Hedge funds Contract Job Trends

Hedge fund
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hedge funds in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hedge funds over the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 605 357 209
Rank change year-on-year -248 -148 +184
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 77 185 440
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.57% 1.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.42% 1.60% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 125 393
10th Percentile £513 £430 £550
25th Percentile £600 £600 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £725 £800
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% -9.38% +23.08%
75th Percentile £856 £825 £875
90th Percentile £914 £838 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 18,521 11,596 11,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.94% 35.70% 30.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,107 7,089 7,058
10th Percentile £320 £295 £294
25th Percentile £425 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -4.63% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £807
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,196 585 455
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £15.11
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.87 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.88 £29.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.39% -41.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £67.84 £52.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.75 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.36 £30.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +31.20% -47.69% +17.04%

Hedge funds
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Hedge funds job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hedge funds over the 6 months to 22 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Hedge funds in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

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Top 3 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 22 September 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
England -238 74 £675 -10.00% 269
London -178 73 £675 -10.00% 249
Work from Home -144 24 £825 +10.00% 47

Hedge funds
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (7.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (11.69%) AWS
2 7 (9.09%) GitHub
2 7 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
3 6 (7.79%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (7.79%) Amazon S3
3 6 (7.79%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (7.79%) Serverless
4 4 (5.19%) Azure
4 4 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.60%) Slack
5 2 (2.60%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.30%) Azure Stack
6 1 (1.30%) Dagster
6 1 (1.30%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.30%) IaaS
6 1 (1.30%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.49%) WebEx
2 3 (3.90%) Telepresence
3 2 (2.60%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (1.30%) VPN
4 1 (1.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 6 (7.79%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (7.79%) MongoDB
3 4 (5.19%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.60%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (9.09%) Git
1 7 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.30%) GitLab
General
1 47 (61.04%) Finance
2 31 (40.26%) Front Office
3 20 (25.97%) Banking
4 17 (22.08%) Investment Banking
5 11 (14.29%) Financial Institution
6 10 (12.99%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (12.99%) Spanish Language
7 7 (9.09%) Publishing
8 6 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (6.49%) Social Skills
10 3 (3.90%) Telecoms
11 2 (2.60%) Back Office
12 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (25.97%) Developer
2 19 (24.68%) Analyst
3 18 (23.38%) Support Engineer
4 17 (22.08%) Business Analyst
5 14 (18.18%) Desktop Support
5 14 (18.18%) Python Developer
6 13 (16.88%) Desktop Engineer
6 13 (16.88%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 7 (9.09%) Kafka Developer
8 6 (7.79%) AWS Developer
8 6 (7.79%) Front Office Business Analyst
8 6 (7.79%) Senior
8 6 (7.79%) SQL Developer
9 4 (5.19%) C# Developer
9 4 (5.19%) Deployment Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) Derivatives Business Analyst
9 4 (5.19%) Front Office Developer
9 4 (5.19%) Windows Deployment Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) Windows Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (16.88%) FastAPI
1 13 (16.88%) Flask
1 13 (16.88%) Pandas
1 13 (16.88%) Polars
2 8 (10.39%) Kafka
3 7 (9.09%) Apache Avro
3 7 (9.09%) NumPy
3 7 (9.09%) REST
4 6 (7.79%) .NET
4 6 (7.79%) RESTful
5 2 (2.60%) Blazor
5 2 (2.60%) Next.js
5 2 (2.60%) React
5 2 (2.60%) Redux
5 2 (2.60%) WebSockets
6 1 (1.30%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 16 (20.78%) Equities
2 14 (18.18%) Derivative
2 14 (18.18%) Onboarding
3 10 (12.99%) Management Information System
4 8 (10.39%) Fixed Income
4 8 (10.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (5.19%) Equity Derivative
6 3 (3.90%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.60%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.60%) Mobile Computing
7 2 (2.60%) OTC Derivatives
7 2 (2.60%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.30%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 1 (1.30%) Pricing Data
8 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.30%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 18 (23.38%) Windows
2 10 (12.99%) Linux
3 6 (7.79%) Unix
4 2 (2.60%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (28.57%) Asset Management
2 18 (23.38%) CI/CD
3 14 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
4 13 (16.88%) Analytics
5 11 (14.29%) Fintech
6 9 (11.69%) Containerisation
7 8 (10.39%) Benchmarking
7 8 (10.39%) Data Transformation
7 8 (10.39%) Mathematics
7 8 (10.39%) SDLC
7 8 (10.39%) Software Engineering
8 7 (9.09%) AI
8 7 (9.09%) Data Analysis
8 7 (9.09%) Observability
8 7 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (9.09%) Release Management
8 7 (9.09%) Test Strategy
9 6 (7.79%) Code Quality
9 6 (7.79%) Microservices
9 6 (7.79%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 24 (31.17%) Python
2 14 (18.18%) C#
2 14 (18.18%) SQL
3 6 (7.79%) Shell Script
4 4 (5.19%) C++
5 2 (2.60%) Java
5 2 (2.60%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (20.78%) Degree
2 5 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.19%) Master's Degree
3 4 (5.19%) PhD
4 1 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.30%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.60%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (22.08%) Docker
2 12 (15.58%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (12.99%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.30%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (11.69%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.49%) Cisco
3 4 (5.19%) Altiris
3 4 (5.19%) Bloomberg
3 4 (5.19%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.90%) Citrix
4 3 (3.90%) Google
5 2 (2.60%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.60%) Tradeweb
6 1 (1.30%) eFront
6 1 (1.30%) Refinitiv
6 1 (1.30%) Reuters