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 15 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 599 374 206
Rank change year-on-year -225 -168 +189
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 79 185 459
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.57% 1.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.43% 1.60% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 126 414
10th Percentile £513 £431 £550
25th Percentile £600 £600 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -6.25% +23.08%
75th Percentile £869 £825 £875
90th Percentile £906 £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 18,406 11,527 11,576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.83% 35.51% 30.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,053 7,036 7,123
10th Percentile £320 £299 £300
25th Percentile £423 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £543
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -5.07% -1.36%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £749 £760 £812
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,150 577 482
10th Percentile £14.07 £15.13 £14.41
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.87 £21.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -40.00% +11.73%
75th Percentile £67.65 £55.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.43 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.72 £30.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +29.07% -47.69% +22.14%

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 15 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 15 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 -224 76 £700 -6.67% 577
London -174 75 £700 -6.67% 546
Work from Home -152 25 £825 +10.00% 98

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 1 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (7.59%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.66%) AWS
2 8 (10.13%) GitHub
2 8 (10.13%) GitHub Actions
3 7 (8.86%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (8.86%) Amazon S3
3 7 (8.86%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (8.86%) Serverless
4 3 (3.80%) Azure
4 3 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.53%) Slack
5 2 (2.53%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.27%) Azure Stack
6 1 (1.27%) Dagster
6 1 (1.27%) IaaS
6 1 (1.27%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.33%) WebEx
2 3 (3.80%) Telepresence
3 2 (2.53%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.13%) Relational Database
2 7 (8.86%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (7.59%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.06%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.53%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (10.13%) Git
1 8 (10.13%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.27%) GitLab
General
1 47 (59.49%) Finance
2 30 (37.97%) Front Office
3 18 (22.78%) Banking
4 15 (18.99%) Investment Banking
5 10 (12.66%) Financial Institution
5 10 (12.66%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (12.66%) Spanish Language
6 8 (10.13%) Publishing
7 5 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (6.33%) Social Skills
8 3 (3.80%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.53%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 22 (27.85%) Developer
2 21 (26.58%) Analyst
3 19 (24.05%) Business Analyst
4 18 (22.78%) Support Engineer
5 16 (20.25%) Python Developer
6 13 (16.46%) Desktop Engineer
6 13 (16.46%) Desktop Support
6 13 (16.46%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 8 (10.13%) Kafka Developer
8 7 (8.86%) AWS Developer
8 7 (8.86%) SQL Developer
9 6 (7.59%) Front Office Business Analyst
10 5 (6.33%) Derivatives Business Analyst
10 5 (6.33%) Senior
11 4 (5.06%) C# Developer
11 4 (5.06%) Deployment Engineer
11 4 (5.06%) Front Office Developer
11 4 (5.06%) Windows Deployment Engineer
11 4 (5.06%) Windows Engineer
11 4 (5.06%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.99%) FastAPI
1 15 (18.99%) Flask
1 15 (18.99%) Pandas
1 15 (18.99%) Polars
2 9 (11.39%) Kafka
3 8 (10.13%) Apache Avro
3 8 (10.13%) NumPy
3 8 (10.13%) REST
4 7 (8.86%) RESTful
5 6 (7.59%) .NET
6 2 (2.53%) Blazor
6 2 (2.53%) Next.js
6 2 (2.53%) React
6 2 (2.53%) Redux
6 2 (2.53%) WebSockets
7 1 (1.27%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 17 (21.52%) Equities
2 15 (18.99%) Derivative
3 13 (16.46%) Onboarding
4 11 (13.92%) Management Information System
5 8 (10.13%) Fixed Income
5 8 (10.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (5.06%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (3.80%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.53%) AI Agents
8 2 (2.53%) Mobile Computing
8 2 (2.53%) OTC Derivatives
8 2 (2.53%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (1.27%) Interest Rate Derivative
9 1 (1.27%) Pricing Data
9 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
9 1 (1.27%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 17 (21.52%) Windows
2 11 (13.92%) Linux
3 7 (8.86%) Unix
4 2 (2.53%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (25.32%) Asset Management
1 20 (25.32%) CI/CD
2 16 (20.25%) Data Pipeline
3 14 (17.72%) Analytics
4 12 (15.19%) Fintech
5 10 (12.66%) Containerisation
6 9 (11.39%) Benchmarking
6 9 (11.39%) Data Transformation
6 9 (11.39%) SDLC
7 8 (10.13%) Data Analysis
7 8 (10.13%) Observability
7 8 (10.13%) Release Management
7 8 (10.13%) Software Engineering
7 8 (10.13%) Test Strategy
8 7 (8.86%) Code Quality
8 7 (8.86%) Mathematics
8 7 (8.86%) Microservices
8 7 (8.86%) Performance Optimisation
9 6 (7.59%) AI
9 6 (7.59%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 26 (32.91%) Python
2 16 (20.25%) SQL
3 15 (18.99%) C#
4 7 (8.86%) Shell Script
5 4 (5.06%) C++
6 2 (2.53%) Java
6 2 (2.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (20.25%) Degree
2 5 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.06%) Master's Degree
3 4 (5.06%) PhD
4 1 (1.27%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 19 (24.05%) Docker
2 11 (13.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (13.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (10.13%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.33%) Cisco
3 4 (5.06%) Altiris
3 4 (5.06%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.80%) Bloomberg
4 3 (3.80%) Google
5 2 (2.53%) Citrix
5 2 (2.53%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.53%) Tradeweb
6 1 (1.27%) eFront
6 1 (1.27%) Refinitiv