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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 175 82
Rank change year-on-year -198 -93 +169
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 76 196 481
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.38% 1.48% 3.00%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.00% 3.87% 8.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 136 443
10th Percentile £513 £481 £550
25th Percentile £600 £613 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £738 £800
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% -7.81% +14.29%
75th Percentile £875 £825 £888
90th Percentile £914 £838 -
England median daily rate £700 £738 £800
% change year-on-year -5.08% -7.81% +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 7,578 5,066 5,429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.77% 38.34% 33.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,764 3,309 3,672
10th Percentile £350 £333 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% -1.30% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £738
90th Percentile £788 £825 £862
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 120 76
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £17.25
25th Percentile £22.25 £23.21 £22.00
Median hourly rate £33.36 £27.81 £30.56
Median % change year-on-year +19.95% -8.99% -12.69%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.81 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.63 £71.25
England median hourly rate £38.25 £32.77 £53.25
% change year-on-year +16.72% -38.46% +16.14%

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

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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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -35 3 £700 +24.44% 13
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 1 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (13.16%) AWS
2 8 (10.53%) GitHub
2 8 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
3 7 (9.21%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (9.21%) Amazon S3
3 7 (9.21%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (9.21%) Serverless
4 2 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.63%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.32%) Dagster
5 1 (1.32%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.32%) Prefect
5 1 (1.32%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.58%) WebEx
2 3 (3.95%) Telepresence
3 1 (1.32%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.84%) Relational Database
2 7 (9.21%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (7.89%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.26%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.63%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.32%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (10.53%) Git
1 8 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.32%) GitLab
2 1 (1.32%) Selenium
General
1 45 (59.21%) Finance
2 29 (38.16%) Front Office
3 16 (21.05%) Banking
4 13 (17.11%) Investment Banking
5 10 (13.16%) Financial Institution
5 10 (13.16%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (13.16%) Spanish Language
6 9 (11.84%) Publishing
7 5 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (5.26%) Social Skills
9 3 (3.95%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.32%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 25 (32.89%) Developer
2 20 (26.32%) Analyst
3 19 (25.00%) Python Developer
4 18 (23.68%) Business Analyst
5 17 (22.37%) Support Engineer
6 12 (15.79%) Desktop Engineer
6 12 (15.79%) Desktop Support
6 12 (15.79%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 9 (11.84%) Kafka Developer
8 7 (9.21%) AWS Developer
8 7 (9.21%) SQL Developer
9 6 (7.89%) Front Office Business Analyst
10 5 (6.58%) Derivatives Business Analyst
10 5 (6.58%) Windows Engineer
11 4 (5.26%) C# Developer
11 4 (5.26%) Deployment Engineer
11 4 (5.26%) Front Office Developer
11 4 (5.26%) Senior
11 4 (5.26%) Windows Deployment Engineer
11 4 (5.26%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (22.37%) Pandas
1 17 (22.37%) Polars
2 16 (21.05%) FastAPI
2 16 (21.05%) Flask
3 10 (13.16%) Kafka
3 10 (13.16%) NumPy
4 9 (11.84%) Apache Avro
4 9 (11.84%) REST
5 7 (9.21%) RESTful
6 5 (6.58%) .NET
7 2 (2.63%) Next.js
7 2 (2.63%) React
7 2 (2.63%) Redux
7 2 (2.63%) WebSockets
8 1 (1.32%) Blazor
8 1 (1.32%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 20 (26.32%) Equities
2 15 (19.74%) Derivative
3 13 (17.11%) Onboarding
4 11 (14.47%) Management Information System
5 8 (10.53%) Fixed Income
5 8 (10.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (5.26%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (2.63%) OTC Derivatives
7 2 (2.63%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (1.32%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.32%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 1 (1.32%) Mobile Computing
8 1 (1.32%) Pricing Data
8 1 (1.32%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.32%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 18 (23.68%) Windows
2 11 (14.47%) Linux
3 7 (9.21%) Unix
4 1 (1.32%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (23.68%) CI/CD
2 17 (22.37%) Data Pipeline
3 15 (19.74%) Analytics
3 15 (19.74%) Asset Management
4 13 (17.11%) Fintech
5 11 (14.47%) Containerisation
6 10 (13.16%) Data Transformation
6 10 (13.16%) SDLC
7 9 (11.84%) Benchmarking
7 9 (11.84%) Observability
7 9 (11.84%) Release Management
7 9 (11.84%) Test Strategy
8 8 (10.53%) Data Analysis
8 8 (10.53%) Performance Optimisation
9 7 (9.21%) Code Quality
9 7 (9.21%) Microservices
9 7 (9.21%) Software Engineering
10 6 (7.89%) Computer Science
10 6 (7.89%) Mathematics
10 6 (7.89%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 28 (36.84%) Python
2 17 (22.37%) SQL
3 14 (18.42%) C#
4 7 (9.21%) Shell Script
5 4 (5.26%) C++
6 2 (2.63%) Java
6 2 (2.63%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.63%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 16 (21.05%) Degree
2 5 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.26%) Master's Degree
3 4 (5.26%) PhD
4 1 (1.32%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.63%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 18 (23.68%) Docker
2 11 (14.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (13.16%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (7.89%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.26%) Altiris
2 4 (5.26%) Cisco
2 4 (5.26%) ServiceNow
3 3 (3.95%) Bloomberg
3 3 (3.95%) Citrix
3 3 (3.95%) Google
4 2 (2.63%) Tradeweb
5 1 (1.32%) eFront
5 1 (1.32%) Refinitiv