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 3 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 538 250 253
Rank change year-on-year -288 +3 +175
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 90 308 401
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 1.05% 0.92%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.59% 3.09% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 261 373
10th Percentile £430 £538 £500
25th Percentile £484 £638 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £725 £725
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% - +26.09%
75th Percentile £800 £888 £850
90th Percentile £875 £938 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £674 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -23.81%

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 15,237 9,961 13,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.15% 34.01% 30.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,496 6,365 8,485
10th Percentile £306 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £656
90th Percentile £738 £775 £795
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 724 398 911
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.95 £12.25
25th Percentile £20.67 £21.06 £15.17
Median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +39.88% +7.76% +34.13%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £86.00 £82.71 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.54 £31.42 £28.38
% change year-on-year +51.30% +10.73% +28.98%

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

Hedge funds
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

Hedge funds
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hedge funds over the 6 months to 3 May 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

Hedge funds
Top 9 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 3 May 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 -294 85 £674 -7.07% 130
London -215 79 £650 -10.34% 107
Work from Home -179 27 £763 +1.67% 34
UK excluding London - 6 £674 - 32
North of England - 3 £673 - 8
Yorkshire - 3 £673 - 2
Midlands - 3 £975 -
East Midlands - 2 - -
West Midlands - 1 £975 -

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 5 (5.56%) Confluence
2 3 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.22%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.11%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (1.11%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 13 (14.44%) AWS
2 9 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (8.89%) GitHub
3 8 (8.89%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 6 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (6.67%) Serverless
5 4 (4.44%) Azure
6 3 (3.33%) SaaS
7 2 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.22%) GCP
7 2 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.22%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.11%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.11%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.11%) IaaS
8 1 (1.11%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.11%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.56%) Network Security
1 5 (5.56%) WebEx
2 2 (2.22%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (1.11%) IP Telephony
3 1 (1.11%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 6 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (2.22%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.22%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.22%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (13.33%) JIRA
2 10 (11.11%) Git
3 6 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.44%) GitLab
5 3 (3.33%) Selenium
6 2 (2.22%) Appium
6 2 (2.22%) JUnit
6 2 (2.22%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.22%) TestNG
General
1 51 (56.67%) Finance
2 24 (26.67%) Front Office
3 13 (14.44%) Social Skills
4 12 (13.33%) Banking
5 8 (8.89%) Publishing
6 5 (5.56%) Financial Institution
6 5 (5.56%) Investment Banking
7 4 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.33%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.22%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.11%) Billing
Job Titles
1 32 (35.56%) Developer
2 24 (26.67%) Analyst
2 24 (26.67%) Python Developer
3 19 (21.11%) Business Analyst
4 8 (8.89%) Citrix Engineer
4 8 (8.89%) Kafka Developer
4 8 (8.89%) QA Engineer
5 7 (7.78%) Senior
6 6 (6.67%) AWS Developer
6 6 (6.67%) SQL Developer
7 5 (5.56%) Derivatives Business Analyst
7 5 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (4.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Data Business Analyst
8 4 (4.44%) JIRA Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Python Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) QA Test Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Trade Floor Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (21.11%) Pandas
2 15 (16.67%) Polars
3 14 (15.56%) FastAPI
3 14 (15.56%) Flask
3 14 (15.56%) NumPy
4 13 (14.44%) REST
5 10 (11.11%) Kafka
6 8 (8.89%) Apache Avro
6 8 (8.89%) RESTful
7 4 (4.44%) COM
8 2 (2.22%) .NET
8 2 (2.22%) Dask
8 2 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
9 1 (1.11%) PyTorch
9 1 (1.11%) scikit-learn
9 1 (1.11%) SOAP
9 1 (1.11%) TensorFlow
9 1 (1.11%) Web Services
9 1 (1.11%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 22 (24.44%) Equities
2 12 (13.33%) Derivative
3 10 (11.11%) Management Information System
4 9 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.22%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.22%) Data Fabric
7 2 (2.22%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.22%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (2.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (2.22%) Fixed Income
7 2 (2.22%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (1.11%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.11%) Blackberry
8 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.11%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.33%) Windows
2 11 (12.22%) Linux
3 6 (6.67%) Unix
4 4 (4.44%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (25.56%) CI/CD
2 18 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 16 (17.78%) Fintech
4 15 (16.67%) Analytics
5 12 (13.33%) Data Analysis
6 11 (12.22%) SDLC
6 11 (12.22%) Software Engineering
7 10 (11.11%) Computer Science
7 10 (11.11%) Release Management
7 10 (11.11%) Test Strategy
8 9 (10.00%) Data Transformation
8 9 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
8 9 (10.00%) Test Automation
9 8 (8.89%) Agile
9 8 (8.89%) Code Quality
9 8 (8.89%) Containerisation
9 8 (8.89%) Microservices
9 8 (8.89%) Observability
10 7 (7.78%) DevOps
10 7 (7.78%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 40 (44.44%) Python
2 27 (30.00%) SQL
3 10 (11.11%) C#
3 10 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 8 (8.89%) Java
5 6 (6.67%) Shell Script
6 5 (5.56%) VBA
7 1 (1.11%) C++
7 1 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 11 (12.22%) Degree
2 5 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.44%) Master's Degree
4 3 (3.33%) CISM
4 3 (3.33%) CISSP
4 3 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (2.22%) CEH
5 2 (2.22%) PhD
5 2 (2.22%) SANS
6 1 (1.11%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.33%) QA
2 5 (5.56%) NIST
3 1 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 20 (22.22%) Docker
2 3 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.11%) vSphere
3 1 (1.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.44%) Terraform
3 2 (2.22%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (10.00%) Citrix
2 5 (5.56%) BiZZdesign
2 5 (5.56%) Reuters
3 3 (3.33%) GoldenSource
3 3 (3.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.22%) Advent
4 2 (2.22%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.11%) Altiris
5 1 (1.11%) Apple
5 1 (1.11%) Charles River
5 1 (1.11%) Cisco
5 1 (1.11%) Databricks
5 1 (1.11%) FactSet
5 1 (1.11%) Oracle
5 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.11%) VMware