Hedge funds Contracts

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 267 430
Rank change year-on-year +11 +163 -62
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 304 390 297
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.04% 0.89% 0.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.07% 2.94% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 364 251
10th Percentile £538 £500 £450
25th Percentile £638 £588 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £725 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +26.09% -8.00%
75th Percentile £888 £850 £697
90th Percentile £938 £888 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate - £400 £525
% change year-on-year - -23.81% -2.33%

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 9,915 13,252 19,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.91% 30.40% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,331 8,505 13,670
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.90% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 910 640
10th Percentile £16.46 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.66 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.93 £27.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year +11.46% +26.14% +9.64%

Hedge funds
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Hedge funds as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Hedge funds in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hedge funds.

Daily rate trend for Hedge funds in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hedge funds over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hedge funds in the UK

Hedge funds
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Hedge funds.

Hourly rate trend for Hedge funds in the UK

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Top 3 Contract 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 30 April 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
England +15 304 £725 - 277
London -2 304 £725 - 254
Work from Home +38 196 £750 -6.25% 89

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 45 (14.80%) Apache
1 45 (14.80%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.66%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.33%) Siemens NX
2 1 (0.33%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 36 (11.84%) Aladdin
2 14 (4.61%) thinkFolio
3 1 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 93 (30.59%) AWS
2 49 (16.12%) Snowflake
3 45 (14.80%) dbt
4 36 (11.84%) GCP
5 29 (9.54%) Azure
6 17 (5.59%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (5.59%) Amazon ECS
6 17 (5.59%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (5.59%) Dagster
7 3 (0.99%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.66%) Azure AKS
8 2 (0.66%) Azure Functions
8 2 (0.66%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.66%) SaaS
8 2 (0.66%) SAP Fieldglass
8 2 (0.66%) Serverless
9 1 (0.33%) Collibra
9 1 (0.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.97%) BGP
2 5 (1.64%) Firewall
2 5 (1.64%) HSRP
2 5 (1.64%) IGMP
2 5 (1.64%) Multicast
2 5 (1.64%) OSPF
2 5 (1.64%) VRRP
3 2 (0.66%) WAN
3 2 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.33%) HTTP
4 1 (0.33%) Modbus
4 1 (0.33%) Network Security
4 1 (0.33%) SSL
4 1 (0.33%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (39.47%) Data Lake
2 45 (14.80%) Amazon Athena
2 45 (14.80%) Apache Arrow
2 45 (14.80%) Apache Iceberg
2 45 (14.80%) Dremio
3 29 (9.54%) Apache Ignite
4 5 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.32%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.66%) Power BI
6 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.66%) Tableau
7 1 (0.33%) Big Data
7 1 (0.33%) DB2
7 1 (0.33%) KDB
7 1 (0.33%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.33%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.33%) OLAP
7 1 (0.33%) OLTP
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 18 (5.92%) Git
2 7 (2.30%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.64%) GitLab
4 4 (1.32%) Terragrunt
5 3 (0.99%) JIRA
6 1 (0.33%) Ant
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Ivy
6 1 (0.33%) ERwin
6 1 (0.33%) Gradle
6 1 (0.33%) Maven
6 1 (0.33%) Qt Creator
6 1 (0.33%) TeamCity
General
1 262 (86.18%) Finance
2 218 (71.71%) Front Office
3 71 (23.36%) Banking
4 58 (19.08%) Investment Banking
5 21 (6.91%) Social Skills
6 19 (6.25%) Financial Institution
7 18 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (1.97%) Back Office
9 4 (1.32%) Law
10 2 (0.66%) Legal
11 1 (0.33%) Advertising
11 1 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (24.34%) Analyst
1 74 (24.34%) Developer
2 66 (21.71%) Software Engineer
3 62 (20.39%) Business Analyst
4 51 (16.78%) Business Manager
5 48 (15.79%) AWS Engineer
6 45 (14.80%) AWS Software Engineer
7 37 (12.17%) Head of Finance
7 37 (12.17%) Senior
8 34 (11.18%) Python Engineer
9 33 (10.86%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
9 33 (10.86%) Lead
10 31 (10.20%) Java Engineer
10 31 (10.20%) Java Software Engineer
11 30 (9.87%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 30 (9.87%) Python Developer
12 27 (8.88%) Python Software Engineer
13 26 (8.55%) Product Manager
14 23 (7.57%) AWS Developer
15 22 (7.24%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (14.47%) NumPy
1 44 (14.47%) Pandas
2 38 (12.50%) SciPy
3 36 (11.84%) PySpark
4 30 (9.87%) gRPC
5 29 (9.54%) Protocol Buffers
6 24 (7.89%) AngularJS
6 24 (7.89%) React
7 23 (7.57%) Vue
8 14 (4.61%) Redux
9 10 (3.29%) Polars
10 9 (2.96%) FastAPI
10 9 (2.96%) Flask
11 4 (1.32%) Next.js
12 2 (0.66%) .NET
12 2 (0.66%) ARM Templates
13 1 (0.33%) DirectX
13 1 (0.33%) OpenGL
13 1 (0.33%) REST
13 1 (0.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 211 (69.41%) Fixed Income
2 196 (64.47%) Derivative
3 170 (55.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 162 (53.29%) Equities
5 50 (16.45%) Product Ownership
6 18 (5.92%) Onboarding
7 13 (4.28%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (3.95%) Pricing Data
8 12 (3.95%) Reference Data
9 10 (3.29%) Algorithms
10 9 (2.96%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.32%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.66%) Market Risk
13 2 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
13 2 (0.66%) Solar Panel
13 2 (0.66%) Virtual Team
14 1 (0.33%) Data Protection Act
14 1 (0.33%) Equity Derivative
14 1 (0.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.21%) Linux
2 19 (6.25%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.64%) Rocky
4 3 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.66%) VMS
5 2 (0.66%) Windows
6 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (71.71%) Agile
2 181 (59.54%) Investment Management
3 120 (39.47%) Asset Management
4 118 (38.82%) Migration
5 113 (37.17%) Roadmaps
6 92 (30.26%) Data Governance
7 91 (29.93%) Regulatory Compliance
8 85 (27.96%) Software Engineering
9 78 (25.66%) Data Management
10 63 (20.72%) Analytics
11 51 (16.78%) Portfolio Management
12 39 (12.83%) Business Intelligence
13 34 (11.18%) Business Analysis
14 32 (10.53%) CI/CD
15 22 (7.24%) Machine Learning
16 20 (6.58%) Artificial Intelligence
17 19 (6.25%) Fintech
17 19 (6.25%) Full-Stack Development
18 18 (5.92%) Front End Development
18 18 (5.92%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 160 (52.63%) Python
2 73 (24.01%) SQL
3 64 (21.05%) Java
4 53 (17.43%) JavaScript
5 44 (14.47%) TypeScript
6 22 (7.24%) C++
7 11 (3.62%) C#
8 8 (2.63%) C
9 7 (2.30%) Rust
10 4 (1.32%) Bash
11 3 (0.99%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.66%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.33%) Go
13 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (9.21%) Degree
2 8 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (2.63%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.66%) CCIE
3 2 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.33%) CAPM
4 1 (0.33%) CCNP
4 1 (0.33%) CISSP
4 1 (0.33%) ISEB
4 1 (0.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.88%) MiFID
2 2 (0.66%) Dodd-Frank
2 2 (0.66%) EMIR
2 2 (0.66%) HIPAA
2 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.66%) QA
3 1 (0.33%) GDPR
3 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.33%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (5.26%) Docker
2 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.93%) Ansible
2 15 (4.93%) Terraform
3 8 (2.63%) Puppet
4 4 (1.32%) FortiGate
5 3 (0.99%) Consul
6 2 (0.66%) Packer
7 1 (0.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 36 (11.84%) BISAM
2 17 (5.59%) Charles River
3 14 (4.61%) Calypso
3 14 (4.61%) SimCorp
4 7 (2.30%) Arista
4 7 (2.30%) Cisco
5 6 (1.97%) Oracle
6 5 (1.64%) Fortinet
6 5 (1.64%) Microsoft
7 3 (0.99%) Bloomberg
7 3 (0.99%) Refinitiv
7 3 (0.99%) Reuters
8 2 (0.66%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.66%) Google
8 2 (0.66%) SAP
9 1 (0.33%) Apple
9 1 (0.33%) Informatica
9 1 (0.33%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.33%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.33%) Sun