Hedge funds Contracts 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 95 291
Rank change year-on-year -34 +196 -96
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 266 445 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.17% 2.55% 0.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.02% 7.65% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 419 168
10th Percentile £538 £538 £450
25th Percentile £631 £600 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £750 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +25.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £875 £850 £763
90th Percentile £938 £888 £850
England median daily rate £725 £750 £575
% change year-on-year -3.33% +30.43% -11.54%

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 4,419 5,816 9,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.04% 33.32% 36.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,959 4,100 6,666
10th Percentile £336 £313 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £743
90th Percentile £838 £850 £838
England median daily rate £533 £550 £572
% change year-on-year -3.09% -3.89% +4.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 148 104
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.48 £18.28
25th Percentile £22.74 £18.41 £21.24
Median hourly rate £32.75 £27.42 £34.81
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% -21.23% -19.05%
75th Percentile £49.31 £50.38 £63.75
90th Percentile £71.08 £71.25 £87.31
England median hourly rate £33.91 £35.65 £22.34
% change year-on-year -4.88% +59.61% -15.72%

Hedge funds
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Hedge funds as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Hedge funds in London

Hedge funds
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hedge funds in London.

Daily rate trend for Hedge funds in London

Hedge funds
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hedge funds in London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hedge funds in London

Hedge funds
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Hedge funds in London.

Hourly rate trend for Hedge funds in London

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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 31 May 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 -1 13 £513 -19.61% 25
Hedge funds
England

Hedge funds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 41 (15.41%) Apache
1 41 (15.41%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.75%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.38%) Siemens NX
2 1 (0.38%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 42 (15.79%) Aladdin
2 19 (7.14%) thinkFolio
3 1 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 98 (36.84%) AWS
2 44 (16.54%) Snowflake
3 41 (15.41%) dbt
4 33 (12.41%) Azure
5 30 (11.28%) GCP
6 5 (1.88%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (1.88%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (1.88%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (1.88%) Dagster
7 4 (1.50%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.75%) Azure AKS
8 2 (0.75%) Azure Functions
8 2 (0.75%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.75%) SaaS
8 2 (0.75%) SAP Fieldglass
8 2 (0.75%) Serverless
9 1 (0.38%) Collibra
9 1 (0.38%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.63%) BGP
2 5 (1.88%) Firewall
2 5 (1.88%) HSRP
2 5 (1.88%) IGMP
2 5 (1.88%) Multicast
2 5 (1.88%) OSPF
2 5 (1.88%) VRRP
3 3 (1.13%) WAN
3 3 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.75%) HTTP
4 2 (0.75%) Network Security
4 2 (0.75%) SSL
5 1 (0.38%) Modbus
5 1 (0.38%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (34.59%) Data Lake
2 41 (15.41%) Amazon Athena
2 41 (15.41%) Apache Arrow
2 41 (15.41%) Apache Iceberg
2 41 (15.41%) Dremio
3 25 (9.40%) Apache Ignite
4 5 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.13%) Power BI
5 3 (1.13%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.75%) Tableau
7 1 (0.38%) Big Data
7 1 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.38%) KDB
7 1 (0.38%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.38%) OLAP
7 1 (0.38%) OLTP
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle OLAP
7 1 (0.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (7.52%) Git
2 5 (1.88%) GitLab
3 4 (1.50%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.50%) Terragrunt
4 2 (0.75%) JIRA
5 1 (0.38%) ERwin
5 1 (0.38%) Qt Creator
General
1 225 (84.59%) Finance
2 182 (68.42%) Front Office
3 71 (26.69%) Banking
4 57 (21.43%) Investment Banking
5 21 (7.89%) Social Skills
6 18 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (5.64%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.88%) Back Office
9 3 (1.13%) Law
10 2 (0.75%) Legal
11 1 (0.38%) Advertising
11 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (28.95%) Developer
2 68 (25.56%) Software Engineer
3 55 (20.68%) Analyst
4 45 (16.92%) AWS Engineer
5 44 (16.54%) Business Analyst
6 41 (15.41%) AWS Software Engineer
6 41 (15.41%) Business Manager
6 41 (15.41%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
7 37 (13.91%) Head of Finance
7 37 (13.91%) Python Engineer
8 36 (13.53%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 35 (13.16%) Senior
10 33 (12.41%) Java Engineer
10 33 (12.41%) Java Software Engineer
11 31 (11.65%) Python Developer
12 29 (10.90%) Python Software Engineer
13 28 (10.53%) Lead
14 26 (9.77%) AWS Developer
15 23 (8.65%) Full-Stack Developer
15 23 (8.65%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (15.79%) NumPy
1 42 (15.79%) Pandas
2 37 (13.91%) SciPy
3 33 (12.41%) AngularJS
3 33 (12.41%) React
4 32 (12.03%) Vue
5 26 (9.77%) gRPC
6 25 (9.40%) Protocol Buffers
7 23 (8.65%) PySpark
8 20 (7.52%) Redux
9 13 (4.89%) Polars
10 12 (4.51%) FastAPI
10 12 (4.51%) Flask
11 4 (1.50%) Next.js
12 2 (0.75%) .NET
12 2 (0.75%) ARM Templates
13 1 (0.38%) DirectX
13 1 (0.38%) OAuth
13 1 (0.38%) OpenGL
13 1 (0.38%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 177 (66.54%) Fixed Income
2 154 (57.89%) Derivative
3 133 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 123 (46.24%) Equities
5 23 (8.65%) Onboarding
6 20 (7.52%) Pricing Data
7 12 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (4.51%) Reference Data
8 10 (3.76%) Algorithms
8 10 (3.76%) Product Ownership
9 9 (3.38%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.88%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.75%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.38%) Distributed Computing
13 1 (0.38%) Equity Derivative
13 1 (0.38%) iPad
13 1 (0.38%) iPhone
13 1 (0.38%) Renewable Energy
13 1 (0.38%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 29 (10.90%) Linux
2 5 (1.88%) Rocky
3 3 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.75%) VMS
5 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.38%) Unix
5 1 (0.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (69.17%) Agile
2 159 (59.77%) Investment Management
3 110 (41.35%) Asset Management
4 89 (33.46%) Software Engineering
5 82 (30.83%) Migration
6 76 (28.57%) Data Management
7 71 (26.69%) Roadmaps
8 68 (25.56%) Data Governance
9 67 (25.19%) Regulatory Compliance
10 50 (18.80%) Analytics
11 46 (17.29%) Business Intelligence
12 43 (16.17%) Business Analysis
13 41 (15.41%) Portfolio Management
14 31 (11.65%) CI/CD
15 25 (9.40%) Full-Stack Development
16 24 (9.02%) Data Mapping
16 24 (9.02%) Fintech
17 21 (7.89%) User Acceptance Testing
18 20 (7.52%) Quantitative Research
18 20 (7.52%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 167 (62.78%) Python
2 80 (30.08%) SQL
3 62 (23.31%) Java
4 57 (21.43%) JavaScript
5 45 (16.92%) TypeScript
6 23 (8.65%) C++
7 14 (5.26%) C#
8 10 (3.76%) Rust
9 6 (2.26%) C
10 4 (1.50%) Bash
11 3 (1.13%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.38%) Go
13 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (3.01%) Degree
1 8 (3.01%) Master's Degree
2 2 (0.75%) CCIE
2 2 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.38%) CAPM
3 1 (0.38%) CCNP
3 1 (0.38%) CISSP
3 1 (0.38%) ISEB
3 1 (0.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
3 1 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.40%) MiFID
2 2 (0.75%) Dodd-Frank
2 2 (0.75%) EMIR
2 2 (0.75%) HIPAA
2 2 (0.75%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.38%) GDPR
3 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.38%) NIST
3 1 (0.38%) QA
System Software
1 19 (7.14%) Docker
2 2 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (7.14%) Ansible
1 19 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.89%) Terraform
3 8 (3.01%) Puppet
4 4 (1.50%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.13%) Consul
6 2 (0.75%) Packer
7 1 (0.38%) Podman
Vendors
1 42 (15.79%) BISAM
2 22 (8.27%) Charles River
3 19 (7.14%) Calypso
3 19 (7.14%) SimCorp
4 11 (4.14%) Arista
5 8 (3.01%) Cisco
6 6 (2.26%) Oracle
7 5 (1.88%) Fortinet
7 5 (1.88%) Microsoft
8 2 (0.75%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.75%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.75%) Google
8 2 (0.75%) Meraki
8 2 (0.75%) Refinitiv
8 2 (0.75%) Reuters
8 2 (0.75%) SAP
8 2 (0.75%) Sun
9 1 (0.38%) Okta
9 1 (0.38%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.38%) Sparx