Hedge funds Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Hedge fund
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hedge funds in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hedge funds over the 6 months leading up to 27 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 - 387
Rank change year-on-year - - -26
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 6 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.025% - 0.024%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.085% - 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - £240
25th Percentile £661 - £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £674 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.81%
75th Percentile £775 - £450
90th Percentile £933 - £480
UK median daily rate £673 £725 £725
% change year-on-year -7.24% - +26.09%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 7,065 4,241 6,144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.74% 33.26% 29.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,402 2,610 3,662
10th Percentile £240 £208 £208
25th Percentile £375 £365 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £589 £600
90th Percentile £675 £669 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 563 301 723
10th Percentile £15.79 £16.95 £12.15
25th Percentile £19.88 £21.00 £14.06
Median hourly rate £47.54 £31.76 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.69% +13.43% +27.27%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.48 £83.20 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +39.88% +8.33% +33.42%

Hedge funds
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Hedge funds relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Hedge funds job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Hedge funds
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Hedge funds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Hedge funds

Hedge funds
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hedge funds in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Hedge funds in the UK excluding London

Hedge funds
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Hedge funds.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Hedge funds

Hedge funds
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 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
Yorkshire - 3 £673 -
Midlands - 3 £975 -
North of England - 3 £673 - 4
East Midlands - 2 - -
West Midlands - 1 £975 -
Hedge funds
UK

Hedge funds
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 3 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) Reverse Proxy
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
4 1 (16.67%) Banking
4 1 (16.67%) Front Office
4 1 (16.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Designer
1 2 (33.33%) Network Designer
1 2 (33.33%) Security Designer
1 2 (33.33%) Solutions Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Charles River Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Application Security
2 3 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 3 (50.00%) SABSA
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 3 (50.00%) UML
3 2 (33.33%) API Design
3 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 2 (33.33%) Fintech
3 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (16.67%) Investment Management
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC
4 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) CISM
2 2 (33.33%) CISSP
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (33.33%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (16.67%) CEH
3 1 (16.67%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) NIST
2 2 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) BiZZdesign
2 1 (16.67%) Charles River