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

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 213 101 228
Rank change year-on-year -112 +127 -39
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 163 396 223
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.22% 2.46% 1.08%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.13% 7.28% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 348 197
10th Percentile £458 £550 £475
25th Percentile £635 £638 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% +3.70%
75th Percentile £825 £875 £788
90th Percentile £838 £888 £955
England median daily rate £750 £800 £675
% change year-on-year -6.25% +18.52% +1.89%

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 5,208 5,442 7,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.93% 33.85% 34.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,349 3,505 5,182
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £442 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £725 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
England median daily rate £525 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -3.23% -1.36% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 71 89
10th Percentile £17.16 £17.50 £18.74
25th Percentile £23.23 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £26.50 £33.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.48% +12.50% +3.00%
75th Percentile £46.88 £56.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.75 £72.73
England median hourly rate £29.50 £52.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year -44.08% +14.23% +78.92%

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 October 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 October 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 +3 13 £550 -12.00% 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 42 (25.77%) Apache
1 42 (25.77%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.23%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (10.43%) Aladdin
2 12 (7.36%) thinkFolio
3 4 (2.45%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.61%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.61%) Eikon
4 1 (0.61%) Eze OMS
Cloud Services
1 97 (59.51%) AWS
2 44 (26.99%) Snowflake
3 42 (25.77%) dbt
4 27 (16.56%) Azure
5 18 (11.04%) GCP
6 4 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.45%) GitHub
6 4 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (1.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (1.84%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (1.84%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (1.84%) Serverless
8 2 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.23%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.23%) SAP Fieldglass
9 1 (0.61%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.61%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.84%) DHCP
1 3 (1.84%) DNS
1 3 (1.84%) TCP/IP
1 3 (1.84%) VPN
1 3 (1.84%) WebEx
2 2 (1.23%) Network Security
3 1 (0.61%) BGP
3 1 (0.61%) HTTP
3 1 (0.61%) NAS
3 1 (0.61%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.61%) SAN
3 1 (0.61%) SSL
3 1 (0.61%) VLAN
3 1 (0.61%) WAN
3 1 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (26.38%) Amazon Athena
2 42 (25.77%) Apache Arrow
2 42 (25.77%) Apache Iceberg
2 42 (25.77%) Apache Ignite
2 42 (25.77%) Data Lake
2 42 (25.77%) Dremio
3 11 (6.75%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.45%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.45%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.23%) Big Data
6 2 (1.23%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.23%) Power BI
6 2 (1.23%) Tableau
7 1 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.61%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.61%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 22 (13.50%) Git
2 4 (2.45%) TeamCity
3 3 (1.84%) JIRA
4 1 (0.61%) GitLab
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle Forms
General
1 148 (90.80%) Finance
2 78 (47.85%) Front Office
3 77 (47.24%) Banking
4 71 (43.56%) Investment Banking
5 40 (24.54%) Social Skills
6 22 (13.50%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.07%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.84%) Advertising
8 3 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Back Office
9 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Law
9 1 (0.61%) Legal
9 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (38.04%) Python Engineer
2 59 (36.20%) AWS Engineer
3 53 (32.52%) Software Engineer
4 50 (30.67%) Senior
5 46 (28.22%) Developer
6 43 (26.38%) Python Software Engineer
7 42 (25.77%) AWS Software Engineer
7 42 (25.77%) Java Engineer
7 42 (25.77%) Java Software Engineer
7 42 (25.77%) Senior Software Engineer
8 41 (25.15%) Senior Java Engineer
8 41 (25.15%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 21 (12.88%) Python Developer
10 19 (11.66%) Analyst
11 18 (11.04%) AWS Developer
11 18 (11.04%) JavaScript Developer
11 18 (11.04%) Network Engineer
12 17 (10.43%) Automation Engineer
12 17 (10.43%) IP Network Engineer
12 17 (10.43%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (37.42%) NumPy
1 61 (37.42%) Pandas
2 60 (36.81%) SciPy
3 42 (25.77%) gRPC
3 42 (25.77%) Protocol Buffers
4 32 (19.63%) React
5 31 (19.02%) AngularJS
6 28 (17.18%) Vue
7 18 (11.04%) FastAPI
7 18 (11.04%) Flask
7 18 (11.04%) Polars
8 13 (7.98%) .NET
9 10 (6.13%) Redux
10 7 (4.29%) .NET Core
10 7 (4.29%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (3.07%) Kafka
11 5 (3.07%) REST
12 4 (2.45%) Node.js
12 4 (2.45%) RESTful
13 3 (1.84%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 80 (49.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 74 (45.40%) Fixed Income
3 60 (36.81%) Derivative
4 56 (34.36%) Equities
5 42 (25.77%) Pricing Data
6 11 (6.75%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.45%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.45%) Data Fabric
7 4 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.84%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.84%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.61%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.61%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.61%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.61%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.61%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.61%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 27 (16.56%) Linux
2 11 (6.75%) Windows
3 7 (4.29%) Windows 10
4 6 (3.68%) CentOS
4 6 (3.68%) Unix
5 5 (3.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.84%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.23%) Solaris
7 2 (1.23%) VMS
8 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (48.47%) Agile
1 79 (48.47%) Software Engineering
2 72 (44.17%) Asset Management
3 67 (41.10%) Investment Management
4 29 (17.79%) CI/CD
5 23 (14.11%) Analytics
5 23 (14.11%) Mathematics
6 21 (12.88%) Clean Code
7 20 (12.27%) Business Analysis
7 20 (12.27%) Data Engineering
8 18 (11.04%) Structured Programming
8 18 (11.04%) Systematic Trading
9 16 (9.82%) Business Intelligence
10 15 (9.20%) Portfolio Management
11 14 (8.59%) Fintech
11 14 (8.59%) Full-Stack Development
11 14 (8.59%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (6.13%) AOP
12 10 (6.13%) Data Mapping
12 10 (6.13%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 124 (76.07%) Python
2 73 (44.79%) JavaScript
3 65 (39.88%) Java
4 52 (31.90%) TypeScript
5 35 (21.47%) C#
6 32 (19.63%) SQL
7 20 (12.27%) C++
8 18 (11.04%) Rust
9 8 (4.91%) PowerShell
10 5 (3.07%) Bash
11 4 (2.45%) C
11 4 (2.45%) Perl
11 4 (2.45%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.61%) Go
12 1 (0.61%) Groovy
12 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (4.29%) Degree
2 6 (3.68%) Master's Degree
3 4 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.23%) RHCE
4 2 (1.23%) RHCSA
5 1 (0.61%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.84%) EMIR
1 3 (1.84%) MiFID
2 2 (1.23%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.23%) Dodd-Frank
2 2 (1.23%) GDPR
2 2 (1.23%) GRC
2 2 (1.23%) Solvency II
3 1 (0.61%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.61%) PMO
3 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (13.50%) Docker
2 8 (4.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.45%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.84%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (1.23%) KVM
6 1 (0.61%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (13.50%) Ansible
1 22 (13.50%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.91%) SCCM
3 2 (1.23%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.23%) Puppet
3 2 (1.23%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (11.04%) Arista
2 14 (8.59%) BISAM
3 11 (6.75%) Oracle
4 10 (6.13%) VMware
5 9 (5.52%) Calypso
5 9 (5.52%) Charles River
5 9 (5.52%) SimCorp
6 8 (4.91%) Red Hat
7 6 (3.68%) Microsoft
8 4 (2.45%) Citrix
9 3 (1.84%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.84%) Portware
10 2 (1.23%) Cisco
10 2 (1.23%) DevExpress
10 2 (1.23%) Reuters
10 2 (1.23%) SAP
11 1 (0.61%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.61%) Google
11 1 (0.61%) Tradeweb
11 1 (0.61%) Trayport