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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 126 157
Rank change year-on-year -174 +31 +135
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 98 274 271
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.60% 2.13% 1.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.63% 6.03% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 229 251
10th Percentile £454 £538 £500
25th Percentile £463 £638 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +3.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £800 £938 £850
90th Percentile £1,000 - £900
England median daily rate £649 £725 £700
% change year-on-year -10.52% +3.57% +16.67%

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 6,025 4,543 5,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.77% 35.28% 32.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,916 3,025 4,212
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 £725 £710
90th Percentile £800 £850 £825
England median daily rate £513 £545 £545
% change year-on-year -5.96% - -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 72 173
10th Percentile £17.80 £19.15 £15.50
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.66 £18.93
Median hourly rate £31.65 £35.70 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -11.33% +24.16% -17.86%
75th Percentile £58.92 £56.56 £47.50
90th Percentile £75.70 £80.75 £64.91
England median hourly rate £37.58 £32.81 £28.00
% change year-on-year +14.54% +17.18% +17.70%

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 17 March 2026.

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 17 March 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 -5 11 £600 +17.07% 47
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 7 (7.14%) Apache Spark
2 6 (6.12%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.04%) Apache
3 2 (2.04%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.02%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 24 (24.49%) AWS
2 6 (6.12%) Azure
3 5 (5.10%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (5.10%) Snowflake
4 3 (3.06%) GCP
4 3 (3.06%) GitHub
4 3 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (3.06%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.04%) Azure Pipelines
5 2 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (2.04%) dbt
5 2 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.02%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.02%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.02%) SaaS
6 1 (1.02%) Serverless
6 1 (1.02%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.16%) WebEx
2 1 (1.02%) DHCP
2 1 (1.02%) DNS
2 1 (1.02%) IP Telephony
2 1 (1.02%) Network Security
2 1 (1.02%) SMS
2 1 (1.02%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.02%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.08%) Relational Database
2 3 (3.06%) Power BI
2 3 (3.06%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (2.04%) Apache Arrow
3 2 (2.04%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (2.04%) Apache Ignite
3 2 (2.04%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.04%) Dremio
3 2 (2.04%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.04%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.02%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.02%) Big Data
4 1 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.02%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 12 (12.24%) Git
2 6 (6.12%) JIRA
3 5 (5.10%) GitLab
4 3 (3.06%) Selenium
5 2 (2.04%) Appium
5 2 (2.04%) JUnit
5 2 (2.04%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.04%) TestNG
6 1 (1.02%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.02%) Oracle Forms
General
1 63 (64.29%) Finance
2 31 (31.63%) Banking
3 27 (27.55%) Front Office
4 20 (20.41%) Investment Banking
5 19 (19.39%) Social Skills
6 14 (14.29%) Financial Institution
7 8 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.06%) Advertising
9 2 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.02%) Billing
10 1 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.02%) Publishing
10 1 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (32.65%) Developer
2 24 (24.49%) Python Developer
3 14 (14.29%) Analyst
4 13 (13.27%) Python Engineer
5 12 (12.24%) AWS Engineer
6 11 (11.22%) Business Analyst
7 10 (10.20%) Senior
8 9 (9.18%) RAD Developer
9 8 (8.16%) Citrix Engineer
10 7 (7.14%) QA Engineer
11 6 (6.12%) AWS Developer
11 6 (6.12%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 5 (5.10%) Automation Engineer
12 5 (5.10%) AWS DevOps
12 5 (5.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 5 (5.10%) IP Network Engineer
12 5 (5.10%) JavaScript Developer
12 5 (5.10%) Network Engineer
12 5 (5.10%) PowerShell Engineer
12 5 (5.10%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (21.43%) NumPy
1 21 (21.43%) Pandas
2 14 (14.29%) REST
3 9 (9.18%) COM
3 9 (9.18%) SciPy
4 8 (8.16%) Polars
5 7 (7.14%) FastAPI
5 7 (7.14%) Flask
6 6 (6.12%) Dask
7 5 (5.10%) AngularJS
7 5 (5.10%) React
7 5 (5.10%) Vue
8 4 (4.08%) Kafka
8 4 (4.08%) Web Services
9 3 (3.06%) RESTful
9 3 (3.06%) scikit-learn
10 2 (2.04%) gRPC
10 2 (2.04%) Oracle Fusion
10 2 (2.04%) Plotly
10 2 (2.04%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 25 (25.51%) Equities
2 23 (23.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (11.22%) Derivative
4 8 (8.16%) Fixed Income
5 6 (6.12%) Cloud Native
5 6 (6.12%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.06%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.04%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.04%) Data Fabric
7 2 (2.04%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.04%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.04%) Pricing Data
7 2 (2.04%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.02%) Market Risk
8 1 (1.02%) Reinsurance
8 1 (1.02%) Taxonomies
8 1 (1.02%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.33%) Windows
2 12 (12.24%) Linux
3 5 (5.10%) Windows 10
4 4 (4.08%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.02%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (20.41%) Analytics
2 17 (17.35%) Risk Management
3 16 (16.33%) CI/CD
3 16 (16.33%) Mathematics
3 16 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (15.31%) Data Analysis
4 15 (15.31%) Software Engineering
5 13 (13.27%) Data Pipeline
6 10 (10.20%) Agile
6 10 (10.20%) AI
7 9 (9.18%) Computer Science
7 9 (9.18%) Physics
7 9 (9.18%) Pricing Analytics
7 9 (9.18%) Prototyping
7 9 (9.18%) RAD
7 9 (9.18%) Rapid Prototyping
8 8 (8.16%) Time Series Forecasting
9 7 (7.14%) DevOps
9 7 (7.14%) Machine Learning
9 7 (7.14%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 55 (56.12%) Python
2 27 (27.55%) SQL
3 14 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 13 (13.27%) Java
5 11 (11.22%) C#
6 10 (10.20%) VBA
7 7 (7.14%) C++
7 7 (7.14%) JavaScript
8 5 (5.10%) Rust
9 2 (2.04%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.02%) Groovy
10 1 (1.02%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (11.22%) Degree
2 8 (8.16%) Master's Degree
3 6 (6.12%) PhD
4 2 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.02%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.16%) QA
2 3 (3.06%) MiFID
3 2 (2.04%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.04%) Dodd-Frank
3 2 (2.04%) EMIR
3 2 (2.04%) GRC
3 2 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.02%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.02%) ISO 22301
4 1 (1.02%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (14.29%) Docker
2 3 (3.06%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.04%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.02%) Firmware
4 1 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.02%) vSphere
4 1 (1.02%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (8.16%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.10%) Ansible
2 5 (5.10%) Terraform
3 3 (3.06%) SCCM
4 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.02%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 9 (9.18%) Citrix
2 5 (5.10%) Arista
2 5 (5.10%) Reuters
3 4 (4.08%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.06%) GoldenSource
4 3 (3.06%) Oracle
4 3 (3.06%) VMware
5 2 (2.04%) Bloomberg
5 2 (2.04%) Dataiku
5 2 (2.04%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.02%) Altiris
6 1 (1.02%) Apple
6 1 (1.02%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.02%) Cisco
6 1 (1.02%) Databricks
6 1 (1.02%) FactSet
6 1 (1.02%) Google