (1.28%) Dataiku
8 2 (1.28%) DevExpress
8 2 (1.28%) Reuters
9 1 (0.64%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.64%) BISAM
9 1 (0.64%) Calypso
9 1 (0.64%) Cisco
9 1 (0.64%) Concur
9 1 (0.64%) Eze Software Group
9 1 (0.64%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.64%) Trayport
9 1 (0.64%) Vertica