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 19 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 280 311
Rank change year-on-year -231 +31 +134
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 106 272 293
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.93% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.74% 2.76% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 229 268
10th Percentile £459 £538 £475
25th Percentile £464 £638 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £674 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year -7.07% +3.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £800 £938 £838
90th Percentile £1,000 - £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 14,396 9,847 13,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.21% 33.62% 30.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,049 6,257 8,610
10th Percentile £300 £287 £255
25th Percentile £408 £410 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 677 366 868
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.95 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.23 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.32 £32.50 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.75% +17.12% +23.33%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £83.20 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.94 £31.42 £26.00
% change year-on-year +33.48% +20.85% +16.83%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -241 102 £674 -7.07% 87
London -173 96 £663 -8.62% 83
Work from Home -151 28 £750 -6.25% 16
UK excluding London - 6 £674 - 20
North of England - 3 £673 - 4
Yorkshire - 3 £673 -
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 7 (6.60%) Apache Spark
2 6 (5.66%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.72%) Confluence
4 2 (1.89%) Apache
4 2 (1.89%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.94%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Advent Geneva
1 2 (1.89%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 24 (22.64%) AWS
2 6 (5.66%) Azure
3 5 (4.72%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (4.72%) Snowflake
4 3 (2.83%) GCP
4 3 (2.83%) GitHub
4 3 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (2.83%) Power Platform
4 3 (2.83%) SaaS
5 2 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.89%) Azure Pipelines
5 2 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (1.89%) dbt
5 2 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.94%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.94%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.94%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.94%) Serverless
6 1 (0.94%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.66%) Network Security
1 6 (5.66%) WebEx
2 2 (1.89%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.94%) DHCP
3 1 (0.94%) DNS
3 1 (0.94%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.94%) SMS
3 1 (0.94%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.72%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.83%) Power BI
2 3 (2.83%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (1.89%) Apache Arrow
3 2 (1.89%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (1.89%) Apache Ignite
3 2 (1.89%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.89%) Dremio
3 2 (1.89%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.89%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.94%) Big Data
4 1 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.94%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 13 (12.26%) JIRA
2 12 (11.32%) Git
3 5 (4.72%) GitLab
4 3 (2.83%) Selenium
5 2 (1.89%) Appium
5 2 (1.89%) JUnit
5 2 (1.89%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.89%) TestNG
6 1 (0.94%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.94%) Oracle Forms
General
1 68 (64.15%) Finance
2 33 (31.13%) Banking
3 29 (27.36%) Front Office
4 23 (21.70%) Social Skills
5 20 (18.87%) Investment Banking
6 14 (13.21%) Financial Institution
7 8 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.83%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.89%) Publishing
9 2 (1.89%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.94%) Advertising
10 1 (0.94%) Billing
10 1 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (32.08%) Developer
2 25 (23.58%) Python Developer
3 16 (15.09%) Analyst
4 13 (12.26%) Python Engineer
5 12 (11.32%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (11.32%) Business Analyst
5 12 (11.32%) Senior
6 9 (8.49%) RAD Developer
7 8 (7.55%) Citrix Engineer
7 8 (7.55%) QA Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) AWS Developer
8 6 (5.66%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (4.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Data Business Analyst
9 5 (4.72%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) IP Network Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) JavaScript Developer
9 5 (4.72%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (20.75%) NumPy
1 22 (20.75%) Pandas
2 15 (14.15%) REST
3 9 (8.49%) COM
3 9 (8.49%) Polars
3 9 (8.49%) SciPy
4 8 (7.55%) FastAPI
4 8 (7.55%) Flask
5 6 (5.66%) Dask
6 5 (4.72%) AngularJS
6 5 (4.72%) Kafka
6 5 (4.72%) React
6 5 (4.72%) Vue
7 4 (3.77%) Web Services
8 3 (2.83%) RESTful
8 3 (2.83%) scikit-learn
9 2 (1.89%) Apache Avro
9 2 (1.89%) gRPC
9 2 (1.89%) Protocol Buffers
9 2 (1.89%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 26 (24.53%) Equities
2 25 (23.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 14 (13.21%) Derivative
4 8 (7.55%) Fixed Income
5 6 (5.66%) Cloud Native
5 6 (5.66%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (4.72%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.77%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.83%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.89%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.89%) Data Fabric
9 2 (1.89%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.89%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.89%) Pricing Data
9 2 (1.89%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.94%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.94%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.94%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 14 (13.21%) Windows
2 12 (11.32%) Linux
3 4 (3.77%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.83%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (20.75%) Software Engineering
2 20 (18.87%) Analytics
3 17 (16.04%) CI/CD
3 17 (16.04%) Risk Management
4 16 (15.09%) Mathematics
4 16 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (14.15%) Data Analysis
6 14 (13.21%) Computer Science
6 14 (13.21%) Data Pipeline
7 12 (11.32%) Agile
8 10 (9.43%) AI
8 10 (9.43%) Fintech
8 10 (9.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (8.49%) Physics
9 9 (8.49%) Pricing Analytics
9 9 (8.49%) Prototyping
9 9 (8.49%) RAD
9 9 (8.49%) Rapid Prototyping
9 9 (8.49%) Test Automation
10 8 (7.55%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (52.83%) Python
2 28 (26.42%) SQL
3 15 (14.15%) Java
4 12 (11.32%) PowerShell
5 11 (10.38%) C#
6 10 (9.43%) VBA
7 7 (6.60%) C++
7 7 (6.60%) JavaScript
8 5 (4.72%) Rust
9 2 (1.89%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.94%) Groovy
10 1 (0.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (15.09%) Degree
2 8 (7.55%) Master's Degree
3 6 (5.66%) PhD
4 5 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.83%) CISM
5 3 (2.83%) CISSP
5 3 (2.83%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.89%) CEH
6 2 (1.89%) SANS
7 1 (0.94%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.32%) QA
2 6 (5.66%) NIST
3 3 (2.83%) MiFID
4 2 (1.89%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.89%) Dodd-Frank
4 2 (1.89%) EMIR
4 2 (1.89%) GRC
4 2 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.94%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.94%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 15 (14.15%) Docker
2 3 (2.83%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.89%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.94%) Firmware
4 1 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.94%) vSphere
4 1 (0.94%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (8.49%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.72%) Ansible
2 5 (4.72%) Terraform
3 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.89%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (0.94%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.94%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (8.49%) Citrix
2 5 (4.72%) Arista
2 5 (4.72%) BiZZdesign
2 5 (4.72%) Reuters
3 4 (3.77%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.83%) GoldenSource
4 3 (2.83%) Oracle
5 2 (1.89%) Advent
5 2 (1.89%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.89%) Dataiku
5 2 (1.89%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.94%) Altiris
6 1 (0.94%) Apple
6 1 (0.94%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.94%) Charles River
6 1 (0.94%) Cisco
6 1 (0.94%) Databricks
6 1 (0.94%) FactSet
6 1 (0.94%) Google
6 1 (0.94%) VMware