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

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 424 276 378
Rank change year-on-year -148 +102 -21
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 158 307 244
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.86% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.23% 2.72% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 265 208
10th Percentile £409 £600 £386
25th Percentile £463 £638 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £675
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +18.52% +0.93%
75th Percentile £825 £888 £788
90th Percentile £838 - £938
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

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 12,864 11,277 14,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.51% 31.49% 31.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,988 6,661 9,540
10th Percentile £278 £281 £270
25th Percentile £406 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.77% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £630 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £788 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 662 371 491
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.85 £16.75
25th Percentile £18.05 £22.50 £20.51
Median hourly rate £26.89 £35.00 £43.33
Median % change year-on-year -23.17% -19.22% +23.80%
75th Percentile £56.00 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.16 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.50 £32.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -18.46% -29.16% +58.75%

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 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hedge funds in the UK

Hedge funds
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 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 3 December 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
London -99 153 £750 -6.25% 63
England -143 153 £750 -6.25% 75
Work from Home -82 65 £750 -6.25% 19

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 33 (20.89%) Apache Airflow
2 30 (18.99%) Apache
3 6 (3.80%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.27%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (3.80%) Aladdin
2 4 (2.53%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.90%) Bloomberg AIM
3 3 (1.90%) thinkFolio
4 2 (1.27%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.63%) Eikon
5 1 (0.63%) Eze OMS
Cloud Services
1 81 (51.27%) AWS
2 33 (20.89%) Snowflake
3 30 (18.99%) dbt
4 24 (15.19%) Azure
5 10 (6.33%) GCP
6 6 (3.80%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.53%) GitHub
7 4 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (1.90%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (1.90%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (1.90%) Serverless
9 2 (1.27%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.63%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.63%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.16%) WebEx
2 3 (1.90%) DHCP
2 3 (1.90%) DNS
2 3 (1.90%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.90%) VPN
3 1 (0.63%) NAS
3 1 (0.63%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.63%) Network Security
3 1 (0.63%) SAN
3 1 (0.63%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (19.62%) Amazon Athena
2 30 (18.99%) Apache Arrow
2 30 (18.99%) Apache Iceberg
2 30 (18.99%) Apache Ignite
2 30 (18.99%) Data Lake
2 30 (18.99%) Dremio
3 14 (8.86%) SQL Server
4 6 (3.80%) Power BI
5 4 (2.53%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.53%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.27%) Big Data
7 2 (1.27%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.27%) Tableau
8 1 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.63%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 22 (13.92%) Git
2 4 (2.53%) GitLab
2 4 (2.53%) JIRA
2 4 (2.53%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
General
1 133 (84.18%) Finance
2 75 (47.47%) Banking
3 62 (39.24%) Investment Banking
4 61 (38.61%) Front Office
5 46 (29.11%) Social Skills
6 26 (16.46%) Financial Institution
7 7 (4.43%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.90%) Advertising
8 3 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Back Office
9 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Law
9 1 (0.63%) Legal
9 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 53 (33.54%) Python Engineer
2 50 (31.65%) AWS Engineer
2 50 (31.65%) Developer
3 40 (25.32%) Senior
4 33 (20.89%) Software Engineer
5 31 (19.62%) Python Software Engineer
6 30 (18.99%) AWS Software Engineer
6 30 (18.99%) Java Engineer
6 30 (18.99%) Java Software Engineer
6 30 (18.99%) Senior Software Engineer
7 29 (18.35%) Python Developer
7 29 (18.35%) Senior Java Engineer
7 29 (18.35%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 16 (10.13%) Automation Engineer
8 16 (10.13%) AWS Developer
8 16 (10.13%) IP Network Engineer
8 16 (10.13%) JavaScript Developer
8 16 (10.13%) Network Engineer
8 16 (10.13%) Switch Engineer
9 9 (5.70%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (36.71%) NumPy
2 57 (36.08%) Pandas
3 48 (30.38%) SciPy
4 30 (18.99%) gRPC
4 30 (18.99%) Protocol Buffers
5 22 (13.92%) React
6 21 (13.29%) AngularJS
7 18 (11.39%) Vue
8 16 (10.13%) .NET
8 16 (10.13%) FastAPI
8 16 (10.13%) Flask
8 16 (10.13%) Polars
8 16 (10.13%) REST
9 9 (5.70%) COM
10 7 (4.43%) .NET Core
10 7 (4.43%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (3.80%) .NET Framework
11 6 (3.80%) ASP.NET
12 5 (3.16%) Dask
12 5 (3.16%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 69 (43.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 47 (29.75%) Equities
3 42 (26.58%) Fixed Income
4 38 (24.05%) Derivative
5 30 (18.99%) Pricing Data
6 8 (5.06%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.16%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (3.16%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.53%) Data Fabric
8 4 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.53%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.90%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.27%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.63%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.63%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.63%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.63%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.63%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 29 (18.35%) Linux
2 16 (10.13%) Windows
3 7 (4.43%) Windows 10
4 6 (3.80%) CentOS
4 6 (3.80%) Unix
5 5 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.90%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.90%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.27%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (39.24%) Software Engineering
2 47 (29.75%) Agile
3 41 (25.95%) Asset Management
4 34 (21.52%) Investment Management
5 31 (19.62%) CI/CD
6 27 (17.09%) Mathematics
7 24 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (14.56%) Analytics
9 19 (12.03%) Clean Code
10 18 (11.39%) Data Engineering
11 17 (10.76%) Systematic Trading
12 16 (10.13%) Risk Management
12 16 (10.13%) Structured Programming
13 14 (8.86%) Computer Science
14 13 (8.23%) Data Analysis
15 11 (6.96%) DevOps
16 10 (6.33%) Design Patterns
17 9 (5.70%) AOP
17 9 (5.70%) Pricing Analytics
17 9 (5.70%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 105 (66.46%) Python
2 55 (34.81%) Java
3 51 (32.28%) JavaScript
4 37 (23.42%) C#
5 32 (20.25%) SQL
5 32 (20.25%) TypeScript
6 19 (12.03%) C++
7 16 (10.13%) Rust
8 11 (6.96%) PowerShell
9 10 (6.33%) VBA
10 5 (3.16%) Bash
11 4 (2.53%) C
11 4 (2.53%) Perl
11 4 (2.53%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.63%) Go
12 1 (0.63%) Groovy
12 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (10.13%) Degree
2 10 (6.33%) Master's Degree
3 7 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.16%) PhD
5 3 (1.90%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.27%) RHCE
6 2 (1.27%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.06%) MiFID
2 7 (4.43%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.53%) GDPR
4 3 (1.90%) EMIR
4 3 (1.90%) GRC
5 2 (1.27%) AIFMD
5 2 (1.27%) Dodd-Frank
5 2 (1.27%) QA
5 2 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.27%) Solvency II
5 2 (1.27%) UCITS
6 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.63%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.63%) NIST
6 1 (0.63%) PMO
System Software
1 24 (15.19%) Docker
2 8 (5.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.53%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.90%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (1.27%) KVM
6 1 (0.63%) Firmware
6 1 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (12.66%) Ansible
1 20 (12.66%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.06%) SCCM
3 4 (2.53%) Terraform
4 2 (1.27%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.27%) Puppet
4 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.63%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 16 (10.13%) Arista
2 10 (6.33%) Oracle
2 10 (6.33%) VMware
3 9 (5.70%) Microsoft
4 8 (5.06%) Red Hat
5 6 (3.80%) Bloomberg
5 6 (3.80%) Citrix
6 4 (2.53%) Reuters
7 3 (1.90%) FactSet
7 3 (1.90%) Portware
8 2 (1.27%) Dataiku
8 2 (1.27%) DevExpress
8 2 (1.27%) GoldenSource
9 1 (0.63%) Altiris
9 1 (0.63%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.63%) Cisco
9 1 (0.63%) Google
9 1 (0.63%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.63%) Trayport
9 1 (0.63%) Vertica