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 21 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 325 203
Rank change year-on-year -251 -122 +210
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 89 238 487
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.73% 1.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.51% 2.11% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 171 453
10th Percentile £501 £525 £538
25th Percentile £569 £588 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £725 £800
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -9.38% +33.33%
75th Percentile £813 £825 £888
90th Percentile £886 £875 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 - £200
% change year-on-year - - -60.78%

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 17,495 11,285 12,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.19% 34.63% 30.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,701 6,971 8,109
10th Percentile £318 £300 £300
25th Percentile £417 £406 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £630 £645 £666
90th Percentile £749 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 886 539 761
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.29 £12.25
25th Percentile £19.89 £18.87 £15.92
Median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.53% -22.08% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.50 £77.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.53% -25.00% -12.70%

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 21 July 2026.

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 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 21 July 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 -225 85 £700 -3.45% 96
London -188 80 £700 -3.45% 84
Work from Home -168 30 £763 +1.67% 26
UK excluding London -106 4 £675 - 25
Yorkshire -52 2 £674 -
North of England -72 2 £674 - 10
Midlands - 2 £975 -
West Midlands - 1 £975 -
East Midlands - 1 - -

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 3 (3.37%) Confluence
2 1 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.12%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Advent Geneva
Cloud Services
1 12 (13.48%) AWS
2 9 (10.11%) GitHub
2 9 (10.11%) GitHub Actions
3 7 (7.87%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (7.87%) Amazon S3
3 7 (7.87%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (7.87%) Serverless
4 3 (3.37%) Azure
4 3 (3.37%) Snowflake
5 2 (2.25%) SaaS
6 1 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.12%) Azure Stack
6 1 (1.12%) Dagster
6 1 (1.12%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.12%) GCP
6 1 (1.12%) IaaS
6 1 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.12%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.12%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.49%) WebEx
2 3 (3.37%) Network Security
3 2 (2.25%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (2.25%) Telepresence
4 1 (1.12%) IP Telephony
4 1 (1.12%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.24%) Relational Database
2 7 (7.87%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (7.87%) MongoDB
3 5 (5.62%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.37%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.12%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (12.36%) Git
2 8 (8.99%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.87%) JIRA
4 3 (3.37%) Selenium
5 2 (2.25%) Appium
5 2 (2.25%) JUnit
5 2 (2.25%) TestNG
6 1 (1.12%) GitLab
6 1 (1.12%) TeamCity
General
1 51 (57.30%) Finance
2 29 (32.58%) Front Office
3 14 (15.73%) Banking
4 10 (11.24%) Investment Banking
5 9 (10.11%) Financial Institution
5 9 (10.11%) Publishing
5 9 (10.11%) Social Skills
6 8 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (8.99%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (8.99%) Spanish Language
7 2 (2.25%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.25%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.12%) Billing
Job Titles
1 31 (34.83%) Developer
2 29 (32.58%) Analyst
3 26 (29.21%) Business Analyst
4 21 (23.60%) Python Developer
5 10 (11.24%) Support Engineer
6 9 (10.11%) Kafka Developer
7 8 (8.99%) Desktop Engineer
7 8 (8.99%) Desktop Support
7 8 (8.99%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 7 (7.87%) AWS Developer
8 7 (7.87%) SQL Developer
9 6 (6.74%) C# Developer
9 6 (6.74%) Front Office Business Analyst
9 6 (6.74%) Senior
10 5 (5.62%) Derivatives Business Analyst
10 5 (5.62%) QA Engineer
11 4 (4.49%) Citrix Engineer
11 4 (4.49%) Data Analyst
11 4 (4.49%) Data Business Analyst
11 4 (4.49%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (19.10%) Pandas
1 17 (19.10%) Polars
2 16 (17.98%) FastAPI
2 16 (17.98%) Flask
3 11 (12.36%) Kafka
4 10 (11.24%) NumPy
5 9 (10.11%) Apache Avro
5 9 (10.11%) REST
6 8 (8.99%) RESTful
7 5 (5.62%) .NET
8 1 (1.12%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.12%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.35%) Equities
2 14 (15.73%) Derivative
3 10 (11.24%) Management Information System
3 10 (11.24%) Onboarding
4 8 (8.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (6.74%) Fixed Income
6 3 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (2.25%) OTC Derivatives
8 1 (1.12%) Blackberry
8 1 (1.12%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.12%) Data Fabric
8 1 (1.12%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.12%) Pricing Data
8 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.12%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.12%) Reinsurance
8 1 (1.12%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.73%) Windows
2 8 (8.99%) Linux
3 7 (7.87%) Unix
4 1 (1.12%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (24.72%) CI/CD
2 18 (20.22%) Asset Management
2 18 (20.22%) Data Pipeline
3 16 (17.98%) Analytics
4 15 (16.85%) Fintech
5 13 (14.61%) SDLC
6 11 (12.36%) Containerisation
6 11 (12.36%) Release Management
6 11 (12.36%) Test Strategy
7 10 (11.24%) Computer Science
7 10 (11.24%) Data Transformation
7 10 (11.24%) Software Engineering
8 9 (10.11%) Benchmarking
8 9 (10.11%) Data Analysis
8 9 (10.11%) Observability
8 9 (10.11%) Performance Optimisation
9 8 (8.99%) Code Quality
9 8 (8.99%) Microservices
9 8 (8.99%) Validation
10 7 (7.87%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 31 (34.83%) Python
2 22 (24.72%) SQL
3 13 (14.61%) C#
4 7 (7.87%) Shell Script
5 6 (6.74%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.25%) C++
6 2 (2.25%) Java
7 1 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 18 (20.22%) Degree
2 7 (7.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.62%) Master's Degree
4 4 (4.49%) PhD
5 2 (2.25%) CEH
5 2 (2.25%) SANS
6 1 (1.12%) CFA
6 1 (1.12%) CISM
6 1 (1.12%) CISSP
6 1 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.99%) QA
2 3 (3.37%) NIST
3 2 (2.25%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 19 (21.35%) Docker
2 9 (10.11%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.12%) vSphere
4 1 (1.12%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 11 (12.36%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.25%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.12%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (5.62%) Citrix
2 4 (4.49%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.37%) BiZZdesign
3 3 (3.37%) Bloomberg
3 3 (3.37%) Cisco
4 2 (2.25%) Advent
4 2 (2.25%) Google
4 2 (2.25%) Reuters
5 1 (1.12%) Apple
5 1 (1.12%) Charles River
5 1 (1.12%) Databricks
5 1 (1.12%) eFront
5 1 (1.12%) FactSet
5 1 (1.12%) Refinitiv
5 1 (1.12%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.12%) VMware