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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 424 285 374
Rank change year-on-year -139 +89 -14
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 158 296 246
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.83% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.23% 2.63% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 254 209
10th Percentile £399 £600 £387
25th Percentile £463 £638 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 £800 £675
Median % change year-on-year -7.81% +18.52% +1.89%
75th Percentile £825 £888 £788
90th Percentile £838 £938 £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 12,839 11,268 14,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.39% 31.55% 31.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,002 6,687 9,627
10th Percentile £275 £275 £270
25th Percentile £406 £410 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.51% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £630 £663 £669
90th Percentile £738 £775 £772
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 652 367 497
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.81 £16.67
25th Percentile £17.98 £22.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £26.50 £34.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.06% -20.00% +21.43%
75th Percentile £56.06 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.19 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.00 £32.50 £45.21
% change year-on-year -20.00% -28.11% +53.25%

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 7 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 7 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 -92 153 £750 -6.25% 49
England -143 153 £750 -6.25% 60
Work from Home -90 65 £750 -6.25% 430

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 32 (20.25%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (17.72%) 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 78 (49.37%) AWS
2 31 (19.62%) Snowflake
3 28 (17.72%) dbt
4 24 (15.19%) Azure
5 10 (6.33%) GCP
6 6 (3.80%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.53%) GitHub
7 4 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
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 6 (3.80%) 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 29 (18.35%) Amazon Athena
2 28 (17.72%) Apache Arrow
2 28 (17.72%) Apache Iceberg
2 28 (17.72%) Apache Ignite
2 28 (17.72%) Data Lake
2 28 (17.72%) 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 21 (13.29%) Git
2 5 (3.16%) GitLab
2 5 (3.16%) JIRA
3 4 (2.53%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
General
1 130 (82.28%) Finance
2 72 (45.57%) Banking
3 59 (37.34%) Front Office
3 59 (37.34%) Investment Banking
4 44 (27.85%) Social Skills
5 25 (15.82%) Financial Institution
6 7 (4.43%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.90%) Advertising
7 3 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Back Office
8 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Law
8 1 (0.63%) Legal
8 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (32.28%) Python Engineer
2 49 (31.01%) Developer
3 48 (30.38%) AWS Engineer
4 38 (24.05%) Senior
5 31 (19.62%) Software Engineer
6 29 (18.35%) Python Software Engineer
7 28 (17.72%) AWS Software Engineer
7 28 (17.72%) Java Engineer
7 28 (17.72%) Java Software Engineer
7 28 (17.72%) Python Developer
7 28 (17.72%) Senior Software Engineer
8 27 (17.09%) Senior Java Engineer
8 27 (17.09%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 15 (9.49%) Automation Engineer
9 15 (9.49%) AWS Developer
9 15 (9.49%) IP Network Engineer
9 15 (9.49%) JavaScript Developer
9 15 (9.49%) Network Engineer
9 15 (9.49%) Switch Engineer
10 10 (6.33%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (34.81%) NumPy
2 54 (34.18%) Pandas
3 45 (28.48%) SciPy
4 28 (17.72%) gRPC
4 28 (17.72%) Protocol Buffers
5 21 (13.29%) React
6 20 (12.66%) AngularJS
7 17 (10.76%) Vue
8 16 (10.13%) .NET
8 16 (10.13%) REST
9 15 (9.49%) FastAPI
9 15 (9.49%) Flask
9 15 (9.49%) Polars
10 9 (5.70%) COM
11 7 (4.43%) .NET Core
11 7 (4.43%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (3.80%) .NET Framework
12 6 (3.80%) ASP.NET
13 5 (3.16%) Dask
13 5 (3.16%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 66 (41.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 47 (29.75%) Equities
3 40 (25.32%) Fixed Income
4 38 (24.05%) Derivative
5 28 (17.72%) Pricing Data
6 8 (5.06%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.16%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (3.16%) Management Information System
7 5 (3.16%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.53%) Data Fabric
9 3 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.90%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.27%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Storage
11 1 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.63%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.63%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.63%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 28 (17.72%) Linux
2 17 (10.76%) 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 4 (2.53%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.90%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.27%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (36.71%) Software Engineering
2 45 (28.48%) Agile
3 39 (24.68%) Asset Management
4 32 (20.25%) Investment Management
5 31 (19.62%) CI/CD
6 26 (16.46%) Mathematics
7 24 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (14.56%) Analytics
9 18 (11.39%) Clean Code
10 17 (10.76%) Data Engineering
11 16 (10.13%) Risk Management
11 16 (10.13%) Systematic Trading
12 15 (9.49%) Structured Programming
13 13 (8.23%) Computer Science
13 13 (8.23%) Data Analysis
14 12 (7.59%) DevOps
15 10 (6.33%) Design Patterns
16 9 (5.70%) AOP
16 9 (5.70%) Pricing Analytics
16 9 (5.70%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 101 (63.92%) Python
2 52 (32.91%) Java
3 48 (30.38%) JavaScript
4 36 (22.78%) C#
5 32 (20.25%) SQL
6 30 (18.99%) TypeScript
7 17 (10.76%) C++
8 15 (9.49%) Rust
9 12 (7.59%) PowerShell
10 10 (6.33%) VBA
11 5 (3.16%) Bash
12 4 (2.53%) Perl
12 4 (2.53%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.90%) C
14 1 (0.63%) Go
14 1 (0.63%) Groovy
14 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
4 3 (1.90%) QA
5 2 (1.27%) AIFMD
5 2 (1.27%) Dodd-Frank
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 19 (12.03%) Ansible
1 19 (12.03%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.06%) SCCM
3 5 (3.16%) 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 15 (9.49%) Arista
2 10 (6.33%) Oracle
2 10 (6.33%) VMware
3 9 (5.70%) Microsoft
4 8 (5.06%) Red Hat
5 7 (4.43%) Citrix
6 6 (3.80%) Bloomberg
7 5 (3.16%) Reuters
8 3 (1.90%) FactSet
8 3 (1.90%) Portware
9 2 (1.27%) Dataiku
9 2 (1.27%) DevExpress
9 2 (1.27%) GoldenSource
10 1 (0.63%) Altiris
10 1 (0.63%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.63%) Cisco
10 1 (0.63%) Google
10 1 (0.63%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.63%) Trayport
10 1 (0.63%) Vertica