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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 119 131
Rank change year-on-year -194 +12 +184
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 87 297 342
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.50% 2.34% 1.91%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.40% 6.56% 5.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 254 323
10th Percentile £433 £538 £500
25th Percentile £463 £638 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £725 £725
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% - +20.83%
75th Percentile £800 £888 £850
90th Percentile £963 £938 £888
England median daily rate £649 £725 £725
% change year-on-year -10.52% - +26.09%

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 6,231 4,527 5,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.88% 35.65% 33.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,994 3,068 4,203
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £440 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £725
90th Percentile £800 £838 £838
England median daily rate £513 £546 £550
% change year-on-year -6.14% -0.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 72 165
10th Percentile £18.07 £15.84 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.26 £18.93
Median hourly rate £33.12 £34.75 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.69% +33.65% -25.71%
75th Percentile £59.72 £50.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.71 £80.52 £66.90
England median hourly rate £45.46 £35.95 £27.75
% change year-on-year +26.47% +29.53% +23.42%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -21 6 £600 +17.07% 38
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 4 (4.60%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (4.60%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.15%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.15%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 17 (19.54%) AWS
2 8 (9.20%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (6.90%) GitHub
3 6 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (4.60%) Amazon S3
4 4 (4.60%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (4.60%) Azure
4 4 (4.60%) Serverless
5 2 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.30%) GCP
5 2 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.30%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.30%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.15%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.15%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.15%) SaaS
6 1 (1.15%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.75%) WebEx
2 1 (1.15%) IP Telephony
2 1 (1.15%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.20%) Relational Database
2 4 (4.60%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (2.30%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.30%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.30%) Power BI
3 2 (2.30%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 11 (12.64%) Git
2 5 (5.75%) GitLab
2 5 (5.75%) JIRA
3 4 (4.60%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.45%) Selenium
5 2 (2.30%) Appium
5 2 (2.30%) JUnit
5 2 (2.30%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.30%) TestNG
General
1 51 (58.62%) Finance
2 27 (31.03%) Front Office
3 19 (21.84%) Banking
4 11 (12.64%) Social Skills
5 10 (11.49%) Investment Banking
6 7 (8.05%) Financial Institution
7 6 (6.90%) Publishing
8 5 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.15%) Billing
10 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (39.08%) Developer
2 27 (31.03%) Python Developer
3 21 (24.14%) Analyst
4 18 (20.69%) Business Analyst
5 8 (9.20%) Citrix Engineer
5 8 (9.20%) RAD Developer
6 7 (8.05%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (8.05%) Python Engineer
6 7 (8.05%) QA Engineer
6 7 (8.05%) Senior
7 6 (6.90%) AWS Developer
7 6 (6.90%) Kafka Developer
8 5 (5.75%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (5.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Data Business Analyst
8 5 (5.75%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Derivatives Business Analyst
9 4 (4.60%) JIRA Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) QA Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (25.29%) Pandas
2 19 (21.84%) NumPy
3 16 (18.39%) REST
4 13 (14.94%) Polars
5 12 (13.79%) FastAPI
5 12 (13.79%) Flask
6 8 (9.20%) COM
6 8 (9.20%) Kafka
7 6 (6.90%) Apache Avro
7 6 (6.90%) RESTful
8 4 (4.60%) Dask
9 3 (3.45%) SciPy
10 2 (2.30%) .NET
10 2 (2.30%) AngularJS
10 2 (2.30%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (2.30%) React
10 2 (2.30%) scikit-learn
10 2 (2.30%) Vue
10 2 (2.30%) Web Services
11 1 (1.15%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 26 (29.89%) Equities
2 15 (17.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (12.64%) Derivative
4 8 (9.20%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.60%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.60%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (4.60%) Fixed Income
6 3 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.30%) Data Fabric
7 2 (2.30%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.30%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (1.15%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.15%) Blackberry
8 1 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.15%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 13 (14.94%) Windows
2 12 (13.79%) Linux
3 4 (4.60%) Unix
3 4 (4.60%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.30%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (24.14%) CI/CD
2 19 (21.84%) Analytics
3 16 (18.39%) Data Analysis
3 16 (18.39%) Data Pipeline
4 13 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (13.79%) Risk Management
6 11 (12.64%) Fintech
7 10 (11.49%) Mathematics
8 8 (9.20%) Pricing Analytics
8 8 (9.20%) Prototyping
8 8 (9.20%) RAD
8 8 (9.20%) Rapid Prototyping
8 8 (9.20%) SDLC
8 8 (9.20%) Software Engineering
9 7 (8.05%) AI
9 7 (8.05%) Data Transformation
9 7 (8.05%) DevOps
9 7 (8.05%) Manual Testing
9 7 (8.05%) Performance Optimisation
9 7 (8.05%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 48 (55.17%) Python
2 27 (31.03%) SQL
3 11 (12.64%) PowerShell
4 10 (11.49%) C#
5 9 (10.34%) VBA
6 8 (9.20%) Java
7 4 (4.60%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.45%) C++
9 2 (2.30%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.30%) Rust
10 1 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 9 (10.34%) Degree
2 6 (6.90%) Master's Degree
3 4 (4.60%) PhD
4 2 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.15%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.20%) QA
2 2 (2.30%) MiFID
3 1 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 19 (21.84%) Docker
2 3 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.15%) vSphere
3 1 (1.15%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (11.49%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.75%) Terraform
3 2 (2.30%) Ansible
4 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (10.34%) Citrix
2 5 (5.75%) Reuters
3 3 (3.45%) GoldenSource
4 2 (2.30%) Arista
4 2 (2.30%) Bloomberg
4 2 (2.30%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.15%) Altiris
5 1 (1.15%) Apple
5 1 (1.15%) Cisco
5 1 (1.15%) Databricks
5 1 (1.15%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.15%) FactSet
5 1 (1.15%) Oracle
5 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.15%) VMware